Social theory books

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Metatheory for the 21st Century is one of the many exciting results of over four years of in-depth engagement between...  Read More >>

Cities can be seen as geographical imaginaries: places have meanings attributed so that they are perceived, represented...  Read More >>

Cities can be seen as geographical imaginaries: places have meanings attributed so that they are perceived, represented...  Read More >>

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Ali Zaidi discloses a largely unnoticed dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning...  Read More >>

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This is an important account of the development of the ‘field-theory’ approach in the social sciences. Harald Mey...  Read More >>

This collection reflects the French influence on literary and representational theory which has been predominant...  Read More >>

Professor John Rex was one of Britain’s most eminent sociologists, and a teacher of a whole generation of sociology...  Read More >>

Animals and Society uses a variety of historical sources and a coherent social theory to tell the story of the invention...  Read More >>

Most recent sociological work on the theory of class is based on a distinction between Weberian and Marxist approaches....  Read More >>

The papers collected in this volume are intended to advance the analysis of ideology in a comparative and historical...  Read More >>

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While Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana from 1962 to 1964, the author personally...  Read More >>

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Tarde is being brought forward as the misrecognised forerunner of a post-Durkheimian era. Reclaimed from a century...  Read More >>

Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy: A Confluence of Ideas seeks to re-address the whole question...  Read More >>

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What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized...  Read More >>

The social sciences have a legitimacy problem in the modern world. Karl Spracklen, by contrast, makes the moral...  Read More >>

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