Social theory books

Bourdieu and Historical Analysis explores the usefulness of Pierre Bourdieu s thought for analyzing not only the...  Read More >>

Bourdieu and Historical Analysis explores the usefulness of Pierre Bourdieu s thought for analyzing not only the...  Read More >>

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Jan De Vos's second book on psychologization argues that psychology IS psychologization, a phenomenon traced back...  Read More >>

This book offers a new ideology critique for political analysis by revisiting Habermas via a Žižekian reading. The...  Read More >>

Influenced most notably by Émile Durkheim and Zygmunt Bauman, Dawson outlines how this long neglected stream of...  Read More >>

This collection explores how the dominant risk agenda is being embedded across welfare policy and practice contexts...  Read More >>

This book shows that a dialectical conceptual model underpins Georg Simmel's writings. The book provides key examples...  Read More >>

This book articulates the key theoretical assumptions of poststructuralism, but also probes its limits, evaluates...  Read More >>

Drawing on the experience and insights of 70 researchers across 7 countries and from a diverse range of cultures,...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship of belonging and social policy in a historical-comparative perspective reconstructing...  Read More >>

The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between development economics, social protection and democratization in the...  Read More >>

Montesquieu is often considered the first social thinker. Today, when 'the end of the social' has been proclaimed,...  Read More >>

This book consists of a fundamental deconstruction and reconstruction of the key concepts of Criminology and The...  Read More >>

Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and engaging with new empirical evidence from around the world, this...  Read More >>

Remembering 9/11 recalls the afterlife of the tragedy and the shock that led many to ask 'why do they hate us so...  Read More >>

Prompted by the 'affective turn' within the entire spectrum of the social sciences, this books brings together the...  Read More >>

Technology and Touch addresses the development of a range of new touch technologies, both technologies that we reach...  Read More >>

Offering a comprehensive overview of contemporary theoretical and programmatic issues in the fields of sustainability,...  Read More >>

Social Media and Strategic Communications provides truly comprehensive and original scholarly research that exhibits...  Read More >>