Social theory books

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The Body and Social Theory

The Body and Social Theory

Author: Chris Shilling
ISBN: 9780857025333
Format: Paperback
$145.00

An agenda setting new edition of a classic text. Chris is a leading authority in body studies and this comprehensive...  Read More >>

Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation

Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation

Author: Lisa Blackman
ISBN: 9781446266854
Format: Paperback
$153.00

A timely and multidisciplinary addition to the Theory, Culture & Society book series (given the recent turn to affect...  Read More >>

Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty

Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty

Author: Bruce Magnusson ,  Zahi Zalloua
ISBN: 9780295991733
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Utilizing the cross-disciplinary approach of global studies, contagion emerges as a vexed trope for globalization...  Read More >>

The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement

The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the...

Author: Robert D. Parmet
ISBN: 9780814770368
Format: Paperback
$64.99

The definitive biography of David Dubinsky, one of the most controversial and influential labour leaders in 20th-century...  Read More >>

Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty

Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty

Author: Bruce Magnusson ,  Zahi Zalloua
ISBN: 9780295991740
Format: Hardback
$146.95

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Television and the Moral Imaginary: Society through the Small Screen

Television and the Moral Imaginary: Society through...

Author: T. Dant
ISBN: 9780230234819
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Just how bad is television? Drawing on a range of theoretical sources including Husserl Lacan, Lefebvre, Sartre,...  Read More >>

Shattering the Illusion: Child Sexual Abuse and Canadian Religious Institutions

Shattering the Illusion: Child Sexual Abuse and Canadian...

Author: Tracy J. Trothen
ISBN: 9781554583560
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The first book to gather and comparatively analyse policies addressing child sexual abuse complaints in a selection...  Read More >>

Culture and Identity

Culture and Identity

Author: Warren Kidd (University of East London, LONDON) ,  Alison Teagle
ISBN: 9780230281028
Format: Paperback
$79.99

An understanding of culture and identity is essential for new sociologists. This student-focused text explains the...  Read More >>

Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Author: Kevin B. Anderson ,  Bertell Ollman
ISBN: 9780754677574
Format: Hardback
$840.00

The best writings of the past hundred years on Marx's approach to analysing society and on his critique of capitalist...  Read More >>

North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism: Contemporary Dialogues

North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism:...

Author: P. Nickel
ISBN: 9780230369276
Format: Hardback
$314.16

In a series of interviews this book explores the formative experiences of a generation of critical theorists whose...  Read More >>

Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics

Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping...

Author: Jack A. Goldstone (, George Mason University) ,  Eric P. Kaufmann (, Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9780199945962
Format: Paperback
$64.95

Demography is the most predictable of the social sciences: children born in the last five years will be the new...  Read More >>

Cultural Capital, Identity, and Social Mobility: The Life Course of Working-Class University Graduates

Cultural Capital, Identity, and Social Mobility: The...

Author: Mick Matthys (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780415510271
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This qualitative study explores the meaning of working-class origin in the life and career of university graduates....  Read More >>

Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today

Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today

Author: Steven Seidman
ISBN: 9781118227909
Format: Paperback
$147.71

In the fifth edition Contested Knowledge, social theorist Steven Seidman presents the latest topics in social...  Read More >>

Technocapitalism: A Critical Perspective on Technological Innovation and Corporatism

Technocapitalism: A Critical Perspective on Technological...

Author: Luis Suarez-Villa
ISBN: 9781439900437
Format: Paperback
$86.99

A radical critique of a new phase of capitalism grounded in corporate power and its exploitation of technological...  Read More >>

Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City

Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and...

Author: Chris Butler (Griffith University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415459679
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City provides the first detailed analysis of...  Read More >>

No Social Science without Critical Theory

No Social Science without Critical Theory

Author: Harry F. Dahms ,  Harry F. Dahms
ISBN: 9781781901540
Format: Paperback
$243.95

Highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific...  Read More >>

Rush: Why We Thrive in the Rat Race

Rush: Why We Thrive in the Rat Race

Author: Todd G. Buchholz
ISBN: 9780452297951
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A former White House director of economic policy makes the outrageous argument that we don't really want to relax--we...  Read More >>

Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century

Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century...

Author: Thomas Reifer
ISBN: 9781594519192
Format: Hardback
$105.00

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Individualisation at Work: The Self between Freedom and Social Pathologies

Individualisation at Work: The Self between Freedom...

Author: Norbert Ebert
ISBN: 9781409442660
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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The Contemporary Goffman

The Contemporary Goffman

Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9780415654425
Format: Paperback
$118.00

The Contemporary Goffman highlights the continued relevance of Goffman to sociology and related disciplines – to...  Read More >>

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