Social theory books

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Workers of the World, Enjoy!: Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement

Workers of the World, Enjoy!: Aesthetic Politics from...

Author: Kenneth H. Tucker
ISBN: 9781592137640
Format: Hardback
$162.36

The rise of the public sphere, as chronicled by social movements spanning the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first...  Read More >>

The Promise of Happiness

The Promise of Happiness

Author: Sara Ahmed
ISBN: 9780822347255
Format: Paperback
$66.99

This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer...  Read More >>

Rule of Law and Democracy: Inquiries into Internal and External Issues

Rule of Law and Democracy: Inquiries into Internal and...

Author: Daniela Piana ,  Monica Ciobanu
ISBN: 9789004181694
Format: Hardback
$348.48

Through a reappraisal of rule of law and democracy the contributors provide for a fresh set of inquiries, from the...  Read More >>

The Promise of Happiness

The Promise of Happiness

Author: Sara Ahmed
ISBN: 9780822346661
Format: Hardback
$237.47

This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer...  Read More >>

Son Preference: Sex Selection, Gender and Culture in South Asia

Son Preference: Sex Selection, Gender and Culture in...

Author: Navtej K. Purewal
ISBN: 9781845204686
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The preference for male children transcends many societies and cultures, making it an issue of local and global...  Read More >>

Embodying identities: Culture, differences and social theory

Embodying identities: Culture, differences and social...

Author: Victor Jeleniewski Seidler (Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
ISBN: 9781847423818
Format: Paperback
$51.95

This book shapes a new language of social theory that allows people to embody their differences with a sense of...  Read More >>

Son Preference: Sex Selection, Gender and Culture in South Asia

Son Preference: Sex Selection, Gender and Culture in...

Author: Navtej K. Purewal
ISBN: 9781845204679
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Embodying identities: Culture, differences and social theory

Embodying identities: Culture, differences and social...

Author: Victor Jeleniewski Seidler (Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
ISBN: 9781847423825
Format: Hardback
$176.95

This book shapes a new language of social theory that allows people to embody their differences with a sense of...  Read More >>

The Making of Social Theory: Order, Reason, and Desire

The Making of Social Theory: Order, Reason, and Desire...

Author: Anthony Thomson (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Acadia University, Canadian)
ISBN: 9780195430301
Format: Paperback
$179.95

The Making of Social Theory: Order, Reason, and Desire, second edition, chronicles the development of Western ideas...  Read More >>

Hermeneutics and Social Science (Routledge Revivals): Approaches to Understanding

Hermeneutics and Social Science (Routledge Revivals):...

Author: Zygmunt Bauman
ISBN: 9780415581097
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Investigating Sociological Theory

Investigating Sociological Theory

Author: Charles Turner
ISBN: 9781849203753
Format: Paperback
$120.00

An original and enlivening book that really stands out amidst the drier, denser titles currently on the market....  Read More >>

Neoliberalism and Everyday Life

Neoliberalism and Everyday Life

Author: Susan Braedley ,  Meg Luxton
ISBN: 9780773536920
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A penetrating analysis and critique of the neoliberal policies that prompted the global economic crisis of 2008....  Read More >>

A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium

A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics...

Author: Sam Binkley ,  Jorge Capetillo-Ponce
ISBN: 9781443820783
Format: Paperback
$113.49

How relevant is Foucault’s social thought to the world we inhabit today? While Foucault is best remembered for his...  Read More >>

Neoliberalism and Everyday Life

Neoliberalism and Everyday Life

Author: Susan Braedley ,  Meg Luxton
ISBN: 9780773536739
Format: Hardback
$250.80

A penetrating analysis and critique of the neoliberal policies that prompted the global economic crisis of 2008....  Read More >>

Dead White Men and Other Important People: Sociology's Big Ideas

Dead White Men and Other Important People: Sociology's...

Author: Ralph Fevre ,  Angus Bancroft
ISBN: 9780230232464
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Mila is a new student who is grappling with social theory for the first time and trying to understand what makes...  Read More >>

Theorizing Sexuality

Theorizing Sexuality

Author: Stevi Jackson ,  Sue Scott
ISBN: 9780335218240
Format: Paperback
$68.95

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Theorising Sexuality

Theorising Sexuality

Author: Stevi Jackson ,  Sue Scott
ISBN: 9780335218257
Format: Hardback
$337.79

The book confronts the anxieties associated with sexuality in the late modern, western world and engages with wider...  Read More >>

Investigating Sociological Theory

Investigating Sociological Theory

Author: Charles Turner
ISBN: 9781849203746
Format: Hardback
$413.00

An original and enlivening book that really stands out amidst the drier, denser titles currently on the market....  Read More >>

Towards a Critical Sociology (Routledge Revivals): An Essay on Commonsense and Imagination

Towards a Critical Sociology (Routledge Revivals): An...

Author: Zygmunt Bauman
ISBN: 9780415571647
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon's Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization

Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon's Critical Theory and...

Author: Reiland Rabaka
ISBN: 9780739140338
Format: Hardback
$179.95

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Mobilizing Communities: Asset Building As a Community Development Strategy

Mobilizing Communities: Asset Building As a Community...

Author: Gary Paul Green ,  Ann Goetting
ISBN: 9781439900864
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Case studies from a variety of settings consider the asset-building approach to community development  Read More >>

The Social Science of Hayek's The Sensory Order

The Social Science of Hayek's The Sensory Order

Author: William N. Butos
ISBN: 9781849509749
Format: Hardback
$332.95

Examines the relevance and significance of Hayek's cognitive psychology for economics and social science.  Read More >>

In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise

In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World...

Author: George Prochnik ,  Don Hagen
ISBN: 9798200644100
Format: Audio
$121.31

More than money, power, and even happiness, silence has become the most precious--and dwindling--commodity of our...  Read More >>

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