Social theory books

Kenneth Gergen′s landmark Invitation to Social Construction has been updated to offer students a clear and thorough...  Read More >>

This book reveals the nature of jurisprudence with clarity and enthusiasm to provide an illuminating guide to the...  Read More >>

Contests the claim that computers - specifically internet use - are addictive, arguing that use of the internet...  Read More >>

Kenneth Gergen′s landmark Invitation to Social Construction has been updated to offer students a clear and thorough...  Read More >>

If trust is sometimes the rational response in interpersonal relations, then it can also be rational to distrust....  Read More >>

Explains how inequalities, job insecurity and global warming are the logical outcomes of supercapitalism. This work...  Read More >>

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Following on from Roy Bhaskar’s first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism,...  Read More >>

Following on from Roy Bhaskar’s first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism,...  Read More >>

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Reflections on how Americans are constrained by cultural scripts for age-, race-, and gender-proper emotional behavior...  Read More >>

Reflections on how Americans are constrained by cultural scripts for age-, race-, and gender-proper emotional behavior...  Read More >>

Socialism and the mindset of the traditional left have outlived their purpose. A new political philosophy is needed...  Read More >>

This book casts a critical look at the dominant position that fashion has come to occupy in contemporary society....  Read More >>

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The conception of welfare services has changed to consider the more specialized needs of individual users or consumers. This...  Read More >>

This volume outlines the methods appropriate to an English School understanding of international relations and their...  Read More >>

Although the framework of regionalist studies may seem to be crumbling under the weight of increasing globalization,...  Read More >>

'The Elvis of cultural theory' confirms his status as the most exciting philosopher in recent history as he explores...  Read More >>

An anthology of ten essays that looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from various angles. It promotes...  Read More >>

Looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from different angles and promotes intersectionality as an interpretive...  Read More >>

This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging...  Read More >>

Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. He was active as a...  Read More >>

Is the utopian project dead? Is it possible to imagine a utopian society or a utopian world in the aftermath of...  Read More >>