Social theory books

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This title ranges widely over the history of ideas, major theorists and the formation of the idea of transgression....  Read More >>

Contains fifteen papers on inequality theory, economic mobility, issues in empirical estimation, and empirical studies....  Read More >>

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This book introduces social scientists to the difference that critical realism can make to theorising and methodological...  Read More >>

This book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the roots, current debates and future development...  Read More >>

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This is a fully updated and expanded new edition of the successful undergraduate text. Providing a lucid examination...  Read More >>

Economic factors and processes are at the heart of contemporary social and cultural life. This book is designed...  Read More >>

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Linking classical texts on social order with contemporary theoretical extensions and recent empirical research,...  Read More >>

* Explores the difference that space and spatiality makes to an understanding of power. * Moves forward the incorporation...  Read More >>

* Explores the difference that space and spatiality makes to an understanding of power. * Moves forward the incorporation...  Read More >>

This collection of Lefebvre's writings (few of which have been previously translated) reflects his interests and...  Read More >>

This book explores educational reform alongside debates on modernity and anticolonial nationalism in two major princely...  Read More >>

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Researcher's Guide to the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification  Read More >>

The Cultural Nature of Human Development presents an account of human development that looks at both the differences...  Read More >>

Jonathan Sacks' best selling book appears for the first time in paperback and has been revised in response to the...  Read More >>

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A comprehensive and approachable introduction to social scientific theories of religion as they have developed in...  Read More >>

Discusses how social theory is significantly disrupted, disturbed or devalued by the fuller recognition of gender...  Read More >>

Explores issues such as the measurement of risk in its social context, the idea that the mass media or the political...  Read More >>

A comprehensive and approachable introduction to social scientific theories of religion as they have developed in...  Read More >>