Social theory books

Does human population growth threaten the environment, or does it guarantee we will safeguard it? Is economic growth...  Read More >>

* Breaks new ground by including key new areas of inquiry in the social sciences: cognitive science, feminist philosophy,...  Read More >>

Best offers a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology to the present day. The reader is...  Read More >>

Discusses varieties of Marxism, distinguishing between ideas that remain valid, those that are contestable, and...  Read More >>

Does human population growth threaten the environment, or does it guarantee we will safeguard it? Is economic growth...  Read More >>

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Drawing upon laboratory studies and case studies, this collection of essays provides a comprehensive representation...  Read More >>

This volume brings together important essays of social theorist Kurt Wolff. In the course of presenting a statement...  Read More >>

Including personal letters to Kurt Wolff from Hannah Arendt and Hermann Bloch, this text portrays a fertile mind's...  Read More >>

This work tackles fundamental questions about personal, political and national identities and their linkage to processes...  Read More >>

An unexpected and valuable critique of community that points out its complicity with capitalism Community is almost...  Read More >>

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This collection tackles the theme of isolation and the breakdown of mediating social institutions. It is, in part,...  Read More >>

A compelling examination of the careers of Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven as well as Jane Addams demonstrates...  Read More >>

This book is a specialist legal practitioners' guide to the law on privacy and the media. It considers the rules...  Read More >>

In an age of information glut, knowledge can be hard to come by. Education must equip us to transform information...  Read More >>

Harold Perkin argues that the non-capitalist ""professional class"" represents a new principle of social organization...  Read More >>

This book describes a new person-oriented aproach to the study of development in which the focus is on the individual...  Read More >>

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The essays in this volume pay tribute to the achievements of RenÚe C  Read More >>

Applying the major sociological theories of anomie, career, conflict, functionalist, rational choice, social control,...  Read More >>

Women, Men, and Society provides an analysis of gender inequality, addressing how sexism affects both men and women....  Read More >>

Irregular Migration is an extremely timely and topical book, analysing the fundamental tensions at the core of present...  Read More >>