Social theory books

Deals with some of the weightiest subjects in the contemporary social sciences: race and class and their impact...  Read More >>

This work introduces modern social theory through the creative exploration of eight major metaphors that have shaped...  Read More >>

Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of modern sociology and a key figure in the development of social theory....  Read More >>

Examines the work of the young Baudrillard, it deepens our understanding of his seminal work on consumer culture...  Read More >>

Examines the work of the young Baudrillard, it deepens our understanding of his seminal work on consumer culture...  Read More >>

Explores both the embodied nature of social life and the social nature of human bodily life. This title provides...  Read More >>

A collection of research that serves as an example of aspects of social status, social class, and ideology connected...  Read More >>

Can the need for incentives justify inequality? Starting from this question, the author examines a conception of...  Read More >>

Explores both the embodied nature of social life and the social nature of human bodily life. This title provides...  Read More >>

Utter Silence explores the shifting boundaries of the unspeakable in twentieth-century Western culture. The contributors...  Read More >>

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This work explores the urban extremes of Europe in their cultural, physical, geographical and mythical dimensions....  Read More >>

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Adopts ecological theory to critique, confront, and suggest solutions for contemporary cultural problems.  Read More >>

Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962  Read More >>

After critiquing chaos, catastrophe, and complexity theories, showing their limitations in the contemporary era,...  Read More >>

In this work, the author develops a global life systems perspective that delineates how biological forces mutually...  Read More >>

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Public and intellectual debates have long struggled with the concept of values and the difficulties of defining...  Read More >>

What can social science expect to learn from biological information? This text addresses this issue by questioning...  Read More >>

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Marxism's chief failing is its substitution of a labour theory of value for the struggles of the labour movement....  Read More >>

Assesses the historical and sociological theories of both the classical tradition and more recent schools of thought...  Read More >>

Takes a post-privacy approach to surveillance with a fresh look at the relations between technology and society....  Read More >>

This work presents analysis of the evolution and development of the social sciences. It reconsiders how knowledge...  Read More >>