Social theory books

Arguing for--and against--the value and practice of ethnography in medicine  Read More >>

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

The problems of bioethics are embedded in people's lives and social worlds. This work uses research methods to expose...  Read More >>

Why are America and Britain wealthier than ever but millions of children live in poverty, neighbourhoods want for...  Read More >>

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Introduces students to the special moral and ethical burdens of social marketing, and challenges practitioners to...  Read More >>

The screenplays and films of Quentin Tarantino raise profound comic and ethical dilemmas. Developing ideas from...  Read More >>

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The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion...  Read More >>

Debates on culture, politics, and the university have hardly abated since the 1960s when the radical assault on...  Read More >>

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This is an historical exploration of the US pensioner movements of the late 1920s through to the early 1950s, and...  Read More >>

This edition introduces the social science audiences of a new century to one of the classic highlights of the mid-twentieth...  Read More >>

Three major social theories - mass society, pluralism and bureaucracy - are often employed to interpret and explain...  Read More >>

This text presents a theoretical and empirical examination of aspects in new transnational social spaces in the...  Read More >>

Argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the human condition because sociology...  Read More >>

* written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics * presents the results of several decades of inquiry...  Read More >>

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

* written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics * presents the results of several decades of inquiry...  Read More >>

Argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the human condition because sociology...  Read More >>

Amartya Sen is an economist. This book is a synthesis of his thought, viewing economic development as a means to...  Read More >>

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