Social theory books

This text discusses the role of social movements in the recovery and expansion of democracy and justice in the 21st...  Read More >>

This volume offers an introduction to a frequently marginalized field. The author provides a wide-ranging overview...  Read More >>

* Provides a highly accessible introduction to the complex issues and thinkers in cultural theory. * Covers a wide...  Read More >>

Decades have passed since our original theories of racial identity development were formed, bringing with them changes...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Dialogue interpreting is a generic term covering a diverse range of fields of interpreting which have in common...  Read More >>

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

Focusing on family, community and social change, he has cascaded ideas, in the process coining new words, like 'meritocracy'....  Read More >>

Marketizing Social Policy in China examines the impact of a shift to market principles in the critical sector of...  Read More >>

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

This text analyses the forces affecting social security policy. It concludes that social security can no longer...  Read More >>

Falk argues that the failure to achieve what he terms ""humane global governance"" is partially due to the exclusion...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building  Read More >>

The corporate mega-mergers of the 1980s and 1990s raise questions about the influence of such globalism on the development...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

In Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market , Russell Keat presents a theoretical challenge to recent extensions...  Read More >>

This text guides students through the complexities and implications of the concepts of power and domination. It...  Read More >>

This insightful book is the first to critically examine the ideas of some of the key thinkers of simulation. It...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

This text guides students through the complexities and implications of the concepts of power and domination. It...  Read More >>

Based on interviews with over 1000 Navajo Indian men and women, this monograph examines the associations between...  Read More >>

Based on intensive, long-term study, this comparative book traces the role of ethics in the formation of modernity...  Read More >>

A sweeping cultural history of American Modernism in the 1920s, viewed through the prismatic lens of jazz  Read More >>

Offers an account of debates on class which shows the ways in which contemporary societies are still class divided,...  Read More >>