Social theory books

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Trump and the Deeper Crisis

Trump and the Deeper Crisis

Author: Kevin Young (University of Massachusetts, USA) ,  Michael Schwartz (Stony Brook University, USA)
ISBN: 9781804555132
Format: Hardback
$204.39

As far-right forces cement their hold on the Republican Party, and as the Democratic Party appears unable to stop...  Read More >>

The Centrality of Sociality: Responses to Michael E. Brown’s The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and the Humanities

The Centrality of Sociality: Responses to Michael E....

Author: Jeffrey A. Halley (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) ,  Harry F. Dahms (University of Tennessee, USA)
ISBN: 9781802623628
Format: Hardback
$217.32

What do we mean by the word “social?” In The Centrality of Sociality, scholars respond to themes of The Concept...  Read More >>

Ulrich Beck: Theorising World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism

Ulrich Beck: Theorising World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism...

Author: Klaus Rasborg
ISBN: 9783030892036
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book provides a comprehensive and thorough interpretation of Beck's theory of the (world) risk society, from...  Read More >>

Global Visions of Violence: Agency and Persecution in World Christianity

Global Visions of Violence: Agency and Persecution in...

Author: Jason Bruner ,  David C. Kirkpatrick
ISBN: 9781978830837
Format: Paperback
$100.19

By analysing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian...  Read More >>

From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals: Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution

From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals: Peasant Catechists...

Author: Leigh Binford
ISBN: 9781978833685
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists came to take up arms and participate on the side of the rebel FMLN...  Read More >>

Global Visions of Violence: Agency and Persecution in World Christianity

Global Visions of Violence: Agency and Persecution in...

Author: Jason Bruner ,  David C. Kirkpatrick
ISBN: 9781978830844
Format: Hardback
$396.00

By analysing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian...  Read More >>

From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals: Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution

From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals: Peasant Catechists...

Author: Leigh Binford
ISBN: 9781978833692
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists came to take up arms and participate on the side of the rebel FMLN...  Read More >>

Concrete Critical Theory: Althusser's Marxism

Concrete Critical Theory: Althusser's Marxism

Author: William S. Lewis
ISBN: 9781642597899
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Lewis offers an insightful rearticulation and defense of Althusserian critical theory.  Read More >>

The Dialectics of Global Justice: From Liberal to Postcapitalist Cosmopolitanism

The Dialectics of Global Justice: From Liberal to Postcapitalist...

Author: Bryant William Sculos
ISBN: 9781438489407
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Draws on Marx and the first-generation Frankfurt School to make the case that cosmopolitanism must become a postcapitalist...  Read More >>

Bharatiya Pariprekshya

Bharatiya Pariprekshya

Author: Anil Joshi ,  Rajendra Arya
ISBN: 9789355213303
Format: Paperback
$33.61

संकल्प' संस्था सिविल सेवा के विद्यार्थियों में सामाजिक प्रतिबद्धता और समाज-परिवर्तन का दृष्टिकोण और भाव जाग्रत कर...  Read More >>

Widersprüche. Kuratorisch Handeln Zwischen Theorie Und Praxis

Widersprüche. Kuratorisch Handeln Zwischen Theorie Und...

Author: Martina Griesser-Stermscheg ,  Christine Haupt-Stummer
ISBN: 9783111014524
Format: Paperback
$98.32

Contradictions in the museum context What consequences can criticism of the museum have in the museum? Since...  Read More >>

How to Think About Catastrophe: Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying

How to Think About Catastrophe: Toward a Theory of Enlightened...

Author: Jean-Pierre Dupuy ,  M B Debevoise
ISBN: 9781611864366
Format: Paperback
$92.27

This volume presents a new way of thinking about the future as it examines catastrophe and the human response. It...  Read More >>

Care in the Iron Cage: A Weberian Analysis of Failings in Care

Care in the Iron Cage: A Weberian Analysis of Failings...

Author: Rowena Slope (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
ISBN: 9781032154084
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores two public sector scandals in the UK, drawing on Max Weber’s thought on ‘the iron cage’ to understand...  Read More >>

Herausforderungen der Individualisierung

Herausforderungen der Individualisierung

Author: Nikolai Genov
ISBN: 9783031150166
Format: Paperback
$237.57

Dieses Buch setzt sich kritisch mit einer Reihe von provokanten Fragen auseinander: Warum sind die heutigen Gesellschaften...  Read More >>

Values in Social Policy: Nine Contradictions

Values in Social Policy: Nine Contradictions

Author: Jean Hardy
ISBN: 9781032375342
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing

The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence...

Author: David Beer (University of York)
ISBN: 9781529212891
Format: Hardback
$176.95

In this pioneering book, David Beer redefines emergent algorithmic technologies as the new systems of knowing. He...  Read More >>

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Risks in East Asia: Media, Social Reactions, and Theories

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Risks in East Asia: Media,...

Author: Nobuto Yamamoto (Keio University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781032261379
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Using ""risk"" as a conceptual lens, this book analyzes how communities across East Asia responded to the disruption...  Read More >>

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