Social theory books

11043 books were found.

Die Universität im Feld der Macht: Zur Konstruktion von Expertise in der US-amerikanischen Wissensgesellschaft

Die Universität im Feld der Macht: Zur Konstruktion...

Author: Oliver Wieczorek
ISBN: 9783658394455
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Mittels eines Mixed-Methods-Forschungsdesigns, das die materiellen und symbolischen Ressourcen der Universitäten,...  Read More >>

Stained Glass Ceilings: How Evangelicals Do Gender and Practice Power

Stained Glass Ceilings: How Evangelicals Do Gender and...

Author: Lisa Weaver Swartz
ISBN: 9781978819993
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Speaks to the intersection of gender and power within American evangelicalism by examining the formation of evangelical...  Read More >>

Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare

Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis of...

Author: Abimbola Adunni Adelakun
ISBN: 9781978831513
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Drawing on performance studies’ emphasis on radicality and breaking of social norms as devices of social transformation,...  Read More >>

In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador

In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland...

Author: A.J. Faas
ISBN: 9781978831568
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurahua...  Read More >>

Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides

Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging...

Author: Geoffrey L. Cohen (Stanford University)
ISBN: 9781324006183
Format: Hardback
$49.95

Astonishing lessons of social psychology that can make the world a dramatically better place  Read More >>

Marx’s Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology

Marx’s Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology

Author: Thomas Kemple
ISBN: 9783031080647
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Marx's masterpiece Capital (Das Kapital) ignored or misread as well as selectively and creatively interpreted by...  Read More >>

Disciplines of Modernity: Archives, Histories, Anthropologies

Disciplines of Modernity: Archives, Histories, Anthropologies...

Author: Saurabh Dube (Professor-Researcher, Distinguished Category, El Colegio de México.)
ISBN: 9781032389394
Format: Hardback
$101.00

Scrupulously based in anthropology and history – and drawing on social theory and critical thought – this book revisits...  Read More >>

Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare

Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis of...

Author: Abimbola Adunni Adelakun
ISBN: 9781978831520
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Drawing on performance studies’ emphasis on radicality and breaking of social norms as devices of social transformation,...  Read More >>

In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador

In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland...

Author: A.J. Faas
ISBN: 9781978831575
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurahua...  Read More >>

What People Leave Behind: Marks, Traces, Footprints and their Relevance to Knowledge Society

What People Leave Behind: Marks, Traces, Footprints...

Author: Francesca Comunello ,  Fabrizio Martire
ISBN: 9783031117589
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This open access book focuses on a particular but significant topic in the social sciences: the concepts of “footprint”...  Read More >>

Organisiertes Misstrauen und ausdifferenzierte Kontrolle: Zur Soziologie der Polizei

Organisiertes Misstrauen und ausdifferenzierte Kontrolle:...

Author: Martin Weißmann
ISBN: 9783658392260
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Martin Weißmann legt in diesem Open-Access-Buch theoretische Synthesen zu zentralen Themen der interdisziplinären...  Read More >>

Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus: Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus: Tinted Glasses, Fetishes,...

Author: Neriko Musha Doerr
ISBN: 9781800736870
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter...  Read More >>

What People Leave Behind: Marks, Traces, Footprints and their Relevance to Knowledge Society

What People Leave Behind: Marks, Traces, Footprints...

Author: Francesca Comunello ,  Fabrizio Martire
ISBN: 9783031117558
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book focuses on a particular but significant topic in the social sciences: the concepts of “footprint”...  Read More >>

Society and the Unconscious: Cultural Psychological Insights

Society and the Unconscious: Cultural Psychological...

Author: Dieter Sandner
ISBN: 9783662661741
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book will interest anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the psychological relationship between individual...  Read More >>

Contemporary Readings in Marxism: A Critical Introduction

Contemporary Readings in Marxism: A Critical Introduction...

Author: Ravi Kumar
ISBN: 9781032364551
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Marxism as Scientific Enterprise

Marxism as Scientific Enterprise

Author: P.C. Joshi
ISBN: 9781032364865
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Rooted in Decency: Finding inner peace in a world gone sideways

Rooted in Decency: Finding inner peace in a world gone...

Author: Colleen Doyle Bryant
ISBN: 9780984905669
Format: Paperback
$52.77

What happened to common decency? Drawing on sources from modern science to ancient philosophy learn intriguing reasons...  Read More >>

Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment

Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment...

Author: Emily Huddart Kennedy
ISBN: 9780691239569
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarisation that undermines...  Read More >>

Practising the Symbolic: Pierre Bourdieu's Contribution

Practising the Symbolic: Pierre Bourdieu's Contribution...

Author: Sheena Jain
ISBN: 9781032375199
Format: Hardback
$273.00

A powerful theory of the symbolic embedded within a remarkable and original theory of practice is a nodal aspect...  Read More >>

The Welfare System of Universal Integration in China

The Welfare System of Universal Integration in China...

Author: Tiankui Jing ,  Mei Du
ISBN: 9789811648410
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book presents the concepts: the welfare system of universal integration and the welfare mode of universal integration....  Read More >>

THE POWER OF STORYTELLING Social Impact Entertainment

THE POWER OF STORYTELLING Social Impact Entertainment...

Author: Robert Rippberger
ISBN: 9781587906015
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Stories are some of humankind's most powerful creations. They teach us, open doors for self- reflection, and reassure...  Read More >>

Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities

Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities

Author: Emiliana Armano ,  Marco Briziarelli
ISBN: 9781914386121
Format: Paperback
$95.71

Algorithms are a form of productive power – so how may we conceptualise the newly merged terrains of social life,...  Read More >>

A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

Author: China Miéville
ISBN: 9781642598919
Format: Paperback
$57.95

China Miéville's reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: the Communist...  Read More >>

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