Social theory books

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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 >>

Diversity and Discrimination in Research Organizations

Diversity and Discrimination in Research Organizations...

Author: Clemens Striebing (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Germany) ,  Jörg Müller (Open University of Catalonia, Spain)
ISBN: 9781801179591
Format: Paperback
$54.31

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Diversity and Discrimination...  Read More >>

The Unfinished Politics of Race: Histories of Political Participation, Migration, and Multiculturalism

The Unfinished Politics of Race: Histories of Political...

Author: Les Back (University of Glasgow) ,  Michael Keith (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009261357
Format: Paperback
$72.45

An account of the changing politics of race in Britain that draws on original research over an extended period,...  Read More >>

The Unfinished Politics of Race: Histories of Political Participation, Migration, and Multiculturalism

The Unfinished Politics of Race: Histories of Political...

Author: Les Back (University of Glasgow) ,  Michael Keith (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009261319
Format: Hardback
$214.76

An account of the changing politics of race in Britain that draws on original research over an extended period,...  Read More >>

Morality, Violence, and Ritual Circumcision: Writing with Blood

Morality, Violence, and Ritual Circumcision: Writing...

Author: Na'ama Carlin (University of New South Wales, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367551957
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Departing from both the ordinary defences and criticisms that surround the practice of Jewish ritual of circumcision,...  Read More >>

Values in Social Policy: Nine Contradictions

Values in Social Policy: Nine Contradictions

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

First published in 1981, Values in Social Policy provides a means towards understanding the conflicts, contradictions...  Read More >>

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 >>

Herausforderungen der Individualisierung

Herausforderungen der Individualisierung

Author: Nikolai Genov
ISBN: 9783031150166
Format: Paperback
$181.10

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

Complexity, Emergence, and Causality in Applied Linguistics

Complexity, Emergence, and Causality in Applied Linguistics...

Author: Jérémie Bouchard
ISBN: 9783030880347
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book suggests that applied linguistics research is inherently concerned with complexity, emergence and causality,...  Read More >>

'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology: Decolonizing the Modern Myth

'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology: Decolonizing...

Author: Mitsutoshi Horii
ISBN: 9783030875183
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Informed by ‘critical religion’ perspective in Religious Studies and postcolonial self-reflection in Sociology,...  Read More >>

The Relationship Between Trust and Social Capital of China’s Urban Residents

The Relationship Between Trust and Social Capital of...

Author: Zou Yuchun ,  Qiusha Lv
ISBN: 9781032376035
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Blockchain and the Commons

Blockchain and the Commons

Author: Vangelis Papadimitropoulos
ISBN: 9780367484040
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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What Do We Know and What Should We Do About AI?

What Do We Know and What Should We Do About AI?

Author: Ewa Luger
ISBN: 9781529600278
Format: Paperback
$36.99

In this short and accessible book, Ewa Luger explains what we mean when we talk about AI, explores how we got here,...  Read More >>

What Do We Know and What Should We Do About AI?

What Do We Know and What Should We Do About AI?

Author: Ewa Luger
ISBN: 9781529600285
Format: Hardback
$136.00

In this short and accessible book, Ewa Luger explains what we mean when we talk about AI, explores how we got here,...  Read More >>

The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change

The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support...

Author: Simone Baglioni ,  Stephen Sinclair
ISBN: 9781447320111
Format: Hardback
$176.95

This book uses qualitative longitudinal data, from repeat interviews with people subject to compulsion and sanction...  Read More >>

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