Social theory books

Semiotic Sociology provides solid ground for cultural analysis in the social sciences by building up a mediation...  Read More >>

Presents a shift from the accepted international relations standard of theorizing, by analyzing policy decisions...  Read More >>

For this purpose, three different types of emotions are elaborated, which in their totality constitute Homo Emotionalis:...  Read More >>

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

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

An account of the emergence and development of white consciousness throughout American history. In The Making of...  Read More >>

An account of the emergence and development of white consciousness throughout American history. In The Making of...  Read More >>

An account of the emergence and development of white consciousness throughout American history. In The Making of...  Read More >>

This Open-Access-book utilises Hipsterism to demonstrate modes of identity, collectivity, conceptions and a whole...  Read More >>

A retrospective point of view seems quite capable of accurately identifying fallacious socially constructed realities...  Read More >>

Social distancing or physical distancing is an intervention that requires humans to avoid physical proximity and...  Read More >>

This book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of twentieth-century Marxism. The dual...  Read More >>

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In a critical, comparative study of the sociological literature, this book explores the term “time,” and the various...  Read More >>

This edited volume examines the critical issues of the 21st century through the prism of Ernest Gellner’s work....  Read More >>

Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of 'the gift', this book shows that trust is the...  Read More >>

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From Society to System presents an overview of sociologist Michel Freitag’s (1935-2009) distinctive, multifaceted...  Read More >>

What was Adam Smith’s intellectual laboratory? How did his economic theory take shape? Were his metaphors of order...  Read More >>

A 1902 collection of essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Originally published...  Read More >>

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This book shows how many previously contingent social processes have gradually been re-organised and transformed...  Read More >>