Social Theory

This volume describes and challenges the ideological basis of the free-market right. The agenda for both right and left is set by the terms of the free-market doctrines that have displaced the post-war consensus politics of liberal capitalism. No other book considers in such depth conservative ideas..

This volume describes and challenges the ideological basis of the free-market right. The agenda for both right and left is set by the terms of the free-market doctrines that have displaced the post-war consensus politics of liberal capitalism. No other book considers in such depth conservative ideas..

This study compares individuals with individuals, individuals with organizations, and organizations with organizations in their everyday life interactions. Conspicuous and inconspicuous discriminations are identified in ordinary yet typical, familiar yet unique, and mundane yet significant situation..

In this volume Sandro Segre provides a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical perspectives in contemporary sociology. The perspectives are divided into four sections: Interpretative Sociology; Structuralist Sociology; Micro and Macrosociological Perspectives; and Historical and Philosophica..

In this volume Sandro Segre provides a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical perspectives in contemporary sociology. The perspectives are divided into four sections: Interpretative Sociology; Structuralist Sociology; Micro and Macrosociological Perspectives; and Historical and Philosophica..

One of the "hottest" concepts in international academic social-science research, social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of social networks in "getting ahead". This book presents the latest contributions and advances in theory and method in this important field...

This book reconsiders the place of the notions of crisis and critique as fundamental means to grasp the fragile condition of the social. It challenges the normalization and dissolution of these "concepts" in contemporary social theory and proposes to consider anew the relationship of crisis and crit..

This book argues that the rise of the global South calls for a revision of European epistemology and ethics, outlining a theory of the social sciences that is sustainable in a post-Eurocentric world and offering a potential way - beyond the dichotomy of universalism and relativism - out of the impas..

With attention to new ways of contrasting alienation and reification in contemporary forms of social organisation, this book demonstrates that the thought of the Frankfurt school can in fact be an invaluable tool not only for developing a critique of advanced capitalism, but also for originating alt..

First published in 1967, this essay in the interpretation of radical social thought deals mainly with the radical theorists rather than the doctrines of social and political movements, but makes an exception in an important discussion of the new radicalism of the 1960s. The author's main concern is ..

Scholars are increasingly challenging the view that the psyche and the social are so disparate that their study requires incompatible analytical and theoretical approaches. In this innovative work, George Cavalletto uses key texts by Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Theodor Adorno and Norbert Elias to show..

This cutting-edge research volume advances the perspective that cultural factors are key influences in movement trajectories, organizational forms, recruitment, strategies, and ideologies. Hank Johnston brings together international experts in cultural analysis to focus on narratives, frames, speech..