The Puritan Culture of America's Military

Ronald Lorenzo

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This book explores Puritanism and its continuing influence on U.S. and military law in the Global War on Terror, exploring connections between Puritan... Lees meer

Masculinity from the Inside

Bruce Fleming

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Rejecting the vocabulary and presuppositions common in Western talk about men, this book considers the ways in which men see, speak about, and underst... Lees meer

Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory

Martyn Hudson

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This groundbreaking book rethinks landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorizing 'social haunting': the ways in which social for... Lees meer

The New Narcissus in the Age of Reality Television

Megan Collins

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This book explores the emergence and encouragement of the new narcissus in our society and the ways in which this is portrayed in reality television. ... Lees meer

(Inter)Facing Death

Sam Han

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• In modern times, death is understood to have undergone a transformation not unlike religion. Whereas in the past it was out in the open, it now reside... Lees meer

The University Revolution

Eric Lybeck

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351017558, has been made available under a Creative Commo... Lees meer

The Future of Sociology

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This book explores the shift in sociology away from the shared aspiration of the classical transition, of transcending partiality through the construc... Lees meer

A Sociology of Seeking

Kieran Flanagan

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• A response to the depletion of the rhetoric of sociology and the spiritual capital of theology, this volume explores the remains of Christianity that ... Lees meer

Norbert Elias and Sigmund Freud

André Oliveira Costa

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This book explores the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis on Norbert Elias' theory of the civilizing process, conducting a dialogue between the thou... Lees meer

Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide

Jack Palmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges both the Eurocentric assumptions... Lees meer

Global Economic Crisis as Social Hieroglyphic

Christos Memos

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenon or "social hieroglyphic", arguing that the crisis is not fundamental... Lees meer

David Riesman's Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• It has been over 60 years since David Riesman's most famous work The Lonely Crowd brought him international acclaim. While this remains a best-selling... Lees meer

Violence, Society and Radical Theory

William Pawlett

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violen... Lees meer

Morality Made Visible

Otto Pipatti

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• While highly respected among evolutionary scholars, the sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Edward Westermarck is now largely forgotten in the... Lees meer

Beyond Bauman

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Bringing together leading interpreters of Zygmunt Bauman's sociology, this volume thinks with and beyond Bauman's work in order to show its continued ... Lees meer

Making the Familiar Strange

Ryan Gunderson

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological maxim, 'make the familiar strange'. Addressing the methodological questions of why... Lees meer

Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences

Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Michael S Drake, Anders Petersen

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and language by way of li... Lees meer

A Sociology of the Total Organization

Mikaela Sundberg

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Examining the organization of everyday life inside the regiments of the French Foreign Legion, this book takes its theoretical point of departure in t... Lees meer

Emotions through Literature

Mariano Longo

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Engaging with the wide sociological literature on emotions, this book explores the social representation of emotions, their management and their effec... Lees meer

Vilfredo Pareto's Contributions to Modern Social Theory

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This volume seeks to restore Vilfredo Pareto to his rightful place in the history of social and economic thought, bringing together studies by leading... Lees meer

Towards a General Theory of Boredom

Elina Tochilnikova

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Through comparative historical research, this book offers a novel theory explaining the emergence of boredom in modernity. Presenting a Durkheimian to... Lees meer

The Appeal of Art in Modernity

Michael Symonds

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This book explores the place of art in the modern world, but instead of asking what art is , it begins with the question of art's appeal in modernity.... Lees meer

Dark Emotions

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Dark Emotions is a book about a range of emotional experiences that are often regarded or characterized as 'negative', 'disturbing' or 'dark' as contr... Lees meer

Modern Society as Artifice

Harry Dahms

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Reading the classical works of Marx, Durkheim and Weber together, as highlighting different yet complementary dimensions of the dynamic 'story' of the... Lees meer