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

Simmel and Beyond

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Bringing together the work of scholars from across Europe, this book shows how Simmel's categories can be used to explore contemporary issues and furt... 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

Updating Charles H. Cooley

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This book explores the contemporary relevance of Charles H. Cooley's thought, bringing together scholars from the US, Europe and Australia to reflect ... Lees meer

Urban Walls

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This collection invites inquiry into the complexities of the social life of walls, observing urban spaces as veritable laboratories of wall-making – p... 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

Care in the Iron Cage

Rowena Slope

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This book explores two public sector scandals in the UK, drawing on Max Weber's thought on 'the iron cage' to understand how these cases of patient-ne... Lees meer

Liquid Sociology

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Zygmunt Bauman's 'liquid sociology' confronts the awesome task of reminding individual men and women that an alternative way of living together is wit... Lees meer

Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory

Martyn (Northumbria University, UK.) Hudson

• Hardcover | 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 Puritan Culture of America's Military

Ronald Lorenzo

• Hardcover | 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

The Gift and its Paradoxes

Olli Pyyhtinen

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Bringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its Paradoxes explores the ambiguity of ... Lees meer

Fallgirls

Ryan Ashley Caldwell

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Fallgirls provides an analysis of the abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib in terms of social theory, gender and power, based on first-hand participan... Lees meer

We Count, We Matter

Christopher Steed

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This book examines the meaning of Brexit, the election of Trump and the rising tide of populist revolt on the right amidst the collapse of the left. E... 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

Fallgirls

Ryan Ashley Caldwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Fallgirls provides an analysis of the abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib in terms of social theory, gender and power, based on first-hand participan... Lees meer

Post-Philosophical Sociology

Richard Kilminster

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of narrowly focused, policy-oriented research, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is int... Lees meer

The Detective of Modernity

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• This book explores the thought of - and is dedicated to - David Frisby, one of the leading sociologists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first ce... Lees meer

Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences

Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Michael S Drake, Anders Petersen

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Challenging the mainstream orthodoxy of social scientific methodology, which closely guards the boundaries between the social sciences and the arts an... Lees meer

C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination

Jon Frauley

• Paperback | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• In spite of its widespread use within criminology, the term 'criminological imagination', as derived from C. Wright Mills' classic The Sociological Im... 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

Masculinity from the Inside

Bruce Fleming

• Paperback | 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

The Making of a Postsecular Society

Massimo Rosati

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence ... Lees meer

Towards a General Theory of Boredom

Elina Tochilnikova

• Hardcover | 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 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