This book breaks new ground in sociological theory, presenting a process-oriented practice theory for conceptualising and studying the dynamism, interconnectedness and ongoing transformation of everyday social life. Drawing on process-inspired app...Daugiau...
This book calls attention to the continued relevance of Alfred Schutzs social thought and his efforts to bring phenomenology to bear on social theory and the epistemology of social research, arguing that his social theory offers a robust framework f...Daugiau...
Re-Reading Pareto on Elite Power and Societal Bipolarisation utilises key ideas common to Paretos elite theory, general sociology and theory of demagogic plutocracy, and fleshes out a unique perspective for making sense of contemporary soc...Daugiau...
Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity provides a new interpretation of the work of Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), reframing it as being above all a metaphilosophy of modernity.Henri Lefebvre is increasingly being recognized as o...Daugiau...
This volume of collected essays by Hubert Treiber, one of Webers leading interpreters and an authoritative expert on Webers sociology of law, brings a number of translated works to English-speaking readers, offering the opportunity to gain a ful...Daugiau...
Originating in the late 19th century and becoming the subject of ongoing methodological debates in the social sciences, methodological individualism is a paradigm that focuses on understanding social phenomena through the actions and choices of in...Daugiau...
This book begins with the distinction between the so-called lived body or felt body (Leib) and the physical body (Körper), tracing the conceptual history of this distinction through key figures in philosophical and social thought....Daugiau...
Through engagement with the core problems of social theory as well as recent socio-political thought, this book explores landmark instances of 21st century social contestation, in order to demonstrate the importance of critical social t...Daugiau...
Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory is a must read for scholars of political theory and political philosophy, critical theory, the Frankfurt School, Sociology, and in democratic theory. Through the negative dialectics o...Daugiau...
The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory explores the role that understandings of mind and brain played in the development of sociological theory. The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theor...Daugiau...
This book reconsiders Habermass critique of capitalism as a foundation for a critical theory of neoliberalism and will appeal to scholars of critical theory, social theory, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as readers interested in neolibera...Daugiau...
Concerned with the structures of cultural invisibility, unconscious rules of irrelevance and automatic frames of meaning, this book represents the first analysis of the sociology of unmarkedness and taken-for-grantedness, developing the key assump...Daugiau...
This book examines the current state of capitalism in relation to the advance of ICTs, considering the ways in which the rise of the internet has shaped capitalism or otherwise and the implications of our increasingly digital society for socia...Daugiau...
This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers of society, politics, individuality and temporality. This work draws upon European cultural theorists, particularly Schelling, Nietzsch...Daugiau...
Benoīt Godin lucidly examines the idea and representations of innovation from antiquity to the present. He studies the meaning(s) of innovation over time, its diverse uses, and the contexts in which the concept emerged and changed. This history is o...Daugiau...
Radical Civility unearths civilitys extraordinary potential by addressing why the virtue has fallen into crisis, recalling the injunctions that transpose utopia upon the stingy politics of likelihood, and by offering a vision of citizens...Daugiau...
This book explores and proposes original definitions of central terms in political sociology and social theory, including political culture, imaginary, ideology, and utopia, in a manner that renders the individual definitions consistent with one o...Daugiau...
This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain real-world conditions of objectivity. Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at...Daugiau...
Civilization, Modernity, and Critique provides the first comprehensive, cutting edge engagement with the work of one of the most foundational figures in civilizational analysis: Johann P. Arnason. ...Daugiau...
This book presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist, inspired by and advocating socialism. Through a series of studies, it argues that Durkheims normative vision, which can be called libertarian socialism, shaped his sociological cr...Daugiau...
