-
The centrality of sociality
What do we mean by the word “social?” In The Centrality of Sociality, scholars respond to themes of The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities in dialogue with Michael E. Brown.
Regular price $130.99Sale price $130.99 Regular price $130.99Unit price per -
The challenge of progress
Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of “progress”?
Regular price $116.99Sale price $116.99 Regular price $116.99Unit price per -
The demographic crisis in europe
This volume addresses Europe's demographic crisis, focusing on its implications and assessment. It motivates further research, examines the crisis's consistency across nations, and offers methodological contributions. Topics include infant mortality, dependency ratios, economic growth, humanitari...
Read MoreRegular price $54.00Sale price $54.00 Regular price $54.00Unit price per -
The emerald guide to max weber
This introductory text provides an authoritative guide to the key ideas of Max Weber, charting the development of his ideas and placing them in context of his life and times, offering a primer that will form the basis of further, more detailed, reading.
Regular price $27.99Sale price $27.99 Regular price $27.99Unit price per -
The emerald guide to talcott parsons
This book is an introductory guide to the work of Talcott Parsons, designed specifically for students and those new to his work. It offers a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Parsons’s sociological ideas, placing them in the context of his life and his position i...
Read MoreRegular price $31.99Sale price $31.99 Regular price $31.99Unit price per -
The emerald guide to zygmunt bauman
This book is the first introductory guide to the work of Zygmunt Bauman, designed specifically for students and those new to his work. It provides a firm foundation for the independent reading of Bauman and for exploring the many interpretations of his influential ideas.
Regular price $31.99Sale price $31.99 Regular price $31.99Unit price per -
The emerald handbook of the sociology of emotions for a post-pandemic world
The Emerald Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions for a Post-Pandemic World offers a sociological examination of the lived impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through culture(s) of emotion, offering a refreshing contribution to a new and exciting sub-discipline.
Regular price $170.00Sale price $170.00 Regular price $170.00Unit price per -
The future of agency
Leading scholars address the multifaceted concept of agency, dissecting its significance, applications, and challenges across various domains, and situate agency in changing socio-historical contexts.
Regular price $148.00Sale price $148.00 Regular price $148.00Unit price per -
The great decline
It seems clear that many formerly stable societies in wealthy developed countries appear to be falling into an apparent state of ‘permacrisis' accompanied by an increasingly angry and irrational social and political culture that is undermining the peace and stability of our societies and democrat...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
The idea of civilization and the making of the global order
The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major 20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which Europeans came to regard themselves as uniqu...
Read MoreRegular price $38.95Sale price $38.95 Regular price $38.95Unit price per -
The imposter as social theory
The figure of the imposter can stir complicated emotions, from intrigue to suspicion and fear. But what insights can these troublesome figures provide into the social relations and cultural forms from which they emerge? Edited by leading scholars in the field, this volume explores the question t...
Read MoreRegular price $45.95Sale price $45.95 Regular price $45.95Unit price per -
The moral background
In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual framework for this work is still lacking. In The Moral Background, Gabriel Abend develops just such a framework and uses it to investigate the history of business ethics in the Unit...
Read MoreRegular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
The new science of the enchanted universe
One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no lon...
Read MoreRegular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
The perspective of historical sociology
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the themes that make up the field of Historical Sociology. At its centre is the human individual as related to social and historical development. The key question it raises is who or what is responsible for the process of human history: society or t...
Read MoreRegular price $123.99Sale price $123.99 Regular price $123.99Unit price per -
The sociological inheritance of the 1960s
The 1960s saw pioneering changes in the realms of international politics, science, culture and art. Turning this historical lens onto the study of sociology, this book reveals both the continuities and the departures the field has seen in its core principles and approaches over the past several d...
Read MoreRegular price $105.00Sale price $105.00 Regular price $105.00Unit price per -
The tensions of algorithmic thinking
We are living in algorithmic times. From machine learning and artificial intelligence to blockchain or simpler newsfeed filtering, automated systems can transform the social world in ways that are just starting to be imagined. Redefining these emergent technologies as the new systems of knowing...
Read MoreRegular price $135.95Sale price $135.95 Regular price $135.95Unit price per -
Theoretical times
This book examines how theory and theorists have achieved a global audience as never before in the post-Global Financial Crisis era. This crisis and the rise of neo-right populism has brought about unprecedented interest in theory, which has become central to the political, economic, cultural and...
Read MoreRegular price $39.99Sale price $39.99 Regular price $39.99Unit price per -
Trans
How the transgender experience opens up new possibilities for thinking about gender and raceIn the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in th...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Sale price $22.95 Regular price $22.95Unit price per -
Trump and the deeper crisis
As far-right forces cement their hold on the Republican Party, and as the Democratic Party appears unable to stop them, what lies ahead? The authors argue that confronting Trumpism requires a frontal attack on the conditions that incubated the monster.
Regular price $122.99Sale price $122.99 Regular price $122.99Unit price per -
Unmasking dei
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Unmasking DEI by Christopher Stuart Taylor offers an incisive exploration of how historical and contemporary DEI and social justice initiatives have fallen short in tackling anti-Black racism.
Regular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
Visual and multimodal urban sociology
Presented over two volumes, Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology A and B explore the use and potential of visual materials and methodologies that expand the level of analysis and ways of seeing in urban sociology.
Regular price $132.00Sale price $132.00 Regular price $132.00Unit price per -
We have always been cyborgs
The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain–computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension. Despite its enduring influence in the public imagination, a fully developed philosophy of transhumanism has not yet...
Read MoreRegular price $41.95Sale price $41.95 Regular price $41.95Unit price per -
What are prisons for?
What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works? The answer usually depends on what people believe and feel about crime, punishment and what happens inside prisons. The deep socia...
Read MoreRegular price $13.95Sale price $13.95 Regular price $13.95Unit price per -
What in the world?
Analysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines. This book moves beyond these limits to develop a global perspective on soc...
Read MoreRegular price $45.95Sale price $45.95 Regular price $45.95Unit price per -
What is philanthropy for?
Does charitable giving still matter but need to change? Philanthropy, the use of private assets for public good, has been much criticised in recent years. Do elite philanthropists wield too much power? Is big-money philanthropy unaccountable and therefore anti-democratic? And what about so-called...
Read MoreRegular price $13.95Sale price $13.95 Regular price $13.95Unit price per -
Whistleblowing and freedom of expression in working life
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online With contributors from Europe, the United States, Australia, and Africa, chapters focus on factors that influence how different countries design and implement their whistleblower protection laws.
Regular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
