Social Theory Books

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31. Actor-Network Theory and Tourism

    Ordering, Materiality and Multiplicity

    Edited by René van der Duim, Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson

    Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

    The recent surfacing of actor-network theory (ANT) in tourism studies correlates to a rising interest in understanding tourism as emergent thorough relational practice connecting cultures, natures and technologies in multifarious ways. Despite the widespread application of ANT across the social...

    Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
32. Max Weber

    Collected Methodological Writings

    Edited by Hans Henrik Bruun, Sam Whimster

    Series: Weber in Translation

    Weber’s methodological writings form the bedrock of key ideas across the social sciences. His discussion of value freedom and value commitment, causality, understanding and explanation, theory building and ideal types have been of fundamental importance, and their impact remains undiminished today....

    Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
33. The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science

    By Amos Morris-Reich

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society. This book studies the connections between academic...

    Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
34. Global Finance

    By Robert Holton

    Series: Shortcuts

    Written under the shadow of the global financial crisis, this book charts the current shape of global finance and tries to explain why the crisis arose – and what can be done about it. Economics alone cannot fully explain how global finance operates, and why it is so crisis prone. Global Finance...

    Published March 5th 2012 by Routledge
35. Foucault and Education

    Disciplines and Knowledge

    Edited by Stephen J. Ball

    First published in 1990, this book was the first to explore Foucault's work in relation to education, arguing that schools, like prisons and asylums, are institutions of moral and social regulation, complex technologies of disciplinary control where power and knowledge are crucial. Original and...

    Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
36. Cultural Analysis

    The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas

    By Robert Wuthnow, James Davison Hunter, Albert J. Bergesen, Edith Kurzweil

    First published in 1984, Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas. This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the...

    Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
37. Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts

    Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions

    By Caroline Braunmühl

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    The occurrence in some criminal cases of "cultural defenses" on behalf of "minority" defendants has stirred much debate. This book is the first to illuminate how "cultural evidence" — i.e., "evidence" regarding ethnicity — is actually negotiated by attorneys, expert/lay witnesses, and defendants in...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
38. Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory

    "I move therefore I am"

    By Brenda Farnell

    Series: Ontological Explorations

    This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist philosophy of causal powers, it seeks to articulate a concept of dynamic embodiment, one that positions human body movement, and not just ‘the body’ at...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
39. Freedom

    By Nick Stevenson

    Series: Shortcuts

    Freedom is commonly recognized as the struggle for basic liberties, societies based upon open dialogue, human rights and democracy. The idea of freedom is central to western ideas of modernity, but this engaging, accessible book argues that if we look back at the history of the idea of freedom,...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
40. Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law

    By William E. Scheuerman

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law makes use of the work of first-generation Frankfurt School theorist Franz L. Neumann, in conjunction with his famous successor, Jürgen Habermas, to try to understand the momentous political and legal transformations generated by...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge