Social Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. How Groups Matter

   Challenges of Toleration in Pluralistic Societies

   Edited by Gideon Calder, Magali Bessone, Federico Zuolo

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   When groups feature in political philosophy, it is usually in one of three contexts: the redressing of past or current injustices suffered by ethnic or cultural minorities; the nature and scope of group rights; and questions around how institutions are supposed to treat a certain specific identity/...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Green Utopianism

   Politics, Practices and Perspectives

   Edited by Johan Hedrén, Karin Bradley

   Series: Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society

   In the last decade of planning and policy making, utopian thought and experimental approaches to the organization of society and the built environment have been rare. What has evolved instead is a firm consensus on sustainable society as something created within the framework of current society and...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Childhoods Real and Imagined

   Volume 1: An introduction to critical realism and childhood studies

   By Priscilla Alderson

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   "This book is unusually rewarding in that its author has pulled off the rare trick of providing deep philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to a comprehensive reconsideration of childhood. Priscilla Alderson deploys Bhaskar's 'dialectical critical realism' to excellent effect, illuminating not...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Study of Groups

   By Josephine Klein

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   In attempting to understand the psychological aspects of the developmental process and socialisation, the distinct disciplines of sociology and psychology were brought together for the first time. Titles in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology set of the International Library of Sociology...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. Information Society Studies

   By Alistair S. Duff

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   We are often told that we are "living in an information society" or that we are "information workers." But what exactly do these claims mean, and how might they be verified? In this important methodological study, Alistair S. Duff cuts through the rhetoric to get to the bottom of the "information...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Emotional Politics of Research Collaboration

   Edited by Gabriele Griffin, Annelie Bränström-Öhman, Hildur Kalman

   Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

   Research collaboration in the form of networks, projects and centers has become one of the dominant modes of engaging in research, especially funded research, across all academic domains. However, there has been little research on the processes of such collaborations, particularly their affective...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies

   Edited by Tony Blackshaw

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge developments in the field of Leisure Studies. It offers important new insights into the dynamics of the transformation of leisure in contemporary societies...

   Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
8. Philosophy and Systems Thinking

   A Mutual Synergy

   By John Mingers

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Philosophy and Systems Thinking seeks to re-address the whole question of philosophy and systems thinking for the twenty first century and provide a new work that would be of value to both systems and philosophy. This is a highly opportune time when different fields – critical realism,...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. ‘Manufactured’ Masculinity

   Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism

   By J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Coming Fin De Siècle

    An Application of Durkheim's Sociology to Modernity and Postmodernism

    By Stjepan Mestrovic

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Emile Durkheim

    First Published in 1991, this book attempts to show the relevance of Durkheim’s sociology to the debate on modernity and postmodernism. It does so by examining how Durkheim’s ideas can be applied to current social issues. The author argues that there are striking parallels between the social...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge