социальная теория

«Я пришел к убеждению, что никакое государство, а тем паче Всероссийское, без подлости и зверства даже год продержаться не может, – писал в середине X…

The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His …

In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into soci…

Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation is generally acclaimed as being among the most influential works of economic history in the twentieth century,…

Combining carefully chosen primary quotes with extensive discussion and everyday illustrative examples, this book provides an in-depth introduction to…

Featuring extensive revisions and updates, the Second Edition of The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research presents an introduct…

Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. …

Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and s…

This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a personal refle…

Эта книга посвящена поколению Х – людям, родившимся в 1964–1984 годах. Вы узнаете, какие ценности объединяют представителей этого поколения. Познакоми…

NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical probl…

Thoroughly revised and updated, this text introduces students of human geography and allied disciplines to the fundamental concept of place, combining…

The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventio…

Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens h…

Эта книга о поколении Беби-бумеров – людях, родившихся в 1944–1963 годах, в период послевоенного всплеска рождаемости. Число Беби-бумеров увеличиваетс…

Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ‘alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in …

Levinas, Subjectivity, Education explores how the philosophical writings of Emmanuel Levinas lead us to reassess education and reveals the possibiliti…

In the fifth edition Contested Knowledge, social theorist Steven Seidman presents the latest topics in social theory and addresses the current shift o…

This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between t…

В работе на основе новейших данных и серьезной теоретикометодологической базе рассматриваются вопросы социологического изучения социально-демографичес…

Globalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the en…

Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their dig…

В своей новой книге Джудит Батлер доказывает, что этика ненасилия должна связываться с широкой политической борьбой за социальное равенство. Один из с…

Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as ‘…

Эта книга посвящена поколению Х – людям, родившимся в 1964–1984 годах. Вы узнаете, какие ценности объединяют представителей этого поколения. Познакоми…

The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and ea…

NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical probl…

In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept o…

In this major new work, Richard J. Bernstein argues that many of the most important themes in philosophy during the past one hundred and fifty years a…

В книге описывается наступающая эпоха цифровизации. Материал будет интересен тем, кто интересуется геополитикой, экономикой, политологией и социологие…

Making Knowledge presents the work of leading anthropologists who promote pioneering approaches to understanding the nature and social constitution of…

It is commonly assumed that we live in an age of unbridled individualism, but in this important new book Montserrat Guibernau argues that the need to …

The way people think and act politically is not set in stone. People can and do change the fundamental cultural contours of their political situation.…

This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-centu…

What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In this new book, Raewyn Connell combines vivid re…

In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage re…

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing – the fashions we follow…

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century, offered a unique insight into the profound imp…

Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most challenging and contentious thinkers currently working within the European tradition. This is the first collection…

The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientifi…

This is the first comprehensive study of the core philosophical questions posed by terrorism such as: How should we define it? Is it morally distincti…

This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of co…

Grafting the Marxian idea that private property is coercive onto the liberal imperative of individual liberty, this new thesis from one of America's f…

This book is a critical introduction to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Rancière. It is the first introduction in any language to cover all of…