Polity

In the new century, governments face three challenges for their social policies. Their efforts to improve their citizens’ well-being must be consis...

In the new century, governments face three challenges for their social policies. Their efforts to improve their citizens’ well-being must be consis...

This is a major textbook in social psychology which deliberately adopts a critical, unconventional approach. Until recently social psychology seeme...

Serge Moscovici first introduced the concept of social representations into contemporary social psychology nearly forty years ago. Since then the t...

This unique book explains the central role that research paradigms play in the design and conduct of social research. The authors argue that social...

This unique book explains the central role that research paradigms play in the design and conduct of social research. The authors argue that social...

Social Semiotics is a major new textbook in communication and cultural studies. It offers a comprehensive and original approach to the study of the...

Social semiotics reveals language�s social meaning – its structures, processes, conditions and effects – in all social contexts, across all media a...

Social semiotics reveals language�s social meaning – its structures, processes, conditions and effects – in all social contexts, across all media a...

Social structure is arguably the central concept of sociology, and in recent years a much wider public has taken up with fresh vigor the sociologic...

Social structure is arguably the central concept of sociology, and in recent years a much wider public has taken up with fresh vigor the sociologic...

The second edition of this remarkably lucid text, provides a wide-ranging historical introduction to social theory. The new edition preserves, and ...

The second edition of this remarkably lucid text, provides a wide-ranging historical introduction to social theory. The new edition preserves, and ...

Archaeological theory and method have recently become the subject of vigorous debate centred on the growing realization that archaeological theory ...

In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for socio...

This major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Modern and Postmoder...

This major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Modern and Postmoder...

This book establishes whether contemporary social theory can help us understand the structural origins of environmental degradation and environment...

This book provides a critical assessment of contemporary social theory for students in the social sciences. Delanty examines the writings of a numb...

This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe C...

This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe C...

Social work is facing fundamental changes and challenges. Neo-liberalism, globalization, corporate management and the mixed economy of welfare have...

Social work is facing fundamental changes and challenges. Neo-liberalism, globalization, corporate management and the mixed economy of welfare have...

Social Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments...