Polity

Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in enviro...

Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future was...

Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future was...

Grey sex is saying “yes” but thinking “no.” It’s feeling invisible, like you’re not even in the room. It’s wondering afterwards, “is that really wh...

Grey sex is saying “yes” but thinking “no.” It’s feeling invisible, like you’re not even in the room. It’s wondering afterwards, “is that really wh...

The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the g...

The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the g...

Wherever love and death meet there is grief. It affects us all regardless of ethnicity, age, class, or sexual orientation. Grief is universal – i...

Wherever love and death meet there is grief. It affects us all regardless of ethnicity, age, class, or sexual orientation. Grief is universal – i...

We all know what it's like to be annoyed by little things that our husband, wife or partner does – leaving the cap off the toothpaste tube, leaving...

We all know what it's like to be annoyed by little things that our husband, wife or partner does – leaving the cap off the toothpaste tube, leaving...

Sociological analysis is replete with debates about “micro” and “macro,” individual and society, but all too often these miss the point: interactin...

Sociological analysis is replete with debates about “micro” and “macro,” individual and society, but all too often these miss the point: interactin...

In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as ...

In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as ...

How do social relations, or guanxi, matter in China today and how can this distinctive form of personal connection be better understood? In Guanxi:...

How do social relations, or guanxi, matter in China today and how can this distinctive form of personal connection be better understood? In Guanxi:...

Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication – what we call the media. In...

Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication – what we call the media. In...

H.L.A. Hart is among the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, with an especially great influence on the philosophy of law. His 196...

H.L.A. Hart is among the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, with an especially great influence on the philosophy of law. His 196...

‘Jürgen Habermas’, wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker’s eightieth birthday, ‘is not only t...

In this important new study, Pieter Duvenage shows that Habermas’s work on aesthetics, far from being marginal to his core concerns, is central to ...

In this important new study, Pieter Duvenage shows that Habermas’s work on aesthetics, far from being marginal to his core concerns, is central to ...