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The Culture of Exception

Sociology Facing the Camp

By Bulent Diken, Carsten B. Laustsen

We live in an ever-fragmenting society, in which distinctions between culture and nature, biology and politics, law and transgression, mobility and immobility, reality and representation,…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35122-5 (Routledge)

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Rethinking Europe

Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization

By Gerard Delanty, Chris Rumford

Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford argue…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34714-3 (Routledge)

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Emotions and Social Movements

By Helena Flam, Debra King

Most research on social movements has ignored the significance of emotions. This edited volume seeks to redress this oversight and introduces new research themes and…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48187-8 (Routledge)

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Human Rights

By Anthony Woodiwiss

Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the current 'clash of civilizations'? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36069-2 (Routledge)

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Technological Economy

Edited by Don Slater, Andrew Barry

In this major new collection, leading experts explore the multidisciplinary connections between technology and economy, drawing on new convergences between economic sociology and science and…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33606-2 (Routledge)

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Transforming Economics

Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project

Edited by Paul Lewis

Economics has become polarised. On the one hand there is a body of economists who concern themselves with progressing their discipline via an increasing use…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36967-1 (Routledge)

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Making Realism Work

Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research

Edited by Bob Carter, Caroline New

In this innovative book, theorists and researchers from various social science disciplines explore the potential of realist social theory for empirical research. The examples are…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34771-6 (Routledge)

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After Method

Mess in Social Science Research

By John Law

John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them. The implications of this argument are highly significant.…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34175-2 (Routledge)

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Social Theory Since Freud

Traversing Social Imaginaries

By Anthony Elliott

In this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise of psychoanalysis from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism. Examining how pathbreaking theorists such as Adorno, Marcuse,…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27163-9 (Routledge)

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Social Identities

Multidisciplinary Approaches

Edited by Steve Spencer, Gary Taylor

Social Identities: Multidisciplinary Approaches attempts to make sense of the increasingly complex ways in which we define ourselves and others. It recognises that we are…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35008-2 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families
Edited by Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin, Ronald L. Breiger
To be published December 9th 2008

Contemporary Social Theory: An introduction
By Anthony Elliott
To be published December 11th 2008

Globalizing Dissent: Essays on Arundhati Roy
Edited by Ranjan Ghosh, Antonia Navarro-Tejero
To be published December 17th 2008

Aeromobilities
Edited by Saulo Cwerner, Sven Kesselring, John Urry
To be published December 17th 2008

Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
By Roy Bhaskar
To be published January 20th 2009

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