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American sociology is in the midst of a cultural turn. Where sociologists once spurned culture, t...

New theory bridging Parsons and Habermas analyses society's domination by communications industries.

Groundbreaking study of American patriotism and the symbolic power of the national flag.

New Perspectives On Social Theory: The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the...

In this thought-provoking book, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity and exposes the ...

Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish...

In Queer Fictions of the Past, Scott Bravmann explores the complexity of lesbian and gay engageme...

In Challenging Codes, Alberto Melucci provides a magisterial presentation of his distinctive appr...

Debate over gender and especially the lives of men is currently at a fever pitch, particularly in...

Images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television in the c...

This book offers an original combination of cultural and narrative theory with an empirical study...

Post-structuralist-queer theory of the self drawing on representations of de Beauvoir and her bis...

On April 29, 1992, the 'worst riots of the century' (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television newsw...

This book, first published in 2000, explores the relationship between experiences of selfhood and...

This is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have create...

Social Postmodernism defends a postmodern perspective anchored in the politics of the new social ...

Postmodern critique of surveillance and simulation technologies: virtual reality, computer profil...

In the last decade or so, there has been a shift in the popular and academic discussion of our pe...

Leading comparative sociologist's major statement on the relationship between modernity, revoluti...

To Rule Jerusalem is an historical and ethnographic account of the twentieth-century struggle for...

Piotr Sztompka presents a comprehensive theoretical account of trust as a fundamental component o...

Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of nati...

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Major work in social theory by leading scholar concerned with topics of ?difference?: gender, rac...

Here for the first time are Habermas's most important writings on society, the state, and social ...

This is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have create...

In seventeenth-century France, land took on new importance for the practice of politics and ritua...

Evil is a poorly understood phenomenon. In this provocative 2005 book, Professor Vetlesen argues ...

Davina Cooper addresses major questions currently facing political and social theory, particularl...

Author Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between post-colonial and feminist criticism...

In Queer Fictions of the Past, Scott Bravmann explores the complexity of lesbian and gay engageme...

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Difference Troubles, first published in 1997, examines the implications for social theory and sex...

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In the last decade or so, there has been a shift in the popular and academic discussion of our pe...

This book challenges they myth that Americans' emphasis on personal fulfillment necessarily weake...

The Playing Self addresses the impact of the information revolution, globalization, and 'permanen...

Examines the role of culture in social change and Spanish democratisation post-Franco.

Ron Eyerman explores the formation of African American identity through the cultural trauma of sl...

Images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television in the c...

This exciting new volume brings together seminal work by leading figures in what is emerging as a...

Collection of key works in an important and distinctively American sociological tradition.

Cultural history of psychoanalysis, tracing it back to Judaeo-Christian and Greek sources.

This volume brings together major statements by the leading contemporary scholars of cultural ana...

This book collects the most important statements of the postmodern theory, including the classics...

In seventeenth-century France, land took on new importance for the practice of politics and ritua...

Vivid study of American civic life, contrasting private politics and public apathy.