Understanding Max Weber's contribution to social theory is vital for students and scholars of social science. This insightful text offers critical discussion of Weber's ideas, focusing on their uses - how they have been appropriated and applied to contemporary events.
Understanding Max Weber's contribution to social theory is vital for students and scholars of social science. This insightful text offers critical discussion of Weber's ideas, focusing on their uses - how they have been appropriated and applied to contemporary events.
This title brings together interviews with the world's leading social theorists on what society means today. The topics covered include: liquid modernization and the individualization of the society; the displacement of the social into global city networks; and society as a gend…
The basic concept of society has come under attack?political acts, critical theory, new media and even history itself have undermined what we think of as the social. The Future of Social Theory brings together new interviews with the world?s leading social theorists on what soci…
Adrian Franklin considers the relationship between humans and nature, arguing that the firm boundaries between nature and culture have been breached. The author's critique cites man as a polluter and destroyer.
In a critical, comparative study of the sociological literature, this book explores the term "time," and the various interconnections between time and a broad cluster of topics that create a conceptual labyrinth. Various understandings of time manifest themselves in the context …
Divided into three sections - knowledge, power and desire - this book provides a systematic account of the intellectual context and an exhaustive analysis of the key themes informing Deleuze and Guattari's work.
"In a theoretical and empirical tour de force, Kornelia Hahn demonstrates, contrary to the generally accepted view, that digitalization is neither something new nor is it limited to contemporary digital technology. Of key importance is her innovative theory of the relationship b…
This book describes the millennia-long process of the genesis, formation, struggle, and change of views on the management of social organizations in various countries around the world; in other words, it characterizes the worldwide evolution of the History of Management Thought …
In Autonomy and Community, contemporary Kant scholars apply Kant's moral and political views to current social issues, examining contemporary topics through the lenses of various recent Kantian approaches to issues in ethical, political, and social philosophy. The articles, writ…
