"Everyday life is the most important dimension of society. Introducing classical and contemporary theory alongside key empirical work, this is a comprehensive exploration of everyday life sociologies. Written by leading experts in the field, each chapter makes concepts from Exis…
This text provides a chronological introduction to the work of Jean Baudrillard, with a selection of classic readings.
In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert examine the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to globalisation and beyond.
This new work (the first in a two-volume series) by the leading Marxian philosopher of our day is a milestone in human self-understanding. It focuses on the location where action emerges from freedom and necessity, thefoundation of all social science. Today, as never before, the…
Olick looks at how catastrophic, terrible pasts, Nazi Germany, apartheid South Africa, are remembered, but he is particularly concerned with the role that memory plays in social structures. Memory can foster any number of things, social solidarity, nostalgia, civil war, but it a…