Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
About the Book Series
This series explores core issues in political philosophy and social theory. Addressing theoretical subjects of both historical and contemporary relevance, the series has broad appeal across the social sciences. Contributions include new studies of major thinkers, key debates and critical concepts.
Complexity, Society and Social Transactions: Developing a Comprehensive Social Theory
1st Edition
By Thomas Whalen
January 17, 2019
This book develops and presents a general social theory explaining social, cultural and economic ontology and, as a by-product, the ontology of other social institutions and structures. This theory is called social transaction theory. Using the framework of the complex adaptive systems model, this ...
Elementary Forms of Social Relations: Status, power and reference groups
1st Edition
By Theodore D. Kemper
January 17, 2019
Elementary Forms of Social Relations introduces the reader to social life as a perpetual quest by individuals to gain attention, respect and regard (status) accompanied by an effort to marshal defensive and offensive means (power) to overcome the reluctance of others to grant status. This work is ...
Peter Berger on Modernization and Modernity: An Unvarnished Overview
1st Edition
By Robert Bickel
January 17, 2019
With particular attention to his work on modernization and modernity as construed by a sociologist of knowledge, this book offers a sympathetic exposition and evaluation of Peter Berger’s work as one of the world’s most accomplished and influential sociologists. In the context of an examination of ...
Weber, Schumpeter and Modern Capitalism: Towards a General Theory
1st Edition
By John Love
January 17, 2019
This book provides the groundwork for a general theory of modern capitalism by reinterpreting Max Weber’s work on the origins and institutional underpinnings of modern capitalism, and Joseph Schumpeter’s thought on the mechanisms and functioning of the capitalist economy. Focusing on the ...
Deciphering Goffman: The Structure of his Sociological Theory Revisited
1st Edition
By Ramon Vargas Maseda
October 18, 2018
Challenging the ‘classical’ conception of Goffman’s sociology, this book offers a new interpretation based on a comprehensive examination of previous interpretations and critical assessments of Goffman’s work. Epistemologically, the book acknowledges the important but overlooked influences of both ...
Liberty, Toleration and Equality: John Locke, Jonas Proast and the Letters Concerning Toleration
1st Edition
By John William Tate
May 09, 2018
The seventeenth century English philosopher, John Locke, is widely recognized as one of the seminal sources of the modern liberal tradition. Liberty, Toleration and Equality examines the development of Locke’s ideal of toleration, from its beginnings, to the culmination of this development in Locke...
Jürgen Habermas and the European Economic Crisis: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered
1st Edition
Edited
By Gaspare M. Genna, Thomas O. Haakenson, Ian W. Wilson
April 25, 2018
The European Union entered into an economic crisis in late 2009 that was sparked by bank bailouts and led to large, unsustainable, sovereign debt. The crisis was European in scale, but hit some countries in the Eurozone harder than others. Despite the plethora of writings devoted to the economic ...
China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought
1st Edition
By Simon Kow
April 09, 2018
China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of three major thinkers in the early European Enlightenment of the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries: Pierre Bayle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and the Baron de Montesquieu. Unlike surveys which ...
Phenomenology of Youth Cultures and Globalization: Lifeworlds and Surplus Meaning in Changing Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Stuart R. Poyntz, Jacqueline Kennelly
March 07, 2018
This edited collection brings together scholars who draw on phenomenological approaches to understand the experiences of young people growing up under contemporary conditions of globalization. Phenomenology is both a philosophical and pragmatic approach to social sciences research, that takes as ...
The Sociology of Knowledge in a Time of Crisis: Challenging the Phantom of Liberty
1st Edition
By Onofrio Romano
March 07, 2018
The speed of social dynamics has overtaken the speed of thought. Adopting a dialectical perspective towards reality, social theory has always detected faults in the dominant social pattern, foreseeing crises and outlining in advance the features of new social models. Thought has always moved ...
What Holism Can Do for Social Theory
1st Edition
By Barbara G. Hanson
March 07, 2018
This book reconsiders the nature of positivist philosophy in social science theory based on classical and medieval thought in what later became "Europe." It argues that social theory is being held back by antagonistic debates over science, positivism, objectivity, and universal law - ...
Gramsci’s Critique of Civil Society: Towards a New Concept of Hegemony
1st Edition
By Marco Fonseca
January 24, 2018
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist thinker whose radical ideas on how to build an alternative world from below remain vigorously relevant today. Gramsci’s philosophy of praxis critically dissects the institutions of modern liberal democracy to reveal what is perhaps its deepest secret: it is ...