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.
Cultural Capital and Creative Communication: (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives
1st Edition
By Oana Șerban
August 26, 2024
Inspired by Bourdieu’s thought, this book explores the notion of cultural capital, offering insights into its various definitions, its evolution and the critical theories that engage with it. Designed for use by students and teachers, it addresses the limitations and expansion of Bourdieu's ...
Populism as Governmental Practice: Spatial, Operational and Temporal Dynamics
1st Edition
By Toygar Sinan Baykan
June 28, 2024
Populism as Governmental Practice illustrates how populism functions as a phenomenon of power and draws attention to the brighter and darker consequences of populist rule for ordinary people across the world via bottom-up analyses of populist experiences of government in remarkably different ...
Max Weber’s Sociology: From "the Protestant Ethic Thesis" and the American Political Culture to a Sociology of Civilizations
1st Edition
By Stephen Kalberg
May 29, 2024
This volume outlines Max Weber’s comparative-historical sociology of "interpretive understanding" (verstehen) in a manner that clarifies his complex mode of analysis and multi-causal focus. Presenting the central features of his methodology, it demonstrates the strengths of his research strategies ...
Gabriel Tarde: The Future of the Artificial
1st Edition
By David Toews
May 27, 2024
This book presents the core ideas of early sociologist Gabriel Tarde and suggests a new pathway for sociology based on his foundational work. Rejecting anthropocentrism, Tarde highlights the contrast between the natural and the artificial, uniquely emphasizing the positive significance of the ...
Making Citizenship Work: Culture and Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Rodolfo Rosales
May 27, 2024
Making Citizenship Work seeks to address questions of how a community reaches a place where it can actually make citizenship work. A second question addressed is "What does citizenship represent to different communities?" Across thirteen chapters a collection of experts traverse multiple ...
Marx, Engels and the Philosophy of Science
1st Edition
By David Bedford, Thomas Workman
May 27, 2024
This book expounds the dialectical conception of science largely implicit in the writings of Marx and Engels, offering a sympathetic reconstruction of a philosophy of science commensurate with Marx’s thought. Drawing on a reading of dialectics found in Plato and Hegel, it recasts Marx’s implicit ...
Outlines of a Theory of Plural Habitus: Bourdieu Revisited
1st Edition
By Miklós Hadas
May 27, 2024
This book explores the thought of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, proposing a modification and extension of his concept of habitus. Building on Bourdieu’s notion of the translational reproduction of social structure – the idea that while social ...
Towards a Sociology of the Open Society: Critical Rationalism and the Open Society Volume 2
1st Edition
By Masoud Mohammadi Alamuti
May 27, 2024
This book applies the general theory of critical rationalism in order to develop a new sociology of the open society, in general, and a new analysis of the transition from a closed society to an open society in particular. It presents a criticism of Karl Popper’s analysis of human action for ...
Understanding Recognition: Conceptual and Empirical Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Piotr Kulas, Andrzej Waśkiewicz, Stanisław Krawczyk
May 27, 2024
As the concept of recognition shifts from philosophical theory to other fields of the humanities and social sciences, this volume explores the nature of this border category that exists in the space between sociological and philosophical considerations, related as it is to concepts such as status, ...
Critical Theory of Coloniality
1st Edition
By Paulo Henrique Martins
January 29, 2024
This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes pluriversal, motivating the historical Critical Theory of Coloniality (CTC) dialogue between the Global South and the Global North. CTC expresses the emergence and historical actuality of...
Karl Polanyi and the Paradoxes of the Double Movement
1st Edition
By John Vail
January 29, 2024
This book offers a critical reconstruction of the double movement, the central thesis of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, one of the most influential books of the 20th century. The double movement is the establishment of a free market economy and the subsequent effort by society to ...
Lockean Property Ethics and Restitution
1st Edition
By David Jarrett
January 29, 2024
In this book, David Jarrett argues that the influential Lockean thesis of justice in property, which traces back to John Locke, seems to entail much egalitarian property redistribution. Put briefly, Lockeans argue that people justly own: (1) any unowned natural resources they labour on, (2) any ...