Talcott Parsons

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 8
• This volume offers a reappraisal of Parsons′ work by leading social theorists, who place his writing at the centre of current controversies over moder... Lees meer

Diaspora and Hybridity

Virinder Kalra, Raminder Kaur, John Hutnyk

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Diaspora & Hybridity deals with those theoretical issues which concern social theory and social change in the new millennium. The volume provides a re... Lees meer

Undoing Aesthetics

Wolfgang Welsch

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• In this discussion of the aesthetic in everyday life the aesthetic codes of advertising, architecture, the Internet and everyday images are used as ex... Lees meer

Consumer Culture and Postmodernism

Mike Featherstone

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• The First Edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put ′consumer culture′ on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. Updated th... Lees meer

Laughter and Ridicule

Michael Billig

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• From Thomas Hobbes′ fear of the power of laughter to the compulsory, packaged "fun" of the contemporary mass media, Billig takes the reader on a stimu... Lees meer

Risk, Environment and Modernity

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 40
• This wide-ranging and accessible contribution to the study of risk, ecology and environment helps us to understand the politics of ecology and the pla... Lees meer

The Consumer Society

Jean Baudrillard

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Jean Baudrillard′s classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published ... Lees meer

Sociology of the Sacred

Philip A Mellor, Chris Shilling

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• "About time! Two key experts in the field remind us of the significance and power of religion as bio-political and bio-economic." - Beverley Skeggs, G... Lees meer

Changing Cultures

Mica Nava

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 15
• Changing Cultures brings together a selection of challenging essays which have their roots in the fertile convergence of feminism, sociology and cultu... Lees meer

Liberal Democracy 3.0

Stephen P Turner

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• `This is a very fine text, a powerful piece of work that deserves to be read widely. The analysis is truly panoramic. It ranges across central concern... Lees meer

Undoing Culture

Mike Featherstone

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 39
• Written with the clarity and insight that readers have come to expect of Mike Featherstone Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understand... Lees meer

The Domestic Economy of the Soul

John O′neill+

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• This is the first major analysis of Freud′s five celebrated five case studies of Little Hans, Dora, the Rat Man, the Wolf Man and Schreber. O′Neill se... Lees meer

The Experience of Culture

Michael Richardson

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notori... Lees meer

Spaces of Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• In Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship betw... Lees meer

The Postcolonial Challenge

Couze Venn

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• `Couze Venn′s book makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of postcolonial theory and its engagement with significant changes within th... Lees meer

Peer to Peer and the Music Industry

Matthew David

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining inter-disc... Lees meer

The Shopping Experience

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 52
• The last decade has witnessed a clear and steady rise of interest in consumer culture. Many commentators now argue that consumption rather than produc... Lees meer

The Social Construction of Nature

Klaus Eder

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 47
• In this unique and agenda-setting examination of the relation between nature and culture, Klaus Eder demonstrates our ideas of nature are culturally d... Lees meer

The Contradictions of Culture

Elizabeth Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• In this book, one of the most accomplished and thoughtful cultural commentators of the day, considers the contradictory nature of cultural relations. ... Lees meer

The Body and Society

Bryan S Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• This is a fully revised edition of a book that may fairly claim to have re-opened the sociology of the body as a legitimate area of enquiry. The book ... Lees meer

Postmodernity USA

Anthony B Woodiwiss

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 21
• In this rigorous and challenging analysis of American postmodernity, Anthony Woodiwiss re-examines the political, economic and social life of the Unit... Lees meer

Symbolic Exchange and Death

Jean Baudrillard

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in th... Lees meer

Cultural Identity and Global Process

Jonathan Friedman

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 31
• `Friedman has produced a book of importance.... It features many tantalizing insights and observations in the author′s attempt to comprehend the glo... Lees meer

The Tourist Gaze 3.0

John Urry, Jonas Larsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• The Tourist Gaze, Third Edition restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this successful book even more relevant ... Lees meer