Sociology & Social Policy

Although much academic work has been done on the areas of mind, brain, and society, a theoretical synthesis of the three levels of analysis – the biological, the mental, and the social – has not until now been put forward. In Emotion and Reason, Warren TenHouten presents a truly comprehensive classi..

_x005F_x000D_ Emotions and Social Structures develops the argument that emotions play a key role in linking individual social action and the emergence and reproduction of social order. To do so, this book integrates theoretical models and empirical evidence from a wide range of disciplines, in parti..

_x005F_x000D_ Emotions and Social Structures develops the argument that emotions play a key role in linking individual social action and the emergence and reproduction of social order. To do so, this book integrates theoretical models and empirical evidence from a wide range of disciplines, in parti..

Emotional Bureaucracy..

Emotional Bureaucracy..

This book offers a simple hypothesis: that consumer acts and emotional life have become closely and inseparably intertwined with each other, each one defining and enabling the other. Commodities facilitate the experience of emotions, and so emotions are converted into commodities...

This volume explores the emotions that are intricately woven into the texture of everyday life and experience. A contribution to the literature on the sociology of emotions, it focuses on the role of emotions as being integral to daily life, broadening our understanding by examining both ‘core’ emot..

Shows how 9/11 affected global hierachy and oppression, and how it greatly speeded up trends towards them...

Reveals that, after over a year in power, Barack Obama is still beholden to existing dominant domestic and global hierarchies and doctrines...

Written as a DPhil thesis when Bhaskar was in his mid-twenties, Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences brilliantly launches a reconceptualization of the natural world in transcendental realist terms, ‘turning Kant around using his own method’, and explores its implications for social s..

This title was first published in 2000:  One of the most significant features to emerge in the world of work during the past decade has been the change from long-term employment, often with one employer, to a pattern of short-term, flexible working arrangements involving short-term contracts, freque..

Empowerment as Ceremony..