Series: Key Issues in Modern Sociology

An examination of Franz Neumann's social and political theory in the context of his career as a learner and teacher. A labour lawyer and publicist of weight in the Weimar Republic, Franz Neumann devoted his 21-year exile, after 1933, to understanding the failure of arrangements supposed to be in the line of social progress. He sought to delineate a new...

While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward. Media Sociology and Journalism is a dialogue on the...

Regimes of Happiness is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfilment. It examines the divergent moral, ethical, and religious traditions as well as the conflicting understanding of the meaning of the 'good life'. Presented in two parts, Regimes of Happiness provides a historical view of the way in which...