This fully revised and updated edition of Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a remarkably clear overview of social and cultural research in the social sciences and humanities, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for social and cultural theory in the twenty-first century.

Anthony Elliott is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia, where he is Executive Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Dean of External Engagement. Professor Elliott is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and Super-Global Professor of Sociology (Visiting) at Keio University, Japan.

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

PART I

Contemporary social theory

1 The trajectories of social and cultural theory

Anthony Elliott

2 Critical theory of the Frankfurt School

Jordan McKenzie

3 Structuralism and post-structuralism

Sam Han

4 Structuration theories: Giddens and Bourdieu

Anthony Elliott

5 Feminist and post-feminist theories

Ann Branaman

6 Zygmunt Bauman and social theory

Keith Tester

7 Ideology and social and cultural theory

John Cash

8 Psychoanalytic social theory

Anthony Elliott

9 Social theories of risk

Patrick Brown

10 Networks

Thomas Birtchnell

11 Globalization Theory

Eric L. Hsu

PART II

Contemporary cultural theory

12 Cultural and social things: Is there a difference?

Charles Lemert

13 British cultural theory

Nick Stevenson

14 American cultural theory

Sam Han

15 Queer theory

Max Kirsch

16 The New Mobilities Paradigm and Social Theory

Louis Everuss

17 Race/ethnicity and social and cultural theory

Anthony Moran

18 Media and cultural identity

Nick Stevenson

19 The place of space in social and cultural theory

Simon Susen

20 Posthumanism

Anthony Elliott

Index