The important theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Touraine, discussed in this book, seek to explain and resolve the 'crisis of democracy'. They start from a c

Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the

Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia

García-Villegas compares the scholarship on the relationship between law, political power, and society in the United States and France.

Social movements are not only a potential challenge to societies, they also challenge social theory. This volume looks at social movements and social movement r