{"product_id":"welcome-to-social-theory","title":"Welcome to Social Theory","description":"\u003cp style='--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-pan-x: ; --tw-pan-y: ; --tw-pinch-zoom: ; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-gradient-from-position: ; --tw-gradient-via-position: ; --tw-gradient-to-position: ; --tw-ordinal: ; --tw-slashed-zero: ; --tw-numeric-figure: ; --tw-numeric-spacing: ; --tw-numeric-fraction: ; --tw-ring-inset: ; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ .5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-blur: ; --tw-brightness: ; --tw-contrast: ; --tw-grayscale: ; --tw-hue-rotate: ; --tw-invert: ; --tw-saturate: ; --tw-sepia: ; --tw-drop-shadow: ; --tw-backdrop-blur: ; --tw-backdrop-brightness: ; --tw-backdrop-contrast: ; --tw-backdrop-grayscale: ; --tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ; --tw-backdrop-invert: ; --tw-backdrop-opacity: ; --tw-backdrop-saturate: ; --tw-backdrop-sepia: ; --tw-contain-size: ; --tw-contain-layout: ; --tw-contain-paint: ; --tw-contain-style: ; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(54, 59, 61); --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-offset-color: #181a1b; --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-color: rgba(8, 68, 166, 0.5); --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --darkreader-bg--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --darkreader-bg--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; font-family: neue-haas-grotesk-display, \"Adjusted Arial Fallback\", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; --darkreader-inline-border-top: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-right: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-bottom: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-left: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text-bdb7af, #bab4ab);' data-darkreader-inline-border-top=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-right=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-pan-x: ; --tw-pan-y: ; --tw-pinch-zoom: ; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-gradient-from-position: ; --tw-gradient-via-position: ; --tw-gradient-to-position: ; --tw-ordinal: ; --tw-slashed-zero: ; --tw-numeric-figure: ; --tw-numeric-spacing: ; --tw-numeric-fraction: ; --tw-ring-inset: ; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ .5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-blur: ; --tw-brightness: ; --tw-contrast: ; --tw-grayscale: ; --tw-hue-rotate: ; --tw-invert: ; --tw-saturate: ; --tw-sepia: ; --tw-drop-shadow: ; --tw-backdrop-blur: ; --tw-backdrop-brightness: ; --tw-backdrop-contrast: ; --tw-backdrop-grayscale: ; --tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ; --tw-backdrop-invert: ; --tw-backdrop-opacity: ; --tw-backdrop-saturate: ; --tw-backdrop-sepia: ; --tw-contain-size: ; --tw-contain-layout: ; --tw-contain-paint: ; --tw-contain-style: ; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(54, 59, 61); --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-offset-color: #181a1b; --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-color: rgba(8, 68, 166, 0.5); --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --darkreader-bg--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --darkreader-bg--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; font-weight: 600; --darkreader-inline-border-top: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-right: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-bottom: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-left: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text-d6d3cd, #cbc7c0);\" data-darkreader-inline-border-top=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-right=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003eWelcome to Social Theory\u003c\/span\u003e is exactly what students want: a lucid and engaging introduction to social theory that carefully uses images, examples and quotations to illustrate new ways of examining contemporary social life. Tom Brock’s comprehensive and accessible style produces an indispensable guide to social theory that examines the major theoretical traditions from Marxism through to poststructuralism, and from feminism through to postcolonial theory, new materialism and posthumanism. \u003cspan style=\"--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-pan-x: ; --tw-pan-y: ; --tw-pinch-zoom: ; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-gradient-from-position: ; --tw-gradient-via-position: ; --tw-gradient-to-position: ; --tw-ordinal: ; --tw-slashed-zero: ; --tw-numeric-figure: ; --tw-numeric-spacing: ; --tw-numeric-fraction: ; --tw-ring-inset: ; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ .5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-blur: ; 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--darkreader-inline-border-bottom: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-left: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text-d6d3cd, #cbc7c0);\" data-darkreader-inline-border-top=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-right=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003eWelcome to Social Theory\u003c\/span\u003e gives careful appraisal of classical ideas and debates in social theory and traces their impact on major contemporary theorists - including Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, Margaret Archer, Judith Butler, bell hooks, Kimberle Crenshaw, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze and Rosi Braidotti.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style='--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-pan-x: ; --tw-pan-y: ; --tw-pinch-zoom: ; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-gradient-from-position: ; --tw-gradient-via-position: ; --tw-gradient-to-position: ; --tw-ordinal: ; --tw-slashed-zero: ; --tw-numeric-figure: ; --tw-numeric-spacing: ; --tw-numeric-fraction: ; --tw-ring-inset: ; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ .5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-blur: ; --tw-brightness: ; --tw-contrast: ; --tw-grayscale: ; --tw-hue-rotate: ; --tw-invert: ; --tw-saturate: ; --tw-sepia: ; --tw-drop-shadow: ; --tw-backdrop-blur: ; --tw-backdrop-brightness: ; --tw-backdrop-contrast: ; --tw-backdrop-grayscale: ; --tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ; --tw-backdrop-invert: ; --tw-backdrop-opacity: ; --tw-backdrop-saturate: ; --tw-backdrop-sepia: ; --tw-contain-size: ; --tw-contain-layout: ; --tw-contain-paint: ; --tw-contain-style: ; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(54, 59, 61); --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-offset-color: #181a1b; --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-color: rgba(8, 68, 166, 0.5); --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --darkreader-bg--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --darkreader-bg--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; margin: 1.25em 0px; font-family: neue-haas-grotesk-display, \"Adjusted Arial Fallback\", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; --darkreader-inline-border-top: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-right: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-bottom: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-left: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text-bdb7af, #bab4ab);' data-darkreader-inline-border-top=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-right=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003eSocial theory matters and this book shows why through relevant and compelling examples, including the gig economy, everyday sexism, digital black feminism, animal and environmental activism, stigma and discrimination against migrants, the need to decolonise the sociology curriculum and many more. Chapters include boxed case studies, summaries, review questions, further reading and a glossary to help embed learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style='--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-pan-x: ; --tw-pan-y: ; --tw-pinch-zoom: ; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-gradient-from-position: ; --tw-gradient-via-position: ; --tw-gradient-to-position: ; --tw-ordinal: ; --tw-slashed-zero: ; --tw-numeric-figure: ; --tw-numeric-spacing: ; --tw-numeric-fraction: ; --tw-ring-inset: ; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ .5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-blur: ; --tw-brightness: ; --tw-contrast: ; --tw-grayscale: ; --tw-hue-rotate: ; --tw-invert: ; --tw-saturate: ; --tw-sepia: ; --tw-drop-shadow: ; --tw-backdrop-blur: ; --tw-backdrop-brightness: ; --tw-backdrop-contrast: ; --tw-backdrop-grayscale: ; --tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ; --tw-backdrop-invert: ; --tw-backdrop-opacity: ; --tw-backdrop-saturate: ; --tw-backdrop-sepia: ; --tw-contain-size: ; --tw-contain-layout: ; --tw-contain-paint: ; --tw-contain-style: ; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(54, 59, 61); --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-offset-color: #181a1b; --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-color: rgba(8, 68, 166, 0.5); --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --darkreader-bg--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --darkreader-bg--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --darkreader-bg--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; margin: 1.25em 0px; font-family: neue-haas-grotesk-display, \"Adjusted Arial Fallback\", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; --darkreader-inline-border-top: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-right: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-bottom: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-border-left: var(--darkreader-border-363b3d, #797063); --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text-bdb7af, #bab4ab);' data-darkreader-inline-border-top=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-right=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003eWelcome to Social theory is an indispensable text for undergraduate students who are new to social theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Title:\u003c\/strong\u003e Welcome to Social Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tom Brock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46653925130396,"sku":"BOOK-11","price":69.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/3835\/3820\/files\/57_43457338-ca3c-4f22-a6eb-26bcc2abe2ac.jpg?v=1775727988","url":"https:\/\/exboxau.com.au\/products\/welcome-to-social-theory","provider":"EXBOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}