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Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. The current release features more than 122,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Howard Becker, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault,  Jürgen Habermas, Robert Merton, Dorothy Smith, and Talcott Parsons.
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Mortality, Immortality & Other Life Strategies, by Zygmunt Bauman Bauman explores and redefines the way society reacts to human mortality. His post modern and modern strategies distinguish the methods people use to grapple with their lives in the face of death.

The Conceptual Practices of Power: a Feminist Sociology of Knowledge, by Dorothy E. Smith Brilliant explanation as to how elite society structures thought and knowledge that separates people from their actual lived experiences.

Continuities in the Study of Social Conflict, by Lewis Coser Coser sheds light on social conflict by discerning and analyzing the many types of functional and dysfunctional interaction in society.

Zur Logik der Sozialwissenschaften, by Jürgen Habermas Habermas discusses the relationship between sociology and history while unraveling the major problems and possibilities in the field of Social Science.