Books by Ben Agger

Includes wide-ranging interviews with leaders of the New Left: Tom Hayden, Bob Moses, Mark Rudd, Cleveland Sellers, Frances Beal, Casey Hayden, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and more.

An in-depth assessment of the acceleration of modern life in the age of the Internet.

This text looks at sociology as a social act in arguing for a public sociology that can more fully embrace and address crucial public issues. It describes how social science reproduces the existing social world, and shows how it could be crafted differently.

Drawing on first-generation critical theory of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse and second-generation critical theory of Habermas, Agger argues for the priority of critical theory over the antitotality perspectives of postmodernism and feminism.

Neither demonising nor mythologising guns, this collection of case studies sheds light on this controversial issue.

A guide to understanding the meeting point between a new generation of children and new communication technologies.

Examines the field of cultural studies and argues for its relevance in addressing the enormous impact of popular culture and mass media today. Among the perspectives analysed are the Marxist sociology of culture and poststructural/postmodern analysis

This text collects together Ben Agger's essays on the origins, significance and applications of critical theory - a perspective associated with the Frankfurt School. The essays address a variety of topics including the viability of Marxist theory and new social movements.