Social Groups

There is no rawer human experience than sex, and in a city as diverse as New York, sexual experiences come in many forms. In the pre-Giuliani days,...

The Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations, based originally in the Un...

Stereotypes of economically marginalized black and brown youth focus on drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood. Families, schools, nonprofit o...

After twenty, thirty, or even forty years of marriage, countless vacations together, raising well-adjusted children, and sharing property and finan...

Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to ...

Mothering While Black examines the complex lives of the African American middle classin particular, black mothers and the strategies they use to ra...

A paradoxical situation emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century: the dramatic upscaling of the suburban American dream even as the possibil...

Since 1993, crime in the United States has fallen to historic lows, seeming to legitimize the countrys mix of welfare reform and mass incarceration...

There is no rawer human experience than sex, and in a city as diverse as New York, sexual experiences come in many forms. In the pre-Giuliani days,...

We have fun and we enjoy each other's company, so why shouldn't we just move in together?-Lauren, from Cohabitation Nation Living together is a typ...

What does it mean to be a compassionate, caring person in Russia, which has become a country of stark income inequalities and political restriction...

Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working ...

Lino Brocka (19391991) was one of Asia and the Global Souths most celebrated filmmakers. A versatile talent, he was at once a bankable director of ...

Afrocentric Innovations in Higher Education steps beyond the traditional texts centered on limited improvements to higher education by reconceptual...

For people born to parents from two socially distinctive racial groups, the answer to the question of racial identity can be far from straightforwa...

In The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts, Barbara Tepa Lupack explores the rampant racial and gender st...

Presenting a challenge to popular stereotypes, this book is an intimate exploration of the religiously defined roles of Amish women and how these r...

For the first time in human history, more people inhabit urban than rural areas. Investigating the experience of hunger and malnutrition in urban s...

Children, while being the most victimised group in society, rarely become a topic of sociological research, neither as victims nor as perpetrators....

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Drawing on historical a...

Over the last forty years, running has grown from a niche sport for a handful of committed club athletes into one of the Western worlds most popula...

Taking us on an ethnographic journey into the spatially transgressive practice of parkour and freerunning, Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Lat...

Researchers, practitioners, and parents have increasingly become concerned about issues related to sex, gender, and sexuality among children and ad...

The 43rd Volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change continues the series' tradition of publishing peer reviewed chapters, which a...

Gender-based violence is an issue often met with silence, unempathetic discourse, and troublesome visual representation. As educators, mentors, and...

The concept of Global Civil Society as an imagined global community is raising questions that challenge perceptions of a border-free, footloose, gl...

Lying at the heart of the modern Action Cinema Canon is the concept of transformation. As the action genre evolves and shifts into the new millenni...

The noughties witnessed rapid change in Action Cinema, carrying with it the new action stars of the previous decade, and the boundary blurring expe...

Sylvester Stallones action thriller, First Blood, hit cinema screens in 1982, leading to the cementing of what can be called the Action Movie Canon...

In this volume of Political Power and Social Theory, a special collection of papers reconsiders race and racism from global and historical perspect...

The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qu...

In the global South there is growing concern about the dynamics of global politics that have the potential to marginalize the diverse voices and pe...

Contemporary popular media has been marked by its startling ability to morph into a wide variety of formats, fed by the ongoing revolution in digit...

Neighbours are a lively topic of everyday conversation and interest. Neighbours Around the World takes a comparative look around the world at our r...

As womens sport continues to grow and develop there is an increasing need to critically examine the conditions in which women as athletes operate. ...

Moving Spaces and Places is about movement as a transformative experience, showing how movement changes affect and percept of spaces and place and ...

This collection examines the ongoing shared struggles of diverse groups of women in Canada and beyond focusing on a diverse range of themes includi...

Winner of the 2020 Mid-South Sociological Association Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award. Contributing to an emerging literature on mixed-r...

This volume provides educators with an understanding of challenges associated with equity and inclusion at higher education institutions globally a...

In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and colon...

Although tattoos have become increasingly available to us, there are still spaces where they are not accepted, and even 'othered'. Looking at the U...

For 30 years, since the publication of her landmark book The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams and her readers have continued to document and...

A brand-new collection of original audition pieces written by and for actors of colour, commissioned by Tamasha Theatre Company and edited by Titil...

Posthumanism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term. Firstly, it registers a shift beginning in the late 1960s and epitomized by Foucaults t...