Social Groups

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrificat...

Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of mult...

Gertrude Stein (18741946) and Truman Capote (19241984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewa...

Religion has been a powerful political force throughout American history. When race enters the mix the results have been some of our greatest trium...

Somehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive b...

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced several forms of discrimination. The greater Latino community did not oft...

The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media offers original insights into the complex set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and t...

Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their child...

2012 Honorable Mention Award, Sociology of Religion Section, presented by the American Sociological Association 2011 Honorable Mention for the Ame...

This book offers an illuminating re-appraisal of the domestic space in classical Greece. Starting from the premise that we must cease to view the c...

This book offers an illuminating re-appraisal of the domestic space in classical Greece. Starting from the premise that we must cease to view the c...

2012 Honorable Mention Award, Sociology of Religion Section, presented by the American Sociological Association 2011 Honorable Mention for the Ame...

Different Horrors, Same Hell brings together a variety of essays demonstrating the breadth of contributions that feminist theory and gender analysi...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the re...

This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. This is the first book t...

A profound portrait of the hidden injustices that trap fathers in a cycle of punishment and debt.   In the first study of its kind, sociologist Lyn...

Over fifty years ago, Will Herberg theorized that future immigrants to the United States would no longer identify themselves through their races or...

An exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector.   Nonpro...

This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. Crit...

To be taken seriously, therapies that claim to cure homosexuality wrap themselves in lab coats. Even though the fit is bad, and such therapies and ...

Health Rights Are Civil Rights tells the story of the important place of health in struggles for social change in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970...

Gangs, often associated with brutality and senseless destructive violence, have not always been viewed as inherently antagonistic. The first studie...

Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seem to keep finding ways to talk about racefrom cele...

Patterns of migration and the forces of globalization have brought the issues of mixed race to the public in far more visible, far more dramatic wa...