Social Groups

Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America. Publishers Weekly...

This is a classic study of Philadelphias business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations. It is also an analysis of how fabulou...

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thin...

'Remi Adekoya is a welcome blast of unsentimental rigour into a race debate clogged up with emotion and moralism. His dissection of the economic un...

Pleasure-based politics in Puerto Rican and Cuban pop culture Joy is a politicized form of pleasure that goes beyond gratification to challenge nor...

Pleasure-based politics in Puerto Rican and Cuban pop culture Joy is a politicized form of pleasure that goes beyond gratification to challenge nor...

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award Red kites were once Britains most common bird of prey. By the early 1900s they'd ...

For decades, the outside world mostly knew Myanmar as the site of a valiant human rights struggle against an oppressive military regime, predominan...

This book critically explores the role of state schooling in the reproduction of social class inequalities in the UK. By uniquely combining critica...

What would happen if I accepted an invitation to Bible Study from Jehovahs Witnesses? What would attending a Kingdom Hall meeting involve? And if I...

Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals were killed along the Texas border. The killers included strangers and ...

Co-Winner of the 2023 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2024 Best Book Award, giv...

How do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minorities? In Getting By, Donal...

The first book-length critical reception of Barrie Thornes classic book, Gender Play Barrie Thornes Gender Play was a landmark study of the social ...

The first book-length critical reception of Barrie Thornes classic book, Gender Play Barrie Thornes Gender Play was a landmark study of the social ...

As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Cost...