Social Groups

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age...

In large parts of the developing world, peasant to industrial worker and rural to urban transition is a huge question mark on the face of the polit...

Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and ...

By the late 19th century and the early 20th century, there were at least nineteen large and small areas, streets or neighbourhoods that were declar...

Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it ...

In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry ...

During Chinas socio-economic transition period, stretching from 1978 to the present day, the nations social structure underwent enormous changes. T...

Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural ...

On the night of September 6, 2011, terror called at the Amish home of the Millers. Answering a late-night knock from what appeared to be an Amish n...

Fresh, original, heartbreaking Reni Eddo-Lodge Devastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic Pandora Sykes'...

Many commentators tell us that, in today's world, everyday life has become selfish and atomised--that individuals live only to consume. But are the...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the goo...

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Little is known about Egypts Gypsies, called Dom by scholars, but variously referred to by Egyptians as Ghagar, Nawar, Halebi, or Hanagra, dependin...

How a series of violent Amish-on-Amish attacks shattered the peace of a peace-loving people and led to a new interpretation of the federal hate cri...

The relationship of social structure to individual and collective agency has been central to sociology from the outset. It remains so in period in...

The resurgence of strong radical right-wing parties and movements constitutes one of the most significant political changes in democratic states du...

The only brief text to present a unified sociological frame of reference to help students analyze minority-dominant relations. The fourth editi...

'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The TimesInspired by William Mak...

How can we create a healthier world and prevent the crisis next time? In a few short months, COVID-19 devastated the world and, in particular, th...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksJon Ronson's captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: sham...

To what extent are the ideas and practice of community development across Europe similar? Community Development and Civil Society explores this que...

The discovery of a cache of thousands of letters and dozens of diaries brings to light the untold story of Mrs. Tennant and her glittering social w...

PEOPLE OF RAS AL KHAIMAH is an important book. It captures the inimitable atmosphere of the city and its natural environments - the mountains, the ...

For more than half a millennium, Britain has managed diversity through a process of organic integration, with newcomers and their traditions gradua...

Wealth and the wealthy have received relatively little attention from social scientists despite a growing wealth gap. Aimed at a broad social scien...

Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But mode...

In Generation Scot Y, Kate Higgins explores questions of Scottish identity, culture, society and politics and they way they are viewed by twenty-so...

Stephen Millar returns to explore Edinburgh, its neighbouring Leith and the tribes that reside there. In the book, he discusses how the groups came...