Social Groups

The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This historical volume tracks the changes in education and the so...

An author, foreign correspondent, academic, and television personality, Roger Willemsen is a familiar figure in Germany, and The Ends of the Earth ...

In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 ter...

For more than one thousand years the monastic republic of Mount Athos has been one of the most chronicled and yet least accessible places in the Me...

Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates...

Using Hamilton's local history to tell the wider story of the North American working-class, Lunch-Bucket Lives investigates how workers dealt with ...

North American domestic missions are now situated in a complex landscape of changing faith, ethnic diversity, and racial unrest. But most missiolog...

How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries...

From the heart of National Geographic comes this expansive guide to the clans, tribes, ethnicities and peoples of the world. Organized in keeping w...

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsi...

Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryl...

Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociological AssociationSenior citizens from all walks...

From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon''s CamperForce programme in Texas, American employers have discover...

The Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender series serves undergraduate college students who have had little or no exposure to Gender Studies...

One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up...

The other side of Notting Hill - this is a historical analysis of housing in the North Kensington area of London, from the middle of the Twentieth ...

The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehen...

Swanendael, the first communal experiment in America, was established in 1663 by Mennonites from Holland. The scant records available on the com...

At a time when debates about social inequality are in the spotlight, it is worth examining how the two most popular media of the 20th and 21st cent...

Kintyre poet and historian Angus Martin's interest in placea'names extends back over 40 years. This meticulously researched exploration covers ove...

Rewire: A Radical Approach to Tackling Diversity and Difference takes a fresh look at the issue of equality, diversity and inclusion at work. It cr...

How did we become so divided and what do we do about it? ''Analytically incisive yet infectiously optimistic, ...

How did we become so divided and what do we do about it? ''Analytically incisive yet infectiously optimistic, ...

Community development has become the new buzz in the social and health sciences. Although community development has been an important subject for d...

In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates o...

Community development has become the new buzz in the social and health sciences. Although community development has been an important subject for d...

A minority is a sociological group that does not constitute a politically dominant voting majority of the total population of a given society. This...