Social Issues & Processes

Eight years after the Arab Spring there is still much debate over the link between Internet technology and protest against authoritarian regimes. W...

How do we bring people together when our society is breaking apart? What will it take to bridge our divides, overcome mistrust, and restore our bel...

What are the challenges facing social welfare in America? Theories of stakeholders, the policy process, electoral politics, the precariat, child we...

The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly...

Smart Decarceration is a forward-thinking, practical volume that provides innovative concepts and concrete strategies for ushering in an era of dec...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as...

In the international press, East Africa is depicted as a region mired in civil war, child abduction, rebel militias, Muslim-Christian violence, and...

Mooney, Knox, and Schacht''s UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PROBLEMS uses a theoretically balanced, reader-friendly approach to provide a comprehensive explo...

Within Social Change, Resistance and Social Practises, critical sociologists of various nationalities focus on cutting-edge approaches to conflict-...

How do social class, race-ethnic, and gender differences promote social inequality in our everyday lives? Life of the Party begins with a family ...

Sugar, coffee, corn, and chocolate have long dominated the study of Central American commerce, and researchers tend to overlook one other equally s...

Each book in the Reference Shelf series offers extensive, unbiased exploration of a topic of importance in modern society, in a compilation of nota...

In Democracy Reloaded, Cristina Flesher Fominaya tells the story of one of the most influential social movements of recent times: Spain's Indignado...

In the decades following World War II, factories in many countries not only provided secure employment and a range of economic entitlements, but al...

The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. Sunstein''s book is illuminating because it puts ...

How does social regulation shape who is deviant and who is normal? Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada is an i...

George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in Am...

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

In Broke but Unbroken, journalist Augusta Dwyer takes us on an inspiring journey through the slums and villages of Brazil, Indonesia, India and A...

Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban pl...

A powerful manifesto for CEOs and employees alike, this book reveals how organizations can make huge changes with surprisingly small steps. In an a...

For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: So...

Called the world's conscience and one of the 100 most influential people of our time by Time magazine, Jan Egeland has been the public face of the ...