Social Issues & Processes

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...