Society & Culture: General

Since it was first published in 1998, Viola Shafik's Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity has become an indispensable work for scholars of fi...

Those who know about how spirituality plays into the world of drug smuggling have likely heard of Santa Muerte, Jesus Malverde, and Santería, but t...

This book provides students and practitioners with a comprehensive overview of the rules and principles associated with ethical advertising practic...

Now in its eigthteenth edition, Social Science: An Introduction to the Study of Society approaches its study from a common sense perspective, rathe...

This volume offers a unique exploration of how ageing masculinities are constructed and represented in contemporary international cinema.With chapt...

Archaeology’s Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is a key stimul...

Media Role in African Changing Electoral Process analyzes the effect of mass media on African elections. Featuring contributions by leading African...

A mainstay of modern life, the global media gives out information about disabilities that is often inaccurate or negative and perpetuates oppres...

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change has now published continuously for over 40 years, and this volume continues its tradition of del...

In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual pra...

Remember when an unattended package was just that, an unattended package? Remember when the airport was a place that evoked magical possibilities, ...

Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the confli...

The rise of blogs and social media provide a public platform for people to share information online. This trend has facilitated an industry of self...

What we understand by the ‘Middle East’ has changed over time and across space. While scholars agree that the geographical ‘core’ of the Middle Eas...

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volum...

The changes we have seen in recent years in the scholarly publishing world - including the growth of digital publishing and changes to the role and...

Though these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, there have been plenty of celebrity authors over th...

Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and ...

Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry combines interview data with music industry professionals with theoretical frameworks from sociolog...

The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet...

This publication demonstrates the continuing health and societal impacts of poor housing in Wales. Proportionately, there is considerably more poor...

Research on social movements has historically focused on the traditional weapons of the working class, especially labour strikes and street demonst...

In recent decades, and particularly since the financial crisis, continental Europe has seen an increasing gap between those workers who have well-p...

In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going bey...

Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece explores the rich grassroots experience of social movements in Greece between 20...

‘Trolls for Trump’, virtual rape, fake news — social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has become a formidable, yet el...

In the last decade, digital media technologies and developments have given rise to exciting new forms of ludic, or playful, engagements of citizens...