Society & Culture: General

Just what is the participatory condition? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and norma...

The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although they had no w...

Originally published in 1965, Social Policy became a classic text and one of the best-known and most widely-used textbooks in social administration...

One of the most fascinating phenomena of 1960s film culture is the emergence of American sexploitation filmssalacious indies made on the margins of...

For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. But what if cities ha...

Ethical and moral dilemmas in sport have not diminished since Ethics in Sport was last published. The need to understand and confront such issues ...

Incorporating relevant theory and research from psychology (social, cognitive, clinical, developmental, and personality), mass communication, and m...

This collection brings together original, small-scale, ethnographic research on minorities, displaced peoples, and communities contesting heritage,...

Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in ups...

Latinos constitute the fastest-growing and largest ethnic minority in the United States, yet less than one percent of network news coverage deals w...

A Confucian Approach to Media Ethics offers a comprehensive theorization of an approach to media ethics based on the moral philosophy that originat...

In nineteenth century Travancore (Kerala), the lower caste women were not allowed to cover their upper body in public. This book is a study of the ...

This media history explores a series of portable small cameras, playback devices, and storage units that have made the production of film and video...

This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of digital sovereignty in China, which are addressed mainly from political, legal and historica...

This book offers an examination of Africas scientific landscape based on extensive empirical data encompassing fifty-four African countries. It tra...

This book offers an exploration of collective action by bringing together the themes of sovereignty and solidarity in post-colonial societies in Af...

This book offers an exploration of collective action by bringing together the themes of sovereignty and solidarity in post-colonial societies in Af...

In normative ethics, a small number of moral theories, such as Kantianism or consequentialism, take centre stage. Conventional wisdom has it that t...

Originally published in 1980 at a time when the discipline of sociology was still relatively young in Australia, The Inheritance of Inequality is a...