Society & Culture: General

Social workers, whatever their specialism, practise with people at the margins of society. It is therefore essential that all social work students ...

Social workers, whatever their specialism, practise with people at the margins of society. It is therefore essential that all social work students ...

In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of progress and dread, charact...

Carter illuminates and validates the vital role of visioning in social education. The book features peace in social education with instructional re...

Anne of France (1461-1522) composed these lessons - presented as a portrait of an ideal princess - as guidance in negotiating the pitfalls facing a...

Corona as a staged instrument of oppression, secretly kept vaccination deaths or politicians drinking children's blood: at the latest since the out...

The Imprisoned Traveler is a fascinating portrait of a unique book, its context, and its elusive author. Joseph Forsyth, traveling through an Italy...

The Imprisoned Traveler is a fascinating portrait of a unique book, its context, and its elusive author. Joseph Forsyth, traveling through an Italy...

For some, the Great Recession that began in 2007 was a traumatic setback; for others, it was just another dip in a long descent from comfort and se...

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgend...

What is it like to work in a place that is both a thriving and close-knit community and a globally recognised part of the commercial sex industry? ...

Why did 62 million Americans vote for Donald Trump? Trump and Us offers a fresh perspective on this question, taking seriously the depth and breadt...

This book problematizes the ways in which the discourses of colorblindness and post-raciality are articulated in the age of Obama. Pinder debunks t...

Why do Americans have such animosity for people who identify with the opposing political party? Jaime E. Settle argues that in the context of incre...

Discrimination against Muslim Americans has soared over the last two decades with hostility growing especially acute since 2016 - in no small part ...

winner of the 2021 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume PrizeDecentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization considers how neoliberal capitali...

In recent years, there has been an increase of public employees being fired for inappropriate behavior on social media. This research explores soci...

In recent decades, the level of moral acceptability of choice at the end of life has reached record highs. Legislative responsiveness to public opi...

American society is often characterized as a guilt culture, as opposed to non-Western shame cultures. But is this distinction still valid today? Th...

Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies i...

This is an open access book.Modern society is characterized by the fact of contingency, uncertainty, and ambiguity. The purpose of this book is to ...