Society & Culture: General

Whats wrong in Washington is deeper than you think. Yes, theres gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger...

'Rousing, hopeful and important reading' - Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible WomenHad enough? Feeling hopeless? Don't give up - join the r...

In June 1914, a seamstress named Frieda Kliem left Berlin on a commuter train to meet the man she had fallen in love with through a newspaper perso...

Ted Shawn (1891-1972), is the self-proclaimed Father of American Dance who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art. I...

Location, location-awareness, and location data have all become familiar and increasingly significant parts of our everyday mobile-mediated experie...

When talk circulates through technological media - through television or radio and through the activities they support, like the dissemination of n...

Music is one of the most distinctive cultural characteristics of Latin American countries. But, while many people in the United States and Europe a...

The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with ...

Government sponsored breeding programs, medals of motherhood, forced abortions, and surgical sterilization on park benches--all of these policies h...

Development economics is about understanding how and why lives change. How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics studies a singl...

Guided by developmental cultural psychology, this volume focuses on understandings and responses to disability and stigmatization from the perspect...

On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private interview with the President, promising t...

In the United States, approximately one in five women experiences rape during college, and LGBTQ students experience sexual violence at even higher...

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that suppor...

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Inter...

Notions of place have always permeated Jewish life and consciousness. The Babylonian Talmud was pitted against the Jerusalem Talmud; the worlds of ...

The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question ...

**Winner of the Transmission Prize 2019**THE OLD GODS ARE DYING.Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices...