Sociology & Anthropology

''Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book'' ANNE APPLEBAUM One of our most important political thinkers look...

A wry, affectionate and amusing take on English class and customs from an outsider's perspective. For years German lawyer and author Detlev Piltz ...

'A beautifully written, eminently readable and uniquely important challenge to conventional wisdom' J. D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy 'A page...

The nineteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present...

This textbook explains the basic principles of sociology and how a sociological understanding is vital for understanding how ideas about education ...

Landlocked and with an economy reliant on subsistence agriculture, Niger often comes into the public eye only as example of deprivation and insecur...

Landlocked and with an economy reliant on subsistence agriculture, Niger often comes into the public eye only as example of deprivation and insecur...

Definitive, critical and engaging, this is a superb introduction to the sociology of work. Leo McCann Now in a fully updated third edition, The So...

Why is religion still important? Can we be fully modern and fully religious? In this new edition, Davie follows up her discussion of the mean...

From 'Covfefe' to #FraudNewsCNN and #FakeNews, Donald Trump's tweets have caused an international frenzy. He is a reality TV and Twitter-President,...

How can one write the history of disability, and what are the consequences for the disabled themselves? This is the key question that Pieter Verstr...

Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, invading our dream space, entertai...

Presenting an analysis of modern-day extremism, this book explores how any group or movement--political, ideological, racial, ethnonational, religi...

American Millennials-the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s-have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the...