Sociology & Anthropology

This book is a research-based text and emphasizes cultural factors that often significantly affect the adolescent coping with death. It provides co...

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to using and creating poetry for conducting and reporting social research. It includes examples of po...

The power of modernity to secularise has been a foundational idea of the western world. Both social science and church history understood that the ...

The work of Michel Foucault, one of the most influential of modern French social theorists and philosophers, has had a dramatic and far-reaching ef...

Sisters of The Brotherhood struggle for equality

This is an accessible and practical introduction to research that addresses the broadest spectrum of research methodologies of interest to the stud...

Muslims in 21st Century Europe explores the interaction between native majorities and Muslim minorities in various European countries with a view t...

'When the wheel of sexual ecstasy is in full motion, there is no textbook at all, and no order.' The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook...

Part of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series, the contributors to this volume share the conviction that ant...

Since the Revolution of 1910, Mexican society has undergone a profound transformation, characterized by the disempowerment of the landed aristocra...

For anthropologists and social scientists working in North and South America, the past few decades have brought considerable change as issues such ...

What should we teach in our schools and vocational education and higher education institutions? Is theoretical knowledge still important? This book...

In the third and final volume of this series, we examine the implications of the accelerating globalization process for the nation-state. Are globa...

The phenomenon of bankonka – ‘postponement of marriage’ – is increasingly reported in contemporary Japanese media, clearly illustrating the changin...

The number of one-person households is rising steeply all over the world and a growing proportion of these 'new singles' are women. It is estimated...

Providing a critical framework for the consideration of the relationship between modern social anthropology and linguistics, this volume covers top...

Over the past twenty years, Howard J. Ehrlich conducted the first national surveys of ethnoviolence, helped design the protocol for identifying hat...

In this, a unique history of the America's postwar intellectual, David Paul Haney outlines the developoment of sociology as a discipline and why, g...

The shadow cast by Pierre Bourdieu’s theory is large and well documented, but his early ethnographic work in Algeria is less well known and often o...

Psychologists, political scientists, and experts in election law present a multidisciplinary perspective on voting. Personality characteristics s...

Most research on intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews focuses on the United States. This volume takes a path-breaking approach, examining countr...

Who should be educated, when, by whom and how? What purposes should education serve? Why does education matter? These fundamental questions of valu...

Drawing together leading international experts such as Knut Halvorsen, Robert Y. Shapiro, Stefan Svallfors and Wim van Oorschot, this volume addres...

This book offers advice to doctoral researchers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students on how to embark on their research. Based on a dec...

This case study examines emigrants from Namoluk Atoll in the Eastern caroline islands of Micronesia, in the Western pacific. Most members of the Na...

During the summer of 1963, Harvard linguist Karl V. Teeter traveled along the Saint John River, the great thoroughfare of Native New Brunswick, Can...

This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied top...

In the United States, older populations exhibit the highest levels of economic inequality of all age groups. Across all advanced societies, the ine...

BECOMING ORGASMIC is the ideal book for any woman who has inhibitions about sex and wants to enhance the pleasure she gets from it. Whether you're...

This book offers advice to doctoral researchers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students on how to embark on their research. Based on a dec...

This edited volume uses theoretical overviews and empirical case studies to explore both how soldiers cope with the new forms of cultural diversity...

Based on an intensive fourteen-year study of a Hungarian peasant village, Proper Peasants greatly expands our knowledge of Eastern European social ...

This popular clinical reference and text provides a multisystems perspective on childhood disability and its effects on family life. The volume exa...

Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the ...

This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize ...

Much has been written about the economic and political implications of the contemporary process of globalization. Much less has been written about ...