Sociology: Customs & Traditions

Good manners are simply codified kindness, and being in possession of them enhances the quality of your everyday life and that of the people around...

We know that parents affect the behavior, health and well-being of their children, but the findings of parent-child effects vary in different count...

Revealing a world of secret messages contained within a single petal.Floriography the language of flowers is the ancient art of encoding hidden m...

The Human Thread is a celebration of outstanding photography. Over 100 images represent photographer Joe Cocas remarkable work, spanning forty year...

A history of motivational interviewing and what its rise reveals about how cultural forms emerge and spread. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a pr...

For decades, Mark Juergensmeyer has been studying the rise of religious violence around the world, including groups like ISIS and Christian militia...

I wish you a Merry Xmas but no compliments of the season Jane AustenChristmas comes up time and time again in Jane Austens books, from childish ch...

'Sofreh' is Persian for 'spread' - referring to the colorful arrangements of flowers, condiments and objects of spiritual or cultural importance th...

Gender diversity knows no borders...Exploring identities that span the Indigenous Two Spirit people, the hijras of the Indian subcontinent, the mah...

From internationally renowned sociologist Michèle Lamont, a game-changing argument about what we value and why How do we measure our self-worth? F...

What happens to people's sense of belonging when globalisation meets with proclaimed regional identities resting heavily on conceptions of religion...

What is the relationship between discourse analysis and its more recent companion disciplines such as sociology, political science and information ...

This book explores the unique experiences of African-born educators and students in North American K-12 classrooms, as well as those of education f...

The fall of communism fully opened Poland to the processes and phenomena operating in ever globalizing world. In line with global trends, English i...

This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture a...

Bringing a new approach to covering the basic principles and major topics found in a typical psychopharmacology course, Drug Use, Misuse and Abuse ...

Need a rental person who does nothing?Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. After an old boss told him ...

'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction' Times Litera...

Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia. Its main deity, Baijie, has assumed several gendered forms throughout the area's histor...

Life is waiting to happen to Hubert Bird.But first he has to open his front door and let it in.In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, ...

'Hubert Bird stole my heart' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flat-Share and The Switch'Lovely, emotional, uplifting' Libby Page, author of The Lido In ...

Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners - holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table. We certainly know b...

Personal and yet utterly universal, inevitable and yet unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures, since earliest times. Different...

Parting Ways explores the emergence of new end-of-life rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community a...

Parting Ways explores the emergence of new end-of-life rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community a...

How did our ancestors use the concept of demons to explain sleep paralysis? Is that carving in the porch of your local church really what you think...