Sociology: Customs & Traditions

Writing well over a thousand years ago, the Celtic saints and their followers who penned them reflected not just the cares and concerns of their ow...

The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause ...

A companion volume to The Making of The English Working Class, extending the studies there to include the examination of plebeian culture, working ...

The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are beh...

Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating and drinking. Yet the origins of the cust...

A Longman Topics Reader that considers food in the social context.   Starting from the assumption that eating is about a whole lot more than fo...

I was never really a big coffee drinker and, of course, tea is the thing in China. But I just can't help myself. Also, the place I have now landed ...

'A Royal Christmas' is a Christmas pudding of a book, full of silver threepenny pieces. Organised thematically, it covers such topics as Christmas ...

For over two decades, Phyllis Galembo has documented cultural and religious traditions in Africa and among the African Diaspora. Traveling widely t...

This volume offers a study of food, cooking and cuisine in different societies and cultures over different periods of time. It highlights the intim...

In the popular consciousness, manipulative speech pervades politicized discourse, and the eloquence of politicians is seen as invariably rooted in ...

An exploration of the traditional culture of Sussex through its folklore, seasonal customs, folksongs and legends and traditional occupations such ...