Sociology

This book provides a review of current research in fake news and presents six new empirical research studies examining its impact.Fake news has gar...

What explains the popularity and widespread appeal of numerous post-Yugoslav feminist and LGBTQ+ festivals in the last decade? This book argues tha...

Exercise and Well-Being after High-Performance Sport explores whether high-performance athletes have healthy and prosperous relationships with exer...

This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic and racial inequities affect the educational assessment of students, either separately or in combinati...

This book explores the theme of continuous wreaking of brutal persecution of a Hindu family on the one hand and the uncompromising efforts of Musli...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

Religious freedom has become increasingly important across the global spectrum over the past decades but has remained a contested concept. This boo...

This handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration. It endeavours to present a sing...

This book offers new insights and methodological tools to improve our understandings of how prestigious schools in Poland navigate the major politi...

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self, Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time, spaciousnes...

This book tells the important story of the 30-year social movement against all-seated stadia in football in England and Wales that developed in the...

Drawing upon classroom ethnography and interviews with parents and pupils in urban central India, this book offers systematic sociological analyses...

This book explores the early globalization of prostitution from the perspective of the Italian case. It is a story of prostitution, migration, and ...

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history and development of sport from the ancient to the contemporary era in China....

This book examines the validity of the notion of the vernacular and the position of the so-called vernaculars in colonial and postcolonial settings...

This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of professional ...

This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the COVID-19 pandemic caused on the social and economic lives of people. The book a...

Women of Color in the Aviation Industry offers a critical look at the reasons why the aviation industry remains underrepresented with minoritized g...

This book examines Chinas fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy.The first...

This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s...

Considering Space demonstrates what has changed in the perception of space within the social sciences and how useful indeed indispensable this ca...

This book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community devel...

Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolfs celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, and forty years after the publication of his path...

This book focuses on small-scale mobilisation and everyday social movements that take the form of grassroots resistance and solidarity initiatives....