Sociology

In addiction recovery, fostering a positive life that enhances satisfaction, well-being, and personal capability is crucial for long-term success. ...

In this series of trenchant essays, Pierre Bourdieu continues the urgent project begun in Acts of Resistance. Dissecting the claims of neoliberalis...

Interpretivism has an intuitive appeal to many social researchers, but they often feel ill-equipped to do it. Other social researchers tend to beli...

Annette Kuhn's work as a theorist of culture has won her a wide reputation for dissecting film and other images in books such as Women's Pictures a...

Is the phenomenon of state failure better understood through a focus on the regional context? To what extent may studies of regional security benef...

In Professional Philosophy and Its Myths, Rebekah Spera and David M. Peña-Guzmán argue that academic philosophy is steeped in a host of myths that ...

The fifth edition of Racist America is thoroughly revised and updated, focusing on systemic racism and antiracism issues, especially those arising ...

Seeing Social Problems: The Hidden Stories Behind Contemporary Issues shows students how to think about social problems in a new way, by carefully ...

In this volume the authors develop a systematic and chronologically based critique of the major concepts, figures and schools in organization. Them...

There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to pr...

The book examines questions of identity, ethnicity, sovereignty and insurgency in northeastern India, and especially on Assam and its neighbourhood...

African American writers explore the enduring effects of slavery on American society Slavery is America's family secret, says Ashraf Rushdy, a part...

Is it impossible to assess dignity, which is the faculty or agency of autonomy and equality of rights under the current rule of law, when we are me...

What does it mean to be a citizen? In depth research with a stateless population in Bangladesh has revealed that, despite liberal theory’s reductiv...

In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of ‘the public’ has come under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To better unders...

Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military’s intervention in politics and subsequent nat...

This special anniversary issue of differences considers how critical theory has changed in the twenty years since the journal’s inception. differ...

This is a groundbreaking workwhich brought together studiesof monkeys and apes from boththe laboratory and the field. Manybroad aspects of primate ...

The influence of professional, adult sport on youth sport is now a global concern. Children are involved in high-stakes competitive sport at nation...

Britain and Nyasaland (1964) is a study of the political development of Nyasaland under British control. The author outlines the muddle of forces w...

In the American media, Russian mail-order brides are often portrayed either as docile victims or as gold diggers in search of money and green cards...

Nick Couldry is one of the world’s leading analysts of media power and voice, and has been publishing widely for 25 years. This volume, published 2...

As recently as the mid-2000s, Catalonia was described and analysed by scholars as exhibiting a non-secessionist nationalism and was seen within Eur...

The originality and depth of Gramsci's theory of hegemony is now evidenced in the wide-ranging intellectual applications within a growing corpus of...

Public consultations are a weak but institutionally embedded form of civic participation in political decision-making. Their input and output are o...

Charles N. Hunter, one of North Carolina's outstanding black reformers, was born a slave in Raleigh around 1851, and he lived there until his death...

This title was first published in 2001. This text offers a comprehensive view of controversial issues surrounding Cambodia's past, present and poss...

This international and interdisciplinary collection gathers stories from researchers and research students about their methodological encounters wi...

The book explores the concepts of migration, space, memory and identification drawn from the experiences of Istanbulite Romiois/Greeks and through ...

Analyzing the critical juncture of family-centered policy and practice, this book places the universal institution of the family in a global contex...

The rhetoric of social justice is commonplace but increasingly it means little more than a tag line or a punctuation point. Reconstructing Social J...

The world is becoming more transnational. This edited collection examines how the immense transnational changes in the contemporary world are being...

As the economy constricts, it seems living with a chronic sense of fear and anxiety is the new normal for a growing number of urban females. Many f...

Domestic animals are an integral component of human leisure experience and can enhance the physical, social, and mental wellbeing of humans. The in...

Suicide, and how civilized people should respond to it, is an increasingly controversial topic in modern society. In Holland, suicide is the third ...

This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in ...

Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Tran...

In this lively examination of youth and their relationship to music, first published in 1994, contributors cover issues ranging from the place of m...

A pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and behaviour Mary Parker Follett authored a number of books and numerous essays, articles and spe...

Bullying in schools has become the focus of a growing body of literature; however, much of that work diminishes the role of social context, social ...

How can one explain the general failure of the social sciences to accumulate reliable knowledge? According to Pat Duffy Hutcheon the social science...