Sociology

The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and this book provides a comprehensive landscape of diverse researc...

Globalization and the technological revolution have forced organizations to rethink decision-making structures favouring the adoption of highly inn...

How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? What does that te...

This book analyzes the cosmopolitan lives of British Asian Muslim women. Drawing on interview and online data, the book debunks stereotypical assum...

This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 20...

Throughout the world, governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration are developing new appr...

This volume analyzes how higher education responses to sociopolitical and economic influences affect gender equality at the nation-state and univer...

This book discusses the extent to which the theoretical relevance and analytical rigor of the concept of the public sphere is affected by current p...

This book argues that it is the fluidity of women's identities that enables them to bridge the gender divides and roles ascribed to them by society...

This volume presents a unique examination of Western-led police reform efforts by theoretically linking neoliberal globalization, police reform and...

This book explores the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of profession...

Community-based development' (CBD) or'community-driven development' (CDD) has been the predominant approach to international development in recent ...

Leading scholars working on Buddhism and politics in South and Southeast Asia add to current discussions regarding 'Engaged Buddhism' and the recen...

Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using time as a conceptual lens to explor...

Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class ca...

Examining four major institutions, Michele Strong considers the experiences of working men and women, particularly artisans, but also young apprent...

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship ...

The Black Church is an institution that emerged in rebellion against injustice perpetrated upon black bodies. How is it, then, that black women's o...

This book offers historical and contemporary international analysis of fraud and corruption in sport, including a diverse range of cases from the s...

Through detailed analyses of major and newly available datasets, this study examines the utility of a public probity-focused approach to understand...

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate...

Explores how American youth are indoctrinated with Zionist mythology and how to intervene in that process by teaching about Palestine. It argues th...

Drawing on the writings of Foucault, this book explores the politics and power-dynamics of family life, examining how everyday obligations such as ...

In civil war the causal mechanism on recruitment of combatants is complicated because armed groups interact for context-based strategic. This book ...