Sociology

From its beginnings in the 1970s and 1980s, interest in the topic of gender and migration has grown. Gender and Migration seeks to introduce the mo...

Societal views on animals are rapidly changing and have become more diversified: can we use them for our own pleasure, and how should we understand...

Specially selected by Diane Reay, this is a collection of innovative and thought-provoking recently published papers that 'use' Bourdieu to put the...

This title was first published in 2000. This is a study which compares and contrasts how lone mothers' relationships to paid work and care-giving a...

This book examines the relationships between the Nordic social democratic welfare system (‘The Nordic Model’) and physical culture, across the doma...

Exploring how people from Andean communities seek progress and social mobility by moving to the cities, Cecilie Ødegaard demonstrates the changi...

United under the “cultural entrepreneurship” label, scholars have emphasized how entrepreneurship, strategic innovation, and organizational change ...

Everett C. Hughes had a great impact on the field of sociology as a whole and on an entire generation of sociologists. Some of Hughes' former stude...

This title was first published in 2000. This text examines the politics of the digital age, looking at topics including new industrial policies, th...

Many people in the United States are poor, lead marginal lives, and need jobs as well as basic services such as education, medical care, and housin...

Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool Britannia and the dis...

This book, from one of international social work’s leading radical educators, provides a richly compelling argument for the profession to become mo...

This book is a collection of essays that question how subalternity is constituted and contested in Indian society. It draws on Antonio Gramsci's wo...

This title was first published in 2001. This study indicates that researchers have far to go in understanding and assessing how development project...

This book presents theoretical discussions and practical examples of Action Research from Scandinavia, Latin America and Africa, primarily dealing ...

This book, first published in 1958, concerns American industry and commerce, and is devoted to what people do while they are working and reasons fo...

Dorothy Day died recently in New York City. With her death, the Catholic Worker Movement lost the last of its founders and leaders. In this insight...

This book examines the cultural criticism led by New York intellectuals from the 1960s onwards, considering the influence of such critique on Ameri...

Examining the interaction between the Communist Party of China (CCP) and specific social categories (including peasants, workers, the middle classe...

This title was first published in 2000: These essays ecplore the spiritual culture shared by texts and writers in Western Europe from the 13th to 1...

This title was first published in 2001. A discussion of customary international law (CIL). Throughout the study particular values are examined for ...

Each family has its secrets, ones that shape family communication and relationships in a way generally unknown to the outsider and often the family...

This title was first published in 2001. This text explores a number of questions concerning women's problem drug use and drinking. It details findi...

Toxic Masculinity brings together scholars across disciplines to explore the ways in which toxic masculinity is constructed, configured and represe...

This book maps changing patterns of drinking. Emphasis is laid on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe reg...

The literature on modernist and postmodernist urban development is abundant, yet few researchers have taken up the challenge of studying the areas ...

Despite the obvious importance of measurement in any scientific endeavor, few students of the social sciences receive adequate training in the prin...

This title was first published in 2000: An investigation of the performance of the electric power and telecommunication sectors of Pakistan at the ...

This title was first published in 2001. During the 1990s, urban regeneration partnerships proliferated in the UK. It is now commonplace for many in...

This book was the first to sketch the full dimensions of the nation's voluntary sector, give it a name (the independent sector), explain its unfami...

This title was first published in 2001. This text is based on participatory field research in selected urban and peri-urban villages in Varanasi an...

This title was first published in 2001. This study of centre-periphery relations in Russia looks at general developments in law, politics and econo...

In this third decade of the 21st century, deep problems plague our world. Many people lack adequate nutrition, health care, and education, because–...

China has experienced radical societal change since the initiation of the reform and openness programme in 1978. These changes have brought about s...

Power, Politics and Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology discusses how sociologists have organized the study of politics into conceptual...

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the complex conflict situation in Kashmir. Through an internal perspective, it charts...

This title was first published in 2001. A look at Polish shipping under communism, arguing that it was one of the great achievements of the Communi...

Achille Loria was a well-known Italian political economist and this translation of his work presents his views and discussions on famous socialist ...

This book inductively develops a new typology that identifies and evaluates three principal strategies that have been, and are being, used to exten...

This title was first published in 2000: The focus of this analysis is that of moral standards in public service, with special attention to the role...

Italy is not a country for young people. Why? This book provides a unique and in-depth collection of empirical and theoretical material providing m...

This edited collection investigates the myriad ways in which disability performance travels in a globalized world.Disability arts festivals are gro...

This title was first published in 2001. This text looks at what being Russian means to a Russian politician, the country they live in and what they...

Education in Manliness explores the central educational ideal of the Victorian and Edwardian public school. The book traces the formulation of what...

This title was first published in 2000. This text analyzes the problems of managing large-scale technology projects. It addresses the contrast betw...

In December 1982, the Centers for Disease Control received the first reports of cases of children with HIV/AIDS. Since that time, the child welfare...

This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating to give citizens the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern them...

Everyday resistance is about the many ways people undermine power and domination through their routine and everyday actions. Unlike open rebellions...