Sociology

he Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology presents a state of the art overview of the subject - its methodologies, current debates, history and fut...

Christine Davis offers readers an insiders view of the practices of ten leading qualitative communication scholars, showing how they make critical ...

In this innovative volume, twelve leading scholars from corporate research labs and independent consultancies tackle the most fundamental and conte...

How have new social media altered how individuals present themselves? What dilemmas have they introduced? In the age of Facebook, Twitter and other...

This new edition of a classic work offers a concise introduction to the sociology of fashion, and demystifies the workings of the fashion system. F...

Changes in the global economy have real and contradictory outcomes for the everyday lives of women workers. In 2001, Nancy Plankey-Videla had a rar...

The guide provides the key knowledge and skills for every topic, with manageable, easy-to-use sections that summarise what you need to know. It sh...

An unrelenting prison boom, marked by racial disparities, characterized the latter third of the twentieth century. Drawing upon broadly representat...

Exam Board: AQA Level: A-Level Subject: Sociology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016Create confident, literate and well-prepare...

In a remarkable experiment lasting over a decade, a group of 88 independent campuses, ranging from comprehensive universities to intimate colleges,...

Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman's UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT, 9E, International Edition looks at lifespan through the lens of...

Written in honor of Dale K. Van Kley, leading specialist on religion and politics in the Old Regime and the French Revolution, these essays examine...

* AWARDED BEST ANTHOLOGY BY THE ART ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND *How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literall...

______________________ 'Too much to do? Stop and read this' - Guardian 'For a fresh take on an eternal dilemma, Overwhelmed is worth a few hours ...

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in Colonial M...

Care has been struggled for, resisted and celebrated. The failure to care in 'care services' has been seen as a human rights problem and evidence o...

From 1880 to 1920, the first truly national visual culture developed in the United States as a result of the completion of the Pacific Railroad....

In the early nineteenth century, the United States of America was far from united. The United States faced internal strife over the extent of gover...

Does Marxism possess an ethical impulse? Is there a moral foundation that underpins the Marxist critique of capitalism and the vision for social pr...

How does social regulation shape who is deviant and who is normal? Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada is an i...

Using a comprehensive analysis of the wave of organizing that swept the country starting in 2007, Labor in Israel investigates the changing politic...

Critique of Rationality postulates aesthetic-consciousness as the site of socialisation in communities of meaning, as a frame for judgment and crea...

There is no question that the value of a detailed account of Moroccan colonial history in English is an important addition to the field, and Wyrtze...

Chaim Waxman, a prominent sociologist of contemporary Orthodoxy, is one of the keenest observers of American Jewish society. In illustration of how...

The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession. Heterosexuality is cel...

In 1936, director John Ford claimed to be making movies for 'a new kind of public' that wanted more honest pictures. Cassano argues that this new k...

With the crisis of the global capitalist economy, the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theor...