Sociology

Social policy primarily refers to guidelines and interventions for promoting human welfare. This book links the findings from developmental psychop...

Affirmative action is one of the most controversial policies of our time. This book provides a succinct but comprehensive account of the historical...

This book examines issues around violence against women in relation to contemporary experiences, theories and interventions. It provides insight fr...

What issues, challenges and problems do young people face in 21st century society? How do they make sense of their lifeworlds? Are they proactive o...

Volunteering is one of the phenomena which, despite the limited amount of volunteers, is seen as highly important for the appropriate functioning o...

This book explores public perceptions, often reinforced by public service advertising campaigns, of stereotypes tied to violencewhich frequently po...

In this book, the authors begin by discussing research on the digitalization of cultural heritage, illuminating the centralization and specific con...

This book focuses sexism research, particularly on the latest contributions to this study. The authors of the first chapter focus on female represe...

Volume 28 focuses on the tension that runs throughout the history of humanist philosophy and science from the Renaissance to the present. A practic...

This handbook is written for transgender people, their families and friends; for professionals who in their day-to-day job may encounter transgende...

The assessment and measurement of the level of well-being in a society have been on the radar of researchers and institutions for many years. The c...

What happens when public figures private selves are put forth for examination by public audiences? How do the personal struggles of music artists, ...

Written with clarity and thoroughly argued, Wyness confirms his place as one of the key authors within contemporary social science writing on child...

Written with clarity and thoroughly argued, Wyness confirms his place as one of the key authors within contemporary social science writing on child...

Our economy is neither overwhelmingly capitalist, as Marxist political economists argue, nor overwhelmingly a market economy, as mainstream economi...

Ain't No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.--at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and wit...

Since Donald Trumps first day in office, a large and energetic grassroots Resistance has taken to the streets to protest his administrations plans ...

From Plato's contempt for the madness of the multitude to Kant's lament for the great unthinking mass, the history of Western thought is riddled wi...

From Plato's contempt for the madness of the multitude to Kant's lament for the great unthinking mass, the history of Western thought is riddled wi...

While security stories often point to real threats, the narratives of leaders are as much about legitimating the power of rulers and the political ...

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...

Israel has changed. The country was born in Europes shadow, haunted by the Holocaust and inspired by the Enlightenment. But for Israelis today, Eur...