Sociology

A seasonal snapshot of things to do in England at any time of the year, come rain or shine (or more likely just rain!). Beautifully illustrated wi...

While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian Constitution, according to official statistics, every eighteen minutes a crime ...

While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian Constitution, according to official statistics, every eighteen minutes a crime ...

For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition,...

Why was the partridge in the pear tree? Who was Good King Wenceslas? And what are the pagan origins behind The Holly and the Ivy? Discover the hidd...

Women of Privilege traces the decline of a once-privileged Hudson River Valley family where the neighbours were Vanderbilts, Delanos, and Roosevelt...

Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyles East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller...

Research literacy is now a requirement for Board-Certified chaplains in the US and a growing field in the UK. This reader gives an overview and int...

The beautiful county of Yorkshire is the largest in England, and yet still possesses a strong and cohesive regional identity. Built on centuries of...

We may not realize it, but truth and place are inextricably linked. For ancient Greeks, temples and statues clustered on the side of Mount Parnassu...

How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early webBegun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to some friends ab...

In this enchanting new book, one of the countrys most celebrated storytellers has gathered together traditional tales that have their roots in the ...

In this important work of scholarship sure to reshape the landscape of critical social sciences, Raju Das offers a critique of many of the influent...

Since its inception, Development Studies has tended to restrict its critical enquiries to nations in the 'Third World.' The field's important studi...

In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek dev...

Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years....