Sociology

Even if we don’t realise it, most of us are now familiar with the idea of ‘emotional labour’; that ‘service with a smile’ which everyone from cabin...

The book investigates Greek industrial relations in a global context at different periods. Combining sociological, institutional, political and soc...

In its political form, the existence of a public realm is the basis of a shared relationship between rulers and ruled which makes politics more tha...

A new philosophical reflection on the secret and its importance to our contemporary political experienceThe Snowden Affair, Wikileaks, the 'lone wo...

The evolution of surfing—from the first forms of wave-riding in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas to the inauguration of surfing as a competitive s...

This book aims at renewing the attention on a niche field, Cultural Festivals, so important for valorizing cultural traditions and local heritage v...

This book addresses political knowledge of climate change and its relation to labelling people affected by climate change, either as ‘climate refug...

The fifth edition of Racist America is thoroughly revised and updated, focusing on systemic racism and antiracism issues, especially those arising ...

Are the poor, as one writer suggests, only those without enough to eat? Or does poverty instead consist of "the inability to buy a beer when everyo...

The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status gro...

The frequent appearance during the past decade of a variety of futures studies has raised a number of philosophical and methodological issues, as w...

Symbolic interactionsim is of major importance in contemporary sociology. In this study, three authorities in the field collaborate to define symbo...

This path-breaking book analyses the experiences of young sporting women with physical impairments. Taking phenomenology as a point of departure, E...

This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are alt...

Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaki...

′This text will be of great use to postgraduate researchers in education, social work and nursing, and any practitioner involved in carrying out re...

This book reviews the history of the microradio movement, enabling readers to understand why and how it has captured momentum and power. It discuss...

This book examines the ‘cultural apparatus’ of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witness...

The Ascent of Man develops a comprehensive theory of human nature. James F. Harris sees human nature as an emergent property that supervenes a clus...

The volume analyses the complex historical and political context for the processes of state formation in independent India. It provides both a conc...

This book details the discrimination and unfavourable treatment that Dalit entrepreneurs encounter in the functioning of markets in modern India. I...

This book examines class relations through numerous empirical case studies, reports, and other sets of data before and during COVID-19. It is divid...

Relying on a thorough understanding of the role of ideology, discourse, and framing, this volume discusses ISIS as an Islamist ideological organiza...

Vigorous historical exploration has increased across the social sciences in the past two decades. Originally published as a series of articles in t...

At the turn of the twentieth century, as African Americans struggled against white social and political oppression, Black women devised novel appro...

This title was first published in 2001. A volume of essays on the Pauline, ecclesiastical body of Christ -the church. It is, of course, not possibl...

This final volume of ""Death and Bereavement Around the World"" reflects on some major themes: death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rit...

This international and interdisciplinary collection gathers stories from researchers and research students about their methodological encounters wi...

While scholarship on migration has been thriving for decades, little attention has been paid to professionals from Europe and America who move temp...

This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social...

'"Social Dreaming" is the name given to a method of working with dreams that are shared and associated to within a gathering of people, coming toge...

European Social Problems is the first book to examine social issues in Europe from the perspective of the social sciences. It considers many of the...