Sociology

The study provides a close analysis of literary works by women in late-18th- and early-19th-century Russia, with a focus on Anna Naumova, Mariia Po...

For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT...

Keith Taylor has undertaken a thorough study of the full range of writings by the brilliant French thinker Henri Saint-Simon (1760–1825), including...

This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail a...

'One may state Dilthey's significance in most general fashion by characterizing his work as the first thorough-going and sophisticated confrontatio...

Why and how do some acts of protest trigger mass mobilization while others do not? Using the cases of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, Mekouar...

Behind the mask of objective science lie the dynamics of what happens to scientists who go to live and work in another culture. Those who work and ...

In an effort to explain why housing remains among the United States’ most enduring social problems, Housing America explores five of the U.S.’s mos...

This book expands the notion of sexual fantasies from the field of psychology into the realms of cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, and so...

Narrating Nomadism provides an unflinching account of ethnic groups and nomadic communities across the world that were branded as ‘criminal’ during...

This book presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the mainstream flows of ideas, politics and itineraries towards modernity in Central and...

A pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and behaviour Mary Parker Follett authored a number of books and numerous essays, articles and spe...

This book examines the politicisation of victims of terrorism and the reality of the victimisation experience within the broader field of terrorism...

Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) occupies a prominent position among the leading social scientists of the twentieth century; his ideas and his books are r...

The annual Conferences on Value Inquiry bring together philosophers, scientists and humanists to discuss the many facets of the problem of value in...

First Published in 2004. The subject of this text is modern accountancy, which is to be considered from a sociological perspective. The logical sta...

First Published in 2004. This book addresses a number of key themes in the debate about the nature of a contemporary capitalist society. It poses t...

In this volume the authors develop a systematic and chronologically based critique of the major concepts, figures and schools in organization. Them...

This book traces a unique story of social theory: one which focuses on its role in offering ideas for alternative societies. In charting this story...

This volume explores physiological and psychological changes in speech among the elderly, drawing on 20 years of research on the physical and emoti...

'Interpretation' is used as an umbrella for bringing together a wide range of concepts and developments in the philosophy of social science that pr...

This is Volume I of twenty-one in the Class, Race and Social Structure Series. Originally published in 1958, this is the second edition of a study ...

Japan’s Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of p...

In recent decades, East Asia has become increasingly interconnected through trade, investment, migration, and popular culture at regional and globa...