Sociology

By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of natio...

The investigation on the history of the Yugoslav and Macedonian Jews between the two world wars was developed through a number of researches in the...

Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic s...

Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest global icons of all times, is known as much for his successful leadership of India’s non-violent anti-colonial ...

One of the most original assumptions is that political actors are groups of thematized information. They effectively test the political, traditiona...

This book discusses the role of knowledge in European transformation under a regional actors perspective. It brings together diverse contributions ...

What does ‘care’ mean in contemporary society? How are caring relationships practised in different contexts? What resources do individuals and coll...

The Business of Advertising outlines the practice of the advertising trades, some of the more important restrictions on advertising, and a few of t...

Across the world women constitute an integral part of the agricultural sector. This volume is based on feminist responses to farming women’s strugg...

Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows that people and ...

This book highlights the issues of access, learning careers and identities in a diverse range of educational settings with diverse groups of adult ...

This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. The publicat...

This book addresses the global need for more comparative studies on health policy and health care systems, given the rise in recent decades of soci...

The United States has been involved in many wars, sometimes for noble causes like defeating Nazism, and, at other times, it has compromised its own...

Although political conversations on European integration are common, they are not part of existing explanations for attitude formation on the EU. T...

This book is about the impact of the EU on local issues, particularly in the pre-accession phase. It analyses and discusses contending interests an...

In their efforts to emulate the methodology which had proved so successful in the natural sciences, the social sciences – including sociology – hav...

The persistence of poverty hurts us all, and attacking poverty is a major policy objective everywhere. In Britain, the main political parties have ...

"What a helpful book! This will be a ′friend ′ to many undergraduate students looking for clarification." - Helen Hazelwood, St Mary′s University C...

The world of work and labour is in a permanent transformation affecting the various social groups in the different parts of the world quite unequal...

What are practice theories? Where do they come from? What do they say? Do they offer something new to the study of work and organization? Practic...

This book is the result of a field research carried out by the author among a community of agriculturists in what was till recently the uttermost p...

While there exists scholarly works on madrasas in India during medieval times and the colonial period, there is hardly anything on the conditions o...