Sociology

First published in 1972, The Forsaken Lover draws upon Chris Searle’s experience as an English teacher in a secondary school in Tobago to focus upo...

Assessment of abilities, opinions, and overall feelings of self-worth, are commonly acknowledged to be influenced by how ones’ attributes compare w...

This book has a clear concern to offer a distinctive way of studying leadership so that it might be practiced differently. It is distinctive in foc...

Qualitative Research: The Essential Guide to Theory and Practice provides a one-stop resource for all those approaching qualitative research for th...

This volume examines the use of Black popular culture to engage, reflect, and parse social justice, arguing that Black popular culture is more than...

Originally published in 1971, Homes in High Flats was written at a time when multi-storey flats were a popular solution to the world-wide need for ...

One Way Ticket (1983) examines the ‘hidden armies’ of migrant women workers who have since the 1950s fulfilled a demand for low-skilled, low paid a...

American Swastika provides an up-to-date perspective on the white power movement in America. The book takes readers through hidden enclaves of hate...

This book engages with the changing ways in which we, as a society and culture, look upon and interact with animals, stressing how much animals dif...

This book brings an intersectional perspective to border studies, drawing on case studies from across the world to consider the ways in which notab...

Democracy’s Achilles Heel argues that the structure of democracy is a combination of two incompatible worldviews: one relativist and liberal, the o...

Communication scholars have taken seriously the call for engaged scholarship, and this book examines the principles, practices, and outcomes of com...

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics. It offers a unique theory of the self that ...

This timely book shines a light on social justice activism within higher education, calling for a conceptual space of faculty activism to share and...

This book explores Pierre Bourdieu's philosophy and sociology of science, which, though central to his thought, have been largely neglected in crit...

This book explores how Judith Butler’s work on gender and the shaping of the human subject and Michel Foucault's notion of parrhesia, ‘speaking the...

Posthuman Capitalism critically reviews the manifestation of capitalist agenda online by examining the phenomenon of the ‘posthuman’ in the data ec...

This is the first edited scholarly collection devoted solely to the epistemology of democracy. Its fifteen chapters, published here for the first t...

First published in 1955, Studies in Class Structure contains six studies in problems of social structure, relating mainly to contemporary British s...

Research data management is becoming more complicated. Researchers are collecting more data, using more complex technologies, all the while increas...

This book is an essential guide to scientifically conducting contemporary ethnographic research at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels...

Social media use is a confounding aspect of organisations, aiding interconnection, communication, and productivity. Its use has undoubtedly impacte...

The Rise and Fall of Citizenship brings together many of Turner’s publications on the topic of citizenship and includes three new chapters reflecti...

This book explores postcolonial myths and histories within colonially structured narratives which persist and are carried in culture, language, and...

Contributing to a lively dialogue with Anglo-American and French theorists, The Lonely Mirror (originally published in 1993) sets out to contextual...

Written by a team of leading China specialists, this updated 2nd edition of Chinese Politics explores the dynamics of state power and politics in c...

Studying the role of music within religious congregations has become an increasingly complex exercise. The significant variations in musical style ...

The New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage...

Childhood, Identity and Masculinity: The Boarding School Boys examines the lives of ten Iranian men who were sent to boarding schools in England du...

Around the globe, millions of individuals are entangled in justice systems daily. For individual offenders, contact often begins with the police, f...

This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliber...

This is the first book to explore the meaning and significance of leisure in Chinese society, as well as the relationship between leisure and work ...

Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture: Voices of the Marginalized is a compendium of reflections on literary texts...

Still the Age of Populism? investigates current conceptions of populism and its relevance across the globe. Using contextualized case studies, cros...

Although the phrase "the American Dream" dates from the 1930s, the concept or idea of the American Dream is as old as the country. The values procl...

Public Sociology highlights the relevance of sociological perspectives to Australian social life and encourages students to apply a sociological ga...