Sociology

What role do man-eating monsters - vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals - play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of w...

Research Methods for Early Childhood Education takes an international perspective on research design, and illustrates how research methods are inex...

Around the globe, the very conceptualization of family is associated with the relationship between a parent and a child. The birth of a child repre...

Is it ever acceptable to borrow culturally inspired ideas? Who has ownership over intangible culture? What role does power inequality play? These ...

Is it ever acceptable to borrow culturally inspired ideas? Who has ownership over intangible culture? What role does power inequality play? These ...

Drawing from extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, this book explores the beliefs, motivations and practices of UK ...

When it comes to the topic of romantic and sexual intimacy, social observers are often quick to throw criticisms at millennials. However, we know l...

Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countri...

Kälin and Kochenovs Quality of Nationality Index (QNI) ranks the objective value of all nationalities as legal statuses of attachment to states. Us...

Globalization has been subjected to a variety of analyses over the past thirty years, ranging from examinations of homogenizing cultural trends to ...

Randy Hodson was one of contemporary sociology's central figures in the study of work, occupations, and inequality. This volume pays tribute to his...

Immigrants and their descendants are growing populations that are rapidly changing the racial/ethnic diversity of the United States and many societ...

This volume will focus on innovative research that examines how the nature of paid work intersects with family and personal life today. Although so...

In virtually all societies, crime is an ever-present problem. Although families are often envisioned as a 'safe haven,' criminologists and family r...

In recent years, under the impression and the burden of globalization and neoliberalism, debates about the relationship between the theory and prac...

This volume focuses on the theme of Technology and Youth; advancements in communication and leisure technologies over the past decade have radicall...