Sociology

This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It exp...

In contextualizing the Dutch funerary practice in its wider legal, national and local governance framework, this book describes the historical cont...

Funerary Practices in Serbia is the first book to offer a concise yet highly informative study of the historical development and current state of f...

Acknowledging that the challenge facing social science is how to inject some order into the common-sense notion of leisure lifestyles, this book, w...

In different ways, social theory and social history represent discourses that implicitly or explicitly highlight the need to apply perspectives on ...

Philip Selznick is a towering figure in the history of organizational studies. His direct contributions to organizational scholarship are relativel...

This volume focuses on critical issues surrounding the intersection of genetics, health, and society. It provides a critical examination of sociolo...

One undeniable fact about families is that they keep changing, both in terms of structure and behavior. Many factors have served to bring about su...

East Asia covers an area that is home to a quarter of the world's population. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the region, follow...

The volumes in this series illustrate how social organization and private, emotional experience are different phases of the social process. They sh...

Around the globe, families are often faced with a variety of health issues, often as a result of social, political, religious, and economic forces....

This volume explores the issues of convergence and divergence in alternative agrifood movements through a theoretical and empirical engagement of t...

This volume is the second part of a two volume examination of the sociological and cultural impact derivative of Barack Hussein Obama's initial ele...

Since the beginning of the modern age, studies of ongoing transformations of social life, human sociality, and social relations and institutions ha...

This volume seeks to address the emerging relationships between qualitative research and digital data. At the present time, ubiquitous digital data...

The aim of this book is to understand the causes and consequences of new scales and forms of territorial restructuring in a steadily globalizing wo...

The book examines the extent to which Coser's (1956) 16 propositions can apply to tourism impact studies and, where possible, to enhance, deepen an...

Around the globe, families are often faced with a variety of health issues, often as a result of social, political, religious, and economic forces....