Sociology

Since the late 1970s, China’s move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but also one of the mos...

Originally published in 1981, this volume brings together contributions by several of the authors whose research had contributed significantly to t...

Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist, has been widely studied and analyzed in academic circles, particularly in...

Covering a wide range of topics, this collection of original essays deals with the consequences and challenges of our growing aging population on s...

Intricacies of Patriotism presents a selection of concepts of patria along with their corresponding forms of patriotism. The various contributions ...

Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is taken up as a mea...

In this valuable study, conducted within the theoretical context associated with the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Derek Wynne looks at how the 'new mid...

The phrase ‘LGBT community’ is often used by policy-makers, service providers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves, but w...

In this sequel to their acclaimed The Dominant Ideology Thesis, the authors develop their analysis of the social and cultural underpinnings of mode...

Performance is a forum for social action, embodied interaction and shared authority. Recently, as the various acts and agencies surrounding a perfo...

Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism brings together a range of scholarly research papers to examine the place of international migration in th...

There may not be a concept so central to sociology, yet so vaguely defined in its contemporary usages, than institution. In Revisiting Institutiona...

African American Community Practice Models shows you what you can “see” and “learn” when people of African American descent are put in the center o...

This book is abut the place of space in the study of class formation. It consists of a set of papers that fix on different aspects of the human geo...

Are human misery, poverty and despair a result of personal inadequacy or social injustice? Therefore is the solution to these problems psychotherap...

This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Easter...

This book examines the circulation of knowledge within globalization, focusing on the differences between centers and peripheries of knowledge prod...

This book is the result of ethnographic research carried out in the Academic College of Judea & Samaria (ACJS), located in the West Bank of Isr...

Discourses about food, especially on social media, affect the dietary choices of many people on a daily basis all over the world. In recognition of...

Is advertising a factor that contributes to rising costs and prices? This study, commissioned to answer just that question by the Institute of Cana...

Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Tran...

In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the p...

Ethnography has become an important method for researching and interpreting the social world, not least in the field of sport and exercise studies....