Sociology

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....

A practical guide to assist staff in supporting families who need help with the task of parenting their children. This support may be required beca...

This latest volume in the august Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series carries on a long tradition of featuring only the best d...

Drawing on ecosystem thinking, complexity and postnormal science, Ecological Health offers a radical new way of thinking about the health issues of...

The volume is organized in two parts. Following the Introduction, six chapters make up Part One, 'Empirical Studies'. Two quantitative analyses lea...

This volume marks the 30th anniversary of the Advances in Group Processes Series. Publishing theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory based empiri...

Volume 13 relaunches the book series after a 9-year hiatus and addresses new directions in the field of educational ethnography. The authors in the...

This volume is comprised of empirical research and theoretical papers within three key areas, namely children's well being, children and youth peer...

Volume 8 of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth includes chapters that focus on issues of race, gender and public policy as they relate to c...

In this volume, guest editor Qvortrup brings together contributions representing structural, historical, and comparative perspectives on the study ...

This volume contains a diverse set of chapters that offer a good balance of quantitative and qualitative methodologies; focus on children, youth, o...

Volume 15 of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth investigates the interactional procedures used by children and young people as disputes ari...

As social scientists, we are called to investigate society. A powerful component of understanding society can be found when researching the lives ...

Coming from a range of methodological and theoretical orientations, this volume showcases the lives of children and the policies that shape childre...

Research in the Sociology of Work (RSW) is a twice yearly publication that examines current issues related to the sociology of work. The series pro...

While the family remains a core social institution in every society, it is, nonetheless, an institution which continues to evolve. In many societi...

This volume addresses the perceived gap between symbolic interaction and ethnomusicological approaches to the study of music. It seeks to bring the...

With regard to developments in social theory, the past 30 years can be characterized as an Age of Deconstruction. Inspired by post-structuralism, p...

In recent years, sport has attracted considerable attention as an effective means of combating such local and global issues as war and conflict, po...

Bringing together original contributions by Canadian scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds, Critical Perspectives in Food Studies introduc...

True to the nature of the Gedenkschrift, this commemorative publication celebrates the work of sociologist Dr. William Freudenburg, one of the foun...