Sociology

Throughout American political history, the US government has formed alliances with militias, tribes, and rebels. Sometimes, these alliances have be...

Development is not a purely economic phenomenon; it also has a strong sociological element. The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change explores how eco...

What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal ...

This impressive volume stands as a powerful corrective to latent ethnocentric tendencies lying at the heart of much contemporary scholarship on the...

In Adivasis and the State, Alf Gunvald Nilsen presents a major study of how subalternity is both constituted and contested through state-society re...

The victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US democracy. Be...

Why is social protest a normal, almost routine form of political participation in certain Latin American democracies, but not others? In light of s...

How have generations of Americans debated and shaped the constitutional meanings of liberty, equality, justice, and We, the people? What roles have...

This new book is a wide-ranging, contemporary and accessible analysis of familiar and recurring myths about mass education in the United Kingdom. L...

Organisations in the social, health and human services sectors employ a range of professionals to provide dynamic and quality service and care to p...

This book includes an introduction by Dr Stephen L Klineberg, Rice University Sociology Professor and Co-Director of the Kinder Institute for Urban...

When we want advice, we often casually speak of reaching out to others to get some feedback. But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase ...

Organized around the Social World model, a conceptual framework that demonstrates the relationships among individuals (the micro level); organiza...

Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the ro...

Societal turbulence, state collapse, religious and ethnic conflict, poverty, hunger, and social exclusion all underlie children''s involvement in a...

Even as Donald Trumps election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as...

This book re-visits and re-thinks some recent defining events in Irish society. Each chapter focuses on an event that has occurred since the start ...