Social Work in Post-War and Political Conflict Areas

The book offers unique access to theoretical approaches and practical examples of international social work in the context of war and conflicts. The reader gains knowledge about the competences and…

Consumption and Consumer Society

This collection of high quality, largely previously published essays, analyses a range of controversies in the field of the sociology of culture and consumption. Campbell made a major contribution …

Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence

This book explores the consequences of the last three decades’ substantial neoliberal securitisation of freedom of speech, democracy and social security of racialised groups. Its empirical materi…

Rationality in Social Science

The concept of rationality and its significance for theory and empirical research in social science are key topics of scholarly discussion. In the tradition of an analytical as well as empirical ap…

Life Indoors

In this timely and expansive book, Wakefield-Rann investigates how emerging disease ecologies are undermining definitions of health and immunity that have persisted since the 19th century, and had …

European Solidarity Under Scrutiny

This book explores the processes through which European solidarity is constructed. More specifically, it investigates how the media's framing of European identity can facilitate and/or impede the e…

Achieving a Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

The ambition of most countries across the world is to develop a low-carbon economy, evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of countries have signed the Paris COP21 agreement. This book conten…

Remaking HIV Prevention in the 21st Century

This edited collection brings together the social dimensions of three key aspects of recent biomedical advance in HIV research: Treatment as Prevention (TasP), new technologies such as Pre-Exposure…

'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology

Informed by ‘critical religion’ perspective in Religious Studies and postcolonial self-reflection in Sociology, this book interrogates the ideas of ‘religion’ and ‘the secular’ in socia…

Skateboard Video

This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities. It makes a provocative argument to consider skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here ‘below’ ha…

The Bolsonaro Paradox

This book presents the first in-depth academic investigation published in English about one of the most radical incarnations of the current global wave of new right-wing movements and governments: …

The Culture and Communities Mapping Project

This book describes three years of work by the Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a research project based in Edinburgh that uses maps as an object of study and also a means to facilitate res…

Social and Technological Innovation in Africa

This book examines the landscape of sustained investment in research and innovation in Africa, which are critical for development. This cutting-edge analysis is based on empirical evidence and the …

Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality

This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colon…

Single Parents

This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in intervi…

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research: Handbook of POPULATION

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978-0387-25702-0

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xi, 234 p. ; 23 cm

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305.3 Han h

Role Structure and Analysis of the Family

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0-8039-0663-3

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ix, 214 hlm.; 22 cm

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301.42 Nye r

The Social Bases of Politics

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0-534-06864-2

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xiv, 297 p. ; 24 cm

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306.2 She s

Understanding Emergent Urbanism

The ideas presented in this book are a conceptual leverage to correct the rigidity of top-down practices and bring the real city, or the city of everyday life, closer to the city of conventional pl…

Traditional Chinese Villages

This book uses the concept of the region to introduce traditional Chinese villages in ten typical areas. Most of the villages have been included in the World Cultural Heritage List or the Tentative…

Navigating the Field

This volume is a collation of postgraduate fieldwork experiences in social research that provides a platform for early career researchers (ECRs) to be open about the hidden labour of doing postgrad…

Regional Innovation and Networks in Japan

This book provides a novel perspective on networks and innovation in the field of economic geography and presents new findings through theoretical foundations and empirical analyses. The book focus…

National Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa

This volume examines the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) through an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on IDPs in Africa. The novelty of this book resonates from the fact that i…

Community-Based Integrated Care and the Inclusive Society

This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan. The book comprises three parts: (I) Mapping Social Se…

Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture

At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Augé, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind.…

Urban Regionalisation Processes

This book explores the issues of transformation phenomena of the urban dimension (regionalization processes) that traditional scientific literature fails to describe appropriately. So far, scholars…

Social Movements and Public Policies in Southern European Cities

The book analyzes the impact of urban movements on government and public policies in a context of rapid urban transformations, public policy crises and increasing social inequalities. The essays sh…

The Changing Village Community

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126 p.; 21 cm.

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307.72 Hal c

Sociology: A Brief Introduction, Tenth Edition

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10th

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-07-131856-3

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xxxvi, 507 p. :: ill. ;28 cm

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301 Sch s

School Segregation and Social Cohesion in Santiago

This book examines the consequences of educational segregation from the perspective of social cohesion. It investigates the impact of separating students along socioeconomic lines on student attitu…