Sociology and Anthropology

This volume presents a comprehensive study of the urbanization of Bengal from ancient to postcolonial times. It analyses the notion of urban space,...

About the Book This book brings together the work of public sociologists from across the globe to illuminate possibilities for the practice of publ...

About the Book What do we mean by the American dream? Can we define it? Or does any discussion of the phrase end inconclusively, the solid turned l...

About the Book The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work reflects on and dissects the challenging issues confronting social work practice ...

About the Book Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centres on gendered concerns, The Routledge Handbook of Islam...

About the Book Feminism as a method, a movement, a critique, and an identity has been the subject of debates, contestations and revisions in recent...

About the Book How did we get from Hollywood to YouTube? What makes Wikipedia so different from a traditional encyclopedia? Has blogging dismantled...

About the Book In recent years, the Leveson Inquiry in Great Britain, as well as the EU High-Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism, have stirr...

The Creative Ethnographer's Notebook offers emerging and trained ethnographers exercises to spark creativity and increase the impact and beauty of ...

For sociologists, making, distributing, and using art and cultural products constitute social practices, yet, sociologists disagree on how to inves...

The fourth edition of Society and the Environment centers its discussion on realistic solutions to the problems that persist and examines current c...

This book explores how different social psychology theories and concepts can be applied to practice. Considering theories from attribution theory t...

About the Book The term 'social capital' is a way of defining the intangible resources of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in ...

About the Book Sentencing is the process through which the legitimacy of punishment is declared and justified. However, it is increasingly portraye...

About the Book The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and in 2014 it was halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is t...

About the Book Like any other subject, the study of religion is a child of its time. Shaped and forged over the course of the twentieth century, it...

About the Book Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from ar...

About the Book Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of schol...

About the Book In this comprehensive, accessible handbook, acclaimed social theorist Anthony Elliott brings together internationally distinguished ...

About the Book What are we to make of our digital social lives and the forces that shape it? Should we feel fortunate to experience such networked ...

Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the role of race in human genomics, bi...

This volume reflects on different regional and national experiences of the Covid 19 pandemic, with contributions from India, Thailand, Singapore, A...

About the Book In 1970, the best-seller Our Bodies Ourselves was published. The focus of the authors, the Boston Health Collective, was on the yout...

This textbook introduces the reader to the field of military sociology, broadly defined, through narrative reviews of selected key studies in the d...

About the Book Making Waves unearths the successive, worldwide waves of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions that have shaken and remade the world ...

About the Book The number of internally displaced people far outnumbers estimated refugees who have fled their countries. The majority of displaced...

About the Book Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse draws upon theories of time and space to consider how informal care is woven into the f...

This book explores the critical linkages between indigeneity, marginality, and the state in Bangladesh. Indigeneity is progressively gaining curren...

This book studies the social formation of India through the lens of religion, state, ethnicity, and governance. It provides a nuanced understanding...

India Migration Report 2024: Indians in Canada is one of the first volumes to comprehensively examine and analyse the different facets of Indian mi...

The book presents good practices in humanitarian assistance and empowerment of Ukrainian refugees in various areas: emergency aid to large groups c...

About the Book Schools, theatres and malls used to be safe havens. Marathons were triumphal, not tragic. Today, public life is risky. Citizens are ...

About the Book Globalization and Everyday Life provides an accessible account of globalization by developing two themes in particular. First, globa...

About the Book During its 500-year history, the modern world-system has seen several shifts in hegemony. Yet, since the decline of the U.S. in the ...

About the Book This edited collection addresses theoretical, political and practical aspects of the connection between external immigration control...

Feminism in the United States: A Concise Introduction presents readers with the key debates and ideas central to contemporary US feminism. With a f...

About the Book Market reform promises more environmental protection and more profitable agriculture at lower financial cost. Too good to be true? T...

About the Book Originally published in 1975. The main concern of this book is the nature of the gap between the theoretical issues, raised at an ab...

Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffman’s scholarship but no extant biography of E...

This book offers an uncompromising and rigorous analysis of education and human rights by examining issues related to gender, race, sexuality, disa...

This book examines the phenomenon of colorism in India and the Global South and critically analyses the obsession with fair skin and its associatio...

This book presents a unique rendering of love in South Asia by reading love through the specific lens of dissent. It presents multiple articulation...

This book problematises and then reshapes critical social work to bring a range of perspectives to what constitutes truly effective and ethical soc...

About the Book How does one achieve a sense of freedom and meaning in a confusing, over-bureaucratized, and unequal world? Scott McNall offers the ...

About the Book This important new text examines the crucial social and cultural factors associated with the rise of the Asia- Pacific region at the...

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, ...