Sociology and Anthropology

This book presents a conceptual and methodological framework to understand South Asia by engaging with the practices of sociology and social anthro...

About the Book This fascinating book analyzes 13 control failures in human history, from Robespierre's promotion of the French Revolution, to Hoove...

About the Book Originally published between 1920-70, The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was publi...

About the Book Profiling national and international social inclusion agendas, Charity Law and Social Inclusion examines the fit between the charity...

About the Book This volume charts recent changes and trends in various social, community and economic features of Britain's black and ethnic minori...

About the Book The rapid development of democracy and political freedoms has created new and sophisticated psychology-based methods of influencing ...

The new, tenth edition of Social Psychology is a fully revised and sweeping look into the social forces that make us who we are. Real-life examples...

The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contr...

This ground-breaking textbook engages readers in conversation about responding to the effects of diversity within formal criminal justice systems i...

Praise for the First Edition: "A real, combined approach of behavioural, social, biomedical, and clinical sciences is paramount. [This book] is on...

This new edition of A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation brings together work from research and practice to reflect on some of t...

From Society to System presents an overview of sociologist Michel Freitag's (1935-2009) distinctive, multifaceted and interdisciplinary work. Elabo...

Successfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to those studying politics and society, this ...

This Handbook is the first volume to address the dynamic issues related to sexuality from a social work perspective by providing a comprehensive, c...

Upon its original publication in 1993, Letters from Lexington reaffirmed Noam Chomsky's status as one of the most incisive critics of the American ...

Surveillance Education explores the pervasive use of digital surveillance technologies in schools and assesses its pernicious effects on students. ...

This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important implications for individual w...

Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change illuminates what the pathways from emotions to soci...

Kim offers an accessible, interdisciplinary textbook using systems theory as a framework to stimulate discussion about how the social sciences deve...

Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contribution...

Asserting a critical sociological perspective, Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival reveals the contested historical processes through...

This book develops a care justice framework to critique and disrupt current policies and reframe a policy blueprint for elevating a just organizati...

Change and Disruption: Sociology of the Future draws on classical and modern sociological theory to identify recent and emerging trends in the glob...

The last few years have brought increased writings from activists, artists, scholars, and concerned clinicians that cast a critical and constructiv...

This concise, accessible, and engaging handbook offers a companion for social work students to acquire professional and competency-based writing sk...

The computational turn in the social sciences and humanities has generated much excitement about the potential to refresh our approaches to the stu...

This book introduces students to the anthropology of magic and witchcraft, terms widely used but with no widely accepted definitions. It takes a ne...

Digitalization is shaping our everyday lives, yet navigating the changes it entails can feel like trekking into the unknown, where both the possibi...

This fully revised and updated edition of Social Movements and Protest Politics provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of protest...

Unlike other texts for undergraduate sociological social psychology courses, Individual and Society covers each of the three research traditions in...

Originally published in 1972, this book aimed to provide the student with a basic understanding of the main theories of social stratification and t...

Starting sociology can be daunting. This user-friendly introduction takes the reader on a quest towards a sociological understanding of the world w...

Subcultures: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to subcultures in a global context. This fully revised new edition adds new case...

What would it take to have a world where everyone had enough? How can we eliminate poverty, leave enough for nonhuman nature, and increase well-bei...

Diversity in the United States: A Cultural History of the Past Century is a cultural history of diversity in the United States over the past 100 ye...

This book addresses whether the "gendering" of constitutions promotes women’s equality. The authors use a mixed-methods approach to explore how co...

We are living in a world in which the existence of risk is constantly debated, misinformation and disinformation are rife and spread quickly and ea...

Political Legitimacy: Realism in Political Theory and Sociology explores the concept of political legitimacy, the nature of the normative foundatio...

Black Matters presents an anthology of stories of African American and African undergraduate and graduate students’ experiences at college, offerin...

Stephanie Southworth and Sara Brallier discuss Homelessness in the 21st Century with Ari Barbalat on the New Books Network An accessible and engag...

Current debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions, with expertise either defended or denigrated. Making Sense of ...

From khat to kava to ketamine, drugs are constitutive parts of cultures, identities, economies and livelihoods. This much-needed book is a clear in...

With essays by today’s leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generate...

This book explores the history of the debate about academic freedom, particularly in the classroom. Introducing the origins of the modern research ...

From refugees fleeing wars or natural disasters to economic migrants pursuing better paid jobs abroad, international migration is an inescapable pa...

This book explores different theories of justice and explains how these connect to broader geographical questions and inform our understanding of u...

For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren’...