Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book Much of our life involves working, preparing for work, searching for work, or thinking and worrying about work. Whether paid or unpa...

About the Book Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to...

About the Book Published as part of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series , and through a series of thought-...

About the Book Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition gets to grip...

About the Book In 2008, the Mus e des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist...

About the Book Containing over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization, this collection offers the definitive reference resource for s...

About the Book Dr. Joyce A. Ladner brings profound insight to the challenge of raising strong children in ambivalent times, and offers abundant rea...

About the Book This fully updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Student's Companion to Social Policy charts the latest developments, rese...

Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerfu...

About the Book Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In th...

About the Book The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology ist das ausf�1/4hrlichste Referenzwerk f�1/4r die Anthropologie und zugeh�rige ...

About the Book The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet ...

About the Book Intelligence is, by definition, a shadowy business. Yet many aspects of this secret world are now more openly analyzed and discussed...

About the Book At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologis...

About the Book This definitive handbook uniquely documents the 2001 UK Census from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Collating a wide ra...

This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, line...

About the Book Recent government initiatives and developments in professional practice have been designed to help families in difficulty effectivel...

A superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres―more than a football field. At the beginning of the t...

About the Book The new edition of this popular introduction explores the meaning of social deviance in contemporary society. It traces the path by ...

About the Book The new edition of this popular introduction explores the meaning of social deviance in contemporary society. It traces the path by ...

About the Book Science occupies an ambiguous space in contemporary society. Scientific research is championed in relation to tackling environmental...

About the Book When families are faced with crises and challenges-- unemployment, the untimely death of a family member, natural disasters and chro...

About the Book In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families. The "new second generation" ...

This book is the first in-depth account of the uprising in Iran that began on 16 September 2022, when a young woman, Mahsa Amini, was killed by the...

About the Book The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content....

About the Book From Paris to San Bernardino, Barcelona to Manchester, home-grown terrorism is among the most urgent challenges confronting Western ...

The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask why the countr...

About the Book An international group of distinguished scholars pay homage to and build on the work of one of the most influential thinkers of our ...

This unique collection of the writings of Rudolf Klein – historian, journalist, political scientist and policy analyst – represents the products of...

About the Book Effectively address the challenges of equity and inclusion on campus The long-awaited second edition, Multicultural Competence in St...

About the Book In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory syste...

About the Book Lobbying and political interest groups occupy an ambivalent place in advanced democracies. Lobbying is viewed with suspicion, but is...

About the Book In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken fo...

About the Book Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men...

About the Book Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had ...

About the Book The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. Howeve...

About the Book Immigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the ...

About the Book Grains - particularly maize, rice, and wheat - are the central component of most people's diets, but we rarely stop to think about t...

About the Book By examining the role of evidence in social policymaking and the extent of its influence, Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy d...

About the Book A timely revision of a compassionate guide to the practical and emotional aspects of divorce The first edition of Divorce and New B...

About the Book This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about ne...

About the Book We are witnessing a crisis of liberal democracy. A widespread fear of social decline, rapid globalization and uncontrolled immigrati...

About the Book Today, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture. Networks are thought t...

About the Book Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and ...

About the Book Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on exis...

About the Book How can colorblindness - the idea that race does not matter - be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind...

About the Book This book explores the growing interest in the way in which the state polices, and ought to police, families failing in their respon...

About the Book Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science's...