Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book Society, Representations and Textuality: The Critical Interface brings together papers from various critical perspectives of Humanit...

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

Social work education as a concept refers to the integration of the core knowledge, values, and critical skills and competencies that social worker...

About the Book As population aging has become increasingly acute in many countries, the debate over how to reform often creaking public pension sys...

About the Book A -first-of-its-kind book on social sector communication in India that combines concepts with hands-on skills Social sector communic...

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 2008 global economic crisis was unprecedented in living memory and its impact on economic and social life immense. Large-scale s...

About the Book An interdisciplinary text that offers a comprehensive understanding of social movements, their cause, course and effects in modern-d...

About the Book This book examines patterns of political mobilization among groups in Mexico whose livelihoods have been threatened by trade opening...

About the Book "What makes this book stand out for me is that, as well as being theoretically informed and clearly written, its structure lends its...

About the Book C. J. Barrow's accessible introduction to Social Impact Assessment (SIA) examines the practical and theoretical approaches, methods,...

This edited book offers insights into the social inequalities that plague India and are often hidden behind terms like ‘law and order’ and ‘constit...

Students of MBA and ;  PGDM courses would be the primary target audience for this textbook. It will also be useful to attendees of Executive and M...

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

Skill Training for Social Workers: A Manual, responds to the demand for indigenous textbooks and teaching materials for social work educators, scho...

About the Book This volume is a collection of papers based on the idea that the concept of similarity could offer a new, alternative approach in cu...

Collection of articles with reference to the Indian scene.

About the Book The idea of an alliance between Britain and its old Commonwealth colonies has recently made a remarkable comeback in the context of ...

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 Exploring the quest for 'self' in the city through migrant women's narratives This ethnographical study explores the process of migr...

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

About the Book School cyberbullying, bullying and violence have reached epidemic levels. One in five school students report being bullied. Youth vi...

About the Book Since the late twentieth century, new institutions of Islamic learning for South Asian women and girls have emerged rapidly, particu...

Scarred Communities is a qualitative, psycho-ecological study of the long-term effects of disasters—both man-made and natural—on Sri Lankan communi...

“Saksham- Myriad Shades of women”, is an attempt to bring out the glimpses of the journeys of different women from different walks of life. The sto...

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

The battle between scientific temper and superstition has raged since ages. One may believe that unusual rituals and customs are extinct in the tim...

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 ...

Social security is an investment in human resources, which can provide overall security for a person within the family, workplace, and society. The...

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

About the Book Sunshine plays an important role in all aspects of life but there has been little social analysis of the sun and its place in our wo...

This book focuses on the interFace between democracy and violence, with specific reference to revolutionary strategies and mobilisations. Revolut...

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 This book brings together renowned scholars from four continents to celebrate the lifelong and seminal contribution of Professor Sam...

About the Book This book is an ethnographic study of the processes of agrarian change in the Malwa region of central India, over the last forty yea...

Restless in the City gives us access to the unfiltered voices of young people from urban poor communities speaking about their expectations from th...

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....