Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book The “Modern Sovereign,” a notion indebted both to Hobbes’s Leviathan and Marx’s conception of capital, refers to the power t...

About the Book A Swedish teenager, Greta Thunderberg, has become the poster girl for the Climate Change and Sustainability movement across the worl...

A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times. In "The Last Resistance," Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and ...

About the Book In this book Robert R. Clewis shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy - the sublime, enthus...

About the Book This book is a collection of Devaki Jain's writings and lectures related to the women's movement in India and interventions in polic...

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 ...

Social media and the digital revolution have fundamentally changed the meaning of “social” and “work.” Social work, like all other professions, wil...

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

From the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies...

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...

While the right to adequate food is often discussed in the context of developing countries, especially in situations where access to adequate food ...

About the Book Sociology, writes Irving Louis Horowitz, has changed from a central discipline of the social sciences to an ideological outpost of p...

About the Book A rich selection of readings that expose the shadowy underworld of critics, bloggers, tweeters and stylists who have become essentia...

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

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 A roadmap to improve corporate social responsibility The 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign focused a good deal of attention on the rol...

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 The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity,...

Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development

A well-known name in contemporary sociology, Dipankar Gupta’s wide range of scholarship and popular columns have justly earned him the reputation o...

For the Tamils in modern-day South India and Sri Lanka, a concept of physical and spiritual heat as female energy (sakti) influences their diet, th...

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 Supervision and Professional Development in Social Work Practice aims to familiarize its readers with the current state of supervisi...

About the Book Not all original works invoke the encore impulse in their audiences. Those that do generally spawn replications - sequels, spin-offs...

About the Book Stereotyping is one of the most important issues in social psychology, but relatively little is known about how and why stereotypes ...

About the Book This book is the English translation of the French title, Entrer dans l'elite: parcours de reussite en France, en Inde et aux Etats-...

About the Book Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this boo...

About the Book & State vs. Society in Northeast India: History, Politics and the Everyday ;looks at a state as an entity that does not operat...

About the Book This student-friendly text offers a step-by-step introduction to the use of SPSS, the widely used data analysis computer package in ...

Spotted goddesses is an ethnography of caste, gender and Dalit women’s leadership. Situated in transitional feminist discourses, this book is roote...

About the Book Sex selection and commercial surrogacy are practices pursued in the full glare of exposure, demystification, and critique. The femal...

About the Book This book discusses the study and analysis of the physical aspects of social systems and models, inspired by the analogy with famili...

IDENTIFIES THE NATURE OF WELL-BEING THROUGH ANALYSIS OF IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH INDIANS ON WHAT GOOD LIFE MEANS TO THEM This book explains well-be...

A comprehensive textbook that provides an invaluable introduction to the major issues involved in the study of ageing from a sociological perspecti...

About the Book This introductory text encourages the application of sociological insights in health care. Health processes and outcomes are analyse...

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

Socioliterary cultures in South Asia presents seventeen studies on authors, textsand issues under three sections that represent different secular t...

About the Book This volume is a field report on surveys of agrarian relations in three villages in Andhra Pradesh conducted by scholars of the Foun...