Sociology and Anthropology

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....

An indispensable companion to UG and PG students of social sciences, this book will enable readers to identify research problems, carry out researc...

About the Book This fascinating book illustrates the complex relationship between gender and research. The authors use concrete examples and draw u...

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

About the Book Written during a period of tumult and gestation in India's history, the essays in this book provide an intellectual's serious commen...

This collection of classic and contemporary articles provides context for the study of advertising by exploring the historical, economic, and ideol...

About the Book Raymond Williams: A Short Counter-Revolution amply demonstrates the continuing relevance of Williams's analysis, from the early 1980...

About the Book There is widespread concern today about the "radicalization" of young muslim men, and the deprived areas of Western cities are belie...

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

About the Book Race and racial diversity are important aspects of America and have been shown to substantially affect social relations and the poli...

About the Book Sociology in India has remained dominated by its unique epistemological location - which has acted as both a boon and a bane. Entang...

This book critically examines assumptions about age, women, and gender. Amidst all the attention that has been granted to difference and inequality...

About the Book This book addresses for the first time, in a practical way, how public health professionals can help their clients to gain power. It...

About the Book Poverty was the predominant paradigm within which science policy was constructed in the late colonial, nationalist and post-independ...

About the Book Practitioners working within the people professions have a legal and moral responsibility to promote equality wherever possible. Thi...

About the Book Promoting Equality and Diversity: A Practitioner's Guide explains the fundamental changes in the approach to achieving equality and ...

About the Book If social work students are to flourish in their careers, and go beyond a basic sense of 'competence' in practice, it is essential t...

About the Book In August 1882 the circus impresario P. T. Barnum called for examples of "all the uncivilized races in existence." In response, the ...

About the Book We live more and more of our lives online; We rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones and go through...

How can someone determine whether to implement an evidence-supported intervention? What can be done to make sure any intervention is implemented we...

Management Essentials is a simplified and synthesized version of core management principles to help readers appreciate the fundamentals of managing...

About the Book This volume examines the ways in which changing political and economic processes impact upon patterns of population movement and set...

About the Book Play is fundamental to children's health, wellbeing and development. Yet in the modern world, their space and opportunity to play is...

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 A vivid account of philanthropic practices in the Indian context. Philanthropy has a very long tradition in India. All practicing re...

About the Book One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, Phantom Africa is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work...