Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book Introducing the concept of observation to social work students can be a complex and challenging task. Assessing their observation sk...

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...

This study of one of the earliest social reform movements in Kerela investigates the relationship between social reform, religion and caste.

About the Book The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the sam...

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

This book problematises and then reshapes critical social work to bring a range of perspectives to what constitutes truly effective and ethical soc...

About the Book There is a scarcity of professional literature and research that focuses on women's spiritual development and experiences and how th...

About the Book How does one achieve a sense of freedom and meaning in a confusing, over-bureaucratized, and unequal world? Scott McNall offers the ...

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 This important new text examines the crucial social and cultural factors associated with the rise of the Asia- Pacific region at the...

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

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, ...

About the Book Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal transformations of political and economic systems are militarising the policing of protes...

This third book of The Jalebi Trilogy series, Corrugated Slices: The Social Jalebi is about the feelings a jalebi evokes in us. The first, Jalebi M...

About the Book Recent developments have made obsolete the division of the globe into three worlds of capitalist, state socialist and underdeveloped...

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...

Poetry has always given rise to interpretation, judgement and controversy. Indeed, the history of poetry criticism is as rich and varied a journey ...

About the Book This series of classic articles written by key sociologists will complement any introductory sociology textbook serving as a touchst...

Civilization and Modernity: Narrating the Creation of Pakistan

About the Book Interest in citizenship has never been higher. Politicians of all stripes stress its importance, as do church leaders, captains of i...

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 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 Munro report (2011), a greater emphasis has been placed on the value of child-centred practice in social work with childre...

About the Book Is religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of comfort for those caught up in conflict? In Checkpoint, Temple, C...

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

Contributed articles most on Ayurveda and other folk medicinal systems.

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...

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 Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states and a highly contentious issue in social and...

About the Book Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo ...

About the Book From DNA sequences stored on computer databases to archived forensic samples and biomedical records, bioinformation comes in many fo...

From being a tiny, non-descript village of the Malwa region in the ancient times, a strife-torn principality under the tutelage of a Pathan dynasty...

About the Book Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898–1948). Not o...

About the Book Social work practice with children, young people and families is complex, highly skilled - and fascinating. Writing about social wor...

About the Book Anthony Crosland's The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a creed for governments of the centre left. Now Peter Hain revisits this ...

About the Book Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experienc...

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About the Book Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A ne...

About the Book Many people consider themselves to be both environmentalists and supporters of animal welfare and rights. Yet, despite the many issu...

This innovative textbook introduces the readers to key theories, themes, and concepts in the discipline of sociology and helps them to develop as a...

This book is an authentic interpretation of over 400 Indian concepts and practices derived from a personal exploration of India, over a period of 5...

About the Book American Technology brings together ten fascinating and important stories of the ways in which Americans, from colonial times to the...

In this imposing new volume, Saurabh Dube writes against the grain of understandings which often set up objects of intellectual inquiry as the sing...

About the Book Abortion has remained one of the most volatile and polarizing issues in the United States for over four decades. Americans are more ...