Sociology and Anthropology

Each year, when the weather in Istanbul becomes unbearable, the family of Iskender Pasha, a retired Ottoman notable, retires to its summer palace o...

About the Book Sixty years after the establishment of the UNHCR, refugees - people who flee across an international border to escape war or persecu...

About the Book In this compelling new book, Gillian Bendelow provides an accessible account of the complex interplay between mind, body and society...

About the Book Now you can get involved in actual hands-on social work practice Cournoyer's comprehensive workbook/textbook lets you rehearse and p...

About the Book Emotions cannot be understood independently of the social relationships and groups where they occur since the social world is define...

About the Book A groundbreaking handbook which evaluates the role of social work research in the context of national and international societies

"The definitive guide to a technology that succeeds or fails depending upon our ability to accommodate societal context and structures. This handbo...

About the Book This book brings together the work of public sociologists from across the globe to illuminate possibilities for the practice of publ...

About the Book What do we mean by the American dream? Can we define it? Or does any discussion of the phrase end inconclusively, the solid turned l...

About the Book The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work reflects on and dissects the challenging issues confronting social work practice ...

About the Book Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centres on gendered concerns, The Routledge Handbook of Islam...

About the Book Feminism as a method, a movement, a critique, and an identity has been the subject of debates, contestations and revisions in recent...

The Rohingyas have become a ‘crisis’ for all including the host countries, the international community and even for themselves. Much has been writt...

About the Book Since 2012, hundreds of men and women have left Western countries to join jihadist groups fighting in Syria. Many are still there, m...

About the Book Sketching an ethnographic portrait of the village ion its own terms, and as an integral part of larger political and historical inst...

About the Book The second edition of this text has been substantially revised and updated to include six new chapters including knowledge work, rep...

Islamic schools, or madrasas, have been accused of radicalizing Muslims and participating, either actively or passively, in terrorist networks sinc...

About the Book What is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in th...

About the Book Could lessons from Asia, Oceania and the Middle East help Europe overcome the challenge of religious diversity? Religious diversity ...

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 How did we get from Hollywood to YouTube? What makes Wikipedia so different from a traditional encyclopedia? Has blogging dismantled...

About the Book A four-volume series, The Parsis of India is the first comprehensive analysis of the Parsi community and its demographic decline wit...

About the Book In this book, Sumanta Banerjee analyzes the development of the folk culture of Calcutta’s urban poor following the establishment o...

About the Book Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide t...

About the Book Social tensions between majority and minority populations often center on claims that minorities are largely responsible for crime a...

About the Book Crime and punishment fascinate. Overwhelming in their media dominance, they present us with our most popular television programs, fi...

About the Book Through a comprehensive collection of articles, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication explores the origin and evol...

The city has had a long history in India, from the urban civilization of the Indus Valley in 2500 BCE to the megalopolis found in contemporary Indi...

About the Book This book covers how Internet of Things (IoT) has a role in shaping the future of our communities. The author shows how the research...

Digital networking technologies are empowering organizations to form dynamic networks, generating exceptional or ‘smart’ results. These Smart Busin...

About the Book This volume is an account of the Naga ethnic movement going on in India since 1918, covering both historical and contemporary aspect...

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...