The present book provides an interdisciplinary understanding of a given social formation in terms of interconnections between caste, feudalism and peasantry on the one hand, and contemporary social transformation on the other.
Winner of the 2026 Working-Class Studies Association Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey AwardIn recent years, UK higher education (HE) has sought to pursue more inclusive practices.
Winner of the 2026 Working-Class Studies Association Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey AwardIn recent years, UK higher education (HE) has sought to pursue more inclusive practices.
This book examines how China's emerging middle class uses social media platforms, especially WeChat, to build and maintain social networks that enhance their status in society.
This book examines how China's emerging middle class uses social media platforms, especially WeChat, to build and maintain social networks that enhance their status in society.
Of all the concepts used by sociologists for describing and explaining social relationships, social class is probably the most ambiguous, confusing and ill-defined.
A special collectors edition packed with never-before-seen archival material, this is the definitive inside story of grime: raw, unfiltered, and impossible to ignore.
';The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.
';The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.
Life in Canada is shaped by the seasons - marked, celebrated, enjoyed, and sometimes dreaded in ways that respond directly to the changing cycles in nature.
This concise, clear, accessible book is meant to truly engage students by using personal stories, solid research, and key theories that illustrate how sociologists look at life, the way we understand social dynamics, what "e;socially constructed"e; means, and how a sociological sensibility can, ultimately, be liberating.
Raising the Devil reveals how the Christian Pentecostal movement, right-wing conspiracy theories, and an opportunistic media turned grassroots folk traditions into the Satanism scare of the 1980s.
Pairs vers un monde meilleur plonge profondement dans les complexites de la souffrance psycho-sociale, en explorant a la fois ceux qui l'endurent et la perpetuent.
Au-dela des apparences, ce qui s'est principalement joue en mai 68, c'est essentiellement la remise en question fondamentale de la notion de difference.
Chattoraj and contributors explore the concept of privileged migration in the context of globalization, shedding light on the experiences of a demographic often overshadowed in migration discourse.
This concise, clear, accessible book is meant to truly engage students by using personal stories, solid research, and key theories that illustrate how sociologists look at life, the way we understand social dynamics, what "e;socially constructed"e; means, and how a sociological sensibility can, ultimately, be liberating.
"e;Le handicap : une force cachee"e; celebre la resilience des personnes en situation de handicap a travers des recits inspirants, demontrant que l'infirmite est bien plus qu'une difference.
