Social groups, communities and identities

Focusing on the street as a socio-spatial catalyst, this book fosters a comprehensive conversation on the past, present, and future of streets and public space.

In Mavericks of Style, Uri McMillan tells the story of New York City's downtown art and fashion scene of the 1970s through the lives and careers of experimental Black and Brown artists.

Talking with God examines the neuroscience of belief and belief change related to prayer.

Carolin Kebekus nimmt sich selbst, die Gesellschaft und alle Mutter und Vater aufs Korn, denn beim Kinderkriegen und Kinderhaben haben offenbar alle ungefragt ein Wortchen mitzureden.

This study explores the relationship between the sacred and the virtual, emphasizing the sacred as a divinely dependent, consecrated space activated through ritual, mediating between the profane and the holy.

This book uses the contrast between the theoretical positions of the two Max Webers - that is the Weber of the Protestant Ethic thesis and the Weber of the theory of action – as the basis for developing a theory of agency and an associated dynamic interpretive approach to action.

This book offers the first systematic study of gender equality in academia in the South Mediterranean region, with a unique focus on the intersection of gender and class.

For four decades, artist, writer, curator, and teacher Nayland Blake has been at the center of discussions of queer aesthetics and contemporary art.

A Sociology of Sex and Sexuality offers an historical sociological analysis of ideas about expressions of sexual desire, combining both primary and secondary historical and theoretical material with original research and popular imagery in the contemporary context.

This book tackles the spatial dimension of Europeanization in the Balkans by focusing on cities, inter-urban networks, and urban epistemic communities.

This book tackles the spatial dimension of Europeanization in the Balkans by focusing on cities, inter-urban networks, and urban epistemic communities.

This book brings new scholarship to students on the origins and development of planning thoughts, theories, policies, institutions and practices, outlining how these have shaped planning as a state and professional activity.

The Luwians played at least as important a role as the Hittites in the history of the Ancient Near East during the second and first millennia BCE, but for various reasons they have been overshadowed by and even confused with their more famous relatives and neighbours.

This book brings new scholarship to students on the origins and development of planning thoughts, theories, policies, institutions and practices, outlining how these have shaped planning as a state and professional activity.

Reviewers comments on the first editionThis is an excellent introductory textbook on youth and crime.

Based on research over a six-year period into three age groups of women, this important new study offers in depth analysis for the first time of the experience of expatriate Japanese wives living temporarily in the United Kingdom.