Sociology

This book offers an analysis of the policing of terrorism in a variety of national and international contexts.

Updated, revised and enhanced with new features, the fifth edition of Making Sense of Sports is the biggest and strongest yet.

Organized crime is now a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries.

This book is the first in English to examine irregular migration from post-Soviet states, focusing in particular on migration to the United States.

Focused on mapping out contemporary and future domains in philosophy of technology, this volume serves as an excellent, forward-looking resource in the field and in cognate areas of study.

Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism.

Fin de Siecle Socialism, originally published in 1988, demonstrates the lively potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history.

First published in 1976, this book is concerned with the nature of classification in the social sciences.

The Gay Games is an important piece of new social history, examining one of the largest sporting, cultural and human rights events in the world.

Dieses kompakte Lehrbuch vermittelt ein fundiertes, ganzheitliches Verständnis der Unterschiede zwischen quantitativen und qualitativen Forschungsmethoden – und ihrer jeweiligen Vor- und Nachteile.

This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment.

This book is a distinctive collection on transcultural encounters in knowledge production and consumption, which are situated at the heart of pursuit for cognitive justice.

This book provides new insights into how interactions in early childhood education are being studied, and into what these studies' findings mean for improving the quality of early childhood education.

By empirically assessing the competitiveness of 505 cities around the world from regional, national and other perspectives, this book not only ranks these cities but also presents a treasure trove of information with regard to each city's relative strengths and weaknesses.

This book examines the impacts of China's urbanization on the country's economic development, clan culture, rural societies, minority resident areas, natural environment, women, and public policy reforms, drawing on official statistics, independent survey data, archives, and fieldwork research to do so.

This book contributes to current debates regarding purposive transitions to sustainable cities, providing an accessible but critical exploration of sustainability transitions in urban settings.

This book documents through first-hand experience and academic research the historical, cultural and economic interactions affecting land use in Singapore.

This book challenges existing literature on student-athletes and examines the obstacles student-athletes face with respect to academic achievement in college.

This book explores how the concept of tolerance might be understood, cultivated and enacted in and through educational encounters.

This book represents the first comprehensive historical treatment of sociology in Russia from the mid-nineteenth century through the pre-revolutionary and Soviet eras to the present day.

This book examines the fourth wave of feminism within the United Kingdom.

This book discusses the immediate and severe threat posed by global climate change and the various obstacles that stand in the way of action.

This volume reflects on the role played by textbooks in the complex relationship between war and education from a historical and multinational perspective, asking how textbook content and production can play a part in these processes.

This work fulfills the need for a conceptual and technical framework to improve understanding of Information Quality (IQ) and Information Quality standards.

This book summarizes the international evidence on methodological issues in standard setting in education.

In recent years child protection issues have dominated media and public discourse in the UK.

This timely book provides an extensive account of national identities in three of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom: Wales, Scotland and England.

At once a digital ethnography of smartphones and a classically conceived village-based ethnography, this book relocates the study of digital technologies to rural Melanesia, with a focus on the Lau of Malaita, Soloman Islands.

This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies.

This book explores the meanings and experiences of home among a group of lesbians who over the past five decades have sought to create alternative intimate and public living spaces.

This is the first academic monograph to focus exclusively on issues of race, ethnicity, whiteness and multiculture at the English seaside.

This book explores questions around the meaning and significance of international student migration.

This book explores an online support group for women who are infertile.

Organizations are complex social systems, and dysfunctionalities can settle in very quickly and almost unnoticed, costing valuable time and resources.

This book invites readers to think about future directions in social development.

This book examines the concept of the fourth industrial revolution and its potential impact on vocational education and training.

This book explores the evolution of male writers marked by peculiar traits of childlike immaturity.

This book explores the reflections and experiences of mothers of children aged 0-3 years that have attended universal parenting courses.

This volume explores voters' political rationalizations.

This book explores the idea of socialism from three angles and raises the questions if socialism is possible, inevitable, and desirable.

This book is the first English-language study of the social, intellectual and institutional history of sociology and the social sciences in Hungary.

This book explores the work and legacy of Professor David Cesarani OBE, a leading British scholar and expert on Jewish history who helped to shape Holocaust research, remembrance and education in the UK.

This book explains how cultural heritage can be a tool for enhancing urban agriculture and improving landscape and life quality.

Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not.

The minutes, hours, and days after President John F.

This book was created in the spirit of learning from nature in the field of professional purchasing.

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

This book offers new interdisciplinary analyses of borders and blockages in higher education and how they can be inhabited and reworked.

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