Sociology

Originally published in 1966, this is a sociological study of boys growing up in East London.

Originally published in 1993, Adolescent Drinking and Family Life portrays teenage drinking, not as a symptom of pathology, but as a perfectly normal developmental phase within the context of the home environment.

This book critically explores the role of state schooling in the reproduction of social class inequalities in the UK.

This book critically explores the role of state schooling in the reproduction of social class inequalities in the UK.

This book looks at the policy challenges confronting India and other developing countries in creating a robust, sustainable and industrialized economy.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

This book looks at the policy challenges confronting India and other developing countries in creating a robust, sustainable and industrialized economy.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

This book presents an ethnographic study on gestational surrogacy in India.

This book presents an ethnographic study on gestational surrogacy in India.

This book examines different dimensions of farmer agitations in Punjab, India.

This book explores the meaning of the interpretive turn in the philosophy of the human sciences for a variety of contemporary philosophical debates.

Originally published in 1941 and written in an attempt to dispute the popular assumption at the time that a a bit of discipline is what is needed for the correction of young men who show delinquent tendencies, this book is much more than that.

This book examines texts and other artistic products rendered by siblings of individuals with disabilities in order to interrogate the impact of disability on the identity of non-disabled siblings.

This is the first book-length study on how authors of color present themselves in public literary discourse.

This book addresses historical issues of colonialism and race, which influenced the formation of multicultural society in Mauritius.

This book explores the significance of Ibn Khalduns magnum opus, the Book of Examples, to our understanding of human history and the disciplines of anthropology, history, and sociology.

Adams Bridge offers the first comprehensive transdisciplinary study of the famous eponymous tombolo (also known as Ram Setu) combining its sacral, historical, geological, political, performative, and heritage aspects into one framework, viewed under the critical lenses of island studies and cultural theory.

This book reconsiders Habermass critique of capitalism as a foundation for a critical theory of neoliberalism.

Originally published in 1978, this book was written in response to the growing need for resource material for Home Economics courses in which the sociological content was becoming increasingly important.

This book explores the ethical and governance concerns of stem cell technology, taking a comparative approach between countries of differing socio-economic status.

Sunshades in October (1963) argues that under certain circumstances economic domestic restraint will in fact do precisely the opposite.

First published in 1989, Drugs and British Society (now with a new preface by Susanne MacGregor) provides information on the drugs problem in Britain in the 1980s, based on extensive research and experience, and places it in its international and historical context.