Sociology

This book introduces edumetrics, a rigorous, interdisciplinary framework for measuring learning outcomes over time and across space.

This book is authored by experts in the topic from MENA region to present the results and findings of their research work and the related state-of-the-art connected to the book title.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of how Muslim Community Organisations (MCOs) in Australia perceived and responded to Islamophobia between 2014 and 2018—a period marked by the rise of ISIS, a surge in anti-Muslim political rhetoric, and culminating in the Christchurch terrorist attack on praying Muslims in New Zealand.

This edited book provides a comprehensive study of punitive practices in modern-day Lithuania, highlighting its significance as a democratic European state navigating the continuing consequences of its Soviet-era criminal justice system.

This book examines fair citizen participation as a key element of effective policy support.

This volume takes up intersectionality and whiteness as perspectives through which to engage and understand leadership.

This volume provides a background to debates on definitional terms of subjective and objective wellbeing.

This book covers various areas of mining and metallurgic industries' pollution of water, food crops, ambient air and farmlands, and their related salient impacts on residents' well-being.

This book is a retelling of the history of Liberia’s formation through the lens of settler colonial theory to understand the antagonisms that continue to shape contemporary citizenship debates.

This edited volume investigates the complexities of child refugees and migrants from a global perspective.

This edited book provides a comprehensive study of punitive practices in modern-day Lithuania, highlighting its significance as a democratic European state navigating the continuing consequences of its Soviet-era criminal justice system.

The purpose of this book is to address older adults’ musical group activities and their relation to quality of life in Japan, situated on a crossroad between deep Eastern cultural traditions and broad contemporary innovations and Western influences.

This book is a retelling of the history of Liberia’s formation through the lens of settler colonial theory to understand the antagonisms that continue to shape contemporary citizenship debates.

This book examines fair citizen participation as a key element of effective policy support.

This book covers various areas of mining and metallurgic industries' pollution of water, food crops, ambient air and farmlands, and their related salient impacts on residents' well-being.

Despite claims that we live in a post-welfare society, welfare offices remain vital not only for those who depend on them for benefits but also for those who depend on them for a paycheck.

This book is novel in that it provides insights into the effects of information provision on people's perceptions and behavioral changes during the pandemic, and provides empirical evidence on its mechanisms and policy implications from different perspectives.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transcended its origins as a computational discipline to become a transformative force across nearly every domain of human endeavour.

As a result of economic transitions and several societal developments over the past 50 years, residential neighbourhoods have developed from being places where people predominantly live into places where people also work.

As a result of economic transitions and several societal developments over the past 50 years, residential neighbourhoods have developed from being places where people predominantly live into places where people also work.

This timely exploration of social geography reveals how inequality and justice unfold across interconnected scales around the globe.

Rethinking Citizenship and Belonging through the Experiences of Migrant Day Laborers: Labor, Limites, y Libertad explores how migrant day laborers navigate precarious work and forge meaningful forms of community and belonging.

In the Twin Transition era, digital technologies and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) paradigms are changing the dynamics of the financial industry in terms of the operators involved and the service models addressed to customers.

Rethinking Citizenship and Belonging through the Experiences of Migrant Day Laborers: Labor, Limites, y Libertad explores how migrant day laborers navigate precarious work and forge meaningful forms of community and belonging.

Older adults spend a large part of their lives in their homes and carry out important tasks within them.

This book offers an exploration of the intersection between ADHD diagnosis, attachment theory, and epistemic injustice, centring the lived experiences of mothers who have been blamed for their child's ADHD diagnosis.

This timely exploration of social geography reveals how inequality and justice unfold across interconnected scales around the globe.

This book offers an exploration of the intersection between ADHD diagnosis, attachment theory, and epistemic injustice, centring the lived experiences of mothers who have been blamed for their child's ADHD diagnosis.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transcended its origins as a computational discipline to become a transformative force across nearly every domain of human endeavour.

Evangelical Violence examines the long history of western states and actors attempting to export and impose Christianity on non-western peoples and the use of state-administered violence to achieve these "e;Evangelical"e; goals.

We are in a state of crisis.

We are in a state of crisis.

The Borders of America examines the tension between human migration and the diverse formations of border control and immigration and asylum policy that have arisen across the Americas since the start of the twenty-first century.

This book explores the profound intellectual legacy of the late Ntongela Masilela, a groundbreaking literary historian whose analytical significance surged following his death in 2020.

Inclusive Entrepreneurship in Africa offers a timely and essential examination of how diversity, equity, and inclusion are reshaping the continent's entrepreneurial landscape.

In the Twin Transition era, digital technologies and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) paradigms are changing the dynamics of the financial industry in terms of the operators involved and the service models addressed to customers.

This edited volume examines news as both a commodity and a public good within the ongoing crisis of news media business models, and the ways forward for supporting journalism in an age of digital platform dominance.

Remaking Urban Life in Chongqing’s Public Rental Housing follows migrant families through an ordinary day—out the door for work and school, back after dark through night markets and shared courtyards—to show how a large state-led public rental housing (PRH) program becomes a lived urban form.

This book offers a groundbreaking examination of how Vietnam’s legal system is evolving to protect and empower children.

This contributed volume examines the intersection of social work, environmental justice, and disaster risk reduction (DRR).

Australia’s cities are undergoing a profound transformation.

What does it mean to a family when parents go abroad for economic gains while leaving their children behind?

First published in March 2001, this work was the first and only book of its kind in the Dutch intellectual landscape, and it rapidly became a classic for multigenerational audiences with an interest in intersectional theory and praxis.

First published in March 2001, this work was the first and only book of its kind in the Dutch intellectual landscape, and it rapidly became a classic for multigenerational audiences with an interest in intersectional theory and praxis.

What does it mean to a family when parents go abroad for economic gains while leaving their children behind?

In a world shaped by likes, followers, and algorithms, what does it mean to be a child and what does it mean to raise one?

In today's fiercely innovative and complex biopharmaceutical industry, successfully managing a pharmaceutical or biotech company from concept to patients requires exceptional strategic, leadership, and managerial abilities.

In recent years, the discourse on health and well-being has evolved beyond the boundaries of traditional medical and psychological paradigms, embracing a more holistic and context-sensitive understanding.

This book reviews environmental contaminants in terms of their sources, impacts, and health risk assessment, with a focus on soil pollution, groundwater contamination, and integrated management strategies.