This book examines the process of domination of a civilization and the creation of a vast empire by the British in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Under today's divisive political rhetoric with direct assaults on agencies and career employees, practitioners and academics need to evaluate the impacts of working in contentious political environments.
This book examines systems complexity theory and specifically, system and dynamic characteristics of complexity, with a key focus on self/organisation/emergence/adaptation; path-dependence; and bifurcation.
Working with Bereaved Parents is a thoughtful guide for frontline practitioners in mental health and medicine who face the daunting task of helping parents after the death of a child.
Dignity in the context of work organisations has been explored by a range of scholars globally, yet the potential of this interdisciplinary concept is overwhelmed by our commitment to outdated philosophies and the narrow paradigmatic concerns of academic subdisciplines.
The most recent addition to the "e;Key Issues on Diverse College Students"e; series, this important volume bridges theory to practice in order to help higher education professionals support LatinX students in colleges and universities.
This book offers a journey through the problems and the progress of the discipline of sociology in the UK and Europe throughout the second half of the twentieth century via an exploration of seven social settings from the life of a now eminent sociologist.
A ground-breaking new book, Beyond Human Error: Taxonomies and Safety Science deconstructs the conventional concept of human error and provides a whole new way of looking at accidents and how they might be prevented.
The twentieth century saw twin developments in Britain: changes in the pattern of employment, producing the institution of retirement; and demographic changes resulting in an ageing population.
This book explores the profound transformations brought about by the datafication of society, and reflects on the implications this has for activism, social movements, and contentious politics.
Drawing on interviews conducted throughout New York City, Black feminist criminologist Janet Garcia-Hallett shares the traditionally silenced voices of formerly incarcerated mothers of color and exposes the difficult realities they face when reentering the community and navigating motherhood.
Der Band bietet einen systematischen Überblick über das Phänomen extremer sozialer Rückzüge junger Menschen, das in Japan unter dem Begriff „Hikikomori“ bekannt ist.
This book, by an architect and a sociologist, addresses the disconnect between the design of the built environment and social life and lays out a pathway for interdisciplinary engagement.
This significantly expanded edition of Essential Criminology covers the broadest range of criminological theories-the essential criminological theories-from longstanding ones such as classical theory and strain theory to recently introduced ones such as ultra-realism and green cultural criminology.
This book focuses on the complex network of relationships between the poet Uri Zvi Grinberg and the Labor Movement in Mandate Palestine from 1923 to 1937.
Exploring Cross-Cultural Psychology: Exercises for Instructors and Students is an accessible text that provides material for generating interactive discussion of a broad sampling of topics in cross-cultural psychology.
This book is a socio-historical analysis of rationalism as a world view - that guides many of our actions in concrete everyday life - and as a philosophy - that guides our epistemological understanding of the reality around us.
The most recent addition to the "e;Key Issues on Diverse College Students"e; series, this important volume bridges theory to practice in order to help higher education professionals support LatinX students in colleges and universities.
Language and Social Justice provides readers with the knowledge and analytical skills required to explore why and how social inequalities and injustices are enacted through language, and how they may be challenged.
This book is a socio-historical analysis of rationalism as a world view - that guides many of our actions in concrete everyday life - and as a philosophy - that guides our epistemological understanding of the reality around us.
Under today's divisive political rhetoric with direct assaults on agencies and career employees, practitioners and academics need to evaluate the impacts of working in contentious political environments.
Salas, negocios y públicos de cine en Latinoamérica, 1896-1960 nos brinda claves para aventurarnos a una mirada más compleja de las sociedades del siglo XX, cuando el cine se constituía en una experiencia cultural que ocupaba el centro de la escena; y lo hace considerando la necesidad de situar espacial y temporalmente nuestras tradiciones académicas sobre el tema para no reproducir viejas, y no tan viejas, prácticas de dependencia intelectual que obliteran los aportes teóricos y artísticos latinoamericanos.
This book investigates the nature and prevalence of expressions of antisemitism within the context of football in Europe and beyond, as well as attempts to challenge and combat this problematic phenomenon.
This book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners.
This eminently timely volume explores the successful practice and effective intervention strategies in schools to drive school improvement and close the achievement gap for Black and minority ethnic students.
This book, by an architect and a sociologist, addresses the disconnect between the design of the built environment and social life and lays out a pathway for interdisciplinary engagement.
In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaa considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcultures from hip-hop to punk and adopt creative organizing practices to create meaningful channels of participation in local social and political life.
