Sociology and anthropology

A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy.

This book focuses on food policy, and its relationship to public health, as an increasingly important issue in today's society.

Encounters, whether first or subsequent or whether cultural, economic, or ideological, mark the beginning of an acquaintance and measure both similarities and differences.

This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency.

The Poetic Logic of Administration is an investigation of the most important organizational forms of our time, theoretically as well as practically.

Economic Cycles and Social Movements: Past, Present and Future offers diverse perspectives on the complex interrelationship between social challenges and economic crises in the Modern World System.

First published in 1990, The Myths We Live By explores how memory and tradition are continually reshaped and recycled to make sense of the past from the standpoint of the present.

As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these issues.

There is a widespread concern today with the role and experiences of ethnic and religious minorities, and their potential for conflict and harmony with 'host communities' and with each other, especially in towns.

This book, based on international collaborative research, presents a state-of-the-art design for "e;Smart Master Planning"e; for all metropolises, megacities and metacities as well as at subcity zonal and community and neighborhood level.

Today Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front.

The strengths of families from culture to culture, when compared to each other, are remarkably similar and give us common ground around the world upon which to unite and develop mutual understanding.

Television is changing almost beyond recognition.

The paradox of 'globalization' is that it both weakens and activates social forces of resistance.

The theories of Talcott Parsons' are enjoying a revival in the world of sociology.

Mitarbeiterbefragungen sind integrierter Bestandteil des Change Managements.

Hundreds of tribal libraries, archives, and other information centers offer the services patrons would expect from any library: circulation of materials, collection of singular items (such as oral histories), and public services (such as summer reading programs).

From resurgent racisms to longstanding Islamophobia, from settler colonial refusals of First Nations voices to border politics and migration debates, 'free speech' has been weaponised to target racialized communities and bolster authoritarian rule.

This is a third edition of a successful textbook that provides a contemporary account of how social services in the UK are paid for.

Are men and women equal?

This book is a collection of studies of corrections and repair in conversation, by Gail Jefferson, co-founder of the field of Conversation Analysis and one of its foremost researchers.

Subcultures have long captured the imagination of sociologists and the public alike.

Culture, 1922 traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the twentieth century.

This volume focuses on indigenous knowledge in analyzing the traditions and communication processes within various communities of Northeast India.

The dilemma of democracy arises from two contrasting trends.

Since the mid-1990s, Morocco has sought to present itself as a model of genuine and gradual reform, with decentralisation as a key tenet of this.

Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response is the first systematic attempt to understand how private decisions affect public vulnerability.

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world.

From the mid-1940s, state housing authorities in Australia built large housing estates to enable home ownership by working-class families, but the public housing system they created is now regarded as broken.

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out.

The information presented in this book will startle the world.

The Naxalbari movement marks a significant moment in the postcolonial history of India.

The term 'War on Terror' (WOT) covers a mass of interlinked topics.

This is the most important book on illicit drug use and social work to be published for a long time Whilst it may inspire some to become drug specialists its most important purpose is in dealing with drug issues which are apparent in all social work settings.

This book presents the outcomes of the trans- and interdisciplinary research project NEMo (Nachhaltige Erfullung von Mobilitatsbedurfnissen im landlichen Raum - Sustainable Fulfilment of Mobility Needs in Rural Areas).

In the poorest neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, low-income residents known as pobladores have long lived at the margins-and have long advocated for the right to housing as part of la vida digna (a life with dignity).

What Does It Mean to 'Make' Love?

This book follows the journeys of those fleeing war, poverty or political crises, risking their lives as they attempt to find sanctuary in Europe.

The emergence of a truly global economy in the 1970s and the need to understand the subsequent changes in economic structure provided the impetus for this synthesis of the sociology of agriculture.

Using the rich and vital Australian Aboriginal understanding of country as a model, People and Places of Nature and Culture affirms the importance of a sustainable relationship between nature and culture.

Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries.

Working in the fields of education, health and social care demands a great deal of energy, effort and commitment on the part of the practitioner or trainee.

In this book sociologist Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame.