Sociology and anthropology

My Lovely Wife is a powerful memoir of one man's overwhelming love for his wife through mental illness and psychosis.

Nearly 70 per cent of employees in the UK aren't performing at their full potential.

China is a transitional society with one of the highest inequality rates in the world.

Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one.

Digital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time.

The field of science and technology studies has long critiqued the idea that there is such a thing as a universal and singular "e;Science"e; that exists independently of human society, interpretation, and action.

Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one.

Orlando Patterson s classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation, which disregarded and distorted almost all of the basic prerequisites of normal social life.

The story begins with a dream the dream of Africa.

What does a nation of immigrants think and feel about immigration?

Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our spine at the mere thought of him or her.

After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, many hoping to return as soon as possible to the world as it was before the pandemic .

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing.

Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition.

Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too.

The notion of immigrant integration is used everywhere by politicians, policy makers, journalists and researchers as an all-encompassing framework for rebuilding unity from diversity after large-scale immigration.

Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate.

One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human.

For the majority of Americans, hard times have long been a way of life.

Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still.

Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them.

Long before the pandemic, economies across the world were in trouble, with growth slowing across the board.

Love and Communication is an intriguing philosophical and religious inquiry into the meaning of talk and ultimately the meaning of being human.

The evidence for the ancestry of the human species among the apes is overwhelming.

It is a simple story.

In the first days of spring, birds undergo a spectacular metamorphosis.

Deep adaptation refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for and live with a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies.

The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth s ecosystems and its human and non-human communities and, on the other, a colonial fracture instilled by Western colonization and imperialism that resulted in racial slavery and the domination of indigenous peoples and women in particular.

As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj i ek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the profundity of its consequences?

We live in an urban age.

This ground-breaking book offers a deep and original analysis of the Mafia in particular Cosa Nostra as a distinct form of politics.

We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future.

We live in the age of fitness.

The sociological imagination and the artistic imagination have been historically intertwined, at once reciprocal and conflicting, complementary and tensional.

While the working lives of tech entrepreneurs and delivery platform workers seem far removed, both are engaged in digital labor.

This volume of L vi-Strauss's writings from 1941 to 1947 bears witness to a period of his work which is often overlooked but which was the crucible for the structural anthropology that he would go on to develop in the years that followed.

Even as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is.

A pervasive sense has taken hold that any and all of us are under suspicion and surveillance, walking on a tightrope, a step away from erasure of rights or security.

The field of science and technology studies has long critiqued the idea that there is such a thing as a universal and singular "e;Science"e; that exists independently of human society, interpretation, and action.

Given the escalating and existential nature of our current environmental crises, environmental sociology has never mattered more.

Today, in Western countries, we are seeing both the fragmentation of the gender binary (the division of the social world into two and only two genders) and its persistence.

We inhabit a world of more than humans.

Against the bleak backdrop of pressing issues in today s world, civil societies remain vibrant, animated by people s belief that they should and can solve such issues and build a better society.

The logics and ethics of neoliberal capitalism dominate public discourses and politics in the early twenty-first century.

The driving cultural force of that form of life we call modern is the desire to make the world controllable.

The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it.

The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism.

Christianity is often assumed to be pro-capitalist and socially conservative in short, necessarily aligned with the political Right.

Some people facing violence and persecution flee.

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it.