Sociology and anthropology

Beauty today is a paradox.

'I'm 79 years old.

Indigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states.

The public, James Carey famously wrote, is the 'god-term' of journalism, 'the term without which the entire enterprise fails to make sense.

The pace of modern life is accelerating.

Sexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences.

The connections between race and sexuality are constant in our lives, yet they are not often linked together in productive, analytical ways.

Social capital is a principal concept across the social sciences and has readily entered into mainstream discourse.

Republicanism is a centuries-old political tradition, yet its precise meaning has long been contested.

Today's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live.

The election of an unabashedly patriarchal man as US President was a shock for many despite decades of activism on gender inequalities and equal rights, how could it come to this?

We are living in a period of great uncertainty.

This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today.

In 2008, the Mus e des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist Nicolas Poussin.

God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics.

Empires have been the commonest form of political organization for most of recorded history.

Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a remarkable work by all measures.

Children s rights appear universal, inalienable, and indivisible, intended to advance young people s interests.

How did the Nazis imagine their victory and the subsequent Thousand-Year Reich ?

In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States.

Pain in one form or another is probably the most common symptom presented to medical and healthcare professionals.

The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live.

Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of liquid modernity , Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an intellectual talisman for young people everywhere.

Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period.

How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived?

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.

The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium.

Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies.

At the heart of developed societies lies an insatiable drive for wealth and prosperity.

Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relationships are witnessing greater frictions, tensions, and harms than ever before.

How can we hope to understand social inequality without considering race, class, and gender in tandem?

How can colorblindness the idea that race does not matter be racist?

At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships.

How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place?

Self-help gurus, life coaches and business consultants love to tell us that we must strive for constant self-improvement to realize our full potential and become truly happy.

Millions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-down state solutions.

The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom.

The new edition of this popular introduction explores the meaning of social deviance in contemporary society.

By 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion.

The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit.

James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages.

The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption.

Culture, cultural difference, and cultural conflict always surround us.

Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science s growing command over the matter of life.

Allegations of Russian conspiracies meddling in the affairs of Western countries have been a persistent feature of Western politics since the Cold War allegations of Russian interference in the US presidential election are only the most recent in a long series of conspiracy allegations that mark the history of the twentieth century.

From Paris to San Bernardino, Barcelona to Manchester, home-grown terrorism is among the most urgent challenges confronting Western nations.

In a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, relentlessly caught up in questions of security, humanitarian crisis, and cultural problems, this book radically shifts the focus to address migration through the lens of inequality.

Life for too many African American men is a battle with extreme disadvantage, a fight for survival, and a struggle for dignity in a society which labels them a "e;problem.

We think we know what healers do: they build on patients irrational beliefs and treat them in a symbolic way.

Within the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can cultivate through practical training and personal development.