Sociology and anthropology

User involvement has become an important part of health policy initiatives during the last decade, but how realistic is the concept and do all users want to be involved?

A pioneering sociological exploration of boredom as a culturally- and socially-dependent emotion Does boredom have a history?

This is Volume III of six in a series on Anthropology and Psychology.

This is Volume XII of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology.

This is Volume V in of eighteen a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology.

First Published in 1998.

This is Volume II of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology.

This is Volume XI of thirteen in a collection on the Urban and Regional Sociology.

This is Volume II of twenty-one in a collection of Race, Class and Social Structure.

First published in 1998.

This is Volume XIX in a series of twenty-two on Race, Class and Social Structure.

First published in 1998.

First published in 2008.

First Published in 1951.

European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact.

Pulling together a collection of richly informative essays Rethinking Imagination addresses competing sets of ideas, oscillating between the modern and post-modern, creativity and sublimity, progress and apocalypse, democracy and redemption Enlightenment and Romanticism and reason and imagination.

Although much has been written on the topic of economic globalization, few volumes examine the social foundations of the global economy in a way that puts power and contestation at the forefront of the analysis.

Teaching AIDS begins with a discussion of how teachers can create an environment of support for an AIDS education programme.

Fair and ethical trade is often criticized for being highly gendered, and for institutionalizing the ethical values of consumers, the priorities of NGOs and governments, and most of all, food retailers.

In If Only We Knew John Willinsky uses current social issues and historical precedents to demonstrate that the social sciences can and should contribute far more to public knowledge than they have in the past.

Containing interviews with more than 100 middle-class working parents in the Boston area, Bookman vividly illustrates the inherent conflicts faced by today's two-working-parent families and the often unfortunate consequences for the community.

Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "e;Freeway"e; in her 1990 book, Working Class Without Work.

Those providing services to older persons must develop intervention strategies that are relevant to their clients'life experiences.

The main purpose of this book is to describe the variety of drinking occasions that exist around the world, primarily in modern, industrialized countries.

First Published in 1985.

This volume examines the ways in which sport shapes the experiences of various immigrant and minority groups and, in particular, looks at the relationship between sport, ethnic identity and ethnic relations.

This collection of essays explores teaching in Japan as it relates to contemporary social change in the past two decades.

In 1993, the author set out to try and gain some understanding about school and community in Havens, New Mexico--a place where she had the opportunity to be immersed in border culture, where she could learn how the border figured into everyday life, and where she could pay uninterrupted attention to the issues as they occurred in the personal and professional lives of those who taught in and administered the schools--and in the lives of the students who studied there.

The urban setting in which people live has an important influence upon the organization and planning of their social lives.

Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century.

For this important selection from Weber, sections of text from Weber's major works (Gesammelte, Aufsatze Zur Religionssoziologie, including The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; General Economic History; and The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilisations) have been carefully edited and substantially translated to form a coherent and integrated volume.

In this work, Professor Jordan continues his study of the origins of modern social and cultural institutions in England.

This book considers the beginnings of anthropology as a cultural tradition, and examines how it was developed and transmitted.

Changing Conceptions of Psychological Life is an interdisciplinary look at personal constructions of self.

This book investigates a number of word order phenomena in Spanish, concentrating on this language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that result from topicalization and wh-movement.

First published in 1991.

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Learn how traditional herbal practitioners are responding to the sudden, massive popularity of herbal medicine!

Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice!

Social inequalities are established features of the distribution of physical disease in the UK and many other developed countries.

This is designed for those learning qualitative research and those more advanced in the field.

This work explores the diverse ways in which young people are active social agents in the production of youth culture in the digital age.

Over the past two decades, population mobility has intensified and become more diverse, raising important questions concerning the health and well-being of people who are mobile as well as communities of origin and destination.

Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.

This book examines the status of trade unions in contemporary China, exploring the degree to which trade unions have been reformed as China is increasingly integrated into the global economy, and discussing the key question of how autonomous China's trade unions are.

Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are actually intensely reflexive.

A pioneering sociological exploration of boredom as a culturally- and socially-dependent emotion Does boredom have a history?

Published in 1998, Understanding Human Society is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Science.

This volume investigates ideas, beliefs and sentiments in relation to social organization.

In this lively and entertaining book, Gordon Marshall explores ten classic studies of British society to demonstrate the valuable qualities of British sociology, and its importance for understanding contemporary society.