Retired Performers' Reflections for Movement Practice explores how former expert performers from the realms of sport, dance, and movement practice relate to and subsequently teach, coach, or instruct their disciplines.
The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of Fascism examines the present diminishment of democracy through the prism of intensifying conflict between market freedom and citizen rights.
This compelling volume addresses key issues at the critical intersection of intangible cultural heritage and traditional medical practices, highlighting the urgent need for their preservation in an increasingly globalized world.
First published in 1976, The Worker Directors: A Sociology of Participation offers an exploration of industrial democracy and the role of worker participation in corporate decision-making.
This book presents expert analysis of contemporary issues including water rights, refugee protection, climate displacement, and constitutional frameworks.
This book studies the role, representation, and materiality of weapons, focusing on what they mean to communities and individuals in various cultural, social, political, and religious settings.
First published in 1983, Writers and Politics: A Partisan Review Reader, edited by Edith Kurzweil and William Phillips, captures the intersection of literature and politics as explored in Partisan Review since the late 1930s.
First published in 1976, The Worker Directors: A Sociology of Participation offers an exploration of industrial democracy and the role of worker participation in corporate decision-making.
Bringing Up Children in Ghana (1962) covers a whole spectrum of child training from birth to maturity, including nursing and feeding, sibling relationships, parental discipline, sexual behaviour, puberty rites, children's household chores.
First published in 1966, Sociology in Social Work by Peter Leonard offers a groundbreaking exploration of the intersection between sociology and social work.
This book addresses a critical gap in our education system: ensuring that youth in the juvenile legal system receive the special education and related services they need.
The fifth edition of Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives offers a clear and readable introduction to the field of cultural anthropology, with a special focus on how digital technologies and social media function as prime global forces that are nevertheless used, adapted, transformed, or ignored by people in their everyday local lives.
Over four decades this bestselling introduction has been used by innumerable students, professionals and community groups to kick start their social research projects.
Migration Surveys in Low Income Countries (1984) is an attempt to encourage the collection of analytically appropriate data that can be used to help in the design of migration-related policies.
A Study of Contemporary Ghana Volume 2: Some Aspects of Social Structure (1967) focuses primarily on problems of population in Ghana and examines some aspects of occupational structure, urbanization, family, education, religion and land tenure.
Retired Performers' Reflections for Movement Practice explores how former expert performers from the realms of sport, dance, and movement practice relate to and subsequently teach, coach, or instruct their disciplines.
From streaming platforms to smartphone apps to good old-fashioned newspapers, media are nearly omnipresent in contemporary life and act as a powerful social institution.
This book presents a critical examination of how cultural forms, ranging from cinema and TV to literature, address class within the overarching context of a crisis conjuncture, specifically the period following the 2008 financial crash.
This book demonstrates how tolerance and ethnocultural empathy can be taught in secondary school citizenship classrooms through the application of sociology and social psychology.
Introducing and engaging with womanist frameworks to center the lives of Global South women who live under colonial oppressions, this collection centers the consciousness, spirituality, philosophy, wisdom, community institutions, and ecologies found in a variety of Global South regions and diasporas.
The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of Fascism examines the present diminishment of democracy through the prism of intensifying conflict between market freedom and citizen rights.
Now in its seventh edition, and fully revised with a complete reimagining of voice, structure, and purpose, Introduction to Family Processes explores the complex workings of inner family life.
This book addresses a critical gap in our education system: ensuring that youth in the juvenile legal system receive the special education and related services they need.
Funerary practices have long been a classic topic of anthropological inquiry, which has tended to focus on death rituals as expressions and reinforcers of community ties and values.
Altruismus scheint im Alltagsverständnis seinen uneingeschränkt positiven Ruf als ebenso wünschenswerte wie seltene Tugend verloren zu haben und durch ein Ethos des Eigennutzens ersetzt worden zu sein.
Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Care, Community, Change documents and amplifies lessons from practitioners and scholars who use performance to create models of transformation, collective learning, and liberation.
This thoughtful exploration examines the complex and multifaceted transition of retirement from academia, addressing fundamental questions of when and how to retire, and what retirement looks like.
This book presents a critical examination of how cultural forms, ranging from cinema and TV to literature, address class within the overarching context of a crisis conjuncture, specifically the period following the 2008 financial crash.
The book examines the evolution and current state of corporate social responsibility (CSR), using a five-stage maturity model: defensive, charitable, promotional, strategic and transformative CSR.
