Sociology and anthropology

The expanding interdependencies of the world's diverse and divided populations have created a world society.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India.

This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938.

First published in 1995.

Political and Military Sociology continues a mission of publishing cutting-edge research on some of the most important issues in civil-military relations.

Iraqi women in Denmark is an ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi'a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen.

Fairness of wage distribution - or the perception of such - is a phenomenon crucial for the stability of new democracies.

This book presents advanced knowledge and techniques to improve food quality, such as organic farming, fertilization using waste, reducing arsenic in food, soil restoration, forage production in arid regions and weed control.

This volume is a vital contribution to conversations about urban sustainability, looking beyond the propaganda to explore its consequences for everyday life.

This Briefs advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises.

First Published in 1998.

First published in 1978, Issues in Social Policy is designed as a basic textbook for social administration students in universities, polytechnics and similar institutions, and for students in allied fields such as medicine, nursing and public administration.

Exploring European changes in religious and secular beliefs and practices related to life passages, this book provides a deeper understanding of the impacts of social change on personal identity and adjustment across the life course, According to latest research, Europeans who consider religious services appropriate to mark life passages significantly outnumber those who declare themselves as believers.

In today's ultra-competitive global business environment, it is becoming increasingly important for companies to reduce spending while simultaneously improving their efficiency and productivity.

Ce livre est un récit, un cheminement, une aventure… Il raconte le parcours d’un homme en quête d’universel qui découvre progressivement, en réponse à une question inattendue, un autre visage de la vérité, non pas celui de la réponse qu’elle nous propose, mais celui du regard qu’on porte sur elle.

In Twelver Shi'a Islam, the wait for the return of the Twelfth Imam, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdi, at the end of time, overshadowed the value of actively seeking martyrdom.

Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire's ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977.

This book focuses on the utility and application of discourse theory and discourse analysis in the sociological study of religious change.

An approachable and original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology.

A comprehensive, one-stop guide to identifying, reducing, and managing nonresponse in household surveys Nonresponse and its impact on the sample selection mechanism of a survey is a common problem that often arises while collecting survey data.

This 2007 text examines the problem of national identity formation in the context of globalization.

Public life is dominated from time to time by media storms around integrity.

"e;Well-researched.

Redirecting examinations of the culture of the city away from its customs, art, and amenities to focus on the mental life of modern society, Alan Blum explores the methods cities and their subjects use to find meaning in the context of urban life, in particular the city's relationships to social change and what has traditionally been identified as justice.

By imparting crucial insights into the digital evolution of far-right extremism and its challenges, this book explores how far-right extremism has transformed, utilising digital spaces for communication and employing coded language to evade detection.

Why is the law failing to protect pregnant workers and parents from detrimental treatment in the workplace?

This book addresses the gap between the espoused importance of organizational human capital and how it is actually reported and assessed.

This book provides a rich, detailed analysis of the experiences of young women growing up in post-colonial, rapidly modernizing Malaysia.

This book provides a detailed overview of ethical omnivorism, as well as the philosophical foundations of this movement and diet.

"e;School is so boring!

Across organisations and communities there are leaders who manage to get things done through their ability to understand how a network of individuals connect, who to talk to and how to bring people together in the right constellation of effort.

Written by a diverse range of scholars, this accessible introductory volume asks: What is implicit bias?

In diesem Buch wird, auch anhand zahlreicher Fallbeispiele, ein in vielen Jahren praktischer Arbeitszeitberatung entstandenes und bewährtes Verfahren zur Entwicklung flexibler Schichtsysteme vorgestellt.

This title was first published in 2001.

2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist"e;[A] fascinating biography .

The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage.

Originally published in 1987, Social Gerontology presents papers from the British Society of Gerontology annual conference held at the University of Glasgow in September 1986.

Sharing the results of her four-year research journey in simple, jargon-free language, Pryce-Jones exposes the secrets of being happy at work.

Was wissen wir über die Situation Angehöriger von Strafgefangenen und vor allem darüber, wie diese Angehörigen ihre eigene Situation interpretieren und welche Realitätskonstruktionen sie entwerfen, und warum wissen wir darüber so wenig?

This book examines the key developments in the UK magazine industry since 2014 and explains in detail how the business has innovated to survive.

First published in 1967, this book gives some of the fruits of the author's study of Tikopia ways of thought as the result of three field expeditions.

Technological breakthroughs obliterate established methods and change entire industries.

This book approaches the subject of AIDS pedagogy by analysing the complex links between representation or discourse, ideology, power relations and practices of self, understood from the perspective of embodiment.

Advancing the rising field of engaged or participatory anthropology that is emerging at the same time as increased opposition from Indigenous peoples to research, this book offers critical reflections on research approaches to-date.