Sociology and anthropology

This book examines the causes of a growing wave of digital activism across developing countries, arguing that it is driven by social change, rather than technological advancement alone.

In recent years, few federal requirements have been as controversial as the mandate for what critics call 'bilingual ballots'.

Fabian Colonial Essays (1945) brings together a host of leading thinkers to discuss different aspects of colonialism.

This book offers a historically sensitive ethnography of the zar tumbura spirit possession cult, associated with descendants of African slaves who live mainly in the area of Greater Khartoum, Sudan.

Social science is a social activity as well as a method of discovery.

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

A unique and comprehensive study on social science research, this book highlights the status, issues, roadblocks and challenges of the field in India and certain select nations of the world.

The aim of this book is to assess the moral permissibility of corporal punishment and to enquire into whether or not it ought to be legally prohibited.

This pioneering work aims at understanding the impact of non-standard (evening, night, weekend) working time on family cohesion, meaning parent-child interaction, partnership quality and divorce or partnership dissolution.

Bourdieusian Prospects considers the ongoing relevance of Bourdieu's social theory for contemporary social science.

This book analyzes the impact of the U.

This book explores the application of Soft Systems Methodology in educational research as a qualitative research tool to generate theory, and identifies the mechanisms that engender the behaviours and discourse of social groups.

First published in 1998.

Trager and her coauthors focus on migration not as a single event but as a dynamic process that responds to and is shaped by broader economic, cultural and social forces.

This collection brings together for the first time a set of researchers whose research methodologies centre on Bourdieu's concept of habitus.

This is the go-to reference to learn about new developments in the field of intercultural training and cultural traditions.

Part of the Sociology of the City series, originally published in 1959, this volume looks at the urban community bringing together rural and urban sociology.

Debates about individualism and holism, reductionism and phenomenology, and naturalism and humanism all turn on how we answer the basic questions about the nature of human agency.

Green European addresses the quest for a better understanding of European type(s) of environmentalism.

Born in 1897, Milly Bennett lived an extraordinary life that led from her native San Francisco, to Honolulu, to China for the revolution, to the Soviet Union on the eve of World War II, to the Spanish Civil War, and home again, a journey punctuated with many love affairs, triumphs, and disappointments.

Based upon 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, Eve Danziger examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is superior to other non-ethnographically-based methods.

The objective of this book is to present a number of related chapters on the subject of gender issues in the workplace of the aviation industry.

This title was first published in 2003.

Child protection is one of the most high profile and challenging areas of social work, as well as one where children's lives and family life are seen to be at stake.

Tobias Aberle examines how an entrepreneurship training helps disadvantaged youths in rural parts of Bihar, India, to cope with structural conditions that enable or constrain them.

Diverse as they are in their histories and in the organization of their forest sectors, most Nordic countries have this in common: their economies and cultures are substantially based on the utilization of various forest resources.

This book draws on the author's professional experience and published works in the areas of leadership, philosophy, psychology and management (amongst others) to discuss the 'softer' qualities of being a good lawyer - qualities which are not taught or widely documented, such as humility, confidence, personal relationships and our dreams and vision.

This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective.

The relationship between ageing and crime has been a much neglected issue, the focus rather being on youth.

Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city's uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable.

The 2nd edition of Sustainable Human Resource Management: Strategies, Practices and Challenges delves into the evolving landscape of sustainable HRM.

Suicide, and how civilized people should respond to it, is an increasingly controversial topic in modern society.

The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts.

"e;Caste"e;, a word normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely associated with Japan in contemporary scholarship.

This book looks at texts produced before and after 9/11 by novelists with Muslim backgrounds in Britain.

The 21st century is steeped in claims to interconnection, technological innovation, and new affective intensities amid challenges to the primacy and centrality of "e;the human"e;.

At a time when the traditional media have been reshaped by digital technologies and audiences have fragmented, people are using mediated forms of communication to manage all aspects of their daily lives as well as for news and entertainment.

"e;Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done.

Migration has emerged as an important issue in contemporary global politics and in the discourse around human development.

This book provides an up-to-date, critical review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development.

The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century.

Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past critically examines the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography across various heritage domains, from global image archives to the domestic arena of the family album.

While a majority of people identify as "e;heterosexual"e; if asked about their sexual identity, what does that really mean?

​Brigitte Petendra beschäftigt sich mit der räumlichen Dimension von Arbeit in einer flexibilisierten Arbeitswelt.

This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange.

The environmental legacy of past industrial and agricultural development can simultaneously pose serious threats to human health and impede reuse of contaminated land.