Sociology and anthropology

This book provides a dynamic platform for exploring groundbreaking advancements in intelligent systems for sustainable development.

This book provides a timely and thorough examination of religious minorities in Europe, paying particular attention to the diversity within Christianity.

This book documents, via oral history, experiences of the emotions of parenthood during the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on testimonies collected during a time of crisis and exploring how parents' feelings and reflections shifted and changed with the passage of time at an important and unique juncture in history.

This book explores globalisation, cultural diversity and social justice, and the implications for democracy and equality.

This book traces the history, sociolinguistics and structure of world Englishes and examines the complexities of English(es) and the transmedia narratives of their users in modern-day international universities and workplaces.

Irony is a pervasive quality of human life, though its creative, comic potential is often overlooked.

This book brings together an exceptional group of renowned scholars in philosophy and sociology, offering deep and insightful engagements with Jürgen Habermas’s thought.

This book considers the ramifications of the term 'cultural democracy' from a variety of perspectives.

This book addresses the connections between food provisioning, natural resource extraction and the exploitation of human labor.

Dieses praktisch ausgelegte Buch bringt aktuelle Kindheitsforschung und zeitgenössische ethische Theorie zusammen.

This book focuses on how youth work and music is measured and valued.

This volume critically interrogates the dominant understanding of ‘addiction’ and ‘addicts’.

This edited book builds on International Perspectives on Exclusionary Pressures in Education (2023) and Theorising Exclusionary Pressures in Education (2024) to highlight different dimensions of exclusionary practices in schools and other educational settings around the world.

This book examines the critical intersection of demographic ageing and climate change in Bangladesh, including comparison with other Asia countries.

This book explores globalisation, cultural diversity and social justice, and the implications for democracy and equality.

Et si l'on prenait enfin le temps de penser demain ?

This book documents, via oral history, experiences of the emotions of parenthood during the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on testimonies collected during a time of crisis and exploring how parents' feelings and reflections shifted and changed with the passage of time at an important and unique juncture in history.

This book examines the current needs of identified vulnerable sub-groups in Guyana, including children under the care of the state, persons living with disabilities, and migrant children.

Sexualisierte Diskriminierung und Gewalt galten in Hochschulen lange als Tabu und wurden vor allem durch Geschlechterforscher*innen und Gleichstellungsbeauftragte thematisiert.

The integration of cutting-edge technologies – such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) – combined with a growing emphasis on sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is profoundly transforming the business landscape in general, and the fields of Accounting and Finance in particular.

This book explores India's socio-economic landscape, highlighting the critical role of inclusive policies in driving growth and well-being.

This book investigates key trends in youth political participation in the UK, Europe, and the United States since the turn of the century—with a focus on the UK General Election and the US Presidential Election that were both held in 2024.

In recent years, the discourse on health and well-being has evolved beyond the boundaries of traditional medical and psychological paradigms, embracing a more holistic and context-sensitive understanding.

Starting from the paradox that undocumented migrants—known as sans-papiers inFrench—often have pockets, backpacks, and drawers full of papers, this book explores the role of documentation in how migration is governed and experienced.

This book is novel in that it provides insights into the effects of information provision on people's perceptions and behavioral changes during the pandemic, and provides empirical evidence on its mechanisms and policy implications from different perspectives.

The book highlights the significance of a distinct category of underdeveloped areas, known as the inner periphery, in understanding contemporary spatial disparities in socio-economic development and the challenges posed to future cohesion policy.

Judaism is fundamental to Israel’s self-conception, but Israelis disagree about whether this is a religious, ethnic, or cultural claim.

This book focuses on the liminality and experiences of Filipino migrant musicians in Australia in relation to their identities and positionalities as migrants, professionals, labour force, musicians, and members of the multicultural community.

Cross-cultural comparison is gaining increasing importance in the context of globalization and the internationalization of many areas of lifeThe aim of this volume is to provide a concise and practical introduction to the methods of cross-cultural research.

Cross-cultural comparison is gaining increasing importance in the context of globalization and the internationalization of many areas of lifeThe aim of this volume is to provide a concise and practical introduction to the methods of cross-cultural research.

This book examines our understanding of the ways in which we produce and consume archaeological knowledge and proposes that this should play a greater role in our attempts to describe and comprehend the nature and purpose of archaeology, and the nature of archaeological knowledge.

This book dives into in depth case studies across Thailand’s low-lying coastal regions and its rapidly changing urban centers.

This book uses gender and the history of migration between Zimbabwe and South Africa to highlight a marginal area of research in the Global South.

This book highlights how social inequality shapes parent engagement, from resources available to parents and parenting logics to school responses to families and their engagement.

This book posits that during Australia’s colonial period (1788–1900), all sport, including the hegemonic football codes (rugby union and Australian rules football), was closely tied to British nationalism.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of institutional elderly care in China, with a special focus on resource allocation, spatial optimization, and the temporal-spatial perspective of elderly care provision.

This book approaches the field of mindfulness research from the perspective of self-determination theory (SDT).

This contributed volume examines the intersection of social work, environmental justice, and disaster risk reduction (DRR).

This book explores the interplay between a people, their physical environment, the means of mobility that connect the two, and how these elements combine in the creation of cognitive and cultural landscapes.

This book dives into in depth case studies across Thailand’s low-lying coastal regions and its rapidly changing urban centers.

The book explores the institution of the insurance ombudsman – an alternative dispute resolution service outside of the court dedicated to resolving complaints filed by customers against insurers and insurance intermediaries.

This book fills a void in the existing literature on regime erosion and democratic backsliding by proposing a multidimensional and sequential explanation for the emergence of crisis of democracy using one of the most populous democracies in the world as a case study: Brazil.

The integration of cutting-edge technologies – such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) – combined with a growing emphasis on sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is profoundly transforming the business landscape in general, and the fields of Accounting and Finance in particular.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of institutional elderly care in China, with a special focus on resource allocation, spatial optimization, and the temporal-spatial perspective of elderly care provision.

Der Sammelband vermittelt unterschiedliche Ansatze und Perspektiven hinsichtlich der Analyse der Prasentation von Sport im Film.

This book offers a first step towards getting machines to understand history in terms of analysing historical narratives.

Welches ist die wichtigste Eigenschaft, die eine Fuhrungskraft heute braucht?

Object Spirituality critically examines the implications of the emerging philosophical movement of Speculative Realism for the study of spirituality and theology.