Sociology and anthropology

This book layouts historic and future perspectives at the introduction of technology into education systems: On the one hand, the book attempts to explain why despite numerous attempts, technology has struggled to integrate successfully into the education system for over a century; on the other hand, it explores whether this trend will persist in the foreseeable future, questioning if emerging technologies, like virtual reality or Gen-AI will ever be embraced by education systems worldwide, and introducing a hypothesis that these technologies will become inevitable so that education systems will have a little choice in adopting them.

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Using semi-structured interviews with 122 young Muslims in Australia, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) from diverse ethnic backgrounds, this book investigates the lived reality of young Muslims from their own perspectives.

This book explores how a society accepts and utilizes a system of archives to improve the quality of people's lives at each level of community, organization, and government.

This book brings together anthropological and historical studies that analyze burial rituals within the Caribbean through the theoretical lens of syncretism and the hybridization of post-colonial and contemporary time periods.

This book examines the pathologisation and depathologisation of mental health in Ibero-America.

This book examines the pathologisation and depathologisation of mental health in Ibero-America.

This edited book brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability, and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by heavy metals contamination of soil and plants.

This book examines ways in which families' physical environments have implications for their relationships and the health and well-being of their members.

This book offers a novel examination of the relations, actions, and practices of healthcare workers, analysed in terms of collective mobilisation.

This book focuses on performing hands-on meta-analysis using MetaXL, a free add-on to MS Excel.

This volume explores the family formation and life course of Polish people in Ireland, who make up the largest immigrant group in Ireland.

This multidisciplinary book discusses and scientifically analyzes issues related to population, land use/cover (LULC) and environmental transformations in the seven most populated cities in India: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.

This book provides a unique foundation upon which to view how the involvement of the death care sector offers a potential route to take in practice and research in reaching urban communities of color dealing with gun-related deaths.

This book presents foundational concepts, essential principles, and practical applications of Item Response Theory (IRT).

This book discusses how hierarchical and collectivist cultures contribute to the challenges and opportunities in communication in health care.

This book offers a comprehensive review of disinfection by-products (DBPs), exploring various aspects from detection methods and precursors to their potential health risks, regulation, and future implications.

This book is an introduction to the theory of causal inference in observational studies.

This book offers a current perspective on Artificial Intelligence in the context of an ever-changing and growing technological revolution in business management.

This edited volume focuses on the (un)equal access to the public space granted to the various groups that make up hybrid and multicultural societies: i.

This book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same prefecture.

This book unravels the intricate tapestry of Chinese state-society and government-citizen interactions in both legal historical and contemporary contexts.

This book offers a comprehensive review of disinfection by-products (DBPs), exploring various aspects from detection methods and precursors to their potential health risks, regulation, and future implications.

Digital transformation has profoundly affected organizations and value chains in cultural production at the global level.

Did you know that once a week an adopted child is advertised to be given away on Internet?

This book contributes to the discussion on the ageing society by addressing the new psycho-social structures of the ageing society, the problems around family bonds and ties, and the structures of care and protection.

This book describes the basic concepts and recent advances in new discoveries and technologies related to microbial omics and their role in environmental research and human health.

Digital transformation has profoundly affected organizations and value chains in cultural production at the global level.

This book contributes toward the understanding of the human experience at work during the pandemic and its implications on employee well-being in the context of Malaysia, a developing economy with its own set of unique challenges.

This book provides a complete practical guide of processing data in public health with R language.

This book explores the contextual, particularly cultural-related, factors that may impact reading outcomes of young Indigenous learners in their early years, underpinned by the conceptual framework of cultural capital originated by Bourdieu.

This book examines the evolution of schooling from bureaucracy and hierarchy to post-industrial schools, and places teachers' leadership on center stage at the same time.

Aging is a topic that concerns all of us, since none of us can escape it.

This book offers a curated collection of scholarship that significantly contributes to the shaping of Critical Food Studies in Asia.

This book explains the importance of using the probability that the hypothesis is correct (PHC), an intuitive measure that anyone can understand, as an alternative to the p-value.