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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Planet Utopia
Utopia, Dystopia, and Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free. The capitalist’s ideal society is designed to protect this freedom. However, within Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation, Featherstone argues that capitalist utopian vision, which is most clearly expressed...
Religion and Psychoanalysis in India
Critical Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Religion and Psychoanalysis in India questions the assumptions of an established scientific, evidence-based global mental health paradigm by examining the practices of faith-based healing. It proposes that human beings demonstrate a dual loyalty: to science as faith and faith as science, both of which...
Governing Child Sexual Abuse
Negotiating the Boundaries of Public and Private, Law and Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The turn of the 1990s saw a number of high profile public inquiries into the handling of child sexual abuse cases in Great Britain. In examines the implications of these inquiries on the regulation of relationships between families and the state, author Samantha Ashenden brings a number of contemporary...
The Subcultural Imagination
Theory, Research and Reflexivity in Contemporary Youth Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The Subcultural Imagination discusses young adults in subcultures and examines how sociologists use qualitative research methods to study them. Through the application of the ideas of C. Wright Mills to the development of theory-reflexive ethnography, this book analyses the experiences of young people...
by Hubert Firth, Forge Firth
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women's lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families. Based on empirical investigations and personal experience, the studies included in the volumes...
C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination
Prospects for Creative Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In spite of its widespread use within criminology, the term ’criminological imagination’, as derived from C. Wright Mills’ classic The Sociological Imagination, has yet to be fully developed and clarified as an analytic concept capable of guiding theorizing or empirical enquiry. This volume,...
by Kimberly Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2006
Essay from the year 2003 in the subject Sociology - Political Sociology, Majorities, Minorities, University of Phoenix, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Following is a needs assessment for the community of Jamaica in Queens, New York. Needs assessment methodology must be...
by Terry Leahy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Recent critiques treat humanism as a mistaken value framework. Indeed, the concept of human nature is in fact essential for sociology, but is often being denied at the same time as it appears without acknowledgement.
While classic authors can show us how to connect an ethics with a concept...
Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe
From Survey to Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
This edited volume presents findings from a major cross-European research project mapping the civic and political engagement of young Europeans in the context of both shared and diverse political heritages. Drawing on new survey, interview and ethnographic data, the authors discuss substantive issues...
Making a Living, Making a Life
Work, Meaning and Self-Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In a world in which individuals will undergo multiple career changes, is it possible any longer to conceive of a job as a meaningful vocation? Against the background of fragmentation and rationalisation of work, this book explores the significance and meaning of work in contemporary life, raising...
Abused and Battered
Social and Legal Responses to Family Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
That family violence injures and kills its victims both physically and psychologically was established over two decades ago by early researchers in this field. Abused and Battered heralds the second generation of domestic abuse research: it examines the implications of the legal and social responses...
Neuroscience and Social Science
The Missing Link
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book seeks to build bridges between neuroscience and social science empirical researchers and theorists working around the world, integrating perspectives from both fields, separating real from spurious divides between them and delineating new challenges for future investigation. Since its inception...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
The Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research unites 45 contributions from researchers, sex workers, activists, and practitioners who live and work in 28 countries throughout the world.
Focusing tightly on the contemporary state of sex industry research through eight carefully...