Sociology category: 22581 books
Within and Beyond Citizenship
Borders, Membership and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Within and Beyond Citizenship brings together cutting-edge research in sociology and social anthropology on the relationship between immigration status, rights and belonging in contemporary societies of immigration. It offers new insights into the ways in which political membership is experienced,...
Youth Unemployment and Health
A Comparison of Six European Countries
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Youth unemployment has become one of the most crucial social problems in many EU countries. In the 90s it can be observed that in most Western countries, the rate of youth unemployment have risen dramatically, in some of these countries the unemployment problem can be considered primarily a problem...
Prisons, Punishment, and the Family
Towards a New Sociology of Punishment?
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Every year millions of families are affected by the imprisonment of a family member. Children of imprisoned parents alone can be counted in millions in the USA and in Europe. It is a bewildering fact that while we have had prisons for centuries, and the deprivation of liberty has been a central pillar...
Representations of Youth
The Study of Youth and Adolescence in Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Representations of Youth examines the various constructions of `youth' and `adolescence' in recent British and North American research. Mainstream and radical approaches have presented a series of `crises' about young people in relation to, among other things, unemployment, `teenage pregnancy' and...
Pain
A Sociological Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Pain in one form or another is probably the most common symptom presented to medical and healthcare professionals. Long a subject of biomedical interest, more recent biopsychosocial theories have extended the study of pain as a concept which is highly individual in the way it is experienced. Today's...
Sexual Conduct
The Social Sources of Human Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The first edition of Sexual Conduct, published in 1973, swiftly became a landmark text in the sociology of sexuality. It went on to profoundly shape the ideas of several generations of scholars and has become the foundation text of what is now known as the "social constructionist" approach...
by Eric Carlton
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Truly interdisciplinary work between Sociology and History is are, because one discipline usually exploits the concerns or data of the other. Eric Carlton, however, has succeeded in bringing together the distinctive orientations of sociology and ancient history into a clearly written discussion of...
by Mattias Smångs
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The subject of lynching has spawned a vast body of important research, but this research suffers from important blind spots and disjunctures.
By broadening the scope of research problem formulation, staking out new theoretical-analytical tracks, and drawing upon recent innovations in statistical...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Bourdieusian Prospects considers the ongoing relevance of Bourdieu's social theory for contemporary social science. Breaking with the tendency to reflect on Bourdieu's legacies, it brings established and emergent scholars together to debate the futures of a specifically Bourdieusian sociology. Driven...
Schooling and Society
Myths of Mass Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
This new book is a wide-ranging, contemporary and accessible analysis of familiar and recurring myths about mass education in the United Kingdom. Looking at a variety of important issues and problems, each chapter begins by dispelling myths and assumptions about the classroom, going beyond class,...
Paradoxes of Individualization
Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary sociology: whether a process of individualization is liberating selves from society so as to make them the authors of their personal biographies. The book adopts a cultural-sociological approach that firmly...
Society in Focus
An Introduction to Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Society in Focus: An Introduction to Sociology, Ninth Edition,emphasizes how society and socialforces affect everything from globalizationand international policies to day-to-dayactivities in our personal lives. In thisedition, the authors go beyond the merequestioning of issues to take a closer lookat...
Youth in India
Aspirations, Attitudes, Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This book explores the attitudes, anxieties and aspirations of India’s burgeoning young population in a globalised world. Drawing upon time-series survey data of the Indian youth aged between 15 and 34 years across 19 Indian states, it provides key insights into a range of themes along with an overview...
by Robert Easthope
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Emile Durkheim’s 1897 On Suicide is widely recognized as one of the foundational classic texts of sociology. It is also one that shows the degree to which strong interpretative skills can often provide the bedrock for high-level analysis.
Durkheim's aim was to analyse the nature of suicide...