Sociology category: 22581 books
Margins of Citizenship
Muslim Experiences in Urban India
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Part of the ‘Religion and Citizenship’ series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India. It explores the realities and consequences of socio-spatial segregation faced by Muslim communities and the various ways in which they negotiate it in the course of their...
Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing
Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and their Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Return migration is a topic of growing interest among academics and policy makers. Nonetheless, issues of psychosocial wellbeing are rarely discussed in its context.
Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing problematises the widely-held assumption that return to the country of origin, especially...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Which public and whose space? The understanding of public space as an arena where individuals can claim full use and access hides a reality of constant negotiation, conflict and surveillance. This collection uses case studies concerning the management, use, and transgression of public space to invite...
Contesting Conservation
Shahtoosh Trade and Forest Management in Jammu and Kashmir, India
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018
This book explores today’s changing intellectual climate, wherein understanding politics at different levels from global to local is considered mandatory in order to appraise the outcome of nature conservation interventions. By carefully examining two such processes – the ban on shahtoosh trade...
by Winfield S. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
I. GENERAL ACTIVITIES OF LIVING ORGANISMS. The casual observer, even if he watches thoughtfully the various activities of plants and animals, would hardly believe these activities capable of classification into two general classes. He notes the germination of the plant seed and its early growth, step...
Historical Materialism
A System of Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
First published in English in 1926, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin’s show trials, expands upon Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism.
Offering a Marxist interpretation...
Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas
American, Scandinavian and Russian Women Physicians
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The increasing proportion of women in the medical profession has been followed keenly both by conservative and feminist observers during the past three decades. Statistics both in Europe and in the United States tend to confirm that women work mainly in niches of the health care system or medical...
Mischief, Morality and Mobs
Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second world war era. His work spanned social work, social theory, social history, criminology and sociology. In particular, his work has had a huge impact upon studies of youth, youth culture and drugs.
This...
Body Work
Youth, Gender and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The rise of the health, beauty and fitness industries in recent years has led to an increased focus on the body. Body image, gender and health are issues of long-standing concern in sociology and in youth studies, but a theoretical and empirical focus on the body has been largely missing from this...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
A groundbreaking exploration of the sociology of dementia — with contributions from distinguished international scholars and practitioners.
Organised around the four themes of personhood, care, social representations and social differentiation
Provides a critical look at dementia and demonstrates...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
When The Vertical Mosaic first appeared in 1965, it became an instant classic. Its key message was that Canada was not the classless democracy it fancied itself to be. In fact, Canada was a highly inegalitarian society comprising a ‘vertical mosaic’ of distinct classes and ethnic groups. This...
Bordertown - A filmic example of investigative media
A filmic example of investigative media
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Sociology - Political Sociology, Majorities, Minorities, grade: 2,0, University of Siegen, course: Migration Matters 2, language: English, abstract: Since the 1990s, in Juárez, Mexico, there have taken place scores of murders of young Mexican women. They are...
by Philipp Schär
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Sociology - Political Sociology, Majorities, Minorities, grade: 4.5 Erasmus grade - very good, Wroclaw University of Technology, course: Ethnics and Nationalities in Central and Eastern Europe, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...
Organizing Modernity
New Weberian Perspectives on Work, Organization and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This book provides a reassessment of the significance of Max Weber's work for the current debates about the institutional and organizational dynamics of modernity. It re-evaluates Weber's sociology of bureaucracy and his general account of the trajectory of modernity with reference to the strategic...