Sociology category: 22581 books
by Anthony Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
More than ten years on from its original publication, Concepts of the Self still mesmerizes with its insight, comprehensiveness and critique of debates over the self in the social sciences and humanities. Anthony Elliott has written a new preface to this third edition to address some of the most recent...
Families in Today's World
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in the sociology of family life.
Written in an easy access style it opens with a chapter on defining family...
by Gerald Handel
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Drawing upon findings from many disciplines including sociology, communication, family studies, human development, psychology and anthropology-this book provides the first composite study of the whole family and of the complex interplay between self and collectivity in family life. It departs sharply...
by Rumi Michael Leigh
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This book will give you a good knowledge about the human behaviour and how we react to what happens in our society.
Diagnostic Cultures
A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Some studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western countries will suffer from at least one mental disorder. Should this be interpreted as evidence for the progress of psychiatry, a discipline that is now able to identify and treat mental illnesses that have always...
Action at a Distance
Studies in the Practicalities of Executive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This book examines the nature of work and management, centring on documents as a class of management objects which have been relatively understudied in ethnomethodological research. Treating documents and similar artefacts as ordering devices, the authors describe consociation – the social organisation...
Angles Of Vision
How To Understand Social Problems
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Angles of Vision is a compact text that provides students with basic information about social problems and teaches them a strategy for understanding these issues. Students learn how to distinguish between individual and structural analyses and the importance of placing issues in a historical and international...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Evolution, biology, and society is a catch-all phrase encompassing any scholarly work that utilizes evolutionary theory and/or biological or behavioral genetic methods in the study of the human social group, and The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society contains an much needed overview...
Families and Faith
How Religion is Passed Down across Generations
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from American Sociology Association Sociology of Religion Section Winner of the Richard Kalish Best Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America Few things are more likely to cause heartache to devout parents than seeing their child leave the...
Vampire Capitalism
Fractured Societies and Alternative Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
This book argues that in recent decades an unrestrained vampire-capitalism has emerged, disengaged from the needs of citizens and workers, leading to a deepening of social class, generational, gender, educational and ethnic divisions. The author explores how our cultural obsession with self-realization...
Body Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for...
Slaves to Fashion
Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
"A brilliant and beautiful book, the mature work of a lifetime, must reading for students of the globalization debate."
---Tom Hayden
"Slaves to Fashion is a remarkable achievement, several books in one: a gripping history of sweatshops, explaining their decline, fall, and return;...
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The Sociology of Colonies [Part 2]
An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Sociology of Disruption, Disaster and Social Change
Punctuated Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
In the wake of disruption and disaster, cooperation among members of a collective is refocused on matters of status, membership and the formation of coalitions. In an important contribution to sociological theory, Hendrik Vollmer emphasizes the processes through which disruptions not only affect,...