Sociology category: 22581 books
by Philip Manning
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The work of Erving Goffman has had an enormous impact throughout the social sciences. Yet his writings have not received the detailed scrutiny which they deserve.
This new book is the first comprehensive and accessible account of Erving Goffman's contributions, ranging in its scope from his...
Marital and Sexual Lifestyles in the United States
Attitudes, Behaviors, and Relationships in Social Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Learn the changing role of sexuality in American life!
This helpful book offers a solid background in the sociology of family life and personal sexuality. Marital and Sexual Lifestyles in the United States: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Relationships in Social Context is designed to give readers...
Worlding Multiculturalisms
The Politics of Inter-Asian Dwelling
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Worlding multiculturalisms are practices that infuse our arbitrary cultural lives with new things from other cultures in poetic ways to enable us to dwell and be at home with the complexity of the world. In the context of the crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the growing obsolescence of state-based...
Environment and Society
Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
The sixth edition of Environment and Society continues to connect issues about human societies, ecological systems, and the environment with data and perspectives from different fields. While the text looks at environmental issues from a primarily sociological viewpoint, it is designed for courses...
Great Expectations
The Sociology of Survival and Success in Organized Team Sports
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
In Great Expectations: The Sociology of Survival and Success in Organized Team Sports, sociological analysis proves to be a powerful ally for grasping how the sports world unfolds for team players, providing a range of sociological ideas and concepts that extend throughout the book. The text boxes...
by Darren J O'Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
What is the relevance of the concept of human rights in an age of increasing global interconnectivity, complexity and uncertainty? This provocative study connects the sociology of human rights with the field of global studies to explore what each can offer the other. Its thorough theoretical focus is...
The Sociology of Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish
A Bibliography with Annotations, Volume II 1977-1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 1991
This book provides an annotated survey and analysis of the sociological literature concerning three sectarian religious groups: the highly varied Mennonites, the communal Hutterites and the semi-communal anti-industrial Amish.
by Maureen Baker
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Designed specifically for sociology of the family courses, this text examines the choices and constraints placed on individuals, relationships, and marriages in light of both family circumstances and societal expectations. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on the latest research in sociology,...
by William C. Cockerham
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
In this stimulating book, William C. Cockerham, a leading medical sociologist, assesses the evidence that social factors (such as stress, poverty, unhealthy lifestyles, and unpleasant living and work conditions) have direct causal effects on health and many diseases.
Noting a new emphasis upon...
Unhealthy Cities
Poverty, Race, and Place in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The purpose of this book is to show the important role that space and place plays in the health of urban residents, particularly those living in high poverty ghettos. The book brings together research and writing from a variety of disciplines to demonstrate the health costs of being poor in America’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.
Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting...
Understanding Families
A Global Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
"I don't know how often I've wished for an introductory text on family life which encompassed critical contemporary sociological thinking alongside the basic information students need, and have only found fossilised thinking on a stodgy subject. But now all that has changed. McKie and Callan...
by Barbara Celarent, Andrew Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent’s essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through...
Politics, Social Theory, Utopia and the World-System
Arguments in Political Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
It is common to hear that we live in unique, turbulent and crisis-ridden times and this turbulence, transformation and crisis are said to be deeply significant - perhaps threatening - for the human sciences. Responding to such claims, this book provides an accessible engagement with pressing contemporary...