Sociology category: 22581 books
The Sociology of Terrorism
People, Places and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This is the first terrorism textbook based on sociological research. It adopts an innovative framework that draws together historical and modern, local and global, and social processes for a range of individuals, groups and societies. Individual behaviour and dispositions are embedded within these...
The Sociology of Tourism
Theoretical and Empirical Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The rapid expansion of the tourism industry has provided many economic benefits and affected every facet of contemporary societies including employment, government revenue and cultural manifestations. However, tourism can also be considered a problematic phenomenon, promoting dependency, underdevelopment...
Risk
A Study of Its Origins, History and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology. However, few scholarly works have given a chronological account of cultural...
Sociology of Community
A Collection of Readings
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First Published in 1974. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Sociology of Youth Culture and Youth Subcultures (Routledge Revivals)
Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll?
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
First published in 1980, this book argues that subcultures are formed in defence of collectively experienced problems that arise from defects and contradictions in social structures. Mike Brake looks at the development of post-war youth culture in a sociological context and considers the class base...
Sport, Difference and Belonging
Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more generally),...
Sporting Females
Critical Issues in the History and Sociology of Women's Sport
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
1994 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award
An outstanding contribution to feminist analysis of sport from the nineteenth century to the present day. Jennifer Hargreaves views sport as a battle for control of the physical body and an important area for feminist intervention. Placing women at the centre of discussion, no other book is as comprehensive.
Sociology
A Systematic Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Jurgen Osterhammel
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Max Weber and His Contemporaries provides an unrivalled tour d'horizon of European intellectual life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and an assessment of the pivotal position within it occupied by Max Weber. Weber's many interests in and contributions to, such diverse fields as...
by Siniša Malešević
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
War is a highly complex and dynamic form of social conflict. This book demonstrates the importance of using sociological tools to understand the changing character of war and organised violence. The author offers an original analysis of the historical and contemporary impact that coercion and warfare...
The Sociology of Nationalism
Tomorrow's Ancestors
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
In recent years nationalism has emerged as one of the dominant issues of our time. In this lucid and balanced account, David McCrone lays out the key issues and debates around a subject which is too often obscured by polemic. Among topics covered are:
* classical and contemporary theories of nationalism
*...
Host Cities and the Olympics
An Interactionist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through...
by Elizabeth Chaplin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Glocal Pharma (Open Access)
International Brands and the Imagination of Local Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
An exploration of how global pharmaceutical products are localized - of what happens when they become ‘glocal’...