Sociology and anthropology Books

The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice. Extensively updated to reflect changes in the youth justice system and contemporary debates around youth crime, this fifth edition of Youth and Crime: Includes new...

How can an undergraduate college education prepare learners to cope with the current COVID-19 pandemic? This collection of short essays, written by experts in 25 academic fields of study, addresses this very question. Each chapter brings perspective and...

How can an undergraduate college education prepare learners to cope with the current COVID-19 pandemic? This collection of short essays, written by experts in 25 academic fields of study, addresses this very question. Each chapter brings perspective and...

How can an undergraduate college education prepare learners to cope with the current COVID-19 pandemic? This collection of short essays, written by experts in 25 academic fields of study, addresses this very question. Each chapter brings perspective and...

This text aims to provide a clear and accessible guide to quantitative methods for the analysis of change over time. The authors outline the nature of techniques particularly applicable to this form of analysis - time series analysis; panel data;...

This in-depth and informative study of fathering at risk emphasizes the importance of a father's presence in a child's life, and then concentrates on what society can do to reverse the dangerous trend toward absentee fathers. Complete with case studies,...

This in-depth and informative study of fathering at risk emphasizes the importance of a father's presence in a child's life, and then concentrates on what society can do to reverse the dangerous trend toward absentee fathers. Complete with case studies,...

Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of religion, the world is more religious today than ever before. And yet, despite the persistence of religion, it remains a woefully understudied phenomenon. With Objective Religion, Baylor...

Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of religion, the world is more religious today than ever before. And yet, despite its persistence, religion remains a woefully understudied phenomenon. With Objective Religion, Baylor...

Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of religion, the world is more religious today than ever before. And yet, despite the persistence of religion, it remains a woefully understudied phenomenon. With Objective Religion, Baylor...

This book offers a contribution to the current debate over globalization. It provides a a distinctively cultural focus on the social theory of the contemporary world. The relationship between local communities and a broader social system is a...

This book offers a contribution to the current debate over globalization. It provides a a distinctively cultural focus on the social theory of the contemporary world. The relationship between local communities and a broader social system is a...

This book is the result of a symposium sponsored by the International Academy of Marital Spirituality (INTAMS), which brought together a group of distinguished scholars and theologians to discuss the current social and spiritual emergency of Christian...

Addresses the social and spiritual emergency of Christian marriage today. This short book will be of interest to theologians as well as catechists involved in the preparation of couples for the sacrament.

Augustine of Hippo (b. A.D. 354) is considered the single most influential theologian in the history of the Church in the West. Among his many contributions, Augustine developed a sexual ethic that became decisive for all later teachings in the Christian...

The Sexual Revolution, which has been underway since the 1950s, is a rolling revolution-a set of unfinishable ambitions, all affecting marriage and family life. Feminists want to "liberate" women from childrearing as well as the home and build a world...

Demography drives religious change. High-fertility societies, like most of contemporary Africa, tend to be fervent and devout. The lower a population's fertility rates, the greater the tendency for people to detach from organized or institutional...

The essays in this book provide the elements for a new theory of spatial development to explain the new socio-territorial reality produced by global restructuring in the 1970s and 1980s. The contributors all account for the contemporary territorial units...

The essays in this book provide the elements for a new theory of spatial development to explain the new socio-territorial reality produced by global restructuring in the 1970s and 1980s. The contributors all account for the contemporary territorial units...

Based on Keith Punch's bestselling Introduction to Social Research Methods, this book introduces the research process in a range of educational contexts. In this updated second edition, you'll find guidance on every stage of research, with chapters on...

This practical guide for students focuses on the city and on the different ways to research it. The authors explain how urban studies research is done, from the original idea to design and implementation, through to writing up and representation...

Exploring the challenges and risks of social science fieldwork, this book shares best practice for conducting research in hostile environments and pragmatic advice to help you make good decisions. Drawing on the authors' experiences in regions of...

This practical guide for students focuses on the city and on the different ways to research it. The authors explain how urban studies research is done, from the original idea to design and implementation, through to writing up and representation...

In this sociology text the contributors provide an introduction to the subject without over-simplifying or `writing-down' to their audience. The book aims to furnish undergraduates with the knowledge that will help them to understand and practice...

Biology continues to bethe most widely recognized determinant of family in the United States and heterosexual intercourse the most common form of family creation. But what happens when children cannot be created in this way? Is it still possible to...

This text uses food as a case study of consumption and the expression of taste, providing a structural analysis of changes and continuities in the representation and purchase of food. It outlines theories of change in the 20th century and considers the...

Starting where Max Weber's "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" left off, Tropman develops the idea that there is another religious-based ethic permeating society, a Catholic ethic. Where Weber proposed that a Protestant ethic supported...

Studying social life? This book provides an engaging, concise introduction. It covers a diverse range of theorists from the rich history of sociology and shows how thinking sociologically can help us understand our lives, the groups we are part of, and...

Studying social life? This book provides an engaging, concise introduction. It covers a diverse range of theorists from the rich history of sociology and shows how thinking sociologically can help us understand our lives, the groups we are part of, and...

The logic of research in public administration, argues White, may be more like that of storytelling than of conventional social science research. In this text, he examines the linguistic, discursive and narrative foundations of public administration...

The logic of research in public administration, argues White, may be more like that of storytelling than of conventional social science research. In this text, he examines the linguistic, discursive and narrative foundations of public administration...

This contribution to the expanding area of globalization in sociological and cultural studies has two organizing themes: social theory and social change. The contributors, who include Zygmunt Bauman, Jonathan Friedman, Anthony King, Ann Game and Goran...

At the center of the "war on women" lies the fact that women in the contemporary United States are facing more widespread and increased surveillance of their reproductive health and decisions. In recent years states have passed a record number of laws...

A call to place disability at the center of climate and disaster responses Every disaster is a disability disaster, argues Angela Frederick. Disabled Power tells the stories of Texans with disabilities who endured the 2021 Texas power crisis, which...

The ever-expanding availability of spatial data continues to revolutionise research. This book is your go-to guide to getting the most out of handling, mapping and analysing location-based data. Without assuming prior knowledge of GIS, geocomputation or...

The ever-expanding availability of spatial data continues to revolutionise research. This book is your go-to guide to getting the most out of handling, mapping and analysing location-based data. Without assuming prior knowledge of GIS, geocomputation or...

Margarita Pivovarova is an Assistant Professor of Education Economics at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Her research interests include education policy and related quantitative research. Specifically, her research...

Understanding Political Sociology, a major new textbook introduces the central theories and issues in contemporary political sociology and will equip students with a complete understanding of politics, state and society in the United Kingdom today. A...

This work seeks to show how the impact of the ideology and practices of consumption are affecting not only consumers' non-working life and identities, but increasingly their working life and identities within it. It seeks to show how the boundaries...

This reassessment of the current state of cultural studies focuses on its contribution to the understanding of the media, communication and popular studies in contemporary societies. The contributers examine from a range of perspectives: the different...

This text demonstrates to the beginning student how statistics fit in with social research, describing the most popular statistical techniques and showing how and when to apply them. The first part of the book provides an understanding of how statistics...

How sociologists can approach memoir in their writing, research, and in the classroom Memoirs attract millions of readers with their compelling life stories, vivid details, and often startling revelations. Beyond entertainment value, however, Margaret K...

How sociologists can approach memoir in their writing, research, and in the classroom Memoirs attract millions of readers with their compelling life stories, vivid details, and often startling revelations. Beyond entertainment value, however, Margaret K...

Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene. When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate," he unwittingly tapped into one of the...

An introduction to the notion of intersubjectivity as a central concern of philosophy, sociology, psychology and politics. The main purpose of this volume is to provide a coherent framework for this concept against which the various and contrasting...

An introduction to the notion of intersubjectivity as a central concern of philosophy, sociology, psychology and politics. The main purpose of this volume is to provide a coherent framework for this concept against which the various and contrasting...

You will never look at social media the same way again. Social media are an integral part of contemporary society. From news, warfare, politics, advertising, consumption, entertainment, friendships, labour, and economy to friendships, leisure, language,...

You will never look at social media the same way again. Social media are an integral part of contemporary society. From news, warfare, politics, advertising, consumption, entertainment, friendships, labour, and economy to friendships, leisure, language,...