Sociology in Action

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• In the last decade of this century, sociology has grown into a major contributor to public debate and social policy. After a period of introspection a... Lees meer

Relating Intimacies

Julie Seymour

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• Relating Intimacies contains papers presented at the 1997 British Sociological Association Conference which discuss contemporary research and theorizi... Lees meer

Consuming Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organised through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct ... Lees meer

Deciphering Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• As science and technology have pervaded modern life to an ever greater degree, social scientists have been led to find questions of the causes and con... Lees meer

Interpreting the Past, Understanding the Present

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• The British Sociological Association held a conference on the theme "Sociology and History". In 1964, E.H. Carr had called for an open frontier betwee... Lees meer

Consuming Cultures

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organised through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct ... Lees meer

Transforming Politics

S Roseneil

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• This volume examines the transformation of politics and social movements at various levels. Starting with a transformation of identity within social m... Lees meer

Nationalisms Old and New

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• Nationalism is a collection of papers from the British Sociological Association conference, Worlds of the Future. The central themes of the conference... Lees meer

Families and Households

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• This is an edited collection of chapters detailing research on modern family and household living arrangements, mainly in Great Britain but also with ... Lees meer

The Social Construction of Social Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• This volume draws together an impressive series of papers that explore enduring and new problems in the construction and analysis of British social po... Lees meer

Social Conceptions of Time

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• This book is concerned with the significance of time in work and everyday life. The contributors are among the foremost authorities in the field, and ... Lees meer

Exploring the Body

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. It draws together a range of empirical work on different themes, each taking... Lees meer

Nationalisms Old and New

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• Nationalism is a collection of papers from the British Sociological Association conference, Worlds of the Future. The central themes of the conference... Lees meer

Constructing Gendered Bodies

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• Interest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by b... Lees meer

Practising Identities

Sasha Roseneil

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• Practising Identities is a collection of papers about how identities - gender, bodily, racial, ethnic and national - are practised in the contemporary... Lees meer

Interpreting the Past, Understanding the Present

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• The British Sociological Association held a conference on the theme "Sociology and History". In 1964, E.H. Carr had called for an open frontier betwee... Lees meer

Transforming Politics

S Roseneil

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• This volume examines the transformation of politics and social movements at various levels. Starting with a transformation of identity within social m... Lees meer

Exploring the Body

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. It draws together a range of empirical work on different themes, each taking... Lees meer

Sexual Cultures

Jeffrey Weeks

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• The new sociology of sexuality has a two-fold aim: to demonstrate how the social shapes the sexual; and to analyse how the sexual in turn becomes a fo... Lees meer

Gender Relations in Public and Private

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• This collection of papers from the 1993 BSA `Research Imaginations' conference explores the interpenetration of the public and private spheres. The bo... Lees meer

Sex, Sensibility and the Gendered Body

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• The study of sexuality is moving from margin to centre stage in sociology, as the 1994 British Sociological Association annual conference on 'Sexualit... Lees meer

The Experience of Unemployment

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of consequences affecting those without jobs and, beyond them, their families, friends ... Lees meer

Methodological Imaginations

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• This book brings together a collection of essays which look creatively and imaginatively at issues of research methods and methodology in sociology. S... Lees meer

Reframing the Body

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Sociology.
• There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body, both in terms of empirical and theoretical study and debate. Contributions to this book move... Lees meer