Pitirim A. Sorokin

Emiliana Mangone

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• Pitirim A. Sorokin is a controversial figure in the history of sociology, of which he remains one of the masters. Those who read Sorokin today must, h... Lees meer

Kathmandu

Martino Nicoletti

• Paperback | Engels | Sociology
• This unique work offers the reader a poetic depiction of the abyssal Himalayan city of Kathmandu: the mythical sword-shaped sacred city of divine orig... Lees meer

Identity in Question

Swati Akshay Sachdeva, Yumnam Surjyajeevan

• Paperback | Engels | Sociology
• "Identity in Question: The Study of Tibetan Refugees in Indian Himalayas" focuses on the socio-economic profile and the question of identity among the... Lees meer

65+. The Best Years of Your Life

Peter Bowden

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• What is the key to happiness in later life? Since the time of the ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, the human race has questioned and ... Lees meer

Understanding Social Conflict

• Paperback | Engels | Sociology
• The indissoluble link between sociology and history is not new to the social sciences. In the early 20th century, Weber (1922) saw relationships betwe... Lees meer

New Perspectives on African Childhood

de-Valera Nym Botchway, Awo Sarpong, Charles Quist-Adade

• Paperback | Engels | Sociology
• What does it mean to be a child in Africa? In the detached Western media, narratives of penury, wickedness and death have dominated portrayals of Afri... Lees meer

Identity in Question

Swati Akshay Sachdeva, Yumnam Surjyajeevan

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• "Identity in Question: The Study of Tibetan Refugees in Indian Himalayas" focuses on the socio-economic profile and the question of identity among the... Lees meer

65+. The Best Years of Your Life

Peter Bowden

• Paperback | Engels | Sociology
• What is the key to happiness in later life? Since the time of the ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, the human race has questioned and ... Lees meer

Society and the City

• Paperback | Engels | Sociology
• Is there a connection between the increasingly widespread concept of Social Innovation (SI) and the success of today's model of capitalist regulation?... Lees meer

Culture-Led Urban Regeneration in South Korea

Milyung Son

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• There is a continuing academic and policy interest in the potential for culture-based urban regeneration across the world. Such regeneration is intend... Lees meer

New Perspectives on African Childhood

de-Valera Nym Botchway, Awo Sarpong, Charles Quist-Adade

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• What does it mean to be a child in Africa? In the detached Western media, narratives of penury, wickedness and death have dominated portrayals of Afri... Lees meer

Solutions to knife crime

Sue Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• This book addresses one of the UK's most persistent and serious concerns: knife crime. While research diagnosing the cause of rising knife crime aboun... Lees meer

The Idea of Natural Inequality and Other Essays

André Béteille

• Paperback | Engels | Sociology
• The essays in this volume deal with various aspects of inequality with special reference to contemporary India but has been viewed in a comparative pe... Lees meer

A Global Perspective on Friendship and Happiness

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• In A Global Perspective on Friendship and Happiness, editors Tim Delaney and Tim Madigan have organized a collection of original articles on the subje... Lees meer

Wor(l)DS in Progress

Alessandra Di Maio

• Paperback | Engels | Sociology
• In the contemporary world, the figure of the migrant, moving across spaces, cultures and languages, has acquired unprecedented centrality. Migrants ha... Lees meer

The Dynamics of Bride Price in Zimbabwe and the UK Diaspora

Ottis Mubaiwa

• Paperback | Engels | Sociology
• The tradition of Bride Price has been at the heart of marriage for many centuries in numerous cultures across the globe. The Dynamics of Bride Price p... Lees meer

Disability and the Academic Job Market

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• Disability and the Academic Job Market examines ableist structures in academia that inherently create obstacles to full-time employment for people wit... Lees meer

Conversations on Irving Street

Darrick Lee Brake

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• What influence did Josiah Royce's academic work (1913-1917) have on the development of classical Symbolic Interactionist thought? And which philosophi... Lees meer

Sociological Imagination

Fiammetta Fanizza

• Paperback | Engels | Sociology
• How can we restore fundamental values on a political and cultural level? Taking this question as a starting point, the book identifies the notion of s... Lees meer

Work Appropriation and Social Inequality

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• This volume is a collection of subject-oriented studies on paid work. Each chapter refers to the social structures that form conditions for peoples' w... Lees meer

The changing face of VR

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• VR occupies an interesting place in the media ecosystem. On the one hand, it is an emerging, 'cutting-edge' technology backed by billions of USD by ma... Lees meer

No Laughing Matter

Luiz Valério P Trindade

• Paperback | Engels | Sociology
• 'No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media' examines the social phenomenon of construction and dissemination of colonia... Lees meer

Taste

Arthur Asa Berger

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• Taste is an enigmatic topic. We recognize that taste plays an important role in our life in that everything we buy and many things we do are governed ... Lees meer

Making Strangers

Abbes Maazaoui

• Hardcover | Engels | Sociology
• Studies on foreignness have increased substantially over the last two decades in response to what has been dubbed the migration/refugee crisis. Yet, t... Lees meer