Queer in the Tropics

Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This book aims to reflect on how to translate "queer" in the context of Latin America. Queer theory is becoming consolidated on an international scale... Lees meer

Female-To-Male (Ftm) Transgender People's Experiences in Australia

Tiffany Jones, Andrea Del Pozo De Bolger, Tinashe Dune, Amy Lykins, Gail Hawkes

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This Briefs is the first national study on female-to-male (FtM) transgender people's experiences in Australia. It describes an extensive study that fi... Lees meer

Sexualised Governmentalities

Angelos Bollas

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This book critically examines the concept of sexualised governmentalities, a framework for understanding the evolving discourse and power dynamics sur... Lees meer

Achieving Social Impact

Marta Soler Gallart

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence for all), a research community based in... Lees meer

Social Stratification in Central Europe

Jiří Večerník

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This book provides a comparative and contemporary account of social stratification in the Central European states of Czechia, Poland, Hungary, and Slo... Lees meer

Employment and Tourism

• Hardcover | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This book proposes a new and original analysis of tourism employment in order to understand the multiple dimensions (economic, cultural, temporal, geo... Lees meer

Understanding the Course of Social Reality

Angelo Fusari

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This book offers a comparison between our earthly society and the society of a hypothetical twin planet with the aim to understand and deal with some ... Lees meer

Postcolonial Reconstruction: A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz

Oliver Kozlarek

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This book presents a close reading of the work of the Mexican writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, Octavio Paz. It does so from the specific perspective o... Lees meer

Parenting and Work in Poland

Katarzyna Suwada

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• The open access book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers and fathers en... Lees meer

Measures of Social Evolution

Erik W Aslaksen

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This book extends a previously published model of social evolution by using macroeconomic measures to indicate both the current state of the society, ... Lees meer

The Art of Multiculturalism

Roland Benedikter, Judith Hilber

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This book describes what an "art of multiculturalism" could be and how in turn multiculturalism could be conceived as a form of art. It focuses on the... Lees meer

The Dynamics and Complexities of Interracial Gay Families in South Africa: A New Frontier

Oluwafemi Adeagbo

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This book provides an in-depth account of a qualitative study on the familial arrangements and domestic settings shaping interracial gay partnerships ... Lees meer

Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe

Blahoslav Kraus, Leona Stasová, Iva Junová

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This open access book brings together a unique set of comparative data from Western and Central Europe on how contemporary families live, and discusse... Lees meer

The Making of Resistance

Markus Lundström

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This Briefs advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises. It explores the endurance of social movements ... Lees meer

Artistic Enclaves in the Post-Industrial City

Geoffrey Moss

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This SpringerBriefs presents a case study and theoretical analysis of an artistic enclave that emerged within Lawrenceville Pittsburgh. It briefly des... Lees meer

A Genealogical History of Society

Miguel A Cabrera

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the process of formation of the modern concept of society as an objective entity from the 1820s onward... Lees meer

Crisis and Social Regression in Brazil

Roberto Véras de Oliveira

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This is the first book published in English to present a concise but panoramic overview of the social, economic and political roots of the current Bra... Lees meer

Time Use in Domestic Settings Throughout the Life Course

Giulia Maria Dotti Sani

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• Provides an in-depth study of the allocation of time spend on unpaid domestic work in a gender-unequal context: Italy. Studies a life-course approach ... Lees meer

Collectivity and Power on the Internet

Ulrich Dolata, Jan-Felix Schrape

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This book provides a comprehensive overview of the manifestations and interrelations of collectivity and power on the internet from a sociological poi... Lees meer

Collective Consciousness and the Phenomenology of Émile Durkheim

Carlos Belvedere

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• The book is addressed to scholars and students in sociology and in phenomenological philosophy. It presents the work of Durkheim in a new light and di... Lees meer

Rethinking Georg Simmel's Social Philosophy

Ferdinand Fellmann

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This textbook examines interaction, reciprocity, dualism, conflict, and personality in the work of Georg Simmel. These themes, which made Simmel the f... Lees meer

Bruno LaTour in the Semiotic Turn

Paolo Peverini

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This open access book highlights the link between Bruno Latour's works and the semiotic perspective on social phenomena analysis. It identifies and re... Lees meer

Gentrification and Displacement: The Forced Relocation of Public Housing Tenants in Inner-Sydney

Alan Morris

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• Examines a unique and hitherto unexamined case of urban removal in AustraliaIncludes in-depth interviews as a means to analyse urban gentrificationAdv... Lees meer

Robots in Care and Everyday Life

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Sociology
• This open access book presents detailed findings about the ethical, legal, and social acceptance of robots in the German and European context. The key... Lees meer