Социология

In this lively and accessible study, David Lyon explores the relationship between religion and postmodernity, through the central metaphor of 'Jesus i…

Infectious disease pandemics are a rising threat in our globalizing world. This agenda-setting collection provides international analysis of the press…

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Tibet, its culture and history. A clear and comprehensive overview of Tibet, its culture …

Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial d…

This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, ‘liquid modern’ times – the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the f…

This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global…

International Media Studies is a bold introduction to the field that focuses on a de-centering of media epistemology to represent a more thorough worl…

This book is concerned with the government of “illegal” immigration since the passage of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965, exploring how certain menta…

This comprehensive volume ranges across the entire spectrum of contemporary sociological inquiry, as seen by Durkheim. It also includes secondary read…

A comprehensive introduction to the field, with contributions from leading experts that illuminate the focus and purpose of social work. New edition o…

This highly original, thought-provoking book – written by a pioneer of communication studies – is the first to analyze the post 9/11 world in terms of…

Understanding Media Users: From Theory to Practice focuses on the blurred concept of the “active audience” at the core of media studies. examines the …

Feminist Anthropology surveys the history of feminist anthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinating collection of both classic and conte…

Вадим Радаев «Миллениалы: Как меняется российское общество» – компетентное и актуальное исследование нового поколения миллениалов. В книге рассматрив…

With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals be…

Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM – Coordinated Management of…

Written by an award-winning researcher and professor whose work straddles the fields of communication and healthcare, Talking About Health explores th…

NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical probl…

The production of ‘human waste’ – or more precisely, wasted lives, the ‘superfluous’ populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – is an inev…

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-ba…

Contracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design …

In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and pra…

NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical probl…

Does it make sense to speak of a European society, above and beyond its component states and regions? In this major new book William Outhwaite argues …

Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash-for-questions scandal, from Watergate to the Clin…

Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press,…

Цель исследования состояла в выявлении и описании основных моделей поведения молодежных групп с разным уровнем профессионального образования на соврем…

This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture i…

Agent-based modelling in economics Lynne Hamill and Nigel Gilbert, Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS), University of Surrey, UK New meth…

'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern socie…

Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalizat…

Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archa…

This volume offers lively current debates and case studies in historical archaeology selected from around the world, including North America, Latin Am…

Bob Dylan’s contribution to popular music is immeasurable. Venerated as rock’s one true genius, Dylan is considered responsible for introducing a new …

This book is a brief introduction to the study of society, which may be read without any previous knowledge of the social sciences. Each chapter addre…

Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People is a groundbreaking collection that explores the “visual” in defining the kaleidoscope…

NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical probl…

This book explores the multiple ways in which archaeologists give meaning to the past, highlighting debates over the ontological and epistemological s…

How are human societies changing the global environment? Is sustainable development really possible? Can environmental risks be avoided? Is our experi…

This book examines the different ways in which order has been achieved in world affairs with a view to understanding current political dilemmas and op…

This groundbreaking collection of original essays provides new perspectives in Asian media studies. The volume covers a diverse range of topics from m…

Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place is the fascinating story of an urban neighborhood undergoing rapid gentrification. Explores…

This book systematically reconstructs the origins and new advances in economic sociology. By presenting both classical and contemporary theory and res…

Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings co…

Анализируются процессы, происходящие в мировой финансовой системе с момента возникновения глобального финансового кризиса в 2008 г. Особое внимание уд…