Социология

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…

This is an important intervention in debates on the family and sexuality, exploring clashes over sexual values and contemporary sexual dilemmas such a…

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…

Монография содержит ответ на скрытый вызов, брошенный Тютчевым: «умом Россию не понять, аршином общим не измерить». В ее первой части, посвященной раз…

The new study provides a fresh and timely reassessment of the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. While analysing the central themes of Arendt's wo…

This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstrate the importance of research with children and from a child perspective, allowing fo…

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 is the first comprehensive analysis of the work of Fredric Jameson, one of the most important cultural critics writing today. Homer provides a cl…

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…

Invaluable guidance and advice for creating positive change in social policy Edited by a team of renowned experts, Connecting Social Welfare Policy to…

A solid, theory-to-practice guide to contemporary mezzo and macro social work Written by a renowned team of scholars, Social Work Practice with Groups…

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…

This unique volume gathers Weber's writings on a broad array of themes, from the nature of work, to the political culture of democracy, to the uniquen…

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

The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor is a key figure in contemporary debates about the self and the problems of modernity. This book provides a com…

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…

Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of modern sociology and a key figure in the development of social theory. And yet today his work is often misu…

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…

In this major new assessment of Zygmunt Bauman's work, Smith gives a clear introduction to this controversial and challenging sociologist.

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

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

Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary …

'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…

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