Социология

A Companion to Media Studies is a comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by an international team to provide an overview of the th…

Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century, especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism …

This book is a detailed and wide-ranging account of the birth of social theory as a distinctive and modern intellectual genre, providing a brilliant a…

Experts from five continents provide a thorough exploration of cultural studies, looking at different ideas, places and problems addressed by the fiel…

In the mediated digital era, communication is changing fast and eating up ever greater shares of real-world power. Corporate battles and guerrilla war…

A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities – shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is…

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the …

This text provides a clear and systematic introduction to the development of social and political theory in modern Italy. It gives particular attentio…

The Politics of Media Policy provides a critical perspective on the dynamics of media policy in the US and UK and offers a comprehensive guide to some…

Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements. We must put the …

In this path-breaking work, Mark Poster highlights the nature of the newly emerging forms of social life, in the current era. The flexibility of langu…

Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of busine…

Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three…

With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains…

Public relations is, by design, the least visible of the persuasive industries. It operates behind the scenes, encouraging us to consume, vote, believ…

Монография посвящена истории дискуссий о месте религии в современном обществе, которые шли в социологии и социальной теории начиная с конца XIX в. В ц…

In this ground-breaking study, Sophie Body-Gendrot provides a comparative analysis of the growing problem of new forms of poverty and social marginali…

This book marks a radical and powerful intervention in traditional arguments about pornography. Kappeler re-examines the artistic distinctions between…

A new industrial revolution. The age of making. From bits to atoms. Many people are excited by the possibilities offered by new fabrication technologi…

Монография – результат научного сотрудничества академических институтов России (ФГБУН «Вологодский научный центр РАН») и Беларуси (ГНУ «Институт социо…

This textbook aims to give an introduction to the use of documentary sources in social research. It is designed to be a companion to courses in resear…

Urbanisation and urban development issues are the focus of this comprehensive account which introduces readers to the far-reaching changes now taking …

This is a major contribution to feminist theory and debate, addressing issues such as sexual violence, social violence and hatred of foreigners in a l…

Few trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years. Long confined to the fringes of the TV industry, they have risen to …

Издание посвящено итогам реализации проекта «Мотивационно-стимулирующий механизм творческой трудовой активности: сравнительный анализ России и Беларус…

Книга посвящена исследованию важных проблем экономической теории труда. Синтетический методологический подход к изучению сферы труда позволил автору с…

Urbanisation and urban development issues are the focus of this comprehensive account which introduces readers to the far-reaching changes now taking …

The idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and practices often d…

Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life s…

В монографии последовательно, от теоретико-методических основ изучения трудового потенциала, анализа демографических и социально-экономических предпос…

A Companion to Economic Forecasting provides an accessible and comprehensive account of recent developments in economic forecasting. Each of the chapt…

The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symb…

Climate change, natural disasters, and loss of biodiversity are all considered major environmental concerns for the international community both now a…

In an interactive and densely connected world, transnational communication has become a central feature of everyday life. Taking account of a variety …

Журнал «Конфликтология» публикует статьи по теории конфликта и проблематике, связанной с различными отраслями конфликтологии, а также материалы по про…

This major new book explores the peculiar place of feminism in contemporary culture.

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrificatio…

In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism? How should gender poli…

What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalism's leading contemporar…

Журнал «Экономические и социальные перемены: факты, тенденции, прогноз» основан в 2008 году. Издатель – Федеральное государственное бюджетное учрежден…

In the midst of the current ecological crisis, there is often lofty talk of the need for humanity to ‘overcome its divisions’ and work together to tac…

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Citi…

The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies is a timely and author…

This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. One of network…

Монография посвящена проблеме регулирования условий формирования пенсионных прав участников системы государственного пенсионного страхования. В работе…