Социология

Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows.When Cathy is asked to foster little Alex, ag…

In his painstakingly long academic journey through mountains of source material available in Europe, Prof Prodosh Aich establishes that the entire und…

“Robert Radin’s Teaching English to Refugees does it all, weaving together memoir, philosophy of language, social-justice advocacy, and graphic narrat…

In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism…

Излагаются концептуальные основы управления инвестиционной привлекательностью предприятия, методы управления рыночной стоимостью и способы формировани…

Учебник подготовлен специалистами Института переподготовки и повышения квалификации руководящих кадров и специалистов системы социальной защиты населе…

This unique collection of original essays brings a comparative perspective to issues of social inequality. First-rate sociologists from around the wor…

Студентам предложен методический материал для самостоятельной работы по дисциплине «Профессиограмма социального работника». В учебнике представлены тр…

This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social in…

Учебное пособие написано в соответствии с программой курса «Социология», разработанного на кафедре. К каждой теме предлагаются контрольные вопросы, ус…

Something has gone wrong. We're living in an age of celebratory racism, extreme inequality, uncertainty and fear. We're governed by people who claim t…

The Shadow Side of Fieldwork draws attention to the typically hidden or unacknowledged aspects of ethnographic fieldwork encounters that nevertheless …

Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors offer a dee…

How far have universities in post-Communist states adopted the practices and habits of their branded and consumer-oriented equivalents in the English-…

Drastic changes in the career aspirations of women in the developed world have resulted in a new, globalised market for off-the-peg designer clothes c…

In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropologi…

Книга посвящена анализу современной кризисной ситуации в мире. Автор утверждает, что человечество сегодня переживает очередной, четвертый этап космо-э…

Women and Media is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations si…

В монографии излагаются результаты исследований одной из древнейших, актуальнейших в современном обществе и малоизученных проблем — феномена референци…

Tribalization is a global megatrend in today’s world. The election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, populist movements like Catalan separatism – toge…

Innocent can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts. This is PART 1 of 3 Innocent is the shocking true story of lit…

В монографии представлен анализ генезиса и развития авторской интегральной теории личности руководителя — разработка трехкомпонентной модели эффективн…

A unique collection of newly written essays by archaeologists working in a variety of contexts and geographical areas, Archaeologies of Memory is a gr…

Темой новой аудиокниги известного российского экономиста Якова Миркина стали отношения между государством и личностью. Как не превратиться в один из в…

Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most…

Materialities of Care addresses the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, furniture an…

‘Punished’ is the inspiring true story of an unusual little girl, Vanessa, whose childhood was devastated by torture and abuse at the hands of her sad…

Предлагаемая Вашему вниманию миниатюра посвящена Эдмунду Гуссерлю – человеку, открывшему новое направление в философии: феноменологию как учени…

Collins Shorts – insight in an instant.The swarm behaviour of ant colonies has inspired computer programs for streamlining factory processes, telephon…

In a context marked by the virulent return of patriarchal and white supremacist attitudes, a new generation of feminist activists are continuing the s…

Covers the latest methodologies and research on international comparative surveys with contributions from noted experts in the field Advances in Compa…

The Emergence of Humans is an accessible, informative introduction to the scientific study of human evolution. It takes the reader through time follow…

This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue th…

В коллективной монографии рассматриваются особенности функционирования и изменения социального пространства крупного промышленного центра, отношение е…

[i]Housing in the Margins[/i] offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at…

The Media and the Public explores the ways a range of media, from the press to television to the Internet, have constructed and represented the public…

A provocative and debate-inspiring book which explores the pressure, politics, philosophy and culture of motherhood in today’s society.Motherhood has …

A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural di…

A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and looks at th…

Максимилиан Вебер (1864–1920) – крупнейший немецкий социолог, основоположник социологии как науки об обществе, до сих пор оказывающий влияние на ее ра…

В книге "Дитя природы. Беседы о социальной биологии" в доступной форме освещаются вопросы биологии и генетики человека, его эволюционное становление в…

Facebook has fundamentally changed how the world connects. No other company has played a greater role in the history of social networking online. Yet …

The third edition of [i]Race: A Philosophical Introduction[/i] continues to provide the definitive guide to a topic of major contemporary importance. …

In this important book Niklas Luhmann – one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century – analyses the emergence of ‘love' as the basis of…