Социология

Who actually rules the world? Since the financial crisis in 2008 it is becoming increasingly evident to the interested individual that powerful groups…

This timely book offers an integrative and critical approach to the conceptualization of diversity of social ties in contemporary urban migrant popula…

The original edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary textbook was the first to consider the ethical issues of digital media from a global, cr…

Sarah Nettleton’s [i]The Sociology of Health and Illness[/i] has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous…

В книге представлены результаты исследований, посвященных анализу потребления как фактору стабильности общества. Потребление рассматривается в качеств…

Wherever love and death meet there is grief. It affects us all regardless of ethnicity, age, class, or sexual orientation. Grief is universal – it has…

Surrogate motherhood is expanding all over the world. Debates rage over how public policy should consider the signing away of the parental rights of b…

Racism is a world problem. From Morocco to China, Brazil to Indonesia, racism is being debated and contested. [i]Multiracism[/i] broadens the horizon …

The study of ecological systems is often impeded by components that escape perfect observation, such as the trajectories of moving animals or the stat…

At the start of the twentieth century, the pre-eminent black sociologist, W.E.B. DuBois, identified the color line as America's great problem. Wh…

Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse en…

Despite its oil wealth, the Middle East and North Africa is economically stagnating. Growth rates are comparatively unfavorable and insufficient to su…

Africa’s Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences – congratulations to the aut…

Практикум разработан в соответствии с учебным планам специальности «социология». Практикум рассчитан на студентов: бакалавров и магистров, обучающихся…

George Herbert Mead taught philosophy and social psychology at the University of Chicago for almost 40 years (from 1894 until his death in 1931). Duri…

A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving <br/> libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide …

W.E.B Du Bois is widely considered one of the most accomplished and controversial African American intellectuals in U.S. history. A pioneering histori…

The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emer…

[b]THE COMMODIFICATION GAP[/b] ‘In an elegant and careful theoretical analysis, this book demonstrates how gentrification is always entwined with inst…

How do people think about their identities? How do they express themselves individually and as part of collective groups, social movements, organizati…

Far from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequalit…

We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ush…

We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer t…

This book aims to provide a better understanding of how human cultures interact with climate change over an extended period of time. It is an analysis…

‘An inspirational call to arms’ DAILY MAIL‘This book is so sensible, so substantially researched, so briskly written, so clear in its arguments, that …

Contemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new into the world. Once the …

This stimulating book has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. This …

The study of earthquakes is a multidisciplinary field, an amalgam of geodynamics, mathematics, engineering and more. The overriding commonality betwee…

The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the…

From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalizati…

’This fun and feminist series of humour books celebrates the sisterhood with a wry smile.’ – RedHave you ever…?A) Asked yourself whether dying alone w…

Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization. This book assesses the possible c…

Imagine a sisterhood – across all creeds and cultures. An unspoken agreement that we, as women, will support and encourage one another. That we will r…

We are what we know. We know what is handed down. Our daily life is organised by «historical narrations». Universally. To judge over the validity of «…

Данная книга составлена из трех монографий, посвященных различным аспектам изучения миграции населения: истории мировых миграций, формированию термино…

A BOY WITHOUT HOPE is the heart-breaking story of a boy who didn’t know the meaning of love. A history of abuse and neglect has left Miller destined f…

What&apos;s Wrong with the World by Gilbert Keith Chesterton <br/> libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made availa…

The Inhumanity of Socialism by Edward Francis Adams <br/> libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a …

‘A twisty and engrossing thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.’Karin Slaughter, International Bestselling AuthorHumiliated by a man…

Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she’s asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who drove his pr…

Der Energie-Erfolgstherapeut der ÖSV-Sportler! Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle, die bereit sind, ihre Gesundheit eigenverantwortlich in die Hand zu n…

The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assu…

Latin America has experienced a profound transformation in the first two decades of the 21st century: it has been fully incorporated into the global e…

It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the …