общественные науки

В статьях, обзорах и рефератах рассматриваются проблемы социальной теории, эмпирических социологических исследований, истории социологии. Обсуждаются …

Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior th…

Globalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the en…

A History of Modern Europe surveys European history from the defeat of Napoleon to the twenty-first century, presenting major historical themes in an …

Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. …

Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism. Media expert Silvio Waisbord takes…

What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's worl…

Evidence-based interventions are increasingly being required by third-party payers and an evidence-based orientation has come to define ethical practi…

Winner of the American Sociological Association's 'Distinguished Book Award' in the Religion category. For most of us, «Apocalypse» suggests the catac…

This book sets out the case for a cosmopolitan approach to contemporary global politics. It presents a systematic theory of cosmopolitanism, explicati…

Praise for Developing Practice Competencies A Foundation for Generalist Practice «This is the textbook I have been waiting for. The author engages the…

A comprehensive overview of Slavoj ?i?ek's thought, including all of his published works to date. Provides a solid basis in the work of an engaging th…

An updated guide to the core concepts of program evaluation This updated edition of Program Evaluation in Practice covers the core concepts of program…

А вы знали, что в домах семей, в которых бережно обращаются с деньгами, живут шерики? Шерики – это такие волшебные существа. Они знают про деньги всё …

This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, introducing the major theoretical ideas as well as providing a critic…

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeo…

This innovative teaching text on United States foreign policy interprets the foreign policy decision-making process through the lens of political deba…

The Times They Are Changing? Crisis and the Welfare State presents a series of readings from international policy researchers that examine the effects…

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the F…

Thoroughly revised and updated, this text introduces students of human geography and allied disciplines to the fundamental concept of place, combining…

This book situates the essential areas of psychology within a cultural perspective, exploring the relationship of culture to psychological phenomena, …

Peter Hall’s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and …

A wide range of international contributions draw on theoretical and empirical sources to explore whether alternatives exist to both conceptualise and …

Раскрываются основные понятия социологической науки. Приводятся примеры из жизни, результаты социологических исследований научных центров и отдельных …

Over twenty two centuries ago, the Greek general Pyrrhus questioned the real gains of military victory. Today we might reflect on the recent wars in I…

Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is i…

Security of Energy supply is a major concern for all modern societies, intensified by skyrocketing demand in India and China and increasing internatio…

Making Knowledge presents the work of leading anthropologists who promote pioneering approaches to understanding the nature and social constitution of…

A cold, hard look at how modern economics has failed us and why we need a new measure of progress Modern economics has fallen short. It has widened th…

Promoting the Planck Club presents rich mini histories of selected scientists whose work led to radical and transformational discoveries, their backgr…

Surveying Cultures uniquely employs techniques rooted in survey methodology to discover cultural patterns in social science research. Examining both c…

This is Philosophy: An Introduction offers an engagingly written introduction to philosophical concepts that include ethics, the existence of God, fre…

In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage re…

This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. Critiques R…

Beyond Violence: A Prevention Program for Women is a forty-hour, evidence-based, gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment program specifically dev…

What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we…

Contemporary Moral and Social Issues is a uniquely entertaining introduction that brings ethical thought to life. It makes innovative use of engaging,…

Addiction Dilemmas explores the impact of addiction on those closest to the individuals affected and their families. Drawing on a wide range of source…

The Sociology of Islam provides an accessible introduction to this emerging field of inquiry, teaching and debate. The study is located at the crucial…

Since their inception, America’s community colleges have undergone continuous change. They must, because their mission is to provide learning vital fo…

Religion in Britain evaluates and sheds light on the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain; it explores the country’s increasing secular…

Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ‘alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in …

Blog Theory offers a critical theory of contemporary media. Furthering her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores the ways new media …

An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning studen…

This issue of New Directions for Evaluation (NDE) marks a milestone: the 25th anniversary of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). NDE is an offi…