Sociology & anthropology books

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We are all repairers. Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally...  Read More >>

Through a series of focus group interviews and an analysis of the media and popular culture, Mothers Work explores...  Read More >>

Representing Kink raises awareness about nonnormative texts and erotic practices and desires through engagement...  Read More >>

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The city of Qufu, in north China's Shandong Province, is famous as the hometown of Kong Qiu (551-479 BCE)-known...  Read More >>

In this book, Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis, which he calls societalization....  Read More >>

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Feminist Research in Practice is a supplementary text in sociology for undergraduate and graduate courses in feminist...  Read More >>

This book combines a thorough analysis of class politics in twenty countries between 1863 and 1919 with a general...  Read More >>

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Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past critically examines the production, consumption, and interpretation...  Read More >>

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Living at the dawn of a digital twenty-first century, people living in Western societies spend an increasing amount...  Read More >>

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This book is the outcome of a Development Studies Association Workshop on Technology that we convened in Queen Elizabeth...  Read More >>

Ann Oakley develops a sociology of the research process, telling how a research project on caring and social support...  Read More >>

Ann Oakley analysed the perceptions of 40 urban housewives around housework, their feelings of monotony and fragmentation,...  Read More >>

Ann Oakley interviewed 60 women to find out what it's really like to have a baby. She discusses whether and why...  Read More >>