Sociology & anthropology books

""This book presents the motivations for migrating, not migrating, returning, and migrating again of Ethiopian subjects...  Read More >>

This book complements the sparse findings on education, labour market outcomes, and wellbeing relating to immigrant...  Read More >>

This book analyses the diverse and complex interactions between the emancipatory practices of precarious (i.e. forced,...  Read More >>

Whilst death, dying and bereavement are universal life events, the social conditions under which death takes place...  Read More >>

Based on interviews in Bosnia and Herzegovina with survivors of the war and war rape, as well as those working with...  Read More >>

This book offers a new critical perspective on emerging and alternative ‘spaces’ for emancipation within lesbian,...  Read More >>

Onda compares Japan’s traditional mutual help practices, an integral part of the nation’s societal fabric, with...  Read More >>

Bourdieusian Media Studies illustrates the merits of Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural sociological approach in the field...  Read More >>

This book investigates the Internet use and online engagement of China's elderly population, especially in relation...  Read More >>

This edited volume provides an overview of inequality and stratification in contemporary China. A rare and timely...  Read More >>

This book studies how transnational migrants create a sense of home in their host countries. It draws on case studies...  Read More >>

A study of the conflict between western and indigenous systems and practices of medicine, this book explores the...  Read More >>

This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers...  Read More >>

Utilising 70 original interviews from rural and urban area Canadian parents, the book provides an overview of research...  Read More >>

During the Holocaust, Polish bystanders were witnesses not only to Nazi crimes but also to their own collective...  Read More >>

This book seeks to understand emotions in the virtual world. It explores embodiment, hybridization and emotions...  Read More >>

It explores the moral and political significance of gastrospaces: the spaces where we eat. It adopts an innovative...  Read More >>

This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses...  Read More >>

Drawing from empirically grounded studies, the volume Situated Mixedness sheds light on the state of migration-related...  Read More >>

This volume explores intergenerational trauma among refugee communities displaced throughout the world.  Read More >>

This book interrogates the role of gender and class in shaping women’s everyday leisure practices. Drawing on empirical...  Read More >>

This book explores the role of “home” in the lives of displaced people, including voluntary and forced migrants,...  Read More >>

This volume considers the impact of public sector unions on the labour movement and their role in renewing labour...  Read More >>

Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life....  Read More >>

Kolliniati’s groundbreaking book, Interpreting Human Rights: Narratives from Refugee Centers in Greece, challenges...  Read More >>