Sociology books

Driven by both theory and practice, this accessible book will help you get to grips with understanding and doing...  Read More >>

A new contribution to literature that grapples with grief, death and the shape of what's left behind. Who would...  Read More >>

There is only one sport, outside of actual combat disciplines, where two participants can square off in old fashioned,...  Read More >>

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Driven by both theory and practice, this accessible book will help you get to grips with understanding and doing...  Read More >>

A practical toolkit for students needing an alternative introduction to doing research methods. Imaginative pedagogy...  Read More >>

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class—especially discussion of the working class—to...  Read More >>

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class—especially discussion of the working class—to...  Read More >>

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This book assembles diverse voices and approaches in geographic thinking on race and racialization during an era...  Read More >>

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Employing the intellectual migration analytical framework, this book examines the dynamics of student and professional...  Read More >>

First published in 1978, The Sex Role System traces the phenomenon of sex role stereotyping through many different...  Read More >>

First published in 1991, Managing Mothers (now with a new preface by the authors) provides a detailed, authoritative...  Read More >>

First published in 1978, Israel focuses on the pluralistic structure of Israel and its internal conflicts. Dr Smooha...  Read More >>

Pat Macpherson’s Reflecting on Jane Eyre (first published in 1989) shows how the novel itself can be the territory...  Read More >>

Reflecting on The Bell Jar (first published in 1991) acknowledges the repressive post-war regime of social hygiene....  Read More >>

First published in 1988, Crossing Boundaries challenges existing disciplines and fields of study from a feminist...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, The Feral Classroom argues that the experience of schooling needs to be understood in terms...  Read More >>

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First published in 1981 and now with a new preface by the renowned scholar Jeffrey Weeks, this book discusses the...  Read More >>

Working for Ford (1984) describes what it is like to work in a car factory, often in the words of the workers themselves....  Read More >>

Social Change in the South Pacific (1957) summarises the results of applying historical and contemporary fieldwork...  Read More >>

Economic Organization of the British Coal Industry (1934) is a study that shows on the one hand the organization...  Read More >>