Sociology books

This edited volume analyses leadership in the public relations (PR) industry with a specific focus on women and...  Read More >>

This political history studies the phenomenal growth of the modern British state’s interest in collecting, collating...  Read More >>

This book expounds the dialectical conception of science largely implicit in the writings of Marx and Engels, offering...  Read More >>

This book explores destitution from the perspective of International Human Rights Law and, more specifically, Economic,...  Read More >>

Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to...  Read More >>

Focusing on the city of Istanbul in Turkey, this book examines the city’s informal urban settlements, the need for...  Read More >>

This book examines the performance of Bauls ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing...  Read More >>

This book is an anthology of key essays that foregrounds coasts, islands, and shorelines as central to the scholarship...  Read More >>

This book provides the reader with a thorough understanding of the remedies available to victims of domestic abuse...  Read More >>

This book analyses the domestic relations which British men came to establish with native Indian women in early...  Read More >>

This book addresses the nature, social function, ethics and politics of the right to bequeath.  Read More >>

Drawing on participant observations, in-depth interviews and content analysis of online materials, Lai investigates...  Read More >>

Drawing on an ethnographic study on young Moroccan immigrants in Europe (France and Italy), this book analyses the...  Read More >>

This book examines the impact of legislation premised upon the principle of ‘self-declaration’ of legal gender status....  Read More >>

This book analyses the conceptual and concrete relationships between rhythm and law.  Read More >>

Employing Deleuzo-Guattarian orientations to assemblage and feminist approaches to care, this book offers a critique...  Read More >>

Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict explores the processes and structures that underlie sexual violence...  Read More >>

Departing from both the ordinary defences and criticisms that surround the practice of Jewish ritual of circumcision,...  Read More >>

With contributions from six leading scientific countries of the Global North and from the general European Higher...  Read More >>

This book explores the ambiguous legal status of traditional – adat – communities in Indonesia and their informal,...  Read More >>

Bringing together two voices, practice and theory, in a collaboration that emerges from lived experience and structured...  Read More >>

This book studies the history of intercultural human rights. It examines the foundational elements of human rights...  Read More >>

Drawing on rich interview material, this book examines marginalized knowledges as a field of epistemic struggle,...  Read More >>

Originating in the popular Sociología en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis...  Read More >>

This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences...  Read More >>