Austerity offers an analysis of the theoretical foundations of austerity, its political implications and its social consequences, presenting an overview of its impacts, the human cost of fiscal austerity, its consequences on the welfare system, soci...Loe edasi...
This engaging text introduces readers to the sociology of cults. Covering the history and current state of cult studies, this book includes topics ranging from doomsday cults and new religious movements through to self-help cults, the cult of celebr...Loe edasi...
Racism has a long history and its devastating impacts continue to spark heated, moral and political debate and give rise to social movements and widespread protest. This accessible primer provides a cogent introduction to the study and confrontation...Loe edasi...
Risk asserts the ongoing importance of the analysis of risk in our age of permacrisis and mounting scepticism about experts and science, and calls for a re-turn to risk theory. This fully revised and expanded new edition includes a new chapter on ri...Loe edasi...
This fully revised and updated edition of Happiness provides an accessible introduction to the concept of happiness and how it can be applied to public policy in order to help citizens achieve the good life....Loe edasi...
This accessible introductory text offers an engaging and thought-provoking discussion of class in relation to several cultural, sociological and political schools of thought and draws upon the works of a broad range of key theorists as well as conte...Loe edasi...
This new edition of the classic text for understanding human sexuality brings the arguments and evidence fully up to date, and explores their implication for many topical controversies, around LGBTQ+ rights, the trans experience and gender fluidity,...Loe edasi...
This book provides a clear and wide-ranging overview of consumption as a sociological concept. Arguing that consumption is both an unavoidable part of life and an ongoing dialectical process, it gives a critical assessment of a range of theoretical...Loe edasi...
Through comparative case studies from around the world, this book maps the concept exceptionalism, investigating its meaning and uses while demonstrating the ways in which it manifests itself in different historical and geographical settings, coming...Loe edasi...
This book presents an overview of the direct and indirect ways in which Europe continues to be influenced by its entrenched postcolonial condition, considering the distinctly European features of a range of global crises by which Europe is beset, re...Loe edasi...
Combining social science fiction, utopianism, pragmatism, sober analysis and innovative social theory, the authors address one of the biggest dilemmas of our age how to solve the problems arising from mass displacement....Loe edasi...
Unlike many other texts written on this topic, this book provides a balanced account of basic income, weighing up the pros and cons from a number of different positions....Loe edasi...
Secularization addresses the sociological classics ambivalent accounts of the future of religion, later and more robust sociological claims about religious decline, and the most influential philosophical secularization thesis, which says that the do...Loe edasi...
This book explores the concept of the stranger as a modern social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmels influential essay The Stranger....Loe edasi...
Patriarchy has been a powerful organising concept with which social order has been understood, enforced and contested for more than 2000 years. This book shows how debates about absolutism and democracy, human prehistory, and the social justice dema...Loe edasi...
Talk of knowledge is ubiquitous in the modern world. Whether we talk of know-how, innovation or education, knowledge is always involved. But despite its prominence, knowledge often remains nebulous. This book explores the category of knowledge from...Loe edasi...
