Taylor & Francis

Societies and groups attribute greater value to some behaviours and some judgments. The approach presented here examines in particular the social foundations of our judgments...

This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora. It explores the role of migration/diaspora in transforming linguistic practices, ideologies, and ident..

This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora. It explores the role of migration/diaspora in transforming linguistic practices, ideologies, and ident..

This path-breaking book explores the (re)construction of identity after acquired brain injury (ABI). It draws meaning from the every-day experiences of six male ABI survivors and investigates their identity (re)construction after their ABI. ..

The topics covered in this book are directly related to much of the misunderstanding of what sociology is about. It is usual nowadays to label as sociological any discussion concerned, however loosely, with ‘Society’. But a careful reading of Mr Timms’ treatment of the problem areas he has chosen sh..

This book is about the development of sociology in Britain told through the story of its learned society, The British Sociological Association. Learned societies have been neglected in the history of the discipline, though they are a vital part of the social structure of academic life...

Niklas Luhmann is recognised as a major social theorist, and his treatise on the sociology of law is a classic text. For Luhmann, law provides the framework of the state, lawyers are the main human resourced for the state, and legal theory provides the most suitable base from which to theorize on th..

Commercial aviation is one of the world's biggest industries, yet there are few studies of pilots as social beings and of their place of work, the flight-deck. This book develops a sociological understanding of airline front-line staff and of pilots and their working environment as an important step..

Hester and Eglin’s A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological literature. Through detailed examples and analysis, it shows how crime is a product of processes of criminalisation constituted through the interactional and or..

Hester and Eglin’s A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological literature. Through detailed examples and analysis, it shows how crime is a product of processes of criminalisation constituted through the interactional and or..

This newly updated second edition of Eglin and Hester’s well respected A Sociology of Crime, evaluates the current state of criminalization globally and asks what sociology’s various perspectives have to say about it. It maintains and develops its critical and subversive stance but greatly widens it..

This book, first published in 1980, provides a summary of the major research findings of previous studies of the sociology of education in Sub-Saharan Africa within an original and stimulating general framework whilst also devoting space to their own research findings...