Sociology & Social Policy

During the 1960s, traditional thinking about crime and its punishment, deviance and its control, came under radical attack. The discipline of criminology split into feuding factions, and various schools of thought emerged, each with quite different ideas about the nature of the crime problem and its..

Against the Odds..

Against the Stream..

Against the Terror of Neoliberalism..

Age and Generation introduces students to the main sociological and anthropological issues surrounding this topic, from childhood to old age, and focuses, in particular, on youth culture...

This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship: aging. In this volume, leading national and international feminist scholars of aging take first steps in this direction, illuminating how age relations interact with other social inequalities..

Age, Gender and Sexuality through the Life Course argues that the gendered structure of temporality (defined in the dual sense of everyday time as well as age and stage of life) is a key factor underpinning the stalling of the gender revolution...

This title was first published in 2003. The rapid demographic aging of populations worldwide, and most dramatically in developing countries, will result in unprecedented increases in the absolute and relative numbers of the aged in these countries. Whilst developed economies already have the basic i..

The expert contributions in this volume address the array of issues associated with the study of aging, old age and elderly care in contexts of migration. The collection explores these issues in three sections: elderly care regimes and migration regimes; ageing in contexts of migration; elderly care..

Providing original critical discourse from Asian writers recording Asian voices, this fascinating text is an invaluable resource giving an in-depth analysis of the experience of ageing in Singapore...

Providing original critical discourse from Asian writers recording Asian voices, this fascinating text is an invaluable resource giving an in-depth analysis of the experience of ageing in Singapore...

First Published in 1999, lesser collects fourteen papers to create a discourse on the practical importance in a society where the proportion of elderly people is increasing...