Sociology & Social Policy

This sociological classic shows how the railroad tramp’s status as a deviant changed from frontier itinerant to post settlement vagrant; from class conscious proletariat in the Depression to the damaged post WWII vet. The third edition (with new photos) discusses how today the freights have become t..

A celebration of the tramp way of life in America in the 1930s, which has all but vanished in the modern age...

This title was first published in 2000:  This volume addresses the prominent role given to institution-building, institutional change and governance in the regional development strategies and policies. The establishment of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies, and the arriv..

This ground-breaking volume documents and interprets the many ways contemporary governments and agencies now routinely use various techniques to repress and criminalize political dissent. While the ‘need’ to enhance ‘youth political participation’ is promoted, the cases in this book document how sta..

This title was first published in 2000:  Due to budget cuts and competitiveness pressures, determining the outcome of technology transfer from government R&D laboratories to private industry and entrepreneurial start-ups is of increasing interest. This book presents a series of case studies of succe..

This title was first published in 2000:  The relative performance of health authorities and general practitioners as commissioners of health care services is a crucial question in the current health care policy debate, but hitherto a poorly researched area. This work addresses that topic, and repres..

This title was first published in 2001: Although 17th- and 18th-century English language theorists claimed to be correcting errors in grammar and preserving the language from corruption, this new study demonstrates how grammar served as an important cultural battlefield where social issues were cont..

First published in 1990, this book is a comprehensive study of Gramsci's Quaderni, and gives the reader a penetrating account of the structure of Gramsci's thought. The author draw on many materials and sources, making accesible to the English-speaking reader a wide range of texts otherwise only ava..

First published in 1990, this book is a comprehensive study of Gramsci's Quaderni, and gives the reader a penetrating account of the structure of Gramsci's thought. The author draw on many materials and sources, making accesible to the English-speaking reader a wide range of texts otherwise only ava..

Greater involvement of grandmothers in caring for children has seemed to offer a solution to many social problems, such as the effect of "parenting deficits" on children. This text discusses how today's grandmothers are changing the image and role that they filled in the past...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Resulting from the EASA conference in Prague, this book addresses the crises of identity, purpose and interest in the changing world examineing how social anthropology must update its methodology as it is applied to comparisons across space and time..