Sociology & Social Policy

Investigates the many aspects of the current controversial debates regarding the care and provision for the elderly and very elderly. An invaluable book for social policy makers, gerontologists and anyone involved in health care...

First Published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Growing Up Before Stonewall tells the stories of 11 American gay men who tried to make sense of their identities in the years before the modern gay movement began. The editors situate these lifestories in US culture before Stonewall...

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

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

This volume brings together scholarship from two different, and until now, largely separate literatures—the study of the children of immigrants and the study of Muslim minority communities—in order to explore the changing nature of ethnic identity, religious practice, and citizenship in the contempo..

Growth, Decline, and Regeneration in Large Cities sheds light on why some cities prosper, others implode and still others are able to reverse their downward trajectories. The book focuses on four major American metropolitan areas: Austin, Detroit, Boston, and Minneapolis. It explores how distinctive..

Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?..

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Neither demonising nor mythologising guns, this collection of case studies sheds light on this controversial issue...

Clumsy stereotypes of the Romani and Travellers communities abound, not only culturally in programmes such as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, but also amongst educators, social workers, administrators and the medical profession. Gypsy cultures are invariably presented as ruled by tradition and machismo. Wom..

This collection brings together for the first time a set of researchers with Habermas’ core concepts of colonisation, deliberation and communication at the centre of their research methodologies. Full of insight and innovation, the book is an essential read for anyone wanting to know more about appr..