Sociology & Social Policy

Drawing from the ideas of critical geography and based on extensive archival research, Cole brilliantly reconstructs the formation of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust, focusing primarily on the ghetto in Budapest, Hungary -- one of the largest created during the war, but rarely examined...

An essential guide to studying home and domesticity, this book locates 'home' within wider traditions of thought across the social sciences and humanities, analyzing different sources, methods and examples in historical and contemporary contexts...

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

This book offers an anthropological and historical perspective on home. Beginning with a vision of modernity as characterised by both spiralling liminality and an ongoing quest for belonging, it plumbs the roots of western civilisation and assembles a wide body of comparative evidence to illuminate ..

This book explores in detail the concept of homelessness by examining the dynamics of shelter living and the financial costs in comparison to the psychological costs to the children and the family...

Who are the homeless in Britain today? How does their homelessness occur? Contributors review theoretical and legal conceptualisations of homelessness, analyse the statistics and evaluate the policy responses so far...

Homeownership, Renting and Society..

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

This book explores contemporary social theory and developments in the study of sexuality through the analysis of law and its practices...

This book explores contemporary social theory and developments in the study of sexuality through the analysis of law and its practices...

This book explores contemporary social theory and developments in the study of sexuality through the analysis of law and its practices...

This title was first published in 2003. Hong Kong is a society of contrasts and paradoxes. The city has a contrasting and yet fluid intermingling of social and cultural images - east and west, local and colonial, modern and traditional, extravagant and frugal. In this volume, the editor has selected..