Sociology & Social Policy

Human Rights, Islam and the Failure of Cosmopolitanism is a theoretically challenging re-evaluation of cosmopolitan arguments through a rigorous discussion of rights-making claims by Europe's Muslims to the European Court of Human Rights. It combines sociological and legal case analysis...

From colonial abuses or their legacies, black people around the world have historically encountered discrimination. This book addresses issues of race and the abuse of human rights surrounding Africans and their descendants, particularly in relation to social justice, discrimination, and equality mo..

This title was first published in 2003. The series of volumes prepared by UNESCO for teaching human rights at higher education level comes to a conclusion with the publication of this volume. "Human Rights: International Protection, Monitoring, Enforcement" takes an institutional approach to the int..

This book analyzes how the 'rival' approaches of social science, economics, and evolutionary science understand various dimensions of human interests, and what these human sciences can learn from each other. It examines practical examples of empirical studies within the three approaches along with t..

This book analyzes how the 'rival' approaches of social science, economics, and evolutionary science understand various dimensions of human interests, and what these human sciences can learn from each other. It examines practical examples of empirical studies within the three approaches along with t..

A must-have tool for understanding how value perspectives cannot be eliminated from the social sciences, this book is essential for undergraduates, postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers interested in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, social work, human geography, political..

The humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon has become one of the most populist causes in the world. Shedding light on the disturbing occurrence of corruption, rent-seeking and racketeering in the camps, together with the emergence of zones of privatized territory based on se..

Hybrid Media Culture is an interdisciplinary exploration of how the online and the offline interact in present-day culture. This edited collection investigates the effects of the internet and digital culture on perceptions and uses of identities, bodies and localities...

A vivid reading of globalization through centuries of Iberian peoples, places and encounters...

This title was first published in 2002: The book focuses on one particular approach to the issue, where survey respondents are asked for their views, and outlines the four variants in the approach: the consensual income method; the consensual standard of living method; the income evaluation method; ..

Offering a distinctive, coherent account of social processes and individuals' connections to their larger social and political worlds, this book demonstrates the connections between inequality and de-democratization, between identities and social inequality, and between citizenship and identities...

This title was first published in 2001. This volume brings together contributions from a group of authors who explore the themes of identity and difference in the context of a range of power relationships within higher education...