Sociology & Social Policy

Renowned sociologist Talcott Parsons's last major project, a masterly work that lives up to its billing as 'a general book on American society'...

Prominent cultural figures, religious figures, journalists and five Nobel Peace Prize winners voice their views on the Bush administration. Based on the documentary film XXI Century...

Americans from Africa..

Americans from Africa..

An America Challenged..

In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people...

An American Dilemma..

Challenges the utopian view of Western knowledge as uniquely successful in its application to economic and social development. The contributors offer an enthographic critique using case studies from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America...

This Atlas shows how events and trends have impacted the scope and extent of American poverty in the past half-century-economic globalization, the rise of the sunbelt, decline of the welfare state, and the civil rights movement. With 195 colour maps...

First published in 1997 , Dorothy Atkinson collects testimonies of the personal perspectives of people with learning disability in order to rediscover the histories of people with learning disabilities...

First published in 1998, Ruggeri and Vincent analyse different tax reform proposals to create a discourse on dispelling the myths surrounding the flat tax...

Social research is facing challenges, as well as exciting new opportunities, from the growth of private sector research companies, rapid advance of social media, and intense debates on privacy and big data. The 12 chapters of this book address these issues drawing upon up to date research and ideas...