Sociology & Social Policy

In this incisive text, Heaphy introduces the work of Giddens, Bauman, Foucault and Baudrillard to show exactly how the arguments of the great contemporary theorists play out against extended examples from real-life...

For courses in Sociology of Aging or Gerontology taught primarily in departments of sociology.  Message: An interdisciplinary introduction to the aging process which uses symbolic interactionism as the main theoretical perspective...

For courses in Sociology of Aging or Gerontology taught primarily in departments of sociology. Message: An interdisciplinary introduction to the aging process which uses symbolic interactionism as the main theoretical perspective...

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Latin America plays an increasingly important role in the development of modern Christianity yet it has been underrepresented in current scholarship on religion and science. In this first book on the subject, contributors explore the different ways that religion and science relate to each other...

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

Latino Homicide is the first empirically based, but readable book for courses to counter the conventional wisdom that immigrant populations only contribute crime to their communities. For this second edition, Martinez further emphasizes his argument with updated data and the addition of a new city, ..

Latino Homicide is the first empirically based, but readable book for courses to counter the conventional wisdom that immigrant populations only contribute crime to their communities. For this second edition, Martinez further emphasizes his argument with updated data and the addition of a new city, ..

Addresses the potential of diverse Latino/a spiritualities, origins, and status against the landscape of decolonization of the US economic and cultural empire in the twenty-first century. This book explores the impact of Indo-latinos and Afro-latinos in the United States...

First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company...

This title was first published in 2003. Leading contemporary essays on interpretation are assembled in this volume, which offsets them against a small number of "classical" works from earlier periods. It has long been recognized that textual sources (constitutions, statutes, precedents, commentaries..

Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable text is filled with interesting information, ideas and insights. All materials and supporting statistics have been carefully..