Sociology & Social Policy

This book explores the ways in which criminological methods can be imaginatively deployed and developed in a world increasingly characterized by the blurred nature of social reality. Whilst recognizing the importance of positivist approaches and research techniques, it advocates a commitment to unde..

Listening Beyond the Echoes..

Listening to Harlem offers an exciting portrait of the struggles confronting one of America's most important neighbourhoods...

Literature and the Image of Man..

Little Ethiopia of the Pacific Northwest..

Little Ethiopia of the Pacific Northwest..

Consumer credit borrowing – using credit cards, store cards and personal loans – is an important and routine part of many of our lives. But what happens when these everyday forms of borrowing go ‘bad’, when people cannot, or will not, repay? Drawing on research from the interior of the debt collecti..

This book uses interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the ways in which complex urban populations experience, negotiate, accommodate and resist cultural difference as they share a range of everyday social resources and public spaces...

This title was first published in 2002. Most nation states in Europe have undergone dramatic social and political upheaval with the construction of new or the redefinition of existing national borders. This book uses discourse analytical methods to focus on and unravel the complex cultural identitie..

This title was first published in 2002: This volume explores educational reforms and innovations in music teaching in England between 1923 and 1999. Gordon Cox investigates the key reforms which attempted to give life to music in schools, and describes teachers' reactions to such innovations. By tak..

Living the Dream..

How do global influences affect people's everday life? This book reveals how such key concepts as community, culture, class, poverty and identity can be reconceptualized in the concept of global/local processes...