Sociology & Social Policy

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...

This short, jargon-free text helps students see how the classical theories of Marx, Durkheim, Simmel, and Weber address many of the issues and problems of contemporary society...

This book is based on extensive field research conducted by the investigators of Social Research Inc., interpreting the result of over 13,000 individuals. Members of TV audiences were studied to analyze their reactions to what TV offered them, in relation to their age, sex, social class, and persona..

This title was first published in 2003. This text examines Hungarian local environmental regulation in practice rather than what should happen according to national legislation. The book is based on interviews with officials, regulators, firm managers and environmental groups in four localities in H..

This title was first published in 2000. This is a study which compares and contrasts how lone mothers' relationships to paid work and care-giving are constructed across 20 countries, and with what outcomes for lone mothers' levels of economic well-being. In doing so, the book explores from an intern..

Long Old Road..

A carefully researched history of the political achievements of the 1960s including a valuable dateline for activists, journalists and historians...

Long Walk to Nowhere..

Long-term care is an increasingly important issue in contemporary welfare states given ageing populations. This groundbreaking book provides detailed case-studies of 11 European states’ welfare regimes to show how welfare states organize, structure and deliver long-term care, and whether there is a ..

Long-term care is an increasingly important issue in contemporary welfare states given ageing populations. This groundbreaking book provides detailed case-studies of 11 European states’ welfare regimes to show how welfare states organize, structure and deliver long-term care, and whether there is a ..

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

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