Sociology & Social Policy

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

This book charts the implications of two major forces of change, information technology and biotechnology, combined with a third force, that of 'artifactual' information which is handed down dichronically from computing devices...

This text is based on over 10 years research with 500 men from different classes, backgrounds, races and ethnic groups. It constructs a theory of masculinity by exploring masculine expectancies, how men form their gender identities and how those identities influence their behaviour...

Challenges the idea -- and the ideal -- of a coherent, harmonious self...

Based on a seventeen year study of the Australian energy industry, and via the lens of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, Meta-Regulation in Practice argues that normative meta-regulatory theory relies on unrealistic assumptions of stakeholder morality and rationality. Meta-regulation in practice appe..

A study of heavy-metal music and its performers, and its message about American adolescents...

The world's output of metals during the 100 year period of 1863-1963 was greater than in all the previous years of man's history. This book records the extraordinary history of metallurgical progress, in which metal art was replaced by metal science...

This volume critically engages with the work of the acclaimed sociologist John Carroll and makes the argument for a metaphysical sociology. Carroll has proposed that a metaphysical sociology should focus on the questions of fundamental existence that confront all humans – questions of meaning, which..

Methodology of Social Sciences..

Gathering scholars from different disciplines, this book is the first on how to study emotions using sociological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, psychological, cultural and mixed approaches. Offering entrancing short essays, from leading contributors the book is interdisciplinary in scope..

This book is an examination of the methods used by social researchers to produce knowledge. Focussing chiefly on research into sexuality and madness, it assesses survey methods and opens up broader philiosophical debates on the nature of knowledge...

This title was first published in 2001. What determines urban growth? Much has been written on particular causes and incidents which can explain the rise of one metropolis and the fall of another, but these do not illustrate general tendencies...