Sociology & Social Policy

Examines the social and economic processes which have shaped and continue to shape life today. It also provides critical assessments of the various `modern' and `postmodern' thinkers who have sought to explain these processes...

In Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities, Petra Bueskens argues that western modernisation consigned women to the home and released them from it in historically unprecedented, yet interconnected, ways. Her ground-breaking formulation is that western women are free as ‘individuals’ and constr..

Modern Societies..

Some of today's most prominent academics discuss the capitalist world economy...

This title was first published in 2000:  The 1997 election marked the prospect of a new era in social welfare - the possibility of establishing a third phase in the post-war history of the welfare state (the first being the creation of the Keynesian welfare state, the second the Thatcher/Major neo-l..

Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath investigates the ways in which Marx, Durkheim, Althusser and Habermas are all drawn towards foundationalism, and offers a framework for the analysis of foundationalism in social theory...

Monopoly Television..

Offers an explanation of the foreign policy choices made by neoconservatives. This work looks at the cultural attitudes - fear of change, simplistic notions of 'good' and 'evil' - that are at the root of 'the war on terror'. It shows how the US demonises its opponents - and how this leads to failure..

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...

A new theory of markets, taking into account the increased knowledge, affluence and access to information of modern consumers...

This book was publuished in 2003. This book explores an important issue within the free will debate: the relation between free will and moral responsibility...