Sociology & Social Policy

Brings together new essays on African American studies. Ideal for students of African studies, philosophy, social and political thought, and postcolonial studies...

Nowhere to Grow..

Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives shows how the current emphasis on the nuclear family—with its exclusion of the extended family—is narrow, even deleterious, and misses much of family life. This omission is tied to gender, race, and class...

Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives shows how the current emphasis on the nuclear family—with its exclusion of the extended family—is narrow, even deleterious, and misses much of family life. This omission is tied to gender, race, and class...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Osiel argues that international and military law could more effectively prevent combat atrocities by studying how and why they occur. The author explores the moral and legal ambiguity of military discipline and the dilemma of obedience. The evidence is drawn from a wide array of recent wars and peac..

Objectivity and the Silence of Reason..

This work remains of compelling interest to those concerned with the natural sciences and their social problems. It puts forward original and unorthodox ideas about the philosophy of and sociology of science, starting from the conviction that modern societies face deep problems arising from unresolv..

This work remains of compelling interest to those concerned with the natural sciences and their social problems. It puts forward original and unorthodox ideas about the philosophy of and sociology of science, starting from the conviction that modern societies face deep problems arising from unresolv..

There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, object-mediated relations, non-human agency and the affective dimensions of human sociality. This Companion focuses on the objects and materials ..

This title was first publishde in 2001. Occupational crime is found in the whole range of occupations and at all levels. Despite the fact that activities are widespread and well known, the area is blurred by contradictory perceptions, denials and arguments over definition. This volume presents influ..

Published in 1994, this book gathers together a series of original studies on occupational socialization and the everyday realities of work. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_..