Sociology & Social Policy

Organized Miracles..

Organizing for Collective Action..

This title was first published in 2000:  For its third edition, this text on knowledge organization and retrieval has been revised and restructured to accommodate the increased significance of electronic information resources...

Other Voices..

This anthology on otherness and the media, first published in 1993, was prompted by the proliferation of writings centring on issues of ‘difference’, ‘diversity’, ‘multiculturalism’, ‘representation’ and ‘postcolonial’ discourses. Such issues and discourses question existing canons of criticism, the..

The book, an ethnography and Western cultural history of aging and gender, draws upon history, culture, and social media, the authors’ own experiences as women of seventy, and conversations and correspondence with more than two-hundred women aged from sixtyish to one hundred in its coverage of sexua..

The book, an ethnography and Western cultural history of aging and gender, draws upon history, culture, and social media, the authors’ own experiences as women of seventy, and conversations and correspondence with more than two-hundred women aged from sixtyish to one hundred in its coverage of sexua..

Analyses the intellectual and policy errors that have led us into crisis and sketches a new paradigm for risk management and market structure...

Through case studies, Outsourcing the Womb, Second Edition provides a critical analysis and global tour of the international surrogacy landscape in Egypt, India, China, Japan, Israel, Ukraine, the European Union and the United States. By providing a comparative analysis of countries that have very d..

This book examines the changing nature of global inequalities and efforts that are being made to move toward a more egalitarian world society. The contributors are world historical sociologists and geographers who place the contemporary issues of unequal power, wealth, and income in a global histori..

Explores the split between science and the humanities, what caused it, and the cultures that have grown out of it...

People ‘overshare’ when they interact with others through the screens of computers and smartphones. Oversharing means to divulge more of their inner feelings, opinions and sexuality than they would in person, or even over the phone. Text messaging, Facebooking, tweeting, camming, blogging, online da..