Sociology & Social Policy

Originally published in 1993, this book opens a new and major line of interpretation, showing that Georg Simmel is the essential sociologist of the postmodern age. The authors trace the important contributions that Simmel's writings can make to current studies of intellectual ethics, textual methodo..

Brings together the plans for reducing financial poverty in the United States through cash transfers. This volume is of interest to a wide array of from scholars of public policy and politics to economics and economic theory...

Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime..

Poverty, Family, and Kinship in a Heartland Community..

A forward-looking appraisal of the welfare state which examines issues such as poverty in Britain, demonisation of the poor in areas of social policy and other related topics...

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...

In this second edition of an award-winning book, the author expands his examination of the relationship between racial prejudice and global conflict. He sets out to show how the racial issue has influenced most major developments in international politics and diplomacy...

First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company...

How do academics decide what counts as "proper" knowledge, worthy of being read, cited, funded? And is feminist scholarship recognised as such? These questions drive this groundbreaking book, which offers an ethnography of academia...

This book applies anthropological, sociological and political concepts to the recent history of Iran to explore the role played by ritual theatrical performance (Ta’ziyeh) and its symbols on the construction of public mobilisations...

Power, Norms, and Inflation..