Sociology & Social Policy

Michel Foucault has had an extraordinary impact on writers in the human sciences since his first book Madness and Civilization appeared in English. This title assesses the reactions to Madness and Civilization...

Although the period of student protests of the 1960s and 1970s has long passed, Alain Touraine argues, in this wide-ranging and vigorous essay, that the period's problems remain with us. Higher degrees have become less and less valuable on the labor market and the demand for academic reform has beco..

_x005F_x000D_ Approaches Chinese art and literature from a novel perspective with special interest and influence in Chinese theory since the 1990s. This monograph focuses on important literary texts from the 1950s onward, analyses Zhang Yimou's acclaimed early films, and proposes how to understand t..

This book explores the economic coping practices of rural widows in the aftermath of the Cambodian civil war...

We are now living in a 'risk' society: risk analysis, risk assessment and risk management are ever-expanding industries. In this fully revised and expanded update of her highly cited, influential and well-known book, Deborah Lupton provides a comprehensive review of the major sociocultural theoretic..

Risk..

We are now living in a 'risk' society: risk analysis, risk assessment and risk management are ever-expanding industries. In this fully revised and expanded update of her highly cited, influential and well-known book, Deborah Lupton provides a comprehensive review of the major sociocultural theoretic..

In this new work van Loon demonstrates how new technologies are transforming the character of risk and examines the relationship between technological culture and society through chapters on ecology, crime and communication...

Risky Business..

What does it mean to be told you have an increased risk of genetic breast cancer because you are of Ashkenazi Jewish origin? In a time of ever increasing knowledge about variations in genetic disease risk among different populations, there is a pressing need for research regarding the implications o..

Shows how the ritualized behaviors that define much of our daily lives can explain of the social causes and consequences of our actions...

This book offers a trenchant analysis of the theoretical and empirical contributions made by Randall Collins to microsociology, a field in which scholars examine face-to-face interaction in concrete social situations. Following a lucid overview of the field of microsociology by Elliot B. Weininger a..