Sociology & Social Policy

This book presents an original ethnographic study undertaken at a semi-professional football club and examines how raciological ideas shape the self-understandings of sportspeople and thereby influence the possibilities for action available to them. _x000D_..

Sporting Equality..

Sporting Gentlemen..

Staging Mobilities is about the fact that mobility is more than movement between point A and B. It explores how the movement of people, goods, information, and signs influences human understandings of self, other and the built environment. Moving towards a new understanding of the relationship betwe..

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation's apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma. This book argues that the performative nature of the TRC effectively designated the past as profane and put a sacred community based o..

Stalking Sociologists..

Stalking Sociologists..

Standing on Both Feet..

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...

Fifty years ago, familiar images of the lottery would have been strange, as no state lottery existed then. Few researchers have uncovered the obscure role lotteries play in the changing composition of American taxation. Even less is known about what role race plays in this process. More than simply ..

This book examines the insecurity that besets our lives in the contemporary world, revealing it to be a symptom of the crumbling of the notion of security that modernity had sought to guarantee to its citizens. With the emergence of the ‘liquid’ world, insecurity has become endemic and is accepted a..