Sociology & Social Policy

It dominates our lives. It is the twentieth-century medium. And yet we're all a little sheepish when it comes to television, disowning it by disavowal or by inventing subtle, innocuous disguises for it. Why is this? In this book, first published in 1982, Peter Conrad argues that our unease stems fro..

Television as an Instrument of Terror..

Television as an Instrument of Terror..

Television in Society..

Television in Society..

Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age..

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First published in 1990, Richard Clutterbuck's fascinating analysis of European security confronts the problems of internal European community frontiers and technological aids in combating terrorism and international crime. He looks at what the EC countries have done in the past, describes the techn..

A guide to understanding the meeting point between a new generation of children and new communication technologies...

Texts, Facts and Femininity is a collection of essays which illustrate the full range of work by this leading feminist scholar on social relations as texts. It includes Smith's famous essay K is mentally ill...

This book adopts an unorthodox approach to debates about ‘the end of tourism’. Through twenty-first century cinematic narratives of symbolically interconnected ‘risks’ it considers how art envisages the future of humanity’s well-being. Filmic scenarios articulate the futuristic survival of community..

The ‘Irish’ Family is an innovative new text, which both aims to fill a substantial gap in the market for course material on Ireland and to contribute to wider debates about ‘the family’ in the arena of family studies and research. The collection will address a range of important topics within a num..