Sociology & Social Policy

This title was first published in 2001: Does the non-farm sector offer new hope for rural Africa? In the face of economic crisis and restructuring across Africa, small-scale enterprise has come to play a central role in rural livelihood and accumulation strategies. This apparent dynamism has attract..

It is generally accepted that Britain was held together during the second world war by a spirit of national democratic `consensus'. But whose interests did the consensus serve? And how did it unravel in the years immediately after victory?..

The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America..

Published in 1994, The Bell Curve caused uproar. Herrnstein and Murray claim that intelligence is the key factor in determining success in life and that it is genetic and, more controversially still, that some ethnic groups are more intelligent than others...

This title was first published in 2003. Winning significant business on the right terms is an increasingly complex, challenging and time-consuming task, and a successful bid is a vital part of any business offering its services or products to another. This book aims to help you to enhance the probab..

The Black Family and Society..

This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive, accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body. Students will learn about the human body in its social, cultural, and political contexts, with particular emphasis on multiple, contested meanings of the body and body..

The Body and Everyday Life offers a lively and comprehensive introduction to the study of the body, clearly illustrating the complex relationships that exist between the body, society and everyday life. It will be an invaluable introduction for students of sociology, body studies, gender studies, da..

Mapping key co-ordinates of meaning, identity and power across sites of body and city, the author explores a wide range of critical thinking including Lefebvre and Freud and analyses the dialectic between the individual and the external...

Mapping key co-ordinates of meaning, identity and power across sites of body and city, the author explores a wide range of critical thinking including Lefebvre and Freud and analyses the dialectic between the individual and the external...

Through unique empirical data, this book demonstrates the importance of discussing the body when examining racism – not only in how the body is judged and racialised by other people, but in how it is an apparent medium through which racism operates, and into which it disappears...

The Boomerang Age..