Sociology & Social Policy

This title was first published in 2001. Planning today has to deal with a completely different world from the one in which many of the basic ways of thought of the profession were founded...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The Cherokee Nation..

Within a historical and contemporary context, this book examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future...

Each chapter of this book examines how the state combines with local initiatives from non-state actors in China today. Policy areas examined include cultural strategies, housing, land politics, corruption, peasants’ burden and cadre reforms, women and gender, and international relations...

The City is Our Farm..

The City is Our Farm..

This second edition, published in 1997 follows the original edition from 1981 which was the only published ethnography of medical education in the UK. The theoretical, methodological and substantive issues continue to be of importance to the sociology and anthropology of medicine and medical knowled..

The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier..

The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier..

Compellingly demonstrates the relationship between sensory and gender orders, highlighting the gender politics behind such sensory constructs as the male gaze and the female touch...

First Published in 1991, this book attempts to show the relevance of Durkheim’s sociology to the debate on modernity and postmodernism. It does so by examining how Durkheim’s ideas can be applied to current social issues. The author argues that there are striking parallels between the social context..