Sociology & Social Policy

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

This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the "dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts", setting a theme of Dante's "Inferno" against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Waugh and Flannery O'Connor. The auth..

This book addresses how to create ‘the Decent Society’, drawing on sociological and sociopolitical theory. It addresses a decade of international social quality research and proposes a Decent Society Index for world-wide comparison. It will interest academics in sociology, politics, social policy, p..

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

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork...

The Decline of the Intellectual..

The Decline of Therapeutic Bloodletting and the Collapse of Traditional Medicine..

The Decline of Therapeutic Bloodletting and the Collapse of Traditional Medicine..

This is a sociological study of a Norwegian penal institution. The author spent two years in the institution, observing and interviewing inmates and staff, the target being to learn the extent to which American prisons fit with prison life in a different culture. He gives a fascinating answer to the..

Based on a critical reading of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents, The Defiance of Global Commitment constructs a complex social psychology of how people all over the world are addressing globalization. Drawing on the latest advances in the cognitive, social, and complexity sciences, this time..

Fred Inglis traces the rise of the holiday from its early roots in the Grand Tour, through the coming of Thomas Cook and his Blackpool packages, to sex tourism and the hippie trail to Kathmandu...

Fred Inglis traces the rise of the holiday from its early roots in the Grand Tour, through the coming of Thomas Cook and his Blackpool packages, to sex tourism and the hippie trail to Kathmandu...