Sociology & Social Policy

Bold political elites and unique forms of social order brought the West to world dominance, but both are weakening dramatically in the contemporary period...

Beamon and Messer deftly explore sports as a social construction, and more significantly, the large role race and ethnicity play in sports and consequently sports’ influence on modern race relations. This text is ideal for courses on Sport and Society as well as Race and Ethnicity...

This title was first published in 2002: This collection of essays is based on papers delivered at a conference held at the Public Record Office in November 1999. The purpose of the book is to highlight the close links between England and France and the role of England and Englishmen in Renaissance E..

This is an analytical examination of Ibn Khaldun's epistemology, centred on Chapter Six of the Muqaddima...

This is an analytical examination of Ibn Khaldun's epistemology, centred on Chapter Six of the Muqaddima...

The Equality Trap..

This work, first published in 1919, is an endeavour to apply some of the methods of psychoanalysis to literature. It traces a writer’s books back to the outward and inner events of their life and to reveal of their unconscious. This unconscious is largely identical with the mental love fantasies in ..

Selected by one of the world's leading Weber scholars, this book introduces his work to a new generation of readers. With many readings being specially translated for this collection, Weber speaks anew in the idiom of the twenty-first century...

This title was first published in 2000:  This third volume of proceedings of the European Network for Biomedical Ethics focuses on the ethical issues surrounding the debates on reproductive medicine and genetics in human procreation...

The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru..

First published in 1990, The Ethnographic Imagination explores how sociologists use literary and rhetorical conventions to convey their findings and arguments, and to 'persuade' their colleagues and students of the authenticity of their accounts. Looking at selected sociological texts in the light o..

First published in 1990, The Ethnographic Imagination explores how sociologists use literary and rhetorical conventions to convey their findings and arguments, and to 'persuade' their colleagues and students of the authenticity of their accounts. Looking at selected sociological texts in the light o..