Sociology & Social Policy

Jack Levin is the American Sociological Association’s 2009 Winner of the "Public Understanding of Sociology" Award. This short book communicates the power and importance of sociological thinking to major social trends. Levin charts the big-picture changes in American society over the past 50 years a..

Despite all efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations. This collection proposes a transdisciplinary feminist perspective to explore the complex na..

In Body Image as an Everyday Problematic, Diaz seeks to offer a comprehensive perspective on body image as an everyday problematic, grounded on verbal accounts of biographic experience...

Focuses on the sociological embodiment of various "social actors" and subsequent links with the constraints of daily life. It presents findings on aspects of the body, variants from what is conventionally seen as "natural" and considers self-image versus society's expectations...

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

_x000D_ Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the body, for use in undergraduate college courses. This book provides a wealth of pedagogic features for ease of teaching and learning: ethnographic case studies, boxes covering contemporary controversi..

_x005F_x000D_ Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the body, for use in undergraduate college courses. This book provides a wealth of pedagogic features for ease of teaching and learning: ethnographic case studies, boxes covering contemporary contr..

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Scholars have been puzzling over the "future of the book" since Marshall McLuhan's famous maxim "the medium is the message" in the early 1950s...

Books, Bricks, and Bytes brings together an extraordinary array of authors at the cutting edge of these concerns, not only within the United States, but experts drawn from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, Brazil and India...