Sociology of Culture

Building upon recent developments in memory studies and transnational memory, this book offers a comparative analysis of Yugoslav Holocaust memory and its intersections with other forms of extreme violence, such as the suffering of the non-Jewish South-Slav population during World War II, the victim..

This book explores Japan-in-transition from internationalization to globalization from the perspectives of language and identity. The chapters address how national identity has faced the shift from hard to soft power, offer critical analyses of multilingual practices, and investigate what teaching, ..

Later-Life Social Support and Service Provision in Diverse and Vulnerable Populations offers current, multi-disciplinary perspectives on social support and service provision to older Americans...

Later-Life Social Support and Service Provision in Diverse and Vulnerable Populations offers current, multi-disciplinary perspectives on social support and service provision to older Americans...

This book presents the main analytical approaches through which lifestyles and subcultures have been studied, and also proposes a new interpretative perspective. Today a growing panorama of social phenomena and processes possess intermediate characteristics with regard to those which in the past wer..

“It is simply too much” is a common complaint of the modern age. This book looks at how people and institutions deal with overflow - of information, consumption or choices. The essays explore the ways in which notions of overflow – framed in terms of excess and abundance or their implicit opposites,..

“It is simply too much” is a common complaint of the modern age. This book looks at how people and institutions deal with overflow - of information, consumption or choices. The essays explore the ways in which notions of overflow – framed in terms of excess and abundance or their implicit opposites,..

This collection brings together short contributions by leading international scholars, tracing the new directions in research on identity, race, ethnicity, migration and transnationalism._x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of Identities: Global studies in Culture and Power...

First published in 1982, Professor Bauman’s discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society..

This book focusses on the ethical, the aesthetic and scholarly dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary and feature films, literary works, museums, music, and law translate and are translated as representative of real acts of genocide – as mediating processes materialized in the ..

This book explores the interaction between native majorities and Muslim minorities in different European countries. It highlights the internal diversity of both minority and majority populations and critically analyses the political and institutional responses to the presence of Muslims. The book al..

This book awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' in the realm of sport and offers a rigorous approach which will appeal to academics and students alike...