Sociology & Social Policy

Designed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in sociology and social psychology, this textbook looks at the quantitative methodology of social representations research, using empirical and graphical illustrations and data tables...

Designed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in sociology and social psychology, this textbook looks at the quantitative methodology of social representations research, using empirical and graphical illustrations and data tables...

This book interrogates the purported radicalism of Romantic love from philosophical, cultural and psychoanalytic perspectives, exploring whether it is a subversive force capable of breaking down entrenched norms and structures, or whether it is in fact a highly conservative impulse. With attention t..

The Rat..

This title was first published in 2000:  An examination of the way in which post-communist political actors have persisted in exploiting, controlling and manipulating the media, in spite of rhetorical commitments to freer and more independent media...

The Reasoning Criminal..

The Reconstruction of Space and Time..

The Reflexive Initiative is an authoritative intervention in the practice and tradition of reflexive social theory. It demonstrates the importance of the reflexive imperative, not only in the investigation of everyday life but across a wide range of human sciences and philosophical perspectives...

This title was first published in 2003. The authors of the essays in this collection, all internationally recognised refugee scholars and practitioners, look at the controversial "hot" topic of refugee rights. They consider whether, 50 years after its agreement, the Refugees' Convention can provide ..

The Research Act..

This title was first published in 2001. "The Revelation of Nature" embraces pragmatism, aesthetics and metaphysics in an effort to narrate a fundamental relationship between the contemporary world and the natural source and site for any world of meaning...

Professor Jarvie examines the nature of the revolution in social anthropology in order to investigate its results. Working within Karl Popper's radical view of the nature of science, he argues that the subject is one of the oldest and most fundamental of all studies and suggests it can easily be tra..