Sociology & Social Policy

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..

 In The Rhetoric of Emotions, Robert Perinbanayagam proposes that by analysing individuals' experiences, especially through their interaction with creative outlets, we can come to a deeper understanding of how the human mind systematically approaches the emotive process...

Through close stylistic and rhetorical analysis across contemporary feminist writing, Lynne Pearce demonstrates how feminist thought is created as well as communicated by the frameworks in which it is presented...

This title was first published in 2000:  A discussion on the right of a child to a clean environment. It links two important contemporary issues: human rights and the environment...

The Rise and Fall of Elites..

The Rise and Fall of Elites..

The Rise and Fall of Philanthropy in East Africa..

The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology..

This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it emerged to become the dominant form of social organisation of our time. Asking how it was that we came to be consumers who live in societies that rev..

As the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of human/animal relations become crucial to the urgent questions of our time, notably in relation to environmental crisis, this volume explores the inner tensions within the broad field of animal studies and provides a platform for the latest critical thi..

As the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of human/animal relations become crucial to the urgent questions of our time, notably in relation to environmental crisis, this volume explores the inner tensions within the broad field of animal studies and provides a platform for the latest critical thi..

The Rise of Professionalism..