Sociology & Social Policy

A wide-ranging collection of both classic writings and recent articles in the sociology of health and illness, this reader covers various perspectives, is international in scope, and is a valuable resource for sociology and social science students...

A wide-ranging collection of both classic writings and recent articles in the sociology of health and illness, this reader covers various perspectives, is international in scope, and is a valuable resource for sociology and social science students...

With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook has been widely acclaimed by teachers as the most accessible of any available._x005F_x000D_ It introduces and integrates recent research in medical sociology and emphasizes the importance of race, class, g..

Identifying the negative effects of the detection of hypocrisy at individual and institutional levels, the author engages with the work of Goffman to argue for the importance of trust in institutions, underlining the necessity of minimizing and correcting hypocritical acts by which this is undermine..

This book provides an excellent introduction to the sociology of industry. It comprises of three sections, which in turn address: the relation between industry and other sub-systems or institutions in society; the internal structure of industry and the roles people play within that structure; the so..

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The Sociology of Knowledge..

The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse is anchored in interpretive traditions of inquiry and allows for broadening - and possibly overcoming - of the epistemological biases and restrictions still common in theories and approaches of Western- and Northern-centric social sciences...

The Sociology of Law..

"David Harrison writes very well, and presents a good, well-balanced and perceptive appraisal of current perspectives."--"Times Higher Education Supplement" This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk...

Dr. Leslie Sklair is a Reader in Sociology at LSE. His thesis, Sociology of Progress, was published by Routledge in 1970...