Sociology & Social Policy

The Uses of Digital Literacy..

The Uses of Literacy..

The Uses of Narrative..

The growth and health of the social sciences owe a good deal to the generally held belief that they are socially useful, but is this really so? In The Uses of Social Research, first published in 1982, Martin Bulmer answers this and other questions concerning the uses of empirical social science in t..

The Vanishing American Dream..

The Victim of Rape..

This title was first published in 2000:  "Comedy" and "humour" are not words most associate with the Victorian period, yet their culture was rife with laughter and irony. The 12 essays in this volume reanimate this "comic spirit" by exploring the humour in its social context...

This work argues that the virtual has become one of the key organizing principles of contemporary society for the public realms of politics and business as well as private life from sex to shopping...

The War of the Jesus and Darwin Fishes..

The War of the Jesus and Darwin Fishes..

The War On Labor And The Left..

This book looks at two contradictory ethical motifs - the warrior and the pacificist - across four major faith traditions: Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their role in shaping our understanding of violence and the morality of its use. The Warrior and the Pacifist explores how these f..