Sociology & Social Policy

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..

This collection discusses conditions of social class and the ways in which class is produced in educational institutions and families, while simultaneously interrogating and challenging our understandings of social class as it is linked to race, gender, and nation...

This collection discusses conditions of social class and the ways in which class is produced in educational institutions and families, while simultaneously interrogating and challenging our understandings of social class as it is linked to race, gender, and nation...

Explores the interplay between the recent broader changes affecting the welfare state (fiscal crisis, cost containment, privatization, etc) and the restructuring of social service work, and the implications for the line practitioner...

Explores the interplay between the recent broader changes affecting the welfare state (fiscal crisis, cost containment, privatization, etc) and the restructuring of social service work, and the implications for the line practitioner...

Explicitly written for undergraduate course use, the white racial frame is a broad-based way of thinking about race that encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology accented in other theories of "race," but also the visual images, array of emotions, sounds of language, interl..

Explicitly written for undergraduate course use, the white racial frame is a broad-based way of thinking about race that encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology accented in other theories of "race," but also the visual images, array of emotions, sounds of language, interl..

The Willowbrook Wars..

This title was first published in 2000:  Did the plan of medieval churches have any underlying symbolic meaning? This work re-opens the debate about the importance of geometry and symbolism in medieval architectural design and argues the case for attributing an intellectual meaning to the planning o..

Comprehensive in its coverage, The Womanist Reader is the first volume to anthologize the major works of womanist scholarship...

This book, based on a truly collaborative international research project, evaluates the empirical evidence in this debate in order to (1) give an adequate portrayal of the historical realities of the world-system, (2) draw a nuanced assessment about this debate, and (3) provide the basis on which we..

The World of Animals..