Sociology & Social Policy

Examining the collective trauma of perpetrators (especially German national identity between 1945 and 2000) as well as victims, this book provides a fascinating insight into post-utopian patterns of collective identity in a globalised world...

Troubling Children..

This book was published in 2003.The book presents an analysis of the development of the European Union's policy towards Turkey from a comparative perspective and compares the EU's approach to the issues in the EU-Turkey relationship. However, the literature on EU-Turkey relations is excessively rigi..

This title was first published in 2000:  An analysis of the relations between Turkey, the West and the newly independent Turkic Republics, in the context of the "Turkish Model" proposed and supported by the West as a possible model for development in the Turkic Republics...

This book examines the ways in which states and nations are constructed and legitimated through defining and managing outsiders. Focusing on Turkey and the municipality of Dersim – a region that has historically combined different outsider identities, including Armenian, Kurdish, and Alevi identitie..

This reader provides a comprehensive overview of the history of demography and historical perspectives on "population" in the twentieth century. It presents primary sources from all over the globe, covering a wide range of actors and historical situations. Organized into eight thematic sections, the..

Compelling account of the decline of 'the social' and rise of atomisation under neo-liberalism, and how we can recreate a vibrant public realm...

Can television be a positive force in society? Can socially conscious entertainment change the world? This book asks these questions and more and arrives at surprising and unconventional answers. It explores the health benefits of entertainment through the moral and spiritual effects of vicarious in..

Can television be a positive force in society? Can socially conscious entertainment change the world? This book asks these questions and more and arrives at surprising and unconventional answers. It explores the health benefits of entertainment through the moral and spiritual effects of vicarious in..

Two Cultures of Policing..

Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police..

In the early 1970s, the preeminence of psychoanalysis in the treatment of mental illness gave way to a number of other approaches. Yet, rather than practicing in cooperation, the different schools--existentialism, psychoanalysis, interpersonalism, behaviorism--each taught its own methods, convinced ..