Sociology & Social Policy

For all students of philosophy, especially those with an interest in applied ethics, this book raises many interesting questions regarding the ethics of treating individuals as though they are members of groups...

Caste, Class and Democracy..

Offers an approach to recognizing that differences among people are resources for organizations to tap as they strive to anticipate change and adapt rapidly in an unpredictable world. This book provides a framework for understanding how complex communication patterns of social networks influence, an..

An important contribution in the burgeoning literature relating to the delivery of medical care, and to the broader question of responsible decision-making in those social areas where tragic choices have to be made. The effort is an excellent example of research into, and therapy for, an important s..

Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions..

Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions..

Reveals how the US has changed from a society that celebrates childhood into one that is afraid of its own children...

A companion volume to the "Causal Models in the Social Sciences", this work includes articles, the majority of which concern panel designs involving repeated measurements while a smaller cluster involves discussions of how experimental designs may be improved by more explicit attention to causal mod..

Causal models are formal theories stating the relationships between precisely defined variables, and have become an indispensable tool of the social scientist. This collection of articles is a course book on the causal modeling approach to theory construction and data analysis...

Causes of Delinquency..

Celebrations..

Over the past few decades, the public obsession with celebrity has exploded. This fully-updated second edition investigates issues in celebrity culture from the paparazzi to politics, from voyeurism to self-perfection. Cashmore presents engaging case studies to analyse how social media has changed t..