Sociology & Social Policy

Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Second Edition considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today, retaining the first edition’s examples from the first celebrity fan magazines of 1911 to the present and expanding to include updat..

Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Second Edition considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today, retaining the first edition’s examples from the first celebrity fan magazines of 1911 to the present and expanding to include updat..

Celebrity Society brings new dimensions to our understanding of celebrity, capturing the way in which the figure of ‘the celebrity’ is bound up with the emergence of modernity. By looking beyond the accounts of celebrity ‘culture’, Robert van Krieken develops the analysis of ‘celebrity society’, wit..

Celebrity Society brings new dimensions to our understanding of celebrity, capturing the way in which the figure of ‘the celebrity’ is bound up with the emergence of modernity. By looking beyond the accounts of celebrity ‘culture’, Robert van Krieken develops the analysis of ‘celebrity society’, wit..

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...

This title was first published in 2001. This study of centre-periphery relations in Russia looks at general developments in law, politics and economy, as well as resource management and military presence. The book is the result of several years of co-operation between the Centre for Russian Studies ..

The HIV/AIDS epidemic has presented challenges to social researchers to provide detailed and accurate information about "sensitive" behaviour amongst "hidden" populations. This volume draws together examples of innovative research which has been conducted in the field of HIV/AIDS...

This title was first published in 2001. The challenges that face the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have changed considerably. Growing international interdependence has meant that domestic civil servants are playing an increasing role in international negotiations and foreign policy m..

This title was first published in 2000:  The essays gathered in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and practical issues concerning a variety of problems which democracies confront time and again. Their aim is to look at challenges to democracy that evolve from within democracy. The discus..

Presenting a detailed examination of hegemonic masculinity and its interpretations, Howson's significant new book provides an important contribution to contemporary understandings of men and masculinity...

Presenting a detailed examination of hegemonic masculinity and its interpretations, Howson's significant new book provides an important contribution to contemporary understandings of men and masculinity...