Sociology & Social Policy

This title was published in 2000:  This text offers a standpoint on communicative, participatory planning called "consensus planning"...

This title was first published in 2000:  An edited collection based on a workshop which explored the biological, social, ethical, economic and political pressures underlying the present perceived loss of biodiversity. It brings together philosophers, economists, biologists and others whose fields de..

This text explores the contribution of magazines to the social construction of female adolescence during a historical period of rapid change and locates the role of magazines in the lives of contemporary girls...

Reviews the contributions to social problems theory that have been made by social constructionist theorists. This title is suitable for students, and provides a formulation of several major issues of social constructionism by contributors who are well recognized within the field...

Reviews the contributions to social problems theory that have been made by social constructionist theorists. This title is suitable for students, and provides a formulation of several major issues of social constructionism by contributors who are well recognized within the field...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Consumer Choice..

Consumer Sexualities explores women’s experiences of shopping in ‘sex shops’ and using sexual commodities in their everyday lives. This enlightening volume shows how women take up sexual consumer ‘technologies of the self’ to work upon and understand themselves as confident and active sexual agents ..

Consumers, Commissions, and Congress..

Consumers, Commissions, and Congress..

The 'cultural turn' has brought identity politics and issues of consumption to the fore in geography . By exploring geographies of food consumption, Bell and Valentine examine how we all think place and identity through food. We are where we eat...

This revealing book provides an incisive treatment of consumption on a global scale from a cultural, philosophical and business perspective. It is an original and radical analysis structured in a multi-disciplinary and progressive way...