Sociology & Social Policy

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Despite apparent racial progress in the US, this book argues that the African American community is actually in a deep crisis on many fronts...

This new collection of distinctive studies tracks developments in the most recent published work during the period 1990-95, with an integral guide and editorial commentary by Leslie Smith. A useful and compact text for students and researchers...

This new collection of distinctive studies tracks developments in the most recent published work during the period 1990-95, with an integral guide and editorial commentary by Leslie Smith. A useful and compact text for students and researchers...

This volume examines expressivist, cognitivist, and social-constructivist theories within composition theory: and critiques the epistemological focus of modern composition theory and its neglect of the ontological foundations...

This volume examines expressivist, cognitivist, and social-constructivist theories within composition theory: and critiques the epistemological focus of modern composition theory and its neglect of the ontological foundations...

An essential contribution to the current mapping of migration studies, with a focus on Australian scholarship in its international context, this collection will be of interest to undergraduates and postgraduates interested in fields such as Sociology, Cultural Studies, Geography and Politics...

_x005F_x000D_ Critical Sociology is a thoroughly revised, updated, and sophisticated introduction to the sociological perspective as a critical lens on society.Much has happened since the first edition: the Great Recession, the Obama presidency, the burgeoning role of social media, and recent global..

This book sheds new light on the unique critiques of modernity offered by the school of thinkers associated with Georg Lukács, informed as its members’ insights have been by first-hand experiences of Nazism, Soviet socialism and the liberal-democratic West. Presenting studies of topics central to co..

This book radically re-examines Europe’s imaginaries of its origin in the ancient Greek world. Extracting central concepts of critical theory in its widest sense, it allies them to characters, mythologies and motifs in ancient thought. An important book for scholars and students of critical theory, ..

A critical look at the legal order in capitalist society. Using a traditional Marxist perspective, Richard Quinney argues that the legal order is not intended to reduce crime and suffering, but to maintain class differences and a social order that mainly benefits the ruling class...

This book proposes that there exists a counter tradition within everyday life theorising. This has sought not merely to describe lived experience but to transform it by elevating our understanding to the status of a critical knowledge...