Sociology & Social Policy

Japan, the only non-Western society to develop independently a fully-fledged capitalist-industrialist economy, poses fundamental questions to social theory. Is Japan in fact ‘unique’ and as such is it a society which escapes the net of conventional sociological abstractions? The book questions how s..

This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism. The book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide range of arts and genres including chapters on painting, theatre, and magazines...

This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism. The book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide range of arts and genres including chapters on painting, theatre, and magazines...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Analyzing the complex interaction between aspects of new digital technologies, this book draws upon a mix of theoretical approaches to give fresh insight into the roots of the social matrix behind the digital 'Matrix' of popular imagination...

The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world as we knew it. This book aims to go beyond the polarized and reductive perception of ‘piracy wars’ to offer a richer understanding of the paradoxes inherent in new forms of distribution...

Some influential social theorists and some management gurus share the view that we now live in a digital information capitalism defined by networked and ‘immaterial’ politics. Digital Publics traces the historical roots of this thinking, demonstrates its flaws, and shows that it leads to a rather co..

Some influential social theorists and some management gurus share the view that we now live in a digital information capitalism defined by networked and ‘immaterial’ politics. Digital Publics traces the historical roots of this thinking, demonstrates its flaws, and shows that it leads to a rather co..

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Dilemmas of Social Reform..

This title was first published in 2002: A critical look at the experiences of disabled people in accessing and receiving community care in the UK. The author uses a framework of citizenship, encompassing civil and social rights, to ask difficult questions about the role the welfare state plays in pr..

In this book, first published in 1990, leading theorists and applied economists address themselves to the key questions of aggregation. The issues are covered both theoretically and in wide-ranging applications. Of particular intrest is the optimal aggregation of trade data, the need for micro-model..