Sociology & Social Policy

Published in 1999, the main aim of this text is to examine the nature of professional control, medical practice and the state of health services in a post-colonial state and the medical profession in Zimbabwe since 1980...

This volume examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action. The essays gathered here analyze questions regarding the usefulness and legitimacy of documentary testimony: What is the value of the historical archive the televised..

This volume examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action. The essays gathered here analyze questions regarding the usefulness and legitimacy of documentary testimony: What is the value of the historical archive the televised..

This volume presents accounts of research work undertaken by sociologists who have been influenced by feminism or the feminist critique of sociology, or both...

Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an international focus and relevance across a broad range of academic disciplines. Covering an array of topics, theories and approaches to gender studies, it introduces students to the study of gender through geog..

Arguing for the need to disseminate innovative ethnographic knowledge more widely and more effectively, this book outlines practical strategies and tools for sharing ethnographic and qualitative research through widely accessible media such as magazines, trade books, blogs, newspapers, video, radio,..

Arguing for the need to disseminate innovative ethnographic knowledge more widely and more effectively, this book outlines practical strategies and tools for sharing ethnographic and qualitative research through widely accessible media such as magazines, trade books, blogs, newspapers, video, radio,..

Doing Research In and On the Digital aims to deliver on two fronts; first, by detailing how researchers are devising and applying innovative research methods for and within the digital sphere and secondly; by discussing the ethical challenges and issues implied and encountered in such approaches...

Doing Survey Research is intended for students who want to learn how to conduct quantitative studies for a project in an undergraduate course, a graduate-level thesis, or a survey that an employer may want completed. This brief, practical textbook prepares students to conduct their own survey resear..

This title was first published in 2000:  This volume is based on papers presented at the sixth International Research Seminar on "Issues in Social Security", held by FISS on 12-15 June 1999 in Sigtuna, Sweden. The book relates to the discussion about the merits of improving the incentive structure o..

Domination and Subjugation in Everyday Life..

This interpretation of literary collaboration, first published in 1989, focuses on homosexual desire: men write together in order either to express or to evade homosexual feelings. The texts it explores – psychoanalysis, sexology, fiction, poetry – open up a deeper understanding of connections today..