Deviance and Identity

The sociology of deviance was in its heyday when this book was published in 1969. John Lofland traces the field from pre-World War II to the late sixties and pioneers the application of “grounded theory” to the study of deviant behavior.

Discourse on Applied Sociology: Volume 2

This engaging and wide-ranging two-volume study urges a balance between theoretical and practical sociology.

The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu

'The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu' provides an introduction to the French sociologist’s thought and an evaluation of the international significance of his work from a range of national perspectives.

The Anthem Companion to Thorstein Veblen

“The Anthem Companion to Thorstein Veblen” offers a collection of original essays by leading scholars in the field of Veblen studies. Contributions span a wide range of Veblen’s concerns, with a special emphasis on Veblen’s significance for contemporary debates about epistemology, social evolutio...

The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain

'The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain' discusses the issue of intellectual property rights versus the public domain in facilitating access to genetic resources for biotechnology development, through a dialogue between seven fictional scholars and a hilarious ...

Toward a Politics of the (Im)Possible

This book presents a philosophical discussion on the issues of the body and knowledge from a feminist perspective.

Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead

This is the first book to systematically analyse the different concepts of the social developed by Durkheim, Marx and Weber, suggesting that debates surrounding this concept are still very much alive.

The Development of a Theory of Social Structure and Personality

Melvin Kohn, a pioneer in the cross-national, comparative and collaborative study of social structure and personality, examines his sociological research spanning a six-decade career to articulate a theory of social structure and personality.

Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist

“Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist” is a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Renée C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring––and pressing––issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, f...

Life Chances, Education and Social Movements

‘Life Chances, Education and Social Movements’ dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorf’s work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical...

Managing Boundaries in the Health Professions

The availability and delivery of health care is one of the most important issues on the American public policy agenda. The authors analyze the social, psychological, and bureaucratic boundaries that define health care in the United States, discuss how organizational change affects these boundarie...

Human Rights, Security Politics and Embodiment

How have human rights been entangled with state control of the body? And how have they failed to intervene effectively on tipping points such as the US’s endorsement of torture that removes the victim’s control over their own body? This book explores the way institutional human rights have glosse...

Revisiting <i> Divisions of Labour </i>

This collection revisits Ray Pahl's 1984 sociology classic, combining excerpts from the original with assessments by leading researchers of how and why the book has stood the test of time as a study that fundamentally re-thinks our understanding of 'work'.

Media, Monarchy and Power

Is obsession with the Royal Family in Britain a fact of culture or an illusion of media culture? What interest do the European media display in their royal families? Does twenty-first century monarchy remain a political and ideological force - or is it just an economic commodity? Media, Monarchy ...

Personalised cancer medicine

Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and collective futures are crafted through their work and care. The authors chart the different kinds of care and work involved in efforts to personalise cancer medicine, as well as the w...

Learning from Franz L. Neumann

"Learning from Franz Neumann" examines the political and legal thought of Franz Neumann in relation to the contemporary decline of the social welfare state and the rise of populism.

Literature and Inequality

Great works of literature, by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, can help us to better understand the social ramifications of high-end inequality – not just in the authors' eras but today.

Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film

 In Bonfires of the American Dream, through close cultural studies of classic novels and films – Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street – Daniel Shaviro helps to provide a better understanding of what went wrong culturally in America.

Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond

This book contains a collection of lucid, empirically grounded articles that explore and analyse the structures, agents and practices of social inclusion and exclusion in contemporary India and beyond.

Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement

This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.

Fan Phenomena: Star Wars

Emerging Dynamics in Audiences' Consumption of Trans-media Products

The book investigates the new forms of agency possessed by national audiences with reference to two television texts: Mad Men (AMC, 2007–2015) and Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011–2019). Structured as a comparative study between two countries, Italy and New Zealand, the research aims to provide insight...

Fan Phenomena: Batman

From his debut in a six-page comic in 1939 to his most recent portrayal by Christian Bale in the blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is perhaps the world’s most popular superhero. The continued relevance of the caped crusader could be attributed to his complex character, his dual identity o...

The Anthem Companion to Alfred Schutz

This book examines various concepts in Schutz’s philosophical theory and considers issues in theory of knowledge, social science, and the theory of society. 

Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment

‘Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment’ presents the idea that local communities can develop sustainably under changing environmental conditions when the discrepancy are sufficiently addressed between community views and the views of organizations responsible for implementing deve...

The Intellect Handbook of Men’s Fashion

Expands the field by centering decolonization, global perspectives, and intersectionality. With 34 chapters from fashion scholars, it examines how masculinity is fashioned, contested, and expressed across cultures and histories. This essential resource challenges conventional narratives and opens...

Reflective Laughter

A witty overview of humour in Russian culture.

Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia

‘Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia’ provides a systemic test of how successful/unsuccessful China’s soft power message projection is in terms of congruence between projected and received frames in Australia.

Robert Frank's 'The Americans'

In the mid-50s, Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs that resulted in The Americans, which represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's emerging understanding of itself. Jonathan Day revisits this wo...

Empowering Visions

An examination of the politics of representation in Hindu nationalism.

Digital Platforms and the Press

Digital Platforms and the Press argues that there is a growing risk of a platform-dependent press, which threatens democracies across the world. The book provides the first comprehensive account of how platform dependence manifests across the news media sector. 7 b/w illus. A PDF version of this...

6+1 Proposals for Journalism

New edited collection that discusses, and recommends solutions to, challenges facing journalism in this digital age. It draws attention to seven key factors that not only highlight the present crisis in journalism, but also indicate the steps we need to take to safeguard and enhance trustworthy j...

Statistics and the Quest for Quality Journalism

This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage o...

Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging

Containing contributions by leading scholars, ‘Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging’ addresses key topical themes and concerns in contemporary Australia.

In the Name of Security – Secrecy, Surveillance and Journalism

‘In the Name of Security – Secrecy, Surveillance and Journalism’ investigates the effects of the increased number of anti-terror laws, new mass surveillance technologies and a global fear- driven security paradigm have had on in-depth public interest journalism since 11 September 2001 in a number...

Mediatization(s)

Introduces the main theories and authors on mediatization from Europe and Latin America in the last two decades. It frames these theories within the context of communication and media theories, and maps the current field of mediatization focusing on the most recent and cutting-edge theoretical, m...

Unmapped Countries

An enlightening, multi-disciplinary investigation into the fascinating and courageous scientific explorations of the nineteenth century.

Beijing Film Academy 2018

The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook showcases the best academic debates, discussions and research, as previously published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy. This volume brings together selected articles, appearing for the first time in English, bridging the gap in cr...

"Lesser Breeds"

An examination of racial attitudes in popular British culture, 1890–1940.

The New Politics of Visibility

This volume gathers together ten original essays on the contemporary politics of visibility. Contributions are interdisciplinary and address an array of topical areas in the newly emerging modes of governance, ranging from urban public space to the media and the new media in contemporary society....

MEDIA

The first book in the Media-Life-Universe trilogy of transdisciplinary explorations from internationally known scholars and practitioners, this collection addresses the emerging roles of media and is an indispensable text for classroom use by scholars and students exploring contemporary media, co...

Lesbian Inscriptions in Francophone Society and Culture

The first comprehensive collection of essays in English dedicated entirely to the study of lesbian inscriptions in francophone society and culture.

Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 40-41

Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 73

The journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.

Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 45

Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 39

Hebrew Union College Annual

The Journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present. 

The Commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra on the Book of Job

The book of Job was among the most popular books of study for Jewish scholars in the Middle Ages. Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164), born in Muslim Spain, composed his commentaries while living in Christian Europe. By writing in Hebrew, rather than Arabic, he also transmitted the intellectual life of ...

Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association Volume 5 (2020)

The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qur'anic Studies Association.

The Struggle for the Meaning of Islam (4-volume set)

Sadik Jalal Al-Azm was an internationally respected scholar and political commentator who offered innovative challenges to conventional narratives on issues surrounding Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. This 4 volume set includes the fourth and final vol...

Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film

This book interrogates the depiction of same-sex desire in contemporary literature and film by artists of Muslim heritage. .

Studies in Early Islamic History (with an Introduction by G. R. Hawting)

This is a collection of all of Martin Hinds' (1941-1988) full-length articles which appeared in journals as well as one of his articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam. Most of the articles concern the early period of Islamic history, while two others deal with the early Abbasid caliphate.

Occasionalism Revisited, 2nd edition

This book guides us through one of the most fascinating theories of causality, where the only true causal agent is God, and all occurrences in the universe are but moments of divine creation. This expanded and updated 2nd edition, edited by Nazif Muhtaroglu, weaves together philosophical perspect...

Discerning Religious Truth

The tradition of rational theology in the mature post-classical Sunni tradition has unique philosophical insights and solutions to modern philosophical problems that have not yet been articulated in the philosophical mainstream. This book connects the tradition of Sunni Muslim intellectual though...

The Banū Sulaym

This study focuses on Sulaym in the crucial transition period from Jāhiliyya to Islam, and hence it contributes to the study of the Prophet and his time.

The Political Culture of the Abbasid Court, 279-324 A.H.

Critical Sexual Literacy

This book is a new and exciting resource for teachers, students, and activists who aim to critically examine contemporary sexuality through the lens of sexual literacy and situated social analysis. This original anthology provides shorter cutting-edge essays on theory, method, and activism, inclu...

Sanctuary cities and urban struggles

This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars to explore how urban social movements, localised practices of rights claiming, and diverse articulations of sanctuary are reshaping the governance of migration.

Climate Change and the Future of Seattle

This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings.

Researching animal research

Through a sustained and critical engagement with the histories, social relations and cultures surrounding animal research, this book asks what the sector can teach us about the relations between science, society and animals in the twenty-first century.

Living the urban periphery

An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and character of urban peripheries and explores these on th...

Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

This book investigates the emergence of a ‘new ageing’ and its realisation through the body. The work explores new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and care of the self, which have seen the body become a site for ageing differently – for ageing without becoming old. 

TV Formats Worldwide

This book redresses the balance of reality shows and the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape. It explores topics such as reality TV, makeover programs, sitcoms, talent shows, fiction serials, broadcaster management policies, production decision...