Sociology and Anthropology

This book has been written to try and minimize the incidence of broken homes and also to encourage the youth to marry at the right age and not to b...

This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused on the social and economic lives of people.

What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of...

This book explores different strands of thinking about sexuality education in contemporary urban India. It interrogates the limits of sexuality edu...

Homi Bhabha is one of that small group occupying the front ranks of cultural theoretical thought. Any serious discussion of post-colonial/postmoder...

This book critically examines the new middle class and the emergence of neo-urban spaces in India within the context of rapid urbanisation and chan...

An authoritative, topical, and comprehensive reference to the key concepts and most important traditional and contemporary issues in medical sociol...

A comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditions and critical contemporary issues of social theory. Builds on the success of The Bl...

This book studies the different models adopted by contemporary states in Central Europe in fighting the SARS-CoV-2 virus. With thorough analysis of...

This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel in contemporary West Benga...

Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day...

This book analyses regional expressions of the queer experience in texts available in the Indian vernacular languages. It studies queer autobiograp...

Since the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy, design – a once relatively definable discipli...

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, Africa...

This handbook is a comprehensive text on social work education based on the narratives of social work educators, practitioners, and researchers fro...

Sarah Nettleton’s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and...

The Sociology of Islam provides an accessible introduction to this emerging field of inquiry, teaching and debate. The study is located at the cruc...

The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angle...

Effective April 6th, 2012, this title is now published by Oxford University Press USA (OUP). Please click here to see the OUP web page for this tit...

This book examines the validity of the notion of the ‘vernacular’ and the position of the so-called ‘vernaculars’ in colonial and postcolonial sett...

Reflecting emerging research and ongoing reassessments of social theory, The Wiley- Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists offers significan...

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology is a complete reference guide, reflecting the scope and quality of the discipline, and highlig...

This new edition provides a scholarly and readable introduction to all the key qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods, ena...

This book examines sanitation and toilet access across rural India, focusing on psychological, socio-cultural, infrastructural, and normative barri...