Sociology and Anthropology

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...

Towards Inclusive Societies: Psychological and Sociological Perspectives focuses on the importance of building inclusive societies and communities ...

'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states. This book surveys t...

This book is a historical study of the development of agrarian class relations among the tribal population in Tripura. Tracing the evolution of Tri...

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south. Instead ...

Goldberg uses a multi-media approach to critically examine the most significant and volatile issues of our times: the environmental crisis, upheava...

The use of nonviolent action is on the rise. From the Occupy Movement to the Arab Spring and mass protests on the streets of Brazil, activists acro...

This book is a compendium of experiences over the last 40 years in the field of Community Development and Working with People. People and Communiti...