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Do you feel like all your friends are 'getting old and boring', but you are getting younger by the day? Can you be heard saying the phrase '40 is the new 20'? Is your wardrobe on-trend, but for the second time round? It's official, you're in denial. You...

Until recently, age discrimination attracted little social opprobrium. However, ageism has now been thrust onto the equality agenda by the spectre of an ageing population. This has led to a range of policies on 'active ageing.' Most importantly, legally...

Everyone wants to be more creative. Being creative makes life more fun and interesting. However, it is a common belief that creativity is something you are born with and others can only envy. In Change Your Mind, Rod Judkins reveals that creative people...

First published in 1994. The media report terrible events. But the academic study of the media is increasingly trivial and lacking in moral seriousness. Media, Culture and Morality examines how this paradoxical situation could have emerged. The author...

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This book offers the first framing of potential social science approaches to the compelling and yet hugely under-researched topic of food waste. Shows how the profile of waste has suddenly increased as a topic of sociological relevance and extends these...

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Presenting fully integrative text covering disability from a variety of disciplines This innovative text first reviews existing theories, then sets forth a new viewpoint that incorporates elements from disability studies, sociology, human services,...

The seventh edition of this indispensable resource continues from strength to strength to provide a vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to sociology. Revised and updated throughout, it provides a commanding overview of recent global...

This book is focused and systematic documentation of the incidence and extent of the practice of untouchability in contemporary India. Based on the results of a large survey covering 565 villages in 11 states, it reveals that untouchability continues to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780577182033Author Alyssa MilehamFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Gulam PublishersPublisher Gulam PublishersWeight(grams) 118g

Self-regulation has long been at the core of sociological understandings of what it means to be a "profession." However, the historical processes resulting in the formation of self-regulating professions have not been well understood. In Regulating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888153272Author A TroostFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Paideia PressPublisher Paideia PressWeight(grams) 363g

This book presents a set theoretical approach to sociological research. It revisits existing sociological approaches and discusses their limitations, before suggesting an alternative. While the existing canonical approaches of Positivism, Conflictualism,...

This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China in its human, social and political dimensions. It does so through the experience of faculty and students at Duke University and Duke Kunshan...

This book puts together grounded research on the discourses that counter Islamophobic tropes in North America. Dealing with an important and urgent issue of human rights, it explores how public policies, new conceptualizations, and social movements can...

This book focuses on the processes that help stabilize democracy. It provides a socio-historical analysis of the future prospects of democracy. The link between advanced capitalism and democracy is emphasized, focusing on contract law and the separation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783658335359Author Ivar KrumpalFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Springer vsPublisher Springer vsWeight(grams) 148g

This book examines the history of racial classifications in Puerto Rico censuses, starting with the Spanish censuses and continuing through the US ones. Published twentieth-century censuses have been well studied; we also examine unpublished documents in...

This book provides a unique assessment of the Nigerian healthcare system's different professions. It begins by examining the fundamentals of health professions to contextualize the issues explored in the book in more detail. It goes on to present the...

This book explores the tension between analogue and digital as part of an evolving research programme and focuses on the sequencing of methods within it. The book will be an invaluable reference for scholars who routinely engage in critical sociological...

This book puts together grounded research on the discourses that counter Islamophobic tropes in North America. Dealing with an important and urgent issue of human rights, it explores how public policies, new conceptualizations, and social movements can...

This volume presents an account of how people in sub-Saharan Africa have fared under changing life circumstances of the past centuries until the present. By introducing the geography of the region it traces a time line of different historical periods...

Written from the perspective of a diagnostic radiography educator, t his book introduces readers to ethnography as a methodology and examines how an ethnographic researcher sees the world in which they live. About the AuthorRuth M. Strudwick is...

This book studies Australia, a country characterized by the highest concentration of domestic photovoltaic systems. In addition, the high level of solar energy that Australia receives makes these systems a significant part of its energy mix...

This volume presents an account of how people in sub-Saharan Africa have fared under changing life circumstances of the past centuries until the present. By introducing the geography of the region it traces a time line of different historical periods...

This book presents a rigorous enquiry into life course processes that are thought to influence health, integrating the latest methodologies for the study of pathways that link socio-demographic circumstances to health with an emphasis on the mediating...

The thinking of Antoine-Augustin Cournot has inspired a growing literature in economy and epistemology, but as of yet, his sociological thought has not been explicitly discussed and contextualized within the discipline. From the 1850s to the end of the...

This original analysis of modern Greece's political culture attempts to present a "total social fact"-a coherent and complex representation of Greek socio-political culture-to identify the cultural causes of Greece's recent disastrous economic...

This book describes three years of work by Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a research project based in Edinburgh that experiments with maps to capture the voices of inhabitants and their distinctive perspectives on the city. Taking a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206367628Author Tiago ThemudoFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 159g