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-- Gary Kinsman, author of The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero SexualitiesBook InformationISBN 9780231101219Author Barry AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

What is education, and who counts as an 'educated person' amidst competing religious, political, and pedagogical ideologies, which have shaped contemporary educational practices and institutions in Nepal? How have social and political changes, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788323349495Author Krzysztof GorlachFormat HardbackPage Count 710Imprint Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, WydawnictwoPublisher Uniwersytet Jagiellonski,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804709620Author Robert J. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press

Thoroughly revised and updated in this fifth edition, Political Sociology: Power and Participation in the Modern World illustrates the broad social bases of politics and also shows how politics and governmental actions can influence the fate of nations...

The Intimate State explores how state-supported mental health initiatives made emotional intimacy both politically valued and personally desired during a crucial period of modern British psychiatric and cultural history. Focusing on the transformative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197618967Author OreFormat PaperbackPage Count 558Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

This rigorous comparative study of national identity in Japan, South Korea, and China examines countries with long histories influenced by Confucian thought, surging nationalism, and far-reaching ambitions for regional importance. East Asian National...

Historians have long been intrigued by Japan's static national population during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the output of the economy was almost certainly growing. Was population held in check by high mortality or low fertility,...

Politics of Solidarity explores the transformation of public services in post-apartheid South Africa and the effects of privatization in three cities: Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, Carmen Ludwig...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438467276Author Jason Del GandioFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

How attorneys' work is de-professionalized, downgraded, and controlled through part-time and temporary assignmentsBook InformationISBN 9781439902851Author Robert A. BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple...

Sociologic: Analysing Everyday Life and Culture is a contemporary introduction to sociology. You will learn about sociological concepts through examining a variety of theories and theorists, all the while relating and applying this knowledge to your own...

The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man, Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements, The Last Landscape, The Social Life of...

Are there classes in America? In The Classless Society Paul Kingston forcefully answers no.This book directly challenges a long-standing intellectual tradition of class analysis, recently revitalized by such prominent scholars as Erik Olin Wright and...

In recent years, migration has become one of the most discussed phenomena, both within and outside the academic world. This book takes into account how Syrian female refugees are socially, economically, culturally, ethnically and sexually marginalized...

Understanding the significance of genetic factors for our lives requires an analysis that goes beyond biological aspects. It is especially necessary to take into account how human beings relate to others and to themselves. Who we are is a result of...

Tourism has become an important tool for development in rural, remote and peripheral regions in the last 50 years. However, in many places, tourism has failed to produce the promised benefits and often caused negative impacts due to a lack of local...

As major environmental crises loom, Christina Ergas makes the argument in Surviving Collapse that one possible way forward is a radical sustainable development that turns the focus from monetary gain to social and ecological regeneration and...

There is widespread agreement that the American welfare state is in crisis. Derived piecemeal from the New Deal, the welfare state is faced with numerous problems, including severe fiscal constraint, programmatic fragmentation, rigid bureaucratization...

Historiography is the method of doing historical research, a potentially powerful tool in a social work historian or qualitative researcher's arsenal. This addition to the Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods guides doctoral students and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920059135Author Anton L. AllaharFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Garamond PressPublisher Garamond PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802063984Author Lawrence HaworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 277g

This book will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers interested in Quebec history and politics, nationalism, and the role of religion in politics and society.Book InformationISBN 9780774861779Author Ian A. MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Drawing on group position theory, settler colonial studies, critical race theory, and Indigenous theorizing, Canada at a Crossroads emphasizes the social psychological barriers to transforming white settler ideologies and practices and working towards...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598938Author John GellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591496Author Edward B HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 349g

This collection of eleven cases of citizens organizing for change in Canada and the United States gives form and substance to the ideal of a new economy based on fairness and environmental sustainability. These are stories of local citizens responding to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116226Author Lisa SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.

Political and public debate recently has centered on issues of community, family and culture. What are the boundaries of community, and why is community important? What constitutes a family, and is it the fundamental unit of a stable society? What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959054980Author Katrin KlinganFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 227g

Why do we disagree about the causes of and solutions to social inequality? What explains our different viewpoints on Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, income inequality, and immigration? In this tightly argued book, John Iceland, Eric Silver, and Ilana...

Can scholarly pursuit of soap operas and folk art actually reveal a national imagination? This innovative collection features studies of iconography in Mexico, telenovelas in Venezuela, drama in Chile, cinema in Brazil, comic strips and tango in...

Social mobility is a classic topic in sociology, and Hungary presents an interesting case study for a number of reasons. The communist regime that took power after World War II had the proclaimed goal of eliminating the abusive inequalities of the old...

The existence of a Spanish and criollo landed elite and an Indian peasant mass has been the distinguishing feature of the Amerindian societies of Latin America for most of the past half-millennium. In Peru and Bolivia (colonial Alto Peru), the dominant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838210339Author Anna SaninaFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica...

Just within a few decades, the global dream of building a 'middle class society' has vanished almost everywhere, giving way to an emerging global nightmare: 'social exclusion'. France and Japan have been among the most successful societies, taken as...

This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the...

‘International’ social science is mostly done in English. This squeezes out the intellectual possibilities of other languages. This book explores what happens if we open a few doors and invite in some of these possibilities. Authors who live and work in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801482793Author Miriam J. WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 28g