The reader includes a number of different perspectives on health and illness, is international in scope, and will provide an invaluable resource to students across a wide range of courses in sociology and the social sciences.
The reader includes a number of different perspectives on health and illness, is international in scope, and will provide an invaluable resource to st...
This reader provides a comprehensive collection of both classic writings and more recent articles in the sociology of health and illness. It is organized into the following sections: health beliefs and knowledge; inequalities and patterning of health and illness; professional and patient interaction; chronic illness and disability; and evaluation and politics in health care. Each section has an introduction, summarizing the content and argument of each article in turn. The reader also has a general introduction which sets the scene for the field as a whole, contextualises each section and...
This reader provides a comprehensive collection of both classic writings and more recent articles in the sociology of health and illness. It is organi...
Social Research Methods: A Reade brings together many of the core classic and contemporary works in social and cultural research methods, giving students direct access to methodological debates and examples of practical research across the qualitative/quantitative divide.
Social Research Methods: A Reade brings together many of the core classic and contemporary works in social and cultural research methods, giving stude...
There has been much debate over the idea of 'the information society'. Some thinkers have argued that information is becoming the key ordering principle in society, whereas others suggest that the rise of information has been overstated. Whatever the case, it cannot be denied that 'informization' has produced vast changes in advanced societies. The Information Society Reader pulls together the main contributions to this debate from some of the key figures in the field. Major topics addressed include: * post-industrialism * surveillance * transformations * the network...
There has been much debate over the idea of 'the information society'. Some thinkers have argued that information is becoming the key ordering princip...
This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialisation to the vagaries of fashion and body piercing.
This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialisation to the vagaries of fa...
Emotions: A Social Science Reader is the first Reader to showcase influential and contemporary work in the study of emotion and affective life from across the range of the social sciences. It offers transdisciplinary framework designed to highlight the mutual relevance of different social scientific traditions and perspectives essential to the study of emotion.
Emotions: A Social Science Reader is the first Reader to showcase influential and contemporary work in the study of emotion and affective ...
This timely Reader plays an important role in the field of social movements. It fills a significant gap by covering a number of connected areas within social studies.
Responding to growing demand for interpretation and analysis of re-emerging social conflicts in the developed, as well as the developing world, this timely collection is the outcome of the recent boost received by social movement studies since the spread of contention and collective action at international level and the growth of the 'anti-globalization' movement.
Intended not only as a comprehensive...
This timely Reader plays an important role in the field of social movements. It fills a significant gap by covering a number of connected areas wit...
'The Creolization Reader' illuminates old creole societies and emerging cultures and identities in many parts of the world. Areas covered include Latin America, the South Atlantic/Indian oceans, the Caribbean, West and East Africa, the Pacific and the US.
'The Creolization Reader' illuminates old creole societies and emerging cultures and identities in many parts of the world. Areas covered include Lati...
