Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Sociology - General

With just over a century of history, social work has come of age as a powerful global profession in possession of its own body of knowledge based on research, skills, competence, and an international value system with a code of ethics. Today, social work has developed from humble origins to become a vital guardian of human rights and a bulwark against the social injustices caused by global marketization.

This new title in the Routledge series, Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this evolution and the...

Millions of us make use of psychoactive or mind-altering drugs. Such drugs, both legal and otherwise, can cause pleasure or pain (or both). So, too, can sex, gambling, shopping, dieting, exercise, and Internet use. Addiction or dependence on substances like alcohol, tobacco, illicit and prescribed drugs, and on other risky behaviours, is strongly associated with a broad range of personal and social consequences. They can greatly enhance life or ruin it. The heavy and chronic use of legal and illegal drugs, as well as other compulsive or problematic behaviours, are associated with massive...

Over the last two decades, event history analysis has emerged as a mature analytical tool in the social sciences. This four-volume edited collection,...

This is the first systematic assessment of the work of J um] rgen Habermas - the key theorist of the later Frankfurt School, whose writing has had a major impact on social theory and sociology. These four volumes comprise the key secondary literature on Habermas. Edited by David Rasmussen and James Swindal, leading commentators on Habermas's work, this will be the standard reference work on one of the canonical theorists of the 20th century.

VOLUME ONE The Foundations of Habermas's Project

VOLUME TWO Law and Politics

What is the nature of our current societies? Do we see a clash of civilizations, or the end of history? The advent of globalization, or the birth of the network society? Are we witnessing the emergence of a risk society, or the advent of the knowledge society? More fundamentally, is society an ideological construct that should be abandoned?

Coming into English from the Latin term societas via Old French societe, the etymology of society, in the sense of a system adopted by a group of co-existing individuals for mutually beneficial purposes, can be traced back at least to the...

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Sports history is no longer a marginal academic subject. It has now been recognised that sport is a significant cultural activity that matters to billions of people and ought to be studied by academic researchers. Correctly practised, sports history is a counter to nostalgia, myth, and invented tradition. It can be considered the sports memory of a nation: without sports history there is sporting amnesia. The respected editors of this major work have brought together some of the best and most challenging work in the field for the first time. Covering a...

Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Sociology, is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research on the intellectual origins and the development of ‘socal exclusion’, a critical concept in the social sciences in general and sociology in particular.

This six-volume facsimile collection reprints seven publications from the 17th to early 19th century, which conceptually influenced Robert Malthus and his Population - one of the most significant works in the history of thought. All are rare and difficult-to-find texts which have never been reprinted before.

The four volumes of 'Film and Religion' will present a range of scholarly articles, mainly since 1990, which offer a critical overview of the interdisciplinary field from a number of perspectives. It is an international collection that includes attention to popular Hollywood and 'arthouse' films and filmmakers, as well as documentaries, Bollywood, Nollywood, and other international pockets of film production and reception. Readings are primarily from scholars of religious studies, theology, and biblical studies, but the collection will also include work by film studies scholars and...