How do views about children shape research concerned with their lives? What different forms can research with children take? What ethical issues does it involve? How does it impact …
Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it. You will be …
This critical introduction to the principles of social and educational research draws together a key set of readings which offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of …
In the search for the causes of and solutions to social problems, no social institution has been allocated such a central role as the family. This volume examines how `the family' …
This key text explores the nature and extent of racial discrimination, and the successes and failures of equal opportunities programmes. A successful balance of important recent …
This interdisciplinary reader provides a distinctive introduction to the way social, political and economic life is coordinated. It brings together three quite different models of …
This anthology offers a unique collection of personal accounts of death, dying and bereavement. It examines representations of death, dying and bereavement in fiction, poetry, the …
The social, political and technological implications of the information revolution are the focus of this textbook. It explores the major social and technological issues surrounding …
`A highly effective introduction to the range of approaches found in discourse analysis... a lively and intellectually stimulating Reader' - David Silverman, Goldsmith College, …
This book draws together a range of both classic and newly commissioned pieces on the multidisciplinary study of death and dying. Organized into five parts, the book begins with a …
