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Global Childhoods in International Perspective: Universality, Diversity and Inequalities
Global Childhoods in International Perspective gathers a wide spectrum of contributors from Europe, the U.S., South Asia, South Africa and Latin America, who, attuned with present …
Home Care for Sale
The world of senior care provision and care work is changing rapidly. Across Europe, brokering agencies for live-in care workers have become powerful players in reshaping welfare …
Facing An Unequal World
"Raquel Sosa Elízaga has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential …
Sociology Today
We are living in a turbulent world marked by fast, continuous social changes that affect the lives of individuals, families, communities, organizations, businesses, nation-states, …
Agrifood Transitions in the Anthropocene
The greatest challenges of the twenty-first century stem from the fact that we are now living in a new epoch: the Anthropocene. The human footprint on the planet can no longer be …
Key Texts for Latin American Sociology
Key Texts for Latin American Sociology is the first book to curate and translate into English key texts from the Latin American Sociological canon. By bringing together texts from …
Social Movements and Social Classes
This book assembles an international cast of eminent contributors who focus on issues of social movements and social class from the perspective of collective action. An important …
Professional Men, Professional Women
This book tells the story of the principal European intellectual professions from the demise of the ancien régime to the rise of the European Union. A historical study which …
The Shape of Sociology for the 21st Century
"This is an important and thought-provoking collection of contemporary articles on the current crisis in social theory." - Professor Roger Penn, Lancaster University "With a …
The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions
"A brilliant treasury of wisdom and insight drawn from leading sociologists throughout the world...It is a striking achievement, of which the International Sociological Association …
Economy and Society
This is the first overview of the interface between economics and sociology. Normally considered quite separately, the volume reconciles the disciplines. Amongst the many questions …
National Traditions in Sociology
The history of sociology -- outside of accounts of the thought and influence of such founding figures as Marx, Durkheim and Weber -- remains relatively little examined. With an …