Situating Racism
This book uncovers the complex causes and manifestations of contemporary racism in a globalized world. It analyzes how its boundaries shift, the impact of factors like nationalism and politics, and the challenges of building an anti-racist future.
This book presents a qualitative analysis of how Irish entrepreneurs use technology, such as LinkedIn, to form, develop and maintain professional business networks and manage social capital.
This book analyzes family diversity across cultures and generations. It reveals the complex connections between individual lives and major social, economic, and demographic shifts, deconstructing myths and exploring changes in gender and generational roles.
This book analyzes how social economics and entrepreneurship can be successful approaches in social work. It deals with core topics like management and social development, with implications for policy and organizations, appealing to researchers and a wider audience.
This volume examines the challenges of social exclusion and inequality facing Western Balkan countries on their path to the EU. It explores how state failures to protect women, young people, and Roma minorities have driven high rates of outward migration.
Social Issues presents the social problems confronting Romanian society after the fall of Communism. Essays analyse national and international migration, the construction of identity in physical and virtual spaces, and the health of vulnerable populations.
Social Issues and Policies in Asia
Across Asia, rapid change creates conflict between family, work, and ageing. This book addresses these social issues by comparing the challenges and interventions in societies like Japan, Korea, and China, providing insight into this dynamic part of the world.
Social Media in Asia
Written by Asian academics and practitioners, this book explores social media in Southeast Asia. Discover how it has changed the paradigm of communication: as an avenue for free expression, a tool for news distribution, an aid in crime prevention, and a means to find a partner.
Social Movements
This reader explores ongoing debates about social movements, from nineteenth-century utopias to the white supremacist movement. Using a multidisciplinary approach, authors tackle fundamental questions: Why do people join? How do movements evolve? Was Jonestown a cult?
Social network analysis is a methodological tool used to investigate collections of individuals and their shared relationships. The book provides an overview of the tool’s growing body of research in sport, and details practical guidance for its application.
This book presents social protection trajectories on four continents, examining the genesis and modern challenges in Uganda, Mexico, Thailand, and Norway. It offers key lessons for academics, researchers, and policy makers seeking to improve the welfare of their citizens.
This book provides insights into the experiences of women with disability, focusing on their social relationships and participation. It explores the barriers they face and offers ways to overcome them to achieve full integration, autonomy, and social support.
Theories of social reproduction are complex and hard to quantify. This book resolves this issue by introducing the Triptych Model of Social Class Reproduction, an easy-to-grasp framework applicable across cultures, and substantiates it with quantitative research.
Social Sciences Today
This collection of essays will appeal to teachers and researchers of social sciences. The essays deal with three main issues in Europe and Asia: educational theory, society in the context of globalisation, and identity, alterity and multiculturalism.
Social Segmentation and Clientelism in the Extreme West
This volume explores the importation of Western institutional models and their effects on social structures, especially in non-Western societies. It focuses on resulting problems like the persistence of clientelism and corruption within official institutions.
Society in Focus—Change, Challenge and Resistance
This collection of sociological research from South Africa critically examines societal issues. Chapters explore themes of power and the environment, development, workplace change, and the complex interplay of race, class, and gender with empirical richness.
This collection analyses research in the sciences, humanities, and high technology. The authors explore the contexts of scientific research, the links between information technology and everyday life, and the relations between innovation and business culture.
Socio-Cultural Construction of Recognition
This book fills a crucial research gap by examining the representation of Islam and Muslims in the British Christian media. It takes a different turn from previous studies, analyzing these portrayals through the lens of the politics of recognition.
Iraq’s Kurdistan Region is massively contaminated by landmines used by the Baathist government to de-populate the area. This work investigates the landmine problem’s devastating social, health, and economic impacts and the actions taken to rebuild.
This volume examines important themes in medical sociology, documenting the thinking and frameworks shaping research today. It covers topics from the morality of death to conflicts between health providers, and will interest students and professionals.