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Queer south rising
This book is a collection of essays by people who identify as Southern and queer. It challenges traditional views of the South, exploring intersections of religion, politics, sexuality, race, and education. The book aims to shatter perceptions of a nostalgic Southern culture and invites readers t...
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Exploring theories and expanding methodologies
Focuses attention on the dual themes of theory and methodology that must form a basis for studies of impairment and disability. This work addresses issues that include: critiques of current concepts of disability; the fit between sociological role theory and the concept of disability; and, the op...
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The metaverse dilemma
The Metaverse Dilemma explores a balanced viewpoint of the metaverse from both a theoretical and practical mindset, examining the challenges and opportunities faced when adopting and implementing the metaverse in business and everyday scenarios.
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Gendered perspectives on reproduction and sexuality
Offers feminist perspectives on the social, cultural and medical aspects of women as sexual beings and of their fertility, pregnancy and child bearing. The seven essays included here, raise questions about control and agency asking who decides if, when and how fertility should be controlled and t...
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Participatory research on child maltreatment with children and adult survivors
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Enriching ongoing debates about participatory research in the field of child maltreatment, this book highlights the advantages that participation as a human right can bring to the community of researchers and help...
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Communicating change
Digital technologies from the Internet and social media to artificial intelligence and robotics are reshaping the world. Chapters explore this ongoing transformation and its social implications between domination and participation.
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Journalism and austerity
Using an original empirical study of the frame building process in the press, this book analyses the interplay between political economy and framing theories, focusing on what the frames found in the press can reveal about structural power struggles, and the contribution of journalism to democrat...
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Sport in korea
With growing interest in Korean sports and its social significance from academia and in public, Sport in Korea: Culture, Politics and Policy brings together research on social, cultural, and political aspects of Korean sports today.
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Stories of addiction recovery
Stories of Addiction Recovery explores first-hand structured accounts of addiction recovery through the G-CHIME model, bringing together shared experiences, lessons learnt, and describing the growth achieved to highlight to others what is possible in their own recovery.
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Research in social movements, conflicts and change
This important collection addresses the critically important dimensions of the relationships that social movements, their activists, and their organizations have with the state and other institutions. It also examines three movements linked by frame and discourse analysis, before concluding with ...
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Studies in symbolic interaction
Carl J Couch was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and a driving force of the Iowa School of Symbolic Interaction. This title includes essays that are written to honour his life and his life's work.
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Migrations and diasporas
Advocating for a more welcoming world involves respecting the human dignity and fundamental rights of all individuals, regardless of their place of origin or immigration status. This perspective offers a powerful insight into the dynamics of social justice across borders.
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Designing public space for an ageing population
Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population examines the barriers older people face by being a pedestrian in the built environment and how to overcome them. Drawing on research carried out across the globe these limitations are framed around Bourdieu's theory of capitals.
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Critical literacies and gender studies
Chapters highlight the importance of integrating critical literacies into educational curricula, combating misinformation, and fostering an inclusive digital environment. Topics include European research on digital citizenship and gender equality, the regulation of social platforms, and mediated ...
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Class and inequality in the united states
Highlighting the need to find solutions for current problems in American society moving forward, Berch Berberoglu provides a captivating read for anyone interested in understanding how working people today can have a lasting impact on a better and more equitable society in the future.
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Technology vs. government
Technology vs. Government examines why government fails at technology acquisitions, innovation, and implementation, the impact on people, and the future opportunities and implications for government service, administration and policy.
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Urban areas and global climate change
Examining urban environmental issues at the macro, municipal level down to the micro community and individual level, this volume features cities and metropolitan regions across the global north and south with case studies from the United States, Canada, Eastern and Western Europe to India, Centra...
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Race discrimination and management of ethnic diversity and migration at work
Race Discrimination and Management of Ethnic Diversity and Migration at Work analyses nine countries’ perspectives on Diversity Management and their increasing awareness of diversity, equality, racism and discrimination within companies and organisations throughout Europe.
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Work and family in the new economy
This volume will focus on innovative research examining how the nature of paid work intersects with family and personal life today. This collection of cutting-edge research will be instrumental in shaping the next wave of work-family scholarship.
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Elites and people
This volume contains an Open Access chapter. The present volume of Comparative Social Research offers a broad set of comparative studies of elites, stretching from the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt to women's political leadership in Brazil and Germany, via attainment of elite positions among m...
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Queer approaches
This collection supports queer educators and students, highlighting the lack of LGBTQ representation in classrooms and offering inclusive pedagogical approaches. It emphasizes the importance of inclusivity for all and provides solutions for marginalized individuals.
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Cultures of sport hazing and anti-hazing initiatives for the 21st century
Providing a much-needed cutting-edge update on the last major publication on sport hazing practices published more than two decades ago, chapters cover the continuation of potentially harmful, traditional initiations, and the cycle of status from initiated to initiator.
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Negotiating social contexts
This book examines the identification choices of biracial college women and their relation to social contexts. It includes a literature review, discussion of research issues, and an in-depth examination of identity and social contexts.
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Local disaster risk management in a changing climate
Disasters cause economic as well as human losses, and the magnitude of this is ever increasing. This can largely be attributed to climate-related disasters, which intensify vulnerability in the poorest areas of the world. In this book, approaches to disaster risk management in developing countrie...
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Debt crisis and popular social protest in sri lanka
Fusing the regional with the global, this book widens its perspective from a distinct, national moment to an international interdependency with the power to ripple across every corner of the globe.
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The postcolonial sporting body
The Postcolonial Sporting Body considers the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolonisation.
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Transforming the rural
This book analyses the key global processes transforming rural spaces in the early 21st century – financialization; standardization; consumption, and commodification. Through detailed case studies, the book examines why these processes are important, how they work in practice, and the challenges ...
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Designing environments for people with dementia
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. This book systematically explores and assesses the quality of the evidence base for effective and supportive design of living environments for people living with Dementia.
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From community to consumption
Contains papers presented at the XII World Congress of Rural Sociology held in South Korea in 2008. This book provides an international view of the advanced production in rural sociology.
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Varieties of community sociology
Varieties of Community Sociology
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Sporting bodies, damaged selves
Attempts to reflect the cutting-edge research in the area from several countries in terms of causes, experiences, and outcomes of sport-related pain and injury.
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Decolonizing management and organization studies
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This volume paves the way forward on what scholars from management and organization studies can or should not do to decolonize their discipline.
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Responding to the call for educational justice
This volume showcases innovative educational alternatives by Catholic groups to improve outcomes for urban at-risk populations. It examines networks like NativityMiguel and Cristo Rey schools, and Fe y Alegría. It explores critical race theory, faith perspectives, social capital, and resilience i...
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Social studies teacher education
This book examines how teacher educators support social studies teachers in turbulent times, offering suggestions for addressing local, national, and global concerns. It covers topics like race, gender, immigration, religion, and social justice, aiming to prepare teachers for a complex, interconn...
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Beyond fandom
By centralising fan studies, this collection provides a crucial lens through which to understand the capability of fan practices to shape the trajectory of online communication. It provides a nuanced understanding of the interplay between social media and contemporary society.
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Research in finance
Covers such topics as financial distress and capital structure choice; optimal capital structure and valuation of the firm in multiperiod context; regression tests of the present value model of stock prices; and, intra-industry information transfers and stock repurchases.
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Hyogo framework for action and urban disaster resilience
In a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering as a result of natural hazards, local level disaster risk reduction efforts are of increasing importance. With reference to examples in the Philippines, this book analyses a local disaster risk resilience approach and suggests an effecti...
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Dis.ordering distribution
Dis.Ordering Distribution explores the intricate relationship between distribution and production, drawing on empirical evidence from two vibrant centers of cultural production: Africa and Asia.
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Constructions of urban space
Urban space has emerged as the central organizing construct in studies of the post-modern metropolis. This volume talks about how urban space is used and contested by different social groups, how urban space is transformed by the changing economic relationships manifested in the world order, and ...
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Black women mothering & daughtering during a dual pandemic
This anthology explores how Black women used sisterhood, literacy, and activism to navigate mental health and labor during COVID-19 and racial unrest. Through personal narratives and cultural literacies, contributors highlight resilience, healing, and Black feminist scholarship as tools for survi...
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Systemic inequality, sustainability and covid-19
Systemic Inequality, Sustainability and COVID-19 provides an opportunity to engage in a critical dialog on the consequences and interactions of COVID-19 with social inequalities and environment management.
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On practice and institution
The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences, that have been too disconnected. Bringing together novel theoretical statements and empirical studies that bridge these social worlds, these two volumes provide a major touchstone for scholars inte...
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Reconceptualizing state of exception
A glimpse into the complexities of governance during extraordinary times, this collection contributes to a nuanced understanding and exploration of state of exception and emergency rule in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Critical qualitative research in social education
This book explores critical qualitative research in social education, focusing on power, privilege, and social justice. It covers various topics, including the role of relationships, collaborative autoethnography, critical historical thinking, and transforming social studies classrooms.
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Negotiating spiritual violence in the queer community
This volume gives voice to queer people from all faiths and no faiths, and their heterosexual allies, describing their experiences with spiritual violence and inclusion. It includes personal narratives, theoretical insights, and creative writing, highlighting stories of pain, rejection, joy, and ...
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Social costs of economic transformation in central europe
This volume is devoted to post-communist Central Europe and is divided into three parts. The first part covers some general issues of social theory and politics, ranging from the chances for social-liberalism under post-communism to the birth of neo-socialism in the region.
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Individual and social adaptions to human vulnerability
This volume celebrates the 40th anniversary of the 'Research in Economic Anthropology' series, presenting ten peer-reviewed anthropological papers looking at human vulnerability, the ways people attempt to cope with it and barriers to successfully overcoming it.
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Critical aspects of gender in conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and social movements
Investigates gendered aspects of social activism and peacebuilding. This title focuses on the agency of grassroots citizens, refugee, indigenous, and ethnic minority women. It brings gendered aspects of practice that assists scholars and practitioners in research and policy development.
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Locating the influencer
Amid climate disasters inducing lasting debates about both the future of tourism and sustainable tourism, Locating the Influencer comprehensively investigates the digital phenomenon of the travel influencer and offers a way to trace the polyvocal voices of platform-nested storytelling in global t...
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Kardashian kulture
Using the royal family of celebrity culture, the Kardashians, as a lens through which to scrutinize early 21st century culture, this book examines the worlds of business, politics, technology and entertainment, to show how celebrity has fundamentally changed the way we live.
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The political economy of the public sphere
Against the backdrop of transformations which have reconfigured access to information, communication, and collective discourse, The Political Economy of the Public Sphere critically examines the evolution of the public sphere from its origins in the 18th century to its contemporary digital transf...
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Urban ethnography
Showcasing the ideas, analysis, and perspectives of experts in the method conducting research on a wide array of social phenomena in a variety of city contexts, this volume provides a look at the legacies of urban ethnography's methodological traditions and some of the challenges its practitioner...
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Disability as a fluid state
Disability is often described in a way that suggests it is a permanent, relatively stable state. This volume argues that the relationship between impairment (physical state) and disability is neither fixed nor permanent but is fluid and not easily predicted.
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21st century urban race politics
With case studies from across the country, in medium-sized and large cities, and mayors of various backgrounds, this volume provides an account of how different minority mayors have handled minority representation in historically majority Caucasian cities and what lessons academics and politician...
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Blue ribbon papers
Part of "Blue Ribbon Papers Series", this title presents the autobiographies of scholars who have made significant contributions to symbolic interactionist approach over the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Political power and social theory
Deals with some of the weightiest subjects in the contemporary social sciences: race and class and their impact on political and economic organization. This title includes three historical papers on Cuba, Tanzania, and Mexico that explore the complex relations between race, class, ethnicity, and ...
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Advances in social science and computers
Deals with how microcomputers and other computers can be applied to improving the explanatory and evaluative roles of modern social science. This title contains chapters by experts in political science, psychology, sociology, economics and computer science.
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Reentry, desistance, and the responsibility of the state
This book asks readers to recognize their obligations to the punished men and women in America and to reconsider the criminal desistance literature through empowerment and assimilation.
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Organization and governance using algorithms
Avramopoulos offers a ground-breaking theory and application on organisational systems design, including discussions on organisational systems design requirements, such as productivity, emotion, and reward, the problems of unaccountability, including hierarchical delegation, and the benefits of a...
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Best practices in social studies assessment
This book explores the role of assessment in teaching social studies, emphasizing creative, curriculum-appropriate strategies that balance st&ardized testing with inquiry-based approaches. It highlights innovative practices such as role-playing, Socratic seminars & collaborative projects,...
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Music, mattering, and criminalized young men
A cutting-edge study grounded in a new feminist arts-based research and intervention tool, this book propounds an effective new methodology for social research and fundamental human engagement.
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American life writing and the medical humanities
American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion bridges a gap in the market by linking the medical humanities with disability studies. It examines how Americans used life writing to record epidemic disease throughout history.
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Advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries
Consists of essays that discuss and analyze the 19th Century writings of Harriet Martineau (British Author), considered to be early examples of sociology and gender studies. Continuing in the tradition established by the "Advances in Gender Research" series, this title explores gender as a social...
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Urbanization in the world economy
Urbanization in the World Economy
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Gang entry and exit in cape town
Joint Winner of the 2023 ASSAf Humanities Book Award in the Emerging Researcher Category This book showcases a practical starting point for changing how criminologists think about gangs and street culture – offering hope to those trying to exit gang life, as well as those trying to help them do so.
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Families, crime and criminal justice
Part of "Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research" series that features work on the frontiers of interdisciplinary research on families and family life. This edition reflects the orientation by bringing together empirical research that examines various ways that families intersect with and ar...
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Cross-cultural case study
This volume is one of a series of research annuals on qualitative research designed to take up issues and debates in this area that relate to methodology, the relationship between data collection and data analysis, and other topics.
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Some buildings just can't dance
Places Oakland's public policy response to building damage suffered in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in a historical and intergovernmental context. Using a combined non-decision making and advocacy coalition approach, this book demonstrates why hazardous-structure abatement was kept off the pol...
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Living the questions
"In Living the Questions," Wade Tillett explores how to live in the present, examining daily life and navigating multiple, often contradictory positions. He narrates from various perspectives, offering insights for anyone searching for how to live. The book provides inspiration for researchers an...
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Revisiting symbolic interaction in music studies and new interpretive works
Addressing a perceived gap between symbolic interaction and ethno musicological approaches to the study of music, this special issue seeks to bring the fields closer by highlighting some of the complementary theoretical constructs of phenomenology and symbolic interaction as they relate to music ...
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Food and agriculture in urbanized societies
Inspiring innovative and sustainable practices, governance perspectives and informing public policies, Food and Agriculture in Urbanized Societies offers the most current research on urbanized agriculture to truly provide ‘pathways for a better future’ to foster more equitable and fair societies.
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Rethinking class and social difference
This volume draws together scholars rethinking social scientific and theoretical approaches to a wide range of forms of social difference and inequality. These include race, nationalism, sexuality, professional classes, domestic employment, digital communication, and uneven economic development
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New directions in urban sociology
Acknowledges important themes found in the works in urban sociology. This book suggests both a beginning and a continuing evolution of sociological theorizing about contemporary urban places.
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Integrative strategies for the k-12 social studies classroom
This book offers insights and strategies for integrating social studies with other disciplines. It includes contributions from national experts, examples of integrative opportunities, and grade-specific lesson plans. Designed as a practical guide, it aims to help educators at all levels implement...
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Advances in cultural entrepreneurship
With contributions from some of the field’s leading scholars, this volume aims to further expand the agenda and scope of cultural entrepreneurship research by broadening what culture encompasses and what entrepreneurship entails.
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Breaking the poverty code
Transcending the Mexican context, this book fuses the importance of statistical data with the lived realities of impoverished people everywhere.
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Urban sociology in transition
Makes an effort to systematically incorporate both the structural (new urban sociology) and cultural (human ecology) approaches in urban sociology. This volume is divided into two sections, the first presenting work by urban ecologists, the second presenting work by persons working within the bro...
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Mothering from the inside
The book takes a holistic approach to highlight and explore the range of issues specifically associated with mothering and imprisonment, from sentencing, through custody to resettlement and focusing on the perspective of mothers and their children.
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Disabilities and the life course
Featuring a framework rarely applied in the field of disability studies, this book explores not only a range of disabilities and impairments but also a diverse array of life course experiences, deepening knowledge across both fields for the widest possible impact.
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Gender and race matter
This innovative collection puts forward how women are able to challenge oppression through circumventing rules, roles, obligations and prejudice through a powerful agency. Chapters cover the experiences of women in different global settings related to education, political activism, corporeal viol...
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A world beyond work?
This book mounts a forceful critique of fashionable thinking on the possibility of a post-work, post-capitalist society achieved through automation, a basic income and the reduction of working hours to zero, suggesting this popular utopia is nothing of the sort.
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Gender identity and research relationships
In recent years researchers have begun to reflect on gender identity and how this impacts on the creation of successful qualitative research. In this volume contributors explore these issues by reflecting on their own studies and research careers and address how important or unimportant gender ha...
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The corporation, corporate governance and the sustainable transition
The Corporation, Corporate Governance and the Sustainable Transition is a compelling resource for understanding the pitfalls and potential of corporate power.
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Anthropological enquiries into policy, debt, business and capitalism
This volume explores current issues in national and international policy, business and capitalism and economic theory and behavior specifically pertaining to Brazil. The underlying theme running through the collection is the steady encroachment of neoliberalism into economic policy and practice, ...
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Environment and community empowerment
This volume presents research focusing on environmental issues, local community and global changes resulting from socioeconomic and political forces in advanced industrialized societies. There are case studies of community problems, and community development efforts are discussed.
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Alternative agrifood movements
This volume explores the issues of convergence and divergence in alternative agrifood movements through a theoretical and empirical engagement of the topic by notable agrifood researchers from Europe, North America and South America.
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Trans athletes’ resistance
Acknowledging the formidable hurdles trans and nonbinary athletes face in their struggles for inclusion, acceptance, and freedom, this book documents and analyses their resistance across a range of social-cultural and geopolitical contexts, from community sport to high-performance competition.
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Research in sociology of education and socialization
Illustrates the ways in which US sociologists of education plumb the depths of fundamental questions about how schools are organized and consequences of school organization for students and teachers. This volume generates a host of questions that warrant sustained inquiry by our community.
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Ethnographies of law and social control
This is a comprehensive, insightful, and state-of-the-art overview of the everyday work and activities of legal and social control professionals, functionaries, and participants, highlighting the distinctive contributions that ethnographic and ethnomethodologically-informed studies have to offer ...
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The mediating power of sport
Encouraging readers in other international settings to consider this topic from their own cultural contexts, this collection demonstrates how China has created new forms of influence through sport and considers what this might mean for how we understand the deeper role sport can play on the world...
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Radical proceduralism
Radical Proceduralism bridges the gap between political philosophy and practical institutional experimentation asking us to bring citizens back in and to engage them in a dialogue about ‘the rules of the democratic game’ and proposing institutional devices that figure as ‘conversation starters’ a...
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