Brand Culture

Edited by Jonathan Schroeder, Miriam Salzer Morling

This fascinating book shows that neither managers nor consumers completely control branding processes – cultural codes constrain how brands work to produce meaning. Placing brands...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35599-5 (Routledge)

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Surfing and Social Theory

Experience, Embodiment and Narrative of the Dream Glide

By Nicholas J. Ford, David Brown

Surfing has emerged from ancient roots to become a twenty-first century phenomenon – an ‘alternative’ sport, lifestyle and art form with a global profile and...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33433-4 (Routledge)

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Redefining Culture

Perspectives Across the Disciplines

Edited by John R. Baldwin, Sandra L. Faulkner, Michael L. Hecht, Sheryl L. Lindsley

Redefining Culture: Perspectives Across the Disciplines argues that culture is one of the most important factors we need to know when we interact as well...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-4236-4 (Routledge)

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Culture and Everyday Life

By David Inglis

Culture is unquestionably a central topic in the contemporary social sciences. In order to understand how people think, feel, value, act and express themselves, it...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31926-3 (Routledge)

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After the Cosmopolitan?

Multicultural Cities and the Future of Racism

By Michael Keith

After the Cosmopolitan? argues that both racial divisions and intercultural dialogue can only be understood in the context of the urbanism through which they are realized....

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34169-1 (Routledge)

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Religion and Everyday Life

By Stephen Hunt

This introductory text explores the historical and contemporary relevance of religion to social life, through an examination of practice and belief. Author Hunt reconsiders how...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35154-6 (Routledge)

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Visual Consumption

By Jonathan E. Schroeder

A key characteristic of the twenty-first century economy is 'the image'. Brand development is based on image, products are advertised via images, and corporate image...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36625-0 (Routledge)

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Where Stuff Comes From

How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come To Be As They Are

By Harvey Molotch

Molotch takes us on a fascinating exploration into the worlds of technology, design, corporate and popular culture. We now see how corporations, designers, retailers, advertisers,...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95042-8 (Routledge)

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Japan's Changing Generations

Are Young People Creating a New Society?

Edited by Gordon Mathews, Bruce White

Japan's Changing Generations argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38491-9 (Routledge)

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Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players

A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football

By Kenneth Sheard, Eric DunningProfessor J A ManganBoria Majumdar

First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8290-7 (Routledge)

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