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Nationalism and Everyday Life

By Jane Hindley

This innovative book presents an overview of the origins of nationalism to enable students coming to the subject for the first time to get a...

April 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34880-5 (Routledge)

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Nationalism and Everyday Life

By Jane Hindley

This innovative book presents an overview of the origins of nationalism to enable students coming to the subject for the first time to get a...

April 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34881-2 (Routledge)

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Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life

By Iain Wilkinson

It is now sociological common sense to declare that, in everyday life, large numbers of people approach matters of work, family life, trust and friendship...

April 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37079-0 (Routledge)

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Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life

By Iain Wilkinson

It is now sociological common sense to declare that, in everyday life, large numbers of people approach matters of work, family life, trust and friendship...

April 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37080-6 (Routledge)

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Families in Today's World

A Comparative Approach

By David Cheal

An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major...

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35930-6 (Routledge)

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Families in Today's World

A Comparative Approach

By David Cheal

An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35931-3 (Routledge)

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Global Diasporas

An Introduction

By Robin Cohen

In a perceptive and arresting analysis, Robin Cohen introduces his distinctive approach to the study of the world’s diasporas. This book investigates the changing meanings...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43551-2 (Routledge)

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Global Diasporas

An Introduction

By Robin Cohen

In a perceptive and arresting analysis, Robin Cohen introduces his distinctive approach to the study of the world’s diasporas. This book investigates the changing meanings...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43550-5 (Routledge)

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Cosmopolitanism

By Robert Fine

The idea of cosmopolitanism has informed some of the most important developments in current sociology. It has changed the way in which we think about...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39224-2 (Routledge)

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Cosmopolitanism

By Robert Fine

The idea of cosmopolitanism has informed some of the most important developments in current sociology. It has changed the way in which we think about...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39225-9 (Routledge)

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Power, Conflict and Criminalisation

By Phil Scraton

Drawing on a body of empirical, qualitative work spanning three decades, this unique text traces the significance of critical social research and critical analyses in...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42240-6 (Routledge)

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Power, Conflict and Criminalisation

By Phil Scraton

Drawing on a body of empirical, qualitative work spanning three decades, this unique text traces the significance of critical social research and critical analyses in...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42241-3 (Routledge)

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Globalization and Everyday Life

By Larry Ray

Globalization and Everyday Life provides an accessible account of globalization by developing two themes in particular. First, globalization is an outcome of structural and cultural...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34094-6 (Routledge)

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Globalization and Everyday Life

By Larry Ray

Globalization and Everyday Life provides an accessible account of globalization by developing two themes in particular. First, globalization is an outcome of structural and cultural...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34095-3 (Routledge)

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Community and Everyday Life

By Graham Day

'Community' continues to be a persistent theme in political, philosophical and policy debates. The idea of community poses fundamental questions about social inclusion and exclusion,...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34073-1 (Routledge)

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Community and Everyday Life

By Graham Day

'Community' continues to be a persistent theme in political, philosophical and policy debates. The idea of community poses fundamental questions about social inclusion and exclusion,...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34074-8 (Routledge)

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Human Rights

By Anthony Woodiwiss

Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the current 'clash of civilizations'? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36068-5 (Routledge)

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Human Rights

By Anthony Woodiwiss

Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the current 'clash of civilizations'? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36069-2 (Routledge)

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Ordering Lives

Family, Work and Welfare

Edited by Gordon Hughes, Ross Fergusson

Taking as its focus three familiar and profoundly influential social institutions, the family, work and welfare, this accessible and exciting text looks at their role...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32972-9 (Routledge)

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Ordering Lives

Family, Work and Welfare

Edited by Gordon Hughes, Ross Fergusson

Taking as its focus three familiar and profoundly influential social institutions, the family, work and welfare, this accessible and exciting text looks at their role...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32971-2 (Routledge)

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Knowledge and the Social Sciences

Theory, Method, Practice

Edited by David Goldblatt

Knowledge and the Social Sciences takes as its point of departure the claims that all forms of knowledge, the social sciences included, must be seen...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32975-0 (Routledge)

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Knowledge and the Social Sciences

Theory, Method, Practice

Edited by David Goldblatt

Knowledge and the Social Sciences takes as its point of departure the claims that all forms of knowledge, the social sciences included, must be seen...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32976-7 (Routledge)

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A Globalizing World?

Culture, Economics, Politics

Edited by David Held

Today's news media is full of references to 'globalization' - a buzz word that is quickly becoming ubiquitous. But what exactly is globalization? What are its...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32973-6 (Routledge)

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A Globalizing World?

Culture, Economics, Politics

Edited by David Held

Today's news media is full of references to 'globalization' - a buzz word that is quickly becoming ubiquitous. But what exactly is globalization? What are its...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32974-3 (Routledge)

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The Natural and the Social

Uncertainty, Risk, Change

Edited by STEVE HINCHLIFFE, Kathryn (Kath) Alison Woodward

The age in which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. Environmental change and degradation...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32970-5 (Routledge)

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Questioning Identity

Gender, Class, Nation

Edited by Kath Woodward

Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32967-5 (Routledge)

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The Natural and the Social

Uncertainty, Risk, Change

Edited by STEVE HINCHLIFFE, Kathryn (Kath) Alison Woodward

The age in which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. Environmental change and degradation...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32969-9 (Routledge)

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