Christina Boswell 
Political Uses of Expert Knowledge [PDF ebook] 
Immigration Policy and Social Research

An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, …

This project is aimed the 16+ age range inside or outside any kind of educational institution. It is for courses concerned with general education – either in general studies programmes or as aspects …

Critical Readings on Piaget is a follow-up to Piaget: Critical Assessments a collection of eighty-three papers dealing with the critique of Piaget“s work in psychology, education and philosophy duri …

Over the last ten years citizenship has become an area of interdisciplinary research and teaching in its own right. This book highlights that globalization poses new challenges for established unders …

Making Taste Public takes an ethnographic approach to show how social relations shape – and are shaped by – the taste of food. Recognizing that different cultures have different taste preferences and …

First published in 2001. This book provides a socio-legal analysis of disasters by setting out two sport and leisure disasters (the 1989 Hillsborough and Marchioness disasters) and considering them i …

This is Volume XI of eighteen in the Political Sociology Series and looks at the rejections and rejoinders of the logic of liberty, originally published in 1951. …

This book offers an original account of the good life in late modernity through a uniquely sociological lens. It considers the various ways that social and cultural factors can encourage or impede ge …

First Published in 1993. At a time when more mature women are encouraged to enter higher education, this book investigates the effects that being a student has on women“s family and social relations …

Tourism in Cuba – described by Fidel Castro as “the evil we have to have“ – has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of development and poverty alleviation. The result is a …