Investigación de la estructura social

Children’s leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured parenting practices, too. However, our current unders …

Facing Resource Insecurity includes the first-person stories of seventeen individuals who have experienced the rippling consequences of need, and the resounding hope that exists when communities come …

A superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres–more than a football field. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, there were about 2, 000 of the …

A masterful narrative—with echoes of Evicted and The Color of Law—that brings to life the structures, policies, and beliefs that divide us Mark Lange and Nicole Smith have never met, but if they make …

This succinct overview of black experiences and realities serves as a guide to take rather complex circumstances and translate them into a series of lessons. Andrew Raybon pulls from his life experie …

The men and women in Invisible Hands reveal the human rights abuses occurring behind the scenes of the global economy. These narrators — including phone manufacturers in China, copper miner …

The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workers—a sociological exploration that reads like a novel.   This is the story of what the most vulnerable wage earners—gig workers, resta …

While many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the United States is becoming harder. From preconception, through pregnancy, and while parenting, wo …

Even though we often think of bodies as natural and given, or else as freely plastic objects, bodies are both constructed and fundamental to our sense of self. This book investigates the body as an e …

The rich and the poor in the UK are subject to radically different legislative approaches. While the behaviours of the poor are relentlessly scrutinised, those of the rich are ignored or enabled. In …