Sciences sociales

Understanding Rituals explores how ritual can be understood within the framework of contemporary social anthropology, and shows that ritual is now one of the most fertile fields of anthropological re …

First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …

Examines multilateral interventions in civil conflicts and the evolution of the role of such interventions in world politics. It focuses primarily on the Cold War and post-Cold War eras and the diffe …

For over a century, the sweatshop has evoked outrage and moral repugnance. Once cast as a type of dangerous and immoral garment factory brought to American shores by European immigrants, today the sw …

First published in 1998. This is Volume XI of the twenty-one in the Race, Class and Social Structure series, which looks at the theory of the  »marginal man », the situation and using a  »marginalise …

‘…provides good coverage of the empirical literature.’ — Journal of Communication ‘…well written and presents a wide diversity of approaches to pornography.’ — CHOICE …

This book presents a set of conversations with five former Governors of Reserve Bank of India (from 1992 onwards) on the topic of financial inclusion. Two key aspects are introduced in the conversati …

Based on a study of 12, 000 elementary school children in eight large and medium-sized American cities, this book presents the first large-scale study of political attitude formation in children. The …

Judges in most societies often resort to resolving disputes by means of applying a criterion of reasonableness. In The Demise of the »Reasonable Man » Michael Saltman explores the ways in which reaso …

Ethnic organized crime is a phenomenon that has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians, and dismissed as a subject not to be taken too seriously by those researching the mobility pa …