Tamara Gunasekera 
Hierarchy and Egalitarianism [PDF ebook] 
Caste, Class and Power in Sinhalese Peasant Society

Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath investigates the ways in which Marx, Durkheim, Althusser and Habermas are all drawn towards foundationalism, and offers a framework for the analysis of foundati …

First published in 1998. This volume is an investigation of the Electoral Behaviour in Greenwich in order to consider how people vote and their political behaviour. It focuses on the General Election …

Personal Relationships Across the Lifespan presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the role of personal relationships in people »s lives. Highlighting areas of special significance and res …

A pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and behaviour Mary Parker Follett authored a number of books and numerous essays, articles and speeches on human relations, political philosophy, psyc …

This is Volume XI of eighteen in a collection on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1964 the book is based on lectures were conceived as an introduction to the study of modem Middl …

This is Volume III of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1970, this study analyses crime and touches on areas of the extent, as a social problem, the …

First published in 1998. This is Volume VII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. Written in 1948, this book gives a concise and critical assessment of education in modern Germany. Th …

Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization — best seen in a C …

This is the classic text on the art of sugar boiling and all its branches, covering the manufacture of fondants, creams, chocolates, pastilles, jujubes (jelly babies) comfits, lozenges (plain and med …