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This book explores the contemporary relevance of Charles H. Cooley’s thought, bringing together scholars from the US, Europe and Australia to reflect on Cooley’s theory and legacy. Offering an up-to- …

In attending to surfaces, as they wrap, layer and grow within sentient bodies, material formations and cosmological states, this volume presents a series of ten anthropological studies stretching acr …

International Social Work Practice compares and contrasts divergent social work approaches in countries around the world, providing students with a unique perspective on social work as it is actually …

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is an invaluable guide and major reference source for students and scholars alike, introducing its readers to key contemporary perspectives and ap …

This work explores the relationship among knowing, learning, and practice in the development of organizational knowledge. It explores the implications for intervention growing out of the notion that …

This book is concerned with the legal system as it operates for ordinary citizens on a day-to-day basis. It emphasizes that the impact of law on behavior is based on social and institutional influenc …

Borrowing terminology from the economic discipline‘specifically the concept of ‘capital’ has led to an abundance of new terms in the social sciences: human capital, social capital, and cultural capit …

Modern families are economic institutions of great productivity. They contribute as much to a society”s economic well-being as does worker productivity in formal markets. In Citizens, Families, and …

With the collapse of the Middle East peace process, the ”war on terrorism” and US-led intervention in Iraq, the question of Middle East regionalism(s) has reached a new salience. Will such developm …

A manifesto for the workplace feminist that moved Oscar winner Jane Fonda to exclaim “Please, please, please. All working women must read this book!”   Enough about “breaking the glass ceiling.” …