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Fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines, now that the rules, once tightly fixed, have been deconstructed. This volume brings together academics from various disci …

First published in 1998.This is Volume XIV of the eighteen in the Sociology of Work and Organization series and which is an investigation of the developments of combination in the distributive trades …

This text analyzes indigenous peoples” processes of identity construction as ecological natives. It opens space for reconstructing all the different networks, conditions of emergence, and implicatio …

This is Volume XII of a series of eighteen on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Originally published in 1968. The title Social Services in British Industry might seem a contradiction in terms. …

This is Volume I of twenty-two in the Social Theory and Methodology series. First published in 1968 this text looks at an analysis of functionalism by means of the notion of causality. It is a study …

This is Volume X of thirteen in a series on Urban and Regional Sociology. First published in 1948, this study uses Middlesbrough in the North East of England as a basis of research into the new Town …

First Published in 1998. This is Volume XIII of eighteen of a series on the Sociology of Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Written in 1952, this book looks at the social services after the clos …

This is Volume XXVII of twenty eight in a series on the Sociology of Education. First published in 1969, this study is an investigation of the values and school involvement in a boy”s maintained gra …

How have new social media altered how individuals present themselves? What dilemmas have they introduced? In the age of Facebook, Twitter and other forms of instant communication, individuals are los …

In pursuit of lifestyle change, affordable property, and proximity to nature, people from all walks of life are moving to the wildland-urban interface. Tragic wildfires and a predicted increase in hi …