Ciências sociais

Infancy is one of the most fascinating periods in the human life cycle. In two short years, infants become thinking, speaking, social beings. As this book explains, over the past three decades, resea …

This book offers powerful analyses of the relationship between law and gender and new understandings of the limits of, and opportunities for, legal reform drawn from the experiences of women and from …

Praise for Fast Food, Fast Track ‘A fine ethnography with both theoretical and advocative significance, representing the best qualitative sociology.’ — Choice ‘Explores the intimate realities and beh …

Ethnic Ironies describes the role of Latino electorates in national- and state-level politics during the 1992 elections. The book examines Latino politics from the top down?looking at the efforts of …

‘We are in the midst of rapid change in how firms organize themselves and their work. There are numerous popular accounts of this evolution but few theoretically grounded and research based assessmen …

EU expansion has stoked fears that criminals from the East may abuse freedom of movement to exploit the benefit systems of richer states. This book examines the way in which physical state borders ar …

This is a social and cultural analysis of community life in metropolitan areas of three nations–the United States, Sweden, and England. The author focuses on how environment and culture interact to …

This title was first published in 2000: This work describes the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) – the first international court created to try persons for genocide an …

Human beings are grieving animals. ‘Consolation’, or an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss which has various expressions in different cultural contexts. Over the past century, c …

First published in 1997, this volume originated from an article published in Ratio and reapproaches Aristotle in an attempt to define what counts as an irrational action, along with a general account …