Dorothy E. Smith 
Texts, Facts and Femininity [PDF ebook] 
Exploring the Relations of Ruling

The research literature on the impact of alcohol on the brain has seen a rapid expansion in recent years. Alcohol and the Adult Brain presents an up-to-date overview of some of the issues relevant to …

Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City offers an interpretive account of juvenile delinquency within the modern inner city, an environment which is characterized by a long history of social …

As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women”s lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women”s changing roles on their children and f …

This is Volume IV of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1944, this is a study into journeys to work and their significance for wider industrial and com …

Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of the patterns of employment and education of women in this field. …

Individuals with intellectual disabilities and personality disorders can be very complex to support and few LD trained staff have the skills to address their needs. Many approaches traditionally deve …

This book examines two key themes in terrorism studies, the radicalization process and counter-terrorism policies, through the lens of social networks. The book aims to show that networks should be a …

Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented flow of health information, technologies, and people across national borders. Such movement raises questions about the nature of therap …

Syracuse, New York, in the late 1980s led U.S. cities in African American infant deaths. Even today, in this ‘all American city, ‘ infants of color die more than two times as often as white babies. I …

Over the past two hundred years, work experiences have changed greatly, causing new issues such as heightened boredom and alienation, but also new levels of obsession with work. This book looks at th …