Andy Lock & Tom Strong 
Social Constructionism [PDF ebook] 
Sources and Stirrings in Theory and Practice

With dual-working households now the norm, Food, Families and Work is the first comprehensive study to explore how families negotiate everyday food practices in the context of paid employment. As the …

Leach and Pini bring together empirical and theoretical studies that consider the intersections of class, gender and rurality. Each chapter engages with current debates on these concepts to explore t …

Over recent decades criminological research has changed from a gender-blind discipline which equated crime with men and thus ignored questions about gender, to an approach that studied gender by show …

Eurocentrism remains a prevailing feature of Western-dominated social scientific perspectives, tending to ignore alternative views originating outside the West and thus maintaining a form of scholarl …

Democracy in the Courts examines lay participation in the administration of justice and how it reflects certain democratic principles. An international comparative perspective is taken for exploring …

Mass communications media play a potentially crucial role both in democratization and in ensuring democracy”s survival. The essays in this volume analyse differing aspects of the complex relationshi …

“I am from the government and I am here to help you” is one of the three biggest lies, or so the old joke goes. Richard J. Gelles, dean of social policy at University of Pennsylvania, explains why go …

Crime Control As Industry, translated into many languages, is a modern classic of criminology and sociology. Nils Christie, one of the leading criminologists of his era, argues that crime control, ra …

This book looks at globalisation in historical perspective and *examines the experience of East Asian economies during the financial crisis *provides an account of globalisation through the activitie …

Peasant rebellions are uncommon. ‘Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance’ explores peasants” foot dragging, feigned ingorance, false compliance, manipulation, flight, slander, theft, arson, sabotage, …