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Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health

In today’s information society, to make a real and lasting impact on human welfare takes applications of information technology aimed at enhancing access to all. HUSITA7-The 7th International Confere …

Do things such as performance indicators, valuation formulas, consumer tests, stock prices or financial contracts represent an external reality? Or do they rather constitute, in a performative fashio …

First Published in 1998. This is Volume XIII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This is part two of a study looking at primary schools from a sociological descriptive view …

This new edition of American Poverty in a New Era of Reform provides a comprehensive examination of the extent, causes, effects, and costs of American poverty nearly ten years after the passage of …

This book highlights the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization. Cortese explores the ways in which activists strategically use a ‘straight’ identity as a social movement …

The human genome is a well known symbol of scientific and technological progress in the twenty-first century. However, concerns about the exacerbation of inequalities between the rich and the poor, t …

First published in 2000. This edited collection reviews the developments in theoretical understanding of minority political incorporation. The chapters focus on minority groups throughout the US: Thr …

Paul Teague explores the macro-economic, productive and institutional pressures faced by Europe”s social model and assesses a number of economic and political programmes aimed at resolving the crisi …