Niklas Luhmann 
Soziologische Aufklärung 2 [PDF ebook] 
Aufsatze zur Theorie der Gesellschaft

Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives offers a radical rethinking of the field by unsettling conventional ideas of mobility and borders to highlight the ways in which they produce health inequa …

This new study delivers a detailed analysis of the efforts being made to reduce poverty and social exclusion in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. After an initial discussion of the ”southern model’ …

Challenging the often held belief that democratization necessarily leads to aggressive ethnic nationalism and even violent conflict, this book offers an alternative account of democratization and int …

Originally published in 1933, this book is a comparative study of the labour market in the early part of the twentieth century in different parts of Africa. It focusses particularly on the impact of …

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 …

Violence directed at victimized groups because of their real or imagined characteristics is as old as humankind. Why, then, have ‘hate crimes’ only recently become recog-nized as a serious social pro …

This book emphasizes psychology”s role ‘as a means of human welfare’, focusing on the complexities of the psychological development of immigrant women, Latinas, and other women of color and issues r …

Social Movements 1768-2018 provides the most comprehensive historical account of the birth and spread of social movements. Renowned social scientist Charles Tilly applies his synthetic theoretical sk …