Edward J. Lawler & Shane R. Thye 
Order on the Edge of Chaos [PDF ebook] 
Social Psychology and the Problem of Social Order

Critical Readings on Piaget is a follow-up to Piaget: Critical Assessments a collection of eighty-three papers dealing with the critique of Piaget”s work in psychology, education and philosophy duri …

This project is aimed the 16+ age range inside or outside any kind of educational institution. It is for courses concerned with general education – either in general studies programmes or as aspects …

Over the last ten years citizenship has become an area of interdisciplinary research and teaching in its own right. This book highlights that globalization poses new challenges for established unders …

Readers come to the topic of leadership development with multiple interests—intellectual, professional, and personal—and with curiosity about how to apply concepts and tools to themselves and to supp …

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 …

An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, …

First published in 2001. This book provides a socio-legal analysis of disasters by setting out two sport and leisure disasters (the 1989 Hillsborough and Marchioness disasters) and considering them i …

This book examines gang rape, clitoridectomy, abduction of women, ritual belittling of men, modern feminist criticism, and the ‘war between the sexes’. It deals with the politics of large state-sized …

This book provides a historical account of anarchist geographies in the UK and the implications for current practice. It looks at the works of Frenchman Élisée Reclus (1830–1905) and Russian Pyotr Kr …

Making Taste Public takes an ethnographic approach to show how social relations shape – and are shaped by – the taste of food. Recognizing that different cultures have different taste preferences and …