Author: UK) Best Shaun (University of Manchester

What is the place of leisure in societies where people complain of ‘over-work’? How do personal freedom and choice relate to the inequalities of class, gender, disability and ethnicity? This critical …

Introduction to Politics and Society comprehensively demonstrates how key theoretical and concepts in political science have foretold, rationalized and shaped politics in the contemporary world.Stude …

`This book is accessible, as a beginner’s guide should be, but without an over-simplification of the arguments. It should prove an immensely durable text for generations of students to come’ – John H …

The study of social divisions has dominated research within the social sciences since the nineteenth century. Early stratification categories of class, race, and gender, have in more recent years bee …