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First published in 1998. This is Volume XV of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This is a study with special reference to university entrance written in 1949 which started as an enqu …

Drawing on a mixed research methodology with a strong qualitative character, this book traces the political impact of the British National Party in the UK, the Front National in France and the Lega N …

This groundbreaking new book offers a history of welfare, an accurate portrayal of welfare recipients and an understanding of the diverse characteristics of lone-mother-headed families affected by we …

First Published in 1993. This book is the outcome of a project called Intercultural Relations in Japan with Special Reference to the Integration of the Ainu. The author’s main concern is the phenomen …

Professor Jarvie examines the nature of the revolution in social anthropology in order to investigate its results. Working within Karl Popper”s radical view of the nature of science, he argues that …

Public relations practitioners are often called upon to help chart their organization”s strategic development, thus functioning as managerial decision makers linking the organization to its larger e …

Pain is felt by everyone, yet understanding its nature is fragmented across myriad modes of thought. In this compact, yet thoroughly integrative account uniting medical science, psychology, and the h …

Classroom-tested over many years and filled with fresh examples, Essential Demographic Methods is tailored to beginners, advanced students, and researchers. Award-winning teacher and eminent demograp …

Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology”s positivist legacy. It is a heritage on the one hand from the seventeenth-century political arithmeticians and the lat …

This book argues the need for the establishment of an exclusionary rule of evidence in China as a means of protecting the people from police wrongdoing. In support of the argument and as a means of d …