Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation s Immi...Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation s Immigration and Inclusion programme this book argues that social cohesion is achieved through people (new arrivals as well as the long-term settled) being able to resolve the...more
Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation s Immi...Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation s Immigration and Inclusion programme this book argues that social cohesion is achieved through people (new arrivals as well as the long-term settled) being able to resolve the...more
Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation s Immi...Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation s Immigration and Inclusion programme this book argues that social cohesion is achieved through people (new arrivals as well as the long-term settled) being able to resolve the...more
This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous people...This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples against the domination of the settler imaginary in Australia Canada New Zealand and the United States. The book argues that a new relational imaginary can revolutionize...more
This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debate...This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work recent empirical trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Focusing on three...more
This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living ...This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe opening the way to a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how...more
This book explores understandings and experiences of dirty work - tasks or occ...This book explores understandings and experiences of dirty work - tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the clean/dirty divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways...more
Bringing together leading scholars to investigate trends in contemporary socia...Bringing together leading scholars to investigate trends in contemporary social life this book examines the current patterning of identities based on class and community gender and generation race faith and ethnicity and derived from popular culture...more
Tamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an ov...Tamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an overlooked minority population in super-diverse London exploring the emergence of the pan-ethnic Oriental category as a new form of collective consciousness and identity in...more
This book examines experiences and implications of against-the-grain school ch...This book examines experiences and implications of against-the-grain school choices where white middle class families choose ordinary and low performing secondary schools for their children. It offers a unique view of identity formation taking in...more
This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race...This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in Britain. It reveals the diverse ways in which young people identify and experience their mixed status the complex nature of such identities and the rise of...more
The material in this study is covered by Myron L. Cohen on religion and family...The material in this study is covered by Myron L. Cohen on religion and family organization in China; John R. Bowen on family kinship and Islam in Indonesia; Robert W. Hefner on hierarchy and stratification in Java; and Nancy Rosenberger on gender...more
This classic work is a revised and abridged version in a single volume of the ...This classic work is a revised and abridged version in a single volume of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociologymore
Global social transformation calls for global social action. 2010 saw the laun...Global social transformation calls for global social action. 2010 saw the launch of The Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development which detailed how social workers can strive to bring about increased social justice. The time is right to...more
In this lucid and engaging introductory volume on the nature of society Roger ...In this lucid and engaging introductory volume on the nature of society Roger Trigg examines the scientific basis of social science and shows that philosophical presuppositions are a necessary starting point for the study of society.more