Sociology

3rd Edition
By John Hannigan

The third edition of John Hannigan’s classic undergraduate text has been fully updated and revised to highlight contemporary trends and controversies within global environmental sociology. Environmental Sociology offers a distinctive, balanced treatment of environmental issues, reconciling Hannigan’s much-cited model of the social construction of environmental problems... Read more...

4th Edition
By Frank Webster

Information is regarded as a distinguishing feature of our world. Where once economies were built on industry and conquest, we are now part of a global information economy. Pervasive media, expanding information occupations and the development of the internet convince many that living in an Information Society is the destiny of us all... Read more...

The Cultural Currency of a ‘Good’ Sense of Humour
By Sam Friedman

Comedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the British culture industries. Defying the recent economic downturn, it has exploded into a booming billion-pound industry both on TV and on the live circuit. Despite this, academia has either ignored comedy or focused solely on analyzing comedians or comic texts... Read more... 

Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art
By John Clammer

Vision and Society is an attempt to show that it is possible to go beyond a sociology of art to the more ambitious possibility of a sociology from art. This book develops a theory of the relationship of the visual and the social and illustrates these with comparative examples from around the world... Read more...

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Malcom Barnard, senior lecturer in Visual Culture at Loughborough University, and author of Fashion Theory: An Introduction, has recently answered a few questions for us about his new book. Learn more about the "Dreamcatcher" bra and safari suit, and discover what makes this textbook engaging for students. Read the full interview here >>>

Ben Pitcher is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Westminster, London. He has written extensively on race and racism, and his new textbook, Consuming Race is available now. Learn more about this new book by reading our author interview with Ben, to find out what attracted him to this subject area, and how race can be found in unusual and unexpected places... Read the full interview here >>>