Sociology

By Eric Bonds

This short book lays out a new definition for what constitutes a social problem: the violation of a group’s human rights, which are understood as commonly upheld standards about what people deserve and should be protected from in life... Read more...

By Kath Woodward

The social sciences are about people and the relationships between individuals and the social and material world we live in. They are about the social structures which shape – and are shaped by – social forces such as ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality and age and the bodies we inhabit. How are these relationships changing and to what extent and how can people influence change... Read more...

Edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman and Kelly Moore

The Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology and Society seeks to capture the dynamism and breadth of the field by presenting work that pushes the reader to think about science and technology and their intersections with social life in new ways. The interdisciplinary contributions by international experts in this handbook are organized around six topic areas... Read more...

By Marian Adolf and Nico Stehr

Almost everything we do is based on our knowledge of the world around us: how we dress in the morning, how we go about our work, how we interact with other people – all these things rest on our understanding of how we know life. Knowledge might be seen as the most central as well as the most under-researched trait of social life... Read more...

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The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, gender, and class studies from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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We are proud to introduce Theoretical Logic in Sociology, a four volume Major Work collection, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study.

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Keep up to date with our author blog from Ellis Cashmore, with this month's posts concentating on the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. From Luis Suarez, to whether the World Cup could be fixed, and whether taxpayers should pay for football clubs? Read more...

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