Best Sociology Books
Best Free Sociology Books of 2024
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LA FEMME EXPLIQUEE A NOS AMIS LES HOMMES Book Reviews
Isabelle DeprezJe dédie cet ouvrage aux femmes et aux hommes qui construisent un monde plus juste. A tout ceux qui, face à l’adversité, repoussent les idées préconçues. Aux parents et aux enseign...
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Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime Book Reviews
Helena Machado & Rafaela GranjaThis open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of scientifi...
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Lesbian Mothers Book Reviews
Ellen LewinWithin a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In ...
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Knowledge and Institutions Book Reviews
Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby & Regina LenzThis open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating ne...
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Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches Book Reviews
Gilbert Ritschard & Matthias StuderThis open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectori...
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Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course Book Reviews
Michel Oris, Caroline Roberts, Dominique Joye & Michèle Ernst StähliThis open access book details tools and procedures for data collections of hardtoreach, hardtosurvey populations. Inside, readers will discover firsthand insights from experts who ...
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Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements Book Reviews
Elizabeth Evans & Eléonore LepinardExamining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around...
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Queer in Africa Book Reviews
Zethu Matebeni, Surya Monro & Vasu ReddyAfrican sexualities are dynamic, multifaceted and resilient. However, people with nonheterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for surv...
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A2 Exam questions guide Book Reviews
Gemma TurnerA guide for exam questions for SCLY3 and SCLY4 for the AQA specification for Sociology
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Knowledge and Networks Book Reviews
Johannes Glückler, Emmanuel Lazega & Ingmar HammerThis book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation betwee...
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Society 5.0 Book Reviews
Hitachi-UTokyo Laboratory(H-UTokyo Lab.)This open access book introduces readers to the vision on future cities and urban lives in connection with “Society 5.0”, which was proposed in the 5th Basic Science and Technology...
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Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam Book Reviews
Judith Ehlert & Nora Katharina FaltmannThis open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agrofood syst...
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Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality Book Reviews
Margaret O'Brien & Karin WallThis book is open access under a CC BYNC 2.5 license. This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different p...
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The Emigrant Communities of Latvia Book Reviews
Rita Kaša & Inta MieriņaThis open access volume examines experiences of contemporary Latvian migrants, thereby focusing on reasons for emigration, processes of integration in their host countries, and – i...
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Social Innovations in the Urban Context Book Reviews
Taco Brandsen, Sandro Cattacin, Adalbert Evers & Annette ZimmerThis book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe an...
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Science of Societal Safety Book Reviews
Seiji Abe, Mamoru Ozawa & Yoshiaki KawataThis open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters ...
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Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance Book Reviews
Lora Anne Viola & Paweł LaidlerInvestigating the theoretical and empirical relationships between transparency and trust in the context of surveillance, this volume argues that neither transparency nor trust prov...
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Behind Civilisation Book Reviews
Gavin Huang#The first book specifically looking into the nature of civilization and the mechanism that governs civilisation #A book to investigate civilisation with a novel approach, Newtonia...
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Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates Book Reviews
Marieke SlootmanBased on a study among highereducated adult children of lowerclass Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands, this open access book explores processes of identification am...
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Foundations of a Sociology of Canon Law Book Reviews
Judith HahnThis "Open Access" book investigates the legal reality of the church through a sociological lens and from the perspective of canon law studies, the discipline which resea...
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Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins Book Reviews
Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi & Jean-Marie Le GoffThis open access wideranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying secondgeneration immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. ...
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Geographies of Schooling Book Reviews
Holger Jahnke, Caroline Kramer & Peter MeusburgerThis open access book explores the complex relationship between schooling as a set of practices embedded in educational institutions and their specific spatial dimensions from diff...
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Household Education Book Reviews
Harriet MartineauA guide to the appropriate conduct of the home by early feminist Harriet Martineau, sometimes acclaimed as the first woman sociologist, who counted Queen Victoria among her many fa...
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The Everyday Life of an Algorithm Book Reviews
Daniel NeylandThis open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are inv...
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On the path to AI Book Reviews
Thomas D. Grant & Damon J. WischikThis open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the rev...
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Garments for Each Other Book Reviews
Mirza Masroor AhmadA collection of carefully chosen excerpts, sermons and an address to Lajna given by Hazrat KhalifatulMasih V(aba) on the subject of marriage and how to live in harmony with one’s s...
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The Plight of Older Workers Book Reviews
Isabel BaumannThis open access book examines the economic, social, and psychological consequences of manufacturing plant closure at the individual level. Using an original data set of over 1,200...
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The Values of Independent Hip-Hop in the Post-Golden Era Book Reviews
Christopher Vito“A necessary read for every researcher, historian, scholar and hiphop fan that seeks to better understand independent hiphop and aspires to rebel and utilize hiphop as a tool of re...
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Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation Book Reviews
Yasmine Berriane, Annuska Derks, Aymon Kreil & Dorothea LüddeckensCarefully contextualizing the ethnography by taking scale and time seriously, the book shows why fieldwork is both necessary and insufficient if the aim is to make sense o...
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El uso del audiovisual en las aulas Book Reviews
Almudena Esteban, Santiago Tejedor, José Manuel Pérez Tornero, Marta Portalés, Judit Calle Gómez, Tomás Durán & Mireia Pi¿Qué supone la introducción de los contenidos audiovisuales en las aulas? ¿Cuáles son los beneficios de su uso en la enseñanza? ¿Qué contenidos audiovisuales y con qué finalidad se...
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Social Inequality, Childhood and the Media Book Reviews
Ingrid Paus-Hasebrink, Jasmin Kulterer & Philip SinnerThis open access book presents a qualitative longitudinal panelstudy on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged families. The study traces how children and the...
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The profession of air traffic controller operating safely and efficiently in a context of high reliability Book Reviews
AnacnaThe aim of the research was to analyse the practical and daily dimension of the work of the air traffic control officer (ATCO). The ATCO is an operator able to handle unexpected si...
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Knowledge and Action Book Reviews
Peter Meusburger, Benno Werlen & Laura SuarsanaThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectiv...
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The Field Guide for Creative Placemaking and Parks Book Reviews
Matthew ClarkeCreative placemaking is a term that describes the practice of using the arts as a tool for community development. This book is intended to serve as an introduction to creative plac...
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Promoting Active Citizenship Book Reviews
Karl Henrik Sivesind & Jo SaglieThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education, health and soci...
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Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning Book Reviews
Parmod Kumar, Surender Kumar & Laxmi JoshiThis book discusses the important issue of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of agricultural residue burning, common in agricultural practices in many parts of the world....
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Disability, Health and Human Development Book Reviews
Sophie MitraThis open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen’s capability approach. The author uses p...
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What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity Book Reviews
Michael BantonAttempts of nineteenthcentury writers to establish “race” as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had...
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Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory Book Reviews
Mark GrahamAnthropological Explorations in Queer Theory offers a wide ranging fusion of queer theory with anthropological theory, shifting away from the discussion of gender categories and id...
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Domestic Issues and Their Solutions Book Reviews
Mirza Masroor AhmadThis book is a collection of sagacious pronouncements of His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V (may Allah be his Helper) giving solutions based on teachings of Islam...
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Prometheus Bound Book Reviews
Jeff KatzmanPrometheus Bound is the first book in a trilogy Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound, and Prometheus Triumphs. The trilogy explores man's battle with the forces beyond his co...
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Euphorias in Gender, Sex and Sexuality Variations Book Reviews
Tiffany JonesThis Open Access book uses the concept of ‘euphoria’ to investigate when, why and how marginal gender, sex and sexuality groups have positive experiences of their diverse variation...
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Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela Book Reviews
Iselin Åsedotter StrønenThis book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be u...
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Education for Children with Disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Book Reviews
Margarita SchiemerThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents insights into the lived realities of children with disabilities in primary schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ...
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Longer-Term Psychiatric Inpatient Care for Adolescents Book Reviews
Philip HazellThis open access book describes the theoretical underpinnings and operational aspects of delivering longerterm inpatient psychiatric care to adolescents experiencing severe, unremi...
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Thinking About Criminology Book Reviews
Simon Holdaway & Paul RockFirst published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Family Dynamics over the Life Course Book Reviews
Janeen Baxter, Jack Lam, Jenny Povey, Rennie Lee & Stephen R. ZubrickThis open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce socia...
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Lone Parenthood in the Life Course Book Reviews
Laura Bernardi & Dimitri MortelmansLone parenthood is an increasing reality in the 21st century, reinforced by the diffusion of divorce and separation. This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of lone parenthoo...
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Kathy Acker Book Reviews
Margaret HendersonThis project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of Kathy Acker and how her unique art and politics, located at the explosive intersection of punk, postmodernism, and f...
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Trade Unions on YouTube Book Reviews
Jenny Jansson & Katrin Uba“ Trade Unions on YouTube provides a muchneeded assessment of how old social movement actors employ new social media platforms to promote themselves and their activities today. A m...
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Qualitative Research in European Migration Studies Book Reviews
Ricard Zapata-Barrero & Evren YalazThis open access book covers the main issues, challenges and techniques concerning the application of qualitative methodologies to the study of migration. It discusses theoretical,...
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Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation Book Reviews
Lukas Schlogl & Andy Sumner"A piece of cuttingedge scholarship, this book examines the relationship between robotization and deindustrialization by looking at the global dynamics of job displacement and...
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Revolution and Witchcraft Book Reviews
Gordon C. Chang"Dr. Chang expands the utility of microlevel discourse analysis techniques in his investigation of three macrolevel idea systems: witch hunt social movements, Maoera revolutio...
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Advancing Equity Planning Now Book Reviews
Norman Krumholz & Kathryn Wertheim HexterWhat can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Planning Now places the concepts of fa...
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Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology Book Reviews
Georgios Leventakis & M. R. HaberfeldThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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Pragmatic Philanthropy Book Reviews
Ruth A. Shapiro, Manisha Mirchandani & Heesu JangThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This cutting edge text considers how Asian philanthropists and charitable organizations break with Western philanthropic traditi...
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The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge Book Reviews
Loet Leydesdorff This open access book have three themes have been central to Leydesdorff's research: (1) the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation; (2) the scientometric o...
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Sociology of Interdisciplinarity Book Reviews
Antti Silvast & Chris Foulds“Even though I’ve been involved in interdisciplinary energy research for more than 20 years, this book is an eye opener for me."  – Tanja Winther , Professor, Univers...
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Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People Book Reviews
Maria Manuela Mendes, Olga Magano & Ștefania TomaThis open access volume provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma, including the motives justifying t...
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Update Available Book Reviews
David TrendWe live in an age of anticipatory dread. Whether growing up or getting ahead, we're conditioned to believe that faster is better, time is money, and danger lies in falling beh...
Best Paid Sociology Books of 2024
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LA FEMME EXPLIQUEE A NOS AMIS LES HOMMES Book Reviews
Isabelle DeprezJe dédie cet ouvrage aux femmes et aux hommes qui construisent un monde plus juste. A tout ceux qui, face à l’adversité, repoussent les idées préconçues. Aux parents et aux enseign...
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Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime Book Reviews
Helena Machado & Rafaela GranjaThis open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of scientifi...
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Lesbian Mothers Book Reviews
Ellen LewinWithin a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In ...
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Knowledge and Institutions Book Reviews
Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby & Regina LenzThis open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating ne...
-
Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches Book Reviews
Gilbert Ritschard & Matthias StuderThis open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectori...
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Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course Book Reviews
Michel Oris, Caroline Roberts, Dominique Joye & Michèle Ernst StähliThis open access book details tools and procedures for data collections of hardtoreach, hardtosurvey populations. Inside, readers will discover firsthand insights from experts who ...
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Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements Book Reviews
Elizabeth Evans & Eléonore LepinardExamining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around...
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Queer in Africa Book Reviews
Zethu Matebeni, Surya Monro & Vasu ReddyAfrican sexualities are dynamic, multifaceted and resilient. However, people with nonheterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for surv...
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A2 Exam questions guide Book Reviews
Gemma TurnerA guide for exam questions for SCLY3 and SCLY4 for the AQA specification for Sociology
-
Knowledge and Networks Book Reviews
Johannes Glückler, Emmanuel Lazega & Ingmar HammerThis book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation betwee...
-
Society 5.0 Book Reviews
Hitachi-UTokyo Laboratory(H-UTokyo Lab.)This open access book introduces readers to the vision on future cities and urban lives in connection with “Society 5.0”, which was proposed in the 5th Basic Science and Technology...
-
Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam Book Reviews
Judith Ehlert & Nora Katharina FaltmannThis open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agrofood syst...
-
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality Book Reviews
Margaret O'Brien & Karin WallThis book is open access under a CC BYNC 2.5 license. This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different p...
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The Emigrant Communities of Latvia Book Reviews
Rita Kaša & Inta MieriņaThis open access volume examines experiences of contemporary Latvian migrants, thereby focusing on reasons for emigration, processes of integration in their host countries, and – i...
-
Social Innovations in the Urban Context Book Reviews
Taco Brandsen, Sandro Cattacin, Adalbert Evers & Annette ZimmerThis book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe an...
-
Science of Societal Safety Book Reviews
Seiji Abe, Mamoru Ozawa & Yoshiaki KawataThis open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters ...
-
Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance Book Reviews
Lora Anne Viola & Paweł LaidlerInvestigating the theoretical and empirical relationships between transparency and trust in the context of surveillance, this volume argues that neither transparency nor trust prov...
-
Behind Civilisation Book Reviews
Gavin Huang#The first book specifically looking into the nature of civilization and the mechanism that governs civilisation #A book to investigate civilisation with a novel approach, Newtonia...
-
Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates Book Reviews
Marieke SlootmanBased on a study among highereducated adult children of lowerclass Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands, this open access book explores processes of identification am...
-
Foundations of a Sociology of Canon Law Book Reviews
Judith HahnThis "Open Access" book investigates the legal reality of the church through a sociological lens and from the perspective of canon law studies, the discipline which resea...
-
Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins Book Reviews
Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi & Jean-Marie Le GoffThis open access wideranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying secondgeneration immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. ...
-
Geographies of Schooling Book Reviews
Holger Jahnke, Caroline Kramer & Peter MeusburgerThis open access book explores the complex relationship between schooling as a set of practices embedded in educational institutions and their specific spatial dimensions from diff...
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Household Education Book Reviews
Harriet MartineauA guide to the appropriate conduct of the home by early feminist Harriet Martineau, sometimes acclaimed as the first woman sociologist, who counted Queen Victoria among her many fa...
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The Everyday Life of an Algorithm Book Reviews
Daniel NeylandThis open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are inv...
-
On the path to AI Book Reviews
Thomas D. Grant & Damon J. WischikThis open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the rev...
-
Garments for Each Other Book Reviews
Mirza Masroor AhmadA collection of carefully chosen excerpts, sermons and an address to Lajna given by Hazrat KhalifatulMasih V(aba) on the subject of marriage and how to live in harmony with one’s s...
-
The Plight of Older Workers Book Reviews
Isabel BaumannThis open access book examines the economic, social, and psychological consequences of manufacturing plant closure at the individual level. Using an original data set of over 1,200...
-
The Values of Independent Hip-Hop in the Post-Golden Era Book Reviews
Christopher Vito“A necessary read for every researcher, historian, scholar and hiphop fan that seeks to better understand independent hiphop and aspires to rebel and utilize hiphop as a tool of re...
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Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation Book Reviews
Yasmine Berriane, Annuska Derks, Aymon Kreil & Dorothea LüddeckensCarefully contextualizing the ethnography by taking scale and time seriously, the book shows why fieldwork is both necessary and insufficient if the aim is to make sense o...
-
El uso del audiovisual en las aulas Book Reviews
Almudena Esteban, Santiago Tejedor, José Manuel Pérez Tornero, Marta Portalés, Judit Calle Gómez, Tomás Durán & Mireia Pi¿Qué supone la introducción de los contenidos audiovisuales en las aulas? ¿Cuáles son los beneficios de su uso en la enseñanza? ¿Qué contenidos audiovisuales y con qué finalidad se...
-
Social Inequality, Childhood and the Media Book Reviews
Ingrid Paus-Hasebrink, Jasmin Kulterer & Philip SinnerThis open access book presents a qualitative longitudinal panelstudy on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged families. The study traces how children and the...
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The profession of air traffic controller operating safely and efficiently in a context of high reliability Book Reviews
AnacnaThe aim of the research was to analyse the practical and daily dimension of the work of the air traffic control officer (ATCO). The ATCO is an operator able to handle unexpected si...
-
Knowledge and Action Book Reviews
Peter Meusburger, Benno Werlen & Laura SuarsanaThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectiv...
-
The Field Guide for Creative Placemaking and Parks Book Reviews
Matthew ClarkeCreative placemaking is a term that describes the practice of using the arts as a tool for community development. This book is intended to serve as an introduction to creative plac...
-
Promoting Active Citizenship Book Reviews
Karl Henrik Sivesind & Jo SaglieThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education, health and soci...
-
Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning Book Reviews
Parmod Kumar, Surender Kumar & Laxmi JoshiThis book discusses the important issue of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of agricultural residue burning, common in agricultural practices in many parts of the world....
-
Disability, Health and Human Development Book Reviews
Sophie MitraThis open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen’s capability approach. The author uses p...
-
What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity Book Reviews
Michael BantonAttempts of nineteenthcentury writers to establish “race” as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had...
-
Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory Book Reviews
Mark GrahamAnthropological Explorations in Queer Theory offers a wide ranging fusion of queer theory with anthropological theory, shifting away from the discussion of gender categories and id...
-
Domestic Issues and Their Solutions Book Reviews
Mirza Masroor AhmadThis book is a collection of sagacious pronouncements of His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V (may Allah be his Helper) giving solutions based on teachings of Islam...
-
Prometheus Bound Book Reviews
Jeff KatzmanPrometheus Bound is the first book in a trilogy Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound, and Prometheus Triumphs. The trilogy explores man's battle with the forces beyond his co...
-
Euphorias in Gender, Sex and Sexuality Variations Book Reviews
Tiffany JonesThis Open Access book uses the concept of ‘euphoria’ to investigate when, why and how marginal gender, sex and sexuality groups have positive experiences of their diverse variation...
-
Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela Book Reviews
Iselin Åsedotter StrønenThis book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be u...
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Education for Children with Disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Book Reviews
Margarita SchiemerThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents insights into the lived realities of children with disabilities in primary schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ...
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Longer-Term Psychiatric Inpatient Care for Adolescents Book Reviews
Philip HazellThis open access book describes the theoretical underpinnings and operational aspects of delivering longerterm inpatient psychiatric care to adolescents experiencing severe, unremi...
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Thinking About Criminology Book Reviews
Simon Holdaway & Paul RockFirst published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
-
Family Dynamics over the Life Course Book Reviews
Janeen Baxter, Jack Lam, Jenny Povey, Rennie Lee & Stephen R. ZubrickThis open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce socia...
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Lone Parenthood in the Life Course Book Reviews
Laura Bernardi & Dimitri MortelmansLone parenthood is an increasing reality in the 21st century, reinforced by the diffusion of divorce and separation. This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of lone parenthoo...
-
Kathy Acker Book Reviews
Margaret HendersonThis project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of Kathy Acker and how her unique art and politics, located at the explosive intersection of punk, postmodernism, and f...
-
Trade Unions on YouTube Book Reviews
Jenny Jansson & Katrin Uba“ Trade Unions on YouTube provides a muchneeded assessment of how old social movement actors employ new social media platforms to promote themselves and their activities today. A m...
-
Qualitative Research in European Migration Studies Book Reviews
Ricard Zapata-Barrero & Evren YalazThis open access book covers the main issues, challenges and techniques concerning the application of qualitative methodologies to the study of migration. It discusses theoretical,...
-
Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation Book Reviews
Lukas Schlogl & Andy Sumner"A piece of cuttingedge scholarship, this book examines the relationship between robotization and deindustrialization by looking at the global dynamics of job displacement and...
-
Revolution and Witchcraft Book Reviews
Gordon C. Chang"Dr. Chang expands the utility of microlevel discourse analysis techniques in his investigation of three macrolevel idea systems: witch hunt social movements, Maoera revolutio...
-
Advancing Equity Planning Now Book Reviews
Norman Krumholz & Kathryn Wertheim HexterWhat can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Planning Now places the concepts of fa...
-
Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology Book Reviews
Georgios Leventakis & M. R. HaberfeldThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
-
Pragmatic Philanthropy Book Reviews
Ruth A. Shapiro, Manisha Mirchandani & Heesu JangThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This cutting edge text considers how Asian philanthropists and charitable organizations break with Western philanthropic traditi...
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The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge Book Reviews
Loet Leydesdorff This open access book have three themes have been central to Leydesdorff's research: (1) the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation; (2) the scientometric o...
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Sociology of Interdisciplinarity Book Reviews
Antti Silvast & Chris Foulds“Even though I’ve been involved in interdisciplinary energy research for more than 20 years, this book is an eye opener for me."  – Tanja Winther , Professor, Univers...
-
Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People Book Reviews
Maria Manuela Mendes, Olga Magano & Ștefania TomaThis open access volume provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma, including the motives justifying t...
-
Update Available Book Reviews
David TrendWe live in an age of anticipatory dread. Whether growing up or getting ahead, we're conditioned to believe that faster is better, time is money, and danger lies in falling beh...