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Identity is never just an individual matter; it is intricately shaped by our experiences of social l...

In this book Barbara Marshall argues that the debates around both modernity and postmodernity neglec...

This is an important intervention in debates on the family and sexuality, exploring clashes over sex...

This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our und...

New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or phot...

Encountering Nationalism introduces students to concepts of nationalism in an accessible, critical,...

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts tak...

Military Geographies is about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by milita...

This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of state space in his...

This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an internationa...

The changing nature of waged work in contemporary advanced industrial nations is one of the most sig...

For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the...

Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration o...

Social Movements is a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective action in socie...

Europe is Europe’s last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood an...

In this lucid, stimulating and original book, Zygmunt Bauman and Tim May explore the underlying assu...

In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk societ...

In this major new assessment of Zygmunt Bauman's work, Smith gives a clear introduction to this cont...

Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of modern sociology and a key figure in the development of s...

Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in m...

The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor is a key figure in contemporary debates about the self and t...

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the work of Fredric Jameson, one of the most important c...

The new study provides a fresh and timely reassessment of the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt....

This book is an original interpretation of the professions and the role of the professional in Weste...

This book examines the different ways in which order has been achieved in world affairs with a view...

This book is a brief introduction to the study of society, which may be read without any previous kn...

'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid...

Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash...

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focuse...

This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, ‘liquid modern’ times – the man or woman...

With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consu...

Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in...

How are human societies changing the global environment? Is sustainable development really possible?...

In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose an...

Written by an award-winning researcher and professor whose work straddles the fields of communicatio...

Understanding Media Users: From Theory to Practice focuses on the blurred concept of the “active aud...

International Media Studies is a bold introduction to the field that focuses on a de-centering of me...

Women and Media is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked in...

This groundbreaking collection of original essays provides new perspectives in Asian media studies....

Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field...