Sociology and Sociological Theory
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Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Nevena Kulic, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi
Recognising that social change over recent decades has strengthened the need for early childhood education and care, this book seeks to answer what role this plays in creating and compensating for social inequalities in educational attai...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Inequality Across the Generations
Edited by Jani Erola, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen
Social Inequality Across the Generations provides an innovative perspective on social stratification studies by advancing the theoretical and empirical case for the influence of resource compensation. It examines whether resource compens...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Housing Wealth and Welfare
Edited by Caroline Dewilde, Richard Ronald
Both growth and unevenness in the distribution of housing wealth have become characteristic of advanced societies in recent decades. Housing Wealth and Welfare examines, in various contexts, how housing property ownership has become cent...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Social Capital
Edited by Yaojun Li
Social capital is fundamentally concerned with resources in social relations. This Handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world to address important questions on the determinants, manifestations and consequences of soc...eBook:Find out more£39.16
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Reimagining Home in the 21st Century
Edited by Justine Lloyd, Ellie Vasta
Providing ways of reimagining home, this book demonstrates that thinking differently about home advances our understanding of processes of belonging. Authors in this collection explore home in relation to the figure of the stranger and p...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes
Edited by Rosalind Edwards, John Goodwin, Henrietta O’Connor, Ann Phoenix
This book asks the important question; Can the by-products of research activity be treated as data and of research interest in themselves? This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume considers the analytic value of a range of ‘by-produ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Corporate Power and Responsible Capitalism?
Bryn Jones
In this important book, Bryn Jones uses insights from political economy, historical analysis and sociological concepts of the corporation, as a socially disembedded but political actor, to address concerns over the over-reach of Anglo-Sa...eBook:Find out more£29.56
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Handbook of Cultural and Creative Industries in China
Edited by Michael Keane
China is at the crux of reforming, professionalising, and internationalising its cultural and creative industries. These industries are at the forefront of China’s move towards the status of a developed country. In this comprehensive Han...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Advanced Introduction to Organised Crime
Leslie Holmes
Organised crime has become a major problem globally. Its negative impact on economies, societies, politics, human rights and security is profound: fraud, money laundering, drug, arms and human trafficking, and collusion with both law enf...eBook:Find out more£15.96
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Education, Occupation and Social Origin
Edited by Fabrizio Bernardi, Gabrielle Ballarino
This innovative book takes a comparative approach to the social origin–education–destination triangle (OED), looking at the intergenerational transmission of advantage in 14 countries. The intention is to debate the claim that education ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Leadership Imagination
Donald R. LaMagdeleine
In the interest of reimagining leadership as a highly contextual activity with moral overtones, LaMagdeleine argues for blending sociology and history of religions scholarship in leadership analysis of black swan leadership dilemmas. His...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State
Gunnar L.H. Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen
Denmark exemplifies the puzzle of socio-economic success in Scandinavia. Populations are thriving despite the world’s highest levels of tax and generous social benefits. Denmark would appear to be a land of paradise for free-riders and t...eBook:Find out more£25.00
