Originally published in 1994, this original analysis shows how the British as a people are constantly defined and redefined through their interactions with several frontiers of identity, namely Celts, expatriates, Americans, Europeans, citizens of t...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1972, this book is an important introduction to the analytical aspects of sociology. It analyses the various strands in 20th Century sociological thought, illustrating the richness as much as the poverty of any p...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three important styles of sociological research: positivism, symbolic interactionism and critique. Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1973, this book examines the difficulties which sociologists have in providing useful scientific definitions of terms like prejudice and discrimination. The author argues that such notions are essentially dependent on t...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1974, this book examines the nature of the commune movement, its members and the communal activities in which they are involved. It explains the forces in 20th Century society that moved people to form and join communes....Daugiau...
First published in 1989, Whats New? puts innovation firmly back on the agenda of archaeological interpretation. This book revives interest in the process of innovation and reinterprets it by drawing on original work done in a variety of di...Daugiau...
First published in 1985, Social Work and Social Philosophy looks at the issues involved and provides social workers with a conceptual framework for understanding and analysing the moral and political questions that are inextricably linked to the pra...Daugiau...
The British welfare state has been a political and ideological battleground since its inception, yet many of the voices in the crucial debates have been lost in orthodox histories. First published in 1987, Ideologies of Welfare (now with a...Daugiau...
Originally published for the first time in English in 1979 this book represents one of the earliest Marxist analyses of the impact that colonialism had on Africa during the first half century that followed the Scramble. Nzulas co-authored book, toge...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1974, this volume presents viable alternatives to traditional attitudes and practices in environmental design and education. It contains 29 selections that reflect the thought and actions of leaders from many diverse discipli...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary intellectuals over the preceding 100 years, a period characterized by a constant process of re-definition and change. The tradi...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1987, and now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Robin Cohen, this work argues that a major engine of capitals growth lies in its ability to find successive cohorts of quasi-free workers to deploy in the farms, m...Daugiau...
As the first geographical study of interwar Britain, The Geography of Interwar Britain (originally published in 1988 and now with a new preface by the author) breaks new ground, incorporating original research and new interpretations of the...Daugiau...
First published in 1993, Managing Poverty examines the reasons for the growing importance of social assistance in British social security policy, traces the many changes introduced by successive governments, and explores in detail why both...Daugiau...
First published in 1972, Social Work with Children presents a detailed examination of children and their needs in our society. The author moves from an initial discussion of the pleasures and pressures inherent in parenthood, towards consid...Daugiau...
First published in 1989, Staking a Claim brings feminist experience and social theory together to produce a systematic view of the State as an agent in sexual politics, thereby placing in question the nature of the State itself. The book ap...Daugiau...
First published in 1975, Daily Experience in Residential Life, based on questionnaires completed by students during their residential placements, breaks new ground with fresh implications for social work training and practice.The aut...Daugiau...
Most objections to state intervention in social life are made on overtly political or moral grounds. First published in 1980, the theme of this book is also to criticise intervention programmes, but on empirical grounds. It looks at several forms...Daugiau...
First published in 1971, this title describes a series of studies dealing with the upbringing of children in residential institutions. Most work has been carried out in institutions for children with learning disabilities, although units caring fo...Daugiau...
How do sociologists explain the role and function of social work in society? How has sociological knowledge been used, adapted and misused by social workers? First published in 1991, this title includes chapters on sociological theory and social wor...Daugiau...
First published in 1954, Colour Prejudice in Britain is an account of the assimilation and adjustment of 345 West Indian workers who came to England between 1941 and 1943, many of whom have stayed to the present day. The study endeavours to...Daugiau...
First published in 1973, The Symmetrical Family combines evidence about the family of the past with information from a sociological survey in the London region and uses both as the basis for a speculative discussion about the future. The argument is...Daugiau...
First published in 1978, The Worlds of Patrick Geddes is a study of Patrick Geddes thought and action, his relationships and his life, as someone who defied labelling and who was years ahead of his contemporaries. First publ...Daugiau...
First published in English in 1981, Historical Research on Social Mobility treats a central area of social history: the history of social mobility. It provides a unique guide to the wide range of research in this area that is carried out by...Daugiau...
In Working at Leisure (originally published in 1986), Barrie Sherman envisages a world where homeworking will be the norm, the cities will be deserted, the suburbs the new centres of work and leisure....Daugiau...
First published in 1976, Interwar Britain presents a highly readable and up-to-date account of a crucial period in modern British history. The major economic and social issues, ranging from economic growth and policy to social welfare and h...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1979, this book examines differing forms of international, interracial working- class action and the relationship between workers struggles in the periphery and those in advanced capitalist countries. It analyses the natur...Daugiau...
Peter Willmott went to Dagenham in Essex, where forty years before the London County Council began to build a giant estate to rehouse people from the East End of London. Originally published in 1963, his study of a new estate that had now become an...Daugiau...
In the early 1980s it was fashionable to suggest that marriage as an institution was in trouble, but there were widely differing views as to whether or not this was really so. Originally published in 1982, this title started as a small-scale explo...Daugiau...
First published in 1981, Ethnic Segregation in Cities argues that race and ethnicity are fundamental to writing about the city, and that economic patterns adapt themselves to race and ethnicity rather than vice versa. The problem of ethnic...Daugiau...
First published in 1978, Issues in Social Policy is designed as a basic textbook for social administration students in universities, polytechnics and similar institutions, and for students in allied fields such as medicine, nursing and public admini...Daugiau...
First published in 1961, Does Pornography Matter? is a fascinating study of pornography by authors belonging to various disciplines. First published in 1961, Does Pornography Matter? consists of chapters written by sev...Daugiau...
First published in 1975, Opening the Door is a survey of policies and problems in services for the mentally handicapped. It describes the improvements which have taken place since 1969, when the inquiry into conditions of patients at Ely ho...Daugiau...
First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families? Thereafter, the author describes the results of intensive interviews with people of pensionable age in Bethnal Gree...Daugiau...
First published in 1984, Women and Property studies the idea of wealth and property in relation to women in diverse countries. It attempts a definition of the term property itself and goes on to look at the relationships and rights associ...Daugiau...
First published in 1979, Revolt Against the Dead describes the changing lifestyle of the Aguacatec Indians, a Mayan peasant people of the northwestern highlands of Guatemala. The author presents the societal transformation from an economic,...Daugiau...
First published in 1990, focusing on the enigma of the ageing process, this title considers the problems associated with the life course in a variety of cultures. By examining the cultural construction of ageing and extending to the life course as...Daugiau...
First published in 1983, Aging in Society provided an overview of knowledge on various aspects of aging in the USA at the time. Topics covered include aging and the family, economic aspects of an aging population, recent trends in the geogr...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1977, this book presents a selection of work by historians and sociologists on medicine and society in the 19th century. It concentrates on practitioners and patients, quackery and folk medicine, as elements in t...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1983, this book filled a gap in the existing literature, because the effect of credit upon a familys real income was frequently omitted in studies of living standards. Originally published in 1983, this book...Daugiau...
First published in 1992, Youth Unemployment and the Family examines an area of social life which has not been investigated widely: the relationship between parents and young adults living in the parental home. First published...Daugiau...
First published in 1976, Man & Work provides a comprehensive overview of European literature focusing on the changing role of work and its impact on industrial society....Daugiau...
First published in 1979, The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events and factors that led to the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1946....Daugiau...
First published in 1920, Social Theory endeavours to put together the social contents of various experiences of the ordinary man, and to make them, as far as they form one, a coherent and consistent whole. First published in...Daugiau...
First published in 1930, New Zealand in the Making is an economic history of the democratic experiments in New Zealand. The geography, population, government ownership of public utilities, compulsory arbitration, pensions and all other fact...Daugiau...
First published in 1982 in the Identity of Man Professor Clark considers a problem which has puzzled men from the authors of the books of the Old Testament to Charles Darwin and his successors: how to reconcile the animal appetites of men with their...Daugiau...
First published in 1992, The Creatures Time Forgot examines the representation of disabled people in advertising, particularly that produced by disability charities, and in the work of photographers such as Diane Arbus and Gary Winogrand....Daugiau...
First published in 1986 The West Bank Palestinian Family presents the reader with the first comprehensive study of the evolution of the Palestinian family in the West Bank. The main focus of the work was to identify what changes, if any, th...Daugiau...
Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores from a feminist anthropological viewpoint the links between gender and the remakings past and present of the matrilineal system of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Matriliny and Moderni...Daugiau...
