Sociology: Recent submissions
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The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the often-fractured relationship between the study of biology and the study of society. Bringing together a compelling array of interdisciplinary contributions, the authors demonstrate ... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This handbook presents a comprehensive view of the current theory and research surrounding political elites, which is now a pivotal subject for academic study and public discourse. In 40 chapters by leading scholars, it ... -
The Trajectory of Global Education Policy: Community-Based Management in El Salvador and the Global Reform Agenda
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book provides new insights into the phenomena of global education policies and international policy transfer. While both of these issues have gained popularity in the field of international and comparative education, ... -
The Influence of Business Cultures in Europe: An Exploration of Central, Eastern, and Northern Economies
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book explores the way that culture and societal values impact the economies of eight European countries, focussing on businesses and their organisation and management processes. With contributions from skilled authors ... -
The International Political Economy of Oil and Gas
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book addresses energy research from four distinct International Political Economy perspectives: energy security, governance, legal and developmental areas. Energy is too important to be neglected by political scientists. ... -
The Age of Post-Rationality: Limits of economic reasoning in the 21st century
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality. The West legitimises its global dominance by the claim to be a rational, democratic, science-based and progressive ... -
Employees’ Emotional Intelligence, Motivation and Productivity, and Organizational Excellence : A Future Trend in HRD
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book focuses on emotional intelligence, which has emerged as a factor in superior on-the-job performance and ability to lead an effective life. Based on an emerging country, namely India, the book deviates from ... -
Rethinking the Silk Road: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Emerging Eurasian Relations
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book discusses China’s opportunities to translate economic leverage into political outcomes. The central question is how China’s expanding economic influence will transform the global political landscape. This volume ... -
Bourdieu’s Field Theory and the Social Sciences
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Highlighting the conceptual work at the heart of Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology, this cutting edge collection operationalizes Bourdieusian concepts in field analysis. Offering a unique range of explorations and ... -
Minister of Finance Incorporated : Ownership and Control of Corporate Malaysia
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This is a study of Malaysia’s new political economy, with a focus on ownership and control of the corporate sector. It offers a pioneering assessment of government-linked investment companies (GLICs), a type of state-owned ... -
Cultural Perspectives on Millennials
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides a cultural studies analysis of Millennials and their impact on American culture and society. Beginning with an introduction that touches upon which part of the population is described as Millennial, the ... -
Leadership Theory and Research : A Critical Approach to New and Existing Paradigms
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides a concise yet comprehensive literature review on leadership. As well as offering critical insight into leadership research, the author addresses emerging paradigms and identifies new approaches. A vital ... -
Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment: Re-thinking Curriculum as Counter-Conduct and Counter-Politics
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores curriculum inquiry through the theoretical lens of governmentality as a site of disciplinary biopolitics and a system of heteropatriarchal political economy. Examining the powerscape in which education ... -
Agroecology: Reweaving a New Landscape
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book argues that sustainable development, based on sustained growth, has led us to an impasse. In response, Agroecology brings back and utilises notions of eco-development and co-evolution with nature as a refreshing ... -
Tanzania : the path to prosperity
(Oxford University Press, 2017)This book, the third in the Africa: Policies for Prosperity series, is concerned with the challenges of securing economic prosperity in Tanzania over the coming decades. Building on widespread economic reforms in the early ... -
WELL-BEING: Productivity and Happiness at Work
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book is the second edition of Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work that shows how to improve well-being in organizations. As with its predecessor, this new edition is remarkably timely. It explores the latest ... -
Native Cultural Competency in Mainstream Schooling: "Outsider" Teachers with Insider Knowledge
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides an in-depth analysis of Native American educational issues in the Northeast and highlights teacher training and instruction that address the experience and needs of the many Native students that attend ... -
Regulation of Infrastructure and Utilities: Public Policy and Management Issues
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the public policy and management issues that are encountered in the regulation of infrastructure and utilities. Drawing from theoretical arguments and several case studies, ... -
Intersectionality Narratives in the Classroom: “Outsider Teachers” and Teaching Others
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book portrays the experiences of self-described “outsider” or “other” teachers—teachers whose identities set them apart from their students based upon combinations of race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, ... -
Interdisciplinary Place-Based Learning in Urban Education: Exploring Virtual Worlds
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book focuses on the interdisciplinary incorporation of place-based learning in faculty teaching strategies at the New York City College of Technology. Contributing authors highlight their creative use of the unique ...