Sociology: Recent submissions
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Sociology in Belgium: A Sociological History
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book provides a historical-sociological analysis of the history of sociology in Belgium from the late-nineteenth until the early-twenty-first century. It sheds new light on the social structures that shaped and shape ... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This Handbook offers a systematic review of state-of-the-art knowledge on public administration in Europe. Covering the theoretical, epistemological and practical aspects of the field, it focuses on how public administration ... -
Food Security and the Modernisation Pathway in China: Towards Sustainable Agriculture
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book aims at providing students, experts and practitioners with a detailed overview of agricultural and food security issues in China, analyzed through the lenses of a multidisciplinary approach that enables to fully ... -
New Directions in Children’s Welfare: Professionals, Policy and Practice
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book makes a distinctive contribution to reflections on what child-centred practice means in the complex area of child welfare. With a theoretical framework informed by insights from a number of disciplinary perspectives, ... -
The Multilingual Edge of Education
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book highlights the need to develop new educational perspectives in which multilingualism is valorised and strategically used in settings and contexts of instruction and learning. Situated in the current educational ... -
Mothering, Education and Culture: Russian, Palestinian and Jewish Middle-Class Mothers in Israeli Society
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book is an ethnographically-informed interview study of the ways in which middle-class mothers from three Israeli social-cultural groups – immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Palestinian Israelis and Jewish ... -
Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers
(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018)The study of childhood in academia has been dominated by a mono-cultural or WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) perspective. Within the field of anthropology, however, a contrasting and more ... -
Product Innovation in the Global Fashion Industry
(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018)As an initial attempt to understand innovation in fashion, this volume focuses on product innovations, realizing that this industry is truly an innovative sector in which diverse technologies, science, art, and tradition ... -
Elite Schooling and Social Inequality: Privilege and Power in Ireland's Top Private Schools
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book is the first significant sociological study of Ireland’s elite private schools. It takes the reader behind the gates of these secretive institutions, and offers a compelling analysis of their role in the reproduction ... -
Spinning into Control: Improvising the Sustainable Startup
(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018)Could everything we’ve learned about entrepreneurship simply be wrong? There is no shortage of how-to books with ‘manual’ in the title, and articles promising ‘The 7 [or 6 or 10] key traits of successful entrepreneurs’, ... -
Towards a Sociology of the Coast: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship to the Shore
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book seeks to understand the coast as a place that has deep significance both historically and sociologically. Using several case studies in Australia, the author uses Max Weber’s approach to rationalisation to ... -
Sport and Physical Activity across the Lifespan: Critical Perspectives
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This edited collection problematizes trajectories of health promotion across the lifespan. It provides a distinctive critical social science perspective of the various directions taken by dominant policies in their approach ... -
El Niño in World History
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book examines the role of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society. Throughout human history, large or recurrent El Niños could cause significant disruption to societies and in some cases even contribute to ... -
Communicative Figurations: Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spread of various technical communication media such as ... -
Knowing Humanity in the Social World: The Path of Steve Fuller’s Social Epistemology
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book examines Fuller’s pioneering vision of social epistemology. It focuses specifically on his work post-2000, which is founded in the changing conception of humanity and project into a ‘post-‘ or ‘trans-‘ human ... -
The Private Sector and Criminal Justice
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book brings together a collection of essays by leading criminologists to explore the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice. The private sector has become an increasingly important ‘partner’ in ... -
The Social and Political History of Southern Africa’s Languages
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including ... -
Chinese as a Second and Foreign Language Education: Pedagogy and Psychology
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book presents key issues in the teaching of Chinese as a second or foreign language (TCSL or TCFL). It investigates how multimedia can help to assist TCSL/TCFL and explores practical effects of multimedia-assisted ... -
Asian Century… on a Knife-edge: A 360 Degree Analysis of Asia's Recent Economic Development
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's rapid economic development in the post-war era and ... -
Against Art and Culture
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Offering a negative definition of art in relation to the concept of culture, this book establishes the concept of ‘art/culture’ to describe the unity of these two fields around named-labour, idealised creative subjectivity ...
