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We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods – from beds t...

Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications peop...

Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications peop...

Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extincti...

Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extincti...

In So Close, the internationally renowned writer Hélène Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Befo...

In So Close, the internationally renowned writer Hélène Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Befo...

The soap opera is a major form of media art and popular culture. Revered and reviled by fans and critics, its history spans and reflects social cha...

The soap opera is a major form of media art and popular culture. Revered and reviled by fans and critics, its history spans and reflects social cha...

The concept of 'social capital' is currently the focus of an explosion of interest in the research and policy community. It refers to the social ne...

The concept of 'social capital' is currently the focus of an explosion of interest in the research and policy community. It refers to the social ne...

Social capital is a principal concept across the social sciences and has readily entered into mainstream discourse. In short, it is popular. Howeve...

Social capital is a principal concept across the social sciences and has readily entered into mainstream discourse. In short, it is popular. Howeve...

This book takes the study of development and social change out of the confines of the Modernization Theory - Dependency Theory debate. The author e...

What is social control? How do social controls become part of everyday life? What role does the criminal justice system play in exerting control? I...

What is social control? How do social controls become part of everyday life? What role does the criminal justice system play in exerting control? I...

The new edition of this popular introduction explores the meaning of social deviance in contemporary society. It traces the path by which we create...

The new edition of this popular introduction explores the meaning of social deviance in contemporary society. It traces the path by which we create...

Human beings change the world in order to know it more easily and reliably. That is, we construct social and material environments, or ‘epistemic n...

Human beings change the world in order to know it more easily and reliably. That is, we construct social and material environments, or ‘epistemic n...

In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of p...

What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice? How can we best reconcile the quest for greater social justic...

What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice? How can we best reconcile the quest for greater social justic...