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This masterful guide to the social determinants of health has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experi...

This stimulating book has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. Th...

This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world – and not individual responsibility or the healthcare system – is t...

This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world – and not individual responsibility or the healthcare system – is t...

The new edition of this popular introduction takes seriously the idea that health outcomes can be fully understood only by investigating the role t...

The new edition of this popular introduction takes seriously the idea that health outcomes can be fully understood only by investigating the role t...

Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, th...

Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, th...

This book presents the first analysis and critique of the idea of practice as it has developed in the various theoretical traditions of the social ...

For Freud, dreams were the royal road to the unconscious: through the process of interpretation, the manifest and sometimes bewildering content of ...

In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadca...

In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadca...

Children’s rights appear universal, inalienable, and indivisible, intended to advance young people’s interests. Yet, in practice, evidence suggests...

Children’s rights appear universal, inalienable, and indivisible, intended to advance young people’s interests. Yet, in practice, evidence suggests...

The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumptio...

The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumptio...

The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globaliz...

The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globaliz...

Sarah Nettleton’s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and...

Sarah Nettleton’s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and...

The Sociology of Health and Illness Reader brings together some of the best examples of recent sociological studies on health, illness and health c...