‘This timely book provides a fresh outlook on youth sociology, using historical perspectives to highlight the contrasts between different theories in the field while critically analysing contemporary scientific and methodological debates...
‘In recent years, the concept of social capital has become a widely cited but often misused black box deployed willy-nilly to explain any number of societal outcomes. Karen Cook’s masterful Advanced Introduction to Social Capital fills i...
‘Shanyang Zhao has written a high-level, but very accessible, Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of the Self. The emphasis, rightly, is on the relationship between individual and societal conceptions of the self: The self cannot exis...
‘The prose is pitched perfectly for advanced undergraduates and was highly engaging for me as well. It feels fresh and up to date. Data-rich sections include the precarity of work, the digital economy, gender at work in international con...
‘Based on their extensive earlier work on children’s rights, Vandenhole and Erdem Türkelli provide a quick, yet authoritative and comprehensive, introduction to children’s rights. Their typology of children’s rights respectively as equal...
