Sociology and Social Policy
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Smart-Tech Society
Mark Whitehead, William G.A. Collier
Informed by the latest theoretical developments in studies of the social impacts of digital technology, Smart-Tech Society provides an empirically grounded and conceptually informed analysis of the impacts and paradoxes of smart-technology.eBook:Find out more$28.00
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How to Be an Ethnographer
Monika Kostera, Paweł Krzyworzeka
Offering a practical guide on How to be an Ethnographer, this book will be a valuable resource for advanced students and early career researchers of organization studies, anthropology and sociology. It will also be a useful introduction ...eBook:Find out more$28.00
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Questioning Humanity
Thomas Osborne, Nikolas Rose
This visionary book questions what it means to be human today and in the future. Drawing on the natural, human and life sciences, Thomas Osborne and Nikolas Rose encourage us to reconsider the human condition and the ways in which humans...eBook:Find out more$34.36
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Fixing Prices
Franck Cochoy, Johan Hagberg, Hans Kjellberg
Shedding light on a range of price fixing mechanisms and price display technologies, this incisive book offers a clear overview of the retail price setting, posting and adjusting processes. Based on a detailed study of a century of prici...eBook:Find out more$35.16
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A Modern Guide to Creative Economies
Edited by Roberta Comunian, Alessandra Faggian, Jarna Heinonen, Nick Wilson
Bringing together a series of new perspectives and reflections on creative economies, this insightful Modern Guide expands and challenges current knowledge in the field. Interdisciplinary in scope, it features a broad range of contributi...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Handbook on Shrinking Cities
Edited by Karina Pallagst, Marco Bontje, Emmanuèle Cunningham Sabot, René Fleschurz
Compelling and engaging, this Handbook on Shrinking Cities addresses the fundamentals of shrinkage, exploring its causal factors, the ways in which planning strategies and policies are steered, and innovative solutions for revitalising s...eBook:Find out more$54.36
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A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime
Edited by Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, Juan Vargas
A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime discusses the evolution of a field, whose growing relevance among scholars and policymakers is partly related to the persistence of crime and violence around the world and partly to the remarkable...eBook:Find out more$45.56
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Women's Entrepreneurship Policy
Edited by Colette Henry, Susan Coleman, Kate V. Lewis
Bringing together scholars from around the world, this book provides extensive coverage of the academic literature and research on women’s entrepreneurship policy.eBook:Find out more$35.96
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Handbook on Transnationalism
Edited by Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Francis L. Collins
Providing a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how approaches to transnationalism have alt...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Handbook on Urban Social Policies
Edited by Yuri Kazepov, Eduardo Barberis, Roberta Cucca, Elisabetta Mocca
The importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complex embeddedness in wider multilevel governance systems, has often been underplayed in both urban studies and social policy analysis. This Handbook gives readers the analytica...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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How to Conduct Qualitative Research in Social Science
Edited by Pranee Liamputtong
Explaining both the theoretical and practical aspects of doing qualitative research, the book uses examples from real-world research projects to emphasise how to conduct qualitative research in the social sciences. Pranee Liamputtong dra...eBook:Find out more$35.16
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Biosocial Evolutionary Analysis
Jonathan H. Turner, Alexandra Maryanski
This authoritative book proposes a methodological and theoretical strategy for developing sociological explanations of the socio-cultural universe. Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski discuss the problems that persist in explainin...eBook:Find out more$36.76