Bücher der Reihe International Library of Sociology

This work provides a global history and sociology, and a comparative political analysis of the family as an institution It focuses on: the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on fertility and birth-control.

Celia Lury considers the interrelated dimensions of the brand: as a creator of space, time and community, as a form of intellectual property and as an increasingly important medium of exchange in a global economy.

Using the knowledge and experience of education practitioners and theorists, these volumes look at the connection between education and society. Many areas are looked into which made these books standard texts for all teachers.

This authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Lash examines the differences between modernism and postmodernism, providing a clear explanation of why postmodernism is important.

Examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a postmodern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. Looks at Europe, America, Islam and the Orient.

This important book will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in how questions of gender remake and are remade by the social and economic conditions in which they occur.

Provides an introduction to the knowledge economy. Illustrating the benefits of conversing with the ghosts of alternative economies, this book provokes 'conversations' between the knowledge economy and those marginalised economies that haunt it: the risk, gift, libidinal and survival economies.

This book presents for the first time a sociological analysis of the cultural phenomenon, the Taj Mahal. It describes many of the tourist practices around the Taj as well as considering the notion of tourism in a wider context.

Unpacks Adorno's critique of popular culture in an engagingly, looking at the development of theories of authority, commodification and negative dialectics. Goes on to consider Adorno's writing on specific aspects of popular culture.

Teratologies is a distinctly female look at how cancer is imagined and experienced in contemporary society.

This controversial new book traces the journey from public confidence in nuclear technology to the anxieties of the Risk Society questioning a number of conventional wisdoms en route.

Explores various forms of individual cross-border interactions and mobility which have expanded across physical space. This title investigates whether, and to what degree, increases in the volume of transnational interactions weaken the individual citizen's bond to the nation-state.

A thesis by Dr Leslie Sklair.

Explains the performative relation to social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for social diagnosis. This book provides an understanding of theory as the chosen films work as a pedagogical route into social theory. It is suitable for students and researchers of Sociology, Contemporary Social Theory, Film Studies and Cultural Studies.

Introducing the concept of 'multicultural intimacies', this book offers a form of critical engagement with the cultural politics of multiculturalism, one that attends to ideals of mixing, loving thy neighbour and feelings for the nation.

The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century.

Using a variety of evidence from the health management field, the author documents the rise of general management, the application of new techniques to reduce medical costs and improve efficiency, and other methods to control, use and evaluate clinical performance.

This volume demonstrates how cultural studies has diffused from Britain into other English-speaking countries, and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. It is a guide to international cultural studies.