Bücher der Reihe Key Ideas

In this extensively revised and restructured new edition of 'Globalization', Malcolm Waters provides a user-friendly introduction to the main arguments about the globalisation process.

Revised edition of the author's Sexuality, 2009.

This book, updated throughout and with new sections on visual culture, urban culture and subcultures, argues that to understand the concept we need to locate it within traditions of thought and appreciate its political and ideological bases.

This introductory text argues that class remains a key concept in sociology. Edgell examines the work of Marx, Weber, Wright and Goldthorpe - and discusses class structures, social mobility, inequality and politics.

Investigating the social factors that make up the knowledge of children and childhood, this book aims to promote a greater appreciation of this stage of life. Viewing childhood from a social constructionist perspective, it gives a framework through which to understand private attitudes and public policy in relation to the child.

This book presents a clear and comprehensive overview of citizenship, exploring its historical and conceptual origins, its contemporary dilemmas and its emancipatory potential for the future.

Most significant problems of contemporary life have their origins in nihilism and its paradoxical logic, which is simultaneously destructive to and constitutive of society. This book develops a systematic account of nihilism in its four main forms: escapism, radical nihilism, passive nihilism and 'perfect nihilism.'

With the increasing number of moral panics in recent years triggered by incidents such as the Bulger case and the spread of AIDS, this book examines their wider significance particularly in terms of the functioning of the mass media.

Revised edition of the author's Community, 2010.

Captures the range of thought appropriate for scrutinizing the ambivalent idea of leisure. Analyzing key definitions, concepts and theories, this title offers the author's theory of liquid leisure, which asks some demanding questions about the present and the future of the idea in people's lives and its role in civil society.

This fully updated new edition of the hugely popular Racism provides a thought-provoking account of the history and debate about the concept, combining both historical and theoretical analysis.