Bücher der Reihe The New Sociology

Giving an account of globalization, this work develops two themes. It first looks at globalization as an outcome of structural and cultural processes that manifest in different ways in economy, politics, culture and organizations. It then explores globalization as sustained and created by the everyday actions of people and institutions.

Grounded in a wide-ranging review of empirical research, this textbook provides an overview of sociological debates surrounding the idea of community, and relates them to the part community plays in people's everyday conceptions of identity.

Mixing theories of the everyday with a range of case studies, this book explains the 'character' of ethnicity, from being a political tool of exclusion, to a source of meaning and solidarity, and the relationship between culture, power and identity. It provides an introduction to the sociology of ethnicity.

This lively and accessible new book reconsiders the different views as to what 'culture' is, how it operates, and how it relates to other aspects of the human (and non-human) world.

Dealing with the topic of the body, this book illustrates the complex relationships that exist between the body, society and everyday life, by linking contemporary theory to the body through a series of case studies. These case studies range across a variety of cultural settings, such as film, theatre, dance and sport.

Offers an introduction to gender and provides an exploration of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine men. This book explores gender as a way of seeing women and men as not just biological organisms, but as people shaped by their everyday social world.