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Single Parents offers an overview of this growing phenomenon, the problems faced by single-parent families, and their impact on society.

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A valuable contribution which breaks new territory of research and analysis into women's roles as sisters and wives.

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More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust health care. But they have opted to live differen

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Two leading sports authorities explore the culture of soccer around the world, considering the sport as a means to better understand a society's past, present, and future.

How popular is soccer worldwide

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This work analyzes the phases of general theoretical sociology using a process philosophical approach in an effort to integrate and unify the field. The author studies general theoretical sociology as a time-extended tradition with three phases: classical, postclassical and recent.

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Scholars have long argued that political participation tends to increase with economic and social modernization. In this study of Turkey, however, the author shows that rapid socio-economic growth has coincided with a substantial decline in turnout at the polls. His ecological analysis of subnational aggregate voting data for the sixties and the ex

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The idea that radical adult educators should build civil society through social movements is the dominant paradigm within the adult education left today.

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This bibliography is a companion volume to International Law and the Social Sciences. One of the aims of the earlier work by Wesley L. Gould and Michael Barkun was to show how social science concepts could be employed in research in international law. With the support and encouragement of the American Society of international Law, they have now com

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Now in its third edition, this essential guide provides entries for roughly 1,600 reference sources in the social sciences, including anthropology, business, economics, education, geography, history, law, political science, psychology, and sociology.

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Illuminating key themes of classical sociological texts, this book shows how the ideas of Marx, Durkheim or Weber can be explored by listening to music, reading about celebrities, or watching award-winning films. Providing a fresh way to explore social theory, the text clearly shows the continued relevance of classic ideas in the modern world.

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This title analyses one of the core concerns of both classical and contemporary social theory: the concept of social structure. It does so through an analysis of the language of social theory.

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An analysis of rapidly increasing societal complexity. The 18 contributors propose elements of a methodology based on sociocybernetic principles aimed at describing and explaining the growth of societal complexity, and the contribution of "autopoiesis".

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In this book, leading sociologists expand the scope of their discipline by revealing the sociological aspects of the works of great philosophers, scientists, and writers.

Sociologists have long recognized that sociological insight can be gleaned from creative thinkers outside their formal discipline.

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This book provides insight into the lives and contributions of eigth master sociologists as perceived by their outstanding students.