Intended for students who need to get a fast grasp on a range of social and political issues, this introductory text is a comprehensive guide to politics ...

The study of social divisions has dominated research within the social sciences since the nineteenth century. Understanding Social Divisions addresses ...

A critical evaluation of the central debates within leisure studies, looking at both management theories and leisure management, as well as historical ...

This book explores the concept of the stranger as a 'modern' social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature ...

In this ground-breaking book, Shaun Best analyses the intellectual knowledge production of Zygmunt Bauman and his rise to academic stardom in the English ...

Best offers a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology to the present day. The reader is guided through the work of Durkheim, Marx ...