Books in the Critical Concepts in Sociology series

This anthology tells the story of shamanism in Eurasia, North and South America, Africa and Australia. It brings together 56 articles and book excerpts by anthropologists, psychologists, religious scholars and historians illustrating the variety of views on this subject.

Culture is an extremely complex and highly contested concept. These volumes introduce the reader to the multi-facets of the concept and the wide and often contradictory variety of interpretations that are placed upon it.

This set collects together the classic writings on sexuality from a social science perspective. Topics covered include the history of the study of sexuality, theoretical approaches, issues of gender and sexuality and recent developments.

With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Islam and the Media is a crucial work of reference. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as a vital resource.

This collection is a study of Islamic thought and institutions that represents a critical introduction to the system of Islamic belief and practice from a social science perspective, emphasizing the global nature of Islam in the 20th century.

Assembles research to trace the concept of multiculturalism from long-standing arguments on tribal co-existence, humans rights and civil rights to the rights to recognition. This title explores the tensions between national, ethnic, and religious identity politics. It is suitable for scholars, students, and researchers.

Offering writings in Middle East studies by renowned scholars and by the new generation of scholars of Islam and gender, this collection includes a wide variety of cases from Middle Eastern and Islamic societies. By including case-based articles, the collection highlights the clear links between concepts and theories and actual practices.

This collection offers a uniquely comprehensive guide to the sociology of the body. With a strong historical scope and conceptual framework, it provides an indespensible reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The aim of this collection is to bring together the principal sources in the development of the techniques of social network analysis.

This set brings together published articles, papers and book chapters that are central to an informed understanding of race and ethnicity today

This collection includes essays by all the main thinkers on modernity, such as Marx, Parsons, Mannheim, Giddens, Bourdieu and Adorno, as well as previously unseen material from lesser-known figures.

Here John Scott brings together the central theoretical contributions to the debate on class and status as aspects of stratification - an invaluable one-stop resource for all students of sociology.

The state is a concept surrounded with much dispute. What exactly is the state? Does it act impartially? What changes has it undergone? These three volumes provide a reliable and comprehensive guide to these questions.

This collection brings together the indispensable secondary literature. It includes a major introduction which explains why power is a key concept and guides the reader through the contrasting attempts to understand it.

The concept of citizenship is central to a wide number of debates in the social sciences, and these three volumes provide a guide to the concept. They outline the history of citizenship, and trace its application to various debates within the social sciences.

Part of "Routledge Critical Concepts in Sociology" series, this book helps to make sense of the great variety of perspectives and approaches in which social scientists and other thinkers have understood, and continue to understand, society.

A four-volume collection of research on the intellectual origins and the development of 'social exclusion', a critical concept in the social sciences in general and sociology in particular.