Books in the Critical Concepts in Sociology series

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 collection provides an invaluable resource for the burgeoning field of sports studies. It offers a selection of classic works and more recent ground-breaking journal articles on the sociology of sport.

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.

There is a huge and ever-growing interest in New Religious Movements (NRMs), sects and cults, from Aum Shinrykyo to Waco to Falun Gong. This collection provides the historical and cultural contexts within which to view current trends.

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.

Transgression, conduct that breaks rules or exceeds boundaries, is a key idea for sociologists, anthropologists and cultural theorists, and a major feature of postmodern thought. This book presents a history of ideas, a resume of major contributory theorists, and a discussion of significant moments and substantive concerns of various debates.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 major works collection surveys the nature of Muslim diasporas in the west from a sociological perspective, exploring the issues of migration, integration, identity, politics, Islamophobia, and radicalisation.

This international collection brings together a selection of the most influential work on the concept of the 'Family' and related issues. This collection will prove an invaluable resource for students and researchers alike.

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.

'The information society' refers to a constellation of developments arising from the use of communication technologies in the acquisition, storage, and processing of information, and the role of information in supporting the creation and exchange of knowledge. This book provides a map of the area as it has emerged and developed over the years.