Books in the Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences series

Drawing on a variety of disciplines, this four-volume collection covers anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, cultural history, land economy, and, outside of the arts and social sciences, disciplines such as health sciences and health economics. It aims to serve as a resource for both student and scholar alike.

A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on population studies.

Part of the "Routledge Major Works" series, this is a four-volume collection of canonical research in Leisure Studies.

Brings together the diversity of research work from across the social sciences on the topic of human-animal relations. This collection also provides overviews of research that has been carried out within particular disciplines in this area.

This title examines what social scientists mean by the term tourism, and what it means to be a tourist. The volumes chart the sociological changes that have occurred in tourism, and the change from the upper-class grand tours of the late 19th-century to the mass tourism of the 21st century.

Brings together the important research on how social relations are embodied in artistic and aesthetic products and processes, and how these in turn can affect social life and societal organization. This title highlights how social scientists are increasingly developing sophisticated ways of understanding artistic and aesthetic issues.