Books in the International Library of Sociology series

This authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Lash examines the differences between modernism and postmodernism, providing a clear explanation of why postmodernism is important.

Indian Village is considered as a ¿classic". It has received immense acclaim since its publication, especially as the first book on a single village in post-Second World War South Asia. The work represents a key statement of the wider shift from tribe to village in Indian anthropology, part of the movement away from studies of ¿isolated¿ groups toward writings on contemporary communities in the sociology of the subcontinent. Written in an accessible, intimate manner, this book needs to be understood today as a flagship endeavor of the social sciences in a young, independent India ¿ a study that continues to be generously cited, including as a model monograph, in the disciplines at large.

The field of science and technology studies has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power. This book offers a collection of essays by leading scholars, showing how scientific knowledge embeds, and is embedded, in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses.

Exploring the social structure of visuality, this volume collates essays by internationally renowned scholars, and provides a unique opportunity for considering the changing character of visual experience today.

This important book will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in how questions of gender remake and are remade by the social and economic conditions in which they occur.

This book argues that the division of labour is a key but neglected factor underlying people's inability to adequately understand and relate to the natural world.

Contains significant essays on the sociology of place. Interrogates nature of time and place, how places are economically and culturally transformed and the ways in which travel has changed nature and the environment.

Examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a postmodern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. Looks at Europe, America, Islam and the Orient.

This book is a startling, controversial and original manifesto for a complete review of research methods and methodology in the social sciences and a must read for anyone involved in this area.

Do societies still exist? How should sociology adapt after globalisation? This book extends the recent debate about globalisation from the sociological perspective.

Using the knowledge and experience of education practitioners and theorists, these volumes look at the connection between education and society. Many areas are looked into which made these books standard texts for all teachers.

Celia Lury considers the interrelated dimensions of the brand: as a creator of space, time and community, as a form of intellectual property and as an increasingly important medium of exchange in a global economy.

This work provides a global history and sociology, and a comparative political analysis of the family as an institution It focuses on: the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on fertility and birth-control.

The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. Rob Shields has here developed an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining 'places on the margin'.

Using the great wealth of knowledge from theorists and educational practitioners, the volumes in this book explore the important relationship between society and education. This is useful for actual and itending teachers.

Exploring both popular cultural forms and changes in crime policies and criminal law, Valier elaborates new forms of critical engagement with the politics of crime and punishment.

Develops the theme of "co-production", showing how scientific knowledge both embeds and is embedded in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses. Accordingly, ways of knowing the world are inseparably linked to the ways in which people seek to organize and control it.

Using the example of the Apple iPod, this work investigates the way in which we use sound to construct key areas of our daily lives. It argues that the Apple iPod acts as an urban Sherpa for many of its users and in doing so joins the mobile army of technologies that many of us habitually use to accompany our daily lives.

Is society being fragmented by political and economic changes? Through a comparative analysis of Australia, New Zealand and Britain, Thorns examines the debate surrounding global restructuring.

In clear, non-technical language, Robert Witkin guides the reader through the complexities of Adorno's argument about the link between music and morality and the detailed analytic discussions of specific musical works with which he supported it.

Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the complexity turn in social theory, this book utilizes complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization. It also suggests a framework for understanding mobilization.

Intended for social sciences and humanities researchers and postgraduates, this book promises to question the whole direction of social sciences methodology. Offering an introduction to this key topic, it brings together a body of work that has come to be known as non-representational theory. It also provides approaches to social sciences.