Books in the International Library of Sociology series

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.

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.

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.

Sociologists have continued to monitor the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families as their employment opportunities have increased and got better. They also experimented with social behaviour and roles of women today.

The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century.

Using a variety of evidence from the health management field, the author documents the rise of general management, the application of new techniques to reduce medical costs and improve efficiency, and other methods to control, use and evaluate clinical performance.

This volume demonstrates how cultural studies has diffused from Britain into other English-speaking countries, and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. It is a guide to international cultural studies.

A distinctive and theoretically informed study of the administration of the Scottish prison system, based on extensive research and combining theoretical innovation with detailed empirical evidence.

Provides a history of the nature of mass mediation. This book the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies, and institutions have historically shaped the ways of imagining nature in the mass media. It is useful for students and researchers in the fields of media, sociology, cultural geography and environmental studies.

'..a story of the success of the women's movement in placing rape and its survival on the political agenda. ...I liked it very much.' Betsy Stanko, University of Brunel

This book is a practical application of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods to the study of illness and modernity.

Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in social theory, this work offers a comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory. Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, and more, it presents interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of complex, self-organizing structures.

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.

Argues that only the society that achieves an appropriate balance between informality and formality of interaction will find itself in a position to move forward to further democratisation and an improved quality of life.

This stimulating book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the process of consumption. Its acute, sharply observed contributions are drawn from a variety of relevant disciplines.

This astute and timely book investigates the radical potential of technically unlimited reproduction in postmodern culture. It describes a move towards a regime of cultural rights ordered by simulation rather than originality.

This incisive inter-disciplinary text provides a major contribution to the study of finance capital and the metropolis.

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.

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.

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.

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.