Books in the The New Sociology series

Offers an introduction to gender and provides an exploration of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine men. This book explores gender as a way of seeing women and men as not just biological organisms, but as people shaped by their everyday social world.

Dealing with the topic of the body, this book illustrates the complex relationships that exist between the body, society and everyday life, by linking contemporary theory to the body through a series of case studies. These case studies range across a variety of cultural settings, such as film, theatre, dance and sport.

Outlines contrasting sociological theories of risk, and summarizes some of the principle discoveries of empirical research conducted into the ways people perceive, experience and respond to a world of danger. This book examines some of the moral concerns and political interests that feature in this area of study.

Giving an account of globalization, this work develops two themes. It first looks at globalization as an outcome of structural and cultural processes that manifest in different ways in economy, politics, culture and organizations. It then explores globalization as sustained and created by the everyday actions of people and institutions.

Mixing theories of the everyday with a range of case studies, this book explains the 'character' of ethnicity, from being a political tool of exclusion, to a source of meaning and solidarity, and the relationship between culture, power and identity. It provides an introduction to the sociology of ethnicity.

This lively and accessible new book reconsiders the different views as to what 'culture' is, how it operates, and how it relates to other aspects of the human (and non-human) world.

Grounded in a wide-ranging review of empirical research, this textbook provides an overview of sociological debates surrounding the idea of community, and relates them to the part community plays in people's everyday conceptions of identity.

Presents historical insights in terms of the emergence, development, and interrelationship of specific and varied notions of identity and selfhood. This book is useful for those undergraduates and postgraduates of sociology, philosophy and history and cultural studies interested in the concepts of identity and self.

This introductory text challenges current sociological thought and explores the historical and contemporary relevance of religion to social life, through an examination of practice and belief.

We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our everyday life? This accessible introduction to the sociology of the body explores how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies.