Books in the Understanding Social Change series

The Natural and the Social: Uncertainty, Risk and Change draws on insights from across the social sciences to examine the changing character of the interrelations between society and nature.

This book examines contemporary debates in an accessible fashion, offering a clear guide to one of the big issues of our time. This important and innovative textbook will be welcomed across the social sciences.

Knowledge and the Social Sciences: Theory, Method, Practice looks at the role of the social sciences in explaining and exploring what has been called the explosion of knowledge in the contemporary world.

This book examines contemporary debates in an accessible fashion, offering a clear guide to one of the big issues of our time. This important and innovative textbook will be welcomed across the social sciences.

Engages with some of the most pressing issues affecting our society in a lively yet academically rigorous manner. This title offers students a crucial first introduction to the way the theory is used.

Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Ethnicity provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in the social sciences.