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Our portfolio of Sociology books and journals span a vast range of themes and sub-disciplines, from texts on social theory, social policy and social class, to gender studies, political sociology, and medical sociology and publishing books such as Social Science, now in its 17th edition and collections such as Human Behavior in the Social Environment.
Offering some of the most preeminent books and journals in the field, and partnered with societies such as the European Sociological Association and the South African Sociological Association, our Sociology publications aim to help students and researchers to access knowledge and understanding from across the field to enhance their own study and work.
Featured Journals
The Journal of Mathematical Sociology
The goal of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology is to publish models and mathematical techniques that would likely be useful to professional sociologists. The Journal also welcomes papers of mutual interest to social scientists and other social and behavioral scientists, as well as papers by non-social scientists that may encourage fruitful connections between sociology and other disciplines. Reviews of new or developing areas of mathematics and mathematical modeling that may have significant applications in sociology will also be considered.
Social Movement Studies
Social Movement Studies is an international and inter-disciplinary journal providing a forum for academic debate and analysis of extra-parliamentary political, cultural and social movements throughout the world. Social Movement Studies has a broad, inter-disciplinary approach designed to accommodate papers engaging with any theoretical school and which study the origins, development, organisation, values, context and impact of historical and contemporary movements active in all parts of the world.
International Journal of Social Research Methodology
A key feature of the Journal is its mixed audience of researchers within academic and other research organizations as well as practitioner-researchers in the field. The Journal therefore aims to publish high quality methodological discussions which typically draw on a mix of academic and practice based research in professional and service settings, and those considering the relationship between the two.
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Featured Books
Medical Sociology
The most thorough major academic textbook available, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author also integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. A much greater number of first person accounts and updated examples are added to the new fourteenth edition.
The Sociology of Education
A Systematic Analysis
The ninth edition of The Sociology of Education examines the field in rare breadth by incorporating a diverse range of theoretical approaches and a distinct sociological lens in its overview of education and schooling.
Education is changing rapidly, just as the social forces outside of schools are, and to present the material in a meaningful way, the authors of this book provide a unifying framework—an open systems approach—to illustrate how the issues and structures we find in education are all interconnected.
Campus Rape Culture
Identity and Myths
This book looks at rape myths and rape culture within the university environment, examining the development of social identities in the creation and support of such culture. Building on a four-year research project, this book demonstrates how an understanding of rape culture and of the falsity of rape myths amongst students and staff at university is often at odds with an understanding of the degree to which sexual assaults take place, and of why they take place.
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