Sociology
The Sociology programme takes a fresh and challenging sociological look at the interactions between politics, society, history and culture. Titles transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. This programme includes a variety of book series.
Featured Books
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The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism
Strategies of Essentialism
Mridula Nath Chakraborty
The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism provides an original analysis of the conceptual categories of essentialisms (situated and strategic) and the politics of location evoked and practised by five hyphenated South Asian postcolonial feminists in the contemporary Anglo-North-American academy: Himani Bannerji, Inderpal Grewal, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sherene H. Razack and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278495
May 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism provides an original analysis of the conceptual categories of essentialisms (situated and strategic) and the politics of location evoked and practised by five hyphenated South Asian postcolonial feminists in the contemporary Anglo-North-American academy: Himani Bannerji, Inderpal Grewal, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sherene H. Razack and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
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Sexual Violence and Literary Art
Peter Robinson
Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278853
February 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.
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Doing Sociology Through Film and Literature
Imaginings of the Social World
John Goodwin, Laurie Parsons
This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839983894
February 2025
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
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The Anthem Companion on David Riesman
£ / $Edited by Peter Kivisto
Hardback
9781839992568
February 2025
Forthcoming
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Legacies of Forced Removals in South Africa
Accounting for Children's Reflections of Displacement in the Western Cape
Efua Tembisa Prah
This book focuses on experiences from various backgrounds of six children who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworlds of children.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982668
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book focuses on experiences from various backgrounds of six children who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworlds of children.
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Postal Data Analysis and US Economic History in the 19th Century
Measuring Business Cycles and Social Mobility
Robert Dimand, Michael O'Reilly, Emily Sanders, Thomas Velk, Mengyue Zhao
This book uses unexploited postal data to explore regional economic fluctuations in the nineteenth-century United States and to study social mobility and status among postmasters, particularly women and African Americans.
Paperback
9781839990731
December 2024
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This book uses unexploited postal data to explore regional economic fluctuations in the nineteenth-century United States and to study social mobility and status among postmasters, particularly women and African Americans.
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COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Responsibility
Ethics, Politics and Spirituality and Alternative Planetary Futures
Edited by Ananta Kumar Giri, Saji Varghese
Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The book deals with it.
Hardback
9781839991684
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The book deals with it.
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Living with Poverty and Dependence in England
Katherine Smith
This book addresses the effects of poverty on multiple interdependencies in kinship, neighbourly and friendship relations. It explores how interpersonal relationships are made, unmade, recuperated or ended by people who are living with poverty in one of England’s most deprived neighbourhoods.
Hardback
9781839991783
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book addresses the effects of poverty on multiple interdependencies in kinship, neighbourly and friendship relations. It explores how interpersonal relationships are made, unmade, recuperated or ended by people who are living with poverty in one of England’s most deprived neighbourhoods.
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Orphanage Tourism in Nepal
Poverty, Childhood, and the Rescue Industry
Dr. Esther Bott
This book describes the social, cultural and economic backdrop of the growing phenomenon of orphanage tourism in Nepal.
Hardback
9781839991851
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book describes the social, cultural and economic backdrop of the growing phenomenon of orphanage tourism in Nepal.
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Sensibilities, Digital World and Emotion on Trans-Globalization Era
£110.00 / $110.00Edited by Adrian Scribano
Hardback
9781839992438
November 2024
Forthcoming
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Love in India
Politics, Desires, and Sexualities
Henrike Donner, Parul Bhandari
This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988899
November 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.
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Are You Making Love or Just Having Sex?
A Philosophical Guide to Enduring Love and Sexual Intimacy
Elliot D. Cohen
Complete with self-improvement exercises and video lectures, this innovative book shows how you can identify your unlovable ways of relating, counter them with lovable goals, embrace philosophies of love that promote these goals, and create action plans to attain enduring love and sexual intimacy.
Hardback
9781839992353
November 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Complete with self-improvement exercises and video lectures, this innovative book shows how you can identify your unlovable ways of relating, counter them with lovable goals, embrace philosophies of love that promote these goals, and create action plans to attain enduring love and sexual intimacy.
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Our Emotions and Culture
How Modern Life Changes Us
E Doyle McCarthy
In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in people’s lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980732
October 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in people’s lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.
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The Embodiment and Transmission of Ghanaian Kete Royal Dance
From Palace to Academy
Emmanuel Cudjoe
This book is an Afrocentric exploration of the royal Indigenous dance known as the Kete dance-music, as an analytical path for reassessing African movement systems in the 21st century. It validates the agency of the Black dancing body as a critical element for the generation and use of Indigenous knowledge systems of the Africans/diaspora and explores critical perspectives on the role dancing plays in the cultural emancipation of African knowledge systems globally.
Hardback
9781839991820
October 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book is an Afrocentric exploration of the royal Indigenous dance known as the Kete dance-music, as an analytical path for reassessing African movement systems in the 21st century. It validates the agency of the Black dancing body as a critical element for the generation and use of Indigenous knowledge systems of the Africans/diaspora and explores critical perspectives on the role dancing plays in the cultural emancipation of African knowledge systems globally.
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African Cinema and Urbanism
Marie-Paule Macdonald
This work brings together theories and practices from the disciplines of urbanism, architecture and African cinema studies to examine, through African screen media, how African artists are bringing attention to issues of urban precarity, climate change, survival and growth, and creativity on the continent.
Paperback
9781839991073
September 2024
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This work brings together theories and practices from the disciplines of urbanism, architecture and African cinema studies to examine, through African screen media, how African artists are bringing attention to issues of urban precarity, climate change, survival and growth, and creativity on the continent.
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Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo
Charlotte Beyer
Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the age of #metoo.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278556
August 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the age of #metoo.
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Cultural Processes of Inequality
A Sociological Perspective
Amanda Udis-Kessler
Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective show how systemic inequality is produced and reproduced through mundane, routine actions based on taken-for-granted assumptions. The book ties such cultural assumptions to personal and institutional behavior, drawing connections between individuals, culture (as meaning systems) and larger social structures.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989513
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective show how systemic inequality is produced and reproduced through mundane, routine actions based on taken-for-granted assumptions. The book ties such cultural assumptions to personal and institutional behavior, drawing connections between individuals, culture (as meaning systems) and larger social structures.
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Girls, Youth Justice and the Regulation of Sexualities
Lisa Pasko
Girls, Youth Justice, and the Regulation of Sexualities shows historically and contemporarily the complexities in responding to girls’ sexualities (bodies, behavior, and identities) in the juvenile justice system.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277047
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Girls, Youth Justice, and the Regulation of Sexualities shows historically and contemporarily the complexities in responding to girls’ sexualities (bodies, behavior, and identities) in the juvenile justice system.
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The Anthem Companion to Raymond Boudon
Edited by Christian Robitaille, Robert Leroux
This book seeks to identify the main threads of a resolutely complex course of thought which has contributed greatly to sociology.
Hardback
9781839991455
June 2024
Forthcoming
£195.00 / $195.00This book seeks to identify the main threads of a resolutely complex course of thought which has contributed greatly to sociology.
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Theory Does Not Exist
Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric
Paul Allen Miller
A wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things, and for the ancient as constitutive of the modern.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990854
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00A wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things, and for the ancient as constitutive of the modern.
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The Language Experience Approach and the Science of Literacy Instruction
Elaine A. Fairbairn Traynelis Yurek, Mary Strong
This book considers Russell Stauffer’s Language Experience Approach (LEA), an approach that must be judged by its impact on student learning and not on the age of conception. The nature of wholistic teaching in early childhood and beyond is explored, and developmental maturation for the different language tasks are explained.
Hardback
9781839991943
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book considers Russell Stauffer’s Language Experience Approach (LEA), an approach that must be judged by its impact on student learning and not on the age of conception. The nature of wholistic teaching in early childhood and beyond is explored, and developmental maturation for the different language tasks are explained.
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Developing Africa?
New Horizons with Afrocentricity
Lehasa Moloi
The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990823
March 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice.
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Black ‘race’ and the White Supremacy Saga
Kehbuma Langmia
This book examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry for ages on what supremacy actually means. Is it Black or White supremacy? Granted, the term White supremacy has occupied the sociopolitical, cultural and economic discourse for ages, but what does that really imply? This book debates that concept.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989964
February 2024
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This book examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry for ages on what supremacy actually means. Is it Black or White supremacy? Granted, the term White supremacy has occupied the sociopolitical, cultural and economic discourse for ages, but what does that really imply? This book debates that concept.
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Wollstonecraft and Religion
Brenda Ayres
This book offers fresh perspectives about the religious convictions and faith of “the Mother of Feminism,” many of which have been ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented in Wollstonecraftian scholarship.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990182
January 2024
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This book offers fresh perspectives about the religious convictions and faith of “the Mother of Feminism,” many of which have been ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented in Wollstonecraftian scholarship.