Sociology
Featured Books
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The Anthem Companion to Robert K. Merton
Edited by Charles Crothers, Lorenzo Sabetta
assisted by Larry SternRobert K. Merton (RKM) was an important figure in the mid-nineteenth development of sociology in terms of social theory, methodology and several substantive areas key to understanding modern societies – the sociologies of science, media, professions and bureaucracy. This book reveals the different components of RKM’s work and how each relates to the other.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981166
September 2022
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£195.00 / $195.00Robert K. Merton (RKM) was an important figure in the mid-nineteenth development of sociology in terms of social theory, methodology and several substantive areas key to understanding modern societies – the sociologies of science, media, professions and bureaucracy. This book reveals the different components of RKM’s work and how each relates to the other.
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Resourcing Hope for Ageing and Dying in a Broken World
Wayfaring through Despair
Ashley Moyse
For those captive to the broken world of late modernity, wherein ageing and dying persons become vulnerable to despair, this book not only offers a diagnostic of such despair but also resources the practices of a realistic, humanising hope that might enable a strength for person to journey with and for others, together, through such despair, now liberated to become hopeful wayfarers in living and dying.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278617
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00For those captive to the broken world of late modernity, wherein ageing and dying persons become vulnerable to despair, this book not only offers a diagnostic of such despair but also resources the practices of a realistic, humanising hope that might enable a strength for person to journey with and for others, together, through such despair, now liberated to become hopeful wayfarers in living and dying.
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The Anthem Companion to Alfred Schutz
Edited by Michael Barber
This book examines various concepts in Schutz’s philosophical theory and considers issues in theory of knowledge, social science, and the theory of society.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983672
August 2022
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£195.00 / $195.00This book examines various concepts in Schutz’s philosophical theory and considers issues in theory of knowledge, social science, and the theory of society.
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Navigating the Inequitable U.S. Healthcare System
In Search of Critical Care
Kellina Craig-Henderson
This book explores the existing inequities within the U.S. healthcare system and their impacts on individuals and in particular Black women, who seek life-saving healthcare. It deals with the social and economic costs of a healthcare system that fails to provide equitable care to everyone in need.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987670
July 2022
Forthcoming
£64.95 / $64.95This book explores the existing inequities within the U.S. healthcare system and their impacts on individuals and in particular Black women, who seek life-saving healthcare. It deals with the social and economic costs of a healthcare system that fails to provide equitable care to everyone in need.
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Neurocomputational Poetics
How the Brain Processes Verbal Art
Arthur Jacobs
This book introduces a new thrilling field– neuro computational poetics, the scientific ‘marriage’ between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience – that aims at uncovering the secrets of verbal art reception.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987700
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book introduces a new thrilling field– neuro computational poetics, the scientific ‘marriage’ between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience – that aims at uncovering the secrets of verbal art reception.
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Lest We Lose Love
Rediscovering the Core of Western Culture
Scherto Gill
Lest We Lose Love is a most timely book that helps the reader to resume confidence in humanity’s future in the light of the present complex global crises. It enables people to find hope in our collective capacity to value what truly matters to our common life, sustain congenial relationships amongst all, and extend our caring to self, other people, and other beings on the planet.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987601
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00Lest We Lose Love is a most timely book that helps the reader to resume confidence in humanity’s future in the light of the present complex global crises. It enables people to find hope in our collective capacity to value what truly matters to our common life, sustain congenial relationships amongst all, and extend our caring to self, other people, and other beings on the planet.
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Personal Data Collection Risks in a Post-Vaccine World
Edited by Colette Mazzucelli, James Felton Keith, C. Ann Hollifield
afterword by
foreword byThe editors observe that in key texts written to teach international relations less mention is made of personal data collection risks in countries around the globe.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987380
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00The editors observe that in key texts written to teach international relations less mention is made of personal data collection risks in countries around the globe.
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The Rights Track
Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery
Todd Landman, Christine Garrington
The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery uses rich content from The Rights Track podcast [www.rightstrack.org] in an innovative book that enhances and enriches our understanding of the human rights challenges facing the world today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983856
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery uses rich content from The Rights Track podcast [www.rightstrack.org] in an innovative book that enhances and enriches our understanding of the human rights challenges facing the world today.
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Datafication of Public Opinion and the Public Sphere
How Extraction Replaced Expression of Opinion
Slavko Splichal
The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which publics create, articulate and express public opinion by means of reflexive publicity within an established democratic public culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984501
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which publics create, articulate and express public opinion by means of reflexive publicity within an established democratic public culture.
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Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images
Terry Smith
Exploring viral imagery of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a “black aesthetic” in white artworlds, this book shows that iconopolitics—especially constellations of visual images—has become pervasive within contemporary life. It questions the implications for critical thought and political action.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984358
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Exploring viral imagery of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a “black aesthetic” in white artworlds, this book shows that iconopolitics—especially constellations of visual images—has become pervasive within contemporary life. It questions the implications for critical thought and political action.
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Gender and the Race for Space
Masculinity and the American Astronaut, 1957-1983
Erinn McComb
This book argues that the American astronaut image was informed by early Cold War ideals of masculinity that helped mold a distinctly American (anti-communist) masculinity, which appeared—on the surface anyway—to resolve not only an American “crisis of masculinity” but helped win the Cold War on an ideological and popular level.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987175
June 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book argues that the American astronaut image was informed by early Cold War ideals of masculinity that helped mold a distinctly American (anti-communist) masculinity, which appeared—on the surface anyway—to resolve not only an American “crisis of masculinity” but helped win the Cold War on an ideological and popular level.
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The Global Spread of Football in the 1870s
Thomas Adam
This book offers a study of how football became in the 1870s a global sport that was played by high school students on several continents. It provides a horizontal perspective that focusses on the spread of football from its English cradle to Germany, the United States, and Argentina.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987205
June 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book offers a study of how football became in the 1870s a global sport that was played by high school students on several continents. It provides a horizontal perspective that focusses on the spread of football from its English cradle to Germany, the United States, and Argentina.
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An Intellectual History of Migration Law and Policy c.1535-2020
Péter Szigeti
A history of immigration law as a legal discipline: how it has been constrained and unconstrained by developments in migration policy, international law, constitutional law and legal theory.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987120
June 2022
Forthcoming
£120.00 / $120.00A history of immigration law as a legal discipline: how it has been constrained and unconstrained by developments in migration policy, international law, constitutional law and legal theory.
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Occupational Devotion: Finding Satisfaction and Fulfillment at Work
Robert Stebbins
The devotee occupations serve as full-time or part-time livelihoods for people fortunate enough to have found them. Such work has so far been observed to exist in four sectors of the economy: the liberal professions, consulting occupations, skilled trades, and small business proprietors. Devotee work roots in serious leisure.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839983139
May 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95The devotee occupations serve as full-time or part-time livelihoods for people fortunate enough to have found them. Such work has so far been observed to exist in four sectors of the economy: the liberal professions, consulting occupations, skilled trades, and small business proprietors. Devotee work roots in serious leisure.
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The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias
Edited by Stephen Mennell, Alex Law
The book brings together authoritative chapters by leading experts in the sociology of Elias. It charts Elias’s ambition to create an integrative sociological framework across a wide range of studies and assesses its continuing relevance for addressing significant issues facing sociology today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986673
May 2022
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£165.00 / $165.00The book brings together authoritative chapters by leading experts in the sociology of Elias. It charts Elias’s ambition to create an integrative sociological framework across a wide range of studies and assesses its continuing relevance for addressing significant issues facing sociology today.
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A Genealogy of Method
Anthropology’s Ancestors and the Meaning of Culture
Sondra L. Hausner
This volume considers the meaning of culture and anthropology’s role in defining it. Taking up the history of the discipline and the method of ethnography in turn, the book asks if the concept of culture might be productively reclaimed within a context that acknowledges history, change, and diversity.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839986482
April 2022
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This volume considers the meaning of culture and anthropology’s role in defining it. Taking up the history of the discipline and the method of ethnography in turn, the book asks if the concept of culture might be productively reclaimed within a context that acknowledges history, change, and diversity.
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Crime, Criminality and Injustice
An Interdisciplinary Collection of Revelations
Edited by Simon Prideaux, Mustapha Sheikh, Adam Formby
The chapters in this volume present data and analysis that sheds light on the live experiences of those at the lowest intersections of injustice—Indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, refugees, disabled people, youth, women, children and the poor. The contributors include eminent academics, students at all levels of study, practitioners within the field of social work, legal professionals and social justice activists. Gender, social exclusion, institutional discrimination, the intersectional nature of crimes and effects, (social) media influence and public perception are all key themes that figure in the volume.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986529
April 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00The chapters in this volume present data and analysis that sheds light on the live experiences of those at the lowest intersections of injustice—Indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, refugees, disabled people, youth, women, children and the poor. The contributors include eminent academics, students at all levels of study, practitioners within the field of social work, legal professionals and social justice activists. Gender, social exclusion, institutional discrimination, the intersectional nature of crimes and effects, (social) media influence and public perception are all key themes that figure in the volume.
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The Anthem Companion to Émile Durkheim
Edited by Gregor Fitzi, Nicola Marcucci
The Anthem Companion to Émile Durkheim intends to offer different practical attempts to build on Durkheim’s legacy and investigate the issues and controversies that characterise contemporary societies and thus contribute to develop further this path of critical enquiry into ‘classical sociology’.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981197
April 2022
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£195.00 / $195.00The Anthem Companion to Émile Durkheim intends to offer different practical attempts to build on Durkheim’s legacy and investigate the issues and controversies that characterise contemporary societies and thus contribute to develop further this path of critical enquiry into ‘classical sociology’.
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The Ethics of Personal Data Collection in International Relations
Inclusionism in the Time of COVID-19
Edited by Colette Mazzucelli, James Felton Keith, C. Ann Hollifield
foreword by Azza Karam
afterword by Joshua CooperThis volume attests to the fact that pressing global public health concerns are ever present as subjects of societal discourse and debate in developed and developing states. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic makes the omission of the ethics of personal data collection analysis in the international relations literature even more salient given the rise of contact tracing and increased uses of mobile phone Apps to track citizens by states and firms across the globe, as this volume’s chapters analyzing the responses to COVID-19 in Iran and Taiwan explain.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981036
April 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This volume attests to the fact that pressing global public health concerns are ever present as subjects of societal discourse and debate in developed and developing states. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic makes the omission of the ethics of personal data collection analysis in the international relations literature even more salient given the rise of contact tracing and increased uses of mobile phone Apps to track citizens by states and firms across the globe, as this volume’s chapters analyzing the responses to COVID-19 in Iran and Taiwan explain.
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Emerging Thoughts in Disability and Humanness
Elizabeth DePoy, Stephen French Gilson
Emerging Thoughts in Disability and Humanness engages with fundamental questions about the legitimacy of the atypical body for membership, quasi-membership or exclusion from the category of human.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980459
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Emerging Thoughts in Disability and Humanness engages with fundamental questions about the legitimacy of the atypical body for membership, quasi-membership or exclusion from the category of human.
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Self-Presentation and Representative Politics
Essays in Context, 1960-2020
Derek Robbins
The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising questions about the changing nature of political representation.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279003
January 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising questions about the changing nature of political representation.
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The Anthem Companion to Raymond Aron
Edited by Joachim Stark, Christopher Adair-Toteff
Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social and political ramifications of its day-to-day life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980039
December 2021
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£195.00 / $195.00Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social and political ramifications of its day-to-day life.
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Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic
From Citizen to Foreigner
Eve Hayes de Kalaf
foreword by Junot DíazThis book provides a cautionary tale regarding legal identity practices as promulgated by the World Bank, UN and Inter-American Development Bank. It warns that policies encouraging the en masse registration of native-born migrant-descended populations can also force the thorny question of nationality, unsettling long-established identities and entitlements.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277641
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book provides a cautionary tale regarding legal identity practices as promulgated by the World Bank, UN and Inter-American Development Bank. It warns that policies encouraging the en masse registration of native-born migrant-descended populations can also force the thorny question of nationality, unsettling long-established identities and entitlements.
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Doing Gender in Heavy Metal
Perceptions on Women in a Hypermasculine Subculture
Anna S. Rogers, Mathieu Deflem
This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplished reality.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981333
October 2021
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£95.00 / $95.00This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplished reality.