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Migration / 2nd Edition
2016 || Paperback || Michael Samers e.a. || Taylor & Francis
While the subject of migration has received enormous attention in academic journals and books across the social sciences, introductory texts on the matter are few and far between. Even fewer books have explored migration through a critical and explicit engagement with spatial concepts. Now in its second edition, Migration remains the only text in more than a decade that emphasizes how geographical or spatial concepts can be used critically to understand migration.
The multi-disciplinary text ...
Social Groups in Action and Interaction / 2nd edition
A Psychology Press Book
2015 || Paperback || Charles Stangor || Taylor & Francis
Social Groups in Action and Interaction reviews and analyzes the human group as it operates to create both social good and, potentially, social harm. It summarizes current knowledge and contemporary research, with real-world examples in succinct yet engaging chapters, to help students understand and predict group behavior. Unlike other texts, the book considers a wide range of topics such as conformity, leadership, task performance, social identity, prejudice, and discrimination from both an ...
The Heritage Reader / 1st edition
2007 || Paperback || Graham Fairclough e.a. || Taylor & Francis
This resource is a much-needed support to the few textbooks in the field and offers an excellent introduction and overview to the established principles and new thinking in cultural heritage management . Leading experts in the field from Europe, North America and Australia, bring together recent and innovative works in the field. With geographically and thematically diverse case studies, they examine the theoretical framework for heritage resource management.
Setting significant new thinking ...
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
An Introduction
2021 || Paperback || John Storey || Taylor & Francis
In this ninth edition of his award-winning introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular culture, this new edition remains a ke...
Digital Criminology
Crime and Justice in Digital Society
2018 || Paperback || Anastasia Powell e.a. || Taylor & Francis
The infusion of digital technology into contemporary society has had significant effects for everyday life and for everyday crimes. Digital Criminology: Crime and Justice in Digital Society is the first interdisciplinary scholarly investigation extending beyond traditional topics of cybercrime, policing and the law to consider the implications of digital society for public engagement with crime and justice movements. This book seeks to connect the disparate fields of criminology, sociology, l...
Understanding Media
2001 || Paperback || Marshall McLuhan || Taylor & Francis
When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet.
Yet McLuhan's insights into our engagement with a variety of media led to a complete rethinking of our entire society. ...
The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful
2020 || Paperback || Gregg Barak || Taylor & Francis
Across the world, most people are well aware of ordinary criminal harms to person and property. Often committed by the powerless and poor, these individualized crimes are catalogued in the statistics collected annually by the FBI and by similar agencies in other developed nations. In contrast, the more harmful and systemic forms of injury to person and property committed by powerful and wealthy individuals, groups, and national states are neither calculated by governmental agencies nor annual...
Applied Mass Communication Theory
A Guide for Media Practitioners
2021 || Paperback || Jack Rosenberry e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Now in its third edition, this dynamic textbook blends coverage of the major theories and research methods in mass communication to enable students to apply their knowledge in today's media and communication careers.
-Hybrid coverage of media theory and research methods that enables students to apply their academic knowledge in professional settings -Focus on building from theory and methods coverage to research projects makes for easy and dynamic use in a range of introductory, capstone, and...
The Social Psychology of Ethnic Identity / 2nd edition
2018 || Paperback || Maykel Verkuyten || Taylor & Francis
In contrast to other disciplines, social psychology has been slow in responding to the questions posed by the issue of ethnicity. The Social Psychology of Ethnic Identity, Second Edition, demonstrates the important and diverse contribution that social psychology can make. Comprehensively updated to include the latest research on dual and multiple identities, mutual links between sense of ethnic identity and social contexts, and the development of ethnic identity in adolescence, this new editi...
Social Science and Historical Perspectives
Society, Science, and Ways of Knowing
2016 || Paperback || Jack David Eller || Taylor & Francis
This accessible book introduces the story of 'social science', with coverage of history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and geography. Key questions include: How and why did the social sciences originate and differentiate? How are they related to older traditions that have defined Western civilization? What is the unique perspective or 'way of knowing' of each social science? What are the challenges-and alternatives-to the social sciences as they stand in the twenty...