Book Search
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Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal
A Sociology of Rights
Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation. Engaging debate about how ‘cosmopolitan’ principles...
Published December 23rd 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Rights
Sociological Perspectives
This pioneering book demonstrates how different traditions of sociological thought can contribute to an understanding of the theory and practice of rights. It provides a sociological treatment of a wide range of substantive issues but never loses sight of the key theoretical questions....
Published March 8th 2006 by Routledge
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Managing Migration
Civic Stratification and Migrants Rights
Nation States now increasingly have to cope with large numbers of non-citizens living within their borders. This has largely been understood in terms of the decline of the nation state or of increasing globalisation, but in Managing Migration Lydia Morris argues that it throws up more complex...
Published August 14th 2002 by Routledge
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Social Divisions
Economic Decline And Social Structural Change
An investigation of recession and unemployment which makes use of an in- depth case study to address the implications for social division. It focuses on changes in patterns of work, social stratification, domestic organization and social change.; This book is intended for a variety of postgraduate...
Published April 26th 1995 by Routledge
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Dangerous Classes
The Underclass and Social Citizenship
Dangerous Classes provides an authoritative and much needed critical review of British and American debates about the underclass, set in the context of historical material and policy developments....
Published January 5th 1994 by Routledge
