Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

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1. Science and Technology Studies

   Edited by Michael Lynch

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Science and Technology Studies has attained a strong international profile in recent decades. Science Studies incorporates work in the History and Philosophy of Science, but emphasizes the social, cultural, and political implications of developments in the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
2. Political Economy

   Edited by Norman Schofield, Dino Falaschetti, Andrew Rutten

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Until about two hundred years ago, almost everyone faced the prospect of a life that was poor, nasty, brutish, and short, with few if any prospects for betterment. For example, in today’s money, annual average per-capita income during the first millennium was constant at about $500. And most of the...

   Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
3. Social Capital

   Edited by Nan Lin

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   ‘Social capital’ is a major conceptual and theoretical idea that has received in the last three decades much attention across many social-science disciplines. In this relatively short period, it has developed into a major research paradigm guiding voluminous research conducted in North America,...

   Published September 7th 2010 by Routledge
4. Cosmopolitanism

   Edited by David Inglis, Gerard Delanty

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   A term of antique provenance, ‘cosmopolitanism’ has developed and cohered into a critical concept in contemporary social and cultural analysis. However, the daunting quantity (and variable quality) of the available research exploring the many, often controversial, issues attendant upon...

   Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge
5. Migration

   Edited by Steven Vertovec

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Nowadays, migration seems never far from the top of the political agenda. Whether as a consequence of civil and ethnic unrest, or as one response to the widening gulf between the wealthy and poor zones of the world, international population movement for sanctuary or settlement has become as...

   Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge
6. Art and Aesthetics

   Edited by Marta Herrero, David Inglis

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Under what social conditions do particular sorts of arts and aesthetics arise and flourish, and under what conditions do they decline and disappear? What types of artistic and aesthetic practices exist outside of museums, galleries, and other high-cultural institutions? In what ways are social...

   Published November 24th 2008 by Routledge
7. Sustainable Tourism

   Edited by Stephen J. Page, Joanne Connell

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Edited by two leading scholars in the field, this new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research in sustainable tourism. The origins of sustainable tourism as a topic of serious academic...

   Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge
8. Economic Geography

   Edited by Ronald L. Martin, Peter Sunley

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Economic geography has long been a key branch of human geography as a whole, but in recent years the subject has undergone considerable theoretical, empirical and public growth. It has become a highly vibrant sphere of academic enquiry amongst the social sciences, and an increasingly prominent...

   Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge
9. Southeast Asian Development

   Edited by Jonathan Rigg

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   The eleven countries that make up the Southeast Asian region provide a rich and diverse context in which to view the development process and experience. The region spans different cultural contexts, colonial experiences, and economic experiments, and is home to some of the world’s most successful...

   Published October 9th 2007 by Routledge
10. Food

    Edited by David Inglis, Debra Gimlin, Chris Thorpe

    Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

    In the last five years or so, there has been a huge explosion of scholarly work on the history of food and, likewise, pressing problems such as food scares and genetic modification, as well as anorexia and obesity, have become increasingly present in the public consciousness. Drawing on a wide...

    Published August 8th 2007 by Routledge