Sociology & Social Policy Books

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1. Elusive Universality

   By Ernesto Laclau

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-22877-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Youth Studies: Keywords and Movements

   Edited by SUSAN TALBURT, NANCY LESKO

   Recent attention from the public, national governments, and international organizations to issues such as youth social exclusion, poverty, school underachievement, school violence, gang activity, sexuality, and youth’s interactions with media and the internet, have all contributed to Youth Studies...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-87412-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Democratization and Social Movements in Korea: Defiant Institutionalization

   By Sun-Chul Kim

   This book examines how social movements in previously authoritarian contexts evolve after a democratic transition. It looks into how democratic change shapes the trajectory of social movements, and how social movements affect the pace and direction of democracy in turn, using South Korea as a...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-58258-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. A Critical Psychology of the Post-Colonial: The Mind of Apartheid

   By Derek Hook

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-58757-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Justice, Legitimacy, and Diversity: Political Authority Between Realism and Moralism

   Edited by Emanuela Ceva, Enzo Rossi

   Most contemporary political philosophers take justice—rather than legitimacy—to be the fundamental virtue of political institutions vis-à-vis the challenges of ethical diversity. Justice-driven theorists are primarily concerned with finding mutually acceptable terms to arbitrate the claims of...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-59729-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit

   Edited by Alexandre Duchene, Monica Heller

   There is marked variation in the forms taken by the relationships between globalization and localization, between linguistic and cultural dimensions of social practice and its discursive legitimation, and among competing ideologies of language and identity. The goal of this book is to explore...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-88859-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Cities and Sexualities

   By Phil Hubbard

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-56647-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Security, War and Technology: Paul Virilio and the Global Politics of Disappearance

   By Mark Lacy

   This book analyses some of the key problems explored in Paul Virilio’s theorising on war and security. Virilio is one of the most challenging and provocative critics of technology, war and globalization. While many commentators focus on the new possibilities for mobility and communication in an...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-57604-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China

   By Glen Peterson

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-61670-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Environmental Destruction and Psychosocial Breakdown: Health and human development

    By Roberto De Vogli

    Global warming and the depletion of natural resources are widely recognized as the major threats to the future of industrial society and the survival of human species. However, this environmental destruction is paired with an often-overlooked deterioration of psychosocial wellbeing. In spite of...

    August 2011 | 978-0-415-49069-6 | Hardback (Routledge)