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This book argues that the division of labour is a key but neglected factor underlying people's inability to adequately understand and relate to the natural world.

This important book will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in how questions of gender remake and are remade by the social and economic conditions in which they occur.

Exploring the social structure of visuality, this volume collates essays by internationally renowned scholars, and provides a unique opportunity for considering the changing character of visual experience today.

The field of science and technology studies has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power. This book offers a collection of essays by leading scholars, showing how scientific knowledge embeds, and is embedded, in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses.

A distinctive and theoretically informed study of the administration of the Scottish prison system, based on extensive research and combining theoretical innovation with detailed empirical evidence.

A thesis by Dr Leslie Sklair.

A collection of essays that tackle the importance of aviation and air travel in our hypermobile, globalized world. It provides a multidisciplinary focus on issues ranging from global airports to the production of airspace, from airline work to helicopters, and from movement in airports to software systems.

Explains the performative relation to social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for social diagnosis. This book provides an understanding of theory as the chosen films work as a pedagogical route into social theory. It is suitable for students and researchers of Sociology, Contemporary Social Theory, Film Studies and Cultural Studies.

Introducing the concept of 'multicultural intimacies', this book offers a form of critical engagement with the cultural politics of multiculturalism, one that attends to ideals of mixing, loving thy neighbour and feelings for the nation.

This collection examines the economic, social and cultural manifestations that go to make up the multiple vision of money. The essays look at some of the ways in which this world of money is discursively constituted through particular social-cultural practices.

The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century.

Using a variety of evidence from the health management field, the author documents the rise of general management, the application of new techniques to reduce medical costs and improve efficiency, and other methods to control, use and evaluate clinical performance.

This volume demonstrates how cultural studies has diffused from Britain into other English-speaking countries, and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. It is a guide to international cultural studies.

This book is a startling, controversial and original manifesto for a complete review of research methods and methodology in the social sciences and a must read for anyone involved in this area.

Provides a history of the nature of mass mediation. This book the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies, and institutions have historically shaped the ways of imagining nature in the mass media. It is useful for students and researchers in the fields of media, sociology, cultural geography and environmental studies.

In contemporary society, 'the camp' is now the rule rather than the exception. In this volume, the authors explore the paradox of the camp, as representing both an old fear of enclosure and a new dream of belonging.

'..a story of the success of the women's movement in placing rape and its survival on the political agenda. ...I liked it very much.' Betsy Stanko, University of Brunel

This book is a practical application of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods to the study of illness and modernity.

Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in social theory, this work offers a comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory. Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, and more, it presents interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of complex, self-organizing structures.

Argues that only the society that achieves an appropriate balance between informality and formality of interaction will find itself in a position to move forward to further democratisation and an improved quality of life.

This stimulating book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the process of consumption. Its acute, sharply observed contributions are drawn from a variety of relevant disciplines.