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Essentiality of work
Raising pressing questions about the essence of work and its place in contemporary society, this volume inspires new debates about the centrality of the work experience in modern life for those working as well as those who benefit from that work.
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Spaces for creativity and innovation within and across organizational boundaries
This volume contains an Open Access chapter. Delving into how creativity and innovation with new knowledge, products or processes takes place, while crossing organizational boundaries into "in-between spaces", chapters showcase new organizational theoretical approaches that emerge from social in...
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Redefining irishness in a globalized world
Reimagining 'Irish' identity on a uniquely intimate level, this richly thoughtful work aspires to a more egalitarian society in Ireland, Europe and beyond, encouraging readers to rethink their own national identities in turn.
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Disability and the family
Disability and the Family provides a broad examination of disability and the family. Including diverse theoretical and methodological submissions which explore the many issues pertaining to how families deal with disability issues.
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Children and youth as ‘sites of resistance’ in armed conflict
During the chaos and devastation of armed conflict, children and youth often emerge as powerful agents of change and resilience. The first of two volumes, this is a compelling exploration of their profound roles as active participants, often functioning as sites of resistance within the complex d...
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Understanding trans health
What does it mean for someone to be ‘trans’? What are the implications of this for healthcare provision? Drawing on the findings of an extensive research project, this book addresses urgent challenges and debates in trans health. It interweaves patient voices with social theory and autobiography...
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Young and lonely
Anchored in accounts of young people’s personal experiences of loneliness, this book addresses important questions about tackling today’s epidemic of loneliness among young people. It explores experiences of loneliness in early life, how it is navigated when first encountered and considers how s...
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More than just a ‘home’
Considering the ways in which a family socially constructs a home, this is a much-needed investigation into how the house, its architecture, spatial arrangements and internal and external divisions shape and reshape family relationships in the face of constant challenges and change.
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Defining web3
Bringing together researchers, artists, and organisational designers to explore Web3’s potential as a progressive platform for creative social coordination, this uniquely experimental volume presents the state of the art in socio-cultural and economic research into cryptocurrencies and blockchains.
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The retreat from marriage and parenthood
The Retreat from Marriage and Parenthood seeks a broad examination of the retreat from marriage and parenthood. Featuring diverse theoretical and methodological chapters exploring the many issues pertaining to these seismic changes, the authors chronicle the many dramatic impacts from shifts in a...
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Education and the family
Chapters cover topics such as: family economic and cultural resources and school performance and attainment of students, family multilingualism and academic success, family stressors and education, valuation of higher education versus employment and family contestations of public schooling and it...
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Raised to obey
How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state’s desire to control its citizensNearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide education to all children in the first place? ...
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Blue ribbon papers
Part of "Blue Ribbon Papers Series", this title presents the autobiographies of scholars who have made significant contributions to symbolic interactionist approach over the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Researching contemporary wellness cultures
Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures brings together scholars examining the various ways and spaces in which wellness is constructed and practices within various sociological sub-disciplines across and in related fields including anthropology, cultural studies, and internet studies.
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Digital capital
This work represents the first attempt to position digital capital as cumulative and transferable, independent from, and intertwined with the other five forms of capitals. The book aims to propose a theoretical toolkit and empirical model that can be used by policy makers to tackle social inequal...
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Organizing creativity in the innovation journey
This volume brings together empirical and conceptual papers that go beyond questions of idea generation to account for the dynamics of idea development, judgement, and dissemination – processes which are at the heart of organizing for innovation.
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Kill it to save it
How have powerful Americans convinced their fellow citizens to support policies beneficial only to the wealthy? Why have so many given up on public education, safe food and safe streets, living wages – even on democracy itself? Kill it to Save it lays bare the hypocrisy of US political discours...
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Lived realities of solo motherhood, donor conception and medically assisted reproduction
This book explores the empirical manifestations of the paradoxical features of reproductive technologies and provides in-depth understandings of solo motherhood through assisted reproduction and by recognising the complex experiences and the lived realities of forming donor-conceived families.
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The anthropocene and popular culture
Adding to what is still a relatively small core of texts that link the Anthropocene to popular culture, author Lee Barron provides a new set of case studies in one text that brings together representations of the Anthropocene from the perspectives of literature, film, television, celebrity and en...
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Dis.ordering distribution
Dis.Ordering Distribution explores the intricate relationship between distribution and production, drawing on empirical evidence from two vibrant centers of cultural production: Africa and Asia.
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A criminology of moral order
Moral order is disturbed by criminal events. However, in a secularized and networked society a common moral ground is increasingly hard to find. People feel confused about the bigger issues of our time such as crime, anti-social behaviour, Islamist radicalism, sexual harassment and populism. Trad...
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Theorizing criminality and policing in the digital media age
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS),this volume in Emerald Studies in Media and Communications features social science research on criminality, policing, and mass media in the digital age.
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Music and death
Music is often our companion when dealing with the incomprehensibility of loss. This edited collection speaks to the multifarious and complex ways in which music accompanies, supplements, and complements aspects of death and dying, whether this is the death of a loved one, or a celebrity from pop...
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Arab and middle eastern sport
This timely edited collection responds to an ongoing need for a critical Muslim studies approach to sport and physical cultures in the Arab World, the Middle East, and North Africa, illuminating and legitimizing the sporting knowledge and experiences of those from physical cultures in these regio...
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The incel rebellion
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews,this book provides an insight into the development of the manosphere, and the extent to which the influence and philosophy of...
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Education and the family
Chapters cover a wide array of topics, such as: family emotional support for students, family stressors and education, gendered nature of parental support, cultural variation in parental engagement and involvement, among others.
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Games in everyday life
In this book, Nathan Hulsey explores the links between game design, surveillance, computation, and the emerging technologies that impact our everyday lives at home, at work, and with our family and friends.
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Ageing and the media
Media representations of ageing play a role in stereotype formation and even reinforce them. Encountering these stereotypes can negatively impact the self-esteem, health status, physical wellbeing and cognitive performance of older people. This international collection examines different dimensio...
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Radical interactionism and critiques of contemporary culture
Norman K. Denzin has gathered a team of leading experts to explore and showcase a variety of topics in the field of symbolic interaction.Some of the topics explored include extending dramaturgical and grounded theory, and new empirical and theoretical inquiries into fashion, journalism, stigma, p...
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Social capital
Providing practical recommendations for leveraging social capital for social good, this is a valuable, thought-provoking and timely exploration of the multifaceted concept of social capital in the context of the digital revolution.
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Musicians on twitch
Musicians on Twitch examines the emergence of the ‘musician-streamer’, a new kind of cultural worker shaped by the conventions of live streaming. Drawing on interviews and longitudinal observation, it shows how Twitch is reshaping musical labour, monetising the bonds that form between musicians a...
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The postcolonial sporting body
The Postcolonial Sporting Body considers the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolonisation.
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Routine dynamics
Exploring the power of routines in navigating our increasingly complex world, this volume argues that routines are as much engines of change as they are of stability, and that organizations are in a position to benefit from both.
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The intersections of a working-class academic identity
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Acknowledging the institutional challenges that hinder the work and careers of working-class academics, Teresa Crew calls for a more inclusive and equitable higher education...
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The emerald handbook of childhood and youth in asian societies
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revising established research, this handbook equips readers with an understanding of the complex interplay between local and global and public and private contexts in the development of young people in Asian count...
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Crime and social control in pandemic times
Theoretically and methodologically diverse, Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times addresses important questions of crime, punishment, policing, social control, and law in relation to COVID-19.
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Wellness culture
Stephanie Alice Baker traces the emergence of wellness culture as a trillion-dollar industry, situating the wellness industry in a historical and cultural context, examining how the internet has altered our relationship to wellness and the popular assumption that the internet has democratised kno...
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A companion to crime, harm and victimisation
This is the first accessible, succinct text to provide definitions and explanations of key terms and concepts relating to the expanding field of crime, harm and victimisation. Written by a wide range of experts, it includes theories, ideas and case studies relating to victims of conventional crim...
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Deter, detain, dehumanise
Taken together, this body of work examines how Australia has politicised the right to seek asylum, to the detriment of asylum seekers and refugees as well as Australian citizens, and tentatively offers hope on how we might seek to normalise, legitimise and re-humanise the processes.
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Participatory practice
In this second edition of a bestselling book, the authors’ unique, holistic and radical perspective on participatory practice has been updated to reflect advances made in the past decade, the impact of neoliberalism and austerity, and the challenges of climate change and the pandemic. Bridging t...
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Sport, gender and development
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Sport, Gender and Development brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and lo...
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On the cross road of polity, political elites and mobilization
This volume discusses the various interrelations that exist within and between social and political phenomena.
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Elites, nonelites, and power
Bringing together cutting-edge, multidisciplinary papers that weigh in on central issues of the world and social science, the collection consider power, elites, and nonelites in a new, inclusive way, drawing in researchers who deal with topics central to elite theory, but who might not be repres...
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Cultures of sport hazing and anti-hazing initiatives for the 21st century
Providing a much-needed cutting-edge update on the last major publication on sport hazing practices published more than two decades ago, chapters cover the continuation of potentially harmful, traditional initiations, and the cycle of status from initiated to initiator.
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Consumers and consumption in comparison
Providing a theoretically informed discussion of the specificities of sociology of consumption, Consumers and Consumption in Comparison focuses on three main approaches: Consumption and social inequality; Consumption and gender; and Consumption and social movements.
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Children and youth in armed conflict
This book contains an Open Access chapter. The second of two volumes, the chapters offer a compelling exploration of how children and youth endure conflict and how their stories are told and retold in the public sphere, influencing advocacy, policymaking, and community responses worldwide.
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A comparative historical and typological approach to the middle eastern state system
Showcasing the legacy of Norwegian political scientist and sociologist Stein Rokkan, this volume ushers in a new vision in the field of state formation and nation building.
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The sociology of housework
In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed sociologist Ann Oakley undertook one of the first serious sociological studies to examine women’s work in the home. She interviewed 40 urban housewives and analysed their perceptions of housework, their feelings of monotony and fragmentation, the length of ...
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Debating childhood masculinities
Foregrounding children’s agency and voices, this expert collection brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship to examine how childhood masculinities are constructed, experienced, regulated and represented in different parts of the world.
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From here to maternity
Ann Oakley is a pioneer in the field of sociological research. In this classic re-issue, she interviewed 60 women to find out what it’s really like to have a baby. Covering pregnancy, birth and child care, she relies on the stories mothers tell to discuss whether and why women want to become preg...
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