Covers a variety of topics in research in rural sociology and development. This sixth volume in the series covers a variety of topics in research in rural sociology and development.... Lees meer.

First Published in 1998. This is Volume V of an eleven volume library of Sociology on Economics and Society and includes the history of economic thought in its relation to social development and includes appendices on the problems found and the main literature used.... Lees meer.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor Francis an informa company.... Lees meer.

I have always maintained that sociology is a science of liberation and not of restraint. Lester F. Ward often regarded as one of the founding figures of American sociology and a true polymath presents a comprehensive framework in this seminal work. This book aims to... Lees meer.

This is Volume XV of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1963 this is a study of the Arusha people the Agricultural Masai of Northern Tanganyika in Africa.... Lees meer.

This book examines anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as social processes drawing on interviews with white middle-class women that reveal the influence of family and cultural messages regarding thinness. It considers the agency these women use to cope with life stre... Lees meer.

This Palgrave Pivot provides a concise history of the development of sociology in Greece. It provides a compelling narrative of the discipline s embryonic state its promising beginnings that aligned with its contact with the then robust French and German accomplishment... Lees meer.

The Development of Sociology in the Soviet Union 1974 examines the institutionalisation of sociology in the Soviet Union. Of primary concern are the obstacles to and mechanisms for the acceptance of sociological inquiry. The study shows how sociology was advanced as a... Lees meer.

Features essays that address the intellectual challenges of today including internal and international migration transformation of political regimes globalization changes in household and family formations gender dynamics technological change population and econo... Lees meer.

First Published in 1988. This stimulating and original book examines how sociological theory helps us to understand development. The author writing with clarity and from long practical experience in the field of development aims to show how different sociological theo... Lees meer.

For many decades debates about the future of developed world agriculture policy have been dominated by a long political conflict between European multifunctional policy regimes and the global trend towards trade liberalisation. The stalemate that had emerged between th... Lees meer.

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The Sociology of Development Handbook gathers essays that reflect the range of debates in development sociology and in the interdisciplinary study and practice of development. The essays address the pressing intellectual challenges of today including internal and inte... Lees meer.

It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage or simulations that disregard both. What localities and nation-states value are discarded suppressed or modified beyond recognition in... Lees meer.

Bringing the study of international inequality back into the core of sociological theory this book offers a user-friendly introduction to development and underdevelopment. In doing so it places various approaches to the definition measurement and understanding of d... Lees meer.