Pierre Bourdieu, Key Concepts


Edited by Michael Grenfeil Pierre Bourdieu is now regarded as one of the foremost socialphilosophers of the twentieth century. Born in a small village in theFrench Pyrenees, his extraordinary academic…[...]

Handbook of Narrative Analysis


frontiers of narrativeSeries Editor: David Herman,North Carolina State University No single period or society can do without narratives. And, a good numberof contemporary thinkers hasten to add, whatever you say…[...]

Depression in Children and Adolescents


Edited byKedar Nath Dwivediand Ved Prakash Varma There has been a growing awareness of the need to take the problem ofchildhood depression more seriously. It is sometimes felt that there…[...]

Handbook of Depression in Children and Adolescents


Handbook ofDepression inChildren andAdolescentsEdited byJohn R. Z. AbelaBenjamin L. Hankin Children and adolescents are currently experiencing depression at anunprecedented rate. As prevalence rates of depression in Western cultures have soared…[...]

Medical Sociology: An Introduction


Medical SociologyAn IntroductionHannah Bradby Teachers collaborating on a medical curriculum tend to argue that their ownspecialist subject requires a significant amount of time to be devoted to it andfierce debates…[...]

George Ritzer, Globalization A Basic Text


Ritzer, George.Globalization : A Basic Text / George Ritzer. Similarly illustrative of rapid and extensive global flows is the scandal associatedwith the $50 billion Ponzi scheme run by New York…[...]

Encyclopedia of Social Theory Vol. II


GENERAL EDITORGeorge RitzerUniversity of Maryland Social theory has approached nationalism most as a politicalideology structuring relations of power and conflict. It hasfocused on nationalism’s relationship to ethnic violenceand war, on…[...]

Encyclopedia of Social Theory Volume : I


George RitzerUniversity of Maryland To the best of our knowledge, this is the first Encyclopediaof Social Theory. There are, of course, encyclopedias of thesocial sciences (among others) that have addressed…[...]

Encyclopedia of Catholicism


Encyclopedia of World Religions, Frank K. FlinnJ. Gordon Melton, Series Editor The Encyclopedia of Catholicism seeks to coverthe landmark people, movements, institutions,practices, and doctrines of Roman Catholicismfrom its earliest origins.…[...]