An intimate portrait of life in the world's richest nation ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup.

A blistering, galvanising essay from Eimear McBride, award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.

The questions addressed in the book revolve around the public nature of health as an asset and the rights associated with it, by drawing attention to sociology's role in shedding light on current dynamics and understanding how they may change in the future.

This book examines the role of civil society organizations in defending the rights and addressing the needs of vulenerable groups, paying close attention to services for the elderly. The authors build on theories of state and non-governmental organizations to examine roles in the social contexts of Mexico and the U.S.

The New Sociology of Ageing explores the challenges and opportunities of ageing as a global force. Alongside globalisation, urbanisation, new technology, climate change, and global pandemics, ageing is transforming life in the twenty-first century.

The New Sociology of Ageing explores the challenges and opportunities of ageing as a global force. Alongside globalisation, urbanisation, new technology, climate change, and global pandemics, ageing is transforming life in the twenty-first century.

In the context of a growing criticism on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on physicians, scientists or politicians, Conflict of Interest and Medicine offers a comprehensive analysis of conflict of interest in medicine anchored in the social sciences, with perspectives from sociology, history, political science, and law.

This popular text has a "how to" and "here's what you need to do" approach to ethnographic research, taking the mystery out of the research process and making ethnography accessible to the reader.