Contemporary Issues in Social Science
About the Book Series
Contemporary Issues in Social Science is an interdisciplinary, international series, which provides a forum for disseminating and enhancing theoretical, empirical and/or pragmatic research across the social sciences and related disciplines. Reflecting the objectives of the Academy of Social Sciences, it emphasises the publication of work that engages with issues of major public interest and concern across the world, and highlights the implications of that work for policy and professional practice.
Biographical Research: Challenges and Creativity
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By Ana Caetano, Magda Nico
January 29, 2024
Studying people’s lives requires acknowledging the multiple entanglements between individual singularity and processes of social patterning. This book testifies how challenging and creative the study of these connections can be. It gathers international contributions that show, in imaginative ways,...
Identity, Agency and Fieldwork Methodologies in Risky Environments
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By Monique Marks, Julten Abdelhalim
June 30, 2021
Bringing together a unique set of narratives from social scientists who have been situated in risky environments, this volume discusses the moral and ethical dilemmas of doing fieldwork in environments that are characterised by insecurity. These narratives are situated in the Global South, and the ...
Political Activism across the Life Course
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By Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis, Vinnarasan Aruldoss
March 31, 2021
How do people of different ages experience and engage with politics in their everyday lives, and how do these experiences and engagements change over their life course and across different generations? Age, life course and generation have become increasing important experiences for understanding ...
Sustaining Natural Resources in a Changing Environment
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By Linda Hantrais, Ruth Kattumuri, Ashley Thomas Lenihan
September 30, 2020
Climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and air quality. In this collection, academic researchers and practitioners who have lived and worked in countries as geographically and culturally diverse as Brazil, ...
Crime and Society
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By Donna Youngs
June 30, 2020
Much of a society’s resources are devoted to dealing with, or preparing for the possibility of, crime. The dominance of concerns about crime also hint at the broader implications that offending has for many different facets of society. They suggest that rather than being an outlawed subset of ...
The Role of Grandparents in the 21st Century: Global Perspectives on Changing Roles and Consequences
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By Ann Buchanan, Anna Rotkirch
June 30, 2020
Across the world, the role of grandparents is changing. This book highlights the changing roles, and the consequences of these changes, for both grandchildren and grandparents, by drawing together leading international authorities on grandparenting and intergenerational relations.The book includes ...
Youths in Challenging Situations: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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By Charalambos Tsekeris, Lily Stylianoudi
June 30, 2020
This book investigates and explores the complex dynamics of youth in contemporary society, especially in troubled and crisis-ridden contexts. On the one hand, teenagers and young adults experience social suffering, marginalisation, gender and ethnic bias, and an increased risk to be radicalised and...
Exploring Social Inequality in the 21st Century: New Approaches, New Tools, and Policy Opportunities
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By Jennifer Jarman, Paul Lambert
December 13, 2019
In a world where the effects of inequality occupy an increasingly prominent place on the public agenda, this book provides up-to-date and thorough analysis from the perspective of a group of researchers at the forefront of social stratification analysis. Exploring Social Inequality in the 21st ...
Civic Engagement
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By Robin G. Milne
February 14, 2019
Civic engagement in this book is understood to include attendance at booked National Health Service appointments; compulsory attendance at school; the take-up of a variety of State benefits in cash and kind, such as Pension Credit and free school meals; and attendance at work. This book is the ...
The People and the State: Twenty-First Century Protest Movement
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By Thomas O'Brien
February 14, 2019
Protest has proliferated in the early part of the twenty-first century, forcing change in political systems and challenging established patterns of behaviour. The factors driving these protests range from religion and inequality through to the effectiveness of the state and its role in protecting ...
International and Interdisciplinary Insights into Evidence and Policy
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By Linda Hantrais, Ashley Lenihan, Susanne MacGregor
January 03, 2019
Contributors to this highly original book address the many questions raised by researchers and policymakers about the complex and often uneasy relationship between evidence and policy from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. They explore both the institutions acting as evidence ...
Social Death: Questioning the life-death boundary
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By Jana Králová, Tony Walter
October 18, 2018
Social death occurs when the social existence of a person or group ceases. With an individual, it can occur before or after physical death. Scholars in a wide range of disciplines have applied the concept to very diverse issues – including genocide, slavery, dementia, hospitalisation, and ...