News & Updates
Sociology Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Recent Articles
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Wellesley College Appoints Layli Maparyan New Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women
"Wellesley College President H. Kim Bottomly today announced the appointment of Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., as the new Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW), one of the nation’s largest and most influential organizations conducting scholarly research and developing action programs centered on women’s and girls’ perspectives. Maparyan will assume her new responsibilities effective July 1, 2012."
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Surviving Dictatorship, Book of the Month, April 2012
Jacqueline Adams' Surviving Dictatorship focuses on shantytown women in Pinochet's Chile, examining how they join groups to cope with exacerbated impoverishment and targeted repression, and how this leads them into very varied forms of resistance aimed at self-protection, community-building, and mounting an offensive.
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Featured Book: Social Theory Re-Wired
The unique website materials help make the readings in this collection vibrant, understandable, and relevant to your students' lives.
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Come and see us at the BSA conference
Routledge Books and Journals will be attending the British Sociological Association (BSA) 2012 Annual Conference at the University of Leeds in the UK from April 11–13, 2012.
Visit us at booths 14,15,16 to receive a 20% discount off all titles on display!
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Is There An Urban Sociology? Essay in Sociologica
An essay by Routledge author Sharon Zukin appeared in a recent issue of Sociologica. Read the full article.
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Review of Ferry Tales in The Tyee
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Routledge Reference reissue a magnitude of Feminism titles for 2012
Today is International Women's Day. This global event celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.
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Featured Book: Routledge Handbook of Body Studies
In The Routledge Handbook of Body Studies, contributors examine the body across theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology.
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Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences, Book of the Month, March 2012
Rachel Gordon's Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences is for graduate courses that cover basic univariate and bivariate statistics and regression models for nominal and ordinal outcomes, as well as ordinary least squares regression.
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Featured Book: Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies
New in paperback!
The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers an analysis of the demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural consequences of globalization.
