Books
Recent sociology books from members of the department.
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Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Cities: Polish Migrant Women in Manchester and Barcelona
Alina Rzepnikowska
This book examines the complex encounters between Polish migrant women and local populations in Manchester and Barcelona. Illustrating how cultural differences may become important resources for interaction that facilitates positive relationships, it draws on the narratives of Polish migrant women to shed new light on everyday social relations between migrant women and local populations, including settled ethnic minorities and other migrants.
Published September 2019.
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Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing
Nick Thoburn
This book explores the encounter between political thought and experimental publishing. Proposing a “communism of textual matter”, it takes a post-digital approach to a wide array of textual media forms, inviting us to challenge the commodity form of books—to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce.
Open access version published July 2019.
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All In The Mix
Bridget Byrne and Carla De Tona
This publication considers how parents choose secondary schools for their children and makes an important intervention into debates on school choice and education. The book examines how parents talk about race, religion and class in the process of choosing.
Published May 2019.
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Sociology of Personal Life
Vanessa May, Petra Nordqvist
What can Sociology tell us about our personal lives, families and intimate relationships? This book explains how key theoretical perspectives and relevant contemporary research in the discipline can shed new light on even the most familiar areas of our everyday worlds.
Published February 2019.
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Lie Detection and the Law: Torture, Technology and Truth
Andrew Balmer
This book develops a sociological account of lie detection practices and uses this to think about lying more generally. Bringing together insights from sociology, social history, socio-legal studies and science and technology studies (STS), it explores how torture and technology have been used to try to discern the truth.
Published December 2018.
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Snobbery
David Morgan
This book takes a fresh and engaging look at this key issue, drawing on literature, popular culture and autobiography as well as sociology and history. David Morgan explores the complex history and different varieties of snobbery as well as its all-pervasive character to reveal why, despite claims about the openness of our society, it is still a matter of public concern.
Published in December 2018.
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Technology, Media and Social Movements
Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Kevin Gillan
This book offers an interdisciplinary set of contributions from leading scholars, and explores the complex relationship between media, technology and social movements. It provides a valuable resource for scholars and students working in this rapidly developing field.
Published December 2018.
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The Fire Now: Anti-racist scholarship in times of explicit racial violence
Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge (Eds)
Bringing together some of the UK’s leading scholars on race, this collection reframes anti-racist scholarship and activism for a new era by contributing a much-needed British angle to the US-led body of work on whiteness, anti-racist education, black queer studies and intersectionality.
Published November 2018.
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Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and 'Post-Racial' Resilience
Remi Joseph-Salisbury
Focusing on the everyday through a discussion of Black mixed-race men’s racial symbolism, experiences of racial microaggressions, and interactions with peers, Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and Post-Racial Resilience offers an in-depth insight into a previously neglected area of scholarship.
Published 2018.
Shortlisted for the 2019 BSA Philip Abrams Prize awarded to the best first book.
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Gender and the Radical and Extreme Right
Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Hilary Pilkington (Eds.)
This book takes up an important and often-overlooked across scholarship on the radical right, gender and education. This edited volume steps into this space, bringing together seven chapters and an afterword to help readers rethink the educational implications of research on gender and the radical right.
Published 2018.
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Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates
Alice Bloch and Giorgia Dona (Eds.)
A critical engagement with and analysis of contemporary issues in the field using inter-disciplinary perspectives, through different geographical case studies and by employing varying methodologies. Structured around three main current themes: the reconfiguration of borders including virtual borders, the expansion of prolonged exile, and changes in protection and access to rights.
Published in 2018.
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Qualitative Researching
Jennifer Mason
The third edition of this best-selling text guides students and researchers through the process of doing qualitative research, clearly explaining how different theoretical approaches inform what you do in practice. The text bridges the gap between ‘cookbook’ and more abstract approaches to qualitative research, by posing ‘difficult questions' that researchers should be asking themselves .
Published 2018.
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Home and Community: Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme
Sandra Costa Santos, Nadia Bertolino, Stephen Hicks, Camilla Lewis and Vanessa May
Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and temporal phenomena.
Published 2018.
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Age-friendly cities and communities: A global perspective
Edited by Tine Buffel, Sophie Handler and Chris Phillipson
In this book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, leading international researchers critically assess the problems and the potential of designing age-friendly environments. The book considers the different ways in which cities are responding to population ageing, the different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and the extent to which older people themselves can be involved in the co-production of age-friendly policies and practices.
Published in 2018.
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Talking Race in Young Adulthood: Race and everyday life in contemporary Britain
Bethan Harries
Drawing on ethnographic research with young adults in Manchester, Harries engages with ideas of the post-racial to explore how young adults make sense of their identities, relationships and new forms of racism, consequently revealing how and in what ways race remains a salient dimension of social experience.
Published 2018.
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Shared Housing, Shared Lives: Everyday Experiences Across the Lifecourse
Sue Heath, Katherine Davies, Gemma Edwards, Rachael Scicluna
With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives.
Published in 2018.
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Analysing Social Networks (2nd edition)
Stephen P Borgatti, Martin G Everett, Jeffrey C Johnson (Eds.)
Designed to walk beginners through core aspects of collecting, visualising, analysing, and interpreting social network data, this book will get you up-to-speed on the theory and skills you need to conduct social network analysis.
Second edition published 2018.
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The craft of writing in sociology: Developing the argument in undergraduate essays and dissertations
Andrew Balmer and Anne Murcott
This is an indispensable companion for students studying sociology and related disciplines, such as politics and human geography, as well as courses which draw upon sociological writing, such as nursing, social psychology or health studies. It demystifies the process of constructing coherent and powerful arguments, starting from an essay's opening paragraphs, building evidence and sequencing key points in the middle, through to pulling together a punchy conclusion.
Published 2017
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Realising the City: Urban Ethnography in Manchester
Camilla Lewis and Jessica Symons (Eds.)
This book offers an inside view of Manchester, demonstrating the complexity of urban dynamics from a range of ethnographic vantage points, including the city's football clubs, the airport, housing estates, the Gay Village and the city's annual civic parade.
Published in 2017.
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Affinities: Potent Connections in Personal Life
Jennifer Mason
How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family resemblances sometimes feel uncanny? In each of these cases a potent connection is being made, involving forces, flows, energies and atmospherics that conventional sociological approaches can find hard to grasp, but that are important nonetheless.
Published December 2017.
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