This paper reviews concepts of marketplace community, and considers the strategic
opportunities and challenges communities present to marketers. Current attempts to …

Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain,
exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt …

Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her
important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 media culture and society Page 3 SAGE was founded in 1965 by Sara
Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable knowledge by publishing innovative and …

This book analyses the current debates around national identity and multiculturalism by
addressing three key questions; why do so many people treat as common sense the idea …

Drawing on life history interviews with sixty men and women in north-east England who
were caught up in 'the low-pay, no-pay cycle', this article describes how people living in …

In the last three years a new vocabulary of social class has emerged in Britain. The word
“chav,” alongside its various synonyms and regional variations, has become a ubiquitous …

What is whiteness? Why is it worth using as a tool in the social sciences? Making
sociological sense of the idea of whiteness, this book skilfully argues how this concept can …

From Every Child Matters and the Munro Review, to changing shifts in thinking from
Coalition government; the child protection system has seen dramatic political and policy …

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an
authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to …