The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world. St...

Everyday life is something we tend to take for granted, something that just is, something unnotic...

Challenging the mainstream orthodoxy of social scientific methodology, which closely guards the b...

Part of the SAGE Social Thinker series, this book serves as a concise and inviting introduction t...

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most inspirational and controversial thinkers on the scene of contem...

This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly essays on two of cinema and tele...

In addition to considering the role of social theory in the imagination of alternative futures, t...

This volume explores the emotions that are intricately woven into the texture of everyday life an...

This book explores death in contemporary society - or more precisely, in the 'spectacular age' - ...

In spite of the fact that crime is an emotive topic, the question of emotion has been largely ove...

As modern society's routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-mod...

This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the discussion of the social, cultural, aesth...