This article looks at social inclusion from a sociological perspective. It argues that sociology
complements biological and other natural order explanations of social stratification. The …

A recurrent critique on the welfare state is that it crowds out social capital (networks, trust
and norms). However, the empirical evidence on the crowding out hypothesis is still scarce …

How do influential social ideas contribute to global governance? This book takes an original
approach to international relations by looking at the way social ideas help to portray the …

This paper examines recent innovations in the way the concept of the state is employed by
geographers researching forced migrants' and refugees' experiences. A still-dominant body …

In this paper we argue that what is missing from many ethnographic accounts is a
recognition that dilemmas inevitably emerge for the researcher before they make contact …

The concept of depoliticisation has become increasingly popular in recent years, but
empirical studies into depoliticisation policies have been less prevalent. Absent from the …

The labour laws of European democracies all underwent major transformations in the seven
decades after the Second World War. Following reconstruction, these laws became an …

The rise in demand for higher education in the Asia-Pacific region is an undeniable
reflection of the growing pace of globalization and the subsequent pressures imposed by it …

Beginning in the mid-1990s, the Canadian welfare state's devolutionary transformation
ushered in an era which potentially increased the importance of social capital and human …

There is growing evidence that traditional patterns of governance are coming under strain in
many domains–in banking and financial services; in multi-national corporations; in the NGO …