Sociology & Public Policy

"A collection covering core subject areas, with particular strength in work, economy and organizations, and politics and social change."

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Titles include the seminal The Behavior of Law by Professor Donald Black, alongside works reflecting key themes discussed at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Conference 2010 including; Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance; Sociological Studies
of Children and Youth; and Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change.

The collection features eminent scholars based at leading institutions, including Professor Edward Lawler at Cornell University, Professor Lisa Keister at Duke University and Professor Peter Marsden at Harvard University.

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Testimonials

"Political Power and Social Theory has been at the leading edge of problem-oriented social science thinking, attracting prominent scholars from across the disciplines to contribute informed, provocative, and timely essays on politically important topics. For quality and breadth and creativity, there is no other forum that can touch it."
Professor Frank Dobbin (Harvard University)
"Studies in Law, Politics and Society is one of my favorite series. The editor routinely attracts articles by younger scholars working on important new issues, themes, and analytical frameworks as well as by more established top scholars offering novel reflections about traditions of longstanding socio-legal inquiry. Readers can always count on finding in the pages provocative interdisciplinary studies addressing the relationships among legal practice, social power, and politics. I highly recommend it!"
Michael McCann (University of Washington)

New and notable

Emerald is delighted to work with eminent Editors and authors such as:

Norman Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Series Editor of Studies in Symbolic Interaction). In 1997 Denzin was awarded the George Herbert Award from The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.
Emily Hannum, Oxford University (Co-Series Editor of Research in the Sociology of Education)
Edward Lawler, Cornell University (Co-Series Editor of Advances in Group Processes)
Austin Sarat, Amherst College, USA (Series Editor of Studies in Law, Politics and Society). Professor Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor, Amherst College. Professor Sarat is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships in both the US and the UK over his 40-year career.

Collection highlights

The SociologyPlus collection provides both academics and practitioners an unrivalled depth and variety of relevant content for their research. The highlights below pick out some of the benefits and quality indicators of this collection:

Political Power and Social Theory is an annual review, committed to advancing interdisciplinary, critical understanding of the linkages between social relations, political power, and historical development.
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy is devoted to the sharpening and reshaping of scientific discourse in the area of inquiry implied by its title, involving the intersection of social problems and public policy. In particular, the series is interested in analyses of the potential failure of public institutions to fulfil their obligations to the broader society.
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change was established in 1977 by founding Editor Louis Kriesberg, the Maxwell Professor of Social Conflict Studies at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. His vision was to create a scholarly publication outlet that would encourage dialogue and cross-fertilization across a number of related but too disconnected research literatures: social movements, conflict resolution, and social and political change. For more than 30 years RSMCC has been publishing peer-reviewed, top-level empirical and theoretical research that has helped define and advance the multiple fields reflected in the series title.
Research in the Sociology of Organisations is especially concerned with specifying the unique contributions of sociological theories and research techniques to the analysis of organizations. In addition to publishing high quality original research, each volume aims to foster debate about the value of new theories and research to the growing international community of organizational studies scholars. The series features work by top internationally-known scholars in the field, providing the flexibility to develop more speculative arguments and theoretical claims that challenge, revise and uniquely apply extant theory in ways that are often not possible in more mainline journals.
Research in the Sociology of Work. Each volume in this annual series is topically organized to offer in-depth analysis of an issue of current interest in the sociology of work. Recent volumes address current issues including globalization, work and family, deviance in the workplace, marginal employment, employment restructuring, union revitalization, and worker training.

Community updates

Emerald's sociology publications help support several major conferences. Emerald will be represented at the following conferences in 2010:

XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology (July, Sweden)
American Sociological Association (August, USA)

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