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International Handbook of Historical Archaeology
(Springer, 2009)
‘‘Historical archaeology’’ is one of the most fast-changing and dynamic fields of study in the archaeological discipline.This collection of essays by researchers and practitioners from around the world charts the field’s ...
Handbook of Sociological Theory
(Springer, 2001)
One of the most obvious trends in sociology over the last 30 years is differentiation of substantive specialties. What is true in the discipline as a whole is particularly evident in sociological theory. Where once there ...
Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
(Springer, 2009)
Over a century ago, psychologists who were fascinated with religion began to study and write about it. Theologians and religious practitioners have responded to this literature, producing a fascinating dialogue that deals ...
Handbook of Disaster Research
(Springer, 2007)
Disasters create difficulties, even for those who study disasters. Much of that difficulty stems from the necessity to deal with concepts, which have popular meanings, and some of those meanings evoke moral and emotional ...
Handbook of the Sociology of Gender
(Springer, 2006)
During the past three decades, feminist scholars have successfully demonstrated the ubiquity
and omnirelevance of gender as a sociocultural construction in virtually all human
collectivities, past and present. Intrapsychic, ...
Handbook of the Life Course
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003)
The development of the life course as a field of study parallels in some respects another
prominent subfield of sociology, social psychology. In his now-classic assessment, House
(1977) observed that social psychology’s ...