For several decades the writings of sociologist Neil J. Smelser have won him a vast and admiring ...

These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smels...

This is Volume XVII of eighteen of a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology.First ...

The 20th Century has been marked by enormous change in terms of how we define race. In large part...

This report addresses the question of what terrorists hold in value. This question is posed in or...

First Published in 2005. The following study analyses several sequences of differentiation and a ...

The 20th Century has been marked by enormous change in terms of how we define race. In large part...

Terrorism is the most clear and present danger we confront today, yet no phenomenon is more poorl...

This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the 'odyssey' experience as it shapes, inf...