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Prevent Strategy is a collection of work from practitioners (youth workers and the police) and academics researching and covering the application of the UK¿s Prevent strategy, in relation to the right to freedom of expression and section 26 Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2016 duty

Having chapters by an international group of scholars and academics, Rural Youth at the Crossroads discusses the challenges and contexts facing youth from rural communities in countries with legacies of socialism undergoing social, political, and economic transition.

By focusing on neoliberal authoritarian, hegemonic and Islamist aspects, this book sheds light on long-term dynamics that resulted in the [Turkish] regime transformation. It presents a comprehensive study at a time when rising authoritarianism challenges liberal democracies on a global scale.

This book offers a comparative study of the Europeanisation patterns of work and family life reconciliation policies in an EU candidate country (Turkey) and a founding EU member state (Germany) over the last decade, with a particular emphasis on intervening domestic actors and factors.

The Home in the Digital Age is a set of multidisciplinary studies exploring the impact digital technologies in the home with a shift of emphasis from technology to the people living and using this in their homes.

Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimian account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss over its unsettling incomprehensibility.

Chen, He and Yan present a range of applications of multiple-source big data to core areas of contemporary sociology, demonstrating how a theory-guided approach to macrosociology can help to understand a society, especially where traditional approaches are limited by constrained and biased data.

Using innovative interpretations of recent big budget films, Coronavirus Capitalism Goes to the Cinema interrogates the social, political and economic landscape during and prior to the COVID-19 crisis and provides lessons for advancing progressive politics in a post-pandemic age.

The Emotions in the Classics of Sociology stands as an innovative sociological research that introduces the study of emotions through a detailed examination of the theories and concepts of the classical authors of discipline.

With a focus on five major regions globally (UK, US, Europe, Canada and Australia) Identifying and Managing Risk at Work outlines key regional factors affecting risk and its management.

A monograph that focusses on heterosexuality and society, and presents an empirical study of the construction, negotiation and enactment of heterosexual sexuality. Using detailed interview data, this book investigates how heterosexuality, as both an identity and a set of practices, is accomplished through love relationships.

Relying on a thorough understanding of the role of ideology, discourse, and framing, this volume discusses ISIS as an Islamist ideological organization and examines its philosophical scaffolding within the material conditions produced by neoliberal capital.