We live in a world bounded and defined by the legal institution of citizenship. The plight of immigrants moving across Western Europe has made this a particularly salient point ...

Professor Smelser defines the major types of general behavior and its general character

The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.

Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across ...

This book examines the little-known phenomenon of blat--the use of informal contacts and personal networks to obtain goods and services under the rationing that pervaded Soviet ...