Animals and Sociology challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of sociology.

Contributors to this volume are convinced that it provides an inadequate conceptualization of all aspects of decision making: of the individuals who make the decisions, of the process by which decisions get made and of the context within ...

This book examines the lives and repartnering behaviour of former spouses and co-habitees, groups pivotal to recent marital change.

This book concentrates on two key themes of particular salience for policy makers: the enlargement of the EU and the place of Europe in international politics.

This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare; whether and under what circumstances animals are regarded as social actors with agency; ...

As the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of human/animal relations becomes crucial to the urgent questions of our time, notably in relation to environmental crisis, this collection explores the inner tensions within the relatively new ...

This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world.

This Common Threads volume, drawn from articles originally published in the Journal of Animal Ethics (JAE), offers veterinarians and other interested readers a primer on key issues in the field.

As such, The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, theology, and animal ethics as well as those studying the philosophy of religion and ethics more generally ...

Population aging has fuelled interest in pensions and intergenerational equity, leading to privatization of pensions.