Visual sociology has been part of the sociological vocabulary since the 1970s, but until now there has not been a comprehensive text that introduces this area. Written by one of the founding fathers in the field, Visual Sociology explores how the world that is seen, photographed, drawn, or otherwise[...]
Douglas Harper was born in Guyana, South America 1929. He started studying music when he was eight years old, and at the age of fifteen he played both jazz- and dance music.
Douglas emigrated to London where he studied at the Guildhall of Music between 1952 and 1955. Later he was on tour [...]
This anthology brings more than fifty years of scholarship of the culture and sociology of work into a vivid introductory and analytical textbook. Sociologists have long sought to understand the universal activity of work from the point of view of the worker. This book shows how common sociological [...]