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Originally published in 1974, Ritual in Industrial Society is based on several years¿ research including interviews and observations into the importance of ritual in industrial society within modern Britain.

Originally published in 1974, Ritual in Industrial Society is based on several years¿ research including interviews and observations into the importance of ritual in industrial society within modern Britain.

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This book analyzes the main post-war features of consumption. It traces the historical development of consumption and discusses the major contributions made by sociologists in discussing the subject. Robert Bocock is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

To those who see Freud solely as a psychologist and a psychotherapist it may be surprising to find him discussed as a major contributor to sociology. Bocock demonstrates Freud's central relevance to sociological discussions about gender, sexuality, the family, religion, ideology and symbolism, political authority, and language. This is the only overview of Freud's work to focus on his sociological relevance.

This collection deals with the central questions which have emerged from the break-up of the postwar political consensus around the welfare state. A series of distinguished contributors, including exponents of alternative positions on welfare from the right, left and centre, examine key issues in the disputes over the relationship between the state and welfare. Individual chapters both explore the different political and theoretical issues in...