Sociology

This series of publications deals with sociological issues related to nutrition, such as daily diet, health and nutrition policies, meat consumption, sustainability and the effects of and global relations between the production and consumption of food from a social perspective. The series publishes contributions from a variety of fields written in either German or English.

This series of publications deals with all kinds of social anthropological relationships and conflicts in different societies and types of society. For example, this can encompass examining family relationships, social differences and structures, and power relations and conflicts between ethnic groups, big men and the societies they belong to. The studies in the series analyse concepts such as kinship, castes and ‘ethnoclasses’ (socio-cultural groups which in general have a low social status and which display ethnic characteristics that distinguish them as immigrants or descendants of immigrants) in the same critical depth as gender and nation building. It also welcomes studies from a variety of related fields such as ethnology, cultural studies and social geography, along with works written in different languages.