Sociology & Criminology for a Changing World
Setha M. Low is an American anthropologist and professor known for her influential work on the social production and social construction of space, urban public culture, and the privatization of public life. A leading figure in urban anthropology, she has combined ethnographic research with critical theory to analyze how built environments shape, and are shaped
Didier Fassin is a French anthropologist and sociologist whose work bridges the boundaries between ethnography, political sociology, and the anthropology of institutions. As Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Fassin has conducted groundbreaking fieldwork on policing, immigration enforcement, and humanitarianism.
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a pioneering figure in structural anthropology, renowned for applying structuralist methods to the study of myth, kinship, and culture. Drawing inspiration from linguistics, particularly the work of Ferdinand de Saussure and Roman Jakobson, Lévi-Strauss argued that the underlying structures of human thought are universal and manifest themselves in cultural expressions. His comparative