Télécharger le livre :  The Making of Resistance
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This Briefs advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises. It explores the endurance of social movements over time, by developing analytical tools to study how social movement heterogeneities are simultaneously acknowledged...

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Parution : 2017-05-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Artistic Enclaves in the Post-Industrial City
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This SpringerBriefs presents a case study and theoretical analysis of an artistic enclave that emerged within Lawrenceville Pittsburgh. It briefly describes the history of greater Pittsburgh, and Lawrenceville’s transition from thriving blue-collar community to...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding the Course of Social Reality
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This book offers a comparison between our earthly society and the society of a hypothetical twin planet with the aim to understand and deal with some of the main problems of our global society, as well as to advance interaction with some extra-terrestrial society no...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-08-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Postcolonial Reconstruction: A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz
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This book presents a close reading of the work of the Mexican writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, Octavio Paz. It does so from the specific perspective of sociology and the more general perspective of the social sciences. The book identifies opportunities for relating Paz’...

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Parution : 2016-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Out of Time
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This pioneering work aims at understanding the impact of non-standard (evening, night, weekend) working time on family cohesion, meaning parent-child interaction, partnership quality and divorce or partnership dissolution. ‘Out of time - the Consequences of Non-standard...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-12-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People's Experiences in Australia
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This Briefs is the first national study on female-to-male (FtM) transgender people’s experiences in Australia. It describes an extensive study that fills the current gap in Australian research on the specific experiences and beliefs about transition for contemporary...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights
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This volume offers a comprehensible account of the development and evolution of moral systems.  It seeks to answer the following questions: If morals are eternal and unchanging, why have the world’s dominant religious moral systems been around for no more than a mere...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Sociology of Mental Health
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This volume provides an overview of mental health research conducted by sociologists. It discusses dominant themes such as stress, the community and mental life, family structure, social relations and recovery. The unique contribution of sociology to the study of mental...

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Parution : 2014-08-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Impact of Organized Crime on Murder of Law Enforcement Personnel at the U.S.-Mexican Border
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This brief fills a gap in the studies of organized crime in Mexico (Kan 2012, Ríos 2011, Dell 2011) by documenting and mapping the post-2008 assassination of Mexican border police chiefs. It traces out a “systematic” of law-enforcement assassination in Northern Tier...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-07-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Women in Kolkata's IT Sector
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Based on a survey of women workers in Kolkata’s IT sector, this book argues that growth of the IT sector has created a demand for skilled professionals. This has provided scope for highly educated urban women to create a space of self-expression and enjoy enhanced...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-12-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Web of Violence
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There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence. These interconnections have critical implications for conducting research that can produce valid conclusions about the causes and consequences of abuse, maltreatment, and trauma....

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-10-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology
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This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to modernist...

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Parution : 2012-02-09
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