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Die Studie, im Sinne der Intellectual History angelegt, rekonstruiert und dokumentiert den originären wie konzeptionellen Beitrag Leo Löwenthals zur frühen Kritischen Theorie, wie sie in den 1930er Jahren von den engsten Mitarbeitern des Instituts für Sozialforschung –...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-19
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In Krisenzeiten wird Geld weit mehr Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet als an Tagen wirtschaftlicher Problemlosigkeit. Das zeigt sich im Vergleich der Zeiten vor und nach dem jüngsten Ausbruch der Krisen (Hypothekenmarkt, Banken, öffentliche Haushalte, Wirtschaftssystem,...
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Springer VS
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2014-02-11
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This book compares understandings and experiences of love and intimacy of one distinct cultural group – Gujarati Indians – born and brought up in two different countries. In a rapidly globalizing world, this comparative ethnographic study explores how the context in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-11
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This book explores the impact of globalisation and new technologies on youth cultures around the world, from the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea. In a timely reappraisal of youth cultures in contemporary times, this collection profiles the best of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-06
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Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of ‘civilization’. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of...
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Polity
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2014-01-30
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For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the family. Yet she has become frustrated by the fixation of many commentators with the supposed decline of commitment, and even the decline of the possibility of family...
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Polity
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2014-01-30
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The production of 'human waste' – or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is...
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Polity
Parution :
2014-01-24
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Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments. With cities taking a...
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Polity
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2014-01-21
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Housing policy has been central to the economic success stories of the major East Asian economies as well as a pillar of social and welfare provision. This book explores not only the development of their distinctive approach, but also the challenges posed in recent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-21
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Polymers have played a critical role in the rational design and application of drug delivery systems that increase the efficacy and reduce the toxicity of new and conventional therapeutics. Beginning with an introduction to the fundamentals of drug delivery, Engineering...
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Wiley
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2014-01-17
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Urban ethnography is the firsthand study of city life by investigators who immerse themselves in the worlds of the people about whom they write. Since its inception in the early twentieth century, this great tradition has helped define how we think about cities and city...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-16
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New media, development and globalization are the key terms through which the future is being imagined and performed in governance, development initiatives and public and political discourse. Yet these authoritative terms have arisen within particular cultural and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-01-15
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The issue of protecting essential infrastructure against the threat of terrorist attack is one which continues to concern governments worldwide. But terrorism is not the only threat this infrastructure may face: environmental hazards, industrial accidents and sabotage...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2014-01-15
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Political parties are central to democratic life, yet there is no standard definition to describe them or the role they occupy. "Voter-centered" theoretical approaches suggest that parties are the mere recipients of voter interests and loyalties. "Party-centered"...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-01-14
Collection :
Political Sociology
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Most books dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict see events through the eyes of policy-makers, generals or diplomats. Menachem Klein offers an illuminating alternative by telling the intertwined histories, from street level upwards, of three cities-Jerusalem,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-11
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This book provides a critical overview of the myriad literatures on “work,” viewed not only as a product of the marketplace but also as a social and political construct. Drawing on theoretical and empirical contributions from sociology, history, economics, and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-12-23
Collection :
Key Concepts
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Reflective practice is an essential skill for those working in health and social care, but why is it so vital and how can it be learned? As inter-disciplinary working becomes more common, finding shared ways of reflection on practice are becoming more and more...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-12-19
Collection :
Key Themes in Health and Social Care
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Seit Beginn menschlicher Kultur waren Heilkundige bemüht, Kranken auch mit geeigneten Worten zu helfen. Archaische und mittelalterliche Heilspruchtexte, bisher als magische oder per Wortakt performierende Instrumente gedeutet, werden vom Autor erstmals nach...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Edited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues, addresses fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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Re-imagining the Family explores contemporary films and literature about the effects of legal and illegal immigration on the structure and the stories of the contemporary 'European' family, with a focus on Germany.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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