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In the post-Civil Rights era, there is a temptation to assume that racism is no longer the pressing social concern in the United States that it once was. The contributors show that racism has not fallen from the forefront of American society, but is manifest in a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2008-08-06
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Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2008-08-04
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Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the universality of...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2008-08-04
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In this engaging and spirited book, eminent social psychologist Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that we take for granted—our perception of time. When we travel to a different country, or even a different city in the United States, we...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2008-08-01
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Captains of Consciousness offers a historical look at the origins of the advertising industry and consumer society at the turn of the twentieth century. For this new edition Stuart Ewen, one of our foremost interpreters of popular culture, has written a new preface that...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2008-08-01
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Comeback Cities shows how innovative, pragmatic tactics for ameliorating the nation's urban ills have produced results beyond anyone's expectations, reawakening America's toughest neighborhoods. In the past, big government and business working separately were unable to...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2008-08-01
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This book examines the role governments play in managing policy challenges such as religion, romance, gender relations, same-sex marriages and privacy protection in response to social changes in marriage. Elizabeth van Acker asks whether governments can or should...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-07-11
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The book explores the relationship between embodiment and the production of the key structures which frame agency to map out potential for social change. It uses modalities of ageing embodiment in the context of sport participation in later life, specifically Master...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-07-10
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Where are we at with studies of Body & Society? What are the key accomplishments in the field? This book provides the clearest and most comprehensive account of work in this area to date.
Based on a novel theory of action it surveys the terrain by arguing that human...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-06-18
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Just as the nation witnessed the widespread decay of urban centers, there is a mounting suburban crisis in first-tier suburbs - the early suburbs to develop in metropolitan America. These places, once the bastion of a large middle class, have matured and experienced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-06-09
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Demand for owner-occupied housing has expanded dramatically across modern-industrialized societies in recent years leading to volatile increases in residential property values. This book explores the rise of modern home-ownership as a cultural, socio-political and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-05-28
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Der Begriff der Gegenöffentlichkeit entstammt den sozialen Bewegungen und enthält einen stark politisch-normativen Anspruch, der ihn nicht per se zu einem sozialwissenschaftlichen Begriff mit heuristischem Gehalt macht. Die einschlägige Forschung zu Gegenöffentlichkeit...
Editeur :
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Parution :
2008-05-08
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Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring - and certainly the most sociological - of all social psychologies. In this landmark work, Norman K. Denzin traces its tortured history from its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter with...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
Collection :
Twentieth Century Social Theory
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This book contributes to our understanding of the transformation of work in the information economy, through a detailed examination of labor markets in Silicon Valley. It provides an original and insightful analysis of flexible labor including growing volatility in work...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
Collection :
Information Age Series
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The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology brings together thirty-eight original essays covering the wide inter-disciplinary field of political sociology. Represents the most comprehensive overview available in the field of political sociology Covers traditional...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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"This truly deserves to be considered a classic and I strongly encourage my students to read it from cover to cover. Turner's work on the body needs to be considered in its own right within courses on the sociology of the body."
- Dr Robert Meadows, Surrey...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-04-18
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'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.'
In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Émile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-04-17
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The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions. Authors represent various...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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This book systematically reconstructs the origins and new advances in economic sociology. By presenting both classical and contemporary theory and research, the volume identifies and describes the continuity between past and present, and the move from economics to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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The Blackwell Companion to Sociology is a milestone collection of new essays by renowned sociologists, covering both the traditions and strengths of the field as well as newer developments and directions. Authors from the US, the UK, Europe and elsewhere have...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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