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This book examines only-child experience in global perspective and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-children face as adults. Explored from both a social and psychological perspective, it reveals the complexity and multidimensional nature of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-02-27
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"If only more new media commentators had this level of historical-critical reference, engaging, good stories, and a degree of wonder at what media and windows bring to the city, to life."
- John Hutnyk, Goldsmiths, University of London
"Just when you thought the last...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2008-02-21
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Im letzten Jahrzehnt ist die gesellschaftspolitische Forderung nach mehr Bürgerschaftlichem Engagement immer lauter geworden. Unklar blieb dabei, aus welchen Motiven und Orientierungen es sich speist.Im Gegensatz zur bisherigen Forschung, die sich auf generelle Motive...
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Parution :
2008-02-12
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This book uses political and socio-anthropological theory to examine the relationship between power, interest, and agency within population and family planning discourse across Africa, with particular emphasis on case studies from Tanzania.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-01-21
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"A welcome and brilliantly crafted overview of this field. It represents a major advance in our understanding of how ethnicity works in specific social and cultural contexts. The second edition will be an invaluable resource for both students and researchers alike."
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2008-01-18
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It was traditionally said that 'clothes maketh the man'. But what codes and meanings are associated with dress in a society that consists of divisions between class, race, gender, family status and religion? Is social and cultural life still fundamentally themed by...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2008-01-16
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From the white stag to the green knight, The Seven Story Tower examines how myth colors our perception of history, nature, and ourselves. Organized around seven key myths-representing the Irish, Greek, Sumerian, Indonesian, Amazonian, and Inuit cultures, as well as the...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2008-01-07
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Jane Addams was a prolific and elegant writer. Her twelve books consist largely of published essays, but to appreciate her life work one must also read her previously uncollected speeches and editorials. This artfully compiled collection begins with Addams's youthful...
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Basic Books
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2008-01-07
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Dieses Buch bietet eine aufregende Analyse der Gegenwartsgesellschaft. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage nach einer "neokonsumistischen Geisteshaltung" in der Gegenwart und die daraus resultierenden Folgen und Ambivalenzen.
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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2007-12-05
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We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotypes about charity in America-including the myth that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right. Brooks, a...
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Basic Books
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2007-12-04
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Why do religious people believe what they shouldn't -- not what others think they shouldn't believe, but things that don't accord with their own avowed religious beliefs? D. Jason Slone terms this phenomenon "theological incorrectness." He argues that it exists because...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-12-03
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Dieser Band hat eine relativ lange Geschichte. Ausgangspunkt war eine Tagung mit dem Titel „United States. On the significance of space and borders in modernity. Europe and the USA in comparison”. Finanziert wurde diese Veranstaltung von der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung,...
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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2007-11-17
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Children today are growing up in a world of global media. Many have also become global citizens, through their experience of migration and transnational networks. This book reviews research and debate in the media, globalization, migration and childhood, with empirical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-12
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The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the last 50 years.The United States of America and the European Union are the two strongest...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-11-08
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"In their introduction to this Handbook, the editors affirm: 'Many sociologists have come to realise that it makes no sense now to omit religion from the repertoire of social scientific explanations of social life'. I wholeheartedly agree. I also suggest that this...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-10-29
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The importance of the spatial dimension of the structure, organization and experience of social relations is fundamental for sociological analysis and understanding.
Space and Social Theory is an essential primer on the theories of space and inherent spatiality,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-10-29
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"This book shows that manners, far from being superficial adornments of behaviour, are thoroughly interwoven with our personalities and the structures of our societies. The concept of ‘informalization’ provides both an invaluable addition to Norbert Elias’s theory of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-10-29
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McMillan provides the first detailed account of the women's anti-violence movement in Europe, from an international comparative perspective. Exploring how feminists have responded to violence in society, this study also examines how they have organized their response,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-10-23
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"This excellent book will encourage students to think about the diverse range and broad character of issues encountered at work. It highlights both enduring dilemmas and emerging issues in contemporary employment. Each concept is carefully explained with engaging...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-10-22
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Die Kulturbetriebsforschung befasst sich mit der Konzeption, Produktion, Distribution und Rezeption von Kulturgütern, die in einem dynamisch interagierenden und institutionell strukturierten Handlungsfeld stattfinden - nämlich im Kulturbetrieb.Die Komplexität des...
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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2007-10-08
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