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This book engages with debates on ethnic minority and Muslim young people showing, beyond apathy and violent political extremism, the diverse forms of political engagement in which young people engage.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-09-26
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?Seit jeher hat das Thema Alter(n) für Individuum und Gesellschaft große Bedeutung. Zu allen Zeiten und in allen Kulturen existieren gesellschaftliche und individuelle Vorstellungen vom Alter und vom Altern. Da diese „Altersbilder“ keine unbedeutenden...
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Springer VS
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2013-09-24
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Trotz der offensichtlichen sozialpolitischen Relevanz und großen medialen Aufmerksamkeit des Phänomens Kinderlosigkeit sind das Ausmaß, die Ursachen und die Konsequenzen der Kinderlosigkeit in Deutschland bislang unzureichend untersucht worden, mit der Folge, dass in...
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Springer VS
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2013-09-18
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This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a variety of critical perspectives. Issues include accommodation, gangs, migrant and refugee communities, perpetrators,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-09-05
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This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-29
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This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in Britain. It reveals the diverse ways in which young people identify and experience their mixed status, the complex nature of such identities, and the rise of other identity strands...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-26
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Bereits die Alltagsbeobachtung zeigt, dass die Kirchen überwiegend von älteren Menschen besucht werden. Dies ist einerseits durch einen Kohorteneffekt erklärbar: Ältere Menschen wurden häufig noch in verstärktem Maße religiös erzogen und diese in der Sozialisation...
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Springer VS
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2013-06-24
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Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part of the IVF industry and are the focus of intense debates regarding concepts of personhood. This...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-06-19
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This book examines the life stories of a diverse sample of gay men from nine major international cities. Through their relationship stories, old established patterns of gay life are compared with new, emerging patterns of fatherhood, friendship and parenting.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-11
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Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-11
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What will be the fate of childhood in the twenty-first century? Will children increasingly be living 'media childhoods', dominated by the electronic screen? Will their growing access to adult media help to abolish the distinctions between childhood and adulthood? Or...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-06
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“This is the book parents have been waiting for”—Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain. The book that is “helpful, hopeful, and engaging”—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Columbia University. It is the book that addresses the new reality for parents of kids in their 20s...
Editeur :
Workman Publishing Company
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2013-05-14
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Water is our planet’s most precious resource. It is required by every living thing, yet a huge proportion of the world’s population struggles to access clean water daily. Agriculture, aquaculture, industry, and energy all depend on it - yet its provision and safety...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-26
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Resources
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Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental changes of its population dynamics and population structure. Fertility has fallen below replacement level in almost all European countries, while childbearing behavior and family formation have become more diverse....
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Springer
Parution :
2013-04-22
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This book explores changes and continuations in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lives, identities and spatial practices in the 21st century from around the globe, using a range of methods to connect pasts, places and policies with contemporary times,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-04-09
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This book explores the adoption of 'active ageing' policies by EU15 nations and the impact on older peoples' work and retirement policy options. Policies examined include unemployment benefits, active labour market policies, partial pension receipt, pension principles,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-25
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The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust.The rapid escalation of this crisis offers insights into the relationship between anxieties about childhood and the wider moral order. This book explains why...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-03-19
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While many worry about population overload, this book highlights the dramatic fall in fertility rates globally exploring questions such as why are parents having fewer babies? Will this lead to population decline? What will be the impact of a world with fewer children...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-08
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Based on studies conducted in the UK and USA, this book investigates the experiences of suppliers and consumers of masculinized domestic services, exploring issues such as increasing inequality, migration, the rise of commoditized domestic services, contemporary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-21
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This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-21
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