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This book considers gender as a convenient tool for making new boundaries within the European Union. It offers a political analysis based on sociological surveys conveyed by the author in 2008–2021. It emphasises the utmost necessity of a proper understanding of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-03-19
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This book presents a collection of old and new essays exploring the author’s unique contributions to the sociology of science, mathematics, logic, robotics, brain, and god. Known for his defense of a strong social constructionist approach to the hard problems...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-18
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This book presents a sociological perspective on (non-)sexual intimate relationships in contemporary Japan. The phenomenon of sexlessness in intimate relationships has gained increasing attention in popular culture. However, few scholarly investigations exist in...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-03-17
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Qualitative research design is continually evolving. It is not only more established in disciplines beyond the traditional social sciences in which it is a standard choice, but also just as impacted by the changes in what data, technologies, and approaches researchers...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2022-03-17
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This book examines the increasing evidence of international retirement migration (IRM) to countries of the Global South. IRM to countries of the Global South points to the increasing global interconnectedness of aging in relatively affluent countries and raises critical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-16
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Wenn stimmt, was bereits Friedrich Schiller beklagt hat: dass der Mensch in der modernen Gesellschaft „zum Formular geworden“ ist, dann steht mit diesem unscheinbaren Verwaltungs-tool nichts weniger als unsere Lebenswirklichkeit auf dem Spiel. Der erste (Open...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-03-16
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The basis of this proposal is the study of quality of life from an interdisciplinary perspective. This volume presents a set of contributions from different sciences that analyse the quality of life in Argentina.The contributions come from the social disciplines...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-03-16
Collection :
The Latin American Studies Book Series
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This open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-03-16
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There is no one way to be transgender.
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource--a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender and gender expansive authors. Inspired by Our Bodies, Ourselves, the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-03-16
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This book presents a sociological challenge to the long-held assumption that dying alone is a bad way to die and that for a death to be a good one the dying person should be accompanied.This assumption is represented in the deathbed scene, where the dying person is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-16
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Mit dem Internet ist ein Kommunikationsraum für Wissenschaftskommunikation entstanden, in dem neben WissenschaftlerInnen und JournalistInnen auch wissenschaftliche Laien teilweise mit großer Reichweite Videos verbreiten. Das Buch präsentiert Befunde einer empirischen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-03-15
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Although there is growing interest in the role of religion in meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Agenda 2030, very few studies have focused on the contributions of interfaith networks. Most of the contemporary publications on religion and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-15
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This two-volume set highlights the importance of Iberian shipbuilding in the centuries of the so-called first globalization (15th to 18th), in confluence with an unprecedented extension of ocean navigation and seafaring and a greater demand for natural resources...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-03-15
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This Brief provides a survey of key political, social, and economic issues affecting the Western Balkans region. Taking a two-pronged conceptual approach focusing on fragmentation and integration, the volume highlights commonalities and differences in a number of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-03-15
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“This book explores the everyday lives of gay men in Hainan, an island province of the People’s Republic of China. Taking an ethnographic and phenomenological approach, it asks how these men construct and experience ways of ‘sexual being’ –...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-15
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This collection of articles reveals ritual to be a unique and powerful asset in healing trauma and broken relationships. Each contribution offers insights on how, in the face of uncertainty, threat and dislocation, human beings feel compelled to 'do...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-03-13
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Jede moderne Gesellschaft benötigt Stützungsmechanismen, welche drohende und tatsächliche Abweichungen und Abwanderungen aus dem Wissenskanon einer Gesellschaft unterbinden. Die Sozialarbeit ist eine dieser Institutionen, sie behandelt Probleme der Sinnabwanderung aus...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-03-11
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Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-11
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In diesem Buch untersuchen Soziolog*innen und Umfrageforscher*innen erstmals systematisch in zehn fundierten Beiträgen die gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Corona-Krise in Österreich. Datengrundlage des Sammelbandes, dessen Beiträge frei zum Download zur Verfügung...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-03-11
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Der Band befasst sich mit den philosophisch-ethischen Begründungszusammenhängen des Militärs und des Soldatenberuf in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-03-11
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