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Our contemporary societies place more and more emphasis on the singular and the unique. The industrial societies of the early 20th century produced standardized products, cities, subjects and organizations which tended to look the same, but in our late-modern...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-04-21
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39,60€
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This volume seeks to recover a specific historical moment within the tradition of anthropologists trained in the United States under Franz Boas, arguably the father of modern American anthropology. Focusing on Boasians Ashley Montagu, Margaret Mead, Melville Herskovits,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-04-20
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In der vorliegenden Studie von Susanne de Vogel werden die Effekte strukturierter Promotionen in Deutschland erstmalig einer umfassenden Evaluation unterzogen. Mit neuen Daten untersucht die Autorin theoretisch fundiert, inwieweit die Ausweitung strukturierter...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-20
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The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time.This fourth...
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Polity
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2020-04-20
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21,50€
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Émile Durkheim’s major works are among the founding texts of the discipline of sociology, but his importance lies also in his immense legacy and subsequent influence upon others. In this book, Philip Smith examines not only Durkheim’s original ideas, but also reveals...
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Polity
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2020-04-20
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood. Transdisciplinary and transnational in content and scope, the Encyclopedia both reflects and enables the wide...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-04-20
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This brief offers a unique and innovative account of the role of internet and digital technologies in human smuggling and trafficking. It explores new illegal paths through the web by analyzing how traffickers and smugglers use the visible and dark web during...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-20
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This book illuminates the importance of threat on the representation of everyday life, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Divided into three parts, the book sets out by addressing the conceptual aspects of threat and by opening views on phenomena and social...
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Springer
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2020-04-18
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This book focuses on the latest developments in behaviormetrics and data science, covering a wide range of topics in data analysis and related areas of data science, including analysis of complex data, analysis of qualitative data, methods for high-dimensional data,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-17
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Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to the Ayyubid Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his favorite concubine, was manumitted, became the sultan's wife, served as governing regent, and ultimately rose...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-17
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In this short and provocative book, cultural studies scholar Angela McRobbie develops a much-needed feminist account of neoliberalism. Highlighting the ways in which popular culture and the media actively produce and sustain the cultural imaginary for social...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-17
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Wherever love and death meet there is grief. It affects us all regardless of ethnicity, age, class, or sexual orientation. Grief is universal – it has endured across time, societies and cultures from the earliest human communities to the present day. But the way we...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-17
ePub
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Urbanität haftet Individuen weder einfach als Habitus an, noch ist sie in einer Stadt per se gegeben. Vielmehr muss auf die Wechselwirkungen von Stadtraum – sozialen Beziehungen – und Einstellungen rekurriert werden, um zu verstehen, wie die sozialen Netzwerke in der...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-04-17
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The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-17
Collection :
Key Concepts
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20,40€
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How should we talk about desire, power and equality in the wake of the #Me Too debate? For Carolin Emcke, bestselling author and winner of the German Peace Prize, the debate demonstrates one thing above all: a conversation about abuse and sexuality has emerged that can...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-04-17
ePub
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11,30€
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Mihael Djukic widmet sich der Frage nach der kommunikativen Formierung organisationaler Identität unter mediengesellschaftlichen Bedingungen. Am Beispiel der katholischen Kirche in Österreich gewährt ein innovatives Theoriemodell zur Identitätsgenese von Organisationen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-04-16
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Der Kampf um die Macht in Westeros ist zwar blutiger als in jedem heutigen Unternehmen, aber genauso berechnend mit Intrigen, Fallen und Demütigungen. Das Buch analysiert Strategien von Führung (Leadership) am Beispiel der beliebten Fernsehserie und verbindet...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-04-15
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This book makes valuable theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the study of overseas doctoral students’ cross-cultural adaptation.
Focusing on Australia, one of the top three destinations for Chinese students, this book seeks to understand how...
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Springer
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2020-04-15
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Christin Czaplicki untersucht die Kombination von Pflege- und Erwerbsarbeit aus einer lebensverlaufstheoretischen Perspektive. Die Autorin verknüpft die soziologische Pflegeforschung mit der Lebensverlaufsforschung, wodurch eine Theoretisierung der Bedeutung von...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-04-15
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Wissenschaft muss gute Geschichten erzählen, um Fake News zu bekämpfen und um komplexe Themen zu vermitteln. Dazu gibt es erprobte Techniken, Strukturen, wiederkehrende Muster und Elemente, die in keiner guten Geschichte fehlen dürfen. Dieses essential zeigt, wieso...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-04-15
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