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The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multi-sited ethnographic projects over the last three decades. Yet, at present, researchers seeking to design comparative field projects have few scholarly works detailing how comparison is...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-23
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In Initiating the Millennium, Robert Collis and Natalie Bayer fill a substantial lacuna in the study of an initiatic society--known variously as the Illuminés d'Avignon, the Avignon Society, the New Israel Society, and the Union--that flourished across Europe between...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-23
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Seit das «Ende des Kommunismus» auf 1990 festgeschrieben und der «Unrechtsstaat DDR» der Justiz übergeben wurde, inszenieren neue Institutionen, Stiftungen und Behörden auf Bundesebene den ökonomischen, kulturellen und moralischen Erfolg des Rechtsstaates. Dabei wird...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-12-23
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Applying a cultural sociology of performance, this book interrogates how the meaning of sport intersects with gender. Trygve B. Broch points out uncertainties in the causal arguments made by key figures in the cultural studies tradition, instead advancing a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-21
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This book tests critical reassessments of US radical writing of the 1930s against recent developments in theories of modernism and the avant-garde. Multidisciplinary in approach, it considers poetry, fiction, classical music, commercial art, jazz, and popular contests...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-20
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In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth. Facing a legacy of post-independence language and education...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-20
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Digitalization is a long and constant sociohistoric process in which all areas of society?s activities are reconfigured. Digitalization of Society and Socio-political Issues 1 examines the transformations linked to the development of digital platforms and social media,...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-12-19
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154,95€
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An der Gruppe türkeistämmiger hochqualifizierter Frauen, die ein transnationales Leben zwischen Deutschland und der Türkei führen, wird nachgezeichnet, wie sie vor ihrem Bildungshintergrund mit Befremdungserfahrungen umgehen und wie sie Beheimatungsstrategien entwerfen....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-12-19
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As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. These data have many benefits, but they can also be accessed and exploited by third parties. Using rich examples from popular culture...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-12-18
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This book adopts a critical youth studies approach and theorizes the digital as a key feature of the everyday to analyse how ideas about youth and cyber-safety, digital inclusion and citizenship are mobilized. Despite a growing interest in the benefits and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-18
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Several nations in the Global North have turned to austerity policies in an effort to resolve recent financial ills. What many failed to recognize is the longer history and varied pattern of such policies in the Global South over preceding decades – policies which had...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-12-18
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This fifth edition of An Introduction to Sociology provides an accessible and engaging introduction to sociology, without oversimplifying or passing over the important and exciting insights sociology has to offer. Building on the book's existing achievements, Ken...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-12-18
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Asian Americans and the Media provides a concise, thoughtful, critical and cultural studies analysis of U.S. media representations ofAsian Americans. The book also explores waysAsian Americans have resisted, responded to, and conceptualized the terrain of challenge and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-12-18
Collection :
Media and Minorities
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21,50€
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This volume addresses the impact of the September 11th terror attacks on funded programs in policing. Comparing New York City's policing, community policing, and homeland security programs, this brief examines twenty-four years of federal grants to identify shifts in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-12-17
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Modern StudiesFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA Higher Modern Studies exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2019-12-16
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This book presents a timely perspective that puts working-class people at the forefront of achieving sustainability.
Bell argues that environmentalism is a class issue, and confronts some current practice, policy and research that is preventing the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-16
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Das Buch versammelt prozesssoziologisch und historisch orientierte arbeits- und organisationssoziologische Ansätze, um den Transformationen (in) der Arbeitswelt auf die Spur zu kommen und so Antworten auf aktuelle, gesellschaftliche Fragen zu entwickeln. Dabei...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-12-16
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This multidisciplinary collection probes ways in which emerging and established scholars perceive and theorize decolonization and resistance in their own fields of work, from education to political and social studies, to psychology, medicine, and beyond. In this time of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-14
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Through case studies from Europe and Russia, this volume analyses memorials as a means for the present to make claims on the past in the aftermath of armed conflict. The central contention is that memorials are not backward-looking, inert reminders of past events, but...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-13
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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Dejan Petkov explores the tramway renaissance in Western Europe from a socio-technical standpoint and focuses on the development in Germany, France, and England. A multiple case analysis reveals the drivers, impact forces, actors and interest constellations behind the...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-12-13
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