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Harold Garfinkel was one of the most important American sociologists. A student of Talcott Parsons who also worked with Alfred Schutz and Kenneth Burke, he sought to craft an empirical and theoretical approach that would combine Parsons’ focus on social systems of...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-07
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This book offers practical advice on designing, conducting and analyzing interviews with ‘elite’ and ‘expert’ persons (or ‘socially prominent actors’), with a focus on criminology and criminal justice. It offers dilemmas and examples of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ practices in...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-07
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Although new technologies are embedded in students’ lives today, there is often an assumption that their use is transparent, inconsequential, or a distraction. This book combines complex systems theory with sociocultural theory and the multimodal theory of...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-06
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This book brings together the latest research in education in relation to science and religion. Leading international scholars and practitioners provide vital insights into the underlying debates and present a range of practical approaches for teaching. Key themes...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-06
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Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O'Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-06
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Simulationen geben zunehmend Orientierung für die Entscheidungsfindung in Politik, Ökonomie, Ökologie oder Medizin. Hierzu sind zunächst Modelle zu bilden, wobei die Modellierungsentscheidungen einen großen Effekt auf die Simulationsergebnisse haben. Dieses...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-05
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This book provides new insights on the lives of children in street situations by providing analyses from a qualitative perspective on the sociology of childhood. It proposes some insightful perspectives on the current discussion about the rights of children in street...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Die neue Star-Trek-Serie Discovery thematisiert die gegenwärtige Unsicherheit über die Zukunft der westlichen Gesellschaften.Die Beiträge des Bandes zeigen, welche Möglichkeiten die Serie durchspielt. Spiegeluniversen, Zeitreisen, Klingonen und Terraner halten...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-05
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This book focuses on human trafficking and the anti-trafficking movement, particularly as it is expressed in Southeast Asia. The study is based on ethnographic research of the emerging anti-trafficking movement in Singapore, and in-depth interviews and observations with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have also refined and provided genuinely new ways of modifying and manipulating the human brain. The aspiration of such...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-05
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From TV bulletins to social media newsfeeds, the media plays a massive role in shaping the world as we see it. In fact, different media have helped make possible our world of independent nations, binding together disparate communities through shared cultural...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Why It Matters
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This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media—the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames. The stupid is theorized not as a pejorative term but to address media that “fails” to conform to established narrative conventions, often surfacing at...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Bolívar Echeverría was one of the leading philosophers and critical theorists in Latin America and his work on capitalism and modernity offers a distinctive account, informed by the experiences of Latin American societies, of the social and historical forces shaping the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Ausgehend vom in den britischen Cultural Studies entwickelten Domestizierungskonzept nimmt der Band einerseits aktuelle Prozesse der Verbreitung digitaler Medien und ihre Folgen für Alltag, Zusammenleben und Medienfunktionen in den Blick (Internet, Mobiltelefon). Er...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Dieser Band fragt nach dem Beitrag der populären Musik zu den gesellschaftlichen Transformationen der 1960er bis 1980er Jahre und verbindet kultursoziologische, musik- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Welchen neuartigen Erlebensweisen, welchen sozialen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Auditive Vergesellschaftungen Hörsinn - Audiotechnik - Musikerleben
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This book presents research into the urban archaeology of 19th-century Australia. It focuses on the detailed archaeology of 20 cesspits in The Rocks area of Sydney and the Commonwealth Block site in Melbourne. It also includes discussions of a significant site in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-05
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This book interrogates how districts were used in British North America to inspect, and document indigenous people by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). In particular, it examines how the HBC utilized districts to create a political geography that allowed for closer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-05
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The SAGE Handbook of International Migration provides an authoritative and informed analysis of key issues in international migration, including its crucial significance far beyond the more traditional questions of immigrant settlement and incorporation in particular...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Exploring mediated time, this book contemplates how far (and in what ways) media and time are intertwined from a diverse set of theoretical and empirical angles. It builds from theoretical discussions concerning the question of mediation and the normative framing of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-04
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This book provides a feminist analysis of #MeToo and the sexual assault allegations against celebrity perpetrators which have emerged since the Weinstein story of October 2017. It argues for the importance of understanding #MeToo in relation to an on-going history of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-04
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