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Winner of the 2020 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams PrizeProviding a theory of moral practice for a contemporary sociological audience, Owen Abbott shows that morality is a relational practice achieved by people in their everyday lives. He moves beyond old...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-10-21
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In this monograph, the ethical implications of engaging in research with vulnerable populations is explored and demonstrates how Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) both enhances the research while addressing these ethical complexities. Although CBPR...
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Springer
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2019-10-21
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Die Beiträge des Bandes diskutieren die Ästhetisierung und Inszenierung von Arbeit, Organisation und Management im Kontext der Diagnose eines ästhetischen Kapitalismus, einer fortschreitenden Kulturalisierung der Ökonomie und des Aufstiegs kreativer, immaterieller und...
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Springer VS
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2019-10-21
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This book examines the precision farming revolution in Somerset, England. It reveals the reasons why local farmers invested in autonomous systems and traces the outcomes of adoption. It describes the local and global drivers of the fourth industrial revolution, from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-10-21
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Against the backdrop of four decades of continuous conflict in Afghanistan, the Pashtun male protagonists of this book carry out their daily effort to internally negotiate, adjust (if at all), and respond to the very strict cultural norms and rules of masculinity that...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-10-21
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Alternative Takes to the City presents the mosaic of relations and socio-spatial conditions which compose the plurality of contemporary everyday space(s) in cities, offering "a view from below". It proposes a multidisciplinary and gendered approach to the (relational)...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2019-10-21
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Überdurchschnittlich viele Frauen verlassen die Wissenschaft in der Habilitationsphase. Das untersucht Marina Ginal am Beispiel des Ausstiegs von Hochschulmedizinerinnen aus dem Wissenschaftsbetrieb. Die Studie zeigt im qualitativen Längsschnitt die charakteristischen...
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Springer VS
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2019-10-20
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This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it...
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Springer
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2019-10-18
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This book offers a comprehensive theory of invisibility as a critical sociological concept, addressing the relationship between social suffering and invisibilization.
Herzog draws on social theory and a variety of empirical examples to analyze social grammar and unveil...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-18
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch hat das Anliegen, das Zusammenspiel von Wissenschaft, Medien und Öffentlichkeit zu analysieren und nach Wegen zu suchen, es zu verbessern. Die Publikation wurde mit Mitteln der Daimler und Benz Stiftung, der Körber-Stiftung, der Stiftung Mercator...
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Springer
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2019-10-18
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Lisa Ruhrort untersucht die Akzeptanz für Maßnahmen, die dem Autoverkehr Raum und Privilegien entziehen. Aus techniksoziologischer Sicht identifiziert sie diese Maßnahmen als Schlüsselmaßnahmen einer Verkehrswende und entwickelt die These, dass die Entstehung einer...
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Springer VS
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2019-10-18
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Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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This book examines the challenges often experienced by film practitioners who find themselves researching within the academy, either as students or academics. In light of this the author presents her own journey from practitioner to researcher as a lens. Her...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-17
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This volume engages in conversation with the thinking and work of Max Charlesworth as well as the many questions, tasks and challenges in academic and public life that he posed. It addresses philosophical, religious and cultural issues, ranging from bioethics to...
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Springer
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2019-10-17
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How were the hunter-gatherers of Göbekli Tepe able to build a series of stunning stone monuments six thousand years before Stonehenge?Was the so-called 'Wow!' Signal a radio transmission from deep space, or the ambient resonating frequency of a passing comet?What...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-10-17
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A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TIME 'MUST-READ' 'An extraordinarily thought-provoking memoir that makes a controversial contribution to the fraught debate on race and racism . . . intellectually stimulating and compelling' SUNDAY TIMESA reckoning with the way we...
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Jm Originals
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2019-10-17
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Der moderne Zionismus bildete nie eine politische Einheit, sondern vielmehr eine heterogene Bewegung. Wie ihre ZeitgenossInnen waren auch die ZionistInnen in ihrer ideologisch-politischen Entwicklung von gängigen Wissens- und Ideenbeständen beeinflusst und verhandelten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-10-17
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This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
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2019-10-16
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This open access book explores how contemporary integration policies and practices are not just about migrants and minority groups becoming part of society but often also reflect deliberate attempts to undermine their inclusion or participation.This affects individual...
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Springer
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2019-10-16
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This book provides a unique analysis of prisons and the violence at work inside them. It not only addresses aspects such as racial discrimination, especially in US prisons, but also gender differences, specific criminal groups operating within prisons, the reintegration...
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Springer
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2019-10-16
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In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis and applies it to a wide range of cases, from the church paedophilia crisis to the #MeToo movement. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-10-16
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