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This book provides a broad and detailed theoretical exploration of resistance and the complexities of power and social change. Engaging with past and contemporary theoretical debates and drawing from the author’s empirical research in Europe, the USA and South...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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With "Discourse: Event: Practice" the author presents a dynamic theoretical program for a discourse-theoretically informed sociology of practice oriented toward the concept of the event. She outlines the sociological relationship between the concepts of discourse,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-09-11
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Betrachten Sie die Gesellschaft mit ganz neuen Augen Dieses Buch bietet einen Einblick in die Soziologie, ihre Theorien und Methoden. Rudolf Richter erklärt, wie die Soziologie Individuen und ihre Beziehungen zueinander betrachtet, und zeigt auf, wie Gewohnheiten und...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2025-09-11
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Für Dummies
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Why do people protest? And how can people protest effectively? This book is about the psychological science and practical art of social protest, based in the psychology of motivation and mobilization. Based on decades of theorizing and research, the book offers a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-04
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Highly Commended - BMA Medical Awards 2015: Health and Social Care The fully revised edition of this highly respected textbook addresses the most important theoretical and empirical debates in the sociology of health and medicine. Chapter by chapter the book examines...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-09-04
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This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe Carreira da Silva has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today. It offers an...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-09-04
ePub
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26,00€
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This book presents a broad and in-depth, research-based source for exploring how teaching controversial issues on ethics, values, and beliefs can be conducted in Religious Education. How may teachers conduct an objective and comprehensive education that respects...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This volume provides a historical context for the present escalation of hostilities between Palestinians and the State of Israel. It brings together interdisciplinary chapters written by international specialists in the field of interreligious engagement. It presents...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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Through a unique combination of anecdotes, wide-ranging literary analysis, cultural commentary, and interviews, author Yang Qingxiang identifies certain core problems faced by his generation, and asks how they might be solved. Yang’s frank, sincere, and often...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-28
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Der Krieg in der Ukraine hält die Welt in Atem. Die aktuelle Berichterstattung ist emotionalisiert und beschränkt sich weitgehend auf den militärischen Verlauf des Krieges. Beiträge der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung wurden und werden in der...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-27
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Understanding the specific active role of computer and artificial intelligence technologies in the digital transformation of society is among the most crucial issues in social sciences and computing today.
In “Distributed Agency & Digital Technology”,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-27
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This open access book explores the acculturation, identity development, and cultural reconnection of newer-generation (1.5- and second-generation) Korean New Zealander youth who grew up in New Zealand after the 1990s. Based on in-depth interviews, it shows how many of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-26
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This book is about Shakespeare’s role in sustaining the antiblack paradigm of modernity.This work re-reads both Shakespearean texts and performances from the 16th century to the present to argue that American and English societies have deployed Shakespeare for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-25
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Richtet Wissenschaft ihr theoretisches und empirisches Instrumentarium auf sich selbst, entstehen metatheoretische Reflexionen oder wissenschaftssoziologische Untersuchungen. Es wird die Funktion der Wissenschaft für die Gesellschaft untersucht, ihr Verhältnis zur...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-21
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In developing economies, due to rising population and increasing migration, cities are rapidly growing. By 2050, two-thirds of all humanity (6.5 billion people) will be living in cities. Sustainable development cannot be achieved without significantly transforming how...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2025-08-21
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ISTE Invoiced
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158,40€
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of socio-natural disaster recovery projects, using the Bam and Wenchuan earthquakes as case studies to evaluate their success and failure. With escalating losses from socio-natural disasters and a high failure rate among...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-19
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While Bourdieu’s work on cultural production, the reproduction of inequality and the rise of the modern state is well known, his writings on the phenomena of internationalization and imperialism have received much less attention. Bourdieu’s analyses of the international...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-08-19
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66,00€
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This book foregrounds socioecological stewardship in urban spaces. It demonstrates how activities like gardening and participating in events that spark ecological learning foster a sense of place, social connections, and lively neighbourhoods. Offering case studies from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-19
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When (re-)designing organizations, one must first be clear about what is meant by the structures of an organization and what can be done in order to change them. In this book, we present communication channels, programs and personnel as central structures. We also...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-18
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Science and technology produce a wide range of benefits in society but they also create harm, both of which are unequally distributed across social groups and geographic regions. This incisive book provides a set of analytical tools to understand how inequality relating...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-08-15
ePub
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18,99€
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