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Die Erforschung der Performativität der Wirtschaftswissenschaft gehört heute zum Kanon der neueren Wirtschaftssoziologie. Das essential verfolgt die Performativitätsforschung in ihrer Entstehung aus der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie zurück und rekonstruiert die zentralen...
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Springer VS
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2018-07-11
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The Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society presents an overview of this expanding area that has evolved dramatically over the past decade, away from one largely dominated by structural, political economic treatments on the one hand, and social-psychological studies of...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-07-11
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This book discusses the interconnected, complex and emerging risks in today’s societies and deliberates on the various aspects of disaster risk reduction strategies especially through community resilience and responses. It consists of selected papers presented at the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-10
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This book examines how the way we conceive of, or measure, the environment changes the way we interact with it. Thomas Smith posits that environmentalism and sustainable development have become increasingly post-political, characterised by abstraction, and...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-07-10
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This book explores the disruptive changes in the media ecosystem caused by convergence and digitization, and analyses innovation processes in content production, distribution and commercialisation. It has been edited by Professors Miguel Túñez-López (Universidade de...
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Springer
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2018-07-10
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The experience of shifting from one social class to another—from a dominated group to a dominant group—raises the question of how the upwardly mobile person relates to his/her group of origin. Stepping into the Elite traces the particular ways in which upwardly mobile...
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OUP India
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2018-07-10
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This volume examines gender and mobility in Africa though the central themes of borders, bodies and identity. It explores perceptions and engagements around ‘borders’; the ways in which ‘bodies’ and women’s bodies in particular, shape and are affected by mobility, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-10
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This book aims to account for the reception, treatment and sometimes, eventual deportation, of asylum seekers in Ireland, by analysing how they are framed and dealt with by the Irish state. Both historically and theoretically grounded, it will discuss contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-09
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The study of contemporary China constitutes a fascinating yet challenging area of scholarly inquiry. Recent decades have brought dramatic changes to China's economy, society and governance. Analyzing such changes in the context of multiple disciplinary perspectives...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2018-07-09
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This book is an interdisciplinary contribution to bioethics, bringing together philosophers, sociologists and Science and Technology Studies researchers as a way of bridging the disciplinary divides that have opened up in the study of bioethics. Each discipline...
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Springer
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2018-07-09
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Welches ist die Bedeutung des Humanismus für die soziologische Erkenntnisbildung? Seit der Entstehung der Soziologie wurde diese Frage immer wieder aufgeworfen – um bald darauf wieder zu verschwinden. Und damit blieb auch der eigentliche Gegenstand dieser Frage bis...
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Springer VS
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2018-07-09
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This book is the first to bring together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on surrogacy and egg donation from three socially, legally and culturally distinct countries - India, Israel and Germany. It presents contributions from experts in the field of social and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-09
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Dieses Handbuch bietet einen Überblick über Sound in den Kultur-, Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass Sound ein soziales und damit auch ein historisches Phänomen ist, greifen die Autorinnen und Autoren die Vielfalt von Sound in...
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J.B. Metzler
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2018-07-09
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This book examines the flow of investment into rural land assets in Europe, particularly farmland, woodland and wineries, but extending also to leisure uses such as golf courses and theme parks. It explores the characteristics of investors in rural land and their...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-07-09
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The 21st century has born witness to myriad changes in the way the world is secured from the many emergencies that continually threaten to disrupt it. This book concentrates on two such changes. First, it takes stock of the ever-increasing development and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-06
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The NFL is the most popular professional sports league in the United States. Its athletes receive multimillion-dollar contracts and almost endless media attention.The league's most important game, the Super Bowl, is practically a national holiday. Making it to the NFL,...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-07-06
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This book focuses on quantitative survey methodology, data collection and cleaning methods. Providing starting tools for using and analyzing a file once a survey has been conducted, it addresses fields as diverse as advanced weighting, editing, and imputation, which are...
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Springer
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2018-07-05
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Lisa Döring untersucht Mobilitätsbiografien von 1911 bis 2000 Geborenen mittels Standard-Kohorten-Tabellen und Markov Modellen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen Veränderungen im Mobilitätshandeln. Sie bestätigen nicht den häufig postulierten Bedeutungsverlust des Pkw unter jungen...
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Springer VS
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2018-07-05
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Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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At a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) from a historical and comparative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-04
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This book explores the objects, means and ends of international cultural heritage protection. It starts from a broad conception of cultural heritage that encompasses both tangible property, such as museum objects or buildings, and intangible heritage, such as...
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Springer
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2018-07-04
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