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This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life...
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Springer
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2018-02-20
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Methodos Series
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This book offers practical instruction on the use of audit studies in the social sciences. It features essays from sociologists, economists, and other experts who have employed this powerful and flexible tool. Readers will learn how to implement an audit study to...
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Springer
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2018-02-20
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This book outlines how community sentences and early release options are administered in China. Chen provides empirical insights into the emerging community sector of the Chinese penal system, and illustrates how Chinese criminal courts decide between imprisonment and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-02-20
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The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political power Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America's most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the...
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Bold Type Books
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2018-02-20
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Grounded in extensive and original ethnographic fieldwork, this book makes a novel contribution to migration studies by examining a European labour migration to the Global South, namely contemporary Portuguese migration to Angola in a postcolonial context. In doing so,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-02-19
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Bruno Latour ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem der meistdiskutierten und einflussreichsten Autoren der Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften aufgestiegen. Er wird nicht nur rege gelesen und zitiert, mittlerweile schließen auch unzählige Forschungen an seine Schriften an und...
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Springer VS
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2018-02-19
Collection :
Aktuelle und klassische Sozial- und KulturwissenschaftlerInnen
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In diesem essential wird der radikale Wandel der Medien und des Journalismus durch den Aufstieg der Plattformen beschrieben. Es wird gezeigt, wie neue Akteure mit neuen Herangehensweisen auf die Bühne treten. Denn durch die aufgezeigten Veränderungen kann jeder...
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Springer VS
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2018-02-19
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This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium. By analyzing how popular writers in French responded to Catholic doctrine and the tradition of St. Sebastian in art, Queering the Martyr shows how religious and secular symbols...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-19
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Despite several decades of feminist activism and scholarship, women’s bodies continue to be sites of control and contention both materially and symbolically. Issues such as reproductive technologies, sexual violence, objectification, motherhood, and sex trafficking,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-16
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Filtered through black womanist perspectives, Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice breaks new ground through innovation and imagination, by fusing interpretive methods in ethnographic writing and literary studies. Intrinsically referencing contemporary...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2018-02-16
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This book explores the roles of religion in the current refugee crisis of Europe. Combining sociological, philosophical, and theological accounts of this crisis, renowned scholars from across Europe examine how religion has been employed to call either for eliminating...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-15
Collection :
Religion and Global Migrations
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This book offers a definition of the fantastic that establishes it as a discourse in constant intertextual relation with the construct of reality. In establishing the definition of the fantastic, leading scholar David Roas selects four central concepts that allow him to...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-02-15
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This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-15
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This book follows the figure of ‘the clever girl’ from the post-war to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of contemporary British women writers. Spurred on by an ethic of meritocracy, the clever girl is now facing austerity and declining social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-15
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Michael Tunç untersucht, inwiefern sich Prozesse des Zusammenwirkens der Differenzlinien Geschlecht, Ethnizität und Klasse bei ethnisch minorisierten Vätern/Vätern of Color (PoC) rekonstruieren lassen. Der Autor präsentiert aktuelle Begriffe, Ansätze und Ergebnisse der...
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Springer VS
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2018-02-15
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The twentieth century witnessed not only the devastation of war, conflict, and injustice on a massive scale, but it also saw the emergence of social psychology as a discipline committed to addressing these and other social problems. In the 21st century, however, the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-15
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Das Jahrbuch für Theorie und Geschichte der Soziologie trägt dem Umstand Rechnung, dass die Soziologie eine Wissenschaft ist, die es mit einem sich historisch wandelnden Gegenstand zu tun hat, also eine Wissenschaft ist, die sich stets von Neuem selbst reflektieren...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-02-15
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Jahrbuch für Theorie und Geschichte der Soziologie
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At a time of social, political, and economic shifts across the world, India is faced with the pivotal challenge of addressing the state of its universities. In a region that was home to the leading higher learning institutions during ancient times, the descent in the...
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OUP India
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2018-02-15
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Can small indigenous communities survive as distinct cultural entities in northeast India, an area characterized by mind-boggling ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity? What are the choices that such minority groups have, and how do they resist further...
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OUP India
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2018-02-15
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Der Band greift neben theoretisch-konzeptionellen Aspekten anwendungsbezogene und handlungspraktische Fragen auf, die seitens der vielfältigen Institutionen und Akteure an den Schnittstellen von Behinderung und Migration zunehmend laut werden. Es geht um den politischen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-02-14
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