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This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World’s Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015 and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have been...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-29
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This book explores the process of urbanization and the profound challenges to China’s urban governance. Economic productivity continues to rise, with increasingly uneven distribution of prosperity and accumulation of wealth. The emergence of individual autonomy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-29
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This book explores the significance and meaning of the countryside within mid-twentieth century youth movements. It examines the ways in which the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Woodcraft Folk and Young Farmers’ Club organisations employed the countryside as a space within...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-28
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This volume examines core areas of development in security, emphasizing the pivotal contributions of women to the field’s evolution. The author first covers a broad spectrum of key topics, including how security is created, where innovation occurs, what the...
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Springer
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2017-11-28
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Der Band geht Fragen zum Stand des Profils, der Professionalität und dem Stellenwert von Jugendhilfeplanung als Bestandteil von Sozialplanung nach. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf integrierten Planungsprozessen. Ausgangspunkt der Veröffentlichung ist, dass der elaborierten...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-28
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Edition Professions- und Professionalisierungsforschung
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This is not a book that provides a new integrated theory of religious change in modern societies, but rather one that develops theoretical elements that contribute to the understanding of some contemporary religious developments. Most of the approaches in sociology of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-28
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This book explores the significance of the international book town movement and its impact on contemporary society. It examines how book towns have emerged and how their culture and unique characteristics help to explain a steadily growing phenomenon that has enabled...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-28
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The book uses an ethnographic approach to explore why the Tablighi Jamaat movement remains so successful in contemporary times. It shows that this success results from the positive image that it cultivates, and the systematic preaching activities of Tablighi Jamaat...
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Springer
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2017-11-28
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In der vorliegenden qualitativen Studie untersucht Anno Dederichs die Relevanz kultureller Differenzierungen und kulturalistischer Diskurse im Kontext deutsch-chinesischer Wirtschaftskooperationen. Er fokussiert dabei auf die Entsendenarrative von „deutschen“ bzw....
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Springer VS
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2017-11-28
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This book presents a historicised account of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering (FINRRAGE), a coordinated effort during the 1980s and 1990s by an international group of women to create and disseminate feminist ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
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This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spread of various technical communication media such as mobile phones and internet platforms, we are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
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This book examines the emotional, micro-situated dynamics of status inclusion/exclusion that people produce while caring for others by focusing, in particular, on non-conventional families. Grounded in empirical research that involves different types of care and family...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
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This book examines US President Barack Obama’s characterizations in the Brazilian media, with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet memes. Brazilians celebrate their country as a racial democracy; thus the US works as its nemesis. The rise of a black...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
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The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization. At the same time, the way that data are used to understand urban systems has...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-11-27
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Szenen wie Punk, Hardcore und HipHop sind maßgebliche Sozialisationsinstanzen für Jugendliche und juvenile Erwachsene. Die dem Band zugrunde liegende projektbasierte Studie legt den Fokus vor allem auf das forschungsintern stark vernachlässigte Szenemedium...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-27
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Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet there is growing concern with how algorithms, which run just beneath the surface of our interactions online, are affecting society. This timely new edition ofSearch Engine Society enlightens readers on the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-11-27
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
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More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening. Things...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-11-27
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Digital Media and Society
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Sociology can help students understand why and how so many of the problems their service users face occur in the first place, helping them choose effective ways to communicate and make informed decisions on how their needs can be fully met. This book offers students a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-11-27
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This edited collection problematizes trajectories of health promotion across the lifespan. It provides a distinctive critical social science perspective of the various directions taken by dominant policies in their approach to promoting sport for all ages. It offers an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
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This revised edition of this extremely popular introduction to social theory has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments in this continually changing field. Written in a refreshingly lucid and engaging style, Introducing Social Theory provides...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-11-27
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