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Julian Stubbe aims at characterizing what novelty is in the becoming of objects and how the new becomes part of a shared reality. The study’s method is comparative and concerned with technological practice in science as well as in art. It draws on a detailed comparison...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
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In Begriffen wie „Arbeitsgesellschaft“, „Industriegesellschaft“ oder „kapitalistische Gesellschaft“ drückt sich die Hoffnung aus, über die Schlüsselkategorie „Arbeit“ nicht nur die Zustände in Betrieben, sondern in der Gesellschaft insgesamt erklären zu können. Dieses...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
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The book focuses on major aspects of Norbert Elias's social theory through research on supposed “minor” topics, such as manners, sports, leisure and cultural practices. While many of his publications became essential for scholars in the different disciplines concerned,...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
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Gegenstand des vorliegenden Bandes ist der mit dem Begriff der Ökonomisierung belegte gesellschaftliche Wandel der letzten vier Jahrzehnte. Ausgehend von einer Geschichte der Verwendungsweise des Begriffs, die bis zu John Stuart Mill und Karl Marx zurückreicht, wird...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
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The ideal of higher humanism challenges our modern civilization and its diminished image of the human being. A critique of the ideologies of "bourgeois humanism" provides a pathway toward the renascence of human identity and human dignity. Historical illustrations,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-18
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Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-18
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Johannes Ebner untersucht, weshalb Brauchtumsfeste, Trachten und Volksmusik einen Boom erleben, auf welche gesellschaftlichen Probleme und Bedürfnisse dies hinweist und warum einige Bräuche sich als Identifikationsobjekt für breite soziale Schichten besser eignen als...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
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Figurationen. Schriften zur Zivilisations- und Prozesstheorie
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This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today’s world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition.Leisure’s modern legacy is both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-17
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This book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples. The power of indigenous spirit world is harnessed for the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-17
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Midlife can be a time of great change for individuals and a "make or break" period for marriages. Couples navigate a relationship landscape defined by such lifecourse landmarks as "the empty nest," changing roles at home and at work, aging bodies, and the need to care...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-17
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For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever came to power. Now, they have answers: confusing ones. In the Levant, ISIS established a government by brute force, implementing an extreme interpretation of Islamic law. On the opposite end of...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-17
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Peter Paul Latzke zeigt, wie aus Qualitätsmanagement, Dienstleistungsmarketing, Arbeitsbedingungen und Fachwissen ein marktführendes Leistungsnetzwerk für arbeitsintensive Dienstleistungen gesponnen wird. Dabei verbindet er die marktsoziologischen Perspektiven des...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-15
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This edited volume presents the diversity of comparative criminology research in Asia, and the complex theoretical and methodological issues involved in conducting comparative research. With contributors both from the West and the East exploring these questions, the...
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Springer
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2017-07-15
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Citizenship, Belonging, and Nation-States in the Twenty-First Century contributes to the scholarship on citizenship and integration by examining belonging in an array of national settings and by demonstrating how nation-states continue to matter in citizenship analysis....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-15
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Dieser praxisorientierte Marketingleitfaden führt durch den unübersichtlichen Dschungel der Möglichkeiten von Marktansprachen.Damit ist er einzigartig und richtungsweisend in dem Markt der Sozial- und Gesundheitswirtschaft und enthält sowohl die klassischen als auch die...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-14
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The essential revision guide for AS and 1st-year A level Sociology from trusted and best-selling author Ken Browne. This indispensable book provides everything you need to revise for the exams, with a clear topic-by-topic layout to recap key theories and central ideas....
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Polity
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2017-07-14
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The book provides an overview of key issues in the debate concerning the emergence of active citizenship in Europe.The specific focus of enquiry is the promotion of patterns of civic and political engagement and civic and political participation by the EU and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-14
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Contemporary Archaeology and the City foregrounds the archaeological study of post-industrial and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies. Over the past decade contemporary archaeology has emerged as a dynamic force for...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-14
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As the first book to introduce and analyze cultural studies in contemporary China, this volume is an important resource for Western scholars wishing to understand the rise and development of cultural studies in China. Organized according to subject, it includes...
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Springer
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2017-07-14
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This book provides a comprehensive profile of the development of sociology in Italy from the post-war period to the present day. The first English-language account of the history of Italian sociology, it focuses on the process of institutionalization of the discipline...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2017-07-13
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