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This book argues that qualitative methods, ethnography included, have tended to focus on the human at the cost of understanding humans and animals in relation, and that ethnography should evolve to account for the relationships between humans and other species....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-19
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Michèle Métrailler geht der Frage nach, wie Lebenspartner beim Übergang in den Ruhestand ihre zukünftige Lebensgestaltung im Spannungsfeld zwischen individualistischen Ansprüchen und dem Bedürfnis nach Gemeinsamkeit aufeinander abstimmen. In einer vergleichenden Analyse...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-06-19
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This volume provides a comprehensive catalog of how various ethnic groups in the United States of America have differently shaped their cultural landscape. Author John Cross links an overview of the spatial distributions of many of the ethnic populations of the United...
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Springer
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2017-06-19
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This groundbreaking volume presents, for the first time in English, a broad historical review of the researches carried out over 170 years in the region of Lagoa Santa, Brazil, one of the most important archaeological regions in the Americas. From the pioneering work of...
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Springer
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2017-06-19
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Amrei Biedermann und Anna-Lena Ripperger untersuchen das Phänomen Urban Gardening unter Bezugnahme auf relevante Konzepte der Kritischen Stadtgeographie. Davon ausgehend diskutieren sie die widersprüchliche und ambivalente Raumproduktion in den Urban-Gardening-Projekten...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2017-06-19
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BestMasters
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This book presents a reading of Nietzsche as a thinker of the suffered social histories of subjectivity. It suggests that Nietzsche’s concept of genealogy needs the concept of convalescence to be coherent. Genealogy is a form of reflection that traces the suffered...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-19
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This book explores the boundary between «the private» and «the public» on Social Network Sites based on the sociability framework. The author analyses the roles of social norms and influences, benefits, and risks/costs, on the behaviors of SNSs users through models...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-19
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Reflexivity – the critical examination of how we see the world – is integral to good research practice. From this state-of-the-art, accessible tour of its history and contemporary relevance, readers will learn of its importance to social research and to society...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-06-19
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This volume addresses the varied response to domestic violence in a comparative, international context. The chapters are laid out in a consistent format, to cover: the nature of the domestic violence problem, theoretical explanations, the criminal justice...
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Springer
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2017-06-19
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This book explores young people’s experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK. In particular, the book focuses on disadvantaged young people’s experiences in education, in the labour market, with police...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-19
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This four-part work describes and analyses democracy and despotism in tribes, city-states, and nation states. The theoretical framework used in this work combines Weberian, Aristotelian, evolutionary anthropological, and feminist theories in a comparative-historical...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-06-19
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Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht die Frage, inwieweit Verknappung bewusst als funktionales Instrument und zeitgenössisches Stilmittel in Sprache, Kultur und neuen Medien eingesetzt wird. Der Sammelband untersucht das Phänomen der Verknappung zunächst als Strategie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-19
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Die Geschlechterverhältnisse verändern sich heute in widersprüchlicher Weise. Zunehmender Gleichheit in Beruf und Beziehungen für manche Frauen stehen vertiefte intersektionale Ungleichheiten nach Klasse, Migration und Geschlecht gegenüber. Der Band untersucht diese...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-06-17
Collection :
Geschlecht und Gesellschaft
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Der einflussreichste französische Denker der Gegenwart. Foucaults Werk hat nicht nur die Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften entscheidend beeinflusst. Das Handbuch gibt einen systematischen Überblick über Foucaults Leben und Werk. Es stellt die Kontexte dar, aus denen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-06-17
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This text aims to discover the shared lived experiences of white American female converts to Islam in post- 9/11 America. It explores the increasingly hostile social climate faced by Muslim Americans, as well as the spiritual, social, physical, and mental integration of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-16
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This volume addresses new innovations in quality of life and well-being from the perspectives of the individual, society and community. It aggregates the perspectives, research questions, methods and results that consider how quality of life is influenced in our...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-06-15
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The main objective of this book is to highlight the most effective use of storytelling in several areas related to communication and the media. Thus, gender studies, political communication, digital media, advertising, crisis communication and PR activities as well as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-15
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This book presents a collection of papers by researchers from several different institutions on a wide range of digital issues.
Digitalization describes the phenomenon of how knowledge is processed and the processed knowledge provides social transformations beyond...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-15
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This book analyzes New York City’s stop-and-frisk data both pre- and post-constitutionality ruling, examining the existence of both profiling and unequal treatment among the three largest groups identified in the database: Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics. The purpose for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-15
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This book brings together a collection of emergent research that moves the debate on desistance beyond a general consideration of individual and social structural influences. The authors examine empirical developments which have implications for policy surrounding...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-14
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