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This book reviews China’s industrialization from the perspective of inclusiveness, and discusses the challenges arising from its industrialization process and how the Chinese people view and seek to overcome these challenges. By examining China’s industrialization in...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-23
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This book showcases a selection of arts-based research methods used in the empirical study of business, organisation and the humanities. Each chapter presents a discursive analysis and a detailed how-to guide for a range of methods including poetry, drawing, photography...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-22
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Culture, cultural difference, and cultural conflict always surround us. Cultural sociologists aim to understand their role across all aspects of social life by examining processes of meaning-making. In this crisp and accessible book, Lyn Spillman demonstrates many of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-01-16
Collection :
What is Sociology?
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Now in its fourth edition, Civil Society has become a major work of reference for those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in a troubled world. Recent economic and political developments do not bode well for the theory and practice of civil...
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Polity
Parution :
2020-01-13
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Hendrik Lager untersucht, wie Produktionsunternehmen im Kontext der Debatte um Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.0 Umfelddynamik bewältigen. Am Beispiel der Lichtindustrie und des Maschinenbaus beleuchtet er, welche Rolle digitale Technologien sowie...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-01-10
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This research uses an Interactionist approach to understand how children and youth in street situations in Nepal and elsewhere negotiate their social identity while confronted with dynamics of domination, labelling and violence. Their capability to survive on the street...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2020-01-10
Collection :
Éducateurs et Préventions
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This book addresses the complexity of talking about normativity in bioethics within the context of contemporary multicultural and multi-religious society. It offers original contributions by specialists in bioethics exploring new ways of understanding normativity...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-09
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Silence takes on meaning based on the contexts of its occurrence. This is especially true in social interactions: consider the difference between silence after "lemme think," and silence after "will you marry me?"
This book examines a particular form of silence, the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-08
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The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-01-07
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62,20€
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This pivot provides a conceptual statement of an approach to understanding the interrelationships of work, leisure, and “chore” activities in daily life, and how they are managed in practice.
Drawing on the sociology of everyday life, Stebbins puts...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-01-02
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This book on doctoral writing offers a refreshingly new approach to help Ph.D. students and their supervisors overcome the host of writing challenges that can make—or break—the dissertation process. The book’s unique contribution to the field of doctoral writing is its...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-01
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This book explores the affective and relational lives of young people in diverse urban spaces. By following the trajectories of diverse young people as they creatively work through multiple and unfolding global crises, it asks how arts-based methodologies might answer...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-01
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In Initiating the Millennium, Robert Collis and Natalie Bayer fill a substantial lacuna in the study of an initiatic society--known variously as the Illuminés d'Avignon, the Avignon Society, the New Israel Society, and the Union--that flourished across Europe between...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-23
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Several nations in the Global North have turned to austerity policies in an effort to resolve recent financial ills. What many failed to recognize is the longer history and varied pattern of such policies in the Global South over preceding decades – policies which had...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-12-18
ePub
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21,90€
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This fifth edition of An Introduction to Sociology provides an accessible and engaging introduction to sociology, without oversimplifying or passing over the important and exciting insights sociology has to offer. Building on the book's existing achievements, Ken...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-12-18
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Das Buch versammelt prozesssoziologisch und historisch orientierte arbeits- und organisationssoziologische Ansätze, um den Transformationen (in) der Arbeitswelt auf die Spur zu kommen und so Antworten auf aktuelle, gesellschaftliche Fragen zu entwickeln. Dabei...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-12-16
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This multidisciplinary collection probes ways in which emerging and established scholars perceive and theorize decolonization and resistance in their own fields of work, from education to political and social studies, to psychology, medicine, and beyond. In this time of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-14
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Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf offers an expansive interdisciplinary study of spirituality in Virginia Woolf's writing, drawing on theology, psychology, geography, history, gender and sexuality studies, and other critical fields. ...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-13
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Die Forderung nach „mehr Transparenz“ ist allgegenwärtig. Der Transparenz-Imperativ beschränkt sich dabei nicht auf die Politik; man begegnet ihm auch in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft, im Journalismus und im Gesundheitssystem. Wie konnte sich diese Norm derart...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-12-10
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This book reflects on what it means to live as urban citizens in a world increasingly shaped by the business and organisational logics of digital platforms. Where smart city strategies promote the roll-out of internet of things (IoT) technologies and big data analytics...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-07
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