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Exploring more than 80 big ideas and key theories in a clear and simple way, this is the perfect introduction to the study of how humans live and interact with one another.Covering diversity and equality, globalization, human rights, modern urban living, and the role of...
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Dk
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2015-07-01
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Rarely did ancient authors write about the lives of women; even more rarely did they write about the lives of ordinary women: not queens or heroines who influenced war or politics, not sensational examples of virtue or vice, not Christian martyrs or ascetics, but women...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-01
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Der Begriff des Finanzmarktkapitalismus wird in der deutschen Soziologie vielfach als neue Interpretationsfolie der aktuellen Entwicklungstendenzen des Kapitalismus genutzt. Die Akzentuierung der analytischen Inhalte, die mit dem Begriff jeweils verbunden werden, ist...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-30
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Annette von Alemann untersucht die Frage der gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung aus der Perspektive von Führungskräften von Unternehmen und Wirtschaftsverbänden in Deutschland. Wie nehmen diese Führungskräfte die Gesellschaft wahr, und wie verstehen sie ihre...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-30
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This work reviews the progress of children’s rights 25 years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It studies the progress of that human rights instrument as part of an ongoing process. It examines how recent past, present and future...
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Springer
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2015-06-30
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This book is open access under a CCBY license.This book investigates child poverty from a philosophical perspective. It identifies the injustices of child poverty, relates them to the well-being of children, and discusses who has a moral responsibility to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-30
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Orgasmic Bodies explores how bodily experiences of orgasm are worked up as present/absent, complicated/straightforward, too slow/too fast, fake or real, in the doing of masculinities and femininities. Engaging with both science and popular culture it examines the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-30
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SlutWalk explores representations of the global anti-rape movement of the same name, in mainstream news and feminist blogs around the world. It reveals strategies and practices used to adapt the movement to suit local cultures and contexts and explores how social media...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-30
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The Hizmet Movement initiated by Fethullah Gülen in Turkey in the 1960s is today active in more than 160 countries.The participants of Hizmet are often less visible among the Muslim minorities in Western societies. They do not build mosques or hold regular prayer...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2015-06-30
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In einer Untersuchung von etwa 170 Romanen und Novellen der Trivialliteratur aus der Zeit von 1849 bis 1945 werden die «Mechanismen» dieser Texte aufgezeigt. Die herangezogenen Werkgruppen sind: der Liebesroman, der Frauenroman, der historische Roman, der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-30
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This Festschrift acknowledges the scholarly work of Leo Schelbert and his mentorship of graduate students in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago where for 33 years he taught American history. Professor Schelbert has specialized in the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-06-30
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Ballet Body Narratives is an ethnographic exploration of the social world of classical ballet and the embodiment of young ballet dancers as they engage in «becoming a dancer» in ballet school in England. In contrast to the largely disembodied sociological literature of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-30
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Prestige examines whether social prestige is still an important axis of the stratification hierarchy. It appears that prestige has lost some of the close connection with social position it had in estates societies.Prestige distribution patterns have changed and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-30
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This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-06-30
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André Heinz untersucht aus soziologischer Perspektive der Bewegungsforschung die Wirkung der sozioökonomischen Verhältnisse auf die kollektive Interessenorganisation unter den Beschäftigten der Sozialen Arbeit. Auf Basis umfassender empirischer Daten zu den...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-29
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A Critical Theory of Creativity argues that a Utopian drive is aesthetically encoded within the language of form. But coupled with this opportunity comes a very human obligation which cannot be delegated to God, to nature or to market forces. As Ernst Bloch declared:...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-29
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This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics, culture, phenomenology and contemporary theories of affect, illuminates the connections between drugs, bodies, space, economy and crime.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-29
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Johannes Knoll modelliert den Einfluss nutzergenerierter Inhalte auf die Rezeption und Wirkung von Werbung in sozialen Medien. Anhand dreier Experimente analysiert er, dass diese nutzergenerierte Kommunikation das Potential hat, die Wirkung der eigentlichen Werbung zu...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-29
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Jerusalem has for centuries been known as the spiritual center for the three largest monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Yet Jerusalem’s other-worldly transcendence is far from the daily reality of Jerusalem, a city bombarded by conflict. The battle...
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Polity
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2015-06-29
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Die Kriminologie ist weitgehend von einer täterorientierten zu einer soziologischen Wissenschaft geworden, Devianz und soziale Kontrolle sind heute zentrale Themen der Soziologie. In ihrem Ansatz dem symbolischen Interaktionismus und dem sozialen Konstruktivismus...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2015-06-26
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