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This book will suggest new agendas for identity and heritage studies by means of presenting contentious issues facing archaeology and heritage management in a globalized world. The book is not only present the variability of heritage objectives and experiences in the...
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Springer
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2014-10-15
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Love seems like the most personal experience, one that touches each of us in a unique way that is more personal than social, and hence it is not surprising that it has been largely neglected by sociologists and social theorists. While it has long been a central...
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Polity
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2014-10-15
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In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck’s thought. Ulrich Beck, one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers, reveals...
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Polity
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2014-10-15
Collection :
Conversations
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This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power...
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Polity
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2014-10-15
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Every day around the world there are dozens of protests both large and small. Most groups engage the local police, some get media attention, and a few are successful. Who are these people? What do they want? What do they do to get it? What effects do they ultimately...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-10-15
Collection :
Cultural Sociology
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In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance...
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Polity
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2014-10-15
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Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-14
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This collection examines the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics in the Global North and Australia. By taking the political agency of migrants into account, it approaches the subject of borders as a genuine political and socially...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-14
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Deutschland hat sich verändert. Migration und Integration sind zu konstitutiven Merkmalen seiner Sozial- und Gesellschaftsstruktur geworden. Mit gegenwärtigen und in Zukunft zu erwartenden neuen Zyklen von Einwanderung wird Integration von Migranten zur...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-14
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Happiness, rather than being a private and subjective experience, is shaped, interpreted and articulated via culturally specific ways of thinking, being and acting. This highly original and timely book offers an empirical exploration of the ways in which being 'happy'...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-14
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New York Times best-selling author Stephen Mansfield was witness to much of the modern history of the Kurds. In this riveting account, Mansfield movingly tells the stories of the people who have fashioned one of the greatest economic and cultural resurrections in human...
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Worthy Books
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2014-10-14
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Wie können Museen von einem kulturellen Engagement älterer Menschen profitieren? Welche Motive und Erwartungen haben ältere Menschen und welche Barrieren sehen sie bei der Aufnahme und lernenden Bewältigung eines Engagements? Mit diesem Buch werden erstmalig in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-14
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This book provides insightful sociological analyses of Japanese demography and families, paying attention not only to national average data, but also to regional variations and community level analyses. In analyzing Japanese family issues such as demographic changes,...
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Springer
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2014-10-14
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Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world. Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-13
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology
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This book provides a detailed, up-to-date snapshot of Australian family formation, answering such questions as ‘what do our families look like?’ and ‘how have they come to be this way?’ The book applies sociological insights to a broad range of demographic trends,...
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Springer
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2014-10-13
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the People?s Republic of China. This timely book examines the emerging structures of class and social stratification: how they are interpreted...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-10-13
Collection :
China Today
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This book traces the history of the baby-boomers, beginning with an explanation of the cause of the post-war baby boom and ending with the contemporary concerns of ageing boomers. It shows how the baby-boomers challenged traditional family attitudes and adopted new...
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Springer
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2014-10-10
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Unter dem Leitbegriff „Governance von Arbeit“ analysieren die AutorInnen Veränderungen und Kontinuitäten in Bezug auf die Gestaltung von Arbeitsbedingungen und Karriereentwicklung, Entlohnung und Interessenvertretung, wie auch Institutionen der Reproduktion...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-10
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Are young people today politically 'apathetic'? Or are they democratically 'mature' citizens? This book examines several types of involvement to reveal changes in young people's political participation in Europe in recent decades. It uses various concepts of 'age' to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-10
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In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Rancière continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does art render events that have spanned an era? What roles does it assign to those who enacted them or those who were the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-10
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