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Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
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2016-11-28
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This book centers around mid-level charismatic pastors in Ghana. Karen Lauterbach analyzes pastorship as a pathway to becoming small “big men” and achieving status, wealth, and power in the country. The volume investigates both the social processes of becoming a pastor...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing reality in the global value chain in Singapore. Looking at Chinese Singaporean employees at a French multi-national firm, the author explores the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-24
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This volume examines the changing role of Marian devotion in politics, public life, and popular culture in Western Europe and America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book brings together, for the first time, studies on Marian devotions across the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book examines the urban legacy of the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil across the seven cities that hosted matches. The authors, all experts and natives of South America, analyse the context and impacts of hosting the World Cup for each of the host cities....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them with events that surrounded C.L.R. James and his activism between 1935 and 1950. In doing so, the author considers what Brexit, the Labour Party and Theresa May’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This timely book moves beyond struggling, suffering and loss to argue that forced migration often provides opportunities for men to pursue new relationships and re-organise their intimate lives. It focuses on the lived experiences of masculinity, sexuality and pursuit...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-22
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This book provides a state of the art approach to participatory planning, and generates innovative thought in planning theory and knowledge study. The book introduces a new conceptual framework for participatory planning, one which redefines concepts that have been...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-22
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In this book Sunggu Yang proposes five socio-ecclesial codes as unique faith fundamentals of Korean American Christianity. Drawing from rigorous research and years of ecclesial experience, Yang names the codes as follows: the Wilderness Pilgrimage code, the Diasporic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-18
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Der Band befasst sich mit Landschaft und Ästhetik als zwei komplexen Konzepten, die zunächst eindeutig zu sein scheinen, auf den zweiten Blick aber ihre Komplexität offenbaren, und zwar sowohl in der Alltagswelt als auch in Wissenschaft und Planung. Als Landschaft wird...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-17
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This book explores how modernity, the urban, and the sacred overlap in fundamental ways in contemporary Spain. Urban spaces have traditionally been seen as the original sites of modernity, history, progress, and a Weberian systematic disenchantment of the world, while...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-17
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Dieses Buch liefert kreative Impulse zur Lösung der beiden wichtigsten Probleme der Interaktion zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis: Anreicherung der Wissenschaft durch aktuelle Daten und Informationen aus der Praxis sowie wissenschaftlicher Transfer in die Praxis. Die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-15
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Im Anschluss an Sozialphänomenologie, den Sozialkonstruktivismus sowie dessen gegenwärtige Kritiken entwickelt das Buch eine soziologische Theorie der kommunikativen Konstruktion der Wirklichkeit. Die löst dazu den grundlegenden Prozess des kommunikativen Handeln aus...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-14
Collection :
Neue Bibliothek der Sozialwissenschaften
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Today, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture. Networks are thought to be everywhere – from the architecture of our brains to global transportation systems. And networks are especially ubiquitous in the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-11-11
Collection :
Cultural Sociology
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Der Sammelband untersucht die Energiewende, ein in der medialen Berichterstattung regelmäßig diskutiertes Thema. Hierzu werden acht wirtschaftssoziologische Perspektiven vorgestellt, die die strukturellen Konflikte der Energiewende beleuchten und damit auf die Hürden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-10
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This collection on researching later life and ageing critically reflects upon the qualitative methods used in gaining knowledge of under-researched groups of older people and sets out future research agendas.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This book traces the origins of the Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood in Hong Kong and their history up to the early 1970s, and contributes to the neglected area of Chinese Catholic women in the history of the Chinese Catholic Church. It studies the growth of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This book explores the 1907 Korean Revival Movement from a self psychological perspective. The examination of the psychological processes in the movement based on Heinz Kohut's self psychology can shed light on religious experiences as selfobject experiences by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This illuminating volume examines how the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama developed as a trauma of culture. Throughout the book, Gill asks why the “four little girls” killed in the bombing became part of the nation’s collective...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-08
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Im Zentrum des essentials stehen die aktuellen Streiks von 2014/15, die in verschiedenen Branchen des Dienstleistungssektors stattgefunden haben, so bei der Bahn, der Lufthansa, der Post und den Kitas. Die Autorin verdeutlicht in ihrer Schrift den prägnanten Unterschied...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-08
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