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What it socialization?What is interaction?What do we mean by identity? How can we explain the notion of self?What do we mean by intra-action? The Sociology of the Individual is an innovative and though-provoking sociological exploration of how the ideas of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-11-08
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This book addresses the eclipse of shame in Christian theology by showing how shame emerges in Christian texts and practice in ways that can be neither assimilated into a discourses of guilt nor dissociated from embodiment. Stephanie N. Arel argues that the traditional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-08
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The book is devoted to social and political interdependencies of life and work, the interdependencies in which the ideas of loss and deprivation are the founding incentives of the precariousness of the position and the status of the human subject. Loss of property in...
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Springer VS
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2016-11-07
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This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach. With the development of the Chinese economy, a new group of middle wage earners appeared. Chinese social scientists and state institutions promoted the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-07
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This book provides a significant new interpretation of China's rapid urbanization by analyzing its impact on the spread of Protestant Christianity in the People's Republic. Demonstrating how the transition from rural to urban churches has led to the creation of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-04
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This book is an ethnographic account of San Francisco’s most inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin. Using its streets as campus and its people as teachers, Stannard-Friel uses storytelling as a way of explaining why inner city social problems, such as homelessness,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-04
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Diese Studie ist eine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme zum freiwilligen Engagement. Die Ergebnisse basieren auf dem Deutschen Freiwilligensurvey, der 2014 zum vierten Mal im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)durchgeführt wurde. Die...
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Springer VS
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2016-11-03
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Der Sammelband liefert Befunde zu aktuellen Forschungsfeldern der (Un-)Sicherheit und Kriminalprävention in europäischen Städten. So lässt sich beobachten, dass insbesondere genuin urbane Formen abweichenden Verhaltens und abweichender Situationen zunehmend...
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Springer VS
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2016-11-03
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This book analyzes the recent growth of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Hong Kong, seven major Chinese coastal cities. The authors detail theoretical mechanisms, spatial and non-spatial models of development, all while exploring possible...
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Springer
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2016-11-03
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This work approaches the modern phenomenon of online dating, examining the ways people make use of its technical and social potential. In particular, the users' mate preferences, choices, strategies, and interactions are analyzed using the innovative method of...
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Springer
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2016-11-01
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Wissenschaftskommunikation ist zentral für moderne Wissensgesellschaften – und in den vergangenen Jahren immer vielfältiger geworden. Sie findet in der Wissenschaft auf Konferenzen oder in Fachpublikationen statt, in der Politik- und Unternehmensberatung, in Kampagnen,...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-31
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Alfred Ruppert untersucht in Form einer Einzelfallstudie, wie stark und auf welche Weise sich Rankings auf eine Universität auswirken. Er setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, welche Transformationsprozesse stattfinden und welche sozialen Dynamiken und kulturellen...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-29
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In this thought-provoking and engaging book, Mike Michael brings us a powerful overview of Actor-Network Theory. Covering a breadth of topics, Michael demonstrates how ANT has become a major theoretical framework, influencing scholarly work across a range of fields. ...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-10-28
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Anhand einer bundesweiten empirischen Studie liefert das vorliegende Buch einen fundierten Überblick über die gewerblichen Produktivgenossenschaften - sowie die beschäftigungsorientierten Sozialgenossenschaften - in Deutschland und deren beschäftigten Mitglieder....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-27
Collection :
Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie
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This book uniquely focuses on the role of family law in transnational marriages. The author demonstrates how family law is of critical importance in understanding transnational family life. Based on extensive field research in Morocco, Egypt and the Netherlands, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-25
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This interdisciplinary endeavour portrays the central features of militant movements which hold totality as an important part of their doctrinal core. Revisiting the importance of modernity, utopianism, eschatology, charisma, psychology and the history of ideas, Mihai...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-24
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This edited volume presents a detailed portrait of couples living with mixed HIV status, where one partner is HIV-positive and the other negative. Readers will come to understand the various and complex ways in which these mixed-status, or serodiscordant couples build a...
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Springer
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2016-10-24
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Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in return migration decision making of Chinese highly skilled workers and students in Japan. She proposes to answer a question yet...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-21
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Die Familiengeschichte sowie die familialen Beziehungen eines Menschen werden als Rahmung, Hintergrund und Bestandteil der eigenen Lebensgeschichte in besonderem Maße wirksam. Daher ist es in Hinblick auf bestimmte Fragestellungen gewinnbringend oder gar unverzichtbar,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-17
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This book examines the formation of identity of the Nagas in northeast India in light of the proselytizing efforts by the Americans and the colonization by the British in their search for control over areas inhabited by the Nagas which were perfect for tea...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-15
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