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This book is a study of black masculinity in the twenty-first century. Through a series of critical and interdisciplinary essays, this work examines the image of the black male in American society as a Toby Waller stereotype. Toby Waller is the fictional, yet...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-11
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Critical pedagogy, political economics, and aesthetic theory combine with dialectical and materialist understandings of science, society, and revolutionary politics to develop the most radical goals of society and education. In Philosophy andCritical Pedagogy:...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-05-10
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Cultural sociology - or the sociology of culture - has grown from a minority interest in the 1970s to become one of the largest and most vibrant areas within sociology globally. In The SAGE Handbook ofCultural Sociology, a global range of experts explore the theory,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-05-09
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The authentic spiritual quest is marked not by certainties but by questions and doubt. Mark Vernon who was a priest, and left an atheist explores the wonder of science, the ups and downs of being 'spiritual but not religious', the insights of ancient philosophy, and God...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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A landmark publication in the field, this state of the art reference work, with contributions from leading thinkers across a range of disciplines, is an essential guide to the study of children and childhood, and sets out future research agendas for the subject.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Correcting misconceptions through profiles of diverse families, Rivero uncovers the changing and complex needs of children today. This book addresses the major questions parents are bound to have as they consider the homeschooling option: socialization, curriculum,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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There is nothing new about evil; it has been with us since time immemorial. But there is something new about the kind of evil that characterizes our contemporary liquid-modern world. The evil that characterized earlier forms of solid modernity was concentrated in the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-04-29
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Pairing cultural analysis in urban contexts with interdisciplinary approaches to political culture, this book argues that recent cultural production in Spain grapples with the conditions and possibilities for social transformation in dialogue with the ongoing crisis,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-29
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This important volume on the history of sociology in India locates scholars, scholarship, theories, perspectives, and practices of the discipline in different cities and regions of the country over a century. It argues that this history is enmeshed in political projects...
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OUP India
Parution :
2016-04-26
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Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY-NC 2.5 Lizenz.Wie leben und erleben Jugendliche ihren Alltag? Wie nehmen sie die historischen und heutigen Verhältnisse in Deutschland und in der Welt wahr? Was stiftet für sie Sinn? Welche Lebensentwürfe...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-04-26
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At the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills, and soon utterly out of money. But they knew paradise when they saw...
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PublicAffairs
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2016-04-26
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Combining statistical analyses and personal interviews, this book examines the phenomenon of adult children in the United States who have returned to living with their parents in the family home. It uses both data and narrative to fully detail how such co-residency has...
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Springer
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2016-04-25
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"With great rigour, yet an enviable lightness of touch, Susan Pickard has written an engaging and accessible book that students will love." - Rosaline Gill, City University London "A scholarly tour de force that brings into focus the various disciplines, histories,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-04-24
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This book presents the early existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger as a way to reformulate academic disability studies and activist disability politics. It redresses the almost categorical neglect of human difference in the philosophy of...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2016-04-23
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Human behavior causes environmental problems which, in turn, affect people and whole societies. The author elaborates the role of the public in the discourse about environmental protection. As the public consists of socio-economic, legal and political actors, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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The book deals with the analysis of key political actors in the ‘new democracies’ from Central and Eastern Europe. It is focused on character of elites, particularly political ones, and their role in the process of societal change.The author argues that elite...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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This volume examines emotions and
emotional well-being from a rich variety of theological, philosophical and
scientific and therapeutic perspectives. To experience emotion is a part of
being human; but what are emotions? How can theology, philosophy and the
natural...
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Springer
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2016-04-14
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Dieses essential zeigt, inwiefern bereits drei Klassiker der Soziologie,
Durkheim, Weber und Simmel, die drei logisch möglichen
Grundperspektiven des Blicks auf das soziale Zusammenleben von Menschen
entworfen haben. Auch alle neueren Theorien lassen sich den...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2016-04-13
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Offering a new way of understanding the high self-harm and suicide rates among sexual and gender minority youth, this book prioritises the perspectives and experiences of queer young people, including those who have experience of self-harming and/or feeling suicidal....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-08
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In the decade between 1998-2008, Spain became the main destination for Ecuadorian migrants, and Madrid, Spain's capital, became the city with the largest Ecuadorian population outside of Ecuador. Through a combination of ethnographic research and cultural analysis, this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-08
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