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This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-04
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The book explains managerial performance through self-identity aspects. It proposes identity instruments for the evaluation, prognosis and growth of managerial performance. A qualitative study was performed on Romanian managers to discover the identity conditionings of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-03
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Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Wessendorf explores life in a super-diverse urban neighbourhood. The book presents a vivid account of the daily doings and social relations among the residents and how they pragmatically negotiate difference in their everyday...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-03
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?Es handelt sich bei diesem Band um eine Fallstudie, die in den Überschneidungsbereich der Organisations- und Risikosoziologie gehört. Exemplarisch wird an dem Schiffsunglück des Kreuzfahrtschiffs Costa Concordia ein Zusammenhang zwischen beiden Forschungsgebieten...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-31
Collection :
Organisationsstudien
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Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits.
Davidman bases her analysis on in-depth conversations with forty ex-Hasidic individuals. From these conversations...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-10-31
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Based on an extensive interview study with lesbian, transgender and queer BDSM practitioners, this book sheds new light on sexuality and current theoretical debates in gender and queer studies. It critically discusses practices of establishing consent, pushing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-28
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This book describes Martin Bucer (1491-1551) as a teacher of theology, focusing on his time as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge between 1549 and 1551. The book is centered on his 1550 Cambridge lectures on Ephesians, and investigates them in...
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Springer
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2014-10-27
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?Die Methode der logistischen Regression ist eines der statistischen Standardanalysemodelle in den Sozialwissenschaften. Logistische Regressionen werden angewandt, wenn die abhängige Variable nur zwei Ausprägungen besitzt und die Methode der linearen Regression mit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2014-10-23
Collection :
Methoden der Politikwissenschaft
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The status of Hong Kong English has been an increasing concern among the local population. Despite prolific research into attitudes towards language variation within the field of sociolinguistics in general, very few studies have focused on the Hong Kong context....
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Sociology and social theory has always been a major source of new perspectives for organization studies. Access to a series of authoritative accounts of theorists and research themes in sociology and social theory which have influenced developments in organization...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-16
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Sociology and social theory has always been a major source of new perspectives for organization studies. Access to a series of authoritative accounts of theorists and research themes in sociology and social theory which have influenced developments in organization...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-16
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This concise book provides readers with a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the key issues and varied strands of research relating to immigration and religion that have been produced during the past two decades. Religion, once a neglected topic in...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-10-16
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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The Quicksands of Belief:The Need for Skepticism draws on history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences in an accessible, non-academic style in order to argue that humans don’t question enough. Instead, uncritically accepting the often absurd...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-10-16
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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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
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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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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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
Parution :
2014-10-13
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