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Die Forderung nach „mehr Transparenz“ ist allgegenwärtig. Der Transparenz-Imperativ beschränkt sich dabei nicht auf die Politik; man begegnet ihm auch in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft, im Journalismus und im Gesundheitssystem. Wie konnte sich diese Norm derart...
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Springer VS
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2019-12-10
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This book reflects on what it means to live as urban citizens in a world increasingly shaped by the business and organisational logics of digital platforms. Where smart city strategies promote the roll-out of internet of things (IoT) technologies and big data analytics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-07
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The revised third edition of the text that combines classical and contemporary theories of sociological theory Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of an Introduction to Sociological Theory offers an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-12-04
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Die Autorinnen und Autoren präsentieren in diesem Buch die neuesten Erkenntnisse in der Anwendung von qualitativen Forschungsmethoden in den Wirtschafts-, Gesundheits- und Sozialwissenschaften. Der Sammelband stellt Beiträge des 2. Qualmet-Symposiums 2018 (Qualitative...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2019-12-03
Collection :
Hallesche Schriften zur Betriebswirtschaft
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In this sweeping appraisal of the urban condition, David Wadley argues that anything less that high-level resolution in modelling the well-being of inhabitants is wasting precious time. Humanity is encountering rising entropy, caused by unsustainable economic and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-29
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This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-28
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The study deals with Industrial Symbiosis (IS), a term used to describe a network of diverse organizations that make use of different by-products to improve their facility to achieve common goals, improve environmental conditions or improve business and technical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-25
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This new English translation of François Jullien’s work is a compelling summation of his thinking on the comparison between Western and Chinese thought. The title, From Being to Living, summarises his essential point: that western thinking is obsessed by – and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-11-25
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?This book examines gender attitudes in Reddit’s popular video gaming community subreddit, r/gaming. Video gaming has long been understood as a masculinised social space and, while increasing numbers of girls and women now engage in the pastime, boys and...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This book describes the Islamisation process that has unfolded in Malaysia over the last fifty years and provides feedback from in-depth interviews with 100 individuals from Malaysia’s “educated classes”, or the “elite”, regarding their reactions to the changes that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
Collection :
Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
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This book offers a detailed account of the employment promises made to local East Londoners when the Summer Olympic Games 2012 were awarded to London, as well as an examination of how those promises had morphed into the Olympic Labor market jamboree from which local...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-21
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Religiöse Bildung findet in einem krisenhaften Umfeld statt, das religionspädagogisch etablierte Konzepte fundamental herausfordert. Unter Rückgriff auf fachgeschichtliche Ressourcen und aktuelle Debatten in den Bezugsdisziplinen der Religionspädagogik werden die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-19
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Das Handbuch Kritische Theorie beleuchtet aus ganz unterschiedlicher Perspektive, was Kritische Theorie heute bedeuten kann.Das Handbuch reklamiert, trotz seines Umfangs, keine eindeutige oder definitorische Antwort auf die Frage, was Kritische Theorie heute ist oder zu...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-16
Collection :
Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften
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This book explores how Seventh-day Adventists, like other Christians, can benefit from generating their own version of communio ecclesiology. It starts by offering a critical analysis of the status quo of the existing Adventist portrayal of church as remnant, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-13
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It is not possible to ignore the fact that cities are not only moving, vibrant and flourishing spaces, promising hope for better quality of life, but that they also accumulate and reflect significant problems. This book explores the relational and dynamic nature of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-13
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This book examines how democratic education is conceptualised by exploring understandings of emotions in learning. The authors argue that emotion is both an embodiment and enhancement of democratic education: that rationality and emotion are not separate entities, but...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-10
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Starting from the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, Schäfer composes a methodical approach to habitus of social actors and the logic of their praxis: Building upon the generative terms of praxeology, he focuses on identity and strategy in processes of internalization, their...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-07
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Kernfragen in Bezug auf Kontextualisierung, Repräsentation, Verantwortung und Beziehung zu Geflüchteten sowohl in Forschungs- als auch in Arbeitsfeldern sind in Flucht-Migrationsforschungen bisher wenig thematisiert. Die Autorinnen und Autoren widmen sich diesen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-07
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Harold Garfinkel was one of the most important American sociologists. A student of Talcott Parsons who also worked with Alfred Schutz and Kenneth Burke, he sought to craft an empirical and theoretical approach that would combine Parsons’ focus on social systems of...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-07
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