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On the eve of the financial crisis, Jacob S. Hacker wrote "the policy book of the year" (E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post), demonstrating and explaining the hidden story of growing economic insecurity. In this fully revised and updated second edition, he brings his...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-27
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich aus religionssoziologischer Perspektive mit dem Wirken Amin al-Husseinis während seiner Kooperation mit dem NS-Regime zwischen 1933 und 1945. Zunächst werden die ideologischen und politischen Vorbedingungen der Zusammenarbeit erörtert,...
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Springer VS
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2019-02-27
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Through an international comparative research, this unique book examines ethnic residential segregation patterns in relation to the wider society and mechanisms of social division of space in Western European regions. Focuses on eight Southern European cities, develops...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-02-27
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Why are Australians anxious and pessimistic?Who or what has caused our loss of trust in Australia?Why has a feeling of powerlessness crept in for so many? Has the luck really run out for the lucky country?And what can we do to get it back? Every generation believes its...
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Hachette Australia
Parution :
2019-02-26
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This book contains a collection of projects and scenarios dealing with new risks from emerging technologies, future peace keeping operations, and water distribution issues by combining analysis with dialogue. Special attention is paid to the methodology of narrative...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-26
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This book pursues an interdisciplinary approach to open a discourse on innovative methodologies and practices associated with narrative and metaphor. Scholars from diverse fields in the humanities and social sciences report on how they use narrative and/or metaphor in...
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Springer
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2019-02-26
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This volume includes fourteen essays by eminent sociologists in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1919–2017), the last of the founding architects of sociology in India. It also includes two interviews with Ramkrishna Mukherjee by senior sociologists. The essays cover...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-02-26
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In today’s world, numbers are in the ascendancy. Societies dominated by star ratings, scores, likes and lists are rapidly emerging, as data are collected on virtually every aspect of our lives. From annual university rankings, ratings agencies and fitness tracking...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-02-25
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This book explores the leading role that cities can play in shaping progressive policies in collaboration with various stakeholders. It examines the timing of such shifts to progressivity in cities, the interactions that enable progressive actions to be developed and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-02-25
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This book analyses the implications of eco-urbanism re-making for policy and practice under the transformational trends of economic decentralization and market reform in China. While the guiding themes are space, scale, and governance of cities, the book focuses on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-25
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Public transport in low-income Asian (LIA) cities fails to meet people’s mobility needs, generates high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and worsens social exclusion. Following successful Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects in Bogota and Curitibá, LIA countries promoted BRT...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-02-25
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In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-25
Collection :
Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft
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Ob und inwiefern Diskursanalyse ein kritisches Unterfangen ist, gilt als strittig. Der Band beleuchtet die Gründe und Gegenstände dieser Debatte über den Zusammenhang von Diskursanalyse und Kritik. Gibt es einen Erziehungs- bzw. Aufklärungsauftrag der Diskursanalyse?...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-18
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In den letzten Jahren ist soziale Ungleichheit immer mehr in das Zentrum der wissenschaftlichen und öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit gerückt. Soziale Ungleichheit hat viele Gesichter, ihr harter Kern ist aber die Einkommensungleichheit. Die Vorlesungen beruhen auf der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-12
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Der Band versammelt die wichtigsten Texte von Hans-Peter Müller zu Émile Durkheim. Damit wird der Grundstein zu einer Neurezeption und Neubewertung eines der Gründerväter der Soziologie gelegt.Der InhaltEinführung: „Études durkheimiennes“Émile Durkheim:Der Soziologe und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-08
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This book presents contributions submitted to the 2nd international conference Going Global through Social Sciences and Humanities (GGSSH 2019) held in Tomsk, Russia on 27–28 February 2019. The conference focused on such issues as interdisciplinary pedagogy, language...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-02-08
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Der Band gibt einen fundierten Überblick über verschiedene soziologische Denkschulen in Deutschland seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Beiträge behandeln jeweils Genese, Akteure, Ideen, Institutionen, Kontroversen und Wirkungen zentraler Denkschulen der...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-04
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This book aims to examine the characteristics, roles and social values of public spaces in the globalized territory of Hong Kong. Choi focuses on the usage of public space by marginalised communities, particularly the foreign domestic helpers of Hong Kong. By examining...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-01-30
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For the past two decades, scientists have urged us to abandon fossil fuels as rapidly as possible and pursue a range of other environmental reforms to avert the many crises climate change will bring. The reforms have not occurred at the expected rate, and their absence...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-29
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