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Johannes Krause untersucht, welche Maßnahmen Menschen aufgrund bestehender sozialer Dimensionen, Medienkonsum und Werteinstellungen unternehmen, um ihre eigene körperliche Darstellung nach außen zu kontrollieren und zu determinieren. Mit Hilfe einer Online-Erhebung wird...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-07
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This book presents the findings of a recent interview-based study of how 28 young adults living in Melbourne, Australia viewed and related to both the personal and societal future. In so doing it addresses issues such as how individuals imagine the future of their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-07
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Disabled children’s lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against child development ‘norms’ and have provided the rationale for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-05
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This book elaborates the need, in a rapidly urbanizing world, for recognition of the ecological communities we inhabit in cities and for the development of an ethics for all entities (human and non-human) in this context. Children and their entangled relations with the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-05
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This book explores the concept of cyberplace as a mode of inhabiting the contemporary world. As a result, it suggests that, for many communities, unlocking cyberspace and inhabiting cyberplaces is now an integral part of their coming-to-the-globalised-world. Boos...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-02
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Christiane Altmann untersucht erstmals die Debatte um den Lubavitcher rebe, Rabbi Schneerson, den sog. „Messias von Brooklyn“. Anders als die bisherigen Studien schildert die Autorin den Messianismus im Kontext jüdischer Konfliktstrategien und vertritt die These, dass...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-01
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This book analyses the Uyghur community, presenting a brief historical background of the Uyghurs and debating the challenges of emerging Uyghur nationalism in the early 20th century. It elaborates on key issues within the community, such as the identity and current...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-01
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At the end of a five-year journey to find out what religious Americans think about science, Ecklund and Scheitle emerge with the real story of the relationship between science and religion in American culture. Based on the most comprehensive survey ever...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
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1947 publizierten Horkheimer und Adorno ihre Dialektik der Aufklärung. Von ihren Überlegungen zur Dialektik von Herrschaft und Befreiung, zu Aufklärung und faschistischer Barbarei hat das Kapitel über „Kulturindustrie“ sicher die breiteste und kontroverseste Rezeption...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book takes as its point of departure a humble cell lying on the intersection of ideas as diverse and yet interlaced as life, knowledge, commerce, governance, and ethics. It seeks to deepen the understanding of stem cell entities and the concerns, hopes, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism. With the help of digital capitalism, neoliberalism dominates, more and more, all aspects of life, and religion is not left unaffected. While some faith groups are embracing this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book places the topic of the state and society in the context of modern development in China over the past century, investigating the dynamic relation and internal tension between the state’s power enhancement and society’s vitality activation instead of simply...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-27
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Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-10-27
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The decline of the Christian churches in the West is undeniable but commentators differ in their understanding of what this represents. For some it shows a decline in interest in religion as such; for others, religion has not declined, it has only changed its shape....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-27
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In der qualitativen Interviewstudie geht Stephanie Osawa der Frage nach, wie deviante Jugendliche in Japan ihr eigenes Handeln deuten. Ziel ist es, zu erarbeiten, wie sich die ‚Täter‘ im Spannungsfeld der gesellschaftlichen Definition von Normabweichung und dem eigenen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-26
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Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2017-10-25
Collection :
Kernos suppléments
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This open access wide-ranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying second-generation immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. Tightly focused on methodological aspects, both quantitative and qualitative, the volume...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-25
Collection :
Life Course Research and Social Policies
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Janina Evers zeigt, inwiefern Vertrauen in Teams sowie zwischen Führungskräften und Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern organisationalen Wandel unterstützt oder erschwert. Die Autorin bietet Gestaltungshinweise für die Umsetzung von Veränderungsprozessen in sozialen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-24
Collection :
Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie
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This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of ‘tradition’ and ‘modern’. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-invented; how meaning...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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Die Beiträge des Bandes stellen biografieanalytische Projekte und Perspektiven vor, welche die systematische Kombination von Methoden, Daten oder Theorien nutzen. Diese Anwendungen von Triangulation werden als gegenstandsangemessene Zugänge zu konkreten Forschungsfragen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-24
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