| |
As the end result of a multidisciplinary investigation project conducted in Africa (PTDC/AFR/64207/2006, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), this publication about Poverty and Peace in the Portuguese-speaking African Countries has the purpose, on one hand, of...
Editeur :
Centro de Estudos Internacionais
Parution :
2017-08-04
Collection :
ebook'IS
PDF sans DRM
|
Jens Lanfer präsentiert eine grundlagentheoretische Untersuchung gesellschaftlicher Innovationen. Für die Analyse von Innovationsprozessen stellt er ein systemtheoretisches Konzept vor, das sowohl eine angemessene Reichweite aufweist, um Innovationen in der Gesellschaft...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-03
PDF
|
This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship. The book concludes that planners and policy makers will not be...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-02
PDF, ePub
|
In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-01
PDF, ePub
|
This book provides a fresh look at one of the most enduring, absorbing, and universal questions human beings face: What happens to us after we die? In secular thought, the standard answer is simple: we disappear into oblivion. David Harmon takes us in a different...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-01
PDF, ePub
|
This book presents an exploratory account of the origins and dynamics of cities. The author recounts how the essential foundations of the urbanization process reside in two interrelated forces. These are the tendency for many different kinds of human activity to gather...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-01
PDF, ePub
|
Mit dem Begriff der Wissensgesellschaft betonen Zeitdiagnosen den wachsenden Stellenwert von (wissenschaftlichem) Wissen für alle gesellschaftlichen Handlungsfelder. Eine noch wenig erforschte Konsequenz dieser Entwicklung ist das Erfordernis, Wissen zu kommunizieren...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-27
PDF, ePub
|
Das Buch gibt eine Einführung und dient als Praxis-Handbuch für die Konzeptualisierung, Durchführung und Auswertung von Gruppendiskussionen in sozialwissenschaftlichen und wirtschaftspsychologischen Kontexten.Gruppendiskussionen gehören zu den Grundpfeilern qualitativer...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-25
PDF
|
Today's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live. The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential for near infinite and almost free replication....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-07-25
PDF, ePub
|
This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical research. The Roman Catholic Church has had a significant impact upon the formulation and application of moral values and principles to a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-24
PDF, ePub
|
This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1924–86. It draws on data collected from interviews with 82 men in Australia, England, New Zealand, and USA. The first half of the book concentrates on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-20
PDF, ePub
|
Julian Stubbe aims at characterizing what novelty is in the becoming of objects and how the new becomes part of a shared reality. The study’s method is comparative and concerned with technological practice in science as well as in art. It draws on a detailed comparison...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-18
PDF
|
In Begriffen wie „Arbeitsgesellschaft“, „Industriegesellschaft“ oder „kapitalistische Gesellschaft“ drückt sich die Hoffnung aus, über die Schlüsselkategorie „Arbeit“ nicht nur die Zustände in Betrieben, sondern in der Gesellschaft insgesamt erklären zu können. Dieses...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-18
PDF
|
The book focuses on major aspects of Norbert Elias's social theory through research on supposed “minor” topics, such as manners, sports, leisure and cultural practices. While many of his publications became essential for scholars in the different disciplines concerned,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-18
PDF, ePub
|
Gegenstand des vorliegenden Bandes ist der mit dem Begriff der Ökonomisierung belegte gesellschaftliche Wandel der letzten vier Jahrzehnte. Ausgehend von einer Geschichte der Verwendungsweise des Begriffs, die bis zu John Stuart Mill und Karl Marx zurückreicht, wird...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-18
PDF
|
The ideal of higher humanism challenges our modern civilization and its diminished image of the human being. A critique of the ideologies of "bourgeois humanism" provides a pathway toward the renascence of human identity and human dignity. Historical illustrations,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-18
PDF, ePub
|
This book challenges adult assumptions that young-people do not, cannot and should not think about death. The author uses everyday material objects in order to facilitate a range of conversations, revealing lively engagement with the topic. Cultural resources, such as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-18
PDF, ePub
|
This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today’s world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition.Leisure’s modern legacy is both...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-17
PDF, ePub
|
This book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples. The power of indigenous spirit world is harnessed for the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-17
PDF, ePub
|
Peter Paul Latzke zeigt, wie aus Qualitätsmanagement, Dienstleistungsmarketing, Arbeitsbedingungen und Fachwissen ein marktführendes Leistungsnetzwerk für arbeitsintensive Dienstleistungen gesponnen wird. Dabei verbindet er die marktsoziologischen Perspektiven des...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-15
PDF
|