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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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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...
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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
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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...
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Polity
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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...
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Polity
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2014-10-15
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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...
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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
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2014-10-13
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The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was devising new forms of...
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Polity
Parution :
2014-10-10
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Are young people today politically 'apathetic'? Or are they democratically 'mature' citizens? This book examines several types of involvement to reveal changes in young people's political participation in Europe in recent decades. It uses various concepts of 'age' to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-10
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Der vorliegende Band beschäftigt sich zum einen mit der Reduktion des Essens auf eine naturwissenschaftliche Perspektive und moralisches Gebot und hebt zum anderen die kulturelle und soziale Bedeutung hervor.Seit der Entstehung der Ernährungswissenschaft Mitte des 19....
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Springer VS
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2014-10-08
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Family Problems: Stress, Risk, and Resilience presents an interdisciplinary collection of original essays that push the boundaries of family science to reflect the increasingly diverse complexity of family concerns in the modern world. Represents the most up-to-date...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-07
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Das Buch analysiert, wie Beschäftigte der öffentlichen Verwaltung mit unterbrochenen Erwerbsverläufen ihr Arbeitsleben gestalten, welche Bedeutung Partizipation in der Arbeitswelt für sie hat, wie sie beruflichen Erfolg definieren und die Balance zwischen dem...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-07
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Using the concept of fulfilment and the framework of the serious leisure perspective, this book examines the signposts marking the fulfilment career. This career begins with an interest in a serious pursuit, leading to an efflorescence many years later in amateurism,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-02
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By tracing an arc of thought and action from both historical and religious figures up through modern microfinance practitioners, Looft illustrates the many ways religious inspiration continues to remain at the crux of international economic development–while raising...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-02
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This book addresses the relevance of the case study research methodology for enhancing urban planning research and education in Africa and the global South. It provides an introduction to the case study methodology and features examples of its application to planning...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-02
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Zukunftsforschung, Foresight, Futures Studies, aber auch Technikfolgenabschätzung und Trendforschung zeichnen sich durch eine auf die Zukunft gerichtete Forschungsperspektive aus. Daraus ergeben sich grundsätzliche Besonderheiten, die es bei der Konzeption von Studien...
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Springer VS
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2014-09-29
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?Die Frage nach einer „Moralisierung“ der Märkte greift in der wissenschaftlichen, aber auch öffentlichen Diskussion derzeit breit um sich. Beschränkte sich die Diskussion lange Zeit auf die Bereiche des Konsums, ist neuerdings sogar die Rede von einer „Moralisierung“...
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Springer VS
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2014-09-24
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