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On the basis of a national research project undertaken in England, this volume explores how and why young people's engagement is so important globally in education and society, and looks at what teachers and students think about citizenship and community. The authors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-12
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Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the impacts of immigration and urbanization on the middle class family. It demonstrates how contemporary social work and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-07
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The last three decades have seen dramatic changes in Chinese cities. While many tend to read these changes as the result of institutional reforms, macro planning, and top-down development, the author of this study focuses on the undercurrent at the bottom, from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-06
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This book analyses the transnationalisation of collective bargaining by European trade unions, presenting key theoretical concepts and debates on the Europeanisation of collective bargaining and social dialogue. The author uses comprehensive empirical evidence to...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-07-25
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This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-23
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When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-22
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Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-07-17
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Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the 20th century at least in sociology, political science and history. This book will addressNorbert Elias's approach to empirical research, the use of his work in empirical research, and compare...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-17
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Religion is considered a key predictor of volunteering: the more religious people are, the more likely they are to volunteer. This positive association enjoys significant support in current research; in fact, it could be considered the ‘default perspective’ on the...
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Springer
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2014-07-17
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ALDA – The Association of Local Democracy Agencies – is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of good governance and citizen participation at the local level. It is made up of over 160 members comprising local authorities and civil society organisations in the...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-07-11
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Gründungsszenen sind Ankerpunkte soziologischen Theoretisierens: Als konkrete Bezugsprobleme stiften sie im weitesten Sinne des Wortes einen Realitätsbezug, der sich nicht in die Kategorien der methodisch kontrollierten Erhebung empirischer Tatbestände übersetzen lässt....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-07-10
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Die Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse (WDA) verbindet theoretische Grundlegungen der wissenssoziologischen Tradition von Peter Berger und Thomas Luckmann mit Diskursperspektiven von Michel Foucault. Sie zielt auf die Diskursanalyse gesellschaftlicher...
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-08
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Wang's book offers an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced analysis of how local state agents maintain control over village self-governance in China. His careful analysis of primary documents enables him to explicate the formal mechanisms used by members of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-08
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This book is the last work of the author’s trilogy on Chinese rural politics. In the background of prominent social conflicts since the 1990s during China’s social transformation, the author conducted in-depth comparative analyses of several conflicts to understand the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-08
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This book explores changes in the social, economic and political processes underpinning the mechanisms for the management of human mobility and cohabitation in the Mediterranean region, while suggesting comparisons with the situation in the Americas. It considers the...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-07-08
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This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-02
Collection :
Life Course Research and Social Policies
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A wide range of international contributions draw on theoretical and empirical sources to explore whether alternatives exist to both conceptualise and conduct research into what people do and don’t do, in relation to their health and experiences of illness. Presents a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-07-01
Collection :
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
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This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies. Drawing on up-to-date research, it explores the relationship between childhood as a social and cultural construction and the plethora of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-25
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The authors select sermons by Martin Luther King Jr. and Jeremiah Wright to as a framework to examine the meaning of God in America as part of the formational religio-political narrative of the country.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-18
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The book examines the evolving governance of pharmaceutical biotechnology in South Korea in order to derive conclusions about the dynamics of a latecomer system transition. Based on an analysis of innovation activities in the biomedical sector, which is complemented by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-17
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