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Through a rich ethnography of street and working children in Calcutta, India, this book offers the first sustained enquiry into postcolonial childhoods, arguing that the lingering effects of colonialism are central to comprehending why these children struggle to inhabit...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-29
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The Great War continues to play a prominent role in contemporary consciousness. With commemorative activities involving seventy-two countries, its centenary is a titanic undertaking: not only ‘the centenary to end all centenaries’ but the first truly global period of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-28
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Das Phänomen „Scheiterns“ findet man auf der Schattenseite der Gesellschaft. Ist es dann schon verständlich, dass dessen begriffliche Bestimmung und empirische Beschreibung durch die Sozialwissenschaften nur unzureichend ausfällt? Bis auf die organisationstheoretischen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2014-04-23
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This book examines the evolving relationship between the nation-state, citizenship and the education of citizens, exploring the impact European integration had on national policies towards educating its citizens and citizenship.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-23
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Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics. Rather than ask why the American state hasn't responded to unmet social welfare needs by expanding social entitlements, this book asks: Why don't American families view unmet social welfare...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-04-17
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Peter Hall’s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-04-17
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We live in increasingly diverse societies. Human relations are increasingly maintained by widely-used virtual means, with the result that it is becoming more common to find people with various identities and feelings of belonging living in the same political space....
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-04-14
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This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts that examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives, there is a surprising dearth of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-14
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Research about children and young people's participation and involvement in research is an emerging area of academic inquiry. Based on the themes of participation, citizenship and intergenerational relations, this edited collection draws on the latest research in this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-04-14
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This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in urban China. It brings together evidence from a variety of Chinese government, academic, pedagogic and media publications, and from interviews and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-08
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This textbook aims to give an introduction to the use of documentary sources in social research. It is designed to be a companion to courses in research methods in the social sciences and history and a reference text for those beginning research on documentary sources....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-04-03
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In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history.In a wide-ranging analysis of the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and others, he...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-04-03
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One of the less fortunate legacies that we who practice ethnography in Oceania have given the scholarly world is the stereotype of the Melanesian leader as "Big Man". The designation "Big Man", derived literally from the metaphor commonly used in Austronesian languages...
Editeur :
Société des Océanistes
Parution :
2014-04-03
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Publications de la SdO
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Mit der Offenen Methode der Koordinierung (OMK) im Bereich der sozialen Eingliederung steht im Fokus dieser Arbeit eine zentrale sozial- und gesellschaftspolitische Programmformel der EU. Sie wird anhand eines neuen Falles, des Beitrittslandes Bulgarien, untersucht....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-01
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Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change. Covers a broad range of topics,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-03-26
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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Religious Intolerance is on the rise. Debating religious freedom often means debating «West» versus «Islam». This book challenges crucial stereotypes around this issue. It explores the scope of the right to freedom of religion in the International Treaties and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-19
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This volume examines the reasons for intensified social change after 1980; a peaceful process of a magnitude that is historically unprecedented. It examines the kinds of novelty that have come about through morphogenesis and the elements of stability that remain because...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-03-10
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Based on two richly described case studies – a Pentecostal worship service and popular music festival – this book draws on sociology, theology and religious studies in order to understand the significance of ecstatic experience in these contexts. Interviews with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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Demonstrates the power of the theoretical framework of analytical sociology in explaining a large array of social phenomena Analytical Sociology: Actions and Networks presents the most advanced theoretical discussion of analytical sociology, along with a unique set of...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2014-03-04
Collection :
Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science
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Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries. Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Considers the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-02-28
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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