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The writings of Harold Garfinkel have had a major impact on the social sciences and linguistics. This book offers a systematic and innovative analysis of his theories and of the ethnomethodological movement which he has inspired. It is the only full-length study focused...
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Polity
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2013-06-17
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Während der Antisemitismus im rechten Spektrum traditionell tief verankert und konstitutiv für das rechte Weltbild ist, ist dies für das linke Spektrum immer noch strittig. Linke Selbstbeschreibungen der Gesellschaft nehmen in Anspruch, nicht nationalistisch und...
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Springer VS
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2013-06-14
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Die Unternehmensmitbestimmung wird immer wieder in Politik und Öffentlichkeit diskutiert. Dennoch ist wenig über die Praxis der mitbestimmten Aufsichtsratsarbeit bekannt.Die vorliegende Studie greift auf knapp 180 Interviews mit Aufsichtsräten großer deutscher...
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Springer VS
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2013-06-12
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?Wissenschaftler inszenieren sich in Talkshows, sie veröffentlichen Pamphlete in Publikumsmedien und sind allzeit bereit, wenn Journalisten ein Interview wünschen. Was sind die Motive für diese öffentlichen Auftritte, wenn doch die wissenschaftliche Reputation...
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Springer VS
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2013-06-12
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This new book provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the main features of Chinese society. Drawing on a wealth of material, the author offers a fresh understanding of a unique society that has undergone continuous transformation and upheaval throughout...
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Polity
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2013-06-12
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This book examines the life stories of a diverse sample of gay men from nine major international cities. Through their relationship stories, old established patterns of gay life are compared with new, emerging patterns of fatherhood, friendship and parenting.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-11
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Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-11
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The concept of 'patriarchy' is one which signals a sharp divide between traditions of feminist thought. Sylvia Walby attempts to conceptualize 'patriarchy' in a way that takes account not only of the complexity of relationships of gender, but also of the subtleties of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies. Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is primarily concerned with individuals and materialism. But Miller rejects this assumption and follows the surprising...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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In this book David Lyon analyses the various contexts of surveillance activity and offers a balanced account of the influence electronic information systems have on the social order today.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth century. Composed of closely integrated papers, all written over the past few...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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This is a new and revised edition of a book which has already established itself as a basic text in social theory. The first section of the work provides a concise critical analysis of some leading schools of thought in social philosophy, giving particular attention to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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Built upon a series of critical encounters with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought, this volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights into the ideas which...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-06-10
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Society is under siege – under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to take shape, and from the fluid, undefined domain of life politics. The space between these two fronts, until recently...
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Polity
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2013-06-10
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The work of Erving Goffman has had an enormous impact throughout the social sciences. Yet his writings have not received the detailed scrutiny which they deserve. This new book is the first comprehensive and accessible account of Erving Goffman's contributions, ranging...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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Key Contemporary Thinkers
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In this lively and accessible study, David Lyon explores the relationship between religion and postmodernity, through the central metaphor of 'Jesus in Disneyland.'
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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This is a lively introduction to management, covering an array of management orthodoxies and demonstrating, through contemporary sociological theory, that many of the old approaches are in need of reconstruction.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault. It offers an assessment of all of Foucault's work, including his final writings on governmentality and the self. McNay argues that the later work initiates an important shift in his intellectual...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-06
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This key work addresses one of the most central and controversial issues in contemporary feminist theory: the problem of difference.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-06
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