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Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts to care for homeless people Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests an important shift in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-01-31
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of neoliberal globalization in the early 1980s to the present when U.S. imperialism is held at...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-31
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Based on a fifteen year longitudinal cross-cultural analysis on the role of the body in identity construction process around the world, this analysis provides readers with a comparative theoretical exploration of piercing and other forms of body modification that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-31
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As racially-based inequalities and spatial segregation deepen, further strained by emergent problems associated with climate change, ever-widening differences between wealth and poverty, and the economic crisis, this book issues a timely call for just, sustainable...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-31
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The meaning of the term utopia is rarely questioned, although it is used in widely differing ways. This classic text, first published in 1990, analyses the contested concept of utopia and examines how it has been used by commentators and social theorists. It is the only...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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As William Gay, distinguished adviser to the last edition, so aptly notes, the United States is ?a country that is never what you think it is.? Since that edition was introduced nearly ten years ago, the country has been struggling with troubling, divisive events and...
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Intercultural Press
Parution :
2011-01-11
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The period of young adulthood, from ages 18 to 23, is popularly considered the most sexualized in life. But is it true? What do we really know about the sexual lives of young people today?
Premarital Sex in America combines illuminating personal stories and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-10
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Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social facts such as network structures, patterns of residential segregation, typical beliefs, cultural tastes, and common ways of acting. It explains such...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-01-06
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The Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th century is characterized by an emphasis on reason and empiricism . As a major shaping philosophy of Western culture, it had a historical impact on the religious, cultural, academic, and social institutions of 18th century...
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Springer
Parution :
2010-12-25
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An account of the nature and value of the family within a liberal society. It defines 'family', and assesses the right to have a family, whether the family promotes injustice, and what future there is for the family in the face of significant changes.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-21
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The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry.The editors provide a blueprint for guiding...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-12-17
Collection :
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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"This is a thoughtful and sometimes challenging elaboration of some of the key concepts in contemporary family studies... Students and researchers will want to have this book close to hand, not simply as a reference work but as a stimulus to critical social analysis." ...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-12-10
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Sociology has long lacked the sense of propulsive direction that it possesses in the 1960s and early 70s. The subject has fragmented in a series of interlocking fields and sub-disciplines. Is there a way of revitalizing the subject? Where can we look for guides to build...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-12-10
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This book tells the story of the principal European intellectual professions from the demise of the ancien régime to the rise of the European Union. A historical study which applies sociological concepts it creates a European-scale picture of the professions spanning...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-12-10
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This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought children's food marketing to the centre of the policy...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-08
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This concise encyclopedia is the most complete international survey of sociology ever created in one volume. Contains over 800 entries from the whole breadth of the discipline Distilled from the highly regarded Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, with entries...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-03
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Unique in the multiple approaches that it encompasses, this book includes discussions of both older and younger workers, employer and employee perspectives, generational and age diversity and international comparisons. It includes both conceptual argument and empirical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-24
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AIDS, Sexuality, and the Black Church: Making the Wounded Whole is a revealing account of AIDS activism within Black churches in New York City. AIDS has taken a devastating toll on the Black community. Blacks make up approximately 13% of the total United States...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-23
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This volume is the first full-length study on pioneering sexologist and sexual rights activist, Magnus Hirschfeld, that examines his impact on the politics and culture of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Germany and the value of his rationalist...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-08
Collection :
Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
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