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The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children. Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the...
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Basic Books
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2009-02-23
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The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and substantial opening chapter. New edition of a classic study by a leading social theorist Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary social theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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This thoughtful and engaging text challenges the widely held notion of science as somehow outside of society, and the idea that technology proceeds automatically down a singular and inevitable path. Through specific case studies involving ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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This thoughtful and engaging text challenges the widely held notion of science as somehow outside of society, and the idea that technology proceeds automatically down a singular and inevitable path. Through specific case studies involving contemporary debates, this book...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
Collection :
Key Themes in Sociology
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Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-02-05
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Welcome to the new future of involvement. Forming groups is easier than it's ever been: unpaid volunteers can build an encyclopaedia together in their spare time, mistreated customers can join forces to get their revenge on airlines and high street banks, and one man...
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Penguin
Parution :
2009-02-05
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John Storey, a leading figure in the field of Cultural Studies, offers an illuminating and vibrant account of the development of popular culture. Addressing issues such as globalization, intellectualism, and consumerism, Inventing Popular Culture presents an engaging...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-04
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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For the past twenty years, evangelical prophecy novels have been a powerful presence on American bestseller lists. Emerging from a growing conservative culture industry, the genre dramatizes events that many believers expect to occur at the end of the age - the rapture...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-02-02
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A comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditions and critical contemporary issues of social theory. Builds on the success of The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, second edition with substantial revisions, entirely new contributions, and a fresh...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-30
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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A comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditions and critical contemporary issues of social theory. Builds on the success of The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, second edition with substantial revisions, entirely new contributions, and a fresh...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-30
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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"Violence is sadly central to social life and yet oddly marginal to social theory. It’s there in the background, not least as Weber defines the state by its monopoly of legitimate violence. But as the example suggests, it’s the control of violence that looms large....
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-01-28
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Written by leading experts in the field, Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty is an introduction to mainstream theorizing on risk and uncertainty in sociology. Provides an overview of the historical developments and conceptual aspects of risk Identifies why...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-22
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Written by leading experts in the field, Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty is an introduction to mainstream theorizing on risk and uncertainty in sociology. Provides an overview of the historical developments and conceptual aspects of risk Identifies why...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-22
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This insightful and provocative journey through spiritual landscapes explores the ways in which spiritualities of life have been experienced and understood in Western society, and argues that today’s myriad forms of holistic spirituality are helping us to find balance...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-21
Collection :
Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World
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This insightful and provocative journey through spiritual landscapes explores the ways in which spiritualities of life have been experienced and understood in Western society, and argues that today’s myriad forms of holistic spirituality are helping us to find balance...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-21
Collection :
Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World
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Urban development cooperation needs innovative solutions. Despite many efforts, international assistance has failed to address the challenges faced by cities in developing countries. This book seeks to raise awareness about the value of corporate social responsibility...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-01-20
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This book explains the differences between European countries in the supply and forms of public child care and preschool provisions by reference to the historical context in which these forms originated and to the institutional constraints underlying their development.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-01-15
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Globalization has spawned more active transnational religious communities, creating a powerful force in world affairs. Religious Pluralism,Globalization and World Politics, an incisive new collection of essays, explores the patterns of cooperation and conflict that mark...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-11-26
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In this trenchant inquiry into the state of feminism, Angela McRobbie breaks open the politics of sexual equality and 'affirmative feminism' and sets down a new theory of gender power. Challenging the most basic assumptions of the 'end' of feminism, this book argues...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-11-20
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This book is about the renaissance of cities in the twenty first century and their increasing role as centers of creative economic activity. It attempts to put some conceptual and descriptive order around issues of urbanization in the contemporary world, emphasizing the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-11-20
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