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"This excellent book will encourage students to think about the diverse range and broad character of issues encountered at work. It highlights both enduring dilemmas and emerging issues in contemporary employment. Each concept is carefully explained with engaging...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-10-22
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Die Kulturbetriebsforschung befasst sich mit der Konzeption, Produktion, Distribution und Rezeption von Kulturgütern, die in einem dynamisch interagierenden und institutionell strukturierten Handlungsfeld stattfinden - nämlich im Kulturbetrieb.Die Komplexität des...
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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2007-10-08
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In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young women across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgounds use digital technology in their everyday lives. They explore identity development, how young women...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-10-01
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"John Tomlinson's book is an invitation to an adventure. It contains a precious key to unlock the doors into the unmapped and unexplored cultural and ethical condition of 'immediacy'. Without this key concept from now on it will not be possible to make sense of the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-09-27
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The book makes a major new contribution to the sociology of employment by comparing the quality of working life in European societies with very different institutional systems - France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, and Sweden. It focuses in particular on skills and...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-09-13
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Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'.
Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-09-06
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A well-developed appreciation of emotions is absolutely essential for sociology because no action can occur in a society without emotional involvement. Jack Barbalet (2002:2) Why we engage in what we do is a consuming passion of our existence. Motivations are searched...
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Springer
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2007-09-04
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Philanthropy has been around for thousands of years but the study of philanthropic organizations and their role in a civil society is still recent. Most of the research focuses on organizations and institutions in developed market economies, in particular the United...
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Springer
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2007-08-29
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In the ten years after President Clinton made good on his promise to "end welfare as we know it" by signing the reform act of 1996, the number of families on welfare dropped by over three million. This hotly contested legislation has fueled countless hyperbolic...
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Oxford University Press
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2007-08-22
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The cognitive science of religion has made a persuasive case for the view that a number of different psychological systems are involved in the construction and transmission of notions of extranatural agency such as deities and spirits. Until now this work has been based...
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Oxford University Press
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2007-08-09
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"Written by some of the leading thinkers in the field, the book is an excellent resource for longstanding and contemporary issues in cultural theory. Comprehensive and well-written."
- David Oswell, Goldsmiths College
This timely volume provides a framework for...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-08-01
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'The book is a theoretically rich and sophisticated contribution to the development of knowledge society studies and to the analysis of the many puzzles of intellectual innovation. It will surely become a sourcebook for anyone interested in creativity and knowledge...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-07-19
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In this book, Ramin Jahanbegloo converses with twenty-seven leading Indian personalities—social scientists, journalists, activists, artists, and sports persons—to gain an understanding of contemporary Indian society. Jahanbegloo, an Iranian-Canadian philosopher and...
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OUP India
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2007-07-16
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This is an original study of women self-identified as working-class and lesbian, showing the significance of class and sexuality in their biographies, everyday lives and identities. It provides insight, a critique of queer theory and an empirical interrogation of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-07-13
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Social researchers are increasingly aware of their obligations to the 'hard to reach' communities they research. This book identifies the issues associated with researching these communities and offers both conceptual analyses and practical suggestions. The contributors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-07-12
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This collection is the result of a five-year-long collaboration of sociologists in Sweden, Spain and the United States. In-depth, extended interviews with couples explore their daily lives and provide insights into the impact of modernity, gender roles, and expectations...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-07-12
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Is gender something done to us by society, or something we do? What is the relationship between gender and other inequalities?
What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyse how women's and men's lives are shaped by...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-06-18
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