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Based on an extensive interview study with lesbian, transgender and queer BDSM practitioners, this book sheds new light on sexuality and current theoretical debates in gender and queer studies. It critically discusses practices of establishing consent, pushing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-28
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Happiness, rather than being a private and subjective experience, is shaped, interpreted and articulated via culturally specific ways of thinking, being and acting. This highly original and timely book offers an empirical exploration of the ways in which being 'happy'...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-14
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This book provides a detailed, up-to-date snapshot of Australian family formation, answering such questions as ‘what do our families look like?’ and ‘how have they come to be this way?’ The book applies sociological insights to a broad range of demographic trends,...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-10-13
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Are young people today politically 'apathetic'? Or are they democratically 'mature' citizens? This book examines several types of involvement to reveal changes in young people's political participation in Europe in recent decades. It uses various concepts of 'age' to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-10
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Der vorliegende Band beschäftigt sich zum einen mit der Reduktion des Essens auf eine naturwissenschaftliche Perspektive und moralisches Gebot und hebt zum anderen die kulturelle und soziale Bedeutung hervor.Seit der Entstehung der Ernährungswissenschaft Mitte des 19....
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Springer VS
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2014-10-08
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Family Problems: Stress, Risk, and Resilience presents an interdisciplinary collection of original essays that push the boundaries of family science to reflect the increasingly diverse complexity of family concerns in the modern world. Represents the most up-to-date...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-07
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Das Buch analysiert, wie Beschäftigte der öffentlichen Verwaltung mit unterbrochenen Erwerbsverläufen ihr Arbeitsleben gestalten, welche Bedeutung Partizipation in der Arbeitswelt für sie hat, wie sie beruflichen Erfolg definieren und die Balance zwischen dem...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2014-10-07
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Using the concept of fulfilment and the framework of the serious leisure perspective, this book examines the signposts marking the fulfilment career. This career begins with an interest in a serious pursuit, leading to an efflorescence many years later in amateurism,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-02
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Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and digital outreach interventions, this book establishes some of the cognitive and emotional responses that make us incorporate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-04
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Domestic Violence Laws in the United States and India is a comparative study of the domestic violence laws in India and the United States, seeking to illuminate the critical issues of intimate partner violence through the lenses of these two societies.
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-09-02
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This important source for students, researchers, advertisers and parents reviews the debates and presents new research about advertising to children. Chapters cover food and alcohol advertising, the effects of product placement and new media advertising, and the role of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-29
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Recent theorizing tends to position ordinary relationships as something we have lost, yet the nature of these relationships is not seriously engaged with. Drawing on rich empirical data, this book questions epochal claims about contemporary emotional lives, setting out...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-26
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Kinderschutz ist seit Längerem ein „heißes“ Thema in Politik und Gesellschaft. Die zahlreichen Medienberichte über kritische Ereignisse in Familien und das (angebliche) Versagen zuständiger Instanzen erregen regelmäßig die Gemüter derer, die sich urteilsfähig fühlen –...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-08-21
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This study reassesses the criminal body from sentencing to execution and afterlife, using the nineteenth-century Red Barn murder as a case study. Positioned within the burgeoning field of medical humanities, it places culture and power at the centre of debates...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-08-18
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This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-23
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When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-22
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This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-02
Collection :
Life Course Research and Social Policies
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This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies. Drawing on up-to-date research, it explores the relationship between childhood as a social and cultural construction and the plethora of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-25
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Bringing together sociology of the body with powerful examinations of educational theory and social class, Henry examines how children's experiences of school and pedagogy are shaped by their bodies and the ideas of social class and class identity that their bodies...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-06-11
Collection :
The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education
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The search for meaning is an essential human activity. It is not just about agreeing on some definitions about the world, objects, and people; it is an ethical process of opening up to find new possibilities. Langlois uses case studies of social media platforms...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-05
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