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This book presents an analysis of masculinity construction in a large corpus of women’s magazines, adopting a feminist Critical Stylistic approach to reveal how men are talked about and ‘sold’ to women as part of a successful performance of hegemonic femininity.This...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-13
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Although estimated as a multi-billion dollar industry, surrogacy has still not found prominence in legislation in India, neither does it feature in the nation’s public discourse. This short introduction explores how surrogacy is practiced and understood in India and...
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OUP India
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2018-12-13
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This is the era of Big Data and computational social science. It is an era that requires tools which can do more than visualise data but also model the complex relation between data and human action, and interaction. Agent-Based Models (ABM) - computational models which...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2018-12-13
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This book gives a personal insight into the hearts and minds of a fundamentalist Christian sect, the Open Brethren. Using Brethren magazine articles, obituaries, and testimonies, Peter Herriot argues that the Brethren constitute a perfect example of a fundamentalism....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-13
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This book focuses on the relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, a topic of particular interest now as the industry is going through a period of major transformation. Drawing from multiple perspectives, including...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-12-13
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Eva-Maria Lessinger beschreibt, wie der Klatsch in den Massenmedien als mediale Adaption alltäglicher Klatschgespräche theoretisch und historisch aus dem Face-to-Face-Klatsch abgeleitet werden kann und welche Gemeinsamkeiten, Unterschiede und Interdependenz zwischen...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-12
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This book provides an in-depth account of a qualitative study on the familial arrangements and domestic settings shaping interracial gay partnerships in the South African context, and it offers both empirical and theoretical insights on the topic. While heterosexual...
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Springer
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2018-12-12
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This book explores and analyses the evolution of social insurance in Cyprus from 1878, beginning with the arrival of the British after 300 years of Ottoman occupation.
Neocleous follows the struggles of the labour movement which raised the issue of social insurance and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-12
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Organizations are the dominant social invention for generating resources and distributing them. Relational Inequalities develops a general sociological and organizational analysis of inequality, exploring the processes that generate inequalities in access to respect,...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-12
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A vital and sweeping examination of today's "boy crisis," demonstrating the ways in which we raise boys into a culture of toxic masculinity and offering solutions that can liberate us all Whether they're being urged to "man up" or warned that "boys don't cry," young men...
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Seal Press
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2018-12-11
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This book provides an innovative contribution to the emerging field of culture and development through the lens of cultural rights, arguing in favour of a fruitful dialogue between human rights, development studies, critical cultural studies, and concerns about the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-11
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Jeremias Herberg problematisiert die Fachkräftemangeldebatte in einer 2. korrigierten Auflage neu. Drei Fallstudien über pädagogisch-ökonomische Kooperationsbemühungen entlarven die steuerungsoptimistische Vorstellung von Zufluss und Abfluss als...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-11
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Politische Soziologie
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This timely book focuses on influence and behavior analysis in the broader context of social network applications and social media. Twitter accounts of telecommunications companies are analyzed. Rumor sources in finite graphs with boundary effects by...
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Springer
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2018-12-11
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This book continues the exploration of themes either neglected or devalued by others working in the field of philosophy and culture. The authors in this volume consider the domain of travel from the broadest and most diverse of philosophical perspectives, covering...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-11
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Ist die Menschheit allein im Universum? Gibt es eine Chance, jenseits der Erde auf fremde Intelligenzen zu stoßen? Und was würde ein solcher Kontakt für die Zukunft der Menschheit bedeuten? Dies sind die Fragen, die im Mittelpunkt der neuesten sozialwissenschaftlichen...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-11
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Das essential unterscheidet drei grundlegende Typen sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschungsdesigns: x-zentriert, y-zentriert und kontrastiv. Diese unterscheiden sich durch die Anzahl der betrachteten Theorien und dadurch, ob diese Theorien logisch konkurrierend oder...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-11
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This book examines the role of Hindu-inspired faith movements (HIFMs) in contemporary India as actors in social transformation. It further situates these movements in the context of the global political economy where such movements cross national boundaries to locate...
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Springer
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2018-12-11
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This book explores the consumption of counterfeit fashion goods. Despite the importance of the consumer in counterfeiting policy, there has been a lack of attention within criminology about the demand for counterfeit goods. A tendency to explain counterfeit consumption...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-12-11
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?This Brief examines the “militarization” of law enforcement in the United States through the lens of the stakeholders primarily responsible for implementing, funding, and enacting the practice. Largely a result of policies such as the war on drugs, war on terror,...
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Springer
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2018-12-11
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This books demonstrates the difficulty of protecting victims of human trafficking from being held liable for crimes they were compelled to commit in the course, or as a consequence, of being trafficked, under current European law. The legislation remains vague and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-11
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