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This book highlights the parallel transformations of the concepts of citizenship and the welfare state, and their dependence on the dominant political ideology, from the post-war period to the present. Kourachanis presents the welfare state as an integral part of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-21
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This book is about ageing in Bulgaria. How do Bulgaria’s elderly—abandoned by the state and left behind by their adult children and grandchildren—adapt to their continuously shifting environment and a state of perpetual uncertainty? Drawing on dozens of interviews with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-21
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The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher than ever, yet broad social, political, and economic changes have made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers. In It's a Setup, Timothy Black and...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-11-20
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What makes a woman’s body beautiful? Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and non-surgical interventions such as Botox are changing women’s bodies physically and affecting cultural notions and expectations of what it means to be a woman. Yet where does the law stand? Is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-17
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Eager to present their cultural assets, most nations in Eastern Europe, while ruled by foreign empires, were setting up museums from the 19th century on. With many of them attaining national sovereignty in the 20th century only, the museum expansion in this region has...
Editeur :
Harmattan Hongrie
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2020-11-17
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Ce numéro spécial lance un cycle de réflexion qui aspire à colmater une brèche liée à l'enseignement et la recherche en sciences humaines, à savoir l'aspect pratique, lié au principe de recherche action et de recherche intervention. Ainsi les articles de ce numéro...
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Editions L'Harmattan
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2020-11-15
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This book breaks new theoretical ground by constructing a framework of ‘relational vulnerability’ through which it analyses the disadvantaged position of those who undertake unpaid caregiving, or ‘dependency-work’, in the context of the private family. Expanding on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-15
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Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband vereint strukturierte Erfahrungsberichte und Reflexionen von Hochschullehrenden und Studierenden in der pluralen, sozioökonomischen Hochschulbildung. Neben der konkreten Inspiration, die diese Beiträge für andere Lehrende darstellen sollen,...
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Springer VS
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2020-11-13
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Sarah Nettleton’s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the field. Building on these strengths, the fourth edition integrates fresh insights from the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-11-10
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Learn about key moments in New York City's development, starting with the history of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and its role in shaping the city from World War II to the present.The J.M. Kaplan Fund was established in 1945 by Jacob M. Kaplan, and would go on to play a...
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Bold Type Books
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2020-11-10
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Negli ultimi anni il femminicidio e la violenza contro le donne hanno ottenuto crescente visibilità, tuttavia restano inesplorati molti aspetti riguardanti gli autori di questi reati. Chi sono gli uomini violenti? Quali sono le loro motivazioni? In che modo giustificano...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
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2020-11-09
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?The book discusses the theoretical and methodological challenges of an interculturally valid sociology of religion and provides insights into the autochthonous socio-religious research in Muslim societies and Asian countries. In this way, it links discourses that have...
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Springer VS
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2020-11-06
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Marginalisation of Older Men: The Lost Boys focuses on the phenomenon of the marginalisation of older men and the impact of gendered ageing as a pathologic disorder leading to suicide ideation, rather than a celebratory state. In this engaging investigation,Deborah...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-04
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Schulsportforschung und Jugendsportforschung stehen noch häufig unverbunden nebeneinander. Dieses Defizit versucht die vorliegende Studie zu bearbeiten, indem sie sportive Orientierungen von Jugendlichen in den Kontexten von Schule und Freizeit rekonstruiert. Befragt...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-10-30
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This book produces an original argument about the emergence of ‘trauma’ in the nineteenth-century through new readings of Dickens, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Collins, Gaskell and Elliot. Madeleine Wood argues that the mid-Victorian novels present their protagonists in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-30
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Die Digitalisierung festigt die bestehenden gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse. Entgegen dem vorherrschenden Narrativ einer „digitalen Befähigung“ und den viel beschriebenen Chancen für jeden Einzelnen, macht dieses Buch deutlich, dass die Digitalisierung die sozialen...
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Springer VS
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2020-10-30
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Should human organs be bought and sold? Is it right that richer people should be able to pay poorer people to wait in a queue for them?Should objects in museums ever be sold? The assumption underlying such questions is that there are things that should not be bought and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-10-28
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Die soziologische Studie leistet einen Beitrag zum Verständnis der Ambivalenz und der gesellschaftlichen Legitimität des Geldes.Die Untersuchung beinhaltet eine theoretische Diskussion aktueller Geldtheorien mit Rückgriff auf Georg Simmel sowie eine empirische Analyse...
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Springer VS
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2020-10-28
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The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship, Anthropocene science proposes that human activity is tipping the whole Earth system into a new state, with...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-10-28
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Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned, a...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-10-28
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