| |
Class-based self-perception is a rising issue worldwide. Through observation in kindergartens in Fiji, Brison examines how schools instil these ideas in Suva children. Teachers have different goals depending on the social background of the families while students create...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-06
PDF
|
This book investigates nationalisms and the emergence of national identities among the Indigenous peoples across North America. It examines the many difficulties which the Native communities have had to face in order to assert themselves as nations, as well as looking...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-06
PDF, ePub
|
The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us going. To help reveal the complexity and intricacy of the webs of meaning in which they are suspended, Tom Inglis interviewed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-06
PDF
|
This unique collection explores the continuing invisibility of much crime and victimization, and the lack of adequate responses to them. Shaping the lens through which criminology and victimology is approached in the twenty-first century, the volume examines major...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-05
PDF
|
The experiences of African women in the era before independence remain a woefully understudied facet of African history. This innovative and carefully argued study thus adds tremendously to our understanding of colonial history by focusing on women's education,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-05
PDF
|
While books on archaeological and anthropological ethics have proliferated in recent years, few attempt to move beyond a conventional discourse on ethics to consider how a discussion of the social and political implications of archaeological practice might be...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-11-05
ePub
|
This monograph uses the latest archaeological results from Mongolia and the surrounding areas of Inner Asia to propose a novel understanding of nomadic statehood, political economy, and the nature of interaction with ancient China. In contrast to the common view of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-11-05
ePub
|
Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace. Under Mao Zedong, the state controlled nearly all aspects of what people consumed, from everyday necessities to entertainment and the media; today, shoddy state-run stores characterized by a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-11-05
Collection :
China Today
ePub
|
Biografie und Lebenswelt gelten als zentrale Fachbegriffe innerhalb der Sozialen Arbeit, die gleichermaßen für Theorie, Praxis und Forschung bedeutsam sind. In theoretischer und empirischer Weise werden in dem Sammelband die theoretischen Zugänge zuBiografie und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-11-05
ePub
|
In this important book, Ulrich Beck - one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today - examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and presents a new vision for the future. Beck begins by describing how the traditional work society, with its life-long...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-11-05
PDF, ePub
|
In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-11-05
PDF, ePub
|
Europe is Europe’s last remaining realistic political utopia. ButEurope remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in terms of the traditional concepts of politics and the state, which remain...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-11-05
PDF, ePub
|
Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict are insignificant. The New Testament says: 'We are all equal in the sight of God'. To be sure, this equality applies only to those who...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-11-05
PDF, ePub
|
Protest and political violence are concerns of global importance in the twenty-first century. This dictionary brings together in one comprehensive volume a number of key issues relating to the conduct of protest and political violence and the response of the state and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-04
PDF
|
Based on research with frontline professionals and domestic abuse and homicide victims, this book argues for a re-conceptualisation of the female victim to enhance safety management and encourage a deeper understanding of the emotional dynamics and social structures...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-04
PDF
|
The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-04
PDF
|
This study presents a unique overview of the cultural, social and practical aspects of interviewing rape victims. Exploring a range of issues that affect rape cases including discourse, gender, attitudes and victim's rights, Rich reveals the complexities of sexual...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-04
PDF
|
In this book, the authors examine manifestations of transmedia storytelling in different historical periods and countries, spanning the UK, the US and Argentina. It takes us into the worlds of Conan the Barbarian, Superman and El Eternauta, introduces us to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-04
PDF
|
The European Union clearly matters for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). EU officials and European political entrepreneurs has been crucial in the promotion of funding and access opportunities, but they have been proven to have little capacity to use CSOs for their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-04
PDF
|
This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-04
PDF
|