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Mit dem Begriff der Wissensgesellschaft betonen Zeitdiagnosen den wachsenden Stellenwert von (wissenschaftlichem) Wissen für alle gesellschaftlichen Handlungsfelder. Eine noch wenig erforschte Konsequenz dieser Entwicklung ist das Erfordernis, Wissen zu kommunizieren...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-27
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Das Buch gibt eine Einführung und dient als Praxis-Handbuch für die Konzeptualisierung, Durchführung und Auswertung von Gruppendiskussionen in sozialwissenschaftlichen und wirtschaftspsychologischen Kontexten.Gruppendiskussionen gehören zu den Grundpfeilern qualitativer...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-25
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Today's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live. The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential for near infinite and almost free replication....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-07-25
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This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical research. The Roman Catholic Church has had a significant impact upon the formulation and application of moral values and principles to a...
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Springer
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2017-07-24
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This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1924–86. It draws on data collected from interviews with 82 men in Australia, England, New Zealand, and USA. The first half of the book concentrates on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-20
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Julian Stubbe aims at characterizing what novelty is in the becoming of objects and how the new becomes part of a shared reality. The study’s method is comparative and concerned with technological practice in science as well as in art. It draws on a detailed comparison...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-18
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In Begriffen wie „Arbeitsgesellschaft“, „Industriegesellschaft“ oder „kapitalistische Gesellschaft“ drückt sich die Hoffnung aus, über die Schlüsselkategorie „Arbeit“ nicht nur die Zustände in Betrieben, sondern in der Gesellschaft insgesamt erklären zu können. Dieses...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
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The book focuses on major aspects of Norbert Elias's social theory through research on supposed “minor” topics, such as manners, sports, leisure and cultural practices. While many of his publications became essential for scholars in the different disciplines concerned,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-18
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Gegenstand des vorliegenden Bandes ist der mit dem Begriff der Ökonomisierung belegte gesellschaftliche Wandel der letzten vier Jahrzehnte. Ausgehend von einer Geschichte der Verwendungsweise des Begriffs, die bis zu John Stuart Mill und Karl Marx zurückreicht, wird...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
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The ideal of higher humanism challenges our modern civilization and its diminished image of the human being. A critique of the ideologies of "bourgeois humanism" provides a pathway toward the renascence of human identity and human dignity. Historical illustrations,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-18
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This book challenges adult assumptions that young-people do not, cannot and should not think about death. The author uses everyday material objects in order to facilitate a range of conversations, revealing lively engagement with the topic. Cultural resources, such as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-18
Collection :
Studies in Childhood and Youth
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This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today’s world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition.Leisure’s modern legacy is both...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-17
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This book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples. The power of indigenous spirit world is harnessed for the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-17
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Peter Paul Latzke zeigt, wie aus Qualitätsmanagement, Dienstleistungsmarketing, Arbeitsbedingungen und Fachwissen ein marktführendes Leistungsnetzwerk für arbeitsintensive Dienstleistungen gesponnen wird. Dabei verbindet er die marktsoziologischen Perspektiven des...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-15
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The essential revision guide for AS and 1st-year A level Sociology from trusted and best-selling author Ken Browne. This indispensable book provides everything you need to revise for the exams, with a clear topic-by-topic layout to recap key theories and central ideas....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-07-14
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The book provides an overview of key issues in the debate concerning the emergence of active citizenship in Europe.The specific focus of enquiry is the promotion of patterns of civic and political engagement and civic and political participation by the EU and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-14
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This book explores the meanings and experiences of home among a group of lesbians who over the past five decades have sought to create alternative intimate and public living spaces. The protagonists who enact the ethnographic narrative are a small group of older...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-12
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This book explores what science fiction can tell us about the human condition in a technological world, with the ethical dilemmas and consequences that this entails.This book is the result of the joint efforts of scholars and scientists from various...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-07-10
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Gathering anonymous testimonies from artists of different backgrounds into a single stream of (often contrary) opinions, the book addresses discrimination as a paradigm of otherness, the possibility of gendered music and sound art, and how sound artists and musicians...
Editeur :
Les presses du réel
Parution :
2017-07-10
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This book puts forward a comprehensive criminology of disaster by drawing - and building - upon existing theories which attempt to explain disaster crime. Although antisocial behaviour in disasters has long been viewed as a rarity, the authors present ample...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-10
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