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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511489785
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 289 pages)
    DDC: 306.7/0285/4678
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    Keywords: Internet ; Zweierbeziehung ; Gefühl ; Sexualität
    Abstract: Computers have changed not just the way we work but the way we love. Falling in and out of love, flirting, cheating, even having sex online have all become part of the modern way of living and loving. Yet we know very little about these new types of relationship. How is an online affair where the two people involved may never see or meet each other different from an affair in the real world? Is online sex still cheating on your partner? Why do people tell complete strangers their most intimate secrets? What are the rules of engagement? Will online affairs change the monogamous nature of romantic relationships? These are just some of the questions Professor Aaron Ben Ze'ev, distinguished writer and academic, addresses in this book, a full-length study of love online. Accessible, shocking, entertaining, enlightening, this book will change the way you look at cyberspace and love forever.
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139055574
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 518 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe Cambridge Cambridge University Press March 2008 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The Cambridge history of the Pacific Islanders
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Ozeanier ; Ozeanien
    Abstract: This history presents an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the experiences of Pacific islanders from their first settlement of the islands to the present day. It addresses the question of insularity and explores islanders' experiences thematically, covering such topics as early settlement, contact with Europeans, colonialism, politics, commerce, nuclear testing, tradition, ideology, and the role of women. It incorporates material on the Maori, the Irianese in western New Guinea, the settled immigrant communities in Fiji, New Caledonia and the Hawaiian monarchy and follows migrants to New Zealand, Australia and North America.
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    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780814729229
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.8/0973
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    Keywords: Electronic books.
    Abstract: After Race pushes us beyond the old "race vs. class" debates to delve deeper into the structural conditions that spawn racism. Darder and Torres place the study of racism forthrightly within the context of contemporary capitalism. While agreeing with those who have argued that the concept of "race" does not have biological validity, they go further to insist that the concept also holds little political, symbolic, or descriptive value when employed in social science and policy research.Darder and Torres argue for the need to jettison the concept of "race," while calling adamantly for the critical study of racism. They maintain that an understanding of structural class inequality is fundamentally germane to comprehending the growing significance of racism in capitalist America.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781846152818
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 176 pages)
    DDC: 392.1/5/0940902
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    Abstract: 'Rites of passage' is a term and concept more used than considered. Here, for the first time, its implications are applied and tested in the field of medieval studies: medievalists from a range of disciplines consider the various theoretical models - folklorist, anthropological, psychoanalytical - that can be used to analyse cultures of transition in the history and literature of fourteenth-century Europe. Ranging over a wide variety of texts, from chronicles to romances, from priests' manuals to courtesy books, from state records to the writings of Chaucer, Gower and Froissart, the contributors identify and analyse medieval attitudes to the process of change in lifecycle, status, gender and power. A substantive introduction by Miri Rubin draws together the ideas and materials discussed in the book to illustrate the relevance and importance of anthropology to the study of medieval culture. Contributors: JOEL BURDEN, PATRICIA CULLUM, ISABEL DAVIS, JANE GILBERT, SARAH KAY, MARK ORMROD, HELEN PHILLIPS, MIRI RUBIN, SHARON WELLS. NICOLA F. McDONALD is Lecturer in Medieval Literature, W.M ORMROD Professor of Medieval History, University of York.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780748676989
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 176 pages)
    DDC: 302.231
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    Abstract: This book explores how the Internet presents radical ways of organising and producing media that offer political and cultural alternatives, both to ways of doing business and to how we understand the world and our place in it. The book is characterised by in-depth case studies. Topics include the media of new social movements and other radical political organisations (including the far right); websites produced by fans of popular culture; and media dedicated to developing a critical, 'public' journalism. It locates these studies in appropriate theoretical and historical contexts, while remaining accessible to a student audience. Major themes: *The use of the Internet by political groups such as the anti-capitalist and environmental movements, as well as the far right *Radical forms of creativity and distribution: the anti-copyright and sampling/file-sharing movements, and their role as cultural critics in a corporate world *The development and maintenance of a global, 'digital public sphere' of protest through such practices as 'hacktivism' *The use of new media technologies to transform existing media forms and practices, such as news media and Internet radio. This is the first book devoted entirely to 'alternative' ways of political organisation and cultural production on the Internet. The author is one of the leading international experts in the study of alternative media, and this book is an authoritative guide to all aspects of these phenomena: the cultural, the political, the economic and the social. The range of topics covered will make it an attractive text for a wide range of media and cultural studies and computing courses.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511606793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 217 pages)
    Series Statement: New perspectives on anthropological and social demography 3
    DDC: 304.6
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    Abstract: Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today: anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. The first stresses the role of culture in determining population parameters, while the second posits that demographic rates reflect adaptive behaviors that are the products of natural selection. Both sub-disciplines have achieved notable successes, but each has ignored and been actively disdainful of the other. This text attempts a rapprochement of anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation. Both these approaches are utilized to search for demographic strategies in varied cultural and temporal contexts ranging from African pastoralists through North American post-industrial societies. As such this book is relevant to cultural and biological anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, and historians.
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  • 7
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511165862 , 0511184220 , 0511616317 , 0511164734 , 9780511184222 , 9780511616310 , 9780511164736 , 9780511165863
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 228 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stewart, Pamela J Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip
    DDC: 133.4/3
    Keywords: Witchcraft Cross-cultural studies ; Gossip Cross-cultural studies ; Social conflict Cross-cultural studies ; Violence Cross-cultural studies ; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Magick Studies ; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Witchcraft & Wicca ; Gossip ; Social conflict ; Violence ; Witchcraft ; Hexerei ; Kulturvergleich ; Klatsch ; Hekserij ; Tovenarij ; Roddelen ; Geruchten ; Cross-cultural studies
    Abstract: "This book combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumors and gossip. It does so in two ways. First, it shows how rumor and gossip are invariably important as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery. Second, it demonstrates the role of rumor and gossip in the genesis of social and political violence, as in the case of both peasant rebellions and witch-hunts. Examples supporting the argument are drawn from Africa, Europe, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka. They include discussions of witchcraft trials in England and Scotland in the seventeenth century, witch-hunts and vampire narratives in colonial and contemporary Africa, millenarian movements in New Guinea, the Indian Mutiny in nineteenth-century Uttar Pradesh, and rumors of construction sacrifice in Indonesia."--Jacket
    Abstract: Witchcraft and sorcery: modes of analysis -- Rumor and gossip: an overview -- Africa -- India -- New Guinea -- European and American witchcraft -- Rumors and violence -- Conclusions: conflict and cohesion.
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511499401
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 375 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/12
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    Keywords: Bibliografie ; Bibliografie
    Abstract: This book presents a systematic study of social stratification processes in urban China, from 1949 to 1994. Based on the life histories of a sample of urban residents from 20 Chinese cities, this book addresses two themes: (1) the interplay between redistribution and social stratification under state socialism in urban China, especially the impact of the state and state policies on individual life chances, in such areas as education, labor force participation, promotion in organizations, and the distribution of manifest and latent economic benefits; (2) an assessment of sources and extent of China's economic transformation since the 1980s. The author blends sociological analysis and sensitivity to the historical context in interpreting changes and continuity in the 45-year history of state socialist China. This is a comprehensive and rigorous study of social stratification in China.
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  • 9
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1108585450 , 9781108585453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 343 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chandra, Kanchan, 1971- Why ethnic parties succeed
    DDC: 306.2/6/0954
    Keywords: Political parties ; Minorities Political activity ; Patronage, Political ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Ethnic relations ; Political aspects ; Minorities ; Political activity ; Patronage, Political ; Political parties ; Ethnizität ; Partei ; India Ethnic relations ; Political aspects ; India ; Indien
    Abstract: Limited information and ethnic categorization -- Patronage-democracy, limited information, and ethnic favouritism -- Counting heads : why ethnic parties succeed in patronage-democracies -- Why parties have different head counts : party organization and elite incorporation -- India as a patronage-democracy -- The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Scheduled Castes (SCs) -- Why SC elites join the BSP -- Why SC voters prefer the BSP -- Why SC voter preferences translate into BSP votes -- Explaining different head counts in the BSP and Congress -- Extending the argument to other ethnic parties in India : The BJP, The DMK, and the JMM -- Ethnic head counts and democratic stability.
    Abstract: Why do some ethnic parties succeed in attracting the support of their target ethnic group while others fail? In a world in which ethnic parties flourish in both established and emerging democracies alike, understanding the conditions under which such parties rise and fall is of critical importance to both political scientists and policy makers. Drawing on a study of variation in the performance of ethnic parties in India, this book builds a theory of ethnic party performance in 'patronage democracies'. Chandra shows why individual voters and political entrepreneurs in such democracies condition their strategies not on party ideologies or policy platforms, but on a headcount of co-ethnics and others across party personnel and among the electorate
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511808302
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 389 pages)
    Series Statement: The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence
    DDC: 302
    Abstract: Our volume examines the potential for change during the life course and across generations. We address the possibilities for promoting healthy development from infancy to adulthood in three key domains: human capital, partnership behavior, and child and adolescent development. Drawing from the disciplines of economics, demography, sociology, psychology, and psychiatry, our volume takes a multidisciplinary approach to review relevant empirical work regarding aspects of change and continuity, and the ways in which policies and programs might bring about change. We feature chapters from leading researchers in five countries to address these important issues. The main purpose of our volume is to link and integrate the lessons learned from multiple disciplines about change and continuity in order to examine how our nations can improve life chances.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511805554
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 368 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: Studies in environment and history
    DDC: 302.4
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    Abstract: People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But, as Alfred Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology than of military conquest. European organisms had certain decisive advantages over their New World and Australian counterparts. The spread of European disease, flora, and fauna went hand in hand with the growth of populations. Consequently, these imperialists became proprietors of the world's most important agricultural lands. Now in a second edition with a new preface, Crosby revisits his now-classic work and again evaluates the global historical importance of European ecological expansion.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511606762
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 345 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in landscape ecology
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The establishment of ecological networks in Europe and greenways in America has required some of the most advanced applications of the principles of landscape ecology to land use planning. This book provides a thorough overview of recent developments in this emerging field, combining theoretical concepts of landscape ecology with the actual practice of landscape planning and management. In addition to biological and physical considerations important to biodiversity protection and restoration, equal weight is given to cultural and aesthetic issues to illustrate how sympathetic, sustainable land use policies can be implemented. Examples are given for large scale areas (Estonia and Florida) as well as regional areas such as Milano, Chicago and the Argentinian Yungas. This invaluable book will provide a wealth of information for all those concerned with biodiversity conservation through networks and greenways and their relevance to the planning process, whether researcher, land manager or policy maker.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511815447 , 0511037856
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 19
    DDC: 302.4
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    Keywords: Soziales Kapital ; Theorie ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Sozialstruktur ; Soziales Handeln ; Sozialkompetenz
    Abstract: In Social Capital, Nan Lin explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) to individuals, social groups, organizations, and communities in obtaining their objectives. This book places social capital in the family of capital theories (the classical and neo-capital theories), articulates its elements and propositions, presents research programs, findings, and agenda, and theorizes its significance in various moments of interactions between individual actions and social structure (for example, the primordial groups, social exchanges, organizations, institutional transformations and cybernetworks). Nan Lin eloquently introduces a groundbreaking theory that forcefully argues and shows why it is 'who you know', as well as 'what you know' that makes a difference in life and society.
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    Singapore : International Institute for Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812305879
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 325 pages)
    DDC: 303.482504
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    Keywords: Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: The book presents a unique combination of the study of contemporary and historical practices between Asia and Europe and brings forth some of the latest thinking on the subject. Recent debates have centered primarily on contemporary aspects of the Europe-Asia partnership in terms of international relations and economic linkages. The present volume complements this political and economic interest in Europe-Asia relationship by focusing on the academic, social and cultural connections between the two regions. The contributions in this volume have a contemporary focus but contextualize the themes within a historical perspective. They deal with academic discourses on the region, on modernity and entrepreneurship; they discuss the long-term exchange of knowledge in specific scientific fields; and they focus on the cultural interconnections in the area of film, literature and migration. The originality of this book lies in its interdisciplinary approach to the question of Asia-Europe and in its emphasis on the multifaceted complexity of the relationship between these two regions. It brings together the diversity of local histories, ideas, and agencies in both Europe and Asia into a universal project of knowledge formation in order to reveal their contribution to the making of the world we are in. Contributors: Syed Farid Alatas, Gregory Clancey, John Kleinen, Van Nguyen-Marshall, Henk Schulte Nordholt, Paravin J. Patel, Maurizio Peleggi, Satish Saberwal, Vineeta Sinha...
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    ISBN: 9781782381693
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.)
    Series Statement: War and Genocide 6
    DDC: 305.23/089/9915
    Abstract: Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with the arrival of the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, the authors identify the moments of radicalization and the escalation of British violence and ethnic engineering aimed at the Indigenous populations, while carefully distinguishing between local massacres, cultural genocide, and genocide itself. These essays reflect a growing concern with the nature of settler society in Australia and in particular with the fate of the tens of thousands of children who were forcibly taken away from their Aboriginal families by state agencies. Long considered a relatively peaceful settlement, Australian society contained many of the pathologies that led to the exterminatory and eugenic policies of twentieth century Europe.
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    ISBN: 9781782387237
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    DDC: 306.43094
    Abstract: For several years now, the concepts of 'civil culture' and 'civil society' have been widely discussed in the social sciences. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, this volume is one of few studies that offer solid and focused ethnographic research on how the tenets and assumptions of civil culture are inculcated in schools. The authors examined school curricula, texts and pedagogical practices, observed daily interaction within the schools and outside, and conducted numerous interviews and discussion groups. The experience of students from Turkish backgrounds in the four countries was given special attention, thus offering valuable insights into the changing dynamics of nation-state civil cultures in multicultural societies.
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    ISBN: 9780822385394
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (494 p.) , 4 illustrations, 4 tables
    Series Statement: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies : 44
    DDC: 305.42/0951
    Abstract: The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism is a history of thinking about the subject of women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow illustrates the theories and conceptual categories that Enlightenment Chinese intellectuals have developed to describe the collectivity of women. Demonstrating how generations of these theorists have engaged with international debates over eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche, Barlow argues that as an Enlightenment project, feminist debate in China is at once Chinese and international. She reads social theory, psychoanalytic thought, literary criticism, ethics, and revolutionary political ideologies to illustrate the range and scope of Chinese feminist theory's preoccupation with the problem of gender inequality. She reveals how, throughout the cataclysms of colonial modernity, revolutionary modernization, and market socialism, prominent Chinese feminists have gathered up the remainders of the past and formed them into social and ethical arguments, categories, and political positions, ceaselessly reshaping progressive Enlightenment sexual liberation theory.
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    ISBN: 9781782381617
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (386 p.)
    Series Statement: Asian Anthropologies 3
    DDC: 306.0959
    Abstract: CHOICE OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR 2005 Despite the growth of interest in the history of anthropology as a over the last two decades, surprisingly little has been published in English on the development of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia and its relationship to the rest of the academic "world-system." The anthropological experience in this region has been varied. Japanese anthropology developed early, and ranks second only to that of the United States in terms of size. Anthropology in China has finally recovered from the experience of invasion, war, and revolution, and now flourishes both on the mainland and in Taiwan. Scholars in Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines have also attempted to break with the legacy of colonialism and develop research relevant to their own national needs. This book includes accounts of these developments by some of the most distinguished scholars in the region. Also discussed are issues of language, authorship, and audience; and the effects these have on writing by anthropologists, whether "native" or "foreign." The book will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in the anthropology of East and Southeast Asia or the development of anthropology as a global discipline.
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    ISBN: 9781789205954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (192 p.)
    Series Statement: Studies in German History 1
    DDC: 304.2/0943
    Abstract: Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Germany is a key test case for the burgeoning field of environmental history; in no other country has the landscape been so thoroughly politicized throughout its past as in Germany,and in no other country have ideas of 'nature' figured so centrally in notions of national identity. The essays collected in this volume - the first collection on the subject in either English or German - place discussions of nature and the human relationship with nature in their political co texts. Taken together, they trace the gradual shift from a confident belief in humanity 's ability to tame and manipulate the natural realm to the Umweltbewußtsein driving the contemporary conservation movement. Nature in German History also documents efforts to reshape the natural realm in keeping with ideological beliefs - such as the Romantic exultation of 'the wild' and the Nazis' attempts to eliminate 'foreign' flora and fauna - as well as the ways in which political issues have repeatedly been transformed into discussions of the environment in Germany.
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    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781442674806
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2019]
    DDC: 391.009710903
    Abstract: How does a country dress itself? From Montreal's 'Retail Mile,' to Ontario's millinery trade, to how war and television can effect the garment industry or whether tailoring can make a cultural impact, Alexandra Palmer gathers together some of the top curators, designers, fashion writers, historians, and artists in the country to create a truly dynamic and thought-provoking collection of essays.Controversial and unconventional, Fashion: A Canadian Perspective challenges readers to consider aspects of Canadian identity in terms of what its citizenship has chosen to wear for the last three centuries, and the internal and external influences of those socio-cultural decisions. Covering a broad range of topics – such as the iconic Hudson Bay Blanket Coats, garment factories of the late 1800s, specific Canadian fashion couturiers whose influences reach international stages, and the contemporary role of fashion journalists and their effect on trends – this collection breaks new ground in producing multiple perspectives on fashion and fashion dress.In a country that has given birth to such global fashion corporations as Club Monaco, Roots, and MAC, Fashion: A Canadian Perspective develops the first intriguing and readable historiography that links past to future, couture vision to trade trends, and heritage costuming to FashionTelevision.
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    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780822399018
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (128 p.)
    Series Statement: A John Hope Franklin Center Book : 32
    DDC: 303.4
    Abstract: In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology within the historical social sciences and a common point of reference in discussions of globalization. Now, for the first time in one volume, Wallerstein offers a succinct summary of world-systems analysis and a clear outline of the modern world-system, describing the structures of knowledge upon which it is based, its mechanisms, and its future.Wallerstein explains the defining characteristics of world-systems analysis: its emphasis on world-systems rather than nation-states, on the need to consider historical processes as they unfold over long periods of time, and on combining within a single analytical framework bodies of knowledge usually viewed as distinct from one another-such as history, political science, economics, and sociology. He describes the world-system as a social reality comprised of interconnected nations, firms, households, classes, and identity groups of all kinds. He identifies and highlights the significance of the key moments in the evolution of the modern world-system: the development of a capitalist world-economy in the sixteenth-century, the beginning of two centuries of liberal centrism in the French Revolution of 1789, and the undermining of that centrism in the global revolts of 1968. Intended for general readers, students, and experienced practitioners alike, this book presents a complete overview of world-systems analysis by its original architect.
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    ISBN: 9781782381792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 p.)
    DDC: 305.8/00944
    Abstract: Scholars across disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic have recently begun to open up, as never before, the scholarly study of race and racism in France. These original essays bring together in one volume new work in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and legal studies. Each of the eleven articles presents fresh research on the tension between a republican tradition in France that has long denied the legitimacy of acknowledging racial difference and a lived reality in which racial prejudice shaped popular views about foreigners, Jews, immigrants, and colonial people. Several authors also examine efforts to combat racism since the 1970s.
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    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780292798120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 306/.1
    Keywords: Corridos ; Drug dealers Folklore ; Drug dealers Songs and music ; Drug traffic Folklore ; Drug traffic Songs and music ; Drug traffic ; Drugs in popular music ; Mexican Americans in popular culture ; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional
    Abstract: Since the late 1970s, a new folk hero has risen to prominence in the U.S.-Mexico border region and beyond—the narcotrafficker. Celebrated in the narcocorrido, a current form of the traditional border song known as the corrido, narcotraffickers are often portrayed as larger-than-life "social bandits" who rise from poor or marginalized backgrounds to positions of power and wealth by operating outside the law and by living a life of excess, challenging authority (whether U.S. or Mexican), and flouting all risks, including death. This image, rooted in Mexican history, has been transformed and commodified by the music industry and by the drug trafficking industry itself into a potent and highly marketable product that has a broad appeal, particularly among those experiencing poverty and power disparities. At the same time, the transformation from folk hero to marketable product raises serious questions about characterizations of narcocorridos as "narratives of resistance." This multilayered ethnography takes a wide-ranging look at the persona of the narcotrafficker and how it has been shaped by Mexican border culture, socioeconomic and power disparities, and the transnational music industry. Mark Edberg begins by analyzing how the narcocorrido emerged from and relates to the traditional corrido and its folk hero. Then, drawing upon interviews and participant-observation with corrido listening audiences in the border zone, as well as musicians and industry producers of narcocorridos, he elucidates how the persona of the narcotrafficker has been created, commodified, and enacted, and why this character resonates so strongly with people who are excluded from traditional power structures. Finally, he takes a look at the concept of the cultural persona itself and its role as both cultural representation and model for practice.
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    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781782386087
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 p.)
    DDC: 394.266
    Abstract: The Day of the Dead is the most important annual celebration in Oaxaca, Mexico. Skillfully combining textual information and photographic imagery, this book begins with a discussion of the people of Oaxaca, their way of life, and their way of looking at the world. It then takes the reader through the celebration from the preparations that can begin months in advance through to the private gatherings in homes and finally to the cemetery where the villagers celebrate together - both the living and the dead. The voices in the book are of those people who have participated in the Day of the Dead for as long as they can remember. There are no ghosts here. Only the souls of loved ones who have gone to the Village of the Dead and who are allowed to return once a year to be with their family. Very readable and beautifully illustrated, this book provides an extensive discussion of the people of Oaxaca, their way of life and their beliefs, which make the Day of the Dead logical and easily comprehensible.
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    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9789812305336
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 304.62095
    Abstract: This volume investigates the “missing link”, the complicated realities of the relations between governance and development through case studies of ASEAN countries. Its main objective is to explore a theoretical framework to overcoming the limitations of mainstream approaches by employing case studies on decentralization, crisis management, corporate governance and foreign aid management of both public and private entities. From the beginning of the 1990s onwards, the international aid community has increasingly stressed that “good governance”, together with democracy and protection of basic human rights, is indispensable for sustainable economic development. The terms, however, are complex, broad, and arguable. They largely refer to discipline of government institutions and the capacity of the public secto While a wide variety of empirical studies has been done on the relations between good governance and development, it is still unclear how the differences in governance influence development performance in a real world.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781474469265
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 302.2244
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    Keywords: Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit ; Einführung
    Abstract: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748616893);Literacy studies is a growing field within applied linguistics, education and media studies. Despite the field's new prominence, current treatments are often weighted towards the propagation of a particular view or approach.This book provides a more balanced understanding, arguing that:literacy must be examined through a balance of approaches if we are to appreciate its true natureliteracy cannot be described simply as situated, social activityliteracy is the sign systems and the uses of language that foster and reflect its social existence. literacy is a property of mind. The book helps the reader to understand some of the currents of thought, whether post modernist, cognitivist, or Vygotskian, on which its larger analysis is based. Written in an engaging and lucid style, it contains a glossary and exercises to help and develop the reader's understanding."...
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    ISBN: 9781782381907
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.)
    Series Statement: New Directions in Anthropology 17
    DDC: 306.09
    Abstract: Offering a rich ethnographic account, this book traces the historical processes by which Andalusians experienced the shift from being poor emigrants to northern Europe to becoming privileged citizens of the southern borderland of the European Union, a region where thousands of African immigrants have come in search of a better life. It draws on extended ethnographic fieldwork in Granada and Senegal, exploring the shifting, complementary and yet antagonistic relations between Spaniards and African immigrants in the Andalusian agrarian work place. The author's findings challenge the assumption of fixed national, cultural, and socioeconomic boundaries vis-à-vis outside migration in core countries, showing how legal and cultural identities of Andalusians are constructed together with that of immigrants.
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    ISBN: 9781782388623
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 3
    DDC: 306.4/61
    Abstract: Recent years have seen many changes in human reproduction resulting from state and medical interventions in childbearing processes. Based on empirical work in a variety of societies and countries, this volume considers the relationship between reproductive processes (of fertility, pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period) on the one hand and attitudes, medical technologies and state health policies in diverse cultural contexts on the other.
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    ISBN: 9781782386124
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (228 p.)
    Series Statement: Anthropology of Food Nutrition 5
    DDC: 394.1
    Abstract: The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its multi-disciplinary nature adds to its complexity. This is the first publication to offer guidance for researchers working in this diverse and expanding field of anthropology.
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    ISBN: 9781782388548
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (176 p.)
    Series Statement: New Directions in Anthropology 22
    DDC: 305.86/9
    Abstract: Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power - Portugal - has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in the context of the debate on colonialism and postcolonialism. The structure of the book reflects a trajectory of research, starting with a case study in Trinidad, followed by another one in Brazil, and ending with yet another one in Portugal. The three case studies, written in the ethnographic genre, are intertwined with essays of a more theoretical nature. The non-monographic, composite - or hybrid - nature of this work may be in itself an indication of the need for transnational and historically grounded research when dealing with issues of representations of identity that were constructed during colonial times and that are today reconfigured in the ideological struggles over cultural meanings.
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    ISBN: 9781782388630
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
    Series Statement: Remapping Cultural History 2
    DDC: 306.47098
    Abstract: In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, 'postmodern' forms of sovereignty appear to rely even more heavily on visual discourses of power. However, a critique of the iconography of the modern state-form has been missing. This volume is the first concerted attempt by cultural, historical and visual scholars to address the political dimension of visual culture in Latin America, in a comparative perspective spanning various regions and historical stages. The case studies are divided into four sections, analysing the formation of a public sphere, the visual politics of avant-garde art, the impact of mass society on political iconography, and the consolidation and crisis of territory as a key icon of the state.
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    München : De Gruyter Oldenbourg | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9783110508666
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Notenbsp
    Edition: Reprint 2016
    Edition: [2016]
    DDC: 303.48/33
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    Budapest : Central European University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9786155053740
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (308 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 171/.7
    Abstract: This book, like in classical times of Plato and Aristotle, treats individual and communal ethics as intertwined. At its heart lies the quartet of respect, concern for welfare of others, trust, and care as the basic communal ties. The community needs to be built on these. Acquisition and practice of other values and goods are within the frame of the four underlying "pillars." The four basic notions are attitudes and as such consist of both rational and emotional elements. Thus our ethics is neither based purely on sentiment nor purely on reason. As such they will yield us guidelines, to be filled in contextually, not rigid rule systems. Moravcsik's proposal for ethics is pluralistic but not relativistic. It does not deny some objective ground for sound communal life, but leaves many alternatives within which the four basic ties can be implemented.
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    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781853597800
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Multilingual Matters
    DDC: 306.44/6/094
    Abstract: This book focuses on the increase of urban multilingualism in Europe as a consequence of processes of migration and minorisation. It offers multidisciplinary, crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives on immigrant minority languages at home and in school in six multicultural cities across Europe. In each of these cities, Germanic or Romance languages have a dominant status in public life. This Multilingual Cities Project is based on large-scale empirical findings and has been carried out under the auspices of the European Cultural Foundation, in Amsterdam. Part I offers multidisciplinary background information on phenomenological, demographic, language rights and educational aspects of the status of immigrant minority communities and their languages in a variety of international contexts. Part II offers methodological considerations on the Multilingual Cities Project. In addition, it presents both national and local perspectives on multilingualism in each of the six cities under consideration. Each chapter provides information on the distribution and vitality of immigrant minority languages spoken at home and on the status of these languages in primary and secondary schools. Part III offers crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives on the twenty most prominent languages that emerge from the study. The focus is again on the two major private and public domains in which language transmission may or may not occur: the home and the school, respectively. The book offers a challenging outlook on the educational management of language diversity in the increasingly multicultural and multilingual context of European nation-states.
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    ISBN: 9780857456809
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    DDC: 303.48/243073/09045
    Abstract: The ongoing discussions about globalization, American hegemony and September 11 and its aftermath have moved the debate about the export of American culture and cultural anti-Americanism to center stage of world politics. At such a time, it is crucial to understand the process of culture transfer and its effects on local societies and their attitudes toward the United States. This volume presents Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two unusually destructive wars, massive ethnic cleansing, and economic disaster. Drawing on examples from history, culture studies, film, radio, and the arts, the authors explore the political and cultural parameters of Americanization and anti-Americanism, as reflected in the reception and rejection of American popular culture and, more generally, in European-American relations in the "American Century."...
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    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780822386384
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (136 p.) , 5 figures
    DDC: 306.70951090511
    Abstract: How can scientific theories contribute to contemporary accounts of embodiment in the humanities and social sciences? In particular, how does neuroscientific research facilitate new approaches to theories of mind and body? Feminists have frequently criticized the neurosciences for biological reductionism, yet, Elizabeth A. Wilson argues, neurological theories-especially certain accounts of depression, sexuality, and emotion-are useful to feminist theories of the body. Rather than pointing toward the conventionalizing tendencies of the neurosciences, Wilson emphasizes their capacity for reinvention and transformation. Focusing on the details of neuronal connections, subcortical pathways, and reflex actions, she suggests that the central and peripheral nervous systems are powerfully allied with sexuality, the affects, emotional states, cognitive appetites, and other organs and bodies in ways not fully appreciated in the feminist literature. Whether reflecting on Simon LeVay's hypothesis about the brains of gay men, Peter Kramer's model of depression, or Charles Darwin's account of trembling and blushing, Wilson is able to show how the neurosciences can be used to reinvigorate feminist theories of the body.
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    ISBN: 9780822385493
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (474 p.)
    Series Statement: Series Q : 8
    DDC: 306.76/62
    Abstract: A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is lived now and as it has been expressed in literary history and in the life and work of Foucault, Eribon argues that gay male politics, social life, and culture are transformative responses to an oppressive social order. Bringing together the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, and Erving Goffman, he contends that gay culture and political movements flow from the need to overcome a world of insult in the process of creating gay selves.Eribon describes the emergence of homosexual literature in Britain and France at the turn of the last century and traces this new gay discourse from Oscar Wilde and the literary circles of late-Victorian Oxford to André Gide and Marcel Proust. He asserts that Foucault should be placed in a long line of authors-including Wilde, Gide, and Proust-who from the nineteenth century onward have tried to create spaces in which to resist subjection and reformulate oneself. Drawing on his unrivaled knowledge of Foucault's oeuvre, Eribon presents a masterful new interpretation of Foucault. He calls attention to a particular passage from Madness and Civilization that has never been translated into English. Written some fifteen years before The History of Sexuality, this passage seems to contradict Foucault's famous idea that homosexuality was a late-nineteenth-century construction. Including an argument for the use of Hannah Arendt's thought in gay rights advocacy, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an impassioned call for critical, active engagement with the question of how gay life is shaped both from without and within.
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    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780814759141
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Sexual Cultures 1
    DDC: 305.868/7295073
    Abstract: Boricua Pop is the first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visibility, cultural impact, and identity formation in the U.S. and at home. Frances Negrón-Muntaner explores everything from the beloved American musical West Side Story to the phenomenon of singer/actress/ fashion designer Jennifer Lopez, from the faux historical chronicle Seva to the creation of Puerto Rican Barbie, from novelist Rosario Ferré to performer Holly Woodlawn, and from painter provocateur Andy Warhol to the seemingly overnight success story of Ricky Martin. Negrón-Muntaner traces some of the many possible itineraries of exchange between American and Puerto Rican cultures, including the commodification of Puerto Rican cultural practices such as voguing, graffiti, and the Latinization of pop music. Drawing from literature, film, painting, and popular culture, and including both the normative and the odd, the canonized authors and the misfits, the island and its diaspora, Boricua Pop is a fascinating blend of low life and high culture: a highly original, challenging, and lucid new work by one of our most talented cultural critics.
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    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780822396147
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.) , 22 b&w photographs
    Edition: 2000
    DDC: 391.6/5
    Abstract: Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. In Bodies of Inscription Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors, and leaders of tattoo organizations have downplayed the working-class roots of tattooing in order to make it more palatable for middle-class consumption. She shows how a completely new set of meanings derived primarily from non-Western cultures has been created to give tattoos an exotic, primitive flavor.Community publications, tattoo conventions, articles in popular magazines, and DeMello's numerous interviews illustrate the interplay between class, culture, and history that orchestrated a shift from traditional Americana and biker tattoos to new forms using Celtic, tribal, and Japanese images. DeMello's extensive interviews reveal the divergent yet overlapping communities formed by this class-based, American-style repackaging of the tattoo. After describing how the tattoo has moved from a mark of patriotism or rebellion to a symbol of exploration and status, the author returns to the predominantly middle-class movement that celebrates its skin art as spiritual, poetic, and self-empowering. Recognizing that the term "community" cannot capture the variations and class conflict that continue to thrive within the larger tattoo culture, DeMello finds in the discourse of tattooed people and their artists a new and particular sense of community and explores the unexpected relationship between this discourse and that of other social movements.This ethnography of tattooing in America makes a substantive contribution to the history of tattooing in addition to relating how communities form around particular traditions and how the traditions themselves change with the introduction of new participants. Bodies of Inscription will have broad appeal and will be enjoyed by readers interested in cultural studies, American studies, sociology, popular culture, and body art.
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    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9789812305312
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.8951059
    Keywords: Konferenzschrift 2002 ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Ethnic/racial relations have been a perennial theme in Southeast Asian studies. Current events have highlighted the tensions among ethnic groups and the need to maintain ethnic/racial harmony for national unity. This book analyses ethnic/race relations in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, with special reference to the roles of ethnic Chinese in nation-building. It brings together a group of established Southeast Asian scholars to critically examine some of the important issues such as ethnic politics, nation-building, state policies, and conflict resolution. These scholars of different ethnic origins present their own ethnic perspectives and hence make the book unique. This is the mostup-to-date book on ethnic/racial relations with special reference to the ethnic Chinese in three Southeast Asian countries.
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    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9789812305954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305/.09597
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Social inequalities have grown during Vietnam’s transition to a market-based economy, even as average incomes have increased and the number of people living in poverty has lessened. Do widening social rifts –- between rich and poor, urban and rural communities and along regional, gender and ethnic lines -– have the potential to undermine Vietnam’s liberal reforms and its integration with its region? How has the socialist state responded to these challenges? Based on research and analysis of recent conditions, Social Inequality in Vietnam and the Challenges to Reform offers detailed descriptions of disparities in income, spatial access, gender, ethnicity and status, addressing their causes and consequences. The eleven chapters in this book illustrate the changing ways in which people have accumulated wealth, social and cultural capital in Vietnam’s move from a socialist to a market-oriented society. They assemble data from the Northern Uplands to the Mekong delta to explore geographic variability in patterns of social differentiation. Offering critical insights into state policy, the chapters assess the adequacy of government responses and outline local responses and informal solutions to social disadvantage. This book features a diverse mix of theoretical and methodological approaches and bridges some of the disciplinary and institutional divides that have impeded understanding of inequality in Vietnam. The wide range of themes it covers will make it a sought-after resource for those interested in contemporary Vietnam and the effects of liberal reforms, globalization and post-socialist development strategies.
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    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780691188386
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 303.3/8
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In democratic societies, opinion polls play a vital role. But it has been demonstrated that many people do not have an opinion about major issues--the "nonattitudes" problem. Also, the framing of questions in different ways can generate very different estimates of public opinion--the "framing" effect. Both dilemmas raise questions about the competence of ordinary citizens to play the role a democratic society ostensibly expects of them. Although the impact of some factors is well established, particularly political information and sophistication, much is yet to be understood. Building on and reaching beyond themes in the work of Philip Converse, one of the pioneers in the study of public opinion, Studies in Public Opinion brings together a group of leading American and European social scientists to explore a number of new factors, with a particular emphasis on the structure of political choices. In twelve chapters that reflect different perspectives on how people form political opinions and how these opinions are manipulated, this book offers an unparalleled view of the state-of-the-art research on these important questions as it has developed on two continents. The contributors include Matthew K. Berent, Jaak Billiet, George Y. Bizer, Paul R. Brewer, John Bullock, Danielle Bütschi, Michael Guge, Hanspeter Kriesi, Jon A. Krosnick, Milton Lodge, Michael F. Meffert, Peter Neijens, Willem E. Saris, Paul M. Sniderman, Marco R. Steenbergen, Marc Swyngedouw, Sean M. Theriault, William van der Veld, Penny S. Visser, Hans Waege, and John Zaller.
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    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781853597626
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Multilingual Matters
    DDC: 306.44/089/924
    Abstract: This book argues that the usage of language in Jewish societies can be understood as following from certain specific principles, particularly regarding the relationship between language and identity. Phenomena discussed include the revival of Hebrew, Hebrew in the Diaspora, the survival and ‘sanctification’ of Yiddish, the idea of ‘Jewish languages’, and the role of sociolinguistic phenomena in the Holocaust and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781501718137
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 3 halftones, 2 tables
    Edition: [2018]
    Series Statement: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    DDC: 306.3420922746
    Abstract: Janet Siskind goes back to the beginnings of industrial capitalism in the United States to better understand the formation of the country's capitalist culture. She studies the papers and letters of three generations of the Watkinson family. The stories of their lives demonstrate how merchants amassed the capital to become industrial entrepreneurs, organized factories and private corporations, and constructed philanthropic and cultural institutions. The author traces how "upper-class work," the everyday tasks of organizing and maintaining trade or a system of production, shaped the family's experience and New England's culture. The result is an intimate story of social class and capitalism.The reader comes to know several members of this enterprising family, who emigrated from England in 1795. The young women married merchants; their brothers prospered as merchants in Connecticut's West Indian trade. The author shows how their account books, which balanced the imports of rum with the exports of horses, obscured the system of slavery that created their wealth.After the War of 1812, the Watkinsons and their nephews the Collinses turned from trade to manufacturing textiles and axes. Their letters paint a vivid picture of the difficult process of shaping farmers' sons into a disciplined workforce and entrepreneurs into industrial and financial capitalists. Siskind skillfully blends social history and cultural anthropology to provide context for the engaging narrative of the Watkinsons' lives.
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    Frankfurt am Main : Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9783954870264
    Language: Spanish
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    Series Statement: La Casa de la Riqueza 3
    DDC: 391/.0092
    Keywords: Valmont, Blanca ; La última moda ; Geschichte 1888-1898 ; Mode ; Journalismus
    Abstract: Between 1888 and 1898 Valmont reported fashion and cultural trends for "La Ultima Moda" - a magazine circulating in the Spanish speaking world - not only describing fashion but tackling the social and ethical functions of fashion.
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781501726743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 2 tables, 1 chart
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.42/06/073
    Abstract: Boasting more than five hundred thousand contributing members and five hundred chapters nationwide, the National Organization for Women has been politically active for more than thirty-five years. In a book that offers tools for predicting the long-term viability of a range of organizations, Maryann Barakso traces the political development of NOW. According to Barakso, NOW's activities and the stances it has taken throughout its history have been shaped primarily by the organization's internal political system. Established during the group's founding period, NOW's governance structure consists of a set of principles and institutional rules that continue to guide the group's internal political dynamics and its decision-making.Focusing on interactions between NOW leaders and rank-and-file members, Barakso reveals how the organization's internal structure affects its development and its participation in the wider political arena. The author also reveals why strategic change has always been such a contentious issue for the organization, the ways in which NOW enhances civic and political engagement, and the limits on NOW's future mobilizing capacity.Governing NOW contributes to a deeper understanding of membership-based voluntary associations: why they choose some goals and tactics over others, why they invest resources as they do, and why they join or abstain from coalition politics.
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    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780674042377
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 302.2244
    Abstract: Is literacy a social and cultural practice, or a set of cognitive skills to be learned and applied? Literacy researchers, who have differed sharply on this question, will welcome this book, which is the first to address the critical divide. The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a sociocultural context of literacy practices. Drawing on research that reveals connections between literacy as it is practiced outside of school and as it is taught in school, the authors argue that students learn to read and write through the knowledge and skills that they bring with them to the classroom as well as from the ways that literacy is practiced in their own different social communities. The authors argue that until literacy development can be understood in this broader way educators will never be able to develop truly effective literacy instruction for the broad range of sociocultural communities served by schools.
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    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781853597169
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Parents' and Teachers' Guides
    DDC: 306.44/6
    Abstract: Lots of new parents these days have the opportunity to bring up their child with two or more languages because of increasing job mobility and the global community. The benefits of bilingualism and biculturalism such as higher cognitive skills, an awareness of language and sensitivity to other cultures, are being increasingly recognised. However many parents don’t know how to start, what methods to use or where to seek help when facing problems. Now Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert, a mother of three trilingual children, teacher and linguist who has lived and worked all over the world, has written a book which provides an inspiring approach to passing on two or more languages to your children. In Language Strategies for Bilingual Families she considers several methods of bilingualism and focuses on the one-person one-language approach, in which each parent speaks his or her native language and is responsible for passing on his or her culture. Suzanne questioned over a hundred bilingual families about their experiences and she interviewed thirty families in depth. The results of her study are linked to current academic research, but the book is both readable and relevant to non-academics and provides fascinating insights into being a multilingual family. It will prove an exciting and stimulating read for potential and current mixed-language families.
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    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780814744598
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    Series Statement: Cultural Front 1
    DDC: 305.809/073
    Abstract: View the Table of Contents.Read the Introduction. "Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since 'whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity, and the desire for difference as part of the material practices of the U.S. university system, it engages questions of race, humanistic inquiry, intellectual labor, and the democratic function of critical thought. The result is a critically nuanced analysis that promises to solidify Mike Hill's reputation as one of the finest thinkers of his generation."-Robyn Wiegman, Duke University "Mike Hill's After Whiteness is an important, provocative and timely book."-Against the Current "A lucid, fiercely argued, brilliantly conceived, richly provocative work in an emergent and growing area of cultural studies. After Whiteness sets new directions in American literary and cultural studies, and will become a landmark in the field."-Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University"Americanists across the disciplines will find Hill's analysis insightful and brilliant. A must for any scholar who wishes to, in Ralph Ellison's words, 'go to the territory.'"-Sharon Holland, University of Illinois at ChicagoAs each new census bears out, the rise of multiracialism in the United States will inevitably result in a white minority. In spite of the recent proliferation of academic studies and popular discourse on whiteness, however, there has been little discussion of the future: what comes after whiteness? On the brink of what many are now imagining as a post-white American future, it remains a matter of both popular and academic uncertainty as to what will emerge in its place.After Whiteness aims to address just that, exploring the remnants of white identity to ask how an emergent post-white national imaginary figure into public policy issues, into the habits of sexual intimacy, and into changes within public higher education. Through discussions of the 2000 census and debates over multiracial identity, the volatile psychic investments that white heterosexual men have in men of color-as illustrated by the Christian men's group the Promise Keepers and the neo-fascist organization the National Alliance-and the rise of identity studies and diversity within the contemporary public research university, Mike Hill surveys race among the ruins of white America. At this crucial moment, when white racial change has made its ambivalent cultural debut, Hill demonstrates that the prospect of an end to whiteness haunts progressive scholarship on race as much as it haunts the paranoid visions of racists.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781474471558
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 303.09411
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    Abstract: Shortlisted for the Saltire Society/NLS Scottish Research Book of the Year Award, 2005Living in Scotland gives an account of the key social changes in Scottish society, describing how it has been transformed over the last two to three decades. Drawing on a uniquely wide range of data from government statistics, social surveys and over-time data sources, the book tells the story of society in Scotland during the approach and arrival of the new century.The authors analyse the large-scale changes which have profoundly altered Scottish society affecting the country's demography, patterns of work and employment, the distributions of income, wealth and poverty, social class and social mobility, educational opportunities, and patterns of consumption and lifestyle.While Scotland shares many of these social trends with similar western societies, its reaction to them is shaped by its own history and culture. The authors argue that Scotland is now a more affluent, comfortable and pleasant place to live in than just two or three decades ago, but that it remains seriously divided and stratified. A significant minority of its people remain disadvantaged and relatively deprived. This represents the major political and cultural challenge for the new Scotland.Living in Scotland is written by three of the country's foremost sociologists. Together, they build a picture of a changing Scotland at the beginning of the 21st century. Key Features:A cd-rom of all the key tables is provided with the bookWritten by three of Scotland's foremost sociologistsBuilds a picture of the changing society of Scotland over the second half of the twentieth centuryUses a uniquely wide range of statistical data sources which are set in context and explained in non-technical ways...
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812305312
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 251 pages)
    DDC: 305.8951059
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    Keywords: Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Ethnic/racial relations have been a perennial theme in Southeast Asian studies. Current events have highlighted the tensions among ethnicgroups and the need to maintain ethnic/racial harmony for national unity. This book analyses ethnic/race relations in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, with special reference to the roles of ethnic Chinese in nation-building. It brings together a group of established Southeast Asian scholars to critically examine some of the important issues such as ethnic politics, nation-building, state policies, and conflict resolution. These scholars of different ethnic origins present their own ethnic perspectives and hence make the book unique. This is the most up-to-date book on ethnic/racial relations with special reference to the ethnic Chinese in three Southeast Asian countries.
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    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781853597268
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Language Planning and Policy
    DDC: 306.44/968
    Abstract: This volume covers the language situation in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous and have been participants in the language planning context.
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    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781442620933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2019]
    Series Statement: Digital Futures
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Abstract: In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Arthur Kroker explores the future of the 21st century in the language of technological destiny. Presenting Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche as prophets of technological nihilism, Kroker argues that every aspect of contemporary culture, society, and politics is coded by the dynamic unfolding of the 'will to technology.'Moving between cultural history, our digital present, and the biotic future, Kroker theorizes on the relationship between human bodies and posthuman technology, and more specifically, wonders if the body of work offered by thinkers like Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche is a part of our past or a harbinger of our technological future. Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche intensify our understanding of the contemporary cultural climate. Heidegger's vision posits an increasingly technical society before which we have become 'objectless objects'- driftworks in a 'culture of boredom.' In Marx, the disciplining of capital itself by the will to technology is a code of globalization, first announced as streamed capitalism. Nietzsche mediates between them, envisioning in the gathering shadows of technological society the emergent signs of a culture of nihilism. Like Marx, he insists on thinking of the question of technology in terms of its material signs.In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Kroker consistently enacts an invigorating and innovative vision, bringing together critical theory, art, and politics to reveal the philosophic apparatus of technoculture.
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781501727658
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of racism brings together some of the most influential analytic philosophers writing on racism today. The introduction by Tamas Pataki outlines the historical and thematic development of conceptions of race and racism, and locates the following essays against the backdrop of contemporary reactions to that development. While the framework is primarily analytic, the volume also includes essays deeply informed by psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and feminist and social theory. The fourteen chapters in this collection address three interrelated questions: What is racism? What are the causes of racism? And what are the moral and political implications of racism? Although their approaches are wide ranging, the contributors to Racism in Mind broadly endorse a psychological-characterological approach to the understanding of many aspects of racism.
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    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780691187808
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    DDC: 302.2/22
    Abstract: Bodily gesture. A Roman worshipper spins in a circle in front of a temple. Faced with death, a Roman woman tears her hair and beats her breasts. Enthusiastic spectators at a gladiatorial event gesticulate with thumbs. Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered by surviving Roman sculptures, paintings, and literary texts, Anthony Corbeill analyzes the role of gesture in medical and religious ritual, in the gladiatorial arena, in mourning practice, in aristocratic competition of the late Republic, and in the court of the emperor Tiberius. Adopting approaches from anthropology, gender studies, and ecological theory, Nature Embodied offers both a series of case studies and an overarching narrative of the role and meanings of gesture in ancient Rome. Arguing that bodily movement grew out of the relationship between Romans and their natural, social, and spiritual environment, the book explores the ways in which an originally harmonious relationship between nature and the body was manipulated as Rome became socially and politically complex. By the time that Tacitus was writing about the reign of Tiberius, the emergence of a new political order had prompted an increasingly inscrutable equation between truth and the body--and something vital in the once harmonizing relationship between bodies and the world beyond them had been lost. Nature Embodied makes an important contribution to an expanding field of research by offering a new theoretical model for the study of gesture in classical times.
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    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780813557793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 2 figures, 7 tables
    DDC: 306.85/0973
    Abstract: In recent years U.S. public policy has focused on strengthening the nuclear family as a primary strategy for improving the lives of America's youth. It is often assumed that this normative type of family is an independent, self-sufficient unit adequate for raising children. But half of all households in the United States with young children have two employed parents. How do working parents provide care and mobilize the help that they need? In Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care, Karen V. Hansen investigates the lives of working parents and the informal networks they construct to help care for their children. She chronicles the conflicts, hardships, and triumphs of four families of various social classes. Each must navigate the ideology that mandates that parents, mothers in particular, rear their own children, in the face of an economic reality that requires that parents rely on the help of others. In vivid family stories, parents detail how they and their networks of friends, paid caregivers, and extended kin collectively close the "care gap" for their school-aged children. Hansen not only debunks the myth that families in the United States are independent, isolated, and self-reliant units, she breaks new theoretical ground by asserting that informal networks of care can potentially provide unique and valuable bonds that nuclear families cannot.
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    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9789812305329
    Language: English
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    DDC: 304.62095
    Abstract: This book investigates the effects of Japan’s foreign aid for development, trade and FDI in ASEAN economies from various perspectives, including: the historical implications of Japan’s involvement; agricultural exports; the development patterns of the Southeast Asian economies; the formation of international production and distribution networks; poverty reduction; upgrading technology; and industrial agglomeration. The contributors analyse trade, FDI and foreign aid from the standpoint of policy coherence at the interface between development co-operation and many other policy areas: trade, agriculture, food safety, fisheries, intellectual property, the environment, international finance, tax policy, migration, and peace and security.
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    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9789812305381
    Language: English
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    DDC: 303.62509162
    Abstract: What is being done to counter threats of maritime terrorism and how effective are the safeguards? The author presents evidence that Al-Qaeda aims to disrupt the seaborne trading system, the backbone of the model global economy, and would use a crude nuclear explosive device or radiological bomb to do so if it could obtain one and position it to go off in a port-city, shipping strait or waterway that plays a key role in international trade. Improving maritime trade is especially important for the US and Canada, member states of the EU, Australia and New Zealand and for China, Japan and South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and other East Asian economies that have extensive direct seaborne trade. It is doubly vital for places like Singapore, Hong Kong and Rotterdam that are not only very large global seaports but also giant giant container transshipment hubs. This book discusses some major threats to seaborne trade and its land links in the global supply chain, their potential impact and the new security measures in place or pending for ships, ports and cargo containers, and recommendations for preventing or handling a catastrophic terrorist attack designed to disrupt world trade.
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    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781853597749
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    Series Statement: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
    DDC: 306.4/4/0966
    Abstract: Vernacular Palaver examines the continuing appeal of the idea of ‘the local’ for cultural brokers in West Africa, even in instances where they have a growing interaction with diverse global and continental languages of wider communication. It highlights the contribution of foreign and indigenous languages of wider communication to the formation of the new alliances and sodalities that are testing the relevance of locality, and reshaping the concept of local culture, in West Africa. The author traces the role of discourse about language in West African identity politics from the cultural nationalists of the early 20th century to the religious transnationals of the contemporary period. Using examples from video film, popular literature, the activity of religious associations, and educational practice, this book seeks to advance our understanding of the varied functions of non-native languages in multilingual societies.
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    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9789812306234
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 304.8
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Population mobility increases with economic development and globalization. The migration of people affects countries in many ways -- socially, economically and politically. However, there are fundamental tensions in efforts to manage international migration in a globalizing world. On the one hand, business is transnational as it necessitates the unrestricted flow of people internationally. On the other hand, politics is still national. In an integrated world economy, trade, flow of capital, flow of labour, flow of raw materials and technology are inter-related. This study therefore examines international migration in the context of an integrated world economy. Specifically, it looks at the history of migration in modern Southeast Asia; investments, remittances and welfare; the vulnerability of workers; national migration policies; and the problem of irregular migrants.
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    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780814722916
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 394.2673
    Abstract: How did Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday become a national holiday? Why do we exchange presents on Christmas and Chanukah? What do bunnies have to do with Easter? How did Earth Day become a global holiday? These questions and more are answered in this fascinating exploration into the history and meaning of holidays and rituals. Edited by Amitai Etzioni, one of the most influential social and political thinkers of our time, this collection provides a compelling overview of the impact that holidays and rituals have on our family and communal life.From community solidarity to ethnic relations to religious traditions, We Are What We Celebrate argues that holidays such as Halloween, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day play an important role in reinforcing, and sometimes redefining, our values as a society. The collection brings together classic and original essays that, for the first time, offer a comprehensive overview and analysis of the important role such celebrations play in maintaining a moral order as well as in cementing family bonds, building community relations and creating national identity. The essays cover such topics as the creation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday; the importance of holidays for children; the mainstreaming of Kwanzaa; and the controversy over Columbus Day celebrations.Compelling and often surprising, this look at holidays and rituals brings new meaning to not just the ways we celebrate but to what those celebrations tell us about ourselves and our communities. Contributors: Theodore Caplow, Gary Cross, Matthew Dennis, Amitai Etzioni, John R. Gillis, Ellen M. Litwicki, Diana Muir, Francesca Polletta, Elizabeth H. Pleck, David E. Proctor, Mary F. Whiteside, and Anna Day Wilde.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511231792 , 0511316895 , 9780511231797 , 9780511316890
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 298 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Elster, Jon, 1940- Closing the books
    DDC: 303.6/6
    Keywords: Political crimes and offenses ; Justice, Administration of Political aspects ; Ex post facto laws ; Revolutions ; Restorative justice ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Peace ; Ex post facto laws ; Justice, Administration of ; Political aspects ; Political crimes and offenses ; Restorative justice ; Revolutions ; Overgangsrecht ; Politieke verandering ; Revoluties ; Rechtspleging ; Electronic books
    Abstract: An analysis of transitional justice - retribution and reparation after a change of political regime - from Athens in the fifth century BC to the present. The book describes the universe of cases, and proposes a framework for explaining the variations among them
    Abstract: The Universe of Transitional Justice -- Athens in 411 and 403 BC -- The French restorations in 1814 and 1815 -- The larger universe of cases -- Analytics of Transitional Justice -- The structure of transitional justice -- Wrongdoers -- Victims -- Constraints -- Emotions -- Politics.
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812305886
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/2405
    Abstract: The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), officially established in 1996, is an inter-regional forum consisting of the 15 member states of the European Union and the European Commission, 7 member of the 10 states of ASEAN and China, Japan and South Korea. In this important volume academics from Asia and Europe examine the level of engagement between both continents and highlight how the ASEM process has been conducive in enhancing the political, economic and cultural ties between the various Asian and European countries. They address questions such as: how does the euro fit in the developing East Asian monetary cooperation; how does ASEM influence the process of East Asian identity building and what is the ASEM factor in the formulation of the new foreign policy of China? ASEM is wrongly a little known process because it plays a key role in formulating the emerging multilateralist world order of the 21st century.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511818134
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 297 pages)
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    Abstract: This book argues that a unique late marriage pattern, discovered in the 1960s but originating in the Middle Ages, explains the continuing puzzle of why western Europe was the site of changes that, from about 1500, gave rise to the modern world. Contrary to views that credit upheavals from the late eighteenth century were reponsible for ushering in the contemporary global era, it contends that the roots of modern developments themselves are located in an event more than a millennium earlier, when the peasants in northwestern Europe began to marry their daughters almost as late as their sons. The appearance of this late marriage system, with its unstable nuclear household form, will also be shown to have exposed for the first time the common ingredients whose presence has perpetuated beliefs in the importance of gender difference and of a sexual hierarchy favoring males.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 052183984X , 0521548721
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 329 p) , ill., maps , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
    Parallel Title: Print version Sacred and Secular : Religion and Politics Worldwide
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    Keywords: Religion and politics
    Abstract: Sacred and Secular examines the validity of the secularization thesis, developing a theory of secularization and existential security. It is essential reading for anyone interested in comparative religion, sociology, public opinion, political behavior, political development, social psychology, international relations, and cultural change
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; SACRED AND SECULAR; PART I Understanding Secularization; PART II Case Studies of Religion and Politics; PART III The Consequences of Secularization; CONCLUSIONS; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511510458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 293 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    Uniform Title: Electoral competition and ethnic riots in India
    DDC: 303.6208900954
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    Abstract: Why do ethnic riots break out when and where they do? Why do some governments try to prevent ethnic riots while others do nothing or even participate in the violence? In this book, Steven I. Wilkinson uses collected data on Hindu-Muslim riots, socio-economic factors and competitive politics in India to test his theory that riots are fomented in order to win elections and that governments decide whether to stop them or not based on the likely electoral cost of doing so. He finds that electoral factors account for most of the state-level variation in Hindu-Muslim riots: explaining for example why riots took place in Gujarat in 2002 but not in many other states where militants tried to foment violence. The general electoral theory he develops for India is extended to Ireland, Malaysia and Romania as Wilkinson shows that similar political factors motivate ethnic violence in many different countries.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511819339
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 265 pages)
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Einführung ; Einführung
    Abstract: What is happening to public debate in Western cultures? Is our public sphere disintegrating? In the face of popular tabloid newspapers, new forms of reality television and an increasing lack of respect for traditional authorities, many critics are concerned that our society no longer has a rational, informed and unified space where everyone can communicate about the issues that affect us all. In this book Alan McKee answers these questions by providing an introduction to the concept of the public sphere, the history of the term and the philosophical arguments about its function. By drawing on many examples from contemporary mediated culture, McKee looks at how we communicate with each other in public - and how we decide whether changing forms of communication are a good thing for the 'public sphere'.
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    ISBN: 9780804767163
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.) , 4 tables, 2 figures, 8 illustrations
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.85/095
    Abstract: How have rapid industrial development and the aging of the population affected the expression of filial piety in East Asia? Eleven experienced fieldworkers take a fresh look at an old idea, analyzing contemporary behavior, not norms, among both rural and urban families in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Each chapter presents rich ethnographic data on how filial piety shapes the decisions and daily lives of adult children and their elderly parents. The authors' ability to speak the local languages and their long-term, direct contact with the villagers and city dwellers they studied lend an immediacy and authenticity lacking in more abstract treatments of the topic. This book is an ideal text for social science and humanities courses on East Asia because it focuses on shared cultural practices while analyzing the ways these practices vary with local circumstances of history, economics, social organization, and demography and with personal circumstances of income, gender, and family configuration.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511481291
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 183 pages)
    DDC: 303.6
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    Abstract: This fascinating and provocative 2005 book will change the way you think about democracy. Challenging conventional wisdom, Daniel Ross shows how from its origins and into its globalized future, violence is an integral part of the democratic system. He draws on the examples of global terrorism and security, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the relation of colonial powers to indigenous populations, and the treatment of asylum seekers. His analysis of these controversial issues moves beyond the comfortable stances of both left and right to show that democracy is violent, from its beginning and at its heart.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511999062
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 363 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to culture
    DDC: 941.508
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-2000 ; Kultur ; Irland ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the historical, social and stylistic complexities of modern Irish culture. Readers will be introduced to Irish culture in its widest sense and helped to find their way through the cultural and theoretical debates that inform our understanding of modern Ireland. The volume combines cultural breadth and historical depth, supported by a chronology of Irish history and arts. A wide selection of essays on a rich variety of Irish cultural forms and practices are complemented by a series of in-depth analyses of key themes in Irish cultural politics. The range of topics covered will enable a comprehensive understanding of Irish culture, while the authors gathered here - all acknowledged experts in their fields - provide stimulating essays that together amount to an invaluable guide to the shaping of modern Ireland.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781846152436
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 236 pages)
    DDC: 393
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    Keywords: Geschichte 871-1087 ; Grabstein ; Bestattungsritus ; Vorstellung ; Tod ; Ritual ; Sterben ; Brauch ; Trauerritual ; Jüngstes Gericht ; England
    Abstract: Pre-Conquest attitudes towards the dying and the dead have major implications for every aspect of culture, society and religion of the Anglo-Saxon period; but death-bed and funerary practices have been comparatively and unjustly neglected by historical scholarship. In her wide-ranging analysis, Dr Thompson examines such practices in the context of confessional and penitential literature, wills, poetry, chronicles and homilies, to show that complex and ambiguous ideas about death were current at all levels of Anglo-Saxon society. Her study also takes in grave monuments, showing in particular how the Anglo-Scandinavian sculpture of the ninth to the eleventh centuries may indicate not only the status, but also the religious and cultural alignment of those who commissioned and made them. VICTORIA THOMPSON undertook her postgraduate work in English and Medieval Studies at the University of York and currently lectures in medieval history for New York University's London Program.
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    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780822385936
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (192 p.)
    DDC: 305.5/5/0964
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    Abstract: By examining how neoliberal economic reform policies have affected educated young adults in contemporary Morocco, Searching for a Different Future posits a new socioeconomic formation: the global middle class. During Morocco's postcolonial period, from the 1950s through the 1970s, development policy and nationalist ideology supported the formation of a middle class based on the pursuit of education, employment, and material security. Neoliberal reforms adopted by Morocco since the early 1980s have significantly eroded the capacity of the state to nurture the middle class, and unemployment and temporary employment among educated adults has grown. There is no longer an obvious correlation between the best interests of the state and those of the middle-class worker. As Shana Cohen demonstrates, educated young adults in Morocco do not look toward the state for economic security and fulfillment but toward the diffuse, amorphous global market.Cohen delves into the rupture that has occurred between the middle class, the individual, and the nation in Morocco and elsewhere around the world. Combining institutional economic analysis with cultural theory and ethnographic observation including interviews with seventy young adults in Casablanca and Rabat, she reveals how young, urban, educated Moroccans conceive of their material, social, and political conditions. She finds that, for the most part, they perceive improvement in their economic and social welfare apart from the types of civic participation commonly connected with nationalism and national identity. In answering classic sociological questions about how the evolution of capitalism influences identity, Cohen sheds new light on the measurable social and economic consequences of globalization and on its less tangible effects on individuals' perception of their place in society and prospects in life.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511185499 , 0511184662 , 9780511185496 , 9780511184666
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 290 pages) , maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lodge, R. Anthony Sociolinguistic history of Parisian French
    DDC: 306.44/0944/361
    Keywords: French language Social aspects ; French language Dialects ; French language Variation ; Speech and social status ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; French language ; Dialects ; French language ; Social aspects ; French language ; Variation ; Manners and customs ; Speech and social status ; Frans ; Français (Langue) ; Aspect social ; Sociolinguistique ; Variation de langage ; Langage ; Statut social ; Coutume sociale ; Electronic books ; Paris (France) Social life and customs ; France ; Paris ; Paris (France) ; Electronic book
    Abstract: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgments; Phonetic symbols; Part 1 Preliminaries; Part 2 The pre-industrial city; Part 3 The proto-industrial city; Part 4 The industrial city; Conclusion; Appendix. Literary imitations of low-class speech; Bibliography; Index.
    Abstract: This book explores the interlinked history of Parisian speech and its speakers during various phases of in-migration, dialect-mixing and social stratification from the middle ages to the present. It tracks the emergence of specifically urban modes of speech, including the working-class vernacular of recent times
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index , English
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    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781442670556
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    Series Statement: Anthropological Horizons
    DDC: 305.89/91509415
    Abstract: A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account and anthropological study of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert. The outcome of fieldwork conducted in the area in the 1980s and 90s, it was originally published in French as Les jardins du nomade: Cosmologie, territoire et personne dans le désert occidental australien.In her study, Sylvie Poirier explores the contemporary Aboriginal system of knowledge and law through an analysis of the relationships between the ancestral order, the 'sentient' land, and human agencies. At the ethnographical and analytical levels, particular attention is given to a range of local narratives and stories, and to the cultural construction of individual experiences. Poirier also investigates the cultural system of dreams and dreaming, and the process of their socialization, analysing their ideological, semantic, pragmatic, and experiential dimensions. Through the synthesis of a complex and diverse range of theoretical and empirical materials, A World of Relationships offers new insights into Australian Aboriginal sociality, historicity, and dynamics of cultural change and ritual innovation.
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    ISBN: 9780804767071
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (448 p.)
    Edition: 2005
    DDC: 305.42/094/09034
    Abstract: The nineteenth century, a time of far-reaching cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation in Europe, brought about fundamental changes in the role of women. Women achieved this by fighting for their rights in the legal, economic, and political spheres. In the various parts of Europe, this process went forward at a different pace and followed different patterns. Most historical research up to now has ignored this diversity, preferring to focus on women's emancipation movements in major western European countries such as Britain and France. The present volume provides a broader context to the movement by including countries both large and small from all regions of Europe. Fourteen historians, all of them specialists in women's history, examine the origins and development of women's emancipation movements in their respective areas of expertise. By exploring the cultural and political diversity of nineteenth-century Europe and at the same time pointing out connections to questions explored by conventional scholarship, the essays shed new light on common developments and problems.
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    ISBN: 9780822385714
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (108 p.)
    Series Statement: Latin America in Translation : 28
    DDC: 305.42/0983
    Abstract: Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile's neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural debate within the constraints imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), and she has continued to offer incisive commentary about the country's transition to democracy. Well known as the founder and director of the influential Santiago-based journal Revista de crítica cultural, Richard has been central to the dissemination throughout Latin America of work by key contemporary thinkers, including Néstor García Canclini, Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, and Diamela Eltit. Her own writing provides rigorous considerations of Latin American identity, postmodernism, gender, neoliberalism, and strategies of political and cultural resistance.Richard helped to organize the 1987 International Conference on Latin American Women's Literature in Santiago, one of the most significant literary events to take place under the Pinochet dictatorship. Published in Chile in 1993, Masculine/Feminine develops some of the key issues brought to the fore during that landmark meeting. Richard theorizes why the feminist movement has been crucial not only to the liberation of women but also to understanding the ways in which power operated under the military regime in Chile. In one of her most widely praised essays, she explores the figure of the transvestite, artistic imagery of which exploded during the Chilean dictatorship. She examines the politics and the aesthetics of this phenomenon, particularly against the background of prostitution and shantytown poverty, and she argues that gay culture works to break down the social demarcations and rigid structures of city life. Masculine/Feminine makes available, for the first time in English, one of Latin America's most significant works of feminist theory.
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    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780822386025
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (326 p.) , 60 b&w photos, 6 maps
    DDC: 304.2/089/987
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    Abstract: Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina's Gran Chaco region. In the early twentieth century, the Toba were defeated by the Argentinean army, incorporated into the seasonal labor force of distant sugar plantations, and proselytized by British Anglicans. Gastón R. Gordillo reveals how the Toba's memory of these processes is embedded in their experience of "the bush" that dominates the Chaco landscape.As Gordillo explains, the bush is the result of social, cultural, and political processes that intertwine this place with other geographies. Labor exploitation, state violence, encroachment by settlers, and the demands of Anglican missionaries all transformed this land. The Toba's lives have been torn between alienating work in sugar plantations and relative freedom in the bush, between moments of domination and autonomy, abundance and poverty, terror and healing. Part of this contradictory experience is culturally expressed in devils, evil spirits that acquire different features in different places. The devils are sources of death and disease in the plantations, but in the bush they are entities that connect with humans as providers of bush food and healing power. Enacted through memory, the experiences of the Toba have produced a tense and shifting geography. Combining extensive fieldwork conducted over a decade, historical research, and critical theory, Gordillo offers a nuanced analysis of the Toba's social memory and a powerful argument that geographic places are not only objective entities but also the subjective outcome of historical forces.
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    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781442682368
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2019]
    DDC: 305.891/411/071133
    Keywords: Biografie ; Interview
    Abstract: Canadian Sikhs have seen great changes in the lives of their communities, which are primarily concentrated in larger urban centres, especially Vancouver and the British Columbia lower mainland. In The Sikh Diaspora in Vancouver, Kamala Elizabeth Nayar illustrates the complex and multifaceted transition of Sikh social culture as it moves from small Punjab villages to a Canadian metropolis.The result of an exhaustive analysis of the beliefs and attitudes among three generations of the Sikh community - and having conducted over 100 interviews - Nayar highlights differences and tensions with regards to the role of familial relations, child rearing, and religion. In exploring these tensions, she focuses particularly on the younger generation, and underlines the role of Sikh youth as a catalyst for change within the community. Nayar also examines the Sikh community as it functions and interacts with mainstream Canadian society in the light of modernity and multiculturalism, exploring the change, or lack thereof, in attitudes about the functioning of the community, the role of multicultural organizations and the media, continuity in traditional customs, modifications in behaviour patterns, and changes in values within the larger Canadian social environment of diversity.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511214154 , 0511215940 , 0511817649 , 9780511214158 , 9780511215940 , 9780511817649
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 191 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 38
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fogel, Robert William Escape from hunger and premature death, 1700-2100
    DDC: 304.6/4
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    Keywords: Food supply History ; Malnutrition History ; Medical care History ; Mortality History ; Life Expectancy trends ; Diet trends ; Mortality trends ; Socioeconomic Factors ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography ; Food supply ; Malnutrition ; Medical care ; Mortality ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Unterernährung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Ernährungspolitik ; Voeding ; Gezondheid ; Levensverwachting ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic book
    Abstract: 1. The persistence of misery in Europe before 1900 -- 2. Why the twentieth century was so remarkable -- 3. Tragedies and miracles in the Third World -- 4. Prospects for the twenty-first century -- 5. Problems of equity in health care -- Postscript : how long can we live?
    Abstract: A compelling new study from Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, examining health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. It will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511165978 , 0511165382 , 0511616376 , 0511164823 , 9780511165382 , 9780511616372 , 9780511164828 , 9780511165979
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 402 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chamley, Christophe Rational herds
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    Keywords: Social learning ; Social learning Mathematical models ; Decision making ; Collective behavior ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Collective behavior ; Decision making ; Social learning ; Soziales Lernen ; Kollektives Verhalten ; Mathematisches Modell ; Sociaal leren ; Wiskundige modellen ; Aprendizagem social ; Aprendizagem social (modelos matemáticos) ; Tomada de decisão ; Comportamento coletivo ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I. Social learning : 2. Bayesian tools : The bayesian framework ; Binary and Gaussian information ; Private signals and beliefs ; Martingales -- 3. Social learning with a common memory : A canonical model of social learning ; Efficient learning ; Observation noise ; Extensions -- 4. Cascades and herds : The basic model of herding ; The standard model with bounded beliefs ; The convergence of beliefs ; Herds and the slow convergence of beliefs ; Pricing the informational externality ; Crashes and booms -- 5. Limited memories : The sequential model with sampling ; The welfare-improving principle ; Sampling in a very large population ; Social learning or sampling in a large population? -- 6. Delays : The simplest model ; A general model with heterogeneous beliefs ; Properties -- 7. More delays : The length of a period ; Continuous times ; Buildup of private information ; Observation of payoffs -- 8. Outcomes : Incomplete learning ; The determinant of economic success: luck or effort? ; Complete learning with a diversity of private beliefs -- 9. Networks and diffusion : Optimization and diffusion of innovations ; Learning in networks -- 10. Words : Advice by one expert ; Larger sets of states and messages ; Panel of experts ; The receiver does not make the evaluation -- Part II. Coordination : 11. Guessing to coordinate : Overview ; Eductive stability in a standard market ; Strategic complementarities ; Speculative attacks against a fixed exchange rate -- 12. Learning to coordinate : A distribution with a cluster ; Observation noise -- 13. Delays and payoff externalities : Strategic substitutability ; Strategic complementaries -- Part III. Financial herding : 14.l Sequences of financial trades : Learning in the model of Glosten and Milgrom ; Herds ; Avalanches ; Herding in auctions -- 15. Gaussian financial markets : Actions in the CARA-Gauss model ; Markets ; The convergence of beliefs ; Multiple equilibria, crashes, and booms -- 16. Financial frenzies : Speculative attacks against a fixed exchange rate ; Information delays in financial markets ; The crash of a bubble.
    Abstract: This book is the first in the exciting new field of social learning
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511185944 , 0511185111 , 0511616635 , 9780511185946 , 9780511185113 , 9780511616631
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 300 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Klein, Herbert S Population history of the United States
    DDC: 304.6/0973
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography ; Population ; Bevolkingsontwikkeling ; Bevolkingsopbouw ; Demographie ; Bevölkerung ; History ; United States Population ; History ; United States ; USA
    Abstract: Graphs, maps, and tables --Introduction --1.Paleo-Indians, Europeans, and the settlement of America --2.Colonization and settlement of North America --3.The early Republic to 1860 --4.The creation of an industrial and urban society, 1860-1914 --5.The evolution of a modern population, 1914-1945 --6.The baby boom and changing family values, 1945-1980 --7.A modern industrial society, 1980-2003 --Appendix tables, graphs, and maps --Bibliography --Index.
    Abstract: This is the first full-scale one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century, Klein analyzes the basic demographic trends in the growth of the pre-conquest, colonial and national populations. He surveys the origin and distribution of the Native Americans, the post-conquest free and servile European and African colonial populations and the variation in regional patterns of fertility and mortality to 1800. He then explores trends in births, deaths, international and internal migrations in the nineteenth century and compares them with contemporary European developments. The profound impact of historic declines in disease and mortality on the structure of the late twentieth century population is explained. Finally the late twentieth century changes in family structure, fertility and mortality are evaluated for their influence on the evolution of the national population for the 21st century
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511185073 , 0511185901 , 9780511185076 , 9780511185908
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 294 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in international relations 95
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Buzan, Barry From international to world society?
    DDC: 303.48/2
    Keywords: Wendt, Alexander ; Globalization Sociological aspects ; International relations ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization ; Globalization ; Sociological aspects ; International relations ; Internationale betrekkingen ; Theorieën ; Internationalisatie ; English school of international relations ; Aspect sociologique ; Mondialisation ; Relations internationales ; Théorie politique ; Electronic books ; Electronic book
    Abstract: Barry Buzan offers a fresh contribution to the English school's tradition of thinking aout the idea of society on a global level. He sets out a new theoretical framework emphasising social structure that can be used to address globalisation as a complex political interplay among state and non-state actors
    Abstract: English school theory and its problems: an overview -- World society in English school theory -- Concepts of world society outside the English school thinking -- Reimagining the English school's triad -- Reconstructing the pluralist-solidarist debate -- The primary institutions of international society -- Bringing geography back in -- Conclusions: a portrait of contemporary interstate society.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511214383 , 0511216173 , 051175602X , 9780511214387 , 9780511216176 , 9780511756023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 pages)
    Series Statement: Contemporary political theory
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Keane, John, 1949- Violence and democracy
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Violence ; Democracy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence in Society ; Democracy ; Violence ; Politik ; Gewalt ; Demokratie ; Geweld ; Ethische aspecten ; Democratie ; Violence ; Démocratie ; Éthique
    Abstract: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: surplus violence; Muskets, terrorists; Thinking violence; Civilisation; Barbarism?; Why violence?; Uncivil wars; Ethics; Ten rules for democratising violence; Further reading; Index.
    Abstract: John Keane offers an original account of the origins of violence, its consequences, its uses and remedies, and the relationship between violence and democracy. Rejecting the view that 'human nature' is violent, Keane shows why mature democracies do not wage war upon each other, and why they are sensitive to violence
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-213) and index , English
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    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780674029552
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (260 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 302.5/44
    Abstract: This book explores the distinct historical-political imagination of the self in the twentieth century and advances two arguments. First, it suggests that we should read the history of modern political philosophy afresh in light of a theme that emerges in the late eighteenth century: the rift between self and social institutions. Second, it argues that this rift was reformulated in the twentieth century in a manner that contrasts with the optimism of nineteenth-century thinkers regarding its resolution. It proposes a new political imagination of the twentieth century found in the works of Weber, Freud, and Foucault, and characterizes it as one of "entrapment." Eyal Chowers shows how thinkers working within diverse theoretical frameworks and fields nevertheless converge in depicting a self that has lost its capacity to control or transform social institutions. He argues that Weber, Freud, and Foucault helped shape the distinctive thought and culture of the past century by portraying a dehumanized and distorted self marked by sameness. This new political imagination proposes coping with modernity through the recovery, integration, and assertion of the self, rather than by mastering and refashioning collective institutions.
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    New York, NY : Columbia University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780231502429
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 pages) , illustrations
    DDC: 306/.0973
    Abstract: Ten absorbing studies present activist groups across the country--from transgender activists in New York City, to South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley, to evangelical Christians and Palestinian Americans--and examines a social change effort as it unfolds on the ground. Through their anthropological approach these portraits of American society suggest the inherent possibilities in identity-based organizing and offer crucial in-depth perspectives on such hotly debated topics as multiculturalism and the culture wars, the environment, racism, public education, Native American rights, and the Christian right.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511216912 , 0511215126 , 9780511216916 , 9780511215124
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 285 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Devine, Fiona Class practices
    DDC: 305.5/13/09
    Keywords: Employees Recruiting ; Social aspects ; Employees Recruiting ; Social aspects ; Social mobility ; Social mobility ; Parents Social networks ; Parents Social networks ; Education Parent participation ; Education Parent participation ; Social surveys ; Social surveys ; Education ; Parent participation ; Employees ; Recruiting ; Social aspects ; Parents ; Social networks ; Social mobility ; Social surveys ; Sociale klassen ; Sociale mobiliteit ; Ouders ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social Classes ; Electronic books ; United States ; Great Britain ; Electronic books ; Interview
    Abstract: Material help with education and employment -- Financial choices and sacrifices for children -- Aspirations and ambitions for 'good' jobs -- Hopes, happiness and 'fulfilling potential' -- Luck and contacts in the forging of careers -- Networks and friends in school and beyond.
    Abstract: This is an important new comparative study of social mobility based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in America and Britain. It addresses the key issue of the stability of class relations and middle-class reproduction and how parents seek to increase their children's chances of educational success and occupational advancement
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511166109 , 9780511166105
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 329 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Politics of prostitution
    DDC: 306.74
    Keywords: Prostitution Government policy ; Prostitution Political aspects ; Feminism ; Women's rights ; Prostitutes Legal status, laws, etc ; Prostitutes Civil rights ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Human Sexuality ; SELF-HELP ; Sexual Instruction ; Feminism ; Prostitutes ; Civil rights ; Prostitutes ; Legal status, laws, etc ; Prostitution ; Government policy ; Prostitution ; Political aspects ; Women's rights ; Prostitution ; Prostitutie ; Vrouwenhandel ; Overheidsbeleid ; Wetgeving ; Vrouwenbeweging ; Politique gouvernementale ; Prostitution ; Prostituée ; Féminisme ; Femme ; Mouvement féministe ; Démocratie ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Introduction : prostitution, women's movements and democratic politics / Joyce Outshoorn -- The women's movement and prostitution politics in Australia / Barbara Sullivan -- Taxes, rights and regimentation : discourses on prostitution in Austria / Birgit Sauer -- Prostitution policies in Britain, 1982-2002 / Johanna Kantola and Judith Squires -- Prostitution as public nuisance : prostitution policy in Canada / Leslie Ann Jeffrey -- Towards a new prohibitionism? State feminism, women's movements and prostitution policies in Finland / Anne Maria Holli -- Prostitute movmements face elite apathy and gender-biased universalism in France / Amy G. Mazur -- The politics of prostitution and trafficking of women in Israel / Delila Amir and Mencahem Amir -- Italy : the never-ending debate / Daniela Danna -- Voluntary and forced prostitution : the 'realistic approach' of the Netherlands / Joyce Outshoorn -- State feminism and central state debates on prostitution in post-authoritarian Spain / Celia Valiente -- Criminalising the john -- a Swedish gender model? / Yvonne Svanström -- The invisible issue : prostitution and trafficking of women and girls in the United States / Dorothy McBride Stetson -- Comparative prostitution politics and the case for state feminism / Joyce Outshoorn.
    Abstract: This book shows how women's movements in Western Europe, North America and Australia have affected politics on prostitution and trafficking of women since the 1970s, asking what made them successful in some countries but a failure in others
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511512163 , 0511185693 , 0511184867 , 9780511185694 , 9780511184864 , 9780511512162
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 315 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Greenwood, John D Disappearance of the social in American social psychology
    DDC: 302/.0973
    Keywords: Social psychology History ; Social psychology ; Social psychology ; Sozialpsychologie ; Sociale psychologie ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; History ; Electronic books ; United States ; USA
    Abstract: Introduction : what happened to the "social" in social psychology? -- The lost world -- Wundt and Völkerpsychologie -- Durkheim and social facts -- The social and the psychological -- Social psychology and the "social mind" -- Individualism and the social -- Crowds, publics, and experimental social psychology -- Crossroads -- Crisis -- The rediscovery of the social?
    Abstract: The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology is a critical conceptual history of American social psychology. In this challenging work, John Greenwood demarcates the original conception of the social dimensions of cognition, emotion and behaviour and of the discipline of social psychology itself, that was embraced by early twentieth-century American social psychologists. He documents how this fertile conception of social psychological phenomena came to be progressively neglected as the century developed, to the point that scarcely any trace of the original conception of the so
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511493751
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 310 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
    DDC: 340/.115
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    Keywords: Rechtsanthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores how persons and things - the central elements of the social - are fabricated by legal rituals and institutions. The contributors, legal and anthropological theorists alike, focus on a set of specific institutional and ethnographic contexts, and some unexpected and thought-provoking analogies emerge from this intellectual encounter between law and anthropology. For example, contemporary anxieties about the legal status of the biotechnological body seem to resonate with the questions addressed by ancient Roman law in its treatment of dead bodies. The analogy between copyright and the transmission of intangible designs in Melanesia suddenly makes western images of authorship seem quite unfamiliar. A comparison between law and laboratory science presents the production of legal artefacts in new light. These studies are of particular relevance at a time when law, faced with the inventiveness of biotechnology, finds it increasingly difficult to draw the line between persons and things.
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    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780674040199
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (394 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 305
    Abstract: In modern states, John Lie argues, ideas of race, ethnicity, and nationality can be subsumed under the rubric of "peoplehood." He argues indeed, that the modern state has created the idea of peoplehood. That is, the seemingly primitive, atavistic feelings of belonging associated with ethnic, racial, and national identity are largely formed by the state. Not only is the state responsible for the development and nurturing of these feelings, it is also responsible for racial and ethnic conflict, even genocide. When citizens think of themselves in terms of their peoplehood identity, they will naturally locate the cause of all troubles--from neighborhood squabbles to wars--in racial, ethnic, or national attitudes and conflicts. Far from being transhistorical and transcultural phenomena, race, ethnicity, and nation, Lie argues, are modern notions--modernity here associated with the rise of the modern state, the industrial economy, and Enlightenment ideas.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511216610 , 0511214820 , 9780511216619 , 9780511214820
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 386 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Goodale, Jay [Rezension von: Sreenivasan, Govind P., The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726. A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe] 2006
    Series Statement: Past and present publications
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sreenivasan, Govind P Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726
    DDC: 305.5/633/094337
    Keywords: Peasants History ; Peasants ; Rural conditions ; Boeren ; Sociale verandering ; Economische groei ; Abtei Ottobeuren ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Ottobeuren (Germany) Rural conditions ; Germany ; Ottobeuren ; Electronic book ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Acknowledgements; Note on weights, measures, and currencies; Introduction; 1. Right and might (c. 1480-c. 1560); 2. The discrete society (c. 1480-c. 1560); 3. A crisis of numbers? (c. 1560-c. 1630); 4. Integrity and the market (c. 1560-c. 1630); 5. Living on borrowed time (c. 1560-c. 1630); 6. To empty and to refill (c. 1630-c. 1720); Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of places; General index.
    Abstract: The most detailed reconstruction to date of peasant society in early modern Germany, focusing on the lands of the Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren. Based on a mass of archival data, the book argues that the German rural economy performed much better than has previously been believed
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511184794 , 0511185626 , 0511186517 , 1139165224 , 9780511184796 , 9780511185625 , 9781139165228 , 9780511186516
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 149 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Skyrms, Brian Stag hunt and the evolution of social structure
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Social structure ; Social action ; Collective behavior ; Social evolution ; Social networks ; Cooperation ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Collective behavior ; Cooperation ; Social action ; Social evolution ; Social networks ; Social structure ; Sozialstruktur ; Evolution ; Kooperatives Verhalten ; Soziale Evolution ; Structure sociale ; Action sociale ; Comportement collectif ; Évolution sociale ; Réseaux sociaux ; Coopération ; Action sociale ; Comportement collectif ; Coopération ; Évolution sociale ; Réseau social ; Structure sociale ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic book
    Abstract: "This book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective action. The point of departure is a prototypical story found in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality. Rousseau contrasts hunting hare, where the risk of noncooperation is small but the reward is equally small, with hunting the stag, where maximum cooperation is required but the reward is much greater. Rational agents are pulled in one direction by considerations of risk and in another by considerations of mutual benefit."
    Abstract: "The possibility of a successful solution depends on the coevolution of cooperation and social structure. Brian Skyrms focuses on three factors that affect the emergence of such structure and the facilitation of collective action: location (interactions with neighbors), signals (transmission of information), and association (the formation of social networks)."--Jacket
    Abstract: Location -- Signals -- Association.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-145) and index , English
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511510793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 286 pages)
    DDC: 304.8/094/09045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1950-2000 ; Migration ; Südeuropa
    Abstract: Managing migration promises to be one of the most difficult challenges of the twenty-first century. It will be even more difficult for south European countries, from which emigration has levelled off and to which immigration has become a significant economic issue. Southern Europe is close to other regions where the pressure to emigrate is intense: these regions have a high level of unemployment, above the European Union average, and a large informal sector, often 15–25 per cent of their economies as a whole. This book analyses the southern European migration case using an economic approach. It combines a theoretical and an empirical approach on the fundamental migration issues - the decision to migrate, effects on the country of departure and country of destination, and the effectiveness of policies in managing migration. It also explores the transformation due to migration of southern European countries in the 1980s and 1990s.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511184980 , 0511185812 , 9780511184987 , 9780511185816
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 322 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 39
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ottaway, Susannah R., 1967- Decline of life
    DDC: 305.26/0944
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    Keywords: Alter ; Großbritannien ; Old age History 18th century ; Aging History 18th century ; Older people Social conditions 18th century ; Family Relations ; History, 18th Century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging ; Aging ; Old age ; Older people ; Social conditions ; Bejaarden ; Ouderdom ; Alter ; History ; Electronic books ; England ; Electronic book
    Abstract: This is an important new study of the history of ageing. Ottaway combines a comprehensive survey of existing literature with original interpretation and analysis of available data, using a wide variety of sources. Her lively and sophisticated analysis will be of great interest to scholars in British and social history
    Abstract: Who was "old" in eighteenth-century England? -- The activities of the "helmsman" : self-reliance, work, and community expectations of the elderly -- "The comforts of a private fire-side" -- Independent but not alone : family ties for the elderly -- Community assistance to the aged under the Old Poor Law -- Continuity and change in community assistance to the elderly over the eighteenth century -- Within workhouse walls : indoor relief for the elderly -- Conclusion : old age as a useful category of historical analysis.
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    ISBN: 0511215347 , 0511217137 , 0511213530 , 9780511215346 , 9780511217135 , 9780511213533
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 349 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Learning in doing
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bakhtinian perspectives on language, literacy, and learning
    DDC: 302.2/244
    Keywords: Bakhtin, M. M ; Bakhtin, M. M ; Literacy Social aspects ; Language and education ; Critical pedagogy ; Language and education ; Literacy ; Social aspects ; Leesvaardigheid ; Taal ; Leren ; Critical pedagogy ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Literacy ; Electronic book ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contributed by authors who write from various disciplinary perspectives, the essays in this book clarify the learning theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and address the application of his concepts to contemporary issues. In addition, the authors are joined by other scholars in a Bakhtinian dialogue. Together, they address questions that readers may have about Bakhtinian theory and its application to everyday teaching practices
    Abstract: Ideological becoming : Bakhtinian concepts to guide the study of language, literacy, and learning / Sarah Warshauer Freedman and Arnetha F. Ball -- Dewey and Bakhtin in dialogue : from Rosenblatt to a pedagogy of literature as social, aesthetic practice / Mark Dressman -- Intertextualities : Volosinov, Bakhtin, literary theory, and literacy studies / Charles Bazerman -- The teaching of academic language to minority second language learners / Guadalupe Valdés -- Voices in dialogue -- dialoguing about dialogism : form and content in a Bakhtinian dialogue / Allison Weisz Brettschneider -- Performance as the foundation for a secondary school literacy program : a Bakhtinian perspective / Eileen Landay -- Double voiced discourse : African American vernacular English as resource in cultural modeling classrooms / Carol D. Lee -- Narratives of rethinking : the inner dialogue of classroom discourse and student writing / Christian P. Knoeller -- Ever newer ways to mean : authoring pedagogical change in secondary subject-area classrooms / Cynthia L. Greenleaf and Mira-Lisa Katz -- Voices in dialogue : multivoiced discourses in ideological becoming / Verda Delp -- New teachers for new times : the dialogical principle in teaching and learning electronically / Jabari Mahiri -- Is contradiction contrary? / Melanie Sperling -- A Bakhtinian perspective on learning to read and write late in life / Judy Kalman -- New times and new literacies : themes for a changing world / James Paul Gee -- Voices in dialogue : hybridity as literacy, literacy as hybridity : dialogic responses to a heteroglossic world / Alice A. Miano -- The process of ideological becoming / Gary Saul Morson.
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    ISBN: 0511185006 , 0511185839 , 9780511185007 , 9780511185830
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 289 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sociology of Norbert Elias
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Elias, Norbert ; Elias, Norbert ; Elias, Norbert ; Historical sociology ; Civilization, Modern ; Social structure ; Self-consciousness (Awareness) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Self-consciousness (Awareness) ; Civilization, Modern ; Historical sociology ; Social structure ; Sociologen ; Figuratiesociologie ; Sociologie historique ; Structure sociale ; Conscience de soi ; Civilisation moderne ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key aspects of Elias's work and applies an Eliasian approach to key topics in contemporary sociology such as race, class, gender, religion, epistemology and nationalism. This book is a major contribution to Elias studies and a valuable resource for students and scholars
    Abstract: Towards a 'central theory': the scope and relevance of Norbert Elias / Stephen Quilley and Steven Loyal -- Sociology as a Human Science: Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Knowledge: -- From distance to detachment: knowledge and self-knowledge in Elias's theory of involvement and detachment / Richard Kilminster -- Ecology, 'human nature' and civilising processes: biology and sociology in the work of Norbert Elias / Stephen Quilley -- Between the real and the reified: Elias on time / Barry Barnes -- Processes of Stratification: Figurations of Race, Class and Gender: -- The figurational dynamics of racial stratification: a conceptual discussion and developmental analysis of black-white relations in the United States / Eric Dunning -- Decivilising and demonising: the social and symbolic remaking of the black ghetto and Elias in the dark ghetto / Loi;c Wacquant -- Elias on class and stratification / Steven Loyal -- Elias on gender relations: the changing balance of power between the sexes / Christien Brinkgreve -- The Formation of Individuals and States: -- Not so exceptional? State-formation processes in America / Stephen Mennell -- Armed peace: on the pacifying condition for the co-operative of States / Paul Kapteyn -- Changing regimes of manners and emotions: from disciplining to informalizing / Cas Wouters -- Elias and modern penal development / John Pratt -- Elias, Freud and Goffman: shame as the master emotion / Thomas Scheff -- Religion and Civilising Processes: Weber and Elias Compared: -- Weber and Elias on religion and violence: warrior charisma and the civilising process / Bryan Turner -- Christian religion and the European civilising process: the views of Norbert Elias and Max Weber compared / Johan Goudsblom.
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    ISBN: 0511195516 , 051180038X , 0511194153 , 9780511195518 , 9780511800382 , 9780511194153
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 216 pages)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Carsten, Janet After kinship
    DDC: 306.83
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    Keywords: Kinship ; Kin recognition ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Marriage & Family ; Kin recognition ; Kinship ; Anthropologie ; Verwandtschaft ; Verwantschap ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: After Kinship? -- 2. Houses of Memory and Kinship -- 3. Gender, Bodies, and Kinship -- 4. The Person -- 5. Uses and Abuses of Substance -- 6. Families into Nation: The Power of Metaphor and the Transformation of Kinship -- 7. Assisted Reproduction -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: What is the impact on anthropology of recent studies of reproductive technologies, gender, and the social construction of science in the West? What is the significance of public anxiety about the family to anthropology's analytic approach? Janet Carsten presents an original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology
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    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780814773390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Cultural Front
    DDC: 305.809/073
    Abstract: View the Table of Contents.Read the Introduction. "Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since 'whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity, and the desire for difference as part of the material practices of the U.S. university system, it engages questions of race, humanistic inquiry, intellectual labor, and the democratic function of critical thought. The result is a critically nuanced analysis that promises to solidify Mike Hill's reputation as one of the finest thinkers of his generation."-Robyn Wiegman, Duke University "Mike Hill's After Whiteness is an important, provocative and timely book."-Against the Current "A lucid, fiercely argued, brilliantly conceived, richly provocative work in an emergent and growing area of cultural studies. After Whiteness sets new directions in American literary and cultural studies, and will become a landmark in the field."-Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University"Americanists across the disciplines will find Hill's analysis insightful and brilliant. A must for any scholar who wishes to, in Ralph Ellison's words, 'go to the territory.'"-Sharon Holland, University of Illinois at ChicagoAs each new census bears out, the rise of multiracialism in the United States will inevitably result in a white minority. In spite of the recent proliferation of academic studies and popular discourse on whiteness, however, there has been little discussion of the future: what comes after whiteness? On the brink of what many are now imagining as a post-white American future, it remains a matter of both popular and academic uncertainty as to what will emerge in its place.After Whiteness aims to address just that, exploring the remnants of white identity to ask how an emergent post-white national imaginary figure into public policy issues, into the habits of sexual intimacy, and into changes within public higher education. Through discussions of the 2000 census and debates over multiracial identity, the volatile psychic investments that white heterosexual men have in men of color-as illustrated by the Christian men's group the Promise Keepers and the neo-fascist organization the National Alliance-and the rise of identity studies and diversity within the contemporary public research university, Mike Hill surveys race among the ruins of white America. At this crucial moment, when white racial change has made its ambivalent cultural debut, Hill demonstrates that the prospect of an end to whiteness haunts progressive scholarship on race as much as it haunts the paranoid visions of racists.
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781501726897
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 28 halftones
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306.874/2/09440904
    Abstract: The state's policy with regard to fathers and fatherhood had a great impact on concepts of citizenship and gender in France in the era of the two World Wars. Drawing on new material that has only recently become available from the archives of the Vichy regime, Kristen Stromberg Childers analyzes the ways fathers were promoted as saviors of the nation after France's humiliating defeat by the Germans in June 1940. Childers argues that concern for the family and for the status of fathers in modern France was not merely a response to falling birthrates and German aggression, but was fundamental to the very notion of citizenship and political participation.The debate on men as gendered beings, Childers demonstrates, is central to the political, social, and cultural history of France in the modern age. The father figure became a focus as participants from all classes and across the political spectrum debated what was wrong with the French family and what policies were needed to remedy the problem. Childers examines how these policies were implemented, what they reveal about the development of the welfare state in France, and how they help explain the importance of Vichy in twentieth-century French history. Twenty-eight illustrations, including fifteen photographs, many never previously published, complement her argument.
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    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780814709061
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.4840973
    Abstract: When Lauryn Hill stepped forward to accept her fifth Grammy Award in 1999, she paused as she collected the last trophy, and seeming somewhat startled said, “This is crazy, ‘cause this is hip hop music.’“ Hill’s astonishment at receiving mainstream acclaim for music once deemed insignificant testifies to the explosion of this truly revolutionary art form. Hip hop music and the culture that surrounds it—film, fashion, sports, and a whole way of being—has become the defining ethos for a generation. Its influence has spread from the state’s capital to the nation’s capital, from the Pineapple to the Big Apple, from ‘Frisco to Maine, and then on to Spain. But moving far beyond the music, hip hop has emerged as a social and cultural movement, displacing the ideas of the Civil Rights era. Todd Boyd maintains that a new generation, having grown up in the aftermath of both Civil Rights and Black Power, rejects these old school models and is instead asserting its own values and ideas. Hip hop is distinguished in this regard because it never attempted to go mainstream, but instead the mainstream came to hip hop.The New H.N.I.C., like hip hop itself, attempts to keep it real, and challenges conventional wisdom on a range of issues, from debates over use of the “N-word,” the comedy of Chris Rock, and the “get money” ethos of hip hop moguls like Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and Russell Simmons, to hip hop’s impact on a diverse array of figures from Bill Clinton and Eminem to Jennifer Lopez.Maintaining that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is less important today than DMX's It's Dark and Hell is Hot, Boyd argues that Civil Rights as a cultural force is dead, confined to a series of media images frozen in another time. Hip hop, on the other hand, represents the vanguard, and is the best way to grasp both our present and future.
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