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    Oxford : Oxford University Press | Pittsburgh, Pa. : Carnegie Mellon Univ. Press ; 1.1967/68 -
    ISSN: 1527-1897 , 0022-4529 , 0022-4529
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: 1.1967/68 -
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. 1.1967/68 - 39.2005/06 Journal of social history
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. ab 40.2006/07 Journal of social history, societies & cultures
    DDC: 390
    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Ressource ; Sozialgeschichte ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Publikation ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Publikation ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Ressource ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Sozialgeschichte ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Ressource ; Sozialgeschichte ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Publikation
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    London : Arnold | [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Sage | Oxford : Oxford University Press ; 1.1984 -
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    ISSN: 1477-089X , 0266-3554 , 0266-3554
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: 1.1984 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als German history
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Ressource ; Deutschland ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Publikation
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Macmillan | Washington DC [u.a.] : Assoc. | Chicago, Ill. : Univ. of Chicago Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press ; 1.1895/96 -
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    ISSN: 0002-8762 , 1937-5239 , 1937-5239
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1895/96 -
    Additional Information: Beil. American Historical Association Recently published articles
    Additional Information: Index 1895/1945=1944,1 von American Historical Association Annual report of the American Historical Association
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. The American historical review
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Weltgeschichte ; Zeitschrift ; USA ; Zeitschrift
    Note: Repr.: Nendeln : Kraus
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press | Fairfax, Va. : George Mason Univ. ; 40.2006/07 -
    ISSN: 0022-4529 , 1527-1897
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 40.2006/07 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Journal of social history
    Former Title: Vorg.: Journal of social history
    DDC: 390
    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Sozialgeschichte ; Zeitschrift
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press ; 1.1994 -
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    ISSN: 1468-2893 , 1072-4745 , 1072-4745
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: 1.1994 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Social politics
    Keywords: Sozialpolitik ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Publikation
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    London : Longmans, Green and Co. | Oxford : Oxford University Press ; 1.1886 -
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    ISSN: 1477-4534 , 0013-8266 , 0013-8266
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: 1.1886 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The English historical review
    Former Title: The english historical review online
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Großbritannien ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Publikation
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press | Bloomington, Ind. : OAH ; 51.1964/65 -
    ISSN: 1945-2314 , 0021-8723
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: 51.1964/65 -
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. The journal of American history
    Former Title: Vorg.: Mississippi Valley historical review
    DDC: 910
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Ressource ; USA ; USA ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; USA ; Geschichte ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Ressource ; USA ; Geschichte ; Zeitschrift
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9780195391640
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (296 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version New Homelands : Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa
    DDC: 304.8088/2945
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    Keywords: Hindu diaspora History ; East Indians Social conditions ; East Indians Religion
    Abstract: When the colonial slave trade, and then slavery itself, were abolished early in the 19th century, the British empire brazenly set up a new system of trade using Indian rather than African laborers. The new system of "indentured" labor was supposed to be different from slavery because the indenture, or contract, was written for an initial period of five years and involved fixed wages and some specified conditions of work. From the workers' point of view, the one redeeming feature of the system was that most of their workmates spoke their language and came from the same area of India
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction; Story One: Mauritius: A Parallel Society; Story Two: Guyana: Invented Traditions; Story Three: Trinidad: Ethnic Religion; Story Four: South Africa: Reform Religion; Story Five: Fiji: A Segregated Society; Story Six: East Africa: Caste Religion; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199560387 , 9780191721175 (Sekundärausgabe) , 0191721174 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 265 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780191721175
    Edition: ISBN 0191721174
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 203.5
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    Keywords: Raumwahrnehmung ; Gotteserfahrung ; Religiöse Erfahrung ; Theologische Erkenntnistheorie ; Heiligtum
    Abstract: 'Faith and Place' considers how places come to acquire special religious significance, as sites for prayer or other kinds of devotional activity. It examines the ways in which sacred sites function, and the ways in which sites which have no explicitly religious import may come to bear a religious meaning.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199245437 , 9780191726996 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Edition: ISBN 9780191726996
    Series Statement: Oxford Reference Online Premium
    DDC: 306.094109033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1776-1832 ; Kultur ; Romantik ; Großbritannien ; Wörterbuch ; Online-Publikation ; Wörterbuch
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199557936
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 338 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Truth and Words
    DDC: 306.4401
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    Keywords: Language and logic ; Predicate (Logic) ; Truth ; Grammar, Comparative and general Sentences
    Abstract: To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need to define a disquotational truth predicate that we are directly licensed to apply not only to our own sentences as we use them now, but also to other speakers' sentences and our own sentences as we used them in the past. The conventional wisdom is that there can be no such truth predicate. For it appears that the only instances of the disquotational pattern that we are directly licensed to accept are those that define 'is true' for ourown sentences as we use them now. Gary Ebbs shows that this appearance is illusory. He constructs an account of w
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction; 1. Regimentation; 1.1. Regimentation as Linguistic Policy; 1.2. Ambiguity; 1.3. Is Regimentation Possible?; 1.4. Vagueness; 1.5. Quantifier Domains, Tense, and Time; 1.6. Descriptions and Proper Names; 1.7. Pronouns and Demonstratives; 1.8. Why Ordinary Language is Indispensable; 1.9. Limitations of First-Order Logic; 2. The Tarski-Quine Thesis; 2.1. The Indispensability Argument; 2.2. Why Generalize on Valid Sentences?; 2.3. Three Attempts to Generalize on Sentences without Using a Truth Predicate; 2.4. Horwich's Minimal Theory
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5. A Naive Theory of Why it is Epistemically Reasonable for us to Accept T-Sentences2.6. Surrogate T-Sentences and Explication; 2.7. Tarski's Convention T; 2.8. 'True-in-L' Defined in Terms of Satisfaction; 2.9. How (Tr) Satisfies Convention T and Enables us to Derive ST-Sentences; 2.10. Schematic Definitions of 'True-in-L' Rejected; 2.11. Adopting the Tarski-Quine Thesis; 2.12. Two Objections; 3. The Intersubjectivity Constraint; 3.1. A Preliminary Formulation of the Intersubjectivity Constraint; 3.2. Practical Identifications of Words (PIWs)
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3. Practical Judgements of Sameness of Satisfaction (PJSSs)3.4. Agreement and Disagreement; 3.5. Learning from Others; 3.6. Discoveries; 3.7. A Reformulation of the Intersubjectivity Constraint; 3.8. Trust without Trustworthiness?; 3.9. A Quinean Objection: PJSSs are not Factual; 3.10. Realism as Integral to the Semantics of the Predicate 'True'; 4. How to Think about Words; 4.1. Is the Tarski-Quine Thesis Incompatible with the Intersubjectivity Constraint?; 4.2. Use versus Mention (Transparent Use); 4.3. The Orthographic Conception of Words; 4.4. Explanatory Use (Ex-Use)
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.5. The Token-and-Ex-Use Model of Words4.6. Types and Tokens; 4.7. Kaplan's Common Currency Conception of Words; 4.8. The Context Principle and the PJSS-Based Conception of Words; 4.9. How to Satisfy the Intersubjectivity Constraint without Rejecting the Tarski-Quine Thesis; 4.10. Preliminary Objections and Replies; 5. Learning from Others, Interpretation, and Charity; 5.1. Is the Intersubjectivity Constraint Compatible with the Negation of the Tarski-Quine Thesis?; 5.2. Language Ex-Use and Interpretation; 5.3. A Case in which One Person Learns from Another; 5.4. Two Conditionals
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.5. Strategy5.6. What is Davidson's Principle of Charity?; 5.7. Davidson's Framework for Evaluating (3) and (4); 5.8. Why the Conjunction of (3) and (4) Violates Davidson's Principle of Charity; 5.9. My Conclusion Drawn, Generalized, and Explained; 5.10. Is the Principle of Charity Optional?; 5.11. An Alternative to Davidson's Principle of Charity; 5.12. Frontiers of Translation; 5.13. The Method behind these Conclusions; 6. A Puzzle about Sameness of Satisfaction across Time; 6.1. An Intuition about Sameness of Satisfaction across Time; 6.2. Methodological Analyticity
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.3. Causal-Historical Theories
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199562343 , 9780191721441 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 308 p. , Ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780191721441
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Oxford historical monographs
    DDC: 305.8924042
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1858-1887 ; Juden ; Soziale Integration ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Clark explores the dilemmas of identity and inter-faith relations that confronted Jews in late Victorian Britain, after their campaign for equal rights. This was a crucial period in which the Anglo-Jewish community shaped the basis of its modern existence, whilst the British state explored the limits of its toleration.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780191710957 , 0191710954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 366 p.)
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Social justice ; Cosmopolitanism
    Abstract: Gillian Brock develops a model of global justice that takes seriously the moral equality of all human beings notwithstanding their legitimate diverse identifications and affiliations.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199706112 , 0199706115 , 9780195373783 , 0195373782
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvi, 302 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ehrenfeld, David Becoming good ancestors
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Nature Effect of human beings on ; Civilization, Modern 21st century ; Technology Social aspects ; Human ecology ; Environmental degradation ; Civilization, Modern 21st century ; Technology Social aspects ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; Nature ; Technology ; Civilization, Modern ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography ; Environmental degradation ; Human ecology ; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A brilliant writer and gifted "big picture" thinker, David Ehrenfeld is one of America's leading conservation biologists. Becoming Good Ancestors unites in a single, up-to-date framework pieces written over two decades, spanning politics, ecology, and culture, and illuminating the forces in modern society that thwart our efforts to solve today's hard questions about society and the environment. The book focuses on our present-day retreat from reality, our alienation from nature, our unthinking acceptance of new technology and rejection of the old, the loss of our ability to discrimin
    Note: Rev. ed. of: Swimming lessons / David Ehrenfeld. 2002. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-290) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0195326792 , 0195326806 , 9780195326796 , 9780195326802
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 244 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Staring : How We Look
    DDC: 153.69
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    Keywords: Visual perception ; Gaze ; Attitude ; Perception ; Gaze ; Visual perception ; Electronic books
    Abstract: From a very young age we are told not to stare, and one hallmark of maturation is the ability to resist (or at least hide) our staring behavior. And yet, rarely do we master the impulse. Despite the complicated role it plays in our development, and its unique brand of visual enticement, staring has not been considered before as a suitable object for socio-cultural analysis. What is it about certain kinds of people that makes it impossible to take our eyes off them? Why are some visual stimuli irresistible? Why does staring produce so much anxiety? Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion
    Description / Table of Contents: Why do we stare?A physical response -- A cultural history -- A social relationship -- Knowledge gathering -- Regulating our looks -- Looking away, staring back -- Faces -- Hands -- Breasts -- Bodies -- Beholding.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0195378016 , 0199703213 , 9780195378016 , 9780199703210
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/40973
    Keywords: Extremists ; Radicalism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Extremists ; Radicalism ; Radikalismus ; Radikaler ; Radikalismus ; Extremists ; Radicalism ; Kollektives Verhalten ; Radikalismus ; Polarisation ; Gruppenverhalten ; USA ; Gruppenverhalten ; Polarisation ; Kollektives Verhalten ; Radikalismus
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-186) and index , Polarization -- Extremism: Why and when -- Movements -- Preventing extremism -- Good extremism -- Appendix: Findings of group polarization , Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? Why do groups of teenagers, investors, and corporations take unnecessary risks? What leads groups to engage in such destructive acts as terrorism and ethic cleansing?. In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism
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    ISBN: 0195174593 , 0199721262 , 9780195174595 , 9780199721269
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 288 pages)
    Series Statement: Child development in cultural context
    DDC: 305.23086/9120973
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    Keywords: Child development ; Children of immigrants ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies ; Child development ; Children of immigrants ; Children of immigrants / Education ; Erziehung ; Children of immigrants ; Children of immigrants Education ; Child development Cross-cultural studies ; Kind ; Einwanderer ; Erziehung ; Kulturelle Identität ; Schule ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Einwanderer ; Kind ; Erziehung ; Schule ; Kulturelle Identität
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-282) and index , Immigrant stories: ethnicity and educational pathways during middle childhood -- Why study children of immigrants? -- The developmental tasks of middle childhood -- The children of immigrants: development in context (CIDC) study -- The Cambodian community: small, isolated, and resilient -- The Dominican community: recent, growing, and vibrant -- The Portuguese community: steady, long established, and partially integrated -- Modeling children of immigrants' academic achievement -- Final reflections , Immigrant Stories portrays the contexts and academic trajectories of development of three unique immigrant groups: Cambodian, Dominican and Portuguese. The children of immigrant families - or second generation youth - are the fastest growing population of school children in the US. However, very little is known about these children's academic and psychological development during middle childhood. We examine the previously under-explored intricacies of children's emerging cultural attitudes and identities, academic engagement, and academic achievement. These processes are studied alongside a my
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    ISBN: 9780262255066
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (341 p.) , Ill.
    Series Statement: The information revolution & global politics
    DDC: 303.4833
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    Keywords: Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Information technology Technological innovations ; Information technology Economic aspects ; Telecommunication Technological innovations
    Abstract: Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. This examination of ICT from a political economy perspective argues that innovation and economic growth require new approaches in global governance that will reconcile diverse interests and enable competition to flourish.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780191552489
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (313 pages)
    DDC: 306.440941
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Englisch ; Sprachwandel ; Sprachpurismus
    Abstract: This engaging and wide-ranging history of language anxiety ranges from the Tower of Babel to the internet. It shows how worry about language results from and causes linguistic change, as well as fuelling perennial concerns about class, culture, identity, and social change. - ;This book looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change. Focusing on English from Alfred the Great to the present, Tim Machan offers a fresh perspective on the history of language. He reveals amusing and sometimes disconcerting aspects of our linguistic and social behavior and suggests that anxiety about language has sometimes allowed us to avoid the issues we really find disturbing: when speakers of English worry over grammar, sounds, or words the real source. of their anxiety is often not language at all but issues like immigration or social instability. Drawing on an array of evidence from archives, literature, history, polemics, and the press, as well as centuries of legislation, Tim Machan uncovers the perennial nature of concerns about the poverty and purity of English. There has never been a time, he shows, when we weren't worried about the corruption of language and its apparent connections with educational standards, the morality of youth, the integrity of society, and the identity of our nations. This is a fascinating story, told here. in consummate fashion, combining insight and anecdote, and learning with wit - a book for everyone interested in languages and the people who speak them. -.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199714513 , 0199714517
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xii, 351 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Asma, Stephen T On monsters
    DDC: 398.2454
    Keywords: Monsters ; Social Science ; Reference & resource series ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Monsters ; Electronic books ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Fiktionale Darstellung
    Abstract: "Monsters. Real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, they have exerted a dread fascination on the human mind for many centuries. They attract and repel us, intrigue and terrify us, and in the process reveal something deeply important about the darker recesses of our collective psyche. Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they are likely to take in the future. Asma begins with a letter from Alexander the Great in 326 B.C. detailing an encounter in India with an 'enormous beast--larger than an elephant with three ominous horns on its forehead.' From there the monsters come fast and furious--Behemoth and Leviathan, Gog and Magog, the leopard-bear-lion beast of Revelation, Satan and his demons, Grendel and Frankenstein, circus freaks and headless children, right up to the serial killers and terrorists of today and the post-human cyborgs of tomorrow. Monsters embody our deepest anxieties and vulnerabilities, Asma argues, but they also symbolize the mysterious and incoherent territory just beyond the safe enclosures of rational thought. Exploring philosophical treatises, theological tracts, newspapers, pamphlets, films, scientific notebooks, and novels, Asma unpacks traditional monster stories for the clues they offer about the inner logic of an era's fears and fascinations. In doing so, he illuminates the many ways monsters have become repositories for those human qualities that must be repudiated, externalized, and defeated. Asma suggests that how we handle monsters reflects how we handle uncertainty, ambiguity, insecurity. And in a world that is daily becoming less secure and more ambiguous, he shows how we might learn to better live with monsters--and thereby avoid becoming one."--Publisher's website
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199738298 , 0199738297
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 268 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Studies in feminist philosophy
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dancing with Iris
    DDC: 305.42092
    Keywords: Young, Iris Marion 1949- ; Young, Iris Marion ; Young, Iris Marion 1949- ; Young, Iris Marion ; Political science Philosophy ; Feminist theory ; Political science Philosophy ; Political science ; Philosophy ; Feminist theory ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Iris Marion Young was a world-renowned feminist moral and political philosopher whose many books and articles spanned more than three decades. She explored issues of social justice and oppression theory, the phenomenology of women's bodies, deliberative democracy and questions of terrorism, violence, international law and the role of the national security state. Her works have been of great interest to those both in the analytic and Continental philosophical tradition, and her roots range from critical theory (Habermas and Marcuse), and phenomenology (Beauvoir and Merleau Ponty) to poststructu
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780191571176 , 0191571172 , 9780199239184 , 0199239185
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 273 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Finlayson, Clive, 1955- Humans who went extinct
    DDC: 303.4
    Keywords: Évolution sociale ; Homme de Néanderthal ; Homme Évolution ; Neanderthals ; Human evolution ; Social evolution ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Human evolution ; Neanderthals ; Social evolution ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of Africa some 100,000 years ago. But was it really as simple as that? Clive Finlayson reminds us that the Neanderthals were another kind of human, and their culture was not so very different from that of our
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199736775 , 0199736774 , 9780195388442 , 0195388445
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xviii, 259 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Baron, Dennis E Better pencil
    DDC: 302.2244
    Keywords: Writing materials and instruments History ; Written communication Technological innovations ; Writing materials and instruments History ; Written communication Technological innovations ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Literacy ; Writing ; Materials and instruments ; Written communication ; Technological innovations ; History ; Electronic books History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself. A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love relationship with computers and the internet into perspective, describing how the digital revolution influences our reading and writing practices, and how the latest technologies differ from what came before. The book explores our use of computers as writing tools in light of the history of co
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203875704
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    DDC: 303.6/9
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Business, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding examines the actions currently being taken by businesses in areas of violent conflict around the world, and explores how they can make a significant contribution to the resolution of violent conflicts through business-based peacebuilding. This book combines two approaches to provide a comprehensive look at the current state and future of business- based peacebuilding.  It marries a detailed study of documented peacebuilding activities with a map of the possibilities for future business-related conflict work and pragmatic suggestions for business leaders, conflict resolution practitioners, and peacebuilding organizations.  The use of the label 'business-based peacebuilding' is new and signifies actions business can take beyond simple legal compliance or making changes to avoid creating a conflict. Although business-based peacebuilding is new, examples are included from around the world to illustrate that, working together, businesses have a strong contribution to make to the creation of peaceful societies. The book advocates pragmatic peacebuilding, which is not overly concerned with cause-driven models of conflict.  Instead, pragmatic peacebuilding encourages an examination of what is needed in the conflict and what can be provided.  This approach is free of some of the ideological baggage of traditional peacebuilding and allows for a much wider range of participants in the peacebuilding project.  This book will be of much interest to students of peace studies, conflict resolution, international security and business studies, as well as to practitioners and business leaders. Derek Sweetman is Dispute Resolution Director for Better Business Bureau in Washington, DC and Instructor at New Century College, George Mason University, USA.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780195335361 , 9780199868995 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 228 p. , Ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780199868995
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Transgressing boundaries
    DDC: 305.8009
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    Abstract: In multiracial and multicultural societies, the author argues, the practice of political solidarity has been indelibly shaped by the social fact of race. The starting point should thus be the existence of racialized solidarity itself - how can we create political solidarity when racial and cultural diversity are more or less permanent?
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199546701
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 218 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Reframing Social Citizenship
    DDC: 306.2094
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    Keywords: Welfare state ; Public welfare ; Social change ; Citizenship Social aspects ; Political culture
    Abstract: Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision to give a stronger role to opportunity, aspiration and individual responsibility, and to competition, markets and consumer choice. This approach centres on a logic of individual rational action: people are the best judges of what serves their own interests and government should give them as much freedom of choice as possible. The UK has gone further than any other major European country in reform andprovides a useful object lesson. This book analyses the pressures on social citizenship from changes in work and the
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Part I. Sustaining Social Citizenship in Difficult Times; Part II. Intellectual Foundations of Reform; Part III. A Case-study: The UK as Object Lesson; Part IV. Conclusions: Strengths and Limitations of Rational Actor Approaches; References; Index
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203874363
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (165 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: ASAA Women in Asia Series
    DDC: 305.56209519
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    Abstract: Bringing together for the first time sexual and industrial labour as the means to understand gender, work and class in modern Japan and Korea, this book shows that a key feature of the industrialisation of these countries was the associated development of a modern sex labour industry. Tying industrial and sexual labour together, the book opens up a range of key questions: In what economy do we place the labour of the former "comfort women"? Why have sex workers not been part of the labour movements of Korea and Japan?  Why is it difficult to be "working-class" and "feminine"?   What sort of labour hierarchies operate in hostess clubs? How do financial crises translate into gender crises?  This book explores how sexuality is inscribed in working-class identities and traces the ways in which sexual and labour relations have shaped the cultures of contemporary Japan and Korea. It addresses important historical episodes such as the Japanese colonial industrialisation of Korea, wartime labour mobilisation, women engaged in forced sex work for the Japanese army throughout the Asian continent, and issues of ethnicity and sex in the contemporary workplace. The case studies provide specific examples of the way gender and work have operated across a variety of contexts, including Korean shipyard unions, Japanese hostess clubs, and the autobiographical literature of Korean factory girls.  Overall, this book provides a compelling account of the entanglement of sexual and industrial labour throughout the twentieth century, and shows clearly how ideas about gender have contributed in fundamental ways to conceptions of class and worker identities.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0199549001 , 9780199549009
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 292 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Peace by Design : Managing Intrastate Conflict through Decentralization
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Insurgency Case studies ; Decentralization in government Case studies ; Ethnic conflict Case studies Political aspects ; Conflict management Case studies Political aspects ; Central-local government relations Case studies ; Czechoslovakia Politics and government ; India Politics and government ; Spain Politics and government
    Abstract: Why does political decentralization seem reduce intrastate conflict more in some countries than in others? This question constitutes the central focus of Peace by Design. Brancati argues that the ability of decentralization to reduce intrastate conflict hinges on the electoral strength of regional parties. According to Brancati, regional parties tend to promote intrastate conflict by creating regional identities, advocating legislation harmful to other regions and regionalminorities, and mobilizing groups to engage in conflict or supporting extremist organizations that do. Brancati also highli
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. Introduction; Part I: Theory Development; 2. Decentralization: Fueling the Fire or Dampening the Flames of Intrastate Conflict?; Part II: Case Study Analysis; 3. Czechoslovakia; 4. Spain; 5. India; Part III: Quantitative Analysis; 6. Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism; 7. Regional Parties; 8. Conclusion; References; Endnotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0199557780 , 9780199557783
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 215 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Social Movements and Europeanization
    DDC: 303.48/4
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    Keywords: Social movements ; Social psychology
    Abstract: Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU, or do they disrupt the process of EU integration? This book includes surveys of activists at international protest events targeting the European Union (for a total of about 5000 interviews); a discourse analysis of documents andtranscripts of debates on European politics and policies conducted during the four European social forums held between 200
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1. Social Movements and Europeanization: An Introduction; 2. Europeanization and the Domestication of Protest; 3. The Search for EU Alliances: An Externalization of Protest?; 4. The Emergence of European Movements; 5. Euro-sceptics or Critical Europeanists? Some Conclusions; Appendix; List of Quoted Interviews; References; Index
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 128193092X , 9781281930927 , 9780199712861 , 0199712867
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 430 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Ancient literacies
    DDC: 302.224409495
    Keywords: Transmission of texts Greece ; Transmission of texts Rome ; Books and reading Greece ; Books and reading Rome ; Literacy Greece ; Literacy Rome ; Greece ; Rome (Empire) ; Transmission of texts ; Transmission of texts ; Books and reading ; Books and reading ; Literacy ; Literacy ; Literacy ; Books and reading ; Books and reading ; Literacy ; Transmission of texts ; Transmission of texts ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Literacy ; Books and reading ; Literacy ; Transmission of texts ; Antike ; Lesekultur ; Lesefähigkeit ; Livres et lecture ; Grèce ; Livres et lecture ; Rome ; Transmission de textes ; Grèce ; Transmission de textes ; Rome ; Littératie ; Grèce ; Littératie ; Rome ; Griechenland ; Römisches Reich ; Rome (Empire) ; Greece ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Konferenzschrift 2006
    Abstract: List of Illustrations Abbreviations List of Contributors 1. Introduction PART I Situating Literacies 2. Writing, Reading, Public and Private "Literacies": Functional Literacy and Democratic Literacy in Greece 3. Literacy or Literacies in Ancient Rome? 4. Reading, Hearing, and Looking at Ephesos 5. The Anecdote: Exploring the Boundaries between Oral and Literate Performance in the Second Sophistic 6. Situating Literacy at Rome PART II Books and Texts 7. The Corrupted Boy and the Crowned Poet or the Material Reality and the Symbolic Status of the Literary Book at Rome 8. The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets 9. Books and Reading Latin Poetry PART III Institutions and Communities 10. Papyrological Evidence for Book Collections and Libraries in the Roman Empire 11. Bookshops in the Literary Culture of Rome 12. Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii: the Case of Virgil's Aeneid 13. Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire PART IV Bibliographical Essay 14. Literacy Studies in Classics: The Last Twenty Years PART V Epilogue 15. Why Literacy Matters, Then and Now (May 30, 2006) Index locorum General Index
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    ISBN: 9780195341546 , 0195341546
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 323 p., [16] p. of plates
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 781.640973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-1970 ; Musik ; Popular music History and criticism ; Music History and criticism ; Unterhaltungsmusik ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Unterhaltungsmusik ; Geschichte 1900-1970
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-289) and index
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780191571725 , 0191571725 , 9780199547906 , 0199547904
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 146 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Very short introductions
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Arnold, Rebecca Fashion
    DDC: 391
    Keywords: Fashion History ; Fashion ; Clothing trade ; Fashion design ; Fashion History ; HEALTH & FITNESS ; Beauty & Grooming ; Clothing trade ; Fashion ; Fashion design ; Mode ; historia ; Kläder ; handel ; History ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture. This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and manifestations. Fashion is explored as a creative force, a business, and a means of communication. From Karl Lagerfeld's creative reinventions of Chanel's iconic style to themulticultural reference points of Indian designer Manish Arora, from the spectacular fashion shows held in nineteenth cent
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199739523 , 0199739528
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 321 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Baldwin, Peter Narcissism of minor differences
    DDC: 305.809
    Keywords: National characteristics, European ; National characteristics, American ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; National characteristics, American ; National characteristics, European ; International relations ; Europe Relations ; United States ; United States Relations ; Europe ; Europe ; United States ; Europe Relations ; United States Relations ; Europe ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. According to the American right, Europeans are lazy, defeatist and irreligious, while Americans are entrepreneurial, optimistic, and pious. And according to Europeans, America is harsh, dominated by the market, crime-ridden, violent, and sharp-elbowed. But are the US and Europe so different? Peter Baldwin, one of the world's leading historians of comparative social policy, thinks not, and in this bracingly argued but remarkably informed polemic, he lays out how similar the two continents really are. Drawing on th
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0199555753 , 9780199555758
    Language: English
    Pages: LII, 195 S. , 20 cm
    Edition: Reissued
    Series Statement: Oxford world's classics
    DDC: 398.24520954
    Note: 1e dr.: 1997
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199230945 , 9780199230938 , 9786611930844 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 366 S.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan Proquest 2009 Online-Ressource ISBN 9786611930844
    Edition: ISBN (falsch) 9780191552311
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Gerechtigkeit ; Globalisierung ; Ethik
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780195699982
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 517 Seiten , Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203865262
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (231 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    DDC: 203.208691209045
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Globalisierung ; Religion ; Migration ; Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects ; Globalization -- Religious aspects ; Religion and civilization ; Konferenzschrift 2007
    Abstract: Maintaining and forging religious networks across borders have long been part of migrants' activities. However, due to the wide availability of communication technologies and the reduced costs of transportation, transnational social practices, including religious activities, have witnessed an enormous intensification in the last few decades around the world. Traveling Spirits seeks to understand these processes by investigating how religion goes global. How do religious agents create and maintain transborder connections? In what way are religious practices being transformed, reinforced or newly invented when transported to different places around the world? How are power relations negotiated within transnational religious networks? How are processes of coming and going linked to religious practices and discourses? The book's contributors provide rich ethnographic case studies on mobile evangelists, moving spirit mediums, and traveling believers. They analyze the relationship between global, regional, national, local and individual religious processes by centering on economic activities, media representations, or politics of emplacement. Grounded firmly in cross-cultural comparison, this book contributes significantly to the literature on globalization, migration and transnational religion.
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    ISBN: 9780191572937 , 0191572934 , 9780199549054 , 0199549052
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 249 pages)
    DDC: 330.01
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    Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory ; Economics / Psychological aspects ; Happiness / Economic aspects ; Quality of life ; Well-being ; Psychologie ; Wirtschaft ; Economics Psychological aspects ; Happiness Economic aspects ; Quality of life ; Well-being ; Glück ; Zufriedenheit ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Wohlbefinden ; Glück ; Zufriedenheit ; Wohlbefinden ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Note: For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other. More recently there is a burgeoning interest in the study of happiness, in the social sciences and in the media. Can we really answer the question what makes people happy? Is it really grounded in credible methods and data? Is thereconsistency in the determinants of happiness across countries and cultures? Are happiness levels innate to individuals or c , Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-240) and index , List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Economics of Happiness; CHAPTER 2 The Happiness and Income Debate: Substance, Methodology, and the Easterlin Paradox; CHAPTER 3 The Determinants of Happiness around the World; CHAPTER 4 Does Happiness Matter?; CHAPTER 5 Happiness and Health across Countries and Cultures; CHAPTER 6 Economic Growth, Crises, Inequality, and More; CHAPTER 7 Adapting to Good and Bad Fortune: How Friends, Freedom, Crime, and Corruption affect Happiness; CHAPTER 8 Happiness around the World: Lessons -- and Questions -- for Policy
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203879696
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    DDC: 305.80095694/8
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    Keywords: Nahostkonflikt ; Juden ; Palästinenser ; Interaktion ; Geopolitik ; Stadtplanung ; Friedensbemühung
    Abstract: Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both exceptional and involuntary. Looking at Jewish-Arab relations in Israel in the context of the built environment, it is argued that there are complex links between socio-political relations and the production of contested urban space. The case study of one particular Jewish-Arab "mixed city", the city of Lod, is used as the platform for wider theoretical discussion and political analysis. This city has great significance in the present global context, as more and more cities are becoming polarized, ghettoized, and fragmented in surprisingly similar ways. This book examines the visible planning apparatuses and the "hidden" mechanisms of social, political, and cultural control involved in these processes. Focusing on the spatialities of power, this book brings to the fore a critical discussion of the urban processes that shape Jewish-Arab "mixed cities" in Israel, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Middle East Studies and Politics in general.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203877388
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Internationalizing Media Studies
    DDC: 302.23071
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: The explosion of transnational information flows, made possible by new technologies and institutional changes (economic, political and legal) has profoundly affected the study of global media. At the same time, the globalization of media combined with the globalization of higher education means that the research and teaching of the subject faces immediate and profound challenges, not only as the subject of enquiry but also as the means by which researchers and students undertake their studies. Edited by a leading scholar of global communication, this collection of essays by internationally-acclaimed scholars from around the world aims to stimulate a debate about the imperatives for internationalizing media studies by broadening its remit, including innovative research methodologies, taking account of regional and national specificities and pedagogic necessities warranted by the changing profile of students and researchers and the unprecedented growth of media in the non-Western world. Transnational in its perspectives, Internationalizing Media Studies is a much-needed guide to the internationalization of media and its study in a global context.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203879788
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (239 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    DDC: 306.092
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    Keywords: Said, Edward W. ; Literaturkritik ; Politisches Handeln ; Soziales Handeln ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Edward Said is widely recognized for his work as a critic and theorist of Orientalism and the Palestine crisis, but far less attention has been devoted to his considerable body of literary and cultural criticism. In this edited collection, the contributors - many among the foremost Said scholars in the world - examine Said as the literary critic; his relationship to other major contemporary thinkers (including Derrida, Ricoeur, Barthes and Bloom); and his involvement with major movements and concerns of his time (such as music, Feminism, New Humanism, and Marxism). Featuring freshly carved out essays on new areas of intervention, the volume is an indispensable addition for those interested in Edward Said and the many areas in which his legacy looms.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203877210
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (243 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.23/450973
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    Keywords: Fernsehen ; Verzicht ; USA
    Abstract: Living Without the Screen provides an in-depth study of those American families and individuals who opt not to watch television, exploring the reasons behind their choices, discussing their beliefs about television, and examining the current role of television in the American family. Author Marina Krcmar answers several questions in the volume: What is television? Who are those people who reject it? What are their reasons for doing so? How do they believe their lives are different because of this choice? What impact does this choice have on media research? This volume provides a current, distinctive, and important look at how personal choices on media use are made, and how these choices reflect more broadly on media's place in today's society. A compelling exploration of the motivations and rationales for those who choose to live without television, this book is a must-read for scholars and researchers working in children and media, media literacy, sociology, family studies and related areas. It will also be of interest to anyone with questions about media usage and the choices families make regarding the role of media in their lives.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203869383
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (337 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    DDC: 303.6/401
    Abstract: This book examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks with discourses of identity, and the possibility of social transformation. Drawing on a number of theorists including Deleuze and Guattari, authors Athina Karatzogianni and Andrew Robinson seek to reinterpret World Systems Theory in order to engage with issues of power, resistance, and conflict in the contemporary world. Discussing contemporary scholarship in global politics, the authors consider new and developing concepts including: global cities, bifurcations, hegemonic transitions, the relationship between capitalism and the state, the position of East Asia, and active and reactive network movements. Their analysis includes a very rich pool of empirical examples covering more than fifty countries and thirty resistance groups. Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World will be of interest to students and scholars looking for a comprehensive new theorization of the forces at work in global politics. The book provides a framework which crosses the boundaries between international relations, international political economy, comparative politics, conflict studies, social movement studies and critical theory, producing a study of a highly interdisciplinary scope.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203874165
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (136 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.207/2
    Abstract: This timely volume provides an in-depth look at why the field of communication is so central in initiatives for social impact around the world. In Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research, editors Donal Carbaugh and Patrice M. Buzzanell bring together scholars with varied and productive approaches to communication to address the question of what distinguishes communication research from similar studies in other disciplines. Each contributor responds to the question: "What makes your research communication research? How does your program of inquiry treat communication not simply as data, but as its primary theoretical concern?" Their responses are the heart of this book. The questions addressed and answered herein define the qualities that set research in communication apart from work in related fields, such as social psychology, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. The book begins and ends by looking across these studies generally, bringing into view not only the specific possibilities in the study of communication today, but also what such study contributes generally to understanding human problems, social relations, and communities. This volume provides an invaluable resource for graduate students beginning their study in communication; academics needing to define the distinctive contributions that communication research makes; and administrators who want to understand the scope and breadth of work in communication. It provides an invaluable resource for defining the role of communication research in the academic community and the contributions it makes to the study of human interaction.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203869024
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Abstract: Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history. The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes the identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective, within a global framework.  The collected essays investigate local and global economies, cultures and identities and the book offers for the first time, a wide spectrum of case studies which focus on a diversity of geographical spaces and places, from global capitals of fashion such as New York, to countries less known or identifiable for fashion such as contemporary Greece and soviet Russia. Highly illustrated and including essays from all over the world, The Fabric of Cultures provides a comprehensive survey of the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on fashion, identity and globalisation.
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    ISBN: 9780203869888
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
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    Series Statement: Perspectives on Gender
    DDC: 305.42
    Abstract: This ethnographic study examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently situated women's organizations in the Northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco. The conventional narrative of globalization tells the story of inexorable forces beyond the capacity of individuals to mute or transcend. But this study tells a different story, one of social actors purposefully weaving cross-border relationships. From this vantage point, global social forces are not immaculately conceived. Instead, they are constituted by human actors with their own interests and identities, located in particular social contexts.  Making Transnational Feminism takes what some have called "global civil society" as its object, moving beyond both dire predictions and euphoric celebrations to understand how transnational political relationships are constructed and sustained across social and geographical divides. It also provides a compelling case study for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in globalization, gender studies, and social movements.
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    ISBN: 9780203875186
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (337 pages)
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    DDC: 302.2/2440973
    Keywords: Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Offering the wisdom that only experience and expertise in the field can bring, this book takes a critical look into the present and the future of literacy as envisioned by leading reading researchers. The lead author of each chapter, and in some cases more than one, of the authors, is a distinguished reading researcher elected by their peers into the Reading Hall of Fame. In this book these distinguished literacy leaders extend their role as researchers to speak directly to issues of practice and policy. All chapters address the theme of literacy and the teaching of literacy as being in a constant state of change. The authors are theoretical as they describe literacy, literacy acquisition, and the teaching of literacy; they are practical as they examine the issues that classroom teachers and reading specialists engage with on a daily basis; and they are political as they advocate for informed policy at the local, state and national levels. A key message in this book is that literacy professionals must take an active role to shape change.
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    ISBN: 9780203872208
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (193 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    DDC: 303.485
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    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Bewaffneter Konflikt
    Abstract: This book examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends. Owing to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, current trends in climate change will not appreciably alter over the next half century even if drastic action is taken now. Changes in climate will produce unique types and modes of conflict, redefine the value of important resources, and create new challenges to maintaining social order and stability. This book examines the consequences of climate change and argues that it has and will produce two types of different types of conflict: 'cold wars' and 'hot wars'. Cold wars will occur in northern and southern latitudes as warming draws countries into possible conflict due to expanding interests in exploiting new resources and territories (inter-state conflict). Hot wars will break out around the equator as warming expands and intensifies dry areas, increasing competition for scarce resources (intra-state conflict). Conflict is not inevitable, but it will also be a consequence of how states, international institutions and people react to changes in climate. Climate change and conflict have always shaped human experiences. This book lays out the parameters of the relationship, shows its history, and forecasts its trends, offering future conditions and opportunities for changing the historical path we are on. This book will be of great interest for students of climate change and environmental security, peace and conflict studies, and IR/security studies in general. James R. Lee is a Professor in the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC and Associate Director of American University's Center for Teaching Excellence. He is author of several books on international relations, including, most recently, Exploring the Gaps: Vital...
    Abstract: Links Between Trade, Environment and Culture (2000).
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (176 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 305.509
    Abstract: First published in 1982, Professor Bauman's discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society. He investigates the impact of historical memory on the early transformation of rank into a class society, and on the current confusion in the analysis of the 'crisis of late-industrial society'. The book traces the formation of a class society back to the patterns of 'surveillance power' and control, and shows how these patterns preceded and made possible the industrial system. Subsequently 'economised' into the industrial system, these same patterns of control have now proved to be inadequate under social conditions brought about by this economisation of the power conflict.
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    DDC: 302.230955
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    Abstract: The post-revolutionary state in Iran has tried to amalgamate 'Sharia with electricity' and modernity with what it considers as 'Islam'. While sympathetic to private capital, through quasi anti-capitalist politics, the state began to restrict market-relations, confiscate major assets of sections of the Iranian bourgeoisie, and nationalize major aspects of Iran's industry, including its communications system. Since the end of war with Iraq and the start of the process of 'reconstruction', market-driven development and economic policies have been key aims of the state.
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    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Gender and History
    DDC: 306.809182/20903
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1300-1800 ; Frau ; Besitz ; Recht ; Mittelmeerraum ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Examining women's property rights in different societies across the entire medieval and early modern Mediterranean, this volume introduces a unique comparative perspective to the complexities of gender relations in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. Through individual case studies based on urban and rural, elite and non-elite, religious and secular communities, Across the Religious Divide presents the only nuanced history of the region that incorporates peripheral areas such as Portugal, the Aegean Islands, Dalmatia, and Albania into the central narrative. By bridging the present-day notional and cultural divide between Muslim and Judeo-Christian worlds with geographical and thematic coherence, this collection of essays by top international scholars focuses on women in courts of law and sources such as notarial records, testaments, legal commentaries, and administrative records to offer the most advanced research and illuminate real connections across boundaries of gender, religion, and culture.
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    ISBN: 9781135969349
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    Series Statement: Electronic Media Research Series
    DDC: 331.12
    Abstract: This landmark work centers on media management and economics within a diverse, international, historical and constantly changing environment. The chapters herein reflect the current state of research and present directions for future study. Developed at the 2012 Research Symposium in conjunction with the annual convention of the Broadcast Education Association, it represents the most current theory and research in the area.
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    ISBN: 9780199558070 , 9780191721038 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 257 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780191721038
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    DDC: 306.85094409032
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Familienbetrieb ; Frankreich
    Abstract: In 17th-century France, families were essential in the shaping of capitalism and the process of state formation. Exploring civil lawsuits in French cities, 'Family Business' reveals the part that the management of everyday difficulties, in court and out, played in these wider phenomena.
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    ISBN: 9780199546312 , 9780191720338 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 292 p. , Ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780191720338
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-2008 ; Osteuropabild ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Examining the various different expressions of the distinctive German myth of the East, Vejas Liulevicius discusses its importance as a feature of German culture over the last two centuries, which has influenced German attitudes both to Eastern Europe itself and also to Germans' own sense of identity.
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    ISBN: 9780203092262
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 306.9
    Abstract: This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration. Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the authors discuss such issues as the basis of the sense of stigma involved in the receipt of welfare benefits, the right of welfare and the concepts of 'community'.
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    ISBN: 9780203883433
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
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    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Massenmedien ; Neue Medien ; Medienwissenschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital convergence has radically changed the field of media history. Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the historical development of an individual medium such as film or television. Instead, now that various media from blockbuster films to everyday computer use intersect regularly via convergence, scholars must find new ways to write media history across multiple media formats. This collection of eighteen new essays by leading media historians and scholars examines the issues today in writing media history and histories. Each essay addresses a single medium-including film, television, advertising, sound recording, new media, and more-and connects that specific medium's history to larger issues for the field in writing multi-media or convergent histories. Among the volume's topics are new media technologies and their impact on traditional approaches to media history; alternative accounts of film production and exhibition, with a special emphasis on film across multiple media platforms; the changing relationships between audiences, fans, and consumers within media culture; and the globalization of our media culture.
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    ISBN: 9780203875544
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 pages)
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    Keywords: Migration ; Einwanderer ; Soziale Situation ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Stadtleben
    Abstract: International migration has emerged in the last decade as one of the world's most controversial and pressing issues. This thought-provoking textbook offers the reader a more nuanced and knowledgeable understanding of the complex economic, political, cultural, and moral concerns that arise when people move across borders seeking admission into other countries. Splitting the text into five broad sections, Steiner facilitates easy navigation of the complex discussions that surround the issue of migration: Section One - Introduction: examines how the central questions that frame the book will be addressed, including: what criteria should be used to admit migrants? and How should a country grant citizenship? Section Two - Immigrants: discusses the criteria for accepting immigrants, dealing with the unwanted, and assessing the economic, cultural and political impacts. Section Three - Refugees: evaluates the methods used to protect refugees, the controversies surrounding asylum and the shortcomings of current refugee definitions. Section Four - Citizenship: charts the rise of nationalism, presents modern issues of minority rights and diversity, and examines processes of naturalization across the globe. Section Five - Conclusion: considers more unconventional approaches to migration and citizenship, and suggests moving towards a more holistic approach. Carefully constructed to spark discussion and student reflection and featuring suggested resources at the end of each section, this book offers dozens of contemporary examples and case studies from across the globe. International Migration and Citizenship Today is essential reading for not only students of migration and citizenship, but also globalization, international relations, and democracies.
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    ISBN: 9780203892145
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (341 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology
    DDC: 306.76/60973
    Abstract: From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention protests in August 2004, and the massive immigrant rights rallies in the spring of 2006, the streets of cities around the world have been filled with a new theatrical model of protest. Elements of fun, creativity, pleasure, and play are cornerstones of this new approach toward protest and community building. No movement has had a larger influence on the emergence of play in social movement activity than the gay liberation and queer activism of the past thirty years. This book examines the role of play in gay liberation and queer activism, and the ways in which queer notions of play have influenced a broad range of social movements.
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    ISBN: 9780203873984
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/4
    Keywords: Soziale Bewegung ; Sozialreform ; USA
    Abstract: What can we learn when we listen closely to and engage in dialogue with social movement activists? Social Movements and Activism in the USA addresses this question for a group of progressive activists in Hartford, Connecticut, who do community, labor, feminist, gay and lesbian, peace, and anti-racist organizing. Situated within the twenty-first-century landscape of post-industrialism and neo-liberalism and drawing on oral histories, the book argues for a dialogic and integrative approach to social movement activism. The dialogue between scholar and activist captures the interpretive nature of activists' identity, the variable ways activists decide on strategies and goals, the external constraints on activism, and the creative ways activists manoeuvre around these constraints. This dialogic approach makes the book accessible and useful to students, scholars, and activists alike. The integrative nature of the text refers to its theoretical approach. Rather than advancing a new theory of social movements, it uses existing approaches as a tool kit to examine the what, how, who, and why of social movement activism.
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    ISBN: 9780203870860
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
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    DDC: 306
    Abstract: Modernism and Theory boldly asks what - if any - role theory has to play in the new modernist studies. Separated into three sections, each with a clear introduction, this collection of new essays from leading critics outlines ongoing debates on the nature of modernist culture. This collection examines aesthetic and methodological links between modernist literature and theory. addresses questions of the importance of theory to our understanding of 'modernism' and modernism as a literary category. considers intersections of modernism and theory within ethics, ecocriticism and the avant-garde. Concluding with an afterword from Fredric Jameson, the book makes use of an innovative dialogic format, offering a direct and engaging experience of the current debate in modernist studies. Contributors include: Charles F. Altieri, C.D. Blanton, Ian Buchanan, Pamela Caughie, Melba Cuddy-Keane, Thomas S. Davis, Oleg Gelikman, Jane Goldman, Ben Highmore, Fredric Jameson, Martin Jay, Bonnie Kime Scott, Neil Levi, Anneleen Masschelein, Scott McCracken, Andrew John Miller, Stephen Ross, Roger Rothman, Morag Shiach, Susan Stanford Friedman, Allan Stoekl, Hilary Thompson and Glenn Willmott.
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    ISBN: 9780203865705
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 302.5/4091821
    Abstract: This is a new and revised edition of a book which has had a major impact upon the social sciences and public political debate. Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert's THE NEW INDIVIDUALISM inspired readers with the dramatic suggestion that 'the reinvention craze' - from self-help and therapy culture to management restructurings and corporate downsizings - is central to a 'new individualism' sweeping the globe. Giving particular attention to the narratives of people seeking to define anew their lives in an age of globalization, the authors contend that an endless hunger for instant change and relentless emphasis on self-reinvention is fundamental to grasping the disorientating effects of the new individualism. This edition contains a substantial new Introduction in which Elliott and Lemert reply to some of the standard criticisms made of the theory of the new individualism, and also addresses the escalation of new individualist thinking in the wake of recent global crises.
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    ISBN: 9780203874158
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (421 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Companions
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Semiotik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The Routledge Companion to Semiotics provides the ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field. Topics covered include: the history, development, and uses of semiotics key theorists, including Saussure, Peirce and Sebeok crucial and contemporary topics such as biosemiotics, sociosemiotics and semioethics the semiotics of media and culture, nature and cognition. Featuring an extended glossary of key terms and thinkers as well as suggestions for further reading, this is an invaluable reference guide for students of semiotics at all levels.
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    ISBN: 9780203092347
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (82 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 307
    Abstract: Initially published in 1974, this is a work of applied social and political philosophy which relates the philsophical analysis to various forms of community work theory and practice. Raymond Plant emphasizes that 'community' has a wide range of both descriptive meanings and evaluative connotations, linking this dual role of the word in the description and evaluation of social experience to its history in ideological confrontations. The book takes account of some liberal criticisms of the community ideal, and finally seeks to re-state a theory of community compatible with a liberal ideology.
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    ISBN: 9780203866573
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (159 pages)
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    Series Statement: Studies in African American History and Culture
    DDC: 305.896/07300904
    Keywords: Schwarze ; Massenkultur ; USA
    Abstract: Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images. Rather, they present anti-black stereotypes in their original forms and encourage audiences not to ignore, but to explore them. Shifting critical commentary from a need to censor these questionable images, Worsley offers a complex consideration of the value of and problems with these alternative anti-racist strategies in light of stereotypes' persistence. This book furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequences of these images.
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    ISBN: 9780203092279
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (71 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 302.5
    Abstract: First published in 1970, the aim of the book is to 'map the logical geography' of an important set of concepts which enter into the theory of social casework - those concerning the individual and society. Concepts examined include the individually orientated values of 'self-direction' and 'acceptance', and those of 'role', 'adjustment' and 'integration', which express the individual's relation to society. The author's main concern is to see whether a coherent theory of the relationship between individual and society can be given in terms of these concepts and to argue that such a theory is fundamental to casework discussion. Mr Plant also discusses what, if any, social or political commitments the activity of casework presupposes, and evaluates the view that casework is 'apolitical'.
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    ISBN: 9780203092811
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (362 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals: Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings in Social Theory
    DDC: 301
    Abstract: Durkheim's study of socialism, first published in English in 1959, is a document of exceptional intellectual interest and a genuine milestone in the history of sociological theory. It presents us with the sociological theories of a truly first-rate thinker and his extensive commentary upon another key figure in the history of sociological thought, Henri Saint-Simon. The core of this volume contains Durkheim's presentation of Saint-Simon's ideas, their sources and their development.
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    ISBN: 9780203882795
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
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    Series Statement: AFI Film Readers
    DDC: 302.23/43
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    Keywords: Film ; Geopolitik ; Transnationalisierung ; Globalisierung ; Transnationale Politik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection" The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states. The three sections of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives cover the geopolitical imaginary, transnational cinematic institutions, and the uneven flow of words and images.
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    ISBN: 9780203869659
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (449 pages)
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    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Soziolinguistik ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social setting, The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World is the first single-volume collection surveying current and recent research trends in international sociolinguistics. With over 30 chapters written by leading authorities in the region concerned, all continents and their respective regions are covered. The book will serve as an important tool to help widen the perspective on sociolinguistics to readers of English. Divided into sections covering: The Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Middle East, and Europe, the book provides readers with a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field of sociolinguistics in each area. It clearly explains the patterns and systematicity that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternations between different language varieties mark personal style, social power and national identity. The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World is the ideal resource for all students on undergraduate sociolinguistics courses and researchers involved in the study of language, society and power. English Language and Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (259 pages)
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    Series Statement: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    DDC: 302.2/2440968
    Keywords: Sprachpolitik ; Mehrsprachigkeit ; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit ; Südafrika
    Abstract: Hilary Janks addresses key questions about literacy and power in this landmark text that is both engaging and accessible. Her central argument is that competing orientations to critical literacy education − domination (power), access, diversity, design − foreground one over the other, but are crucially interdependent and need to work together to create possibilities for redesign and social action that serve a social justice agenda. She examines the theory underpinning each orientation, and develops new theory in the argument for interdependence and integration. Sitting at the interface between theory and practice, constantly moving from one to the other, the text is rich with examples of how to use these orientations in real teaching contexts, and how to use them to counterbalance one another. In the groundbreaking final chapter Janks considers how the rationalist underpinning of critical literacy tends to exclude the non-rational shows ways of working 'beyond reason' − pleasure and play, desire and the unconscious − and makes the case that these need to be taken seriously given their power to cut across the work of critical literacy educators working from any orientation.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (447 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge International Handbooks of Education
    DDC: 306.43
    Abstract: This collection brings together many of the world's leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The thirty-seven newly commissioned chapters draw upon theory and research to provide new accounts of contemporary educational processes, global trends, and changing and enduring forms of social conflict and social inequality. The research, conducted by leading international scholars in the field, indicates that two complexly interrelated agendas are discernible in the heat and noise of educational change over the past twenty-five years. The first rests on a clear articulation by the state of its requirements of education. The second promotes at least the appearance of greater autonomy on the part of educational institutions in the delivery of those requirements. The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education examines the ways in which the sociology of education has responded to these two political agendas, addressing a range of issues which cover three key areas: perspectives and theories social processes and practices inequalities and resistances. The book strongly communicates the vibrancy and diversity of the sociology of education and the nature of 'sociological work' in this field. It will be a primary resource for teachers, as well as a title of major interest to practising sociologists of education.
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    ISBN: 9780203938652
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)
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    Abstract: This volume represents the next generation of research in media psychology, bridging selective exposure into a larger framework of choice in media usage. Considering the myriad media options available to use, this work seeks to answer such questions as: What mechanisms guide an individual's exposure to/choice of media? How can researchers model them? The questions why and how people decide to use media offerings are key in current communication scholarship. Research on selective exposure has addressed this area in the past, but the term 'media choice' is used here to represent any implicit/automatic/spontaneous or explicit/deliberate 'decisions' of the users and subsequent behavioral consequences that lead to a contact with a media stimulus.
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    ISBN: 9780191567698
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (313 pages)
    Series Statement: Oxford Studies in Modern European History
    DDC: 303.48/243047
    Abstract: Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day, Eastern Europe's lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination, anxiety, promise, and peril for Germans looking eastwards. Across the generations, a varied cast of German writers, artists, philosophers, diplomats, political leaders, generals, and Nazi racial fanatics have imagined (often in very different ways) a special German mission in the East, forging a frontier myth that paralleled the American myths of the 'Wild West' and 'Manifest Destiny'. Through close analysis of German views of the East from 1800 to our own times, The German Myth of the East reveals that this crucial international relationshiphas in fact been integral to how Germans have defined (and repeatedly redefined) themselves and their own national identity. In particular, what was ultimately at stake for Germans was their own uncertain position in Europe, between East and West. Paradoxically, the East came to be viewed as both anattractive land of unlimited potential for the future and as a place undeveloped, dangerous, wild, dirty, and uncultured. Running the gamut from the messages of international understanding announced by generations of German scholars and sympathetic writers, to the violent racial utopia envisaged by the Nazis, German imaginings of the East represent a crucial, yet unfamiliar, part of modern European history, and one that remains fundamentally important today in the context of an expanded European Union.
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    ISBN: 9780203863602
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (269 pages)
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    Abstract: Violence, democracy and rights are issues that are not fully addressed in research methodology literatures, yet violence is of vital interest in substantive and theoretical debates across the social sciences, education, philosophy, politics and cultural studies. Methodology needs to be informed by, and be relevant to, the debates and practices within and across these perspectives on the worlds of everyday life. Research is fundamentally entwined with the political, the ethical and the legal. When it presumes the neutrality of method and ignores its radical roots of inquiry, it is in danger of being politically co-opted and ethically naïve. Research that reveals what is at stake politically, ethically and legally is typically open to accusations of being partisan and therefore political. It cannot avoid being political in the broadest sense of the word, and consequently the researcher cannot escape - through some mystical notion of being 'objective' - the political, ethical and legal consequences of undertaking research. Research is vital to the construction of public spaces for debate, decision making and action. Hence, there is a close relationship between methodological practices, research design and the conditions under which violence, democracy and rights can be addressed. Researching Violence, Democracy and the Rights of People explores what is at stake methodologically (both theoretically and practically) for researchers seeking to expand opportunities for people to become visible upon the public stages of debate, decision making and action, and thus make audible their experiences of wrongs and injustices, express their rights, and engage democratically in processes of change. Drawing on international contributions and contexts, this book introduces readers to the complex realities of real research and the substantive issues that their...
    Abstract: methodological approaches strive to deal with. It will benefit undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as post-doctoral and experienced researchers across a range of cultural and social science disciplines, as well as educational and sociological researchers. Its aim is to explore and contribute to the development of innovatory approaches to engaging in research that make a difference in the lives of people.
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    ISBN: 9780203879597
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
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    Keywords: Medienwirtschaft ; Fernsehwirtschaft ; Filmwirtschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Behind-the-scenes" stories of ranting directors, stingy producers, temperamental actors, and the like have fascinated us since the beginnings of film and television. Today, magazines, websites, television programs, and DVDs are devoted to telling tales of trade lore-from on-set antics to labor disputes. The production of media has become as storied and mythologized as the content of the films and TV shows themselves. Production Studies is the first volume to bring together a star-studded cast of interdisciplinary media scholars to examine the unique cultural practices of media production. The all-new essays collected here combine ethnographic, sociological, critical, material, and political-economic methods to explore a wide range of topics, from contemporary industrial trends such as new media and niche markets to gender and workplace hierarchies. Together, the contributors seek to understand how the entire span of "media producers"-ranging from high-profile producers and directors to anonymous stagehands and costume designers-work through professional organizations and informal networks to form communities of shared practices, languages, and cultural understandings of the world. This landmark collection connects the cultural activities of media producers to our broader understanding of media practices and texts, establishing an innovative and agenda-setting approach to media industry scholarship for the twenty-first century. Contributors: Miranda J. Banks, John T. Caldwell, Christine Cornea, Laura Grindstaff, Felicia D. Henderson, Erin Hill, Jane Landman, Elana Levine, Amanda D. Lotz, Paul Malcolm, Denise Mann, Vicki Mayer, Candace Moore, Oli Mould, Sherry B. Ortner, Matt Stahl, John L. Sullivan, Serra Tinic, Stephen Zafirau.
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    ISBN: 9780203873465
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Migration ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Souveränität ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Vigorous debates swirl around issues of globalization, as global political economic relations in a nation-state system are complex and incompletely understood phenomena. The experiences of the late 1800's and first half of the twentieth century suggest that globalization requires nurturing to ensure that societies garner the advantages offered by globalization and manage the risks and fears unleashed by such dramatic transformation in social affairs. Featuring contributions by experts from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including economics, political science and law, this edited volume offers a timely examination of the complexities surrounding modern globalization. Through discussion and evaluation of the problems associated with immigration, social welfare and income inequality, and global governance the book offers a significant contribution to the continuing globalization debate. Providing both an overview of the debate and detailed discussion of specific examples, Challenges of Globalization will be of great interest to scholars of international political economy, international relations and globalization studies.
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    ISBN: 9781135845728
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (489 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesicht ; Visuelle Wahrnehmung ; Mimik ; Wahrnehmung
    Abstract: Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces - our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive. In recent years there has been genuine progress in understanding how our brains derive all these different messages from faces and what can happen when one or other of the structures involved is damaged. Face Perception provides an up-to-date, integrative summary by two authors who have helped develop and shape the field over the past 30 years. It encompasses topics as diverse as the visual information our brains can exploit when we look at faces, whether prejudicial attitudes can affect how we see faces, and how people with neurodevelopmental disorders see faces. The material is digested and summarised in a way that is accessible to students, within a structure that focuses on the different things we can do with faces. It offers a compelling synthesis of behavioural, neuropsychological and cognitive neuroscience approaches to develop a distinctive point of view of the area. The book concludes by reviewing what is known about the development of face processing and re-examines the question of what makes faces 'special'. Written in a clear and accessible style, this is invaluable reading for all students and researchers interested in studying face perception and social cognition.
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    ISBN: 9781134061112
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (358 pages)
    DDC: 305.800954
    Abstract: The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It highlights key analytical concepts and paradigms that came to be of relevance in particular regions in the recent history of research in India, and which possibly gained a pan-Indian or even trans-Indian significance. Structured according to the states of the Indian union, contributors raise several key questions, including: What themes were ethnographers interested in? What are the significant ethnographic contributions? How are peoples, communities and cultural areas represented? How has the ethnographic research in the area developed? Filling a significant gap in the literature, the book is an invaluable resource to students and researchers in the field of Indian anthropology/ethnography, regional anthropology and postcolonial studies. It is also of interest to students of South Asian studies in general as it provides an extensive and critical overview of regionally based ethnographic activity undertaken in India.
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    ISBN: 9781317883883
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (509 pages)
    Series Statement: Longman History of European Women
    DDC: 305.4209409033
    Abstract: Was the century of Voltaire also the century of women?  In the eighteenth century changes in the nature of work, family life, sexuality, education, law, religion, politics and warfare radically altered the lives of women. Some of these developments caused immense confusion and suffering; others greatly expanded women's opportunities and worldview - long before the various women's suffrage movements were more than a glimmer on the horizon.  This study pays attention to queens as well as commoners; respectable working women as well as prostitutes; women physicists and mathematicians as well as musicians and actresses; feminists as well as their critics.  The result is a rich and morally complex tale of conflict and tragedy, but also of achievement. The book deals with many regions and topics often under-represented in general surveys of European women, including coverage of the Balkans and both European Turkey and Anatolia, of Eastern Europe, of European colonial expansion (particularly the slave trade) and of Muslim, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish women's history. Bringing all of Europe into the narrative of early modern women's history challenges many received assumptions about Europe and women in past times, and provides essential background for dealing with issues of diversity in the Europe of today.
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    ISBN: 9781135891367
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (297 pages)
    DDC: 306.87
    Abstract: Hailed on publication as "an impressive integration of postmodernism and relational psychoanalysis" (James Hansel) and "an intelligent and stimulating account of where the issues of identity, gender, and difference are joined" (Jessica Benjamin), Lynne Layton's Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy? is a major contribution to the postmodern understanding of gender issues. This new edition, under the aegis of the Bending Psychoanalysis Book Series, includes a Foreword by Series Editor Jack Drescher and an Afterword in which Lynne Layton addresses the evolution of her thinking since the book's publication in 1998.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199542918 , 9780191715648 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 272 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780191715648
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    DDC: 305.52209410902
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1272-1422 ; Adel ; Britische Inseln
    Abstract: It is well known that political, economic, and social power in the British Isles in the Middle Ages lay in the hands of a small group of lords. In this book, Rees Davies explores the personalities of these magnates, the nature of their lordship, and the ways in which it was expressed in a diverse and divided region in this period.
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    ISBN: 9780203890684
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
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    Abstract: Who makes sport policy and why do we need it? What is the purpose of sport development programmes? Sport Policy and Development answers these questions and more by closely examining the complex relationships between modern sport, sport policy and development and other aspects of the wider society. These important issues are explored via detailed case studies of key aspects of sport policy and sport development activity, including: school sport and physical education social inclusion health elite sport sporting mega-events. Each case study demonstrates the ways in which the sport policy and development fields have changed, and are continually changing in response to the increasing political, social and cultural significance of sport. The book helps the reader to understand the complexities of the sport policy-making process, the increasing intervention of government in the sport policy and development fields, and how the short-term, ever-changing and frequently contradictory political priorities of government come to impact on the practice of sport policy and development. Accessible and engaging, this textbook is an invaluable introduction to sport policy and sport development for students, practitioners and policy-makers alike.
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    ISBN: 9780203873762
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (195 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Contemporary China Series
    DDC: 306.76/60951091732
    Keywords: Homosexualität ; Homosexuellenbewegung ; Sozialer Wandel ; China
    Abstract: This book contributes to a critical understanding of how Chinese same-sex identity in urban China is variously imagined; how it is transformed; and how it presents its resistances as China continues to open up to global power relations. Equally important, the book will 1) sharpen knowledge of China's recent socio-economic change and political agenda, 2) build a greater awareness of Chinese cultural, sexual and ethical values and 3) offer new perspectives on 'Chineseness' and Chinese same-sex identity. Uniquely, it explores the emergence of Chinese same-sex identity through understanding the everyday, lived same-sex experience, amid China's opening up to cultural, sexual and economic globalisation. This understanding is based on a culturally sensitive framework which accommodates the diverse and sometimes paradoxical articulation of same-sex identity in urban China. It come sto the conclusion that same-sex identity in china is articulated in a paradoxical way: open and decentred, but at the same time, nationalist and conforming to state control. This book will be of interest to scholar and students in Chinese studies, Gender Studies, sexuality and cultural studies.
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    ISBN: 9780203870334
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Religion
    DDC: 306.6
    Abstract: In this study, E. Frances King explores how people first learn to relate to the images and artefacts of religious belief within their domestic environments. As a sense of religious belonging is instilled on a daily basis in the home, it also becomes emotionally linked to family, community, and homeland, resulting in two different genealogies - one to do with faith and one to do with motherland - that become entangled.
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    ISBN: 9780203872949
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (237 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    DDC: 302.2345
    Abstract: This book is about the relationship between media and globalization, explored through the unique study of the global expansion of Discovery Communications, spearheaded by the Discovery Channel, one of the world's largest providers of factual television programming and media content. The book argues that the study of Discovery's relationship with globalization provides both a specific and a more general practical and theoretical understanding of how the processes of increased linking and interweaving of media and communications unfold and develop, as well as some of the consequences of this.
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    ISBN: 9780203872055
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (231 pages)
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    Series Statement: African Studies
    DDC: 305.896/5
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Songhai ; Mündliche Überlieferung
    Abstract: By balancing written history with the African oral tradition, this book conceptualizes the integrations among diverse peoples of Africa and specifically among the Songhoy people. Drawing from a number of academic disciplines and original research that documents the oral and literate traditions of the Songhoy people, Hassimi Oumarou Maiga offers a unique interpretation of indigenous Songhoy-African perspectives on African history, culture and education from antiquity to the present day and from continental Africa to the worldwide African Diaspora. In explaining the cosmology, philosophy, values and process of indigenous, non-Muslim education, this book also corrects and balances the perception of the Songhoy as a wholly Muslim society. The legacy of the Songhoy Empire, Maiga argues, is as a model of African integration through its administrative and political organization, which remains relevant even today. This book is an essential addition for scholars and students of African history.
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    ISBN: 9780203092644
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (409 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 070.19
    Abstract: First published in 1980, More Bad News is the Second Volume in the research findings of the Glasgow University Media Group. It develops the analytic findings and methods of the first volume Bad News through a series of Case Studies of Television News Coverage, and argues that much of what passes as balanced and factual news reporting is produced from a highly partial viewpoint. Focusing on the British economy in crisis, and its thematic linkage with the Social Contract during the first four months of 1975, the book deals with three main levels of activity: the story, the language and the visuals. As the book unpacks each level of routine news coverage a picture emerges which has the surface appearance of neutrality and balance but is in fact highly partial and restricted.
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    ISBN: 9780203871669
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    DDC: 306.76620952
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-2009 ; Homosexualität ; Männlichkeit ; Gesellschaftsbild ; Homophobie ; Japan
    Abstract: Japan's first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku ('The Rose Tribes'), was launched in 1971. Publicly declaring the beauty and normality of homosexual desire, Barazoku electrified the male homosexual world whilst scandalising mainstream society, and sparked a vibrant period of activity that saw the establishment of an enduring Japanese media form, the homo magazine. Using a detailed account of the formative years of the homo magazine genre in the 1970s as the basis for a wider history of men, this book examines the relationship between male homosexuality and conceptions of manliness in postwar Japan. The book charts the development of notions of masculinity and homosexual identity across the postwar period, analysing key issues including public/private homosexualities, inter-racial desire, male-male sex, love and friendship; the masculine body; and manly identity. The book investigates the phenomenon of 'manly homosexuality', little treated in both masculinity and gay studies on Japan, arguing that desires and individual narratives were constructed within (and not necessarily outside of) the dominant narratives of the nation, manliness and Japanese culture. Overall, this book offers a wide-ranging appraisal of homosexuality and manliness in postwar Japan, that provokes insights into conceptions of Japanese masculinity in general.
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    ISBN: 9780203876503
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (377 pages)
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    DDC: 305.8/00723
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Forschung ; Methodologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Ethnographies Revisited provides first-hand accounts of how leading qualitative researchers crafted key theoretical concepts found in their major book-length ethnographies. Great ethnographic research lies not in the rigid execution of prescribed methodological procedures, but on the unrelenting cultivation of theoretical ideas. These contributors focus squarely on this neglected topic, providing reflexive accounts of how research decisions were made in light of emerging theoretical questions. The continuous generation of creative concepts is arguably the most important skill in developing powerful results in field research, since the originality of the ideas produced is how the study is ultimately judged. Yet, this topic is often taken for granted, treated rigidly and artificially, or is entirely absent from existing qualitative research manuals. In contrast, this volume offers candid insights of how leading ethnographers generated their initial questions, chose their research sites, made theoretical and methodological adjustments, and oriented their research to maximize the conceptual payoff, leading to such successful research contributions. This provides a fresh approach to the topic of qualitative research, by linking practical decisions in the field to the dynamic features of theory in the making, told through the first-hand experiences of some of the best ethnographers in our field.
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    ISBN: 9780203864012
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (342 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Companions
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    Keywords: Soziologie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologische Theorie ; Einführung
    Abstract: The Routledge Companion to Social Theory provides an authoritative, comprehensive and provocative introduction to the key traditions of thought in social theory today. This ground-breaking reference work brings together major contributors, both established and emergent new voices, to reflect on the ways in which social theory sheds light on the contemporary social world. Represented are: the traditions of classical social thought symbolic interactionism psychoanalysis structuralism, post-structuralism and postmodernism identity theories globalization theories. The Routledge Companion to Social Theory is designed to give a sense of the complexities of both classical and contemporary social theory. Including a helpful glossary of key terms and theorists, this accessible guide is essential reading for students and professionals in social theory, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, women's studies and politics.
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    ISBN: 9780203873939
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (235 pages)
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    Series Statement: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    DDC: 306.4819095
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    Abstract: Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore 'exotic' holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls through the bazaars of Istanbul and cruises on the Nile are packaged into the sea, sand and sun culture of traditional forms of organized mass tourism. At the same time new technologies weave the fabric of tourism and everyday life even closer, circulating images, information, and objects between them. Taking off from this observation, Tourism, Performance and the Everyday invites readers to follow the flow's of tourist desires, objects, meanings, photographs, fears, dreams and memories weaving together the spaces of and between Western Europe, Turkey and Egypt. Tourism, Performance and the Everyday carefully analyzes the cultural and social impacts of mass-tourist experiences of 'exotic' places on the wider aspects of everyday life. It treats mass-tourism as a cultural phenomenon that feeds into the practices and networks of peoples' everyday lives rather than as an isolated, trivial or 'exotic' event. It traces how these impacts are mediated by various mobilities between home and away through innovate mobile and ethnographic research methods at tourist destinations and the home of tourists. The book contains analysis of diaries, photographs, blogs and photo web sharing sites, participant observation of performing tourists and 'home ethnographies' of the afterlife tourist photographs, souvenirs and memories. In doing this, the book traces out the multiple interconnections and mobilities between everyday spaces and leisure spaces as well as the multiple ways in which the Orient is consumed on holiday and at home. The book appeals to a wide audience among students, researchers and...
    Abstract: educators within the social and cultural sciences studying, researching and teaching theories and methods of tourism, Orientalism and cultural encounters as well as broader issues of leisure, consumption and everyday life.
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    ISBN: 9780203871003
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (242 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Education
    DDC: 306.43/2
    Abstract: This book provides a space in which struggles for indigenous knowledge within communities are articulated, valued, heard, and responded to. The volume takes change as its focus, yet acknowledges that the origins and significance of change are frequently found to be unsettling. Contributors explore different understandings of change that forge sustainable, inclusive and just communities and examine issues related to citizenship, resistance, peacemaking, critical literacies, and second chance opportunities. The authors seek to promote advocacy of change that recognises the importance of an informed engagement with cross-cultural issues in order to foreground those missing perspectives that are often marginalised, silenced, ignored or denied. All contributors are concerned with how the process of change can bridge the gap between social justice and exclusion and develop critical understandings of the implications of changing policy and practice for those within and working with the educational organisations and communities.
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    ISBN: 9780203871072
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401 pages)
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    Keywords: Kind ; Jugend ; Soziale Situation ; Jugendpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation brings together key thinkers and practitioners from diverse contexts across the globe to provide an authoritative overview of contemporary theory and practice around children's participation. Promoting the participation of children and young people - in decision-making and policy development, and as active contributors to everyday family and community life - has become a central part of policy and programme initiatives in both majority and minority worlds. This book presents the most useful recent work in children's participation as a resource for academics, students and practitioners in childhood studies, children's rights and welfare, child and family social work, youth and community work, governance, aid and development programmes. The book introduces key concepts and debates, and presents a rich collection of accounts of the diverse ways in which children's participation is understood and enacted around the world, interspersed with reflective commentaries from adults and young people. It concludes with a number of substantial theoretical contributions that aim to take forward our understanding of children's participation. The emphasis throughout the text is on learning from the complexity of children's participation in practice to improve our theoretical understanding, and on using those theoretical insights to challenge practice, with the aim of realising children's rights and citizenship more fully.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203871720
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (164 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
    DDC: 304.8/73047
    Keywords: Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten ; Russischer Einwanderer ; Illegaler Einwanderer ; Schwarzarbeit ; USA
    Abstract: This book is the first in English to examine irregular migration from post-Soviet states, focusing in particular on migration to the United States. Due to globalization and the end of the Cold War, citizens of the former Soviet Union are on the move as never before. The political, economic, and social changes that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in widespread poverty and unemployment and also created a large pool of potential migrants. Thousands of individuals from poor post-Soviet countries migrate to the West in search of better-paid work in an effort to provide for themselves and their families both through legal channels, and in their absence, illegally.  In recent years immigration has become a topic of heated debate in many Western countries: the estimated number of undocumented immigrants in the United States has reached 11 million, precipitating a new legislative focus on reforming the immigration system, culminating in the highly controversial Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act passed by the House of Representatives in 2005 but eventually "killed" in the Senate. This book examines all these issues, discussing the reasons for migration, the profile of the migrants, how the process of migration works and how the migrants obtain their U.S. visas, where they work once in the United States and their intentions with regards to their possible return home. This book explores the reality of post-Soviet migration where the mostly well-educated former professionals end up in low-wage unskilled jobs as domestic workers, child care givers, and construction workers, sometimes in exploitative labor situations. Overall, this book provides a detailed account of post-Soviet illegal migration to the United States, focusing in particular on Central Asian and Georgian migrants, and will be of interest to...
    Abstract: scholars of US politics as well as Russia, Central Asia,and the Caucasus specialists.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203881286
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (489 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    DDC: 302.2
    Keywords: Auslandsberichterstattung ; Massenmedien ; Internationale Kommunikation ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume provides a comprehensive examination of key issues regarding global communication, focusing particularly on international news and strategic communication. It addresses those news factors that influence the newsworthiness of international events, providing a synthesis of both theoretical and practical studies that highlight the complicated nature of the international news selection process. It also deals with international news coverage, presenting research on the cross-national and cross-cultural nature of media coverage of global events, in the interdisciplinary context of research on political communication, war coverage, new technologies and online communication. The work concludes with a focus on global strategic communications: in the age of globalization, global economies and cross-national media ownership, chapters here provide readers with some of the most up-to-date research on international advertising, public relations and other key issues in international communications. With contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field of international media communication research, this collection presents a valuable resource for advancing knowledge and understanding of the complicated international communication phenomenon. It will be of value to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in mass media and communication programs, and to scholars whose research focuses on global communication research.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203883419
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (292 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: AFI Film Readers
    DDC: 070.18
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    Keywords: Dokumentarfilm ; Leid ; Zeugenaussage ; Audiovisuelle Medien ; Augenzeugenbericht ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Documentary Testimonies examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action. Comprising ten new essays and a substantive introduction, this interdisciplinary volume examines audiovisual testimonial practices, forms, and institutions. Topics include: technologies of capture, storage and circulation; problems of historical veracity/frail memory; generation of video archives--official, renegade, and ephemeral; limits and potentialities of documentary as public record; architectonics of memory; ethics of witnessing and commemoration; human rights and activist publics. The essays provide in-depth analysis of archives of social suffering tied to particular locales: Cambodia, Chiapas, Darfur, India, Indonesia, Korea, New Orleans, Norway, Rwanda, South Africa, and Washington, DC. The contributors focus on the generation and use of testimony by public administrators and institutions, human rights activists, documentary filmmakers, and others with interest in environmental justice, human rights, social advocacy, and the commemoration/prevention of genocide. Thus, this volume aims to investigate, from a critical and translocal perspective, testimony as social practice.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203867327
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (230 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
    DDC: 305.4095493
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    Keywords: Frauenforschung ; Methodologie ; Sri Lanka
    Abstract: This book focuses on feminist research methodology, exploring and analysing its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology, ethics and politics, and research issues relating to women, gender and feminism in Sri Lanka. The book examines ways of meaning-making for the political, ideological and ethical purposes of promoting individual and social change, and constructs an example of feminist research praxis. Using this South Asian country as a case study, the author looks at the means by which researchers in this field inhabit, engage with and represent the multiple realities of women and society in Sri Lanka. In analysing what constitutes feminist research methodology in a transitional country, the book links local research practices with Western feminist approaches, taking into account the commonalities, distinctions and specificities of working in a South Asian context. Engaging with and re-conceptualising three traditionally different types of research - women's studies, gender studies and feminist studies - from a methodological perspective, Feminist Research Methodology provides a framework for researching feminist issues. Applicable at both a local and global level, this original methodological framework will be of value to researchers working in any context.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781134064472
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (285 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education
    DDC: 355.33041
    Abstract: The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our social relations. This book embeds these transformations in a societal, cultural, technological, ideological, economic and historical context, avoiding a naive privileging of technology as the main societal driving force, but also avoiding the media-centric reduction of society to the audiences that are situated within. Audience Transformations provides a platform for a nuanced and careful analysis of the main changes in European communicational practices, and their social, cultural and technological affordances.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199234844 , 9780191715716 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 301 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780191715716
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 303.482440509032
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1650-1720 ; Orientalismus ; Orient ; Frankreich
    Abstract: This title presents a history of Oriental studies in 17th century France, revealing the prominence within the intellectual culture of the period that was given to studies of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Chinese texts, as well as writings on Mughal India.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203872482
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (249 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.8009
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    Keywords: Pluralismus ; Zivilisation ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A highly original and readily accessible examination of the cultural dimension of international politics, this book provides a sophisticated and nuanced account of the relevance of cultural categories for the analysis of world politics. The book's analytical focus is on plural and pluralist civilizations. Civilizations exist in the plural within one civilization of modernity; and they are internally pluralist rather than unitary. The existence of plural and pluralist civilizations is reflected in transcivilizational engagements, intercivilizational encounters and, only occasionally, in civilizational clashes. Drawing on the work of Eisenstadt, Collins and Elias, Katzenstein's introduction provides a cogent and detailed alternative to Huntington's. This perspective is then developed and explored through six outstanding case studies written by leading experts in their fields. Combining contemporary and historical perspectives while addressing the civilizational politics of America, Europe, China, Japan, India and Islam, the book draws these discussions together in Patrick Jackson's theoretically informed, thematic conclusion.   Featuring an exceptional line-up and representing a diversity of theoretical views within one integrative perspective, this work will be of interest to all scholars and students of international relations, sociology and political science.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203930588
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (353 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Studies in European Sociology
    DDC: 305.507204
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    Keywords: Soziale Klasse ; Soziale Schichtung ; Electronic books ; Europeans -- Economic conditions -- Classification ; Europeans -- Social conditions -- Classification ; Social classes -- Europe -- Classification ; Social stratification -- Europe -- Classification ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research. Social Class in Europe aims to introduce researchers to the new classification and its research potential. Since socio-economic classifications are so widely used in official and academic research, this collection is essential reading for all users of both government and academic social classifications. While primarily aimed at researchers who will be using the ESeC, the book's contents will also have a wider appeal as it is suitable for students taking substantive courses in European studies or as a supplementary text for undergraduates studying the EU, Sociology and Economics. Because of its inherent methodological interest, the book should prove a valuable tool for undergraduate and graduate courses that discuss how social scientists construct and validate basic measures. It will also be required reading for policy makers and analysts concerned with social inequality and social exclusion across Europe.
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