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    César Vallejo : A Poet of the Event (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031335136
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 227 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Revolution and Literature
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    Keywords: Latin American literature. ; Poetry. ; Social sciences ; Political science
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. A Poet of the "Ethics of the Real" -- 3.A Poet of the Language Crisis -- 4. A Poet of the "Part With No Part” -- 5. A Poet Who Announces the Event -- 6. A Poet of the Communist Event -- 7. A Poet of "Lost Causes” -- 8. Vallejo and Political: Art Beyond Death (Conclusions).
    Abstract: “This book reveals that the political reading of Vallejo's poetry demands that we radically rethink politics itself. The singular ethical force of this poetry resides there. We have to think reality from the excess, that is, from what does not fit in ideological schematisms, nor in the concepts themselves. With a great pedagogical spirit, through lucid theoretical expositions and precise commentaries on the texts, this book shows us that Vallejo wrote a poetry that is absolutely alive for our times: a poetry that demands that we live in a different way.” —William Rowe, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK “From this careful study, César Vallejo emerges as a poet-witness of the event, ready to assume the constitutive flaw of the human being but capable of affirming the radical possibility of a communist politics of equality. By following the philosophy of Alain Badiou, as well as the clues of other thinkers (from Marx to Mariátegui, from Butler to Žižek), Víctor Vich has succeeded in producing an original, new, and other Vallejo.” —Bruno Bosteels, Columbia University, USA This book argues that the poetry of César Vallejo announces the event, as a moment of irruption of a truth that destabilises the usual state of reality. It studies the emergence of a subject who affirms a truth that exceeds the law, interrupts hegemonic repetition, asserts universal solidarity, and defends "lost causes" despite political failure. The author reconfigures the traditional reading of Vallejo only as a poet of pain and human suffering, and offers new ways of understanding the relationship between poetry and politics. Víctor Vich is Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima. He has been a visiting Professor at several universities in the United States and has published various books about Peruvian poetry. He won the Guggenheim grant in 2010.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-33513-6
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    The Philosophy of Inquiry and Global Problems : The Intellectual Revolution Needed to Create a Better World (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031494918
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 313 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Education ; Social sciences ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Science ; Political science
    Abstract: 1. Bad Philosophy, the Climate Crisis, and other Global Problems -- 2. Bad Academic Philosophy Responsible for Global Problems -- 3. The Post-Cartesian Blunder, and The Failure to Develop Philosophy as Critical Fundamentalism -- 4. The Post-Newtonian Blunder, and The Failure to Develop Aim-Oriented Empiricism -- 5. The Post-Enlightenment Blunder, and the Failure to Develop Academic Inquiry so as to Become Rationally Devoted to Helping Humanity Create a Civilized World -- 6. What We Need to Do -- 7. Appendix 1 How to Solve Hume’s Problem of Induction -- 8. Appendix 2 How Aim-Oriented Empiricism Would Benefit Science.
    Abstract: Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry. This holds that, in order to do justice to the basic humanitarian aim of helping to promote human welfare, academic inquiry must, in the first instance, seek knowledge and technological know-how. First, knowledge is to be acquired; once acquired, it can be applied to help promote human welfare. But this philosophy of knowledge-inquiry is an intellectual and humanitarian disaster. It violates three of the four most elementary rules of rational problem solving conceivable, and as a result fails to give priority to the task of helping humanity resolve those conflicts and problems of living, such as the climate and nature crises, that need to be resolved if we are to make progress to a better world – a world in which there is peace, democracy, justice, liberty, and sustainable prosperity, for all. Very few academics today are aware of this rationality scandal. We urgently need to bring about a revolution in universities around the world, wherever possible, so that academic inquiry puts all four rules of rational problem solving into practice, and becomes rationally devoted to helping humanity learn how to make progress towards a better world. Knowledge-inquiry needs to become wisdom-inquiry, rationally devoted to helping humanity create a wiser world. Nicholas Maxwell is Emeritus Reader at University College London. He has devoted much of his working life to arguing we need to bring about a revolution in academia so that it comes to seek and promote wisdom and does not just acquire and apply knowledge. He has published fifteen books on this theme.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49491-8
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    On Legitimacy in Global Governance : Concept, Criteria, and Application (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031541254
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 222 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science ; Social sciences ; Political science.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Legitimacy in Global Governance -- 2. Subject and Concept of Legitimacy -- 3. Legitimacy, Justice and Democracy -- 4. The All-Affected Principle -- 5. Towards a Standard of Legitimacy for Global Governance Institutions -- Part 2: The G20 -- 6. Nature and Functions of the G20 -- 7. The Legitimacy of the G20 -- 8. Conclusions.
    Abstract: “Sören Hilbrich’s work on legitimacy and global governance is original, illuminating and very thorough in its discussion of the question of the nature of legitimacy for international institutions. I am especially impressed with the in-depth discussion of the legitimacy of the G20.” —Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona “Sören Hilbrich develops a conception of legitimacy as the right to function, which is applicable to all political institutions. The implication of this conceptually rich discussion is that we should not be too ambitious in our legitimacy standards for Global Governance institutions. This study is a remarkable achievement and is a must for those interested in International Political Theory.” —Michael Zürn, WZB Berlin Social Science Center Global governance has a major impact on the lives of people around the world. However, traditional theories of legitimacy were usually developed for states and are not suitable for the diversity of global governance institutions that exist today. This book first develops a normative concept of legitimacy that is applicable to all political institutions. According to this concept, to regard an institution as legitimate means ascribing it the right to exercise its function in political practice. Secondly, the book discusses how the use of this concept opens up new perspectives in the debate on legitimacy criteria for global governance institutions. In this context, the book analyses the relationship of legitimacy to the values of justice and democracy and discusses the role of feasibility constraints and the all-affected principle in legitimacy judgements. The concept of legitimacy as the right to function opens up the conceptual space to accommodate the insight that legitimacy criteria are not the same for all global governance institutions, but depend on their function and context. Thirdly, the book applies the developed theoretical framework to a specific global governance institution, the G20. Sören Hilbrich is a researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability in Bonn, Germany.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-54125-4
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    The Genesis and Transformation of Social Consciousness : An Attempt at the Construction of Social Naturalism (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031544194
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 311 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Continental Philosophy. ; Political science
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part Ⅰ. Intentionality and Actions -- Chapter 2. From Speech Act to Intentionality -- Chapter 3. The Structure of Intentionality -- Chapter 4. The Meaningful Action and Commitment -- Part Ⅱ. Collective Intentionality and Normativity -- Chapter 5. Normativity as Rational Ground -- Chapter 6. Normativity as Collective Creation -- Chapter 7. Normativity as Intersubjective Control -- Part Ⅲ. Normativity with Universal Validity -- Chapter 8. Communication and Social Evolution -- Chapter 9. Discourse Ethics and Moral Cognitivism -- Chapter 10. Critique of Cognitive Parallelism -- Chapter 11. Conclusion./ .
    Abstract: This book focuses on the formation of human social consciousness and develops a naturalist approach to social normativity. Beginning from Marx's uncompleted concept of social consciousness, the book retrospects the studies about collective intentionality in the area of philosophy of mind and social ontology. Specifically, a reinterpretation of social consciousness with respect to collective intentionality can offer us a new, naturalistic approach to the social formation and normativity. According to the naturalistic approach, we can discern the inner structure of social consciousness as a systematic pattern of Intentionality. Social consciousness involves three levels of development: subjective, objective and absolute. With this new pattern of social consciousness, the “naturalism” of the young Karl Marx can be revived. And by grasping the most essential ability of human Intentionality as the source of social formation, it also makes an interdisciplinary study of social philosophy and philosophy of mind possible. Yang Chen is an assistant professor of philosophy in the Institute of Marxist Philosophy and Chinese Modernization and the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. He received his Ph.D from Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (2022) and M.A in Philosophy from Humboldt University of Berlin (2016).
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-54419-4
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    The Paradox of Intellectual Property in Capitalism (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031499678
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 280 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Economics. ; Law ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Breaking Free from Private Control Over Knowledge -- Chapter 2: First Prolegomena: A Brief History of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 3: Prolegomena: Rationalisation of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 4: Prolegomena: The Dangers of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 5: Conclusion: Social Disintegration and the Privatisation of Knowledge.
    Abstract: The Paradox of Intellectual Property in Capitalism is an innovative book that comprehensively discusses and analyses intellectual property under capitalistic social conditions and relations. It not only addresses some historical developments of intellectual property but also brings to the fore the very notion of what knowledge is, knowledge creation, and knowledge production and appropriation within a Marxist framework. Nonetheless, the adopted approach pays heed to multiple fields of knowledge, providing rich discussions that facilitate the understanding of actual social totality in which capitalism, knowledge production and appropriation, and the struggles of appropriation mutually reinforce each other, although not devoid of antagonisms and contradictions. In light of contemporary capitalism, the transformations that social property relations are undergoing must be scrutinised – such as those brought about by the development of digitalisation and the convergence between big pharma and tech giants. What are the conditions of intellectual property creation today? What theoretical assumptions does it make? Under what social relations is intellectual property produced? Throughout, the emphasis is not on individual cases or symptoms but on the overarching logic: the logic of capitalism as revealed in intellectual property. João Romeiro Hermeto holds a PhD in philosophy from the Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49967-8
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    The Mediation of Touch (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031374135
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 394 p.)
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    Keywords: Phenomenology . ; Feminism. ; Feminist theory. ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Expelled From The Nest -- Part I: Merged With The World -- Chapter 2: Born Of Soma And Germ Cells -- Chapter 3: Space-Time Of The Living -- Chapter 4: The World Of Human Beings -- Part II: Domination Of Spirit Over Soul -- Chapter 5: The Burial Of Touch -- Chapter 6: Anesthesia Of Soul By Spirit -- Chapter 7: A History Cut Off From Germ Cells -- Part III: The Question Of Being -- Chapter 8: Confusion Of The Living With The Made -- Chapter 9: To Be As A Conjunctive Verb -- Chapter 10: An Ontology Of The Living -- Part IV: Feeling Nostalgic For The Dynamism Of Germ Cells -- Chapter 11: What Desire Grants Us Life? -- Chapter 12: ‘My Dear Little Soul' -- Chapter 13: Dynamism Necessary For Our Becoming -- Part V: Emergence Of Germ Cells At Individual And Collective Levels -- Chapter 14: The Touch Of Grace -- Chapter 15: From Individual To Couple And To Community -- Chapter 16: Importance Of Touch For Democracy -- Part VI : Approach To Touch As Such -- Chapter 17: An Immediate Access To Transcendental -- Chapter 18: The Communion Between Beings -- Chapter 19: Elements Of A Culture Of Touch -- Chapter 20: By Way Of Epilogue: The World Born Of Our Embraces.
    Abstract: The first communication between human beings, the one between the newborn and the mother, happens through touch. Strangely this first way of relating to each other has barely been considered by our education and our culture, which have favoured sight to the detriment of touch. And yet touching and being touched means experiencing ourselves as living beings. For lack of such a touch, we do not perceive the limits nor the sensitive potential of our bodies. Then we remain immersed in a natural or a cultural universe, incapable of reaching our own individuation and of knowing our fundamental difference from the other(s). Desire, in particular sexuate desire, is a call for touching one another anew. But this touch requires us to have gained our autonomy and to be able to open up to and commune with the other as transcendent to ourselves while staying in ourselves. This book unveils and explores how touch can act as a basic living mediation in love and, more generally, in our comprehensive individual and col-lective human becoming.It also considers how touch can contribute to founding a culture respectful of difference(s) instead of subjecting them to an ideal of same-ness. We need touch as mediation to fulfil our humanity and to build a truly human thinking and world. Luce Irigaray is a retired director of research in philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Paris. She has doctorates in philosophy ( 1974), in linguistics (1968) and in philosophy and literature(1955). She is trained in psychoanalysis and in yoga. She has written more than thirty books translated in various languages. She has also co-edited three books composed of texts by early career researchers as part of a long term undertaking to give birth to a new human being and construct a new world.
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    Human Flourishing, Spiritual Awakening and Cultural Renewal : Personal and Communal Challenges (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031557071
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 122 p.)
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    Keywords: Religion ; Social sciences ; Philosophy of mind. ; Self.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Ethos as Spiritual Dimension of Human Person -- 3. Do We Really Want a World Lacking of Silence– and Humanity? -- 4. Cinematic Time as a Spiritual Memory: Tarkovsky and Kierkegaard -- 5. Language and its Cultural Future -- 6. Albert Schweitzer´s Philosophy of Culture and Spiritual Awakening -- 7. Ortega y Gasset and the Bigotry of Culture -- 8. Actuality of Spirituality in the Paradigm of Human Flourishing -- 9. Cultural Evolution of Human Self-Awareness.
    Abstract: This book seeks to generate a theoretical and a reflective framework to re-connect people with culture and spirituality. It seeks to recreate important links between these domains to provide interpretative, foundational, and ethical perspectives. It is distinctive in that it focusses on the challenges that humanity is facing at a cultural, social, moral, and spiritual level. It provides a philosophical understanding of humanity from a humanistic and multidisciplinary perspective (encompassing ethics, language, art/cinema, political, cultural and gender approaches) and offers a variety of ways of how we can rethink our culture and our society for the future. Catalina Elena Dobre has a PhD in Philosophy and is National Researcher and Professor at University Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. Rafael García Pavón has a PhD in Philosophy and is National Researcher, Professor and Coordinator of Research Area in University El Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico. Francisco Díaz Estrada has a PhD in the Humanities and is National Researcher and Associate Dean of Research in School of Humanities and Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey University, Mexico.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-55707-1
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    Taking Responsibility for Climate Change (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031517532
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 150 p.)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Ethics. ; Political science ; Philosophy of nature. ; Climatology.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction to collective and shared responsibility for climate change -- 2. Calling all collective agents -- 3. Responsibility as members -- 4. Shared social orientation and responsibility as constituents -- 5. Carbon inequality and direct responsibility -- 6.Why we need ethical arguments to set good climate policies.
    Abstract: "In this innovative book, Hormio effectively argues for an 'all hands on deck' approach to assigning climate change responsibility to a wider array of agents than is typically recognized, making the case that ethical analysis matters for complex policy problems like climate change.” —Steve Vanderheiden, Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA "By interweaving philosophical argument with real-world examples, Säde Hormio makes an important contribution to debates about collective responsibility for climate change." —Stephanie Collins, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Monash University, Australia This book proposes that it is not only states and international bodies that have a responsibility to take action toward mitigating climate change. Other collective agents, such as corporations, need to also come onboard. Additionally, the book argues that climate change is not solely a problem for collective agents, but also for individuals, as they are members of collectives and groups of several kinds. Therefore, framing climate change responsibility exclusively from either the collective or the individual perspective leaves out something crucial: how we all are influenced by the collectives we belong to and how, in turn, collectives are influenced by individuals. The focus of the book is on areas of climate change responsibility that are often left out of the picture or get too little attention in climate ethics, such as carbon inequality within countries. But why should any theoretical arguments about normative issues matter when we have a real-life climate crisis on our hands? Säde Hormio argues that ethical arguments have an important role in setting climate policy: they can highlight what values are at stake and help ground normative arguments in public deliberations. Säde Hormio is an Academy Research Fellow in Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. She is also affiliated with the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. Her research focuses on shared and collective responsibility.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51753-2
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    Sociological Theory : From Comte to Postcolonialism (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031525391
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 668 p. 21 illus.)
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    Keywords: Sociology. ; Ethnology. ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Comte -- Chapter 3: Spencer -- Chapter 4: Marx -- Chapter 5: Durkheim -- Chapter 6: Weber. - Chapter 7: Pareto -- Chapter 8: Simmel -- Chapter 9: Functionalism -- Chapter 10: Marxism and Conflict Theory -- Chapter 11: Symbolic Interactionism -- Chapter 12: Phenomenological Sociology -- Chapter 13: The Theory of Rational Choice -- Chapter 14: Theory of Postmodernity -- Chapter 15: Feminist Theory -- Chapter 16: Postcolonial Theory.
    Abstract: “This book offers a clearly structured and well-balanced overview of sociological approaches. It is firmly grounded in the history of the social science tradition and shows with detail and insight the variety of perspectives of leading thinkers and schools up until today. The chapters effectively carve out the niches of the different approaches and show their relevance and applicability to contemporary issues in an easy-to-understand way.” - Patrik Aspers, Professor of Sociology, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland “By revealing the basic elements of key thinkers and major trends – their similarities as well as disagreements between them – this book shows how to think sociologically. At the same time, it demonstrates that sociological theorising is not confined to the library but may guide interventions in the world of politics, and contestations of power. This is a book for teachers and not only students. Sociological theory as Alessandro Orsini tells it is lively, relevant, and positively edgy.” - Jack Barbalet, Professor of Sociology, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Australia “Alessandro Orsini has delivered a distinctive textbook that should appeal to those searching for a compelling introduction to sociological theory that also delivers a unique slant on the discipline. Alongside chapters on schools of thought, Orsini has provided generous space to thinkers such as Pareto and Spencer whose influence is often overlooked elsewhere - readers will appreciate Orsini’s passion for the historical development of the subject.” - Dr Mark Murphy, Reader in Education and Public Policy, University of Glasgow, UK The first part of this textbook is dedicated to Comte, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Pareto, and Simmel. The second part covers the major contemporary sociological perspectives: Functionalism, Marxism, Conflict theory, Symbolic interactionism, Phenomenological sociology, and Rational choice theory. The third part is devoted to Postmodern theory, Feminist theory, Postcolonial theory, and Race theory. The author uses contemporary examples to demonstrate how sociological theory can explain the most tragic phenomena of our time, including the war in Ukraine, the Israeli-Palestine conflict, US-China competition, nuclear proliferation, neofascism, and radicalization leading to terrorism, while providing an in-depth overview of its main problems. Alessandro Orsini is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political Science at Luiss University, Italy.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52539-1
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    Rethinking Modernity : Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031215377
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XLI, 257 p.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Civilization—History. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; History—Methodology. ; Social history. ; Historiography. ; Civilization ; Culture ; Social sciences ; History
    Abstract: Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production -- Part 1: Sociology and its Historiography -- Chapter 1: Modernity, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial Critique -- Chapter 2: European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination -- Chapter 3: From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux -- Part 2: Deconstructing Eurocentrism: Connected Histories -- Chapter 4: Myths of European Cultural Integrity – The Renaissance -- Chapter 5: Myths of the Modern Nation-State – The French Revolution -- Chapter 6: Myths of Industrial Capitalism – The Industrial Revolution -- Conclusion: Sociology and Social Theory after Postcolonialism – Towards a Connected Historiography.
    Abstract: The second edition of this influential book addresses how the experiences and claims of non-European ‘others’ have been rendered invisible to the standard narratives and analytical frameworks of sociological understandings of modernity. In challenging the dominant, Euro-centred accounts of the emergence and development of modernity, Bhambra puts forward an argument for ‘connected histories’ in the reconstruction of historical sociology at a global level. This updated version of the original, published in 2007, adds a new preface which explores key themes that Bhambra has further developed over the intervening years: specifically, how the rethinking of modernity enables us to reconstruct sociology and a call for a 'reparatory sociology' committed to the repair of the social sciences and the securing of global justice. Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21537-7
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    Philosophical and Political Consequences of the Critique of Political Economy : Recognizing Capital (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031375453
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 341 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political science ; Critical theory. ; Social sciences ; Marxian school of sociology.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Philosophy and Social Theory beyond the “Bourgeois Horizon” -- 2. Recognizing Capital: Some Barriers to Public Discourse about Capital -- 3. The Legend of Hegel’s Labor Theory of Reason -- 4. Marx, Subjectivism, and Modern Moral Philosophy -- 5. Karl Marx and the Critique of Bourgeois Philosophy -- 6. Reclaiming the Concepts of Value and Capital -- 7. Social Form and the “Purely Social”: On the Kind of Sociality Involved in Value -- 8. The Commodity Spectrum -- 9. A Brilliant Failure: Hegel and Marx Assess the Enlightenment -- 10. From Hegel on Enlightenment Terror to Marx on Capital -- 11. The Poetics of Nihilism: Representing Capital’s Indifference in Dickens’ Hard Times -- 12. Rebel without a Cause: Stanley Kubrick and the Banality of the Good -- 13. Disappearing Act: The Trick Philosophy of Woody Allen. .
    Abstract: This book extends the approach that Murray and Schuler develop in their companion volume, False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory: Losing Public Purpose. The chapters form a connected inquiry into consequences of capital, a far-reaching social form, through a critique of political economy and the mindset it shares with much modern philosophy and social theory. The authors call this bifurcating mentality factoring philosophy. Factoring philosophy mistakes the distinguishable for the separable. It splits the subjective and objective, form and content, and it takes the object of social theory to be an impossible economy-in-general, stripped of constitutive social forms. The critique of factoring philosophy structures the collection, which makes a wide-ranging contribution to the research field of the critique of political economy as critical social theory. Ultimately, this book solidifies Murray and Schuler’s impact on the study of political economy, political philosophy, modern philosophy, Hegel, Marx, and critical theory. Patrick Murray is John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities and professor of philosophy at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. He is author of Marx’s Theory of Scientific Knowledge and The Mismeasure of Wealth and editor of Reflections on Commercial Life. His research interests center on capitalism and modern philosophy. Jeanne Schuler is professor of philosophy at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. She has published in the history of philosophy and critical theory, including articles on Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Arendt, Iris Murdoch, and Habermas. She is working on a series of articles on Hegel and modern philosophy. .
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    The Emancipatory Power of the Body in Everyday Life : Niches of Liberation (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031448331
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 138 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Political science ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Concepts: Somapower, the Microphysics of Emancipation, and the Politics of Everyday Life -- Chapter 2 Applications: Everyday Life, the Body and Strategies of Resistance -- Chapter 3 The Pandemic and the Politics of the Body -- Chapter 4 Conclusions.
    Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has powerfully highlighted the tight knot of bodiliness and politics. This relationship lies at the heart of this book. The author explores how events in everyday life take on a deeply political dimension, and how the body becomes a site of political practice. Subject to regulation, the body functions as a vehicle of oppressive social influences, and has been studied as such by philosophers within the framework of biopolitics. However, the body is also a locus of resistance and rebellion against the entrenched rules, a quality which the author refers to as somapower. The revolt of the body usually begins and develops beyond political spaces – in emancipatory cultural niches, which may gradually accrue political resonance. While this microphysics of emancipation, with its potential for remodeling political life, is particularly important in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, it is also a relevant force in democracies, where it may foster social change. Leszek Koczanowicz is Professor of Cultural Studies and Political Science at the Faculty of Humanities, SWPS University, Wrocław, Poland.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44833-1
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    Modes of Protest And Resistance : Strange Change in Morals Political (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031471445
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXX, 247 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Radical Theologies and Philosophies
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    Keywords: Political science ; Ethics. ; Social sciences ; Sociology.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of Non-Violent Protest and Resistance -- 3. Analysis of the Relevant Scholarship on Resistance/Use of Violence -- 4. Violent Resistance by the Politically Vulnerable -- 5. Contemporary Application and Analysis.
    Abstract: This book presents a philosophical analysis of the different forms of political resistance and protest. It explores the normative space of resistance that is beyond self-defense and civil disobedience, and proposes the concept of “resistance violence” as a separate and special normative category. Instances that fall under this category can be, accordingly justified, even if they prove to be practically ineffective, by appealing to their role in preserving or upholding the dignity of the resistors or those who they aim to protect. Margaret Betz draws from important and interesting historical examples to establish the concept, and proposes to apply it to better understand contemporary struggles against injustice. Margaret Betz is a Teaching Professor at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ. She is the author of The Hidden Philosophy of Hannah Arendt as well as various articles and book chapters on Arendt, feminist theory, and political philosophy.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47144-5
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    Tuomela on Sociality (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031226267
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 271 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Philosophers in Depth
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Social sciences
    Abstract: 1. Introduction Miguel Garcia-Godinez & Rachael Mellin -- 2. Reflections on Group Action from Inside Raul Hakli & Kaarlo Miller & Pekka Mäkelä -- 3.Tuomela and the Unity of Belief Sara Rachel Chant -- 4. Joint Actions: We-Mode and I-Mode Seumas Miller -- 5. Towards a Situated Approach of Tuomela’s Theory of Social Practices Judith H. Martens -- 6. What is Collective Acceptance and What Does it do? Arto Laitinen -- 7. Can There Be Institutions Without Constitutive Rules? Frank Hindriks -- 8. Institutional Proxy Agency: A We-Mode Approach Miguel Garcia-Godinez -- 9. From We-Mode to Role-Mode Michael Schmit -- 10. Group Morality and Moral Groups: Ethical Aspects of the Tuomelian We-Mode Björn Petersson -- 11. Tuomela on Social Norms and Group-Social Normativity Olle Blomberg -- 12. Cooperation Rests on Trust – But What is Trust and How do We get There?Maj Tuomela.
    Abstract: Raimo Tuomela, late Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT), University of Helsinki, is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of our time. He published extensively on various topics within social philosophy; particularly, on social action, cooperation, group belief, group responsibility, group reasoning, social practices, and institutions. To celebrate his legacy, this volume engages with and delves deeply into his philosophy of sociality. By gathering original essays from a world-class line-up of social ontologists, social action theorists, and social philosophers, this collection provides the first comprehensive and critical treatment of Tuomela's outstanding contribution to social ontology and collective intentionality. Miguel Garcia-Godinez is an IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCC, Philosophy. His main research areas are legal philosophy, social ontology, and metaethics. Rachael Mellin is a Law PhD student at the University of Glasgow. Her primary areas of research are in legal philosophy and social ontology.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22626-7
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    The Cultural Production of Social Movements (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031333132
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 175 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Social sciences ; Culture ; Political science
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Ideological Contention -- Chapter 3: Incipient Practice and Culture -- Chapter 4: Incipient Practice, Class, and Ideology -- Chapter 5: The Factory Without Bosses -- Chapter 6: Incipient Practice and Subaltern Groups -- Chapter 7:Conclusion.
    Abstract: The Cultural Production of Social Movements offers a theory of cultural practices, protest tactics, strategic planning and deliberation, and movement organizational structures: “ideological contention.” It is a theory of ideology “from below.” The Cultural Production of Social Movements shows how conflicts—both with external political forces and disagreements, dissensus, and the decision-making process internal to social movements—produce knowledge and meanings that, in turn, impact upon and change the practices that contribute to how social movements are structured and organized. The Cultural Production of Social Movements theorizes the relationship between consciously held superordinate ideas, the changing composition of progressive and oppositional social struggles, and the social worlds they hope to inhabit. Analyzing the Black Panther Party, specifically Kathleen Cleaver’s break with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and her contributions to the Party, Operaismo (or Workerism) in Italy and the relationship between shifting organizational strategies, inventive tactics, and novel and expansive ways to theorize class struggles, and the communal composition of “Worker-Recovered Enterprise Movements” in contemporary Argentina, this book shows how movement ideologies change and how meanings structure organizations, mobilizations, and futures. Robert F. Carley is Associate Professor of International Affairs in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He is Vice President and President Elect of the Cultural Studies Association and is co-editor of Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. He is the author and editor of eight books, most recently Cultural Studies in the Interregnum (Temple University Press, Forthcoming), Cultural Studies Methodology and Political Strategy (Palgrave Macmillan), and Culture and Tactics: Gramsci, Race, and the Politics of Practice (State University of New York Press).
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    The Untold Help of Harmful Visual Jokes : No Funny Business (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031399817
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 106 p. 7 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Aesthetics. ; Popular Culture.
    Abstract: 1. Harmful Jokes -- 2. The Unique Unspoken Discourse of Visual Jokes -- 3. The Harm of Harmful Visual Jokes -- 4. Reconciliation and Re-empowerment -- 5. A Brief Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book argues that when visual jokes are harmful, they harm in a specific way: a subject’s personhood is revoked in a way that differs both in kind and degree depending on whether that person is depicted or described. Such revocation can occur in every role and any stage within the joke’s context, from character to audience member, from moment of depiction to uncritical exposure. Unlike a mere unhumorous insult, which doesn’t require the sympathy of its audience but can operate solely between the target and the bully, a joke requires a particular kind of response from its audience to complete itself—to “deliver”, which requires not only some degree of complicity from audience members, but a complicity earned at the expense of the joke’s referent. This book shows how we need not prevent the occurrence of these things in order to undermine their oppressive power—we only need the right kind of recontextualization: turning those utterances into jokes or turning those jokes against themselves. Unlike other forms of visual oppression, the harms contained within visual jokes can be reconfigured to affirm those they were created to harm, changing their function from jokes which attack others to jokes which attack themselves, empowering those they were created to target by calling into question the problematic conceptions of audiences who are sympathetic to the harmful joke’s initial formulation. Mary Gregg is a recent PhD graduate of the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She currently teaches at Yonsei University Underwood International College in South Korea. Her current research focuses on how oppressive visual humor meant to disempower a person or group can be taken up by the targeted person or group as a means of social re-empowerment.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39981-7
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    Epistemic Responsibility for Undesirable Beliefs (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031418587
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 233 p.)
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    Keywords: Knowledge, Theory of. ; Ethics. ; Social sciences
    Abstract: 1. Epistemic Responsibility: An Overview -- 2. What Is Undesirable Belief? -- 3. Can There Be Epistemic Responsibility? -- 4. What About the Exculpatory Effects of Ignorance? -- 5. It’s Not My Fault.
    Abstract: This book considers whether we can be epistemically responsible for undesirable beliefs, such as racist and sexist ones. The problem with holding people responsible for their undesirable beliefs is: first, what constitutes an “undesirable belief” will differ among various epistemic communities; second, it is not clear what responsibility we have for beliefs simpliciter; and third, inherent in discussions of socially constructed ignorance (like white ignorance) is the idea that society is structured in such a way that white people are made deliberately unaware of their ignorance, which suggests their racial beliefs are not epistemically blameworthy. This book explores each of these topics with the aim of establishing the nature of undesirable beliefs and our responsibility for these beliefs with the understanding that there may well be (rare) occasions when undesirable beliefs are not epistemically culpable. Deborah K. Heikes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41858-7
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    Philosophy of Race : An Introduction (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031273742
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 295 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Philosophy Today
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Critical theory. ; African Americans. ; Culture. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Self. ; African literature. ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Part I Ideas and Realities of Human Race -- 1 Ideas of Race in the Canonical History of Philosophy -- 2 Egalitarian Spiritual and Legal Traditions -- 3 Race According to Biological Science -- 4 Ideas of Race in Twentieth-Century American and Continental Philosophy -- 5 Ethnicity and Related Forms of Race -- 6 Social Construction and Racial Identities -- Part II Relations, Practices, and Theories of Race in Society -- 7 Racism and Neo-racisms -- 8 Metaphysical Racism, Crimes against Humanity, and Reparations -- 9 Race in Contemporary Life. 10 Political Philosophy, Law, and Public Policy -- 11 Feminism, Gender, and Race -- 12 Political Racism and Populist Movements.
    Abstract: Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. The second edition has been expanded to include race and racism in Europe and China, and to discuss recent phenomena like digital racism and rising populism. Part I provides an overview of ideas of race and ethnicity in the philosophical canon, egalitarian traditions, race in biology, and race in American and Continental Philosophy. Part II addresses race as it operates in life through colonialism and development, social constructions and institutions, racism, political philosophy, and gender. This book constructs an outline that will serve as a resource for students, nonspecialists, and general readers in thinking, talking, and writing about philosophy of race. Naomi Zack is Professor of Philosophy at CUNY Lehman College (USA). She has taught at the University of Oregon and the University at Albany, SUNY. Her most recent books are The American Tragedy of COVID-19 (2021) and Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government (2020). Other recent books include Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics (2018) and her edited 51-essay Oxford Handbook on Philosophy and Race (2017).
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27374-2
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    The Palgrave Handbook of Macrophenomenology and Social Theory (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031347122
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 446 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology. ; Phenomenology .
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part I General Considerations on Macrophenomenology -- Macro Strata of the Social World: Institutions, Social Classes, and the State -- Macro-social Awareness in Everyday Life: Toward a Phenomenological Theory of Society -- Part II Phenomenology and Politics -- Democracy as a Way of Being in the World: Responsivity as the Essence of the Common Good -- Phenomenology of Power: Reflections on Social Construction and Subjective Constitution -- Understanding Opinions: A Phenomenological Analysis -- Part III Phenomenology of Organizations and Institutions -- Some Reflections on a Phenomenology of Organizations -- Institutions, Imposed Relevances, and Creativity -- The Durable Dimensions of Social Institutions: A Generative Phenomenological Approach -- Part IV Phenomenology of Culture -- Cultural Integration: A Macrophenomenological Analysis -- Cultural Objects with or Without Cultural Difference? -- Part V Phenomenology of History -- Husserl’s Views on Levels of History with Their Modes of Rationality, Self-Preservation, and Types of Social Organization -- History as Macro-phenomenon: Heidegger and Gadamer -- Dialectics and Contingency: Merleau-Ponty and the Historical Network -- Part VI Collective Personalities and Agency -- Supra-personal Agency: A Husserlian Approach to the Problem of Individual Responsibility in Relation to Collective Agency and Social Normativity -- Edmund Husserl and Alfred Schutz on Collective Personalities -- The Place of Imagination in the Sociology of Action: An Essay Drawing from Schutz -- Part VII Phenomenology of Digitalization -- The (Dis-)Entanglement of Knowledge and Experience in a Datafied Life-World -- The “Waste Land” of the Digitalized Life-World: Alfred Schutz’s Contribution to a Theory of Digitalized Societies -- Part VIII Social Classes and Sociomaterial Structures -- Doing Phenomenology on Social Classes: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges and Possibilities -- Depragmatized Knowledge and Sociomaterial Structures: Illustration from Economics as a Province of Special Knowledge.
    Abstract: This Palgrave Handbook showcases how the phenomenological approach, especially but not only as developed by Alfred Schutz, can make important contributions to the theoretical analysis of macro-social phenomena such as the state, history, culture and interculturality, class relations and struggles, social movements and protests, capitalism, democracy, and digitalization processes. It gathers systematically and intellectual-historically oriented chapters that deal with these macro social phenomena from a phenomenological perspective. This handbook is mainly intended for a threefold audience: sociologists and social scientists at large – both theoretically and empirically oriented –, phenomenological sociologists, and phenomenological philosophers. This book includes chapters by international renowned specialists in social theory, phenomenological sociology, and phenomenology: Hartmut Rosa (University of Jena), Michael Barber (St. Louis University), Thomas Eberle (University of St. Gallen), Roberto Walton (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Jochen Dreher (University of Konstanz), Chung-Chi YU (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan), and George Bondor (AI.I. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania), among others. Carlos Belvedere is Principal Researcher at the National Council for Technical and Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET); Associate Professor of Sociology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina. He has authored several books and papers in the field of social phenomenology. He serves as associate editor in the journal Schutzian Research and as editorial board member of the journal Human Studies. He was co-chair of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) and currently is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Schutz Circle for Interpretive Social Science. Alexis Gros is Researcher at both the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, and the National Council for Technical and Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET). He is also a lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He has authored several papers on phenomenology, social theory, and Critical Theory. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 2019 to 2021. In 2020, he was awarded the Ilse Schutz Memorial Prize of The Alfred Schutz Circle for Interpretive Social Science. He is member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) and is currently co-chair of the Contemporary Critical Theory Studies Group (GEteCC) at the University of Buenos Aires.
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    Wissenschaft, Zahlen und Politik (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031230738
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 416 S. 9 Abb.)
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; World politics. ; International economic relations. ; Social sciences ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: 1. Working Numbers - Einleitende Bemerkungen: Markus J. Prutsch -- 2. Historische Genese des Verhältnisses von Wissenschaft, Zahlen und Politik - Abschnitt I Einleitung: Kelly L. Grotke, Stephen Hastings-King -- 3. "Lies, damned lies and state-istics": Zählung der "echten Einwohner" bei der Volkszählung (Belgien, 1846-1947): Kaat Louckx -- 4. "Was nützt es auf Dauer, sich gegen etwas zu wehren, das ohnehin eintreten wird?": Die statistische Denkart in der Politik des 19. Jahrhunderts: Ida H. Stamhuis -- 5. Wissenschaft, Zahlen und Kolonialismus in den afrikanischen Großen Seen, 1820-1910: Axel Utz -- 6. Die Entstehung einer globalen Wirtschaftsordnung - Vom wissenschaftlichen Internationalismus zum infrastrukturellen Globalismus: Anat Leibler -- 7. Politik und Wissenschaft heute. Abschnitt II Einleitung: Kathrine von Graevenitz, Georg von Graevenitz -- 8. Politics und Policies der statistischen Unabhängigkeit: Jean-Guy Prévost -- 9. Messung, Modellierung, Kontrolle des Klimas ? Numerische Expertise in der US-Klimapolitik: Julia Schubert -- 10. Was zählt in der Politik des Klimawandels? Wissenschaft, Skepsis und emblematische Zahlen: Amanda Machin, Alexander Ruser -- 11. Könige und Indikatoren - Optionen für ein Regieren ohne Zahlen: Wolfgang Drechsler -- 12. Europäische und internationale Bildungspolitik: Lars Lehmann, Markus J. Prutsch -- 13. Höherer Zweck und ökonomische Vernunft. Ein Essay über die Rolle von Zahlen in der europäischen Bildungspolitik: Jörg J. Dötsch -- 14. Standardisierung des Kontexts und Kontextualisierung des Standards - Die Übersetzung von PISA in PISA-D: Radhika Gorur, Estrid Sørensen, Bryan Maddox -- 15. "Let's Talk Numbers" - Parlamentarische Forschung in Bildungsfragen im Lichte der politischen Forderung nach Quantifizierung - Die Knesset in vergleichender Perspektive: Yuval Vurgan -- 16. Wissenschaft, Zahlen und Politik - Abschließende Bemerkungen: Lars Lehmann, Markus J. Prutsch.
    Abstract: In dieser Studie wird die dynamische Beziehung zwischen Wissenschaft, Zahlen und Politik untersucht. Was können wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse realistischerweise in und für die Politik tun? Der Band leistet einen Beitrag zu dieser Debatte, indem er sich auf die Rolle von "Zahlen" als Mittel konzentriert, mit dem Wissen ausgedrückt wird und durch das dieses Wissen in den politischen Bereich übertragen werden kann. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass Zahlen ständig aktiv geschaffen, übersetzt und verwendet werden und dass sie in ihren jeweiligen Kontexten interpretiert werden müssen, wird untersucht, wie Zahlen und Quantifizierungen "politisch nutzbar" gemacht werden, indem ihre Produktion, ihr Übergang in die Sphäre der Politik und ihre letztendliche Verwendung darin untersucht werden. Zu den zentralen Fragen, die behandelt werden, gehören: Auf welche Weise beeinflussen wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse die politische Entscheidungsfindung in der heutigen Welt? Wie und warum hat Quantifizierung in der demokratischen Politik eine so wichtige Rolle gespielt? Was leisten wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und Zahlen in der Politik? Markus J. Prutsch ist Senior Investigator und Administrator beim Europäischen Parlament sowie Kollegiat der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften und Privatdozent an der Universität Heidelberg, Deutschland. Er studierte Geschichte und Politikwissenschaft in Österreich und Deutschland und war als Forscher am Europäischen Hochschulinstitut und an der Universität Helsinki, Finnland, tätig. Seine Arbeit wurde mehrfach ausgezeichnet Dieses Buch stellt die Übersetzung einer englischsprachigen Originalausgabe dar. Die Übersetzung wurde mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz erstellt (maschinelle Übersetzung mit DeepL.com). Eine anschließende manuelle Überarbeitung erfolgte vor allem nach inhaltlichen Gesichtspunkten, so dass das Buch stilistisch von einer herkömmlichen Übersetzung abweichen kann.
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    False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory : Losing Public Purpose (2023)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIX, 406 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political science ; Social sciences ; Analysis (Philosophy). ; Marxian school of sociology.
    Abstract: Introduction: How Factoring Philosophy Puts Philosophy on the Sidelines -- Chapter One: Is Life Absurd? -- Chapter Two: Being Mortal -- Chapter Three: Reinventing Humans: The Strange Allure of Stoicism -- Chapter Four: Beyond the Illusion of Philosophical Egoism: Recovering Self-Love and Selfishness -- Chapter Five: Moral Luck, Responsibility, and this Worldly Life -- Chapter Six: The Pure Self in Political Life: Reconsidering the Primacy of the Right over the Good -- Chapter Seven: Values as Purely Subjective: Against the Idea of “A New Creation” -- Chapter Eight: Setting Aside the Purely Subjective: Reclaiming the Discourse of Truth and Error -- Beyond “the Illusion of the Economic”: Renewing the Concept of Capital: A Foreword to Chapters Nine, Ten, and Eleven -- Chapter Nine: Why Wealth is a Poor Concept -- Chapter Ten: Capital, the Truth about Utility -- Chapter Eleven: The Myth of Instrumental Reason and Action -- Conclusion: Just Enough Phenomenology -- Appendix A: Dogmas of Factoring Philosophy -- Appendix B: Symptoms of Factoring Philosophy.
    Abstract: This book considers diverse philosophical topics unified by the identification of false moves commonly found in modern philosophy, mainstream Anglo-American philosophy, and social theory. The authors expose the sources of fundamental problems that recur in philosophy—basic problems with what the authors call factoring philosophy. Factoring philosophy fails to attend to the phenomenological task of determining when what is distinguishable is separable and when not. Consequently, factoring philosophy makes phenomenological mistakes, false moves, when it treats as separable what is only distinguishable. Analytic philosophy is prone to false moves when it fails to recognize that phenomenology is the necessary complement to analysis. There is nothing wrong with analysis—we might as well give up thinking as give up analysis—and nothing is wrong with the values prized by analytic philosophy. As Hegel observed, “philosophizing requires, above all, that each thought should be grasped in its full precision and that nothing should remain vague and indeterminate.” Ultimately, this book contends that false moves prevail in philosophical analysis and social theory when they neglect their phenomenological foundations. Patrick Murray is John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities, Creighton University, USA. Jeanne Schuler is Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University, USA.
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    Žižek and Freedom : Utopia and the Parallax View (2023)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 201 p. 4 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Political science ; Social sciences ; Continental Philosophy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 What is the Parallax View? -- Chapter 2 What About Life? -- Chapter 3 What is Ideology? -- Chapter 4 Lacan, Discourses and Social Bonds I: Graphs of Desire -- Chapter 5 Lacan, Discourses and Social Bonds II: Aggressivity and Narcissistic Rage -- Chapter 6 Cynicism / Ressentiment as the Function of Ideology -- Chapter 7 What Does it Mean to be Free?: Hermeneutics of Freedom -- Chapter 8 Utopia and the Parallax View.
    Abstract: This book is an exploration of Žižek's theory of freedom. By examining key passages in Žižek's work the aim is to provide a functional, serviceable philosophy of power and ideology and show how this philosophy of power relates to freedom. Although some, like Noam Chomsky, have criticized Žižek's work as having no guiding principles, it is suggested that this misses the fact that Žižek's philosophy utilizes a dialectical methodology that often appears contradictory. Though a highly astute reader with a background in the philosophical texts he frequently cites (the German Idealists, Freud, and modern philosophers), it becomes clear that there is a uniquely Zizekian philosophy that mobilizes a radical hermeneutics of freedom. Bradley Kaye is Adjunct Professor at SUNY Fredonia's Socio-Justice Sciences Department, Fredonia, NY, USA.
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    How Handedness Shapes Lived Experience, Intersectionality, and Inequality : Hand and World (2023)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
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    ISBN: 9783031238925
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 228 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Phenomenology . ; Feminism. ; Feminist theory. ; Sex. ; Medical sciences. ; Cognitive science. ; Social sciences
    Abstract: 1 Introduction: The Lived Experience of the Left -- 2 A Phenomenology of Handedness -- 3 Act Like a Right-Hander: Right Hand Bias in Norms of Proximate Space Inhabitation -- 4 The Phenomenology of Asymmetry and Distinguishing Left and Right -- 5 Throwing Like a Left-Hander: Impacts of Handedness on Athletic Performance -- 6 Sexism Caught Right-Handed: The Norms of Intersecting Gender and Handedness Theory (NIGHT) -- 7 Harms of Handedness -- 8 Liberation in the Dexteronormative Society.
    Abstract: This book delivers philosophy’s first sustained examination of handedness: being left-handed, right-handed, etc. It engages literature from phenomenology and continental philosophy, analytic philosophy, laterality studies, cognitive science and psychology, gender studies and feminist philosophy, sociology, political science, and more to provide a systematic accounting of the nature of handedness, its basis in lived experience, its effects on bodily performance, its role in varieties of inequality, and its part in oppression and liberation. As a radical asymmetry in the body, handedness plays a key role in human flourishing. It informs both personal bodily movement and social life, from handshakes and high fives to high tech tools made for one hand or the other. Moreover, with left-handers making up just 10% of the population, handedness presents a significant inequality in lived experience. To live and live well, we must understand handedness. Peter Westmoreland is a professor in the Ethics Institute at St. Petersburg College, USA. His work has appeared in journals such as the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and Laterality. His co-edited volume Silence, implicites et non-dits chez Rousseau/ Silence, the Implicit and the Unspoken in Rousseau was published in 2020.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23892-5
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    The Changing Meaning of Kitsch : From Rejection to Acceptance (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031166327
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 270 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Aesthetics. ; Social sciences ; Culture
    Abstract: Kitsch: From Rejection to Acceptance: On the Changing Meaning of Kitsch in Today’s Cultural Production (Introduction) -- PART I: Kitsch and Life -- Kitsch in the Hypermodern Era -- Sailing the Seas of Cheese -- Kitsch in Relation to Loss -- Old Tricks for a New Dog: Toilet Humor, Politicized Kitsch and the Trump Presidency -- PART II: Kitsch and Culture -- Kitsch and Architecture -- From Fashion as Kitsch to Kitsch in Fashion: Redefining Beauty and Taste Today -- Digital Kitsch. Art and Kitsch in the Informational Milieu -- Kitsch, Beauty and Artistic Practice -- Biokitsch in Art: And the Survival of the Prettiest -- Epilogue: What Next? .
    Abstract: This book inaugurates a new phase in kitsch studies. Kitsch, an aesthetic slur of the 19th and the 20th century, is increasingly considered a positive term and at the heart of today’s society. Eleven distinguished authors from philosophy, cultural studies and the arts discuss a wide range of topics including beauty, fashion, kitsch in the context of mourning, bio-art, visual arts, architecture and political kitsch. In addition, the editors provide a concise theoretical introduction to the volume and the subject. The role of kitsch in contemporary culture and society is innovatively explored and the volume aims not to condemn but to accept and understand why kitsch has become acceptable today. Max Ryynänen is Senior Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture and Head of the MA program Visual Culture and Contemporary Art in Aalto University (Helsinki/Espoo). Paco Barragan is an arts writer, curator and a PhD candidate at the University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16632-7
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    Oppressive Liberation : Sexism in Animal Activism (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031153631
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 433 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Animal welfare—Moral and ethical aspects. ; Feminism. ; Feminist theory. ; Social justice. ; Animal welfare ; Social sciences
    Abstract: 1 Introduction: Speciesism, Sexism, and Male Privilege -- Part I A Wide-Angle View of Interconnected Oppressions -- 2 Interconnections: Theory, Myth, and Science -- 3 Whiteness as Norm, Intersectionality, and Interfacing Oppressions -- 4 The “Why” of Sexism in Social Justice Movements -- Part II Exposing Sexism and Male Privilege in the Anymal Activist Movement -- 5 Survey Data on Harassment and Discrimination in the Anymal Activist Community -- 6 CANHAD: Testimonials from the Anymal Activist Community Revealing Internal Sexism -- 7 Evidence of Systemic Sexism and Male Privilege in Anymal Activism Prior to #MeToo -- 8 The #ARMeToo Movement: Empowered Perpetrators Exposed at HSUS, MFA, and DxE -- Part III Harms of and Solutions to Sexism in the Anymal Activist Movement -- 9 Harms of Sexism and Male Privilege in the AE Community -- 10 Working Against Sexism and Male Privilege Inside Organizations -- 11 Independent Activists Working Against Sexism and Male Privilege -- Part IV Critical Reflections from Anymal Activists -- 12 Meet the New Vegan World -- 13 Liberation Is Not Total If It Does Not Include Disabled People -- 14 White Supremacy and Anymal Activism -- 15 Cis-Male Dominance in Anymal Activism from a Transgender Perspective -- 16 Towards a (Pro)Feminist Anymal Activist Movement: Reflections from Estonia -- 17 When the Rite of Passage Is Wrong: One White Man’s (Ongoing) Journey from Toxicity to Anymal Activism/Social Justice -- Part V Conclusion -- 18 Conclusion: Meta-Reflections on Sexism in Anymal Activism -- Appendix 1: Kemmerer Survey on Harassment and Discrimination in the Anymal Activist Community -- Appendix 2: Survey Demography -- Appendix 3: How to Access the Cooney Legal Documents -- Appendix 4: Vegan Outreach Discrimination and Harassment Policy -- Appendix 5: Tofurky: Donor Organization Charitable Giving Policy on Gender Discrimination and Harassment -- Appendix 6: Letter Addressing Complaints Against Anthony Nocella -- Appendix 7: Email Exchange Between Rachel Perman and Erika Brunson.
    Abstract: “In this latest book, Lisa Kemmerer details the entrenchment of sexism in elements of the animal advocacy movement. Drawing on survey findings and written accounts of animal advocates, Kemmerer exposes many intra-movement problems and challenges the movement to engage in a process of truth and reconciliation, rightfully pointing out that the goals of anti-speciesism cannot be realized without also addressing sexism and other forms of intersecting oppression.” —Amy J. Fitzgerald, Professor, University of Windsor, Canada “This powerful and provocative book is essential reading for anyone studying or participating in social movements.” —Emily Gaarder, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA “Important, compelling, and provocative, Oppressive Liberation is a long overdue intervention in the problematic gender politics of the anymal rights movement. The book is an urgent reminder that the anymal rights movement has not yet sorted out its responsibilities to feminism or any other social justice issue. Kemmerer draws a much-needed roadmap for moving forward in ways that reject harassment, discrimination, and violence and create healthier, more secure, and more just organizational cultures in the anymal rights movement.” —Katja M. Guenther, Professor, University of California, Riverside, USA For years activists and scholars have complained of sexism among animal advocates. Employing previous scholarship, new data, and critical analysis, Oppressive Liberation explores the truth of these accusations. In the process, the book clarifies why sexism is a wide-spread problem in social justice activism and provides new data specifically on sexism in animal activism. Oppressive Liberation also examines likely resultant harms and suggests practical solutions to the problem at hand. This book builds on the concept of intersecting oppressions, focusing on the interface of speciesism and sexism while indicating the need for total liberation—an end to all forms of privilege and marginalization. Lisa Kemmerer is internationally known for her work on behalf of animals, the planet, and disempowered human beings, and is founder and director of the educational non-profit, Tapestry. For more information, please visit lisakemmerer.com and vegantapestry.org.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15363-1
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    Spectres of Pessimism : A Cultural Logic of the Worst (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031253515
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 138 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Literature—Aesthetics. ; Aesthetics. ; Critical theory. ; Motion pictures. ; Culture ; Social sciences ; Literature
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: “Being for Being Against”: Pessimism and the Cultural Moment -- Chapter 2: Pessimism of Theory, Optimism of Practice: Critical Theory vs. Cultural Studies -- Chapter 3: Utopia Banished? Apocalyptic Pessimism and Utopian Optimism -- Chapter 4: The Kids Will Not Be Alright: Futurity, Pessimist Temporality and Procreation -- Chapter 5: Embracing Extinction: Cosmic Pessimism, Crumbling Modernity and Ahuman Futures -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Virtues of Pessimism.
    Abstract: This book argues that philosophical pessimism can offer vital impulses for contemporary cultural studies. Pessimist thought offers ways to interrogate notions of temporality, progress and futurity. When the horizon of future expectation is increasingly shaped by the prospect of apocalypse and extinction, an exploration of pessimist thought can help to make sense of an increasingly complex and uncertain world by affirming rather than suppressing the worst. This book argues that a cultural logic of the worst is at work in a substantial section of contemporary philosophical thought and cultural representations. Spectres of pessimism can be found in contemporary ecocritical thought, antinatalist philosophies, political thought, and cultural theory, as well as in literature, film, and popular music. In its unsettling of temporality, this new pessimism shares sensibilities with the field of hauntology. Both deconstruct linear narratives of time that adhere to a stable sequence of past, present and future. Mark Schmitt therefore couples pessimism and hauntology to explore the spectres of pessimism in a range of theories and narratives—from ecocriticism, antinatalism and queer theory to utopianism, from afropessimism to the fiction of Hari Kunzru and Thomas Ligotti to the films of Camille Griffin, Gaspar Noé, Denis Villeneuve and Lars von Trier.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25351-5
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    The Future of Free Speech (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031413568
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 137 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Political science ; Social sciences ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. What Is Freedom of Speech? -- Chapter 3. Epistemic Freedom of Speech in Practice -- Chapter 4. Free Speech and the Redefinition of Harm -- Chapter 5. Free Speech Goes Online -- Chapter 6. A Turn Towards Toleration -- Chapter 7. Reflexive Freedom of Speech in Practice -- Chapter 8. Conclusion./.
    Abstract: This book dives headfirst into the contemporary controversy over the limits of free speech. Changing conceptions of what constitutes legitimate harm coupled with the advent of the internet and social media have provided a challenging environment for defining the boundaries of acceptable speech in our contemporary society. This book argues that these problems emerge due to flaws in our free speech framework, leaving the argument for free speech vulnerable to becoming inverted into a justification for censorship. In response, this book argues for a version of free speech based on a framework of toleration. Drawing on the work of the philosopher Rainer Forst, a new justification for free speech is formulated – reflexive freedom of speech – which aims to overcome past issues and justify free speech in a way that is universal, consistent and just. Benjamin Walters is a research fellow at the Australia Institute in Canberra, Australia. His research interests include theories of free speech, culture war, toleration and justice. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Deakin University. .
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41356-8
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    The Certification of Insanity : Local Origins and Imperial Consequences (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031427428
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 329 p. 30 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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    Keywords: Science ; Medicine ; Psychology. ; Social sciences ; Imperialism. ; Great Britain
    Abstract: 1.Introduction -- 2. The Medical Certificate: A Technology of Inspection, Identification, and Expertise -- 3. Upon the Following Grounds: The Victorian System of Certification -- 4. Building Expert Certifiers: The Rise of Psychological Physicians -- 5. Facts of Insanity Around the World: Towards an Imperial History of Lunacy Certificates -- 6. A Choreography of Consensus: The Use of Hybrids Templates in Ontario -- 7. Epilogue. .
    Abstract: This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and dissemination of a peculiar method for determining mental unsoundness defined as the ‘Victorian system’. Shaped by the dynamics surrounding the clandestine committal of wealthy Londoners in private madhouses, this system featured three distinctive tenets: standardized forms, independent medical examinations, and written facts of insanity. Despite their complexity, Victorian certificates achieved a remarkable success. Not only did they survive in the UK for more than a century, but they also served as a model for the development of mental health laws around the world. By the start of the Second World War, more than seventy colonial and non-colonial jurisdictions adopted the Victorian formula for making lunacy official with some countries still relying on it to this very day. Using case studies from Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, this book charts the temporal and geographical trajectory of an imperial technology used to determine a person’s destiny. Shifting the focus from metropolitan policies to colonial dynamics, and from macro developments to micro histories, it explores the perspectives of families, doctors, and public officials as they began to deal with the delicate business of certification. This book will be of interest to scholars working on mental health policy, the history of medicine, disability studies, and the British Empire. Filippo Maria Sposini is a researcher interested in the global history of madness, medicine, and law. He has published on the history of deviance in social sciences, the emergence of confinement procedures in Canada, and the production of psychiatric expertise in Victorian Britain. Previously, he studied at the University of Toronto in Canada and trained as a psychologist in Italy.
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    The Transcendence of Desire : A Theology of Political Agency (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031462276
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 252 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: New Approaches to Religion and Power
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    Keywords: Liberation theology. ; Political science. ; Social sciences
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: The Politics of Death -- 2. Renewing Political Agency: Arendt on Natality and Judgment -- 3. Theology's Re-politicizing: Crisis and Critique -- 3. Transcendence in a Secular Age: Cruciform Desire -- 4. The Problem and Promise of Politics -- 5. Prophetic Agency -- 6. Practical Agency -- 7. The Church as a Community of Desire.
    Abstract: The “secular age” is not a smooth, untroubled process of accumulation and advance but an uneven and unpredictable series of clashes of interest. Charles Taylor’s “immanent frame” cannot be construed merely as a phenomenon within religion and culture but urgently needs to be understood in political and economic terms–i.e., as a class project. The failure of the secular, vividly displayed in the crumbling legitimacy of global institutions and in the spectacle of police violence, both calls for and makes possible a renewal of political agency. Tom James and David True argue that a theology of the cross has a distinctive potential today: it can pierce the sacred aura of normalcy around the consensual anti-politics of the neoliberal order so that a vision of a world beyond today’s racialized capitalism can emerge. But they contend that we don’t need to forsake the emancipatory aims of modernity nor retreat to local communities. As an alternative to these weak strategies, they offer a constructive and cruciform account of political agency that includes both prophetic resistance and practical wisdom, each embedded in contemporary struggles for freedom that, they argue, embody divine desire for a common world. Tom James is a pastor in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of In Face of Reality: The Constructive Theology of Gordon D. Kaufman (2014) and co-author of A Philosophy of Christian Materialism (2015). David True is a visiting scholar at Pfeiffer University and is co-editor of the journal Political Theology. He is the co-editor of Paradoxical Virtue: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Virtue Tradition (2020) and the editor of Prophecy in a Secular Age: An Introduction (2021). .
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    The Problem of Property : Taking the Freedom of Nonowners Seriously (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031219481
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 131 p. 2 illus.)
    Series Statement: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Finance, Public. ; Economic policy. ; Labor economics. ; Social sciences ; Basic Income ; Universal Basic Income ; Social Justice ; Distributive Justice ; Property ; Freedom ; Dissent ; Justice as the Pursuit of Accord ; Indepentarianism
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Problem Of Property -- Chapter 3: Lockean Property Theory: A Menu Of Options For The Justification Of Unilateral Appropriation -- Chapter 4: Lockean Appropriation Assessed -- Chapter 5: Right-Libertarian Appropriation Assessed -- Chapter 6: The Approximation Of A Property Rights Accord -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Greater Of Two Goods.
    Abstract: This book is Karl Widerquist’s first statement of the “indepentarian” theory of property, called, “Justice as the Pursuit of Accord” (JPA). It argues the natural-rights-based arguments for unequal private property have failed to establish that institution as right. It is a legal privilege, inconsistent with the maximum equal freedom from interference. The book discusses how to establish and maintain a property system that best promotes freedom from interference. Paying taxes and obeying regulations is part of the purchase price of the right to control, use, or use-up any good made partly out of natural resources (i.e. all goods), because doing so interferes with people who control, use, or use-up fewer natural resources. A sufficient portion of that tax revenue has to be redistributed in the form of a Universal Basic Income to ensure the property system is in the interest of everyone. Karl Widerquist is a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University-Qatar. He specializes in distributive justice—the ethics of who has what. He has published ten books and dozens of articles in fields as diverse as economics, philosophy, politics, and anthropology.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21948-1
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    The Uncanny Rise of Medical Hypnotism, 1888–1914 : Between Imagination and Suggestion (2023)
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    ISBN: 9783031427251
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 265 p. 24 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bates, Gordon David Lyle The uncanny rise of medical hypnotism, 1888-1914
    Keywords: Great Britain ; Medicine ; Psychology. ; Social sciences ; Intellectual life ; Social history. ; Hypnose ; Hypnotherapie ; Geschichte 1888-1914
    Abstract: 1: Introduction -- 2: The New Hypnotists -- 3: The Limits of the Imagination -- 4: The Power of Suggestion -- 5: A Very British History of Hypnotism -- 6: The Medical Contest for Hypnotism in the 1890s -- 7: Hypnotism in the Public Sphere -- 8: Social Networks and Hypnotic Influences -- 9: Imaginary Hypnotism -- 10: The Triumph of Medical Hypnotism -- 11: Post-hypnotic Suggestion: WWI and Beyond.
    Abstract: This book explores the improbable rise of medical hypnotism in Victorian Britain and its subsequent assimilation and neglect. It follows the careers of the ‘New Hypnotists’: Charles Lloyd Tuckey, John Milne Bramwell, George Kingsbury and Robert Felkin. This loosely knit group all trained with the Suggestion School of Nancy and published books on hypnotism. They had to confront the many public and medical prejudices against the trance state which had persisted after the scandalous disgrace of John Elliotson and medical mesmerism, fifty years before. Hypnotism was a highly contested technology and in the 1890s the debates about safety and utility were fought in the national newspapers as well as the medical journals. The new hypnotists took on the might of the medical institutions personified by Ernest Hart, Editor of the British Medical Journal. However their timing was propitious, as the rise of faith-healing forced the medical profession to confront the non-physical therapeutic aspects of the doctor-patient relationship. The hypnotic discourse was shaped by these developments, but also by the fascination of the general public, novelists, occultists, psychic investigators, educationalists and spiritualists in the myriad possibilities of the trance state. Despite growing interest in the prehistory of British psychology and talking therapies, and the recent challenges to the primacy of Freudian histories, there are few accounts of the development of British ‘eclectic therapy’. This book uses the New Hypnotists as a lens to examine Victorian medicine and society, exploring their role in establishing the term ‘psychotherapy,’ and legitimising medical hypnotism, a precursor of psychological therapies. Gordon Bates is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Postdoctoral Researcher at Birkbeck, University of London, in the UK. He was made a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and has held posts at the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick. Gordon has published over twenty articles in scientific journals and contributed chapters to edited books. He is the medical humanities editor of the journal, Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
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    Working-Class Environmentalism : An Agenda for a Just and Fair Transition to Sustainability (2020)
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    ISBN: 9783030295196
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 292 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Environmental sociology ; Social structure ; Social inequality
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Environmental Classism -- 2. Class and Classism -- 3. Carrying the Environmental Burdens -- 4. The Environmental Policy Makers -- 5. The Environmental Policy Influencers -- 6. Working-Class Environmentalism -- 7. Explaining Environmental Classism? -- 8. Supporting Working-Class Environmentalism.
    Abstract: “At last, a book that properly explores the huge significance of social class in environmental issues, and environmentalism. ...This book asks some difficult questions, and offers some uncomfortable answers but, in doing so, will hopefully wake British environmentalism from its slumber over issues around class and injustice. And definitely not before time.” —Craig Bennett, CEO, Friends of the Earth England and Wales, UK “This book argues that class is everywhere. Karen Bell shows how disproportionately environmental issues affect the working class, points the finger clearly at the structures of capitalism, and connects issues of class inequality to environmental inequality.”—Lisa McKenzie, Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Durham, UK “Using evidence, analysis and her own hard-won experience, Karen Bell documents the way that environmental hazards and degradation impact more on working class people. Yet at the same time much environmentalist thinking undervalues working class lives and ignores their voices. This can in turn foster green policies focused too much on moralising and behaviour change rather than structural causes.”—Ian Gough, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, LSE, UK This book presents a timely perspective that puts working-class people at the forefront of achieving sustainability. Bell argues that environmentalism is a class issue, and confronts some current practice, policy and research that is preventing the attainment of sustainability and a healthy environment for all. She combines two of the biggest challenges facing humanity: that millions of people around the world still do not have their social and environmental needs met (including healthy food, clean water, affordable energy, clean air); and that the earth’s resources have been over-used or misused. Bell explores various solutions to these social and ecological crises and lays out an agenda for simultaneously achieving greater well-being, equality and sustainability. The result will be an invaluable resource for practitioners and policy-makers working to achieve environmental and social justice, as well as to students and scholars across social policy, sociology, human geography, and environmental studies.
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    International handbook on gender and demographic processes (2018)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 359 Seiten)
    Series Statement: International handbooks of population volume 8
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    DDC: 304.6
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology ; Demography ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Social Sciences ; Demography ; Gender Studies ; Sociology, general
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    Child Maltreatment Fatalities in the United States : Four Decades of Policy, Program, and Professional Responses (2017)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789401775830
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 169 p. 11 illus, online resource)
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    Series Statement: Social Sciences
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Douglas, Emily M., 1973 - Child maltreatment fatalities in the United States
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Maternal and child health services ; Criminology ; Social work ; Child psychology ; School psychology ; Social Sciences ; USA ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kindesvernachlässigung ; Tötung ; Prävention ; USA ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kindesvernachlässigung ; Tötung ; Prävention
    Abstract: This book focuses on the prevention of child abuse and neglect deaths in the U.S. In 2013 1,520 children died from maltreatment. This book defines child maltreatment fatalities (CMFs) and discusses the prevalence of deaths in the U.S. over the last several decades. It addresses the known risk factors for maltreatment deaths including child, parent, the parent-child relationship, and household risk factors. The main focus of the book addresses the responses and interventions that have been put in place in order to prevent CMFs: the child welfare profession, child death review teams, safe haven laws, criminal justice responses, public education, and new, federal efforts in the U.S. to reduce CMFs in the U.S. The book finishes by making recommendations for researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers about how to prevent fatal maltreatment among children in the U.S
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction and Justification for the Book -- Chapter 2: What is Fatal Child Maltreatment -- Chapter 3. Risk Factors for Fatal Child Maltreatment -- Chapter 4. The Intersection of the Child Welfare Profession and Maltreatment Fatalities -- Chapter 5. Child Death Review Teams -- Chapter 6. State Safe Haven Laws -- Chapter 7. Criminal Justice and Legal Reforms in Response to Fatal Maltreatment -- Chapter 8. Prevention of Fatal Child Maltreatment: What Are We Doing That Is Working? -- Chapter 9. Conclusions and Recommendations Moving Forward in the Arena of Fatal Child Maltreatment
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7583-0
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    Children’s Understandings of Well-being : Towards a Child Standpoint (2017)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789402408294
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 280 p. 16 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research 14
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Child development ; Social work ; Well-being ; Children ; Psychology ; Social Sciences ; Kind ; Wohlbefinden
    Abstract: The book presented here describes an outstanding attempt, not only to include children’s views but to partner with children to develop the concept of well-being and to study the phenomenon as the children understand it. The authors do this by placing the concept of children’s well-being within the existing discourses on the topic and by developing their unique theoretical approach to the concept. Then, and based on what children told them, the authors identify different domains and dimensions of children’s well-being and touch upon its multifaceted nature. The book concludes with drawing research and policy implications from an integrated summary of the study’s findings and lists indicator concepts that present an alternative framework and conceptualisation of well-being from a child standpoint
    Abstract: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Tracing Conceptualizations of Well-Being: Locating the Child in Well-Being Discourse -- Chapter 2. Researching Children’s Understandings of Well-Being -- Part II -- Chapter 3. Overviewing a Child Standpoint on Well-Being -- Chapter 4. Agency, Autonomy and Asymmetry in Child-Adult Relations -- Chapter 5. Safety and Ontological Insecurity: Contesting the Meaning of Child Protection -- Chapter 6. Self, Identity and Well-Being -- Part III -- Chapter 7. Activities as Autonomy and Competence: The Meaning and Experience of Leisure for Well-Being -- Chapter 8. Money, Markets and Moral Identity: Exploring Children’s Understandings and Experiences of Economic Well-Being -- Chapter 9. Children’s Health and Well-Being -- Part IV.-Chapter 10. Findings and Conclusions on Well-Being from the Unique Vantage Point of Children -- Appendix
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-0829-4
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    Public Policy Making in the Western Balkans : Case Studies of Selected Economic and Social Policy Reforms (2015)
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    ISBN: 9789401793469
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 244 p. 25 illus, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Development Economics ; Social policy ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: Developing and ‘transition’ economies face myriad challenges in their attempts to achieve and maintain political stability and foster the economic growth essential for national security, the social well-being of current citizens, and sustainable environments for future generations. Governments in the Western Balkans have striven to achieve all of the above, and this volume assesses the nature of their experiences as well as the level of their success in doing so. Featuring detailed case studies of public policy reforms in the region as well as comparative analysis on a range of indicators, the book analyzes the role of key players in setting the political agenda as well as implementing policy reforms. It also distils the lessons that can be learned from the Western Balkan experience, recommending strategies for enhancing the policy making process. In addition, it examines the developmental role played by the full spectrum of policy actors, including the private sector, NGOs, special interest groupings, international financial institutions, donor nations and the EU. Each case study has been prepared by academics with deep knowledge and experience of the western Balkans, and addresses a core set of questions: identifying the policy issue and its broader context, defining the roles of specific individuals in formulating policy and reform, and assessing the influence of networks and coalitions in the policy making process. With so little detailed literature on public policy making in a group of nations strategically positioned between Europe, Russia and the near East, the detailed insights provided by this volume will be widely welcomed. Our book provides case studies of specific public policy reform episodes in selected Western Balkan post-conflict and transition countries. The focus of these case studies extends beyond the technical aspects and entails substantive examination of the policy actors, constituencies, and politics that ultimately shape the policy that emerges from the policy making process. This analysis draws lessons for strengthening the quality of policies, the transparency, consistency, and governance of the policy making process, and ultimately for contributing to economic and social development of the region
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9346-9
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    Handbook of Neuroethics (2015)
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    ISBN: 9789400747074
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXII, 1850 p. 31 illus., 20 illus. in color. eReference, online ressource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Clausen, Jens, 1969 - Handbook of neuroethics
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences ; Philosophy ; Public health laws ; Ethics ; Neurology ; Life sciences ; Medical laws and legislation. ; Ethik ; Hirnforschung ; Neurowissenschaften
    Abstract: Neuroethics - as a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary endeavor - examines the implications of the neurosciences on human beings in general and on their self-understanding and their social interactions in particular. The range of approaches adopted in neuroethics includes but is not limited to historical, anthropological, ethical, philosophical, theological, sociological and legal approaches. Based on the study of neuroscientific developments and innovations, examined from different angles, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the international neuroethical debate, and offers unprecedented insights into the impact of neuroscientific research, diagnosis, and therapy. This Handbook deals with a plethora of topics divided into in three parts: the first part contains discussions of theories of neuroethics, identity, free will, as well as other philosophical considerations. The second part is dedicated to issues involved in current and future clinical applications of neurosciences, such as brain stimulation, brain imaging, prosthetics, addiction, and psychiatric ethics. The final part deals with neuroethics and society and includes chapters on neurolaw, neurotheology, neuromarketing, and enhancement
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4707-4
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    Handbook of Argumentation Theory (2014)
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    ISBN: 9789048194735
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 988 p. 79 illus., 18 illus. in color. eReference, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Eemeren, Frans H. van, 1946 - Handbook of argumentation theory
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Logic ; Law ; Social sciences ; Linguistics. ; Argumentationstheorie
    Abstract: The Handbook Argumentation Theory provides an up to date survey of the various theoretical contributions to the development of argumentation theory for all scholars interested in argumentation, informal logic and rhetoric. It describes the historical roots of modern argumentation theory that are still an important theoretical background to contemporary approaches. Because of the complexity, diversity and rate of developments in argumentation theory, there is a real need for an overview of the state of the art, the main approaches that can be distinguished and the distinctive features of these approaches. The Handbook covers classical and modern backgrounds to the study of argumentation, the New Rhetoric developed by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, the Toulmin model, formal approaches, informal logic, communication and rhetoric, pragmatic approaches, linguistic approaches and pragma-dialectics. The Handbook is co-authored by Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Erik C.W. Krabbe, A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Bart Verheij and Jean Wagemans, who are a coherent and prominent writing team whose expertise covers the whole field. The authors are assisted by an international Editorial Board consisting of outstanding argumentation scholars whose fields of interest are represented in the volume
    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9473-5
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    Understanding Society and Natural Resources : Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences (2014)
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    ISBN: 9789401789592
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 261 p. 38 illus., 2 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Ecology ; Environmental geology. ; Geoecology. ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Human Geography ; Physical geography.
    Abstract: In this edited volume leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social science disciplines as a means for furthering natural resource social science and environmental problem solving. The chapters provide an overview of the history, vision, advances, examples, and methods that could lead to integration. The quest for integration among the social sciences is not new. Some argue that the social sciences have lagged in their advancements and contributions to society due to their inability to address integration related issues. Integration merits debate for a number of reasons. First, natural resource issues are complex and are affected by multiple proximate driving social factors. Single disciplinary studies focused at one level are unlikely to provide explanations that represent this complexity and are limited in their ability to inform policy recommendations. Complex problems are best explored across disciplines that examine social-ecological phenomenon from different scales. Second, multi-disciplinary initiatives such as those with physical and biological scientists are necessary to understand the scope of the social sciences. Too frequently there is a belief that one social scientist on a multi-disciplinary team provides adequate social science representation. Third, more complete models of human behavior will be achieved through a synthesis of diverse social science perspectives
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8959-2
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    Handbook of social psychology (2014)
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    ISBN: 9789401794176
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 649 S.
    Edition: 2. ed.
    Series Statement: Handbooks of sociology and social research
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    Modelling Norms (2014)
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    ISBN: 9789400770522
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 213 p. 33 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Elsenbroich, Corinna Modelling norms
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Computer simulation ; Social sciences Data processing ; Criminology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Computer simulation ; Social sciences Data processing ; Criminology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Modellierung ; Methode ; Online-Ressource ; Soziale Norm ; Kriminalitätstheorie ; Modellierung
    Abstract: The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses traditional modelling approaches to social norms and shows the usefulness of agent-based modelling for the study of these micro-macro interactions. Existing agent-based models of social norms are discussed and it is shown that so far too much priority has been given to parsimonious models and questions of the emergence of norms, with many aspects of social norms, such as norm-change, not being modelled. Juvenile delinquency, group radicalisation and moral decision making are used as case studies for agent-based models of collective action extending existing models by providing an embedding into social networks, social influence via argumentation and a causal action theory of moral decision making. The major contribution of the book is to highlight the multifaceted nature of the dynamics of social norms, consisting not only of emergence, and the importance of embedding of agent-based models into existing theory.
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionTheorising Norms -- Theorising Crime -- Agent-based Modelling -- The Environment and Social Norms -- Punishment and Social Norms -- Imitation and Social Norms -- Socially Situated Social Norms -- Internalisation and Social Norms -- Modelling Norms -- Delinquent Networks -- Social Construction of Knowledge -- Morality -- We-Intentionality -- Conclusion -- Index.
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    Gender, lifespan and quality of life : an international perspective (2014)
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    ISBN: 9789400778290
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (278 pages) , illustrations.
    Series Statement: Social Indicators Research Series 53
    Series Statement: Social Indicators Research Ser. v.53
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    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of life ; Humanities ; Quality of life -- Research ; Developmental psychology ; Social sciences ; Quality of life ; Humanities ; Quality of life ; Research ; Developmental psychology ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This publication will fill a significant gap in the literature on quality of life and subjective wellbeing by addressing the gender dimensions of people's lived experience and emphasizing how gender relationships differentially impact on women's and girls' as well as men's and boys' subjective wellbeing across the lifespan. Sex-disaggregation of data on objective conditions of quality of life is now routinely undertaken in many countries of the world. However, despite the burgeoning of objective data on sex differences in life conditions across the world, very little gender analysis is carried out to explain fully such difference and there is still a serious dearth of data on gender differences in subjective experiences of quality of life and wellbeing. This publication will assist researchers, teachers, service providers and policy makers in filling some of the gaps in currently available literature on the nexus between age and gender in producing differential experiences of subjective wellbeing. The book brings together research which compares female's and male's subjective experiences of wellbeing at various life stages from a variety of countries and regions, particularly focusing on women's subjective wellbeing.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter-1 -- Gender, Lifespan, Cultural Context and QOL -- References -- Chapter-2 -- Personal Well-being and Interpersonal Communication of 12-16 Year-Old Girls and Their Own Mothers: Gender and Intergenerational Issues -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Method Procedure and Sample -- 2.2.1 Description of the Variables -- 2.3 Results -- 2.3.1 Activities -- 2.3.2 Conversations -- 2.3.3 Satisfaction -- 2.3.4 Values Aspired to for the Girls' Future -- 2.3.5 Explained Model of Girls' and Mothers' Satisfaction with Life as a Whole -- 2.4 Discussion -- References -- Chapter-3 -- Gender Dimensions of Life Quality for Adults in Australia -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis -- 3.3 Homeostatic Buffers -- 3.4 External Buffers -- 3.5 Internal Buffers -- 3.6 Gender Differences -- 3.7 Method -- 3.8 Results -- 3.8.1 Gender × Survey -- 3.8.2 Personal Wellbeing Domains -- 3.8.3 Domain Stability Across Surveys × Gender -- 3.8.4 Demographic Influences on Gender Differences in SWB -- 3.8.5 Age -- 3.8.6 Living Alone -- 3.8.7 Relationship Status -- 3.8.8 Work Status -- 3.9 Discussion -- 3.9.1 Overall Pattern of Gender Differences -- 3.9.2 Age -- 3.9.3 Living Alone -- 3.9.4 Work Status -- 3.10 Summary -- References -- Chapter-4 -- Chasing the 'Good Life': GenderDifferences in Work Aspirationsof American Men and Women -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Conceptual Framework -- 4.3 Data and Methods -- 4.4 Results -- 4.4.1 Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainments -- 4.4.1.1 Material Goods -- 4.4.1.2 Good Health -- 4.4.1.3 Family Life -- 4.4.1.4 Work -- 4.4.1.5 Work Aspirations over the Life Course -- 4.5 Summary and Discussion -- References -- Chapter-5 -- Gender Dimensions of Quality of Life in Algeria -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Gender Equalities: The Current Situation.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 12, 2014)
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    People on the move in a changing climate : the regional impact of environmental change on migration (2014)
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    ISBN: 9789400769847
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 253 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Global migration issues volume 2
    Series Statement: Global migration issues
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    Keywords: Mobilität ; Internationale Migration ; Klimawandel ; Migrationsentscheidung ; Migrationsforschung ; Welt ; Migration ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Sammelwerk ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Enthält 10 Beiträge , Includes bibliographical references
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6985-4
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    Stigma, discrimination and living with HIV/AIDS : a cross-cultural perspective (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400763234
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    Pages: XXIV, 415 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Liamputtong, Pranee, 1955 - Stigma, Discrimination and Living with HIV/AIDS
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Anthropology ; Quality of Life Research ; Psychology, clinical ; Social Sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; HIV-Infektion ; Lebensqualität ; Aids ; Lebensqualität
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    Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400766778
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 223 p. 105 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences 11
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.: Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Computer vision ; Cartography ; Social sciences Methodology ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Anthropogeografie ; Daten ; Netzwerk
    Abstract: This leading-edge study focuses on the latest techniques in analysing and representing the complex, multi-layered data now available to geographers studying urban zones and their populations. The volume tracks the successful results of the SPANGEO Project, which was set up in 2005 to standardize, and share, the syncretic, multinational mapping techniques already developed by geographers and computer scientists. SPANGEO sought new and responsive ways of visualising urban geographical and social data that reflected the fine-grained detail of the inputs. It allowed for visual representation of the large and complex networks and flows which are such an integral feature of the dynamism of urban geography. SPANGEO developed through the ‘visual analytics loop’ in which geographers collaborated with computer scientists by feeding data into the design of visualisations that in turn spawned the urge to incorporate more varied data into the visualisation. This volume covers all the relevant aspects, from conceptual principles to the tools of network analysis and the actual results flowing from their deployment. Detailed case studies set out in this volume include spatial multi-level analyses of flows in airports and sea ports, as well as the fascinating scientific networks in European cities. The volume shows how the primary concern of geography-the interaction of society with physical space-has been revivified by the complexities of new cartographical and statistical methodologies, which allow for highly detailed mapping and far more powerful computer analysis of spatial relationships
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    The Web of Violence : Exploring Connections Among Different Forms of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400755963
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 108 p. 3 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Hamby, Sherry L. The web of violence
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences Methodology ; Quality of Life Research ; Psychology, clinical ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences Methodology ; Quality of Life Research ; Psychology, clinical ; Developmental psychology ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Risikofaktor ; Korrelation
    Abstract: There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence. These interconnections have critical implications for conducting research that can produce valid conclusions about the causes and consequences of abuse, maltreatment, and trauma. The accumulated data on co-occurrence also provide strong evidence that prevention and intervention should be organized around the full context of individuals’ experiences, not narrowly defined subtypes of violence. Managing the flood of new research and practice innovations is a challenge, however. New means of communication and integration are needed to meet this challenge, and the Web of Violence is intended to contribute to this process by serving as a concise overview of the conceptual and empirical work that form a basis for understanding the interconnections across forms of violence throughout the lifespan. It also offers ideas and directions for prevention, intervention, and public policy.A number of initiatives are emerging to integrate the findings on co-occurrence into research and action. The American Psychological Association established a new journal, Psychology of Violence, which is a forum for research on all types of violence. Sherry Hamby is the founding editor and John Grych is associate editor and co-editor of a special issue on the co-occurrence of violence in 2012. Dr. Hamby also is a co-investigator of the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV), which has drawn attention to polyvictimization. Polyvictimization is a focus of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Defending Childhood Initiative and has recently been featured in calls for grant proposals by the Office of Victims of Crime and National Institutes for Justice.
    Description / Table of Contents: 〈p〉Chapter 1: The Case for Studying Co-Occurrence -- Chapter 2:  Tracing the Threads of the Web: The Epidemiology of Interconnections among Forms of Violence & Victimization -- Chapter 3:  The Causes of Interconnection -- Chapter 4:  A Developmental Perspective on Interconnection -- Chapter 5:  Implications for Research: Toward a more comprehensive understanding of interpersonal violence -- Chapter 6 Implications for Prevention & Intervention: A More Person-Centered Approach -- Chapter 7   Conclusion: Toppling the Silos.〈/p〉.
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    Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400754768 , 1283910845 , 9781283910842
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 249 p. 13 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 106
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Architecture ; Regional economics ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Architecture ; Regional economics ; Human Geography
    Abstract: There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this shortfall was becoming more evident among urban policymakers, planners, and researchers in different parts of the world, a group of discontent researchers began searching for new approaches to addressing the increasing vulnerabilities of urban systems in the wake of growing socio-economic and ecological problems. This book is the joint effort of those who have long felt that contemporary planning systems and policies are inadequate in preparing cities for the future in an increasingly neoliberalising world. It argues that resilience thinking can form the basis of an alternative approach to planning. Drawing upon case studies from five cities in Europe, namely Lisbon, Porto, Istanbul, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, the book makes an exploration of the resilience perspective, raising a number of theoretical debates, and suggesting a new methodological approach based on empirical evidence. This book provides insights for intellectuals exploring alternative perspectives and principles of a new planning approach
    Abstract: There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this shortfall was becoming more evident among urban policymakers, planners, and researchers in different parts of the world, a group of discontent researchers began searching for new approaches to addressing the increasing vulnerabilities of urban systems in the wake of growing socio-economic and ecological problems. This book is the joint effort of those who have long felt that contemporary planning systems and policies are inadequate in preparing cities for the future in an increasingly neoliberalising world. It argues that “resilience thinking” can form the basis of an alternative approach to planning. Drawing upon case studies from five cities in Europe, namely Lisbon, Porto, Istanbul, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, the book makes an exploration of the resilience perspective, raising a number of theoretical debates, and suggesting a new methodological approach based on empirical evidence. This book provides insights for intellectuals exploring alternative perspectives and principles of a new planning approach.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning: Ayda Eraydin and Tuna Taşan-Kok -- Chapter 2: “Resilience Thinking” for Planning: Ayda Eraydin -- Chapter 3: Conceptual Overview of Resilience: History and Context: Tuna Taşan-Kok, Dominic Stead and Peiwen Lu -- Chapter 4: Urban Resilience and Spatial Dynamics: Sara Santos Cruz,  João Pedro Costa, Silvia Ávila de Sousa and Paulo Pinho -- Chaper 5: Analysing the Socio-spatial Vulnerability to Drivers of Globalisation in Lisbon, Oporto, Istanbul, Stockholm and Rotterdam: Tuna Taşan-Kok and Dominic Stead -- Chapter 6: Systems, Cultures, Styles: Spatial Planning in Portugal, Turkey, Sweden and the Netherlands: Sofia Morgado and Luís Dias -- Chapter 7: Managing Urban Change in Five European Urban Agglomerations: Key Policy Documents and Institutional Frameworks: Peter Schmitt -- Chapter 8: Evaluating Resilience in Planning: Paulo Pinho, Vítor Oliveira and Ana Martins -- Chapter 9: Assessing Urban Resilience in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: the Case of Alcântara: Luís Dias, Sofia Morgado and João Pedro Costa -- Chapter 10: Evaluating Urban Policies from a Resilient Perspective: The Case of Oporto: Vítor Oliveira, Ana Martins and Sara Santos Cruz -- Chapter 11: The Evaluation of Different Processes of Spatial Development from a Resilience Perspective in Istanbul: Ayda Eraydin, Ali Türel and Deniz Altay Kaya -- Chapter 12: Urban Resilience and Polycentricity - the Case of the Stockholm Urban Agglomeration: Peter Schmitt, Lisbeth Greve Harbo, Asli Tepecik Diş and Anu Henriksson -- Chapter 13: Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Land-Use Planning in Rotterdam: Dominic  Stead and Tuna Taşan-Kok -- Chapter 14: The Evaluation of Findings and Future of Resilience Thinking in Planning: Ayda Eraydin and Tuna Taşan-Kok -- Index..
    Note: Includes index , Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning , "Resilience Thinking" for Planning , Conceptual Overview of Resilience: History and Context , Urban Resilience and Spatial Dynamics , Analysing the Socio-Spatial Vulnerability to Drivers of Globalisation in Lisbon, Oporto, Istanbul, Stockholm and Rotterdam , Systems, Cultures and Styles: Spatial Planning in Portugal, Turkey, Sweden and the Netherlands , Managing Urban Change in Five European Urban Agglomerations: Key Policy Documents and Institutional Frameworks , Evaluating Resilience in Planning , Assessing Urban Resilience in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: The Case of Alcântara , Evaluating Urban Policies from a Resilience Perspective: The Case of Oporto , The Evaluation of Different Processes of Spatial Development from a Resilience Perspective in Istanbul , Urban Resilience and Polycentricity: The Case of the Stockholm Urban Agglomeration , Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Land-Use Planning in Rotterdam , The Evaluation of Findings and Future of Resilience Thinking in Planning
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    The background of social reality : selected contributions from the inaugural meeting of ENSO (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400755994 , 9400755996
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 351 Seiten
    Series Statement: Studies in the philosophy of sociality Volume 1
    Series Statement: Studies in the philosophy of sociality
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Schmitz, Michael The Background of Social Reality
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    Keywords: Collective behavior ; Social groups ; Social sciences ; Philosophy ; Ontology ; Konferenzschrift 2009 ; Konferenzschrift 2009 ; Soziales Handeln ; Gruppenverhalten ; Sozialphilosophie ; Soziale Norm ; Soziales Handeln ; Gruppenverhalten ; Sozialphilosophie ; Soziale Norm
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    Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe : Social Movement Analyses (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400746534
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 306 p. 9 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Economic and political change in Asia and Europe
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Population ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Population ; Demography ; East Asia ; Economic policy ; East Asia ; Economic conditions ; East Asia ; Social policy ; East Asia ; Social conditions ; Europe ; Economic policy ; Europe ; Economic conditions ; Europe ; Social policy ; Europe ; Social conditions
    Abstract: Since the 1973 publication of Alain Peyrefittes prophetic When China Awakens, developments in East Asia have outstripped even the wildest predictions. China has undergone the fastest industrialization and urbanization process in history, yet tensions there are rising as some realize how far they have been left behind. This volume explores the applicability of European economic and social models to our analysis of East Asias and, in particular, Chinas situation. Though millions of Chinese and other Asian people have been lifted out of poverty, inequality is rising nonetheless, and contemporary Europe and Asia are both witnessing collective action against rampant economic neoliberalism in the former and the exclusion of minorities in the latter. It is difficult to overstate the relevance of this assessment, which seeks answers to some central questions: Can events in Europe serve as a model for those in East Asia? Are there similarities or differences between the two regions? To what extent do political, economic or social systems stimulate or inhibit collective action? How culturally equivalent are the collective actions of marginalized/ disadvantaged people in the two locations, or are events in Europe symptomatic of specific cultural attributes? Comparing and contrasting the research tools and dominant paradigms in the social and economic sciences in East Asia and Europe, as this volume does, throws out some revealing results.
    Description / Table of Contents: Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Appendices; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Collective Action and Relatively Powerless People in Europe and Asia; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Social and Economic Backdrops; 1.3 Recession and Social Movements; 1.4 Common Traits: Asia and Europe; 1.5 Chapter Descriptions; 1.6 Conclusion; References; Part I: Economic, Political and Social Globalization in Asia and Europe; Chapter 2: Economic Change and Social Dynamics: Converging and Diverging Trends Across Different Economies; 2.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 Growth, Structural Change, and Macro Socioeconomic Performance by Broad World Region2.3 Economic Growth, Development, and Poverty; 2.3.1 Broad Trends in Terms of Poverty and Inequality; 2.3.2 Impact of the Recent and Current Economic Shocks; 2.4 Convergence and Equality in the EU; 2.4.1 Between-Country Economic Convergence; 2.4.2 Convergence Across Socioeconomic Groups in the EU; 2.5 The Case of Asia; 2.5.1 Convergence Across Asian Countries; 2.5.2 Convergence Across Socioeconomic Groups in Asia; 2.6 Conclusions; 2.7 Appendices
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix 2.1 List of Countries Included in the Major World Regions (See Table  2.1)Appendix 2.2 Indicators Developed (or Being Developed) by the Commission so as to Measure Social Cohesion (Sample); References; Chapter 3: European Integration, Social Cohesion, and Political Contentiousness; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The European Structure of Grievances: The Renaissance of "Old" Issues; 3.3 Social Cohesion in Europe: Spatial and Social Cleavages; 3.3.1 Social Cohesion: The Core and the Peripheries; 3.3.2 Social Cohesion and Class
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4 Discussion and Conclusions: Social Cohesion and the Political Sociology of EuropeReferences; Chapter 4: Images and Frameworks of Collective Action in China; 4.1 Assumptions from a Western Concept; 4.2 Reconstruction of a Chinese Traditional Heritage; 4.2.1 Interpersonal Relations, Intention, Ritual, and Mankind; 4.2.2 Traces of Collectivity in Chinese History; 4.3 The Affirmative Societal Role of Collective Action; 4.3.1 Statehood, Citizens, and Welfare; 4.3.2 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Collective Action; 4.4 Collective Action with Chinese Characteristics; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: European Governance and Democracy5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Immigration and Citizenship: Building the Fortress; 5.3 Organizing the Unemployed Within the Member States; 5.4 European Marches and Alter-Globalization Movements; 5.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Agricultural Markets and Food Riots: The European Union and Asia Compared; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Main Drivers Affecting the Food System; 6.3 Prices Crisis or Food Crisis?; 6.4 Food Riots and Policy Responses; 6.5 Food Aid Policies; 6.6 Concluding Remarks; References; Part II: Social Movements in a Transnational Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7: Marginalization and Transnationalizing Movements: How Does One Relate to the Other?
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4653-4
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    Crime, HIV and Health: Intersections of Criminal Justice and Public Health Concerns (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789048189212
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 299 p. 18 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Crime, HIV and health
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Criminology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Criminology ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Public health ; Kriminologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen ; Kriminalität ; HIV ; USA ; Strafjustiz ; HIV ; Gesundheitsgefährdung
    Abstract: Carefully selected to reflect the latest research at the interface between public health and criminal justice in the US, these contributions each focus on an aspect of the relationship. How, for example, might a person's criminal activity adversely affect their health or their risk of exposure to HIV infection? The issues addressed in this volume are at the heart of policy in both public health and criminal justice. The authors track a four-fold connection between the two fields, exploring the mental and physical health of incarcerated populations; the health consequences of crime, substance abuse, violence and risky sexual behaviors; the extent to which high crime rates are linked to poor health outcomes in the same neighborhood; and the results of public health interventions among traditional criminal justice populations. As well as exploring these urgent issues, this anthology features a wealth of remarkable interdisciplinary contributions that see public health researchers focusing on crime, while criminologists attend to public health issues. The papers provide empirical data tracking, for example, the repercussions on public health of a fear of crime among residents of high-crime neighborhoods, and the correlations between HIV status and outcomes, and an individual's history of criminal activity. Providing social scientists and policy makers with vital pointers on how the criminal justice and public health sectors might work together on the problems common to both, this collection breaks new ground by combining the varying perspectives of a number of key disciplines
    Abstract: Carefully selected to reflect the latest research at the interface between public health and criminal justice in the US, these contributions each focus on an aspect of the relationship. How, for example, might a persons criminal activity adversely affect their health or their risk of exposure to HIV infection? The issues addressed in this volume are at the heart of policy in both public health and criminal justice. The authors track a four-fold connection between the two fields, exploring the mental and physical health of incarcerated populations; the health consequences of crime, substance abuse, violence and risky sexual behaviors; the extent to which high crime rates are linked to poor health outcomes in the same neighborhood; and the results of public health interventions among traditional criminal justice populations.As well as exploring these urgent issues, this anthology features a wealth of remarkable interdisciplinary contributions that see public health researchers focusing on crime, while criminologists attend to public health issues. The papers provide empirical data tracking, for example, the repercussions on public health of a fear of crime among residents of high-crime neighborhoods, and the correlations between HIV status and outcomes, and an individuals history of criminal activity. Providing social scientists and policy makers with vital pointers on how the criminal justice and public health sectors might work together on the problems common to both, this collection breaks new ground by combining the varying perspectives of a number of key disciplines.
    Description / Table of Contents: Crime, HIV and Health: Intersections of Criminal Justice and Public Health Concerns; Introduction; References; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Crime and Public Health in the United States; 1.1 Substance Use and Violence; 1.2 Vulnerable Populations, Negative Health Outcomes, and Incarceration; 1.3 Exploring Common Ground: Criminal Justice and Public Health; 1.3.1 Incarceration; 1.3.2 Health Risk Behaviors Among High-Risk Youth; 1.3.3 Crime, Health, and Space; 1.3.4 Public Health Interventions and Criminal Justice Populations; References; Part I: The Health of Incarcerated Populations
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 2: A Longitudinal Study of the Prevalence, Development, and Persistence of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors in Delinquent Youth: Implications for Health Care in the Community2.1 Methods; 2.1.1 Sampling Procedures; 2.1.2 Procedures to Obtain Assent and Consent; 2.1.3 Participants; 2.1.4 Procedures for Data Collection; 2.1.5 Measures; 2.1.6 Missing Data; 2.1.6.1 Missing Cases; 2.1.6.2 Missing Data from Interviews Conducted by Telephone; 2.1.7 Independent Variables; 2.1.8 Statistical Analysis; 2.2 Results; 2.2.1 Prevalence of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.1.1 Comparing the Baseline and Follow-up InterviewsMales; Females; 2.2.1.2 Prevalence at Follow-up; Males; Females; 2.2.1.3 Gender Differences; 2.2.1.4 Age Differences (Data Not Shown); 2.2.2 Development of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors; 2.2.2.1 Gender Differences; 2.2.2.2 Racial/Ethnic Differences; 2.2.3 Persistence of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors; 2.2.3.1 Gender Differences; 2.2.3.2 Racial/Ethnic Differences; 2.3 Discussion; 2.4 Limitations; 2.5 Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: Risky Sexual Behavior and Negative Health Consequences Among Incarcerated Female Adolescents: Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice3.1 Pathways into Delinquency for Female Adolescents; 3.2 Health Service Needs and Service Gaps among Incarcerated Female Adolescents; 3.3 STD Screening and Treatment in Juvenile Detention Settings in California; 3.3.1 Profiles of Project Participants and Qualitative Findings; 3.3.2 Qualitative Findings: Condom Use; 3.3.3 Qualitative Findings: Family Life; 3.3.4 Overlap of Family Conflict, Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behaviors
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4 DiscussionReferences; Chapter 4: Disparities in Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment Among African Americans: Implications for the Correctional Systems; 4.1 Disparities in Mental Health Diagnoses and Treatment; 4.1.1 Anxiety; 4.1.2 Depression; 4.1.3 Bipolar Disorder; 4.1.4 Schizophrenia; 4.1.5 Treatment Disparities; 4.2 Implications for Correctional Settings; References; Part II: Health Consequences of Crime and Risk Behaviors; Chapter 5: Methamphetamine Use, Personality Traits, and High-Risk Behaviors; 5.1 Research Methods; 5.1.1 Sample Recruitment; 5.1.2 Measures; 5.2 Study Results
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.2.1 Sample
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8921-2
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    Social Morphogenesis (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400761285
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 231 p. 17 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Social morphogenesis
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Konferenzschrift ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. Contributors examine if an intensification of morphogenesis (positive feedback that results in a change in social form) and a corresponding reduction in morphostasis (negative feedback that restores or reproduces the form of the social order) best captures the process involved. This volume resists proclaiming a new social formation as so many books written by empiricists have done by extrapolating from empirical data. Until we can convincingly demonstrate that a new generative mechanism is at work, it is premature to argue what accounts for the global changes that are taking place and where they will lead. More concisely we seek to answer the question whether or not current social change can be regarded as social morphogenesis. Only then, in the next volumes will the same team of authors be able to remove the question mark
    Description / Table of Contents: Social Morphogenesis; Contents; 1 Social Morphogenesis and the Prospects of Morphogenic Society; 1.1…Part 1. Social Morphogenesis and Societal Transformation?; The Rapidity of Social Change and Empiricism's Shortcomings; Social Morphogenesis: From Toolkit to Theory; Three Levels of Social Morphogenesis; Transformations of the Third-Order; References; Part I Social Morphogenesis and Societal Transformation?; 2 Morphogenesis and Social Change; 2.1…The Morphogenetic Approach; 2.2…Social Change Understood Morphogenetically; 2.3…The Morphogenetic Approach Versus the Current Conflationisms
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4…Where Are We Now?References; 3 The Morphogenetic Approach and the Idea of a Morphogenetic Society: The Role of Regularities; 3.1…The Topic: Morphogenesis from Meta-Theory to Forms of Social Order; 3.2…Morphogenesis and Regularity: Making Friends with Old Enemies?; 3.3…Duration, Pace, Trajectory, Turning Points, Transitions, and Cycles: New Bricks for the Morphogenetic Fabric; 3.4…Conclusion; References; 4 Emergence and Morphogenesis: Causal Reduction and Downward Causation?; 4.1…Emergence; Causal Reduction and Downward Causation; 4.2…Causal Reduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Network Analysis and Morphogenesis: A Neo-Structural Exploration and Illustration
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Social Morphogenesis and the Prospects of Morphogenic Society; Margaret S. Archer -- PART I. SOCIAL CHANGE AS MORPHOGENESIS.- Chapter 2. Morphogenesis and Social Change; Douglas V. Porpora -- Chapter 3. The Morphogenetic Approach and the Idea  of Morphogenetic Society. The Role of Regularities; Andrea M. Maccarini -- Chapter 4. Emergence and Morphognesis: Causal Reduction and Downward Causation; Tony Lawson -- Chapter 5 Morphogenesis, Continuity and Change in the International Political System; Colin Wight -- PART II. SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND THEIR RE-FORMATION -- Chapter 6. Self-Organization: What is it, What isn't it and What's it Got to Do with Morphogenesis; Kate Forbes-Pitt -- Chapter 7. Self-Organization as the Mechanism of Development and Evolution in Social Systems; Wolfgang Hofkirchner -- Chapter 8. Morphogenetic Society: Self-Government and Self-Organization as Misleading Metaphors; Maragaret S. Archer.- PART III. SOCIAL NETWORKS: LINKAGES OR BONDS -- Chapter 9. Network Analysis and Morphogenesis: A Neo-Structural Exploration and Illustration; Emmanuel Lazega -- Chapter 10. Authority's Hidden Networks: Obligations, Roles and the Morphogenesis of Authority; Ismael Al-Amoudi -- Chapter 11. Morphogenesis and Social Networks: Relational Steering not Mechanical Feedback; Pierpaolo Donati.
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    C. Henry Kempe: A 50 Year Legacy to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400740846 , 1282056964 , 9781282056961
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 269 p. 6 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Child Maltreatment, Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy 1
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Pediatrics ; Quality of Life ; Social work ; Quality of Life Research ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Pediatrics ; Quality of Life ; Social work ; Quality of Life Research ; Developmental psychology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kempe, Charles Henry 1922-1984 ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kempe, Charles Henry 1922-1984
    Abstract: The book series, 'Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy.' will consist of a state of the art handbook (to be revised every five years) and two to three volumes per year. The first volume in this series is a legacy to C. Henry Kempe. This is a timely publication because 2012 marks 50 years after the appearance of the foundational article by C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues, 'The Battered-Child Syndrome.' This volume capitalizes on this 50 year anniversary to stand back and assess the field from the perspective that Dr. Kempes early contributions and ideas are still being played out in practice and policy today. The volume will be released at the next ISPCAN meeting, also in 2012.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4084-6
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    Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400742765
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 636 p. 29 illus, digital)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2013
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Handbook of the sociology of mental health
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Psychiatry ; Psychology, clinical ; Consciousness ; Social Sciences ; Social psychiatry ; Mental illness ; Social aspects ; Psychische Störung ; Psychische Gesundheit ; Medizinsoziologie
    Abstract: This second edition of the Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health features theory-driven reviews of recent research with a comprehensive approach to the investigation of the ways in which society shapes the mental health of its members and the lives of those who have been diagnosed as having a mental illnessThe award-winning Handbook is distinctive in its focus on how the organization and functioning of society influences the occurrence of mental disorder and its consequences. A core issue that runs throughout the text concerns the differential distribution of mental illness across various social strata, defined by status characteristics such as gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and age. The contributions to this volume shed light on the social, cultural, and economic factors that explain why some social groups have an elevated risk of disorder. They also address the social repercussions of mental disorder for individuals, including stigmatization within the larger society, and for their families and social networks.The second edition of this seminal volume includes substantial updates to previous chapters, as well as seven new chapters on: -The Individuals Experience of Mental Illness.--The Medicalization of Mental Illness.---Age, Aging, and Mental Health.- -Religion and Mental Health.- -Neighborhoods and Mental Health.- -Mental Health and the Lawand Public Beliefs about Mental Illness.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4276-5
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    Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400746237
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 277 p. 51 illus., 10 illus. in color, digital)
    Series Statement: Understanding Population Trends and Processes 6
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Geography ; Economics Statistics ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Geography ; Economics Statistics ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Spatial analysis (Statistics) ; Space ; Computer simulation ; Statistical matching ; Demography ; Demographie ; Räumliche Statistik ; Mikrosimulation
    Abstract: This book is a practical guide on how to design, create and validate a spatial microsimulation model. These models are becoming more popular as academics and policy makers recognise the value of place in research and policy making. Recent spatial microsimulation models have been used to analyse health and social disadvantage for small areas; and to look at the effect of policy change for small areas. This provides a powerful analysis tool for researchers and policy makers. This book covers preparing the data for spatial microsimulation; a number of methods for both static and dynamic spatial microsimulation models; validation of the models to ensure the outputs are reasonable; and the future of spatial microsimulation. The book will be an essential handbook for any researcher or policy maker looking to design and create a spatial microsimulation model. This book will also be useful to those policy makers who are commissioning a spatial microsimulation model, or looking to commission work using a spatial microsimulation model, as it provides information on the different methods in a non-technical way.
    Description / Table of Contents: Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users; Foreword; Contents; Part I: Background; Chapter 1: Introduction to Spatial Microsimulation: History, Methods and Applications; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 History of Spatial Microsimulation; 1.3 Applications of Spatial Microsimulation Models; 1.4 Validation of Spatial Microsimulation Models; 1.5 The Future; 1.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Building a Static Spatial Microsimulation Model: Data Preparation; 2.1 Data Sources and Requirements; 2.2 Sample Scope; 2.3 Unit of Analysis; 2.3.1 Non-private Dwellings
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.2 Non-classifiable Households2.4 Population Imputation; 2.4.1 Imputation of Child Records; 2.4.2 Imputation of a Non-private Dwelling Population; 2.5 Matching Variable Definitions in the Sample Survey and the Census; 2.6 Uprating and Deflating; 2.7 Balancing Data; 2.8 Conclusion; References; Part II: Static Spatial Microsimulation Models; Chapter 3: An Evaluation of Two Synthetic Small-Area Microdata Simulation Methodologies: Synthetic Reconstruction and Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.1 Background; 3.2 Synthetic Reconstruction and Combinatorial Optimisation Methodologies
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.1 Synthetic Reconstruction3.2.2 Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.3 Innovations in Synthetic Reconstruction; 3.3.1 Modified Monte Carlo Sampling; 3.3.2 Statistical Justification of Reconstruction Order; 3.3.3 Modelled 100% Counts of 10% Data; 3.3.4 Improved Data Linkage; 3.3.5 Data Reconciliation; 3.4 Innovations in Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.4.1 Validated Random Number Generation; 3.4.2 Sequential Table Fitting; 3.4.3 Stratified Household Selection; 3.4.4 RSSZ*: A New Selection Criterion; 3.4.5 Stopping Rules; 3.5 Understanding Between-Area Variation; 3.5.1 Spatial Concentration
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5.2 Multicollinearity3.6 A Framework for Validating Small-Area Microdata; 3.6.1 Identification of Appropriate Measures of Fit; 3.6.2 Innovations in Types of Fit Measured; 3.7 The Impact on Combinatorial Optimisation of Selected Improvements; 3.7.1 Substitution of TAE with RSSZ *; 3.7.2 Stratified Household Selection; 3.8 Synthetic Reconstruction vs. Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.8.1 ED-Level Mean Fit; 3.8.2 ED-Level Fit of the Mean; 3.8.3 Ward-Level Fit; 3.8.4 Fit of Unconstrained Counts; 3.9 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 4: Estimating Small-Area Income Deprivation : An Iterative Proportional Fitting Approach4.1 Background; 4.2 Small-Area Income Estimation Methods; 4.3 The Iterative Proportion Fitting Approach; 4.3.1 Definition of Income; 4.3.2 Choice of Constraint Variables; 4.3.3 Small-Area IPF Algorithm Implementation; 4.4 Results; 4.5 Validation; 4.6 Conclusions and Future Directions; References; Chapter 5: SimObesity: Combinatorial Optimisation (Deterministic) Model; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Why Use Spatial Microsimulation Modelling to Model Disease Data?; 5.2.1 Why Use a Deterministic Model?
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3 SimObesity Methodology
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Background: Chapter 1: Introduction to spatial microsimulation - History, Methods and Applications: Robert Tanton and Kimberley Edwards -- Chapter 2: Building a static spatial microsimulation model: data preparation: Rebecca Cassells, Riyana Miranti and Ann Harding -- Part 2: Static spatial microsimulation models -- Chapter 3: An Evaluation of Two Synthetic Small-Area Microdata simulation methodologies: Synthetic Reconstruction and Combinatorial Optimisation methodologies: Paul Williamson -- Chapter 4: Estimating Small Area Income Deprivation: An Iterative Proportional Fitting Approach: Ben Anderson -- Chapter 5: SimObesity: Combinatorial Optimisation (deterministic) model: Kimberley Edwards and Graham Clarke -- Chapter 6: Spatial Microsimulation using a generalised regression model: Robert Tanton, Ann Harding and Justine McNamara -- Chapter 7: Creating a Spatial Microsimulation model of the Irish Local Economy: Niall Farrell, Karyn Morrissey and Cathal O’Donoghue -- Chapter 8: Linking static spatial microsimulation modelling to meso-scale models: The Relationship between Access to GP services & Long Term Illness: Karyn Morrissey, Graham Clarke and Cathal O’Donoghue -- Chapter 9: Projections using a static Spatial Microsimulation model: Yogi Vidyattama and Robert Tanton -- Chapter 10: Limits of static Spatial Microsimulation models: Robert Tanton and Kimberley Edwards -- Part 3: Dynamic spatial microsimulation models -- Chapter 11: Moses: A dynamic spatial microsimulation model for demographic planning: Belinda Wu and Mark Birkin -- Chapter 12: Design principles for micro models: Einar Holm and Kalle Mäkilä -- Chapter 13: SimEducation: a dynamic spatial microsimulation model for understanding educational inequalities: Dimitris Kavroudakis, Dimitris Ballas and Mark Birkin -- Chapter 14: Challenges for spatial dynamic microsimulation modelling: Mark Birkin -- Part 4: Validation of spatial microsimulation models and conclusion -- Chapter 15: Validation of spatial microsimulation models: Kimberley Edwards and Robert Tanton -- Chapter 16: Conclusions and the future of spatial microsimulation modelling: Graham Clarke and Ann Harding..
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    Demographic Change and Housing Wealth : Home-owners, Pensions and Asset-based Welfare in Europe (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400743847 , 1283612283 , 9781283612289
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 161 p. 21 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Grundeigentum ; Altersvorsorge ; Sparen ; Privater Haushalt ; Vergleich ; Ostasien ; Europa ; Social sciences ; Geography ; Population ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Geography ; Population ; Demography ; Home ownership ; Economic aspects ; European Union countries ; Home ownership ; Social aspects ; European Union countries ; Population aging ; Economic aspects ; European Union countries ; Population aging ; Social aspects ; European Union countries ; Pensions ; European Union countries ; Public welfare ; European Union countries ; Europäische Union ; Grundeigentum ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Soziale Situation ; Hauseigentümer
    Abstract: Across the EU, populations are shrinking and ageing. An increasing burden is being placed on a smaller working population to generate the taxes required for pensions and care costs. Welfare states are weakening in many countries and across Europe, households are being increasingly expected to plan for their retirement and future care needs within this risky environment. At the same time, the proportion of people buying their own home in most countries has risen, so that some two-thirds of European households now own their homes.  Housing equity now considerably exceeds total European GDP. This book discusses questions like: to what extent might home ownership provide a potential cure for some of the consequences of ageing populations by realizing housing equity in order to meet the consumption needs of older people? What does this mean for patterns of inheritance and longer-term inequalities across Europe? And to what extent are governments banking on their citizens utilising their housing wealth now and in the future?
    Description / Table of Contents: Demographic Change and Housing Wealth; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Issues and Approaches; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Demographic and Housing Developments: Policy Challenges; 1.2.1 Demographic Change; 1.2.2 An Increasing Number of Homeowners; 1.2.3 Housing Asset-Based Welfare; 1.2.3.1 Asset-Based Welfare; 1.2.3.2 Housing as Pension; 1.3 Saving Through Housing: A Theoretical Framework; 1.3.1 The Life Cycle Model; 1.3.2 The Welfare System; 1.3.3 The Family; 1.3.4 Other Mechanisms; 1.3.5 The Mixed Economy of Saving; 1.3.5.1 Financial Institutions; 1.3.6 The Role of Housing
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.3.6.1 Housing and the Life Cycle Model1.3.6.2 Income Derived from Homeownership; 1.3.7 Cross-Country Variations; 1.4 Methodologies for Researching the Three Questions; 1.4.1 Selection of Cases; 1.4.1.1 Economic and Financial Crisis; 1.5 Content and Structure of the Book; Chapter 2: Homeownership Rates; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Homeownership Across Countries and Time; 2.3 Homeownership Rates and Welfare: A Trade-Off?; 2.3.1 Homeownership and Social Spending; 2.3.2 Homeownership and Welfare Regimes; 2.4 The Drivers of the Homeownership Decision; 2.4.1 Housing Finance
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4.1.1 Funding of Mortgage Loans2.4.1.2 The Innovation in Loan Products; 2.4.2 The Relative Attractions of Home Owning and Renting; 2.4.2.1 Tax Policy and Other Subsidies for Homeownership; 2.4.2.2 Declining Support for Social Housing; 2.4.2.3 Increase of Homeownership; 2.4.2.4 Changes in Rental Housing Sectors; 2.4.2.5 Household Decision Making; 2.4.3 Household Characteristics; 2.4.3.1 Income; 2.4.3.2 Age; 2.4.4 Combining the Factors; 2.5 Conclusions; Chapter 3: Housing Wealth in the Household Portfolio; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Household Wealth; 3.2.1 How Much Wealth Do Households Have?
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.2 How Much Wealth Is Held in Housing?3.2.3 What Influences the Size and Composition of Wealth?; 3.2.3.1 Quantitative Studies; 3.2.3.2 Qualitative studies; 3.2.3.3 Portfolio Analysis; 3.2.3.4 Regression Analysis; 3.3 Housing Debt; 3.3.1 What Influences the Size of Household Debt?; 3.3.1.1 Quantitative Studies; 3.3.1.2 Qualitative Studies; Why Do People Have a Mortgage?; Priority Placed on Paying Off Mortgage Compared to Other Priorities; 3.3.1.3 Explaining the Level of New Mortgage Debt; 3.4 Conclusions; Chapter 4: Housing Asset Strategies for Old Age; 4.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2 Perceptions of the Adequacy of Pensions4.2.1 Variations in Pension Systems; 4.2.2 Concerns About Pension Adequacy; 4.3 Using Housing Equity in Old Age: Strategies in Principle; 4.4 Using Housing Equity in Old Age: Strategies in Practice; 4.4.1 Using Non-housing Assets; 4.4.2 Using Housing Equity; 4.4.3 Dissaving Housing Assets by Moving; 4.4.4 Dissaving Housing Assets but Not Moving; 4.4.4.1 Reverse Mortgages; 4.4.4.2 Interest-Only Loans; 4.4.4.3 Reverse Mortgage Strategies; 4.4.5 Not Dissaving; 4.4.5.1 Housing Equity as a Precaution; 4.4.5.2 Housing Equity as a Bequest
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4.6 Changing Attitudes
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    Intelligent Data Mining in Law Enforcement Analytics : New Neural Networks Applied to Real Problems (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400749146
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 516 p. 185 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Artificial intelligence ; Social sciences Methodology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Artificial intelligence ; Social sciences Methodology
    Abstract: This book provides a thorough summary of the means currently available to the investigators of Artificial Intelligence for making criminal behavior (both individual and collective) foreseeable, and for assisting their investigative capacities. The volume provides chapters on the introduction of artificial intelligence and machine learning suitable for an upper level undergraduate with exposure to mathematics and some programming skill or a graduate course. It also brings the latest research in Artificial Intelligence to life with its chapters on fascinating applications in the area of law enforcement, though much is also being accomplished in the fields of medicine and bioengineering. Individuals with a background in Artificial Intelligence will find the opening chapters to be an excellent refresher but the greatest excitement will likely be the law enforcement examples, for little has been done in that area. The editors have chosen to shine a bright light on law enforcement analytics utilizing artificial neural network technology to encourage other researchers to become involved in this very important and timely field of study.
    Description / Table of Contents: Dedication -- Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction to Artificial Networks and Law Enforcement Analytics; William J. Tastle -- Chapter 2. Law Enforcement and Artificial Intelligence; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 3. The General Philosophy of Artificial Adaptive Systems; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 4. A Brief Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms and the Genetic Doping Algorithm; M. Buscema, M. Capriotti -- Chapter 5. Artificial Adaptive Systems in Data Visualization: Pro-Active data; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 6. The Metropolitan Police Service Central Drug Trafficking Database: Evidence of Need; Geoffrey Monaghan and Stefano Terzi -- Chapter 7. Supervised Artificial neural Networks: Back Propagation Neural Networks; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 8. Pre-Processing Tools for Non-Linear Data Sets; Massimo Buscema, Alessandra Mancini and Marco Breda -- Chapter 9. Metaclassifiers; Massimo Buscema, Stefano Terzi -- Chapter 10. Auto Identification of a Drug Seller Utilizing a Specialized Supervised Neural Network; Massimo Buscema and Marco Intraligi -- Chapter 11. Visualization and Clustering of Self-Organizing Maps; Giulia Massini -- Chapter 12. Self-Organizing Maps: Identifying Non-Linear Relationships in Massive Drug Enforcement Databases; Guila Massini -- Chapter 13. Theory of Constraint Satisfaction Neural Networks; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 14. Application of the Constraint Satisfaction Network; Marco Intraligi and Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 15. Auto-Contractive Maps, h Function and the Maximally regular Graph: A new methodology for data mining; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 16. Analysis of a Complex Dataset Using the Combined MST and Auto Contractive Map; Giovanni Pieri -- Chapter 17. Auto Contractive Mapsand Minimal Spanning tree: Organization of Complex datasets on criminal behavior to aid in the deduction of network connectivity; Giula Massini and Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 18. Data Mining Using Non-linear Auto Associative Artificial Neural Networks: The Arrestee Dataset; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 19. Artificial Adaptive System for Parallel Querying of Multiple Databases; Massimo Buscema.-.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4914-6
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    Governability of Fisheries and Aquaculture : Theory and Applications (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400761070
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 382 p. 29 illus., 4 illus. in color, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Wildlife management ; Marine Sciences ; Humanities ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Wildlife management ; Marine Sciences ; Humanities ; Fischerei ; Governance
    Abstract: Following in the footsteps of the book Fish for Life - Interactive Governance for Fisheries (Kooiman et al., 2005), and the interdisciplinary approach it presents, this volume illustrates the contribution of interactive governance theory to understanding core fisheries and aquaculture challenges. These challenges are invariably linked to broader concerns such as ecosystem health, social justice, sustainable livelihoods and food security. The central concept in this perspective is governability - the varied capacity to govern fisheries and aquaculture systems sustainably. Many of these systems are characterized by problems that are inherently 'wicked' and therefore difficult to address. The authors of this edited volume argue that responses to such problems must consider context; specifically the character of the fisheries and aquaculture systems themselves, their institutional conditions, and the internal and external interactions that affect them. Drawing on a diverse set of international experiences, the volume offers a new lens and systematic approach to analysing the nature of governance problems and opportunities in fisheries and aquaculture, exploring pressing challenges and identifying potential solutions. ”It now seems clear that the crisis in the world’s fisheries [is] a much larger and more complex problem than many had imagined. Yet, examining it through the lens of governability may offer the best hope for alleviating it--as well as alleviating similar crises in other social systems.” James R. McGoodwin (Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado)
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6107-0
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    Regional Mortality Differences in Germany (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400744325
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 300 p. 76 illus) , digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Demographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
    Parallel Title: Print version Regional Mortality Differences in Germany
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Demography ; Human Geography ; Deutschland ; Sterbeziffer ; Regionale Disparität
    Abstract: Regional mortality differences are one dimension of health inequalities, but its trends and determinants in Germany are widely unknown. This book examines and illustrates patterns of regional mortality in Germany-with focus on small-area differentials-and their changes over time. It identifies explanatory factors at individual and regional level. Mortality differences between eastern and western Germany exist, but small-area mortality differentials are often greater. Though the main spatial mortality patterns remain, this study provides evidence that some distinct changes in the small-area mortality patterns in Germany-especially among women-occurred within a short period of time. Mortality inequalities at younger ages and in behavior-related causes as well as differences in socioeconomic conditions contribute strongly to regional mortality differences in Germany. The book shows that the complex interplay between individual- and regional-level mortality risk factors requires a multidimensional approach to reduce regional mortality inequalities.
    Description / Table of Contents: 〈p〉Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Literature Review and Research Questions -- 3: Mortality Differentials across Germany's Federal States -- 4: Mortality Differentials across Germany's Districts -- 5: Determinants of Old-age Mortality and its Regional Variation.-6:  Conclusion -- A: Mortality Differentials across Germany's Federal States -- B: Mortality Differentials across Germany's Districts -- C: Determinants of Old-age Mortality -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography.〈/p〉.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4432-5
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    The Melanin Millennium : Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400746084 , 1283633876 , 9781283633871
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 348 p. 32 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Philosophy (General) ; Applied psychology ; Law Psychological aspects ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Philosophy (General) ; Applied psychology ; Law Psychological aspects ; Hautfarbe ; Bleichen ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassendiskriminierung
    Abstract: In the aftermath of the 60s "Black is Beautiful movement and publication of The Color Complex almost thirty years later the issue of skin color has mushroomed onto the world stage of social science. Such visibility has inspired publication of the Melanin Millennium for insuring that the discourse on skin color meet the highest standards of accuracy and objective investigation. This volume addresses the issue of skin color in a worldwide context. A virtual visit to countries that have witnessed a huge rise in the use of skin whitening products and facial feature surgeries aiming for a more Caucasian-like appearance will be taken into account. The book also addresses the question of whether using the laws has helped to redress injustices of skin color discrimination, or only further promoted recognition of its divisiveness among people of color and Whites. The Melanin Millennium has to do with now and the future. In the 20th century science including eugenics was given to and dominated by discussions of race category. Heretofore there remain social scientists and other relative to the issue of skin color loyal to race discourse. However in their interpretation and analysis of social phenomena the world has moved on. Thus while race dominated the 20th century the 21st century will emerge as a global community dominated by skin color and making it the melanin millennium.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Melanin Millennium; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: The Bleaching Syndrome: Western Civilization vis-à-vis Inferiorized People of Color; References; Chapter 2: The Historical and Cultural Influences of Skin Bleaching in Tanzania; Historical and Cultural Influences: Institutions That Placed Tanzanians in a Color-Conscious Society; Enslaved by the Arabs; Controlled by the British, Colonized by the Germans; The Cycle Continues: Postcolonization; Westernization and Neocolonialism
    Description / Table of Contents: How Color-Conscious Societies Fuel Potent Skin-Color Ideals That Result in Efforts to Assimilate into Dominant GroupsIntrapsychic Conflict and Motivation to Assimilate; The Psychological Consequences of Living in Color-Conscious Societies; Inferiority and Low Self-Esteem; Identity Development; Where to Go from Here; Research Implications; Policy and Practice Implications; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Pathophysiology and Psychopathology of Skin Bleaching and Implications of Skin Colour in Africa; Introduction; Skin Colour: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Physiology
    Description / Table of Contents: Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)What Are the Causes of Somatoform Disorders?; The Light Skin Fad; Pathophysiology of Skin Bleaching; Mechanisms of Skin Bleaching; Trigger Factors: Psychosocial Disturbances; Exposure to Bleaching Agents; Alteration of the Skin Biochemical and Anatomical Composition; In Contemporary Africa; References; Chapter 4: An Introduction to Japanese Society's Attitudes Toward Race and Skin Color; Introduction; Historical Japanese Treatments of Foreigners, Based Upon Skin Color; Roots of the Coloring of the World: Fukuzawa Yukichi's Theories of "Civilization"
    Description / Table of Contents: The Otaru Onsens Case and Japan's Judicial Valuation of Skin ColorContemporary Japanese Media Expressions of Valuation of Skin Color; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Mapping Color and Caste Discrimination in Indian Society; Foregrounding Racism in India; Revisiting the Mythical "Aryan Supremacy"; What Scriptures Say; Aryans, Varna, and Jāti; Revisiting the Aryan Supremacy; Questioning the Aryan Supremacy Myth: Non-Brahmanical Contestations; Notion of Beauty and Contemporary Forms of Preserving White Superiority; Notions of Femininity and Beauty in India; Whitening Cream Culture; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 6: Indigeneity on Guahan: Skin Color as a Measure of Decolonization; Introduction; Traditional Concepts of Skin Color; The Impact of Colonization and Western Values; Indigeneity and Decolonization; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: A Tale of Two Cultures; References; Chapter 8: Where Are You From?; Introduction: The "Where Are You From?" Question; How to Answer the "Where Are You From?" Question; The Founding Migration; The Founding Origin; Melanin: An Insuperable Sign of Otherness?; Promise and Delusion of a Project?; Assimilation and Integration
    Description / Table of Contents: Ethnic Statistics in France: Wishes and Fears
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4608-4
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    Sustainable livelihood approach : a critique of theory and practice (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781299702011 , 9789400762688
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 190 S. 36) , Ill.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development ; Human Geography
    Abstract: We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some practical answers, explaining the precepts of the ‘sustainable livelihood approach’ (SLA) through the case study of a microfinance scheme in Africa. The case study, centered around the work of the Catholic Church’s Diocesan Development Services organization, involved an SLA implemented over two years designed in part to help enhance its existing microfinance operation through closer links between local communities and international donors. The book’s central conclusion is that we must move beyond the concept of sustainable livelihood itself, with its in-built polarities between developed and developing nations, and embrace a more global notion of ‘sustainable lifestyle’; a more nuanced and inclusive approach that encompasses not just how we make a sustainable living, but how we can live sustainable lives
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Livelihood Approach; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Sustainability and Sustainable Livelihoods; 1.1 The Future of Sustainability; 1.2 The Multiverse of Sustainability; 1.3 Practicing Sustainability; 1.4 Structure of the Book; 2 The Theory Behind the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The SLA Framework; 2.3 Definitions of SLA; 2.4 Origins of SLA; 2.5 Capital in SLA; 2.6 Vulnerability and Institutional Context; 2.7 Representation Within SLA; 2.8 The Attractions and Popularity of SLA; 2.9 Critiques of SLA
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.10 SLA for Evidence-Based Intervention2.11 Conclusion; 3 Context of the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Governing an African Giant; 3.3 Economic Development in Nigeria; 3.4 A Kingdom Discovered; 3.5 Igala Livelihoods; An Overview; 3.6 The Diocesan Development Services in Igalaland; 3.7 New Pastures; 3.8 Choice of Villages for the SLA; 3.9 Conclusions; 4 The Sustainable Livelihood Approach in Practice; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Sample Households; 4.3 Human Capital: The Households; 4.3.1 Household M1 (Headed by the Village Chief)
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.2 Household M2 (Headed by a Senior Igbo)4.3.3 Household M3(Igbo Community Leader); 4.3.4 Household M4 (farmer and business man); 4.3.5 Household E1 (Farmer and Vigilante); 4.3.6 Household E2(Madaki of Edeke); 4.3.7 Household E3 (Farmer and Fisherman); 4.3.8 Household E4 (Madaki in Edeke); 4.4 Natural Capital: Land and Farming; 4.5 Natural Capital: Trees; 4.6 Social Capital: Networks; 4.7 Physical Capital: Assets for Income Generation; 4.8 Financial Capital: Household Budgets; 4.9 Vulnerability and Institutional Contexts; 4.10 Did SLA Succeed?; 4.11 Conclusions; 5 Livelihood into Lifestyle
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1 Introduction5.2 How SLA?; 5.3 Where SLA?; 5.4 Transferability of SLA; 5.5 Livelihood into Lifestyle; 5.6 Conclusions; References; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6268-8
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    Democratic Culture and Moral Character : A Study in Culture and Personality (2013)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Humanities ; Anthropology ; Consciousness ; Social Sciences ; Politische Psychologie ; Kritische Theorie
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    Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics : Capacities and Capabilities (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400755642 , 1283909006 , 9781283909006
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 109 p, online resource)
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    Keywords: Epistemology ; Economics ; Ethics ; Economic history ; Social sciences ; Genetic epistemology ; Economics ; Ethics ; Economics Methodology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Praktische Vernunft ; Theoretische Vernunft ; Wirtschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: Table of contents -- Summary -- Preface -- Chapter I: Introduction -- Chapter II: Nancy Cartwright, Capacities and Nomological Machines: The Role of Theoretical Reason in Science -- Chapter III: Sen’s Capability Approach: The Role of Practical Reason in Social Science -- Chapter IV: The Contributions of Aristotle’s Thought to the Capability Approach -- Chapter V: Socio-Economic Machines and Practical Models of Development: The Role of the Human Development Index -- Chapter VI: Conclusion: Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics
    Abstract: The aim of the book is to argue for the restoration of theoretical and practical reason to economics. It presents Nancy Cartwright and Amartya Sen’s ideas as cases of this restoration and sees Aristotle as an influence on their thought. It looks at how we can use these ideas to develop a valuable understanding of practical reason for solving concrete problems in science and society. Cartwright’s capacities are real causes of events. Sen’s capabilities are the human person’s freedoms or possibilities. They relate these concepts to Aristotelian concepts. This suggests that these concepts can be combined. Sen’s capabilities are Cartwright’s capacities in the human realm; capabilities are real causes of events in economic life. Institutions allow us to deliberate on and guide our decisions about capabilities, through the use of practical reason. Institutions thus embody practical reason and infuse certain predictability into economic action. The book presents a case study: the UNDP’s HDI
    Description / Table of Contents: Theoreticaland PracticalReason in Economics; Preface; Contents; Summary; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Nancy Cartwright, Capacities and Nomological Machines: The Role of Theoretical Reason in Science; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Cartwright-Aristotle Connection; 2.2.1 The Connection; 2.2.2 The Ontology of Capacities; 2.2.3 The Epistemology of Capacities; 2.3 Cartwright's Skepticism About Capacities in the Social Realm; 2.3.1 Cartwright's Skepticism; 2.3.2 Julian Reiss's Interpretation and Proposal; 2.4 Socio-Economic Machines; 2.5 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 Sen's Capability Approach: The Role of Practical Reason in Social Science3.1 Introducing the Capability Approach; 3.2 Some Problems in Sen's CA; 3.2.1 Identification of Valuable Capabilities: The Debate Over Lists of Capabilities; 3.2.2 Heterogeneity and Incommensurability; References; 4 The Contributions of Aristotle's Thought to the Capability Approach; 4.1 Aristotle on Lists; 4.1.1 The Supposedly Aristotelian List; 4.1.2 The True Aristotelian List; 4.1.3 Back to Sen; 4.2 "Practical Comparability" as a Way of Overcoming Incommensurability14; 4.2.1 The Aristotelian Conception
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.1.1 Commensuration4.2.1.2 Comparison by Intensity or Degree of Quality; 4.2.1.3 Comparison by Priority; 4.2.2 Back to Sen; 4.3 Some Conclusions Regarding the Aristotelian Contribution to the CA; 4.4 Capabilities and Capacities; 4.5 Conclusion; References; 5 Chapter Socio: -Economic Machines and Practical Models of Development: The Role of the HDI; 5.1 Socio-Economic Machines; 5.2 The HDI4; 5.3 Some Problems with Index Numbers and the HDI; 5.4 Theoretical and Practical Reason in the HDI
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.5 Conclusion: The Role of the HDI for the Construction of a Normative Socio-Economic Machine of Human DevelopmentReferences; 6 Conclusion: Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics; Reference
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5564-2
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    The Demography of Health and Healthcare : Third Edition (2013)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 300 p. 92 illus, digital)
    Edition: 3rd ed. 2013
    Series Statement: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis 13
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Pol, Louis G. The demography of health and healthcare
    Keywords: Demographie ; Gesundheitswesen ; USA ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Population ; Demography ; Social Sciences
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    Religion and Place : Landscape, Politics and Piety (2013)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Religion and place
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Religion (General) ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Religion ; Ort ; Politik
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4685-5
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    The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400762749
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 269 p. 14 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 20
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Farm economics ; Social sciences ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Farm economics ; Social sciences
    Abstract: This edited volume presents ethical and economic analyses of agrifood competition. By systematically examining fairness and openness in agricultural markets, it seeks to answer the question of whether there is adequate competition in the agrifood industry and whether the system is fair to all participants. It outlines ethical and economic principles important for understanding agrifood competition, presents arguments for and against consolidation, globalization and the integration of agrifood industries, and looks at the implications of globalization on the nature of competition in specific agricultural contexts
    Abstract: This edited volume presents ethical and economic analyses of agrifood competition. By systematically examining fairness and openness in agricultural markets, it seeks to answer the question of whether there is adequate competition in the agrifood industry and whether the system is fair to all participants. It outlines ethical and economic principles important for understanding agrifood competition, presents arguments for and against consolidation, globalization and the integration of agrifood industries, and looks at the implications of globalization on the nature of competition in specific agricultural contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction to the Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition: Connotations, Complications and Commentary; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Meaning of Adequacy; 1.3 The Meaning of Fairness; 1.4 Analyses of Agrifood Competition; 1.5 The Lesson; References; Part I Conceptualizing Agrifood Competition; Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Fairness in the Context of Competition: Philosophical Sources; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Fair Treatment and Fair Play; 2.3 Fairness and the Social Contract
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 Fairness and Efficient Competition2.5 Fairness and Outcomes; 2.6 Fairness and Rules; 2.7 Assessing Fair Competition; 2.8 Fair Agrifood Competition; References; Chapter 3: Are Ethics and Efficiency Locked in Antithesis?; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 What Is Ethics?; 3.3 What Is Efficiency?; 3.4 The Relation Between Ethics and Efficiency; 3.4.1 Ethical Duties as a Constraint on Production; 3.4.2 Ethical Consumption and Ethical Production; 3.4.3 Institutionalizing Ethical Considerations in the Sector; 3.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: The Fallacy of "Competition" in Agriculture
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.1 Introduction4.2 The True Central Question of Competition: What Is It?; 4.2.1 The Nature of Competition; 4.2.2 `Free and Fair' Competition; 4.2.2.1 Free Competition; 4.2.2.2 Fair Competition; 4.3 The Problem of Perfect Competition; 4.4 Competition in Agriculture; 4.4.1 The Demise of Competition in Agriculture?; 4.4.2 The Shortcoming of Government Intervention; 4.4.3 Competition in Agriculture Today; 4.4.4 So Whence Concerns About Competition in Agriculture Today?; 4.4.5 What Does This Tell Us About Competition in Agriculture?; 4.4.6 Ethics and the Fallacy of Competition; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Efficiency, Power and Freedom5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Overview; 5.3 Aggregate Economic Efficiency; 5.3.1 The Free Market; 5.4 Morals of Monopoly and Competition; 5.5 Antitrust and Competition Policy; 5.5.1 Collusion in Fixing the Rules of the Marketplace; 5.5.2 Knightian Welfare Economics; 5.5.3 Economic Freedom for Farmers and Ranchers; 5.5.4 Serfdom; 5.5.5 Economic Freedom for Consumers; 5.5.6 Innovation and Democracy; 5.6 Concluding Remarks: Back to the Agrifood System; References; Chapter 6: Networks, Power and Dependency in the Agrifood Industry; 6.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2 Previous Research on Agrifood Industry Structure6.3 Networks, Dependency and Power; 6.4 Differential Dependencies in Stylized Agrifood Networks; 6.4.1 Broilers; 6.4.2 Beef; 6.4.3 Corn and Soybeans; 6.5 Ethics of Dependency; 6.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: Reaping and Sowing for a Sustainable Future: The Import of Roman Catholic Social Teaching for Agrifood Competition; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Roman Catholic Social Teaching; 7.3 Agrifood Competition in Roman Catholic Social Teaching; 7.3.1 Rerum Novarum (1891); 7.3.2 Quadragesimo Anno (1931); 7.3.3 Excursus: César Chávez
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.3.4 Mater et Magistra (1961)
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    Transactional Perspectives on Occupation (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400744295 , 1283532646 , 9781283532648
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 266 p. 1 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Occupational Therapy ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Occupational Therapy ; Transactional Analysis ; Occupational Therapy methods ; Occupations ; Philosophy ; Beschäftigungstherapie
    Abstract: An occupation is, most simply put, any activity we participate in that engages (occupies) our attention, interests, and/or expectations, at any point throughout the life course. This book offers an emerging and innovative perspective on occupation, based in the work of American philosopher John Dewey and other pragmatists, that challenges accepted ideas. Each chapter presents a lively and multifaceted dialogue on transactional perspectives on occupation. Scholars from Europe, North America, and Australasia have written a diverse set of arguments and case studies about occupation, covering theoretical, methodological and applied issues relevant to the topic. In addition, contributors make connections with significant authors from various disciplines that make clearer the roles of occupation and occupational science across many cultures and contexts. The transactional perspectives articulated in this book both implicitly and explicitly suggest that occupations are forms of activity that create and re-create a multitude of our relationships with the world. Often taken for granted by some academic disciplines, occupation is a core element of human life. This book is a provocative and critical analysis of the focal concept for occupational therapy and science.
    Description / Table of Contents: Transactional Perspectives on Occupation; Contents; Chapter 1: Transactional Perspectives on Occupation: An Introduction and Rationale; 1.1 Introduction and Invitation; 1.2 Development of Transactional Perspectives on Occupation; 1.3 A Pluralistic Approach; 1.4 Structure and Content of the Book; 1.5 Our Hopes; References; Part I: Theoretical Extensions; Chapter 2: Dewey's Concepts of Embodiment, Growth, and Occupation: Extended Bases for a Transactional Perspective; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Embodiment; 2.2.1 Live Creatures; 2.2.2 Embodying the Social; 2.3 Growth; 2.4 Occupation
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4.1 Dewey on Occupation2.4.2 Occupation, Embodiment, and Growth; 2.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Being Occupied in the Everyday; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Habitual; 3.3 The Relational; 3.3.1 Continuity of Time: Past-Present-Future; 3.3.2 Continuity of Relating: Being-with-Others; 3.4 The Precarious; 3.5 Occupational Practice as Listening; 3.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Resituating the Meaning of Occupation: A Transactional Perspective; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Meaning Explored; 4.2.1 Social Science Perspectives on Meaning; 4.2.2 Occupational Perspectives on Meaning
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.3 Philosophical Perspectives on Meaning: Heidegger and Dewey4.3 Perspectives on Meaning Uncovered by Research; 4.4 Implications for Occupational Therapy and Science; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Conceptual Insights for Expanding Thinking Regarding the Situated Nature of Occupation; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Governmentality Studies: Shaping Occupational Possibilities; 5.2.1 Discourses; 5.2.2 Differential Shaping of Occupational Possibilities; 5.3 Bourdieu's Theory of Practice: Voicing the Unspoken; 5.3.1 Makane: A Case in Point; 5.4 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Exploring the Transactional Quality of Everyday Occupations Through Narrative-in-Action: Meaning-Making Among Women Living with Chronic Conditions6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Everyday Occupations as Transactions Within Local Cultures; 6.3 "Narrative-in-Action": Meaning Making Endeavors; 6.4 Everyday Transactions, Meaning Making in Everyday Occupations; 6.5 Everyday Transactions in Local Cultures; 6.6 Everyday Occupational Transactions Enacted and Embedded in Local Culture; References; Part II: Case Studies; Chapter 7: Navigating Cultural Spaces: A Transactional Perspective on Immigration
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.1 Introduction7.2 Current Perspectives on Immigration and Settlement; 7.3 A Transactional Perspective on Immigration and Settlement; 7.3.1 Navigating Cultural Spaces: A Case Study; 7.4 Implications for Science and Society; 7.4.1 Occupational Science Research; 7.4.2 Societal Practice; 7.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: The Situated Nature of Disability; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Conceptualizing Disability: An Overview of Recent Controversies; 8.2.1 The International Classi fi cation of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.3 Research Projects: Support for the Transactional Perspective on Disability
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    Handbook of Neurosociology (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400744738
    ISSN: 1389-6903
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 406 p. 32 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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    Parallel Title: Druck-Ausg. Franks, David D., 1931 - Handbook of neurosociology
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Neurology ; Psychology, clinical ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Neurology ; Psychology, clinical ; Neurosciences ; Social aspects ; Neurowissenschaften ; Soziologie ; Neurobiologie ; Neurologie ; Soziologie
    Abstract: Until recently, a handbook on neurosociology would have been viewed with skepticism by sociologists, who have long been protective of their disciplinary domain against perceived encroachment by biology. But a number of developments in the last decade or so have made sociologists more receptive to biological factors in sociology and social psychology. Much of this has been encouraged by the coeditors of this volume, David Franks and Jonathan Turner. This new interest has been increased by the explosion of research in neuroscience on brain functioning and brain-environment interaction (via new MRI technologies), with implications for social and psychological functioning. This handbook emphasizes the integration of perspectives within sociology as well as between fields in social neuroscience. For example, Franks represents a social constructionist position following from G.H. Meads voluntaristic theory of the act while Turner is more social structural and positivistic. Furthermore, this handbook not only contains contributions from sociologists, but leading figures from the psychological perspective of social neuroscience.
    Description / Table of Contents: Handbook of Neurosociology; Preface; References; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Summaries and Comments; David Franks: A Short History; Brain Activity Measures and Limitations; Jonathan H. Turner: Coming on Board as an Editor; What Does Neurosociology Have to Offer?; References; Part I: Large Issues; Chapter 2: Neural Social Science; Reason Is Neural; Back to the Future; How Brain Circuits Become Meaningful; Reason and Social Science; Reason Itself: Enlightenment Fallacies; The Enlightenment Fallacies; The First Fallacy: Reason Is Conscious
    Description / Table of Contents: The Second Fallacy: One Can Reason Directly About the WorldThe Third Fallacy: Thought Is Disembodied; The Fourth Fallacy: Words Are Defined Directly in Terms of Features of the External World; The Fifth Fallacy: Reason Is Unemotional; The Sixth Fallacy: Reason Is Literal and Logical; The Seventh Fallacy: Categories Are Defined by Necessary and Sufficient Conditions; The Eighth Fallacy: Reason Exists Primarily to Serve Self-interest; The Ninth Fallacy: Conceptual Systems Are Monolithic; The Tenth Fallacy: Words Have Fixed Meanings, and Concepts Have Fixed Logics
    Description / Table of Contents: The Eleventh Fallacy: The Truth Will Set You Free If Enough People Know the Truth About Social Issues, They Will Change Their Attitudes, to Society's Bene fi t; Some Brain Basics; Color; Perception and Action; That's Why There Are Basic-Level Concepts; That's Why Verb Roots Are the Same for First- and Third-Person Experiences; Imagining and Doing Use the Same Brain Circuitry; Neural Computation and Simulation; The Centrality of Metaphor in Social Life; Neural Metaphor; The Narayanan-Johnson-Grady Neural Theory of Metaphor; How Are Neural Circuits Learned?
    Description / Table of Contents: The Feldman Functional Circuitry HypothesisPrimary Metaphors; Narayanan on Spike-Time-Dependent Plasticity; Neuromodulators and "Rewards"; Integrating Multiple Neural Systems; Embodiment Evidence in Social Psychology; Real Social and Political Life; The Conservative Advantage; What Can Progressives and Democrats Do?; Systems Thinking; The Point; CODA; Solving a Social Science Puzzle; References; Chapter 3: Why We Need Neurosociology as Well as Social Neuroscience: Or-Why Role-Taking and Theory of Mind Are Different Concepts; History of the Terms Neurosociology and Social Neuroscience
    Description / Table of Contents: Distinguishing Between the Two Fields Using Role-Taking and ToMSome Ways Role-Taking and Power Can be Explored Experimentally; What Social Neuroscience Can Offer Sociological Research on Role-Taking and Power; Empirically Testing the Role-Taking and Power Hypothesis; Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: Social Cognition and the Problem of Other Minds; Where in the World Are Minds?; The Psychology of Individual Minds; Social Psychology and Social Cognition; What Do Minds Learn to Mind?; Brains and Minds Grow Together; Socialized Brains Remain Social Minds; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Genetic, Hormonal, and Neural Underpinnings of Human Aggressive Behavior
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    The Quality of Life in Asia : A Comparison of Quality of Life in Asia (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789048190720 , 1283633604 , 9781283633604
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 247 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Quality of Life in Asia 1
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Inoguchi, Takashi, 1944 - The quality of life in Asia
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    Keywords: Lebensqualität ; Zufriedenheit ; Lebensstil ; Vergleich ; Asien ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Regional economics ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Regional economics ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Quality of life ; United States ; History ; 21st century ; Asien ; Lebensqualität ; Asien ; Lebensqualität
    Abstract: This book studies and compares quality of life in 29 countries/societies in Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Korea(South), Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. We utilize the AsiaBarometer Surveys conducted annually from 2003 through 2008. We focus on the notion of subjective quality of life and conceptualize it as two levels, global and domain. After we explain about the AsiaBarometer Survey Project, we explore current country profile, demographics, lifestyles, value priorities, specific life domain assessment and overall quality of life. We then estimate the independent effects of demographics, lifestyles, value priorities, life domain assessment on the overall quality of life within each society. As well as comparing the results between nations, we look for key generalized characteristics of life quality for the entire and sub-regions of Asia.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Quality of Life in Asia; Synoptic Outline; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Asia: Enormous Diversity; 1.2 Asia: Why Is Quality of Life in Asia Important to Examine?; 1.3 The Notion of Quality of Life and Research Design; 1.4 Organization; References; Chapter 2: The AsiaBarometer Survey Project; 2.1 Its Aim and Trust; 2.1.1 Introduction; 2.1.2 Rationale and Promises of the AsiaBarometer; 2.1.2.1 Knowledge Begets Prosperity; 2.1.2.2 Knowledge Engenders Stability; 2.1.2.3 Contribution to Scholarship; 2.1.3 Principles of Questionnaire Formulation
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1.3.1 Minimum Unobtrusiveness2.1.3.2 Minimum Oddness; 2.1.3.3 Most Similar and Most Dissimilar Systems Comparisons; 2.1.4 Four Distinctive Clusters of Questions; 2.1.4.1 Daily Lives of Ordinary People; 2.1.4.2 Perceptions and Assessments of Their Lives; 2.1.4.3 From Relationships of Their Lives to Larger Social Entities; 2.1.4.4 Norms, Beliefs, Value Preferences, and Actions; 2.1.5 Harvesting the AsiaBarometer Survey; 2.1.6 Gauging Developmental, Democratic, and Regionalizing Potentials; 2.2 Methodology; 2.2.1 Countries/Societies; 2.2.2 Sampling Methods of the AsiaBarometer Survey
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 3: Overall Quality of Life in Asia; 3.1 Levels of Happiness; 3.2 Levels of Enjoyment; 3.3 Levels of Achievement; Reference; Chapter 4: Satisfaction Levels with Specific Life Domains; 4.1 Materialist Life Sphere; 4.1.1 Housing; 4.1.2 Standard of Living; 4.1.3 Household Income; 4.1.4 Health; 4.1.5 Education; 4.1.6 Job; 4.2 Post-materialist Life Sphere; 4.2.1 Friendships; 4.2.2 Marriage; 4.2.3 Neighbors; 4.2.4 Family Life; 4.2.5 Leisure; 4.2.6 Spiritual Life; 4.3 Public Sphere of Life; 4.3.1 Public Safety; 4.3.2 The Condition of the Environment; 4.3.3 Social Welfare System
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.4 The Democratic System4.4 Patterns of Life Domain Satisfactions by Society; 4.5 Distinguishing Life Sphere of Domain Satisfactions in Each Country and Society; 4.5.1 East Asia; 4.5.1.1 China; 4.5.1.2 Hong Kong; 4.5.1.3 Japan; 4.5.1.4 South Korea; 4.5.1.5 Taiwan; 4.5.2 Southeast Asia; 4.5.2.1 Brunei; 4.5.2.2 Cambodia; 4.5.2.3 Indonesia; 4.5.2.4 Laos; 4.5.2.5 Malaysia; 4.5.2.6 Myanmar; 4.5.2.7 The Philippines; 4.5.2.8 Singapore; 4.5.2.9 Thailand; 4.5.2.10 Vietnam; 4.5.3 South Asia; 4.5.3.1 Bangladesh; 4.5.3.2 Bhutan; 4.5.3.3 India; 4.5.3.4 The Maldives; 4.5.3.5 Nepal; 4.5.3.6 Pakistan
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.5.3.7 Sri Lanka4.5.4 Central Asia; 4.5.4.1 Afghanistan; 4.5.4.2 Kazakhstan; 4.5.4.3 Kyrgyzstan; 4.5.4.4 Mongolia; 4.5.4.5 Tajikistan; 4.5.4.6 Uzbekistan; 4.5.5 Types of Countries (Societies) Based on Factor Analyses; References; Chapter 5: Lifestyles; 5.1 Modern Life; 5.2 Digital Life; 5.3 Religious Life; 5.4 Global Life; 5.5 Political Life; 5.6 Family Life; 5.7 Self-Assessments of Relative Standard of Living; References; Chapter 6: Value Priorities; Chapter 7: Determinants of Overall Quality of Life; 7.1 Dependent Variables; 7.1.1 Happiness; 7.1.2 Enjoyment; 7.1.3 Achievement
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.2 Independent Variables
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    Paradoxes of Integration: Female Migrants in Europe (2013)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 201 p, digital)
    Series Statement: International Perspectives on Migration 4
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Paradoxes of integration: female migrants in Europe
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Migration ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Migration ; Developmental psychology ; Women immigrants ; Employment ; European Union countries ; Women immigrants ; European Union countries ; Women immigrants ; European Union countries ; Social conditions ; Online-Publikation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Einwanderin ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Soziale Situation ; Soziale Integration
    Abstract: This timely and innovative book analyses the lives of new female migrants in the EU with a focus on the labour market, domestic work, care work and prostitution in particular. It provides a comparative analysis embracing eleven European countries from Northern (UK, Germany, Sweden, France), Southern (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus) and Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovenia), i.e. old and new immigration countries as well as old and new market economies. It maps labour market trends, welfare policies, migration laws, patterns of employment, and the working and social conditions of female migrants in different sectors of the labour market, formal and informal. It is particularly concerned with the strategies women use to counter the disadvantages they face. It analyses the ways in which gender hierarchies are intertwined with other social relations of power, providing a gendered and intersectional perspective, drawing on the biographies of migrant women. The book highlights policy relevant issues and tries to uncover some of the contradictory assumptions relating to integration which it treats as a highly normative and problematic concept. It reframes integration in terms of greater equalisation and democratisation (entailed in the parameters of access, participation and belonging), pointing to its transnational and intersectional dimensions.
    Description / Table of Contents: Paradoxes of Integration:Female Migrants in Europe; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Paradoxes of Integration; 1.1 The Concept of Integration; 1.2 Integration as Assimilation; 1.3 Who Does the Integrating?; 1.4 Culture, Belonging and Biography; 1.5 Integration: The Need for a Transnational Lens; 1.6 An Intersectional Framing : Issues of Solidarity and Social Justice; 1.7 The Book: Migration and Gender; References; Chapter 2: Profiling Female Migrants in Europe: Categories of Difference; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Foreign Population Stock and Migration Flows
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3 Labour Force Participation2.4 Migrant Employment: Sectors, Industries and Occupations; 2.5 Migrant Incomes, Wages and Salaries; 2.6 Irregular Migration; 2.7 Trafficking; 2.8 Women in Informal Labour Markets: Prostitution and Domestic Services; 2.9 Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: Welfare Regimes, Markets and Policies: The Experiences of Migrant Women; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Welfare Through Work? The European Policy Context; 3.3 Employment Leading to Social Integration? Employment Experiences of Female Migrants; 3.3.1 Experiences of Casual and Informal Work
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.2 The Ethnicisation of Labour Market Sectors3.4 Labour Market Demands and Migration Policies; 3.5 Routes to Employment: Labour Agencies, Training, Voluntary Work and Self-Employment; 3.6 Coping with Deskilling and Trying to Improve One's Labour Market Position; 3.7 Concluding Remarks: The Issue of Policy; References; Chapter 4: Informalisation and Flexibilisation at Work: The Migrant Woman Precariat Speaks; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Informality, Irregularity and Global Precariatisation: Focusing on Migrant Women in the EU; 4.3 The Demand for Informal and Irregular Work
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 Migrant Women Precariat Speak4.5 Integration Policies: Excluding Irregular Migrant Women; 4.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Coping with Deskilling: Strategies of Migrant Women Across European Societies; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Language Skills; 5.2.1 Language Skills and Residence Status Stabilisation; 5.2.2 Access of Migrant Women to Policies for Language Learning and Formal Education; 5.3 Qualifications and Professional Skills; 5.3.1 Recognition of Academic Titles and Accreditation of Professional Qualifications and Prior Experience
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3.2 Reskilling Policies and Measures and Policy Gaps5.4 Coping with Deskilling Processes: Reskilling and the Social Integration Strategies of Migrant Women; 5.4.1 Contextualising Migrant Women's Reskilling Strategies; 5.5 Main Types of Reskilling and Social Integration Strategies; 5.5.1 Overcoming Language Barriers; 5.5.2 Acquiring New Skills and Upgrading One's Professional Pro fi le; 5.5.3 Social Mobility Through Voluntary Work; 5.5.4 Self-Employment as Reskilling Process; 5.5.5 Formal and Informal Professionalisation of Care and Domestic Work; 5.6 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Civic Participation of Migrant Women: Employing Strategies of Active Citizenship
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paradoxes of Integration: Floya Anthias, Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller and Maria Kontos -- 1. Profiling Female Migrants in Europe: categories of difference: Ron Ayres, Tamsin Barber, Floya Anthias and Maja Cederberg -- 2. Welfare Regimes, Labour Markets, Policies: the Experiences of  Migrant Women: Floya Anthias, Maja Cederberg, Tamsin Barber and Ron Ayres -- 3. Informalization and Flexibilization at work: The Migrant Women Precariat speak: Nicos Trimikliniotis and Mihaela Fulias-Souroulla -- 4. Coping with Deskilling: Strategies of Migrant Women across European Societies: Anna Vouyioukas and Maria Liapi -- 5. Civic Participation of Migrant Women: Employing Strategies of Active Citizenship: Mojca Pajnik, and Veronika Bajt -- 6. Female Migrants and the Issue of Residence Rights: Karolina Krzystek -- 7.   Family Matters: Migrant Domestic and Care Work and the Issue of Recognition: Christine Catarino, Maria Kontos and Kyoko Shinozaki -- 8. Blurred Lines: Policies and Experience of Migrant Women in Prostitution and Entertainment: Christine Catarino and Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller -- 9. Trafficking and Women’s Migration in a Global Context: Giovanna Campani and Tiziana Chiappelli -- Notes on the Contributor.  .
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4842-2
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    Regional Mortality Differences in Germany (2012)
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    ISBN: 9789400744325
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 300 p. 76 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Demographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Kibele, Eva Ulrike Bianca, 1981 - Regional mortality differences in Germany
    DDC: 304.6
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Demography ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Mortality ; Germany ; Regional disparities ; Deutschland ; Sterblichkeit ; Regionale Verteilung
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    Migrations (2012)
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    ISBN: 9783709109502
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (359 p.))
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    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    DDC: 325.73
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration ; Interdisciplinary research ; Migration ; Social sciences ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives; Preface; Ideas, Innovation and Communication - IDee; References; Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I: Interdisciplinary Approaches: Theories and Methodologies; Constellations and Transitions: Combining Macro and Micro Perspectives on Migration and Citizenship; From Comparative Analysis to Studying Citizenship Constellations; Explaining and Evaluating Citizenship Policy Trends; Modelling Citizenship Transitions; References; The Role of the Press in the Reproduction of Racism; Introduction; Racism; Discourse; Elite Discourse and Racism; The Media
    Abstract: The PressContextual Variation; News Production; Selection of Sources and Source Texts; Discrimination of Minority Journalists; News Structures; Topics; Local Meanings; Rhetorical Figures; Quotation; Reception; References; The Migration Imaginarymigration imaginary and the Politics of Personhood; Introduction; When Two Imaginaries Meet: Face of Britain and Genetic Indigenisation; Citizenship as Technology of Personhood; References; Multilingualism, Heterogeneity and the Monolingual Policies of the Linguistic Integration of Migrants
    Abstract: Which Languages for Integration: `When I Leave My House It Is Like Going to War´The Linguistic Status of Migrants: `German Is Devouring My Croatian Language´; The Importance of Language Biographies: `Just Beyond Borders ´; Conclusion: Consequences for Programmes of Linguistic Integration; References; Part II: Peer Relations Among Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings; Peer Relations Among Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings; Introduction; Developmental Perspectives; Acculturation Psychology; The Importance of Peer Relations
    Abstract: Positive Peer RelationsNegative Peer Relations; References; Methodological Challenges in an Immigrant Study in Norway; Introduction; Theoretical Framework; Method; Data Sources; Measurements; Depressive Symptoms; Bullying Others and Victimization; Reactive and Proactive Aggressiveness; Main Results; Methodological Challenges; Small Sample Size; Depression: A Cultural Category?; The Measurement of Ethnic Versus Native Peer Contact; Acculturation Strategies in Relation to Bullying; References; Bullying and Victimization in Ethnically Diverse Schools; Introduction; Austrian Context
    Abstract: Bullying in SchoolsThe Present Study; Method; Sample and Procedure; Measures; Results; Descriptive Statistics; Multiple Regression Analysis; Discussion; Limitations and Future Studies; References; Aggressive Behaviour in Native, First- and Second-Generation Immigrant Youth: Testing Inequality Constrained Hypotheses; Introduction; Example: Aggressive Behaviour in Native, First- and Second-Generation Immigrant Youth; Testing Inequality Constrained Hypotheses; Method; Sample; Instruments; Results; Traditional Results; Inequality Constrained Parameter Estimation
    Abstract: Inequality Constrained Hypothesis Testing
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    The Sociology of Medical Regulation : An Introduction (2012)
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    ISBN: 9789400748965
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 184 p, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Delivery of Health Care legislation & jurisprudence ; Ethics, Medical ; Sociology, Medical
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written in an accessible way, it offers an insight into key sociological theories surrounding medical regulation. It gives a historically situated analysis of the contemporary relationship between medicine, the state and the public, and an overview of relevant social scientific research. Case studies highl
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written in an accessible way, it offers an insight into key sociological theories surrounding medical regulation. It gives a historically situated analysis of the contemporary relationship between medicine, the state and the public, and an overview of relevant social scientific research. Case studies highlight the practical or applied circumstances in which issues can occur. Readers will gain insight into possible future directions for medical governance.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Sociology of Medical Regulation; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Medical Governance in the Risky Age of the Surveillance Society; Introduction; From Modernity to High Modernity; The Rise of the Risk Society; The Risk Society as the Surveillance Society; The Dispersal of Discipline; Resisting the Surveillance Assemblage; Medical Regulation in the Age of Risk; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 2: Biomedicine, Medicalisation and Risk; Introduction; The Enlightenment Promise; A Realist Endeavour; The Greco-Roman Humoral Tradition; The Birth of Biomedicine
    Description / Table of Contents: From the Laboratory to the Clinic and the Medical GazeThe Biomedical Model and the Postmodern Turn; Medicalisation; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 3: Doctors, Patients, Managers and the State; Introduction; From Bedside Medicine to Hospital Medicine; The 1858 Medical Act and the Golden Age of Medical Power; Challenging Medicine; The Shipman Case; The Donaldson Report; The 2008 Health and Social Care Act and Beyond; Medical Regulation and the Nature of Medical Expertise; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 4: Sociological Deconstructions I: Critiquing Medical Autonomy and AltruismIntroduction; Functionalism: Professionalism as Altruism; Critiquing Professional Power: The Neo-Weberian Viewpoint; Freidson and Social Closure; Larson and Medical Knowledge; The Dominance of the Social Closure Model; The Feminist Critique; The Neo-Marxist Critique; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 5: Sociological Deconstructions II: Governmentality and Restratification; Introduction; Governmentality and the Revival of Liberalism; The Natural Order of Liberal Governance
    Description / Table of Contents: The Enterprise Self and Neo-liberal GovernmentalityExpert Enclosures and Technologies of Performance and Agency; Critical Reflections on the Governmentality Perspective; The Proletarianisation and Deprofessionalisation Theses; The Restratification Thesis; Medicine and Managerial Corporate Rationalisers Revisited; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 6: Restratification and Revalidation: United Kingdom and International Perspectives; Introduction; Medical Professionalism Revisited: Maintaining Competence to Practise; Revalidation in the United Kingdom: A Developmental Process
    Description / Table of Contents: Restratification, Revalidation and the Health Select CommitteeAustralia; Canada; Finland; Netherlands; United States; Critical Reflections on the Restratification Thesis; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 7: Restratification and the Hearing of Fitness to Practice Cases; Introduction; The Medical Register and the Changing Medical Profession; Handling Complaints; From Triage to Investigation and Adjudication; Trends in Complaints by Source and Practitioner Characteristics; Trends in Fitness to Practice Hearing Activity
    Description / Table of Contents: Fitness to Practice Activity and the Transformation of Medical Autonomy
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    The Sciences’ Media Connection –Public Communication and its Repercussions (2012)
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    ISBN: 9789400720848
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    Pages: XII, 379 S. , graph. Darst.
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    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 28
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Science History ; Social Sciences ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wissenschaftspublizistik
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    A life-course perspective on migration and integration (2011)
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    ISBN: 9400715447 , 9789400715448
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    Pages: VI, 297 S. , graph. Darst., Kt.
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Wingens, Matthias, 1956 - A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology ; Migration ; Social Sciences ; Migration ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Sociology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Migration ; Soziale Integration ; Biografieforschung
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    Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance (2007)
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    ISBN: 1281066672 , 9781402062209 , 9781281066671
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    DDC: 320.513
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Political science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Neoliberalismus ; Global Governance
    Abstract: This book explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance, exploring national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing economies. Among the strengths of this volume are its detailed global scope, its range of case studies in diverse policy areas, its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and practice, and its impact upon state power and global governance.
    Abstract: The volume explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance. It seeks to show how neo-liberalism has failed to deliver a framework for state power and global governance capable of delivering stability and enduring prosperity. It also contends that the role of politics in general, and the state and global governance in particular, should be defined more broadly than the simple neo-liberal construction of institutions for the market. Part One explores the pattern of national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing economies, despite the pressure to converge towards the dominant neo-liberal paradigm. Part Two analyses a variety of trans-national policy prescriptions for neo-liberalism and state power. Part Three explores whether the governance of labour markets is a special case in the global economy. Part Four sets out the need for institutional reform of the neo-liberal order in trade and finance. The volume concludes that there is the prospect of a more plural approach to state power and global governance, and one that recognizes the importance of the public domain of citizenship for delivering the global public goods of security, prosperity and environmental sustainability in the twenty-first century. The distinctive features of this book are: Its range of case studies of the impact of neo-liberalism upon state power in both industrialized (i.e. Germany, Canada, England) and emergent market economies (i.e. Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua), Its range of case studies in different policy areas (i.e. education, labour markets, competitiveness policy, competition policy, financial markets' governance, monetary policy), Its range of case studies of different institutions of global governance (i.e. OECD, WTO), and Its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and practice, and its impact upon state power and global governance.
    Description / Table of Contents: Lee-FM.pdf; Lee-Ch01.pdf; Lee-Ch02.pdf; Lee-Ch03.pdf; Lee-Ch04.pdf; Lee-Ch05.pdf; Lee-Ch06.pdf; Lee-Ch07.pdf; Lee-Ch08.pdf; Lee-Ch09.pdf; Lee-Ch10.pdf; Lee-Ch11.pdf; Lee-Ch12.pdf; Lee-Ch13.pdf; Lee-Ch14.pdf; Lee-Ch15.pdf; Lee-Ch16.pdf; Lee-Index.pdf
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    Multilateralism, Regionalism and Bilateralism in Trade and Investment : 2006 World Report on Regional Integration (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059513
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    Keywords: Internationale Handelspolitik ; Regionale Wirtschaftsintegration ; Wirtschaftsintegration ; Welt ; Development Economics ; Human Geography ; International economics ; Political science ; Social sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Handel ; Regionalismus ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Integration ; Finanzinvestition
    Abstract: In 2001, the United Nations University launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. This is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. The report represents a unique collaboration between all regional UN Economic Commissions. It focuses on one of the central issues in the debate on global governance.
    Abstract: Global governance is a concern of not only global organisations but also of all individual states and of regional co-operation agreements among sovereign states. In 2001, the United Nations University has launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. The present first volume of the World Report on Regional Integration is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. This new series of World Reports will certainly contribute to the discussion on the interaction between regional and global governance. And by bringing together insights from different parts of the UN system, in particular the five UN regional economic commissions and UNCTAD, this report will also contribute to a better understanding of the role of regions in the UN. (Hans van Ginkel, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Rector of UNU) The World Report on Regional Integration brings together a well-balanced mix of economic analysis, facts and political perspectives on the topic of regional integration. The most valuable and unique contribution of this volume is the enhanced clarity it brings to the complex picture of trade and investment integration, the entanglement of which points to the need for more effective regional governance as a building block of multilateral governance in this area. As the world's most dynamic trading region, Asia and the Pacific is a key player in this process, and the UNESCAP secretariat, in its service to the region, will continue to accord high priority to this policy objective. (Kim Hak-Su, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of UNESCAP)
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Developing Countries' Participation in Regional Integration: Trends, Prospects and Policy Implications; Preferential Trading Arrangements for Developing Countries; Making Multi-Level Rules Work: Trade and Investment Rules in Regional and Bilateral Agreements; Reconciling Regionalism and Multilateralism: Towards Multilevel Trade Governance; Asia-Pacific Regionalism Quo Vadis? Charting the Territory for New Integration Routes; Regional Integration in the Western Hemisphere: An Overview; Regional Economic Integration in Africa
    Description / Table of Contents: Developments in Regional Integration in Western Asia and Arab RegionTrade and Integration in (South) East Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia; Regional Integration in the European Union: Enlargement Without Constitution; Back Matter
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    Ages, Generations and the Social Contract : The Demographic Challenges Facing the Welfare State (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059735
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    Keywords: Alternde Bevölkerung ; Sozialstaat ; Generationengerechtigkeit ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Social sciences ; Population ; Social policy ; Aging Research ; Demography ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lebenserwartung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Wohlstandsgesellschaft ; Altern ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Familienbeziehung
    Abstract: In this important and timely book, researchers from different countries compare their experiences and offer contrasting views on the future of social protection. They consider the theoretical aspects of the intergenerational debate, relations between generations within the family, the living standards of elderly people, and the question of social time. For the first time in history, three and sometimes four generations are living at the same time; this book examines the new interactions between family change, labour force participation and population ageing.
    Abstract: Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and collective solidarity adapting in this context of longer life spans, low fertility, and work that is simultaneously scarce and abundant? The welfare states are currently facing three main challenges: ensure satisfactory living conditions for the elderly without increasing the cost burden on the active population, reduce social inequality, and maintain equity between successive generations. In this book, researchers from different countries compare their experiences and offer contrasting views on the future of social protection. They consider the theoretical aspects of the intergenerational debate, relations between generations within the family, the living standards of elderly people, and the question of social time.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Demographic Change, Welfare, and Intergenerational Transfers: A Global Overview; Demographic Context of the Social Contract in Developed Countries: Unity and Diversity; Economics of the Intergenerational Debate: Normative, Accounting and Political Viewpoints; Reorganizing the Activity Cycle: The Stakes in a New Social Contract; Social Contract and Age at Retirement: Some Elements of a Franco-American Comparison; Longevity and Work; Changes to the Legal Relationship Between Grandparents and Grandchildren in Quebec: A Disconcerting Evolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Demographic Change and the Social Contract of Informal Support Within the FamilyChange and Reciprocity in Intergenerational Relationships: The Discourse Of Spanish Working Mothers; Intergenerational Exchanges in Older Populations; Family Solidarities at the Beginning of Retirement in France; Pensions and Income Redistribution in a Comparative Perspective: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study; Social Spending: Recent Changes and Conditions for its Long-Term Viability; Pensions, Privilege and Poverty: Another "Take" on Intergenerational Equity
    Description / Table of Contents: Toward a 24-Hour Economy: Implications for the Temporal Structure and Functioning of Family LifeWorking Schedules: In Search of a Balance Between Family Time and Economic Wellbeing; Determinants of Paths of Transition to Total-Work Retirement: A Preliminary Empirical Analysis; Back Matter
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    Identities at Work (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402049897
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    Series Statement: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 5
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    Keywords: Education ; Humanities ; Personnel management ; Social sciences ; Industriesoziologie ; Identität ; Selbst ; Arbeitsplatz ; Psychologie
    Abstract: This book examines continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labor market flexibility. By bringing together perspectives from sociology, psychology, organizational management, and vocational education and training, it connects the debates of skills formation, human resources development, and careers with individual's work commitment and professional orientations.
    Abstract: This edited volume on Identities at Work brings together international theory and empirical research that deals with continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labour market flexibility. By bringing together perspectives from sociology, psychology, organisational management and vocational education and training the contributions in this volume connect the debates of skills formation, human resources development and careers with individual s work commitment and professional orientations in various ways. With this focus the volume presents a new research perspective based on an interdisciplinary and international approach. We argue that in times of globalisation and rapidly changing work realities such an approach is needed to better understand and analyse what is required to equip and prepare the workforce to meet international labour market demands. In this sense the publication shall serve as a useful resource to researchers and policy makers working in the fields of skills formation, human resources development and organisational management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Series Scope; Introduction by the Series Editors; CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Contributors; Introduction and Overview; Part One: Vocational Identity in Theory and Empirical Research; 1 Decomposing and Recomposing Occupational Identities-A Survey of Theoretical Concepts; 2 Tensions in the Vocational Identity of Danish Bankers; 3 The Role of Developing a Vocational Identity for Women- The Example of Young Single German Mothers; 4 The 'Double' Vocational Identity of the Working Population in the Greek Tourist Industry; 5 Vocational Education and Training-A European Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Part Two: Work and Personal Identity6 Career Changes and Identity Continuities-A Contradiction?; 7 Exercising Self Through Working Life: Learning, Work and Identity; 8 The Much Vaunted 'Flexible Employee'-What Does it Take?; Part Three: Work and Commitment; 9 The Dynamics Between Organisational Commitment and Professional Identity Formation at Work; 10 Apprentices' Experiences of Occupational and Organisational Commitment: An Empirical Investigation in a German Automobile Company; 11 The Individualisation of Identification with Work in a European Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 Work Identity in the Japanese Context: Stereotype and RealityPart Four: Modern Work and the Creation of New Professional Identities; 13 The Construction of a New Professional Self: A Critical Reading of the Curricula for Nurses and Computer Engineers in Norway; 14 US Efforts to Create a New Professional Identity for the Bioscience Industry; Concluding Chapter; Index
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    Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402051210
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 332 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Paleontology ; Evolution (Biology) ; Vertebrates ; Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Social Sciences
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5121-0
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    Tough on Criminal Wealth : Exploring the Practice of Proceeds from Crime Confiscation in the EU (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402041297
    Language: English
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    DDC: 364.6094
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Civil law ; Criminal Law ; Criminology
    Abstract: Based on the expertise of thirty leading experts on confiscation in the EU, this is the first book to analyse the practice of proceeds from crime confiscation in the original fifteen EU Member States. It examines the implementation of confiscation provisions in all three (investigative, judicial and disposal) phases of confiscation proceedings. It quantifies the enforcement of confiscation provisions in the EU, using an innovative and unique methodology and thereby furnishes understanding of obstacles and best practices. The conclusion of the book is that the 'tough on criminal wealth' philosophy is largely alien to the everyday practice of law enforcement agencies. Putting criminals behind bars is still the main aim of the system, and most of the scarce resources available are devoted to achieving this. This title is of interest to academics and students in the fields of criminology, sociology, and law, as well as to law enforcement officers, public prosecutors, and policymakers.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; The Revival of Confiscation in the Fight Against Criminal Organisations: The International/Eu Agenda and the Evolution of the Measure in the Original Fifteen Eu Member States; Why an Exploratory Study into the Practice of Proceeds of Crime Confiscation Across the Original Fifteen Eu Member States?; How to Explore the Practice of Proceeds of Crime Confiscation Across the Original Fifteen Eu Member States?; Law in the Books, Law in Action; Mapping the Main Problems and Highlighting the Best Practices: A Horizontal Analysis; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4129-7
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    Indicators of Children's Well Being : Understanding Their Role, Usage and Policy Influence (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402042423
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    Series Statement: Social Indicators Research Series 27
    DDC: 362.7
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    Keywords: Kinder ; Lebensqualität ; Sozialer Indikator ; Pediatrics ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life Research ; Human Geography ; Philosophy (General) ; Child Welfare ; Public Policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kind ; Wohlfahrt ; Sozialer Indikator
    Abstract: This book contains a series of articles that represent a broad range of viewpoints about how the use of social indicators affects child and family policy. The book discusses the use of indicators as an effective tool to change policy. A distinguished, international group of researchers and policymakers provide insights into the past, current and future use of good information to develop and change policy that improves the well-being of children and youth in the United States. This book will be of value to policymakers, journalists, researchers and professionals working in the social sciences, humanities and health professions. It is one of the first efforts to link child well-being indicators to policies and services. It combines methodology issues with conceptual issues and actual experience, and looks on child well-being indicators from an effectiveness perspective.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Role of Social Indicators in an Era of Human Service Reform in the United States; Measuring and Monitoring Children'sWell-Being: The Policy Process; Indicator Measurement in Comprehensive Community Initiatives; The Power of Regional Indicators in Achieving Action: The Southern Regional Initiative on Child Care; The Use of Indicators of Child Well-Being in the United Kingdom and the European Union; Using Indicators of Child Well-Being at the International Level; Preparing Indicators for Policymakers and Advocates
    Description / Table of Contents: Using Indicators of School Readiness to Improve Public Policy for Young ChildrenIncreasing the Impact of Indicators Among Legislative Policymakers; How Can We Better Use Whole Population and Outcomes Indicators: A Policymaker's Perspective; Studying the Role of Child Well-Being Indicators in the Policy Process: Using Surveys Among Decision Makers; Indicators and Policy Decisions: The Important Role of Experimental Studies; Informative or Not? Media Coverage of Child Social Policy Issues.; Some Possible Directions for Research
    Description / Table of Contents: Studying the Impact of Indicators of Child Well-Being on Policies and Programs
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4242-6
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    The Many Faces of Health, Competence and Well-Being in Old Age : Integrating Epidemiological, Psychological and Social Perspectives (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402041389
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    DDC: 362.1
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    Keywords: Developmental Psychology ; Geriatrics ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Aging ; Aged psychology ; Social Environment ; Konferenzschrift ; Gerontologie ; Altern ; Alter ; Gesundheit ; Kompetenz
    Abstract: The main aim of the book is to provide an interdisciplinary treatment of a set of key issues of current ageing research, i.e., health, competence, and well-being. These key issues are addressed based on three converging research streams: social-ecological research, which assumes that major processes and outcomes of ageing such as day-to-day competence are shaped by social and physical-spatial environments, geropsychology research, which is driven by a life-span developmental conception of ageing, and epidemiology, which offers most fundamental disease, function and prevention-related data. Each of the three major research directions are outlined by a short introduction, followed by three chapters treating in an empirical manner most recent key research questions. All chapters are then also discussed by renowned ageing experts. This volume links ageing research with policy considerations and implications and establishes a link between European research and the knowledge base of the international scientific community concerned with ageing. This book will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students in ageing research, in the social and behavioural field as well as in epidemiology, geriatrics, geropsychiatry, demography, and biogerontology.
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION: THE PERSON-ENVIRONMENT PERSPECTIVE IN AGEING RESEARCH; THE ROLE OF THE HOME ENVIRONMENT IN MIDDLE AND LATE ADULTHOOD; COMMENTARY: A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME: BUT CAN IT BECOME ONE?; OUTDOOR MOBILITY IN LATE LIFE: PERSONS, ENVIRONMENTS AND SOCIETY; COMMENTARY: MOBILITY-A KEY TO UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR SENIORS AND OTHERS; AGE-RELATED LOSS IN VISION: A CASE TO LEARN ABOUT AGEING IN CONTEXT; COMMENTARY: AGE-RELATED LOSS IN VISION: A CASE TO LEARN ABOUT AGING IN CONTEXT; INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE
    Description / Table of Contents: THE INFLUENCE OF MARITAL SUPPORT ON MARITAL SATISFACTION: ARE THERE AGE AND GENDER DIFFERENCES?COMMENTARY: CHANGED GENDER ROLES AND THEIR IMPACT ON MARITAL SUPPORT AND SATISFACTION; STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS, PROTECTIVE FACTORS AND DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS IN MIDDLE ADULTHOOD; COMMENTARY: STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS AND DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS: THE PARADIGM SHIFT; PREDICTORS OF WELL-BEING IN VERY OLD AGE; COMMENTARY: WELL-BEING IN VERY OLD AGE: OLD AND NEW ISSUES; INTRODUCTION: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES IN AGEING RESEARCH; CANCER AMONG OLDER ADULTS: INCIDENCE, PROGNOSIS AND NEW AVENUES OF PREVENTION
    Description / Table of Contents: COMMENTARY: CANCER IN THE ELDERLY: PREVENTION AND BETTER CARE NEEDEDCARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES AMONG OLDER ADULTS: INCIDENCE, PROGNOSIS AND NEW AVENUES FOR PREVENTION; COMMENTARY: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES AMONG OLDER ADULTS: INCIDENCE, PROGNOSIS AND NEW AVENUES FOR PREVENTION; MEDICAL CARE FOR NURSING HOME RESIDENTS: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT; COMMENTARY: MEDICAL CARE FOR NURSING HOME RESIDENTS: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT; THE IMPACT OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL RESOURCES ON HEALTH, COMPETENCE AND WELL-BEING: LONGITUDINAL FINDINGS FROM THE ILSE
    Description / Table of Contents: DETERMINANTS, PROGNOSTIC RELEVANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH WITHIN THE KAROLA STUDYCOMMENTARY: INTERDISCIPLINARY LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF AGEING; AGEING EUROPE: CHALLENGES FOR POLICY AND RESEARCH; ON THE RELEVANCE OF AGEING RESEARCH FOR POLICY AND PRACTICE
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    Hierarchy in Natural and Social Sciences (2006)
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    Series Statement: Methodos Series 3
    DDC: 300.72
    Keywords: Genetic epistemology ; Regional planning ; Statistics ; Social sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hierarchie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Naturwissenschaften
    Abstract: Hierarchy is a form of organisation of complex systems that rely on or produce a strong differentiation in capacity (power and size) between the parts of the system. It is frequently observed within the natural living world as well as in social institutions. According to the authors, hierarchy results from random processes, follows an intentional design, or is the result of the organisation which ensures an optimal circulation of energy for information. This book reviews ancient and modern representations and explanations of hierarchies, and compares their relevance in a variety of fields, such as language, societies, cities, and living species. It throws light on concepts and models such as scaling laws, fractals and self-organisation that are fundamental in the dynamics and morphology of complex systems. At a time when networks are celebrated for their efficiency, flexibility and better social acceptance, much can be learned about the persistent universality and adaptability of hierarchies, and from the analogies and differences between biological and social organisation and processes. This book addresses a wide audience of biologists and social scientists, as well as managers and executives in a variety of institutions.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; Table of contents; Introduction; Hierarchy: A Short History of a Word in Western Thought; Hierarchical Organization of biological and ecological systems; Size, Scale and the Boat Race; Hierarchy, Complexity, Society; Hierarchy in Lexical Organisation of Natural Languages; Hierarchy in Cities and City Systems; Alternative Explanations of Hierarchical Differentiation in Urban Systems; Conclusion; Author Index; Subject Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4127-6
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    Agricultural Standards : The Shape of the Global Food and Fiber System (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402039843
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    Series Statement: LEAF 6
    DDC: 382.41
    Keywords: Political Science ; Sociology ; Humanities ; Social sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Landwirtschaftsgenossenschaft ; Landwirtschaft
    Abstract: Food and agricultural standards have recently risen to the top of both national and international agendas. Popular concerns about the power of the World Trade Organization focus on the intertwined relationships between environmental protection, labor and human rights, and the standards used to produce and supply our food and fiber globally. In the developing world, agricultural grades and standards are an important part of the reconfiguration of roles and responsibilities between various public and private actors in market reform. This original and informative collection of studies of agri-food standards in the modern economy addresses these and helps to define the scope of the emerging study of the politics of standards setting. Following an overview essay dealing with the multiple ways of thinking about, approaching and defining food and agricultural standards, eleven case studies offer a rich body of evidence that assesses the processes, dynamics and potential consequences of global agri-food standards. For all interested in the strategic use of food and agricultural standards - from those in national and international governmental agencies, researchers and others in the academic and private sector to those in the private business sector - this volume offers a broader perspective on and will serve as an important resource.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: A New World of Standards; The World Trade Organization: Ultimate Arbiter of International Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards?; Circulations of Insecurity: Globalizing Food Standards In Historical Perspective; The International Office of Vine and wine (OIV) and the World Trade Organization (WTO): Standardization Issues In The Wine Sector; Negotiating Standards for Animal Products: A Procedural Appoach Applied to Raw Milk; The Indivisibility of Science, Policy and Ethics: Starlink™ Corn and the Making of Standards
    Description / Table of Contents: Standards and State-Building: The Construction of Soybean Standards in BrazilParadoxes of Innovation: Standards and Technical Change in the Transformation of the US Soybean Industry; Defining a Good Steak: Global Constructions of What is Considered the Best Red Meat; Improving The Access of Small Farmers in Africa to Global Markets through the Development of Quality Standards for Pigeonpeas; China and Global Organic Food Standards: Sovereignity Bargains and Domestic Politics; Cotton in West Africa: A Question of Quality; Shaping a Policy and Research Agenda
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    International Handbook of Juvenile Justice (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402049705
    Language: English
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    DDC: 364.36
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    Keywords: Criminal Law ; Social sciences ; Criminology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Jugendstrafrecht ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: Presents inside information on the Juvenile Justice-systems in 19 different countries, both in EU-member states as well as in the United States and Canada. This book includes a comparative introduction that highlights similarities as well as differences between the various systems, distinguishing between clusters of countries
    Description / Table of Contents: International Handbook of Juvenile Justice; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Biographical Notes; Contributors; Part I: The Anglo-Saxon Orientation; Chapter 1; Punishment and Control: Juvenile Justice Reform in the USA; Introduction; 1. Context for understanding policy; 1.1 Historical context; 1.2. Social and Demographic Context; 1.3. Crime; 1.3.1. Juveniles as Victims; 1.3.2. Juvenile Offenders; 1.3.3. Youths in Juvenile Court; 2. Key policy areas; 2.1. Age; 2.2. Status Offenses; 2.3. Discretion; 2.4. Other Systems; 2.5. Diversion; 2.6. Demographic Bias
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.Policy trends and outcomes3.1. "Get Tough" Reforms for Serious Offenders; 3.1.1. The Death Penalty for Juveniles; 3.2. Delinquency Prevention; 3.2.1. Early Intervention; 3.2.2. Secondary Prevention; 3.2.3. Juvenile Court: Processing, Sentencing, and Correctional Reforms for Middle-Range Offenders; 4. Concluding thoughts; References; Chapter 2; Canada's juvenile justice system: promoting community-based responses to youyh crime; Introduction: the youth justice context in canada; 1.A Century of Change in Canada's Juvenile Justice System; 2.The Juvenile Delinquents ACT (1908-1984)
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.TheYoung Offenders ACT (1984-2003)4. Dissatisfaction With the Yoa: Canadian Politics and Youth Crime Policies; 5.Enacting the Youth Criminal Justice ACT (1996-2003); 6. Canada's Youth Criminal Justice ACT : A Summary; 6.1. Preamble and Principles; 6.2. Youth Justice Courts; 6.3. Protection of Legal Rights - Police Questioning and Access to Lawyers; 6.4. Role of Parents; 6.5. Pre-Court Diversion: Extrajudicial Measures; 6.6. Conferences; 6.7. Pre-trial Detention; 6.8. The Sentencing Process; 6.9. Sentencing Purposes - s. 38(1); 6.10. Sentencing Principles - s. 38(2)
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.11. Restrictions on the Imposition of a Custodial Sanction - s. 396.12. Additional Restrictions Regarding the use of Custody: s. 39; 6.13. New Community-based Sentences; 6.14. New Blended form of Custody and Community Supervision; 6.15. Adult Sentencing; 7.Charging and Sentencing Under The Ycja; 8. The Limited Role of the Youth Justice System in Responding to Youth Crime; References; Chapter 3; Beyond Welfare versus Justice: Juvenile Justice in England and Wales; Introduction; 1. Demographic Information in England and Wales; 2. Trends in Offending Behaviour; 3. Developments in Prevention
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. The Juvenile Justice System4.1. The Youth Court; 4.2. Magistrates and District Judges; 4.2.1. Specialisation; 4.3. The Crown Court; 4.3.1. A Suitable Venue for Juveniles?; 4.4. The Age of Criminal Responsibility; 4.4.1. Child Safety Order; 4.5. Judicial Arrangements for Dealing with Juveniles; 4.5.1. Pre-Court Disposals; 4.5.2. Prosecution; 4.5.3. Pretrial Arrangements; 4.5.4. Sentencing; 4.6. Sanctions; 4.6.1. Supervision Order; 4.6.2. Action Plan Order; 4.6.3. Attendance Centre Order; 4.6.4. Reparation Order; 4.6.5. Community Punishment Order; 4.6.6. Community Rehabilitation Order
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.6.7. Community Rehabilitation and Punishment Order
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4970-6
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    Comparative environmental politics (2006)
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    Series Statement: Advances in global change research v. 25
    DDC: 363.7
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Internationale Umweltpolitik ; Umweltschutz ; Umweltorganisation ; Nichtregierungsorganisation ; Klimawandel ; Grenzüberschreitende Umweltbelastung ; Artenvielfalt ; Entwaldung ; Umweltabkommen ; Environmental Law ; Political Science ; Environmental sciences ; Social sciences ; Umweltpolitik ; Nationalstaat ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: This book assesses and compares the political response of nations to the environment. The book explores five major topics: state-society relations; environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs); Green parties and environmental movements; institutions of government and policy-making; variations in the capacities of states to protect the environment; and national responses to global problems. It compares and contrasts rich and poor nations, large and small countries, liberal democracies and authoritarian states.
    Abstract: Looks at the way countries vary politically and assesses the impact this may have on response to global environmental issues, such as climate warming, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and trans-boundary air pollution. This book concludes that understanding the global environmental future depends on an understanding of the domestic circumstances
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; State-society relations; Political processes and organizations; Political institutions and the environment; National capacity to protect the environment; National responses to global environmental problems; Summary and conclusions
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    The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization (2006)
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    Series Statement: Information Science and Knowledge Management 11
    DDC: 501.4
    Keywords: Library Science ; Humanities ; Information systems ; Publishers and publishing ; Social sciences ; Elektronische Zeitschrift ; Geschichte 1987-2004 ; Kommunikation ; Wissenschaft ; Auswirkung ; Digitalisierung ; Zeitschriftenaufsatz ; Digitalisierung ; Wissenschaftliche Literatur
    Abstract: Outlines the consequences of digitization for peer-reviewed research articles published in electronic journals. This book provides a study of electronic journals over the period 1987-2004 and offers an approach that questions ideas about the 'revolutionary' impact of digitization on scientific communication and the role of publishers and academia
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION; THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION; THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; THE DIGITIZATION OF INFORMATION RESOURCES; THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL 1987-2004; DIGITIZATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION;
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    Preventing Crime : What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims, and Places (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402042447
    Language: English
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    Keywords: Criminology ; Social sciences ; Kriminalität ; Prävention
    Abstract: Crime prevention should be rational and should be based on the best possible evidence. Decision-makers should weigh heavily any available evidence on what works best. How can a program that has produced no discernable evidence of effectiveness, as shown through numerous evaluations, be considered for implementation? Unfortunately, this happens all the time. Evidence-based crime prevention attempts to overcome this and other obstacles by ensuring that the best available evidence is considered in any decision to implement a program designed to prevent crime. This book is about evidence-based crime prevention. A project of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group, Preventing Crime brings together the leading scientific evidence on what works best for a wide range of interventions organized around four important domains in criminology: at-risk children, offenders, victims, and places. It is the first book to assess the effectiveness of criminological interventions using the most rigorous review methodology of the systematic review. It is an indispensable guide to the leading scientific evidence on what works best to prevent crime.
    Description / Table of Contents: Evidence-Based Crime Prevention; Early Parent Training; Child Social Skills Training; Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions; Boot Camps; Scared Straight and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs; Incarceration-Based Drug Treatment; Costs and Benefits of Sentencing; Mandated Batterer Intervention Programs to Reduce Domestic Violence; Restorative Justice to Reduce Victimization; Preventing Repeat Residential Burglary Victimization; Policing Crime Hot Spots; Closed-Circuit Television Surveillance; Improved Street Lighting; Conclusions and Directions from Evidence-Based Crime Prevention
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    Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402044328
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 19
    DDC: 330.556
    Keywords: Sen, Amartya ; Lebensqualität ; Einkommensverteilung ; Sozialethik ; Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Social sciences ; Wirtschaft ; Gerechtigkeit ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Sen, Amartya 1933-
    Abstract: " The ""capability approach"" of development economist Amartya Sen, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998, poses a major challenge to the dominant paradigm of neo-classical economics. According to Sen, human well-being does not depend on the consumption of commodities but on the freedoms human beings have reason to choose and value. The capability approach has frequently been criticised for a lack of attention to the ways in which unjust social, political and economic structures restrict human capabilities. The contributors to this volume take up this criticism in a number of ways, both theoretical and practical. The theoretical discussion engages with the thought of Sen himself and with the hermeneutical tradition represented by Paul Ricoeur. The practical discussion consists of five case studies examining the effectiveness of the capability approach in dealing with cases of structural injustice. These cover: racism in South Africa, access to labour markets in Europe, participation in higher education in the UK, poverty and welfare reforms in the US, and biotechnology patents. How effectively, ask all the contributors, can Sen's capability approach be deployed in the transformation of unjust structures? "
    Description / Table of Contents: Capabilities and Rights; "Necessary Thickening": Ricoeur's Ethic of Justice as a Complement to Sen's Capability Approach; Structural Injustice and Democratic Practice: The Trajectory in Sen's Writings; "Capable Individuals" and Just Institutions: Sen and Rawls; Justice for Women: Martha Nussbaum and Catholic Social Teaching; Narrative Capability: Telling Stories in the Search for Justice; Promoting Capability for Work: The Role of Local Actors; Enhancing Students' Capabilities?: UK Higher Education and the Widening Participation Agenda
    Description / Table of Contents: Enter the Poor: American Welfare Reform, Solidarity and the Capability of Human Flourishing"Patent Injustice": Applying Sen's Capability Approach to Biotechnologies
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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz : The Art of Controversies (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402052286
    Language: English
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    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2006 Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 60
    Parallel Title: Print version Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz : The Art of Controversies
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of law ; Philosophy ; Social sciences ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Kontroverse ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Kontroverse
    Abstract: Remembered mainly as a logician and mathematician, Leibniz also endeavored to resolve political and religious conflicts of his day by bringing opponents into negotiation. The dialectical Leibniz who emerges from the texts here translated, commented, and interpreted is certainly not the familiar one. The book sheds new light on the familiar, yet incomplete image of Leibniz, providing further reason for cherishing and cultivating the heritage of a truly great man.
    Abstract: Leibniz is known to the wide public and to many scholars mainly as a logician and mathematician, and as the creator of a fascinating but strange metaphysical system. In these, as well as in other fields, his remarkable innovations were achieved by painstaking efforts to establish a fruitful critical dialogue with the leading contemporary thinkers. He was no less important, however, in his practical endeavor to bring opponents to negotiate reasonable solutions to key political and religious conflicts of his time. Both his theoretical and practical activities were informed by a philosophical mind that sought in all circumstances the most general underlying principles, by a juridical mind that sought to bring order and structure to human interaction, without sacrificing the necessary flexibility, by an argumentative mind that knows that persuading is often more important than proving, by a scientific mind eager to organize past and present knowledge so as not to miss any bit of information capable of pointing the way to new discoveries, by a theologian mind that refuses to admit that religious conflicts between true believers are irresolvable, and by an ethical and political mind whose major concern is to direct all our intellectual work towards improving the well-being of humankind.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Vices of Mingled Disputes; The Controversy of Controversies; The Religion of a Peasant; The Elements of Thinking; The Balance of Law; Can there be an Obligation to Believe?; Controversies on Sacred Matters; The Judge of Controversies; Towards a Heuristics for Litigation; The Method of Jurists and the Method of Doctors; Interpretation and Argumentation in Law; Towards a Heuristics for Discovery; Estimating the Uncertain; Towards a Numerical Universal Language; The Encyclopedia and the Method of Discovery; Towards a Heuristics for Persuading; The Other's Place
    Description / Table of Contents: Persuading a SkepticOn Controversies; On Principles; Two Prefaces to the General Science; Introduction to a Secret Encyclopedia; On the Creation of a New Logic; New Openings; Theology and the Principle of Contradiction; Changing Religion; Methods of Reunion; An ARS Characteristica for the Rational Sciences; 'Characterizing' Definitions and Demonstrating Propositions; Advancing the Art of Discovery; Correspondence with the Hamburg Jungians; The Philosophical Sin Controversy; Confronting the Catholic Hardliners; Defining what Pertains to Faith; Judgment of a Catholic Doctor
    Description / Table of Contents: Presumptions and Fictions in Legal ArgumentationThe 'Method Of Establishments'; The Achievements Of Logic and Beyond; Pacts, Contracts, and Natural Law; Approching the Church of England; Dialectic Principles and their Application; The History and Tasks of Logic; Bold Conjectures; The Dynamics of Formulating and Expounding the System; The Use of Logic Against Skepticism; Back Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5228-6
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    Programming for Peace : Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402043901
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation 2
    DDC: 303.69
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    Keywords: Political Science ; Artificial intelligence ; Computer simulation ; Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konfliktlösung ; Computerunterstütztes Verfahren ; Computerunterstütztes Verfahren ; Friedenssichernde Maßnahme
    Abstract: Sadly enough, war, conflicts and terrorism appear to stay with us in the 21st century. But what is our outlook on new methods for preventing and ending them? Present-day hard- and software enables the development of large crisis, conflict, and conflict management databases with many variables, sometimes with automated updates, statistical analyses of a high complexity, elaborate simulation models, and even interactive uses of these databases. In this book, these methods are presented, further developed, and applied in relation to the main issue: the resolution and prevention of intra- and international conflicts. Conflicts are a worldwide phenomenon. Therefore, internationally leading researchers from the USA, Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and Switzerland have contributed.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Conflict Resolution by Democracies and Dictatorships: Are Democracies Better in Resolving Conflicts?; Trade Liberalization and Political Instability in Developing Countries; Computer Assisted Early Warning - the FAST Example; Country Indicators for Foreign Policy Developing an Indicators-Based User Friendly Risk Assessment and Early Warning Capability; The Confman.2002 Data Set Developing Cases and Indices of Conflict Management to Predict Conflict Resolution; Events, Patterns, and Analysis Forecasting International Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
    Description / Table of Contents: Forecasting Conflict in the Balkans using Hidden Markov ModelsNeural Computation for International Conflict Management; Modeling International Negotiation Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches; Machine Learning Methods for Better Understanding, Resolving, and Preventing International Conflicts; Information, Power, and War; Modeling Effects of Emotion and Personality on Political Decision-Making; New Methods for Conflict Data; Peacemaker 2020 A System for Global Conflict Analysis and Resolution; A Work of Fiction and A Research Challenge
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4390-2
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    Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research : Rights and Realities (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402034558
    Language: English
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    DDC: 344.73/01133/0269
    Keywords: Law ; Social legislation ; Social sciences ; Political science
    Abstract: There is much to understand about employment discrimination law as a social system. What drives the growing trend toward litigation? To what extent does discrimination persist and why does it vary by organizational and market context? How do different groups perceive discrimination and what, if anything, do they do about it? How do employers respond to discrimination law? What is the effect of broader political and legal currents? What is the relationship between anti-discrimination law and social inequality? This book presents answers, from a distinguished group of scholars, and social scientists, offering a broad reconsideration of employment discrimination and its treatment in law.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminary; Scaling the Pyramid: A Sociolegal Model of Employment Discrimination Litigation; Law's Role in Addressing Complex Discrimination; What We Know about the Problem of the Century: Lessons from Social Science to the Law, and Back; Including Mechanisms in our Models of Ascriptive Inequality; Understanding the Sources of Ethnic and Racial Wage Gaps and Their Implications for Policy; Discrimination in Consummated Car Purchases; Racial Equality Without Equal Employment Opportunity? Lessons from a Labor Market for Professional Athletes
    Description / Table of Contents: Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation: Dimensions of DifferenceOccupational Mobility Among African-Americans: Assimilation or Resegregation; Discrimination and Diplomacy: Recovering the Fuller National Stake in 1960s Civil Rights Reform; Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Materialization in Lesbian and Gay Anti-discrimination Rights; Rights or Quotas? The ADA as a Model for Disability Rights; The Evolution of Employment Discrimination Law in the 1990s: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation; Perceiving and Claiming Discrimination; Mobilizing Employment Rights in the Workplace
    Description / Table of Contents: The Intersectionality of Lived Experience and Anti-discrimination Empirical ResearchLaw at Work: The Endogenous Construction of Civil Rights; Discrimination against Caregivers? Gendered Family Responsibilities, Employer Practices, and Work Rewards; Aversive Racism: Bias without Intention; Applying Social Research on Stereotyping and Cognitive Bias to Employment Discrimination Litigation: The Case of Allegations of Systematic Gender Bias at Wal-Mart Stores; Back matter
    Note: "The articles were written for a conference held at Stanford Law School in Spring 2003 that was sponsored by the American Bar Foundation and Stanford Law School"--P. xiii , Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-449) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3455-5
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    Logic, Thought and Action (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402031670
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    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 2
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    Keywords: Logic ; Philosophy (General) ; Computer science ; Mathematics ; Social sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Logik
    Abstract: This second volume in the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science brings a pragmatic perspective to the discussion of the unity of science. Contemporary philosophy and cognitive science increasingly acknowledge the systematic interrelation of language, thought and action. The principal function of language is to enable speakers to communicate their intentions to others, to respond flexibly in a social context and to act cooperatively in the world. This book will contribute to our understanding of this dynamic process by clearly presenting and discussing the most important hypotheses, issues and theories in philosophical and logical study of language, thought and action. Among the fundamental issues discussed are the rationality and freedom of agents, theoretical and practical reasoning, individual and collective attitudes and actions, the nature of cooperation and communication, the construction and conditions of adequacy of scientific theories, propositional contents and their truth conditions, illocutionary force, time, aspect and presupposition in meaning, speech acts within dialogue, the dialogical approach to logic and the structure of dialogues and other language games, as well as formal methods needed in logic or artificial intelligence to account for choice, paradoxes, uncertainty and imprecision. This volume contains major contributions by leading logicians, analytic philosophers, linguists and computer scientists. It will be of interest to graduate students and researchers from philosophy, logic, linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. There is no comparable survey in the existing literature.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; The Balance of Reason; Desire, Deliberation and Action; Two Basic Kinds of Cooperation; Speech Acts and Illocutionary Logic; Communication, Linguistic Understanding and Minimal Rationality in the Tradition of Universal Grammar; Truth and Reference; Empirical Versus Theoretical Existence and Truth; Michel Ghins on the Empirical Versus the Theoretical; Propositional Identity, Truth According to Predication and Strong Implication; Reasoning and Aspectual-Temporal Calculus; Presupposition, Projection and Transparency in Attitude Contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: The Limits of a Logical Treatment of AssertionAgents and Agency in Branching Space-Times; Attempt, Success and Action Generation: A Logical Study of Intentional Action; Pragmatic and Semiotic Prerequisites for Predication; On How to Be a Dialogician; Some Games Logic Plays; Backward Induction Without Tears?; On the Usefulness of Paraconsistent Logic; Algorithms for Relevant Logic; Logic, Randomness and Cognition; From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words - from Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3167-X
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    Explorations of the Life-World : Continuing Dialogues with Alfred Schutz (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402032202
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 53
    DDC: 300.1
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    Keywords: Phenomenology ; Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Schütz, Alfred 1899-1959 ; Lebenswelt
    Abstract: This book is intended as a celebration of the legacy of Alfred Schutz in honor of the 100th anniversary of the year of his birth in 1999. It represents the contributions of a number of Schutzian scholars from the United States, Europe and Asia who have reflected on the significance of Schutz's work for philosophy and the human sciences for many years. Their work was first presented at international conferences held at Waseda University, Japan, March, 1999, the University of Konstanz, Germany, May 1999, and at the meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences at the University of Oregon, USA, October, 1999. The editors were organizers of these conferences. These contributions trace connections and continuities with other major theorists and scholars ranging from Max Weber to Talcott Parsons and Pierre Bourdieu, to assessments of his contributions to methodology and social theory, to ethics and the political sphere, to his appeal in fields beyond philosophy, as well as to his wide-ranging explorations of the life-world. Schutz's legacy continues to be found in various places in the human sciences and philosophy and in the intersections of these disciplines. These papers contribute to the on-going dialogue and assessment of Schutz's corpus of work and to fresh appraisals of the continuing relevance of his work.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Alfred Schutz and Contemporary Social Theory and Social Research; The Problem of Subjectivity in Schutz and Parsons; Reflexivity, Reality, and Relationality. The Inadequacy of Bourdieu's Critique of the Phenomenological Tradition in Sociology; The Appeal of Alfred Schutz in Disciplines beyond Philosophy, e.g. Jurisprudence; The "Naturality" of Alfred Schutz's Natural Attitude of the Life-World; Between the Everyday Life-World and the World of Social Scientific Theory-Towards an "Adequate" Social Thory; The Ideal Type in Weber and Schutz
    Description / Table of Contents: If only to be heard: Value-Freedom and Ethics in Alfred Schutz's Economic and Political WritingsIn Search of a Political Sphere in Alfred Schutz; The Pragmatic Theory of the Life-World as a Basis for Intercultural Comparisons; Schutz on Transcendence and the Variety of Life-World Experience
    Note: Contains revised versions of papers presented at three conferences, held Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, March 1999 ; University of Konstanz, Germany, May 1999, and a session of the SPHS meeting at the University of Oregon, October 1999 , Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3220-X
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    International Bibliography of Sikh Studies (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402030444
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy ; Religion (General) ; Social sciences ; Anthropology ; Bibliografie ; Sikh
    Abstract: Gerald Barrier, Hakam Singh, Jaginder Singh Ramdev, Jasmer Singh, Rajwant Singh, Man Singh Deora, Priya Muhar Rai, Darshan Singh Tatla, and others.
    Abstract: The International Bibliography of Sikh Studies brings together all books, composite works, journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, project reports, and electronic resources produced in the field of Sikh Studies until June 2004, making it the most complete and up-to-date reference work in the field today. One of the youngest religions of the world, Sikhism has progressively attracted attention on a global scale in recent decades. An increasing number of scholars is exploring the culture, history, politics, and religion of the Sikhs. The growing interest in Sikh Studies has resulted in an avalanche of literature, which is now for the first time brought together in the International Bibliography of Sikh Studies. This monumental work lists over 10,000 English-language publications under almost 30 subheadings, each representing a subfield in Sikh Studies. The Bibliography contains sections on a wide variety of subjects, such as Sikh gurus, Sikh philosophy, Sikh politics and Sikh religion. Furthermore the encyclopedia presents an annotated survey of all major scholarly work on Sikhism, and a selective listing of electronic and web-based resources in the field. Author and subject indices are appended for the reader's convenience. The online version of the International Bibliography of Sikh Studies includes hyperlinks and offers the possibility to search on author, title, key word or subject, making this huge reference work easily accessible and user-friendly.
    Description / Table of Contents: Printed and Electronic Reference Resources; Sikh Gurus; Sikh Scriptures & Gurbani; Bhagats and Saints; Sikh Philosophy; Sikh History; Sikh Politics; Sikh Leaders; Sikh Art & Architecture; Sikh Coins (Numismatics); Sikh Culture & Traditions; Sikhs as Khalsa; Sikh Code of Conduct, Institutions & Ceremonies; Sikh Symbols & Identity; Sikh Education & Research; Sikh Scholars & Personalities; Sikh Castes & Casteism; Sikh Sects; Gurdwaras (Sikh Shrines); Sikh Warriors & Martyrs; Sikh Music (Gurbani Kirtan); Sikhs in Military; Sikh Women; Sikh Youths & Apostasy; Sikhism & Other Religions
    Description / Table of Contents: Sikh DiasporaFuture of Sikhs & Sikhism; Miscellaneous Works
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3044-4
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    The Inclusion of Other Women : Breaking the Silence through Dialogic Learning (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402036811
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Lifelong Learning Book Series 4
    DDC: 374.0082
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    Keywords: Education ; Social sciences ; Erwachsenenbildung ; Frau ; Lebenslanges Lernen ; Frau
    Abstract: "The Inclusion of Other Women brings together insights and narratives of three women, of European, Arab and of Romà descent, who address issues of feminism and social inclusion within the framework of adult education and learning. The authors discuss the experiences of the ""other women"": non-academic women who have been historically silenced from the feminist mainstream discourse and are now claiming their voice. This volume provides a rigorous theoretical analysis of feminist thought and real women's lives, drawing the connection between marginalized women's social participation, dialogically oriented adult education and solidarity, as key elements in the creation of personal meaning and social transformation. Grounded in a dialogic educational perspective, the authors' insightful work and the voices of the ""other women"" make this a highly unique, engaging, accessible reading experience. This book will prove of great value to professors, researchers, graduate students, teachers and teacher trainers with a strong interest in Adult Education, Lifelong Learning and Women's Studies."
    Description / Table of Contents: From Imposition to Negotiation and Consensus; From Academic Feminism (of the élite) to Universal Feminism (for All); We are Women for Transformation, We are not Women for Accommodation; Creation of Meaning Through Lifelong Learning; From Competition to Complexity: Solidarity; The Equal Right to be Different
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3681-7
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    Real World Justice : Grounds, Principles, Human Rights, and Social Institutions (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402031427
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    Series Statement: Studies in Global Justice 1
    DDC: 303.372
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of Law ; Political Science ; Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences ; Political science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gerechtigkeit ; Institution ; Globalisierung ; Menschenrecht ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Armut ; Sozialeinrichtung
    Abstract: The concept of global justice makes visible how we citizens of affluent countries are potentially implicated in the horrors so many must endure in the so-called less developed countries. Distinct conceptions of global justice differ in their specific criteria of global justice. However, they agree that the touchstone is how well our global institutional order is doing, compared to its feasible alternatives, in regard to the fundamental human interests that matter from a moral point of view. We are responsible for global regimes such as the global trading system and the rules governing military interventions. These institutional arrangements affect human beings worldwide, for instance by shaping the options and incentives of governments and corporations. Alternative paths of globalization would have differed in how much violence, oppression, and extreme poverty they engender. And global institutional reforms could greatly enhance human rights fullfillment in the future. The importance of this global justice approach reaches well beyond philosophy. It helps ordinary citizens evaluate their options and their responsibility for global institutional factors, and it challenges social scientists to address the causes of poverty and hunger that act across borders. The present volume addresses four main topics regarding global justice: The normative grounds for claims regarding the global institutional order, the substantive normative principles for a legitimate global order, the roles of legal human rights standards, and some institutional arrangements that may make the present world order less unjust. All royalties from this book have been assigned to Oxfam.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Poverty and Global Justice: Some Challenges Ahead; Justice, Morality and Power in the Global Context; "Saving Amina": Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue; Poverty as a Human Rights Violation and the Limits of Nationalism; International or Global Justice? Evaluating the Cosmopolitan Approach; Understanding and Evaluating the Contribution Principle; World Poverty and Moral Responsibility; The Principle of Subsidiarity; "It's the Power, Stupid!" On the Unmentioned Precondition of Social Justice
    Description / Table of Contents: Egalitarian Global Distributive Justice or Minimal Standard? Pogge's PositionResponsibility and International Distributive Justice; From Natural Law to Human Rights - Some Reflections on Thomas Pogge and Global Justice; Deliberation or Negotiation? Remarks on the Justice of Global and Regional Human Rights Agreements; Human Rights and Relativism; The Nature of Human Rights; Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation - Weak and Strong; The First UN Millennium Development Goal: A Cause for Celebration?
    Description / Table of Contents: Can Global Distributive Justice be Minimalist and Consensual? - Reflections on Thomas Pogge's Global Tax on Natural ResourcesRedistributing Responsibilities - The UN Global Compact with Corporations
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3142-4
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    Citation classics from social indicators research : the most cited articles edited and introduced by Alex C. Michalos (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402037429
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Social indicators research series volume 26
    Series Statement: Social indicators research series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Citation classics from social indicators research
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Sozialer Indikator ; Sozialforschung ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life Research ; Social Sciences, general ; Social indicators ; Research ; Quality of life ; Research ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sozialer Indikator ; Lebensqualität ; Empirische Sozialforschung ; Zitatenanalyse
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    Organised Crime in Europe : Concepts, Patterns and Control Policies in the European Union and Beyond (2004)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402027659
    Language: English
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    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer-11648
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    Series Statement: Studies of Organized Crime 4
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminal Law ; Political Science ; Sociology ; Criminology
    Abstract: The History of Organised Crime -- to Part I: The History of the Concept -- The Mafia and the ‘Problem of the Mafia’: Organised Crime in Italy, 1820-1970 -- Multiple Underworlds in the Dutch Republic of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- ‘Many a Lord is Guilty, Indeed For Many a Poor Man's Dishonest Deed’: Gangs of Robbers in Early Mode -- Banditry in Corsica: The Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries -- From Thievish Artel to Criminal Corporation: The History of Organised Crime in Russia -- Urban Knights and Rebels in the Ottoman Empire -- Comparative Synthesis of Part I -- Contemporary Patterns of Organised Crime -- to Part II: Sources and Literature -- Organised Crime in Italy: Mafia and Illegal Markets – Exception and Normality -- Crossing Borders: Organised Crime in the Netherlands -- Organised Crime in Germany: A Passe-Partout Definition Encompassing Different Phenomena -- How Organised is Organised Crime in France? -- Spain: The Flourishing Illegal Drug Haven in Europe -- The Nature and Representation of Organised Crime in the United Kingdom -- The Czech Republic: A Crossroads for Organised Crime -- Organised Crime in Poland: Its Development from ‘Real Socialism’ to Present Times -- Illegal Markets and Organised Crime in Switzerland: A Critical Assessment -- Organised Crime in Albania: The Ugly Side of Capitalism and Democracy -- Contemporary Russian Organised Crime: Embedded in Russian Society -- The Turkish Mafia and the State -- Comparative Synthesis of Part II -- Organised Crime Control Policies -- to Part III: The Initiatives of the European Union and the Council of Europe -- The Paradox of Effectiveness: Growth, Institutionalisation and Evaluation of Anti-Mafia Policies in Italy -- Organised Crime Policies in the Netherlands -- Organised Crime Policies in Germany -- The Control of Organised Crime in France: A Fuzzy Concept but a Handy Reference -- Organised Crime Control Policies in Spain: A ‘Disorganised’ Criminal Policy for ‘Organised’ Crime -- The Making of the United Kingdom's Organised Crime Control Policies -- Denmark on the Road to Organised Crime -- Organised Crime Policies in the Czech Republic: A Hard Road from Under-Estimation to the European Standard -- The Development of Organised Crime Policies in Poland: From Socialist Regime to ‘Rechtsstaat’ -- Organised Crime Policies in Switzerland: Opening the Way for a New Type of Criminal Legislation -- Organised Crime Control in Albania: The Long and Difficult Path to Meet International Standards and Develop Effective Policies -- Anti-Organised Crime Policies in Russia -- Comparative Synthesis of Part III -- Organised Crime Control Policies -- Comparative Synthesis of Part III -- General Conclusion -- General Conclusion.
    Abstract: This volume represents the first attempt to systematically compare organised crime concepts, as well as historical and contemporary patterns and control policies in thirteen European countries. These include seven ‘old’ EU Member States (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom), two ‘new’ members (the Czech Republic and Poland), a candidate country (Turkey), and three non-EU countries (Albania, Russia and Switzerland). Based on a standardised research protocol, thirty-three experts from different legal and social disciplines provide insight through detailed country reports. On this basis, the editors compare organised crime patterns and policies in Europe and assess EU initiatives against organised crime. Its informed analyses and unprejudiced assessments will make Organised Crime in Europe an indispensable resource for scholars, students, practitioners, and policy-makers interested in understanding the complex phenomenon of organised crime and its related control policies in Europe.
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    The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and their Cure : Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Vol. 1: Foundations (2004)
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    ISBN: 9781402028717
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 405 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 82
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    Keywords: medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Life sciences ; Social sciences ; Philosophy. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Law. ; Medicine—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This book deals with the essential philosophical/ethical dimension that concerns the ends and goods entrusted to medicine. It shows that medicine cannot be reduced to its scientific and technical aspects and that the constitutive philosophical aspects of medicine presently are in a state of crisis. Medicine, besides being a scientifically based art of diagnosing and curing infirmities of many kinds, also possesses an essential philosophical and ethical dimension. It turns into anti-medicine if it no longer stands in the service of those goods and ends that are entrusted to it. Their nature is in no way known by natural science but can be clarified by philosophy. Consequently, medicine suffers from philosophical diseases of different degrees of gravity if its theory and practice are based on errors about its proper ends. The cure from the life-threatening philosophical diseases of medicine lies in a critique of philosophical mistakes that influence the theory and practice of medicine and in an understanding and practical implementation of those ethically relevant goods that constitute its true ends. At a time when these goods are by no means universally recognized or embodied in laws of medicine, some basic philosophical understanding of them and of the foundations of medical ethics is urgently required. The purpose of this volume is to provide this largely neglected part of general and medical education
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-2871-7
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