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  • 1
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    Long Beach, CA : Western States Folklore Society | Berkeley : University of California Press | Los Angeles, Calif. : California Folklore Society ; 6.1947 -
    ISSN: 2325-811X , 0043-373x
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: 6.1947 -
    Additional Information: In Literature online
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Western folklore
    Former Title: Vorg.: California folklore quarterly
    DDC: 390
    Keywords: Volkskultur ; USA Weststaaten ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Elektronische Publikation ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; USA Weststaaten ; Volkskultur ; Zeitschrift ; Elektronische Publikation
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203167489
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research International Series in Social Psychology
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Soziale Norm ; Sozialpsychologie
    Abstract: Societies and groups attribute greater value to some behaviours and some judgments. These 'norms' are what is most important for understanding how behaviours and judgments are socially regulated. The approach presented examines in particular the social foundations of our judgments.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203356456
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Rethinking Southeast Asia v.4
    DDC: 305.8/009593/09143
    Abstract: The Karen are one of the major ethnic minority groups in the Himalayan highlands, living predominantly in the border area between Thailand and Burma. As the largest ethnic minority in Thailand, they have often been in conflict with the Thai majority. This book is the first major ethnographic and anthropological study of the Karen for over a decade and looks at such key issues as history, ethnic identity, religious change, the impact of government intervention, education land management and gender relations.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203356432
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (357 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Caucasus World: Peoples of the Caucasus
    DDC: 305.89/99641
    Abstract: This book provides a ready introduction and practical guide to the Chechen people and some little-known and rarely-considered aspects of Chechen culture, including customs and traditions, folklore, arts and architecture, music, and literature. It also narrates Chechen history from ancient times and provides sketches of archaic religions and civilizations. Jaimoukha reveals the esoteric social structure and the peculiar brand of Chechen Sufism, as well as the present political situation in Chechnya. As the only comprehensive guide available in English, this book is an indispensable and accessible resource for all those with an interest in Chechnya.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781444119008
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (217 pages)
    Series Statement: Hodder Arnold Publication
    DDC: 301.094
    Abstract: New Europe: Imagined Spaces traces the radical transformation of European places and spaces over the last two decades. Instead of the familiar 'schoolbook' map of a Europe of nation-states, the book unpacks the differing imaginations of European identity in recent years. Taking as its central problem the fluid nature of cultural and political identity, it moves firmly away from - and calls into question - the perspective of the nation-state as the primary source of imagined identity for Europeans. The book contributes to key debates, such as the emerging Europe of the Regions and the return of the city-state, examines the 'rebranding' of the nation-state and explores the impact of 'Europeanisation' on existing place identity. Emphasising mobility and movement, the chapters explore borderlands and travel, and also include a detailed discussion of the 'everyday life' of Europeans. Throughout, iconic images of contemporary Europe are invoked: Eurodisney, the Reichstag, Barcelona's Ramblas and the Bilbao Guggenheim, and the way in which mundane artefacts and practices such as football, walking, cars, food, passports and the Euro help construct identity is considered. New Europe: Imagined Spaces adopts a multidisciplinary approach to studying Europe, providing students with an exploration of contemporary European space and place identity.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203327180
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.3/6
    Keywords: Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203338582
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    DDC: 303.48094
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Moderne ; Industrialisierung ; Modernisierung ; Europa ; Ostasien ; China ; Japan
    Abstract: Why, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in order for change to take place, and Ringmar concludes that for sustained development to be possible, change must be institutionalized. Taking a global view, Ringmar investigates the implications of his conclusion on issues facing the developing world today.
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    ISBN: 9780203401057
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Edition: Ann Arbor, Michigan ProQuest
    Series Statement: Routledge research in transnationalism
    DDC: 304.809
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    Keywords: Diaspora ; Ethnische Identität ; Migration
    Abstract: Over the last decade, concepts of diaspora and locality have gained complex new meanings in political discourse as well as in social and cultural studies. Diaspora, in particular, has acquired new meanings related to notions such as global deterritorialization, transnational migration and cultural hybridity. The authors discuss the key concepts and theory, focus on the meaning of religion both as a factor in forming diasporic social organisations, as well as shaping and maintaining diasporic identities, and the appropriation of space and place in history. It includes up to date research of the Caribbean, Irish, Armenian, African and Greek diasporas.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203166611
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (144 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.3
    Abstract: This immensely readable book by Patrick François provides an original insight into the increasingly fashionable topic that is social capital. In a unique, original study, the author emphasises trustworthiness as a vital feature of social capital and argues that standard economic treatments of this phenomenon are inadequate. The book's richer evolutionary treatment of this is embedded in a neoclassical model and will prove to be essential reading for economic development scholars as well as those interested in development studies and economic thought in general.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203390689
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (322 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 791.430233092
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    Keywords: Asch, Timothy ; Ethnologie ; Dokumentarfilm ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Timothy Asch (1932-1994) was probably the greatest ethnographic filmmaker of the latter twentieth century, and one of the best-known anthropologists of his generation. He worked with Margaret Mead, John Marshall and Napoleon Chagnon, lived and filmed on every continent except Antarctica, and won numerous international prizes. His work, which includes 'The Ax Fight' and more than 50 other films of the Yanomamö Indians of Venezuela, comprises the most widely used resource in the teaching of anthropology today. Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film combines a biographical overview of Asch's life with theoretical and critical perspectives, giving a definitive guide to his background, aims and ideas, methodology and major projects. Beautifully illustrated with 60 photos, and featuring articles from many of Asch's friends, colleagues and collaborators as well as an important interview with Asch himself, it is an ideal introduction to his work and to a range of key issues in ethnographic film.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203321447
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (227 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Women and Psychology
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Frau ; Psychologie ; Diskursanalyse ; Feminismus
    Abstract: Gender Talk provides a powerful case for the application of discursive psychology and conversation analysis to feminism, guiding the reader through cutting edge debates and providing valuable evidence of the benefits of fine-grained, discursive methodologies. In particular, the book concentrates on discourse and conversation analysis, providing a full account of these methodologies through the detailed study of data from a variety of settings, including focus groups, interviews, and naturally occurring sources. Providing a thorough review of the relevant literature and recent research, this book demonstrates how discourse and conversation analysis can be applied to rework central feminist notions and concepts, ultimately revealing their full potential and relevance to other disciplines. Each chapter provides an overview of traditional feminist research and covers subjects including: * Sex differences in language: conversation and interruption * Reformulating context, power and asymmetry * Gender identity categories: masculinity and femininity. This unique and thought-provoking application of discursive and conversation analytic methodologies will be of interest to students and researchers in social psychology, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203335314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (228 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Gender and History
    DDC: 305.420973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1848-1985 ; Frauenbewegung ; Feminismus ; USA
    Abstract: Under what conditions are political elites responsive to social movements, and when do social movements gain access to political elites? This book explores this question with regard to the women's movement in the US, asking under what conditions are Congress and the presidency responsive to the women's movement, and when will the women's movement gain access to Congress and the presidency? The book systematically compares the relation between political leaders and each of the three waves of the women's movement, 1848-1889, 1890-1928, and 1960-1985, in light of the political dynamics that each wave faced. The author utilizes perspectives and methods from the fields of Political Science, Sociology, and History to illustrate the ways in which changing political dynamics impacted the battle for both women's suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment. A significant addition to the study of women's history and American studies, Political Women illlustrates the important roles that political leaders played in the battle for women's suffrage and the ERA and demonstrates the political savvy among women suffrage activists who recognized the institutional barriers present in the US political system and fought to overcome them.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203337431
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306/.0954911
    Abstract: How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world? Is Islamic fundamentalism to be understood purely in religious terms? In Resistance and Control in Pakistan, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, Akbar S. Ahmed, illuminates what is happening in the Muslim world today and assesses the underlying causes. He does this by telling the dramatic story of the revolt of the Mullah of Waziristan in northwest Pakistan and by placing it within the context of other movements occurring elsewhere in the Islamic world. He also examines the social structure and operative principles in Muslim society and scrutinizes the influence of religion in a society that is undergoing modernization. Till now, there has been little available literature on this topic. This book, written by an eminent scholar with an international reputation fills this gap, giving students of politics, sociology and Asian studies a revealing examination of the Muslim world today.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203209653
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (209 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.40901
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    Keywords: Frau ; Griechenland ; Römisches Reich ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Written by an international range of renowned academics, this volume explores how women in antiquity influenced aspects of culture normally though of as male. Looking at politics, economics, science, law and the arts, the contributors examine examples from around the ancient world asking how far traditional definitions of culture describe male spheres of activity, and examining to what extent these spheres were actually created and perpetuated by women. Women's Influence of Classical Civilization provides students with a valuable wider perspective on the roles and influence of women in the societies of the Greek and Roman worlds.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203299678
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    DDC: 304.2
    Abstract: In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice. Environmentalism and ecologism have become fashionable, even respectable schools of political thought. This apparently successful integration of environmental movements, issues and ideas in mainstream politics raises the question of whether there is a future for what once was a counter-movement and counter-ideology. Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism provides a reflective assessment of recent developments, social relevance and future of environmental political theory, concluding that although the alleged pacification of environmentalism is more than skin deep, it is not yet quite deep enough. This book will appeal to students and researchers of social science and philosophers with an interest in environmental issues.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203401453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series
    DDC: 305.5/24/0959809045
    Abstract: Reorganising Power in Indonesia is a new and distinctive analysis of the dramatic fall of Soeharto, the last of the great Cold War capitalist dictators, and of the struggles that reshape power and wealth in Indonesia. The dramatic events of the past two decades are understood essentially in terms of the rise of a complex politico-business oligarchy and the ongoing reorganisation of its power through successive crises, colonising and expropriating new political and market institutions. With the collapse of authoritarian rule, the authors propose that the way was left open for this oligarchy to reconstitute its power within society and the institutions of newly democratic Indonesia.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203421000
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (324 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series
    DDC: 303.6/6
    Abstract: Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan presents new material on grassroots peace activism and pacifism in two major groups active in the post-World War 2 peace movement - workers and housewives. Yamamoto contends that the peace movement, which was organised in tandem with other activities to promote democratic, economic and humanitarian issues, served as a popular lever which helped to eliminate feudal remnants that lingered in Japanese society and individual attitudes after the war, thereby modernizing the political process and the outlook of the ordinary Japanese. Including extensive primary material such as letters, essays, memoirs and interviews, specialists in Japanese history, peace studies and women's studies will appreciate the richness of the text supporting Yamamoto's narrative of how workers' and women's political awareness developed under the influence of organizational and ideological interests and contemporary events.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203380703
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (512 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.8003
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    Keywords: Rassismus ; Ethnizität ; Wörterbuch
    Abstract: Developed from the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, now in its fourth edition, Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies has been assembled by a world-class team of international scholars led by Ellis Cashmore to provide an authoritative, single-volume reference work on all aspects of race and ethnic studies. From Aboriginal Australians to xenophobia, Nelson Mandela to Richard Wagner, sexuality to racial profiling, the Encyclopedia is organized alphabetically and reflects cultural diversity in a global context. The entries range from succinct 400 word definitions to in-depth 2000 word essays to provide comprehensive coverage of: all the key terms, concepts and debates important figures, both historical and contemporary landmark cases historical events Although unafraid to engage with cutting-edge theory, the Encyclopedia is uncluttered by jargon and has been written in a lucid, 'facts-fronted' style to offer an accessible introduction to race and ethnic studies. The Encyclopedia is also fully cross-referenced and thoroughly indexed with most entries followed by annotated up-to-date suggestions for further reading to guide the user to the key sources. It is destined to become an essential resource for scholars and students of race and ethnic studies, as well as a handy reference for journalists and others working in the field.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203426555
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (173 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in European Politics
    DDC: 306.094
    Keywords: Nietzsche, Friedrich ; Europagedanke
    Abstract: There has been a deliberative, but as yet unsuccessful, attempt by scholars and policy makers to articulate a more meaningful idea of Europe, which would enhance the legitimacy of the European Union and provide the basis for a European identity. Using a detailed analysis of the writings of Nietzsche, Elbe seeks to address this problem and argues that Nietzsche's thinking about Europe can significantly illuminate our understanding. He demonstrates how Nietzsche's critique of nationalism and the notion of the 'good European' can assist contemporary scholars in the quest for a vision of Europe and a definition of what it means to be a European citizen.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203327623
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (293 pages)
    DDC: 305.8933065
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1902-2002 ; Tuareg ; Alltagskultur ; Ethnische Identität ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Politik ; Algerien
    Abstract: The northern Tuareg (the Tuareg of Algeria) - the nomadic, blue-veiled warlords of the Central Sahara - were finally defeated militarily by the French at the battle of Tit in 1902. Some sixty years later, following Algerian independence in 1962, they were visited by a young English anthropologist, Jeremy Keenan. During the course of seven years, Keenan studied their way of life, the social, political and economic changes that had taken place in their society since traditional, pre-colonial times, and their resistance and adaptation to the modernising forces of the new Algerian state. In 1999, following eight years during which Algeria's Tuareg were effectively isolated from the outside world as a result of Algeria's political crisis, Keenan returned to visit them once again. Following a further four years of study, he has written a series of eight essays that capture the key changes that have occurred amongst Algeria's Tuareg in the forty years since independence.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203338599
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (318 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.26
    Abstract: This comprehensive text focuses on the social contexts of ageing, looking at the diversity of ageing and older people, and at different factors that are important to experiences of old age and ageing. It includes key chapters on: theoretical and methodological bases for the study of ageing demographic context of the 'ageing' population health and illness family and social networks formal and informal care and other services for older people. Providing an invaluable introduction to the major issues involved in the study of ageing, this book is essential reading for students of sociology, gerontology, social policy, health and social care, and professionals working with older people.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203410790
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
    DDC: 306/.0947
    Keywords: Geschichte 1917-1991 ; Alltag ; Familienleben ; Oral history ; Sowjetunion
    Abstract: For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and western researchers. This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203413845
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (329 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 William K. Storey 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting property in genome laboratories Stephen Hilgartner 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership categories in courtroom testimony Michael Lynch 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America John Carson 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century Peter Dear 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy Michael Aaron Dennis 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies Yaron Ezrah 14. Afterword Sheila Jasanoff References Index.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520930209 , 0520930207 , 1417525746 , 9781417525744 , 9780520238879 , 0520238877 , 9780520238886 , 0520238885
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 284 pages) , map
    Series Statement: California series in public anthropology 6
    DDC: 947.5/2
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    Abstract: This is an illumination of one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective - that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov examines the evolution of the war in Chechnya that erupted in 1994, untangling the myths and the long-held resentments that have fueled the crisis.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 0520238532 , 9780520238534 , 0520240979 , 9780520240971
    Language: English
    DDC: 306.85/2/09520904
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203337653
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st edition
    DDC: 303.625
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    Keywords: Terrorismus ; Ursache ; Terrorism -- Congresses ; Terrorism -- Economic aspects -- Congresses ; Terrorism -- Political aspects -- Congresses ; Terrorism -- Prevention -- Congresses ; Terrorism -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses ; Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Congresses ; Terrorism -- Social aspects -- Congresses ; Konferenzschrift 2003
    Abstract: This team of international experts analyses the possibilities and limitations of preventing or reducing terrorism by addressing the factors that give rise to it and sustain it. The key questions raised include: * what are the main circumstances that provide preconditions for the emergence of various types of terrorism? * what are the typical precipitants that trigger terrorist campaigns? * to what extent is it possible to reduce the problem of terrorism by influencing these causes and circumstances? * should we address those factors that sustain terrorist campaigns rather than root causes? This book is edited by Tore Bjørgo - Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Professor and Research Director at the Norwegian Police University College.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203166406
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Women in Science
    DDC: 305.42092
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    Keywords: Fielde, Adele M. ; Biographie
    Abstract: Adele Marion Fielde, born in 1839, was a teacher, an evangelist, a social activist, scientist, lexicographer, writer and lecturer. As an American missionary in China, she became a local teacher and evangelist, struggling to reconcile her Baptist upbringing with her restless intellect. As an energetic social activist, she was a major figure in the suffragist movement, the abolition of the slave trade and the founding of two hospitals. As a scientist she conducted seminal research which is still discussed and studied today. This book provides an in-depth biographical study of the life of this remarkable woman, exploring her impact on her contemporary society, and her abiding influence on the scientific and academic communities to the present day. The author examines the social and religious constraints on Fielde's life and work and discusses her efforts to transcend these through the construction of a personal system of belief which emphasized the importance of helping others. He demonstrates how, as a woman of immense energy and intellectual ability, she was able to influence the scientific and political communities despite their prevailing negative attitude towards women. Adele Marion Fielde will be of vital interest to scholars concerned with the study of gender and the history of science.
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    Series Statement: ASAA Women in Asia Series
    DDC: 305.409598
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-1960 ; Frauenbewegung ; Indonesien
    Abstract: This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions the meaning of democratization for women and their relationship to national sovereignty within the new Indonesian state, and discusses women's organizations and their activities; women's social and economic roles; and the different cultural, regional and ethnic attitudes towards women, while showing the failure of political change to fully address women's gender interests and needs. The author argues that both the role of nationalism in defining gender identity and the role of gender in defining national identity need equal recognition.
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    ISBN: 9780203300039
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    DDC: 303.340951
    Abstract: Who are the top political leaders in China? What are the major criteria in elite recruitment? How is job promotion in high politics determined? By studying over one and a half thousand top political Chinese leaders, this book seeks to answer these questions and, as a result, defines how Chinese leadership is stratified. Unlike existing research on Chinese leaders, Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China draws on extensive statistical information and data analysis. It evidences how political development in the reform era has led to the division of labour between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the government in governance, leading to two distinctive career paths in the two political systems respectively. Key issues examined include: * the different criteria the CCP and the government demand * the requirements for promotion * the effect of university education on the rate of mobility * the different affiliations of the two groups * the role of cooptation in leadership selection. Many of the elites discussed are still leading figures in China, making this book the most up-to-date and extensive biographical data set in elite studies. This allows for a meaningful analysis of elite behaviour in China for the first time in Chinese Studies. This book will be useful to both students of Chinese studies and comparative politics and will also interest researchers, political commentators, statesmen and China-watchers.
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    ISBN: 9780203317570
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages)
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    Series Statement: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    DDC: 306.4/84
    Abstract: This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different periods. Above all it shows how folk "tradition" in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented, and it demonstrates in particular how the "folk revival" has played a key role in strengthening Russian national consciousness in the post-Soviet period.
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    ISBN: 9780203392195
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    Series Statement: Understanding Social Change
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    Abstract: Today's news media is full of references to 'globalization' - a buzz word that is quickly becoming ubiquitous. But what exactly is globalization? What are its main driving forces? Does it truly embrace all aspects of our lives, from economics to cultural developments? A Globalizing World? examines these and other key questions in a highly accessible fashion, offering a clear and intelligent guide to the big ideas and debates of our time. In doing so, it does not take one particular stance for or against globalizaton; rather, it examines the arguments and evidence about its nature, form and impact. After introducing the main theoretical positions of those who have studied the subject, key chapters look at the changing form of modern communication and cultural industries, trade patterns and financial flows of the world economy, and whether or not the 'new political world order' is qualitatively different from the old state system. This is essential reading for all students of politics, economics and international relations.
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    Series Statement: Politics in Asia
    DDC: 306.2/0959
    Abstract: With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for example Confucianism in Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, Islam in Malaysia and the Panca Sila in Indonesia. Here, communitarianism arguably informs public policies and political practices and the concept of the 'social' in terms of responsibilities and collective welfare is preserved. Communitarian Politics in Asia examines instances in southeast and east Asian countries where communitarianism is both articulated as national ideology and embedded as the ethos of social life and assesses the relative merits of a set of practices in their respective local political context. The book not only augments existing international debate on liberalism and communitarianism but also provides empirical examples of communitarian political practices that will substantiate and/or refute conceptual points, such as redistributive justice and costs to individuals, in this ongoing debate.
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    Abstract: Crossing Cultures provides a bold and refreshing new resource for teachers and trainers with proven methods for developing coping strategies and problem-solving skills in the cross-cultural arena. A comprehensive study structured to provide a framework for teaching; each chapter contains a teaching module, highlighting the potential difficulties, dialogues and variations in cross-cultural teaching. Ideal for those teaching Business across borders, this is a uniquely practical guide that features contributions from the leading lights of the field.
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    DDC: 305.6/7/09548
    Abstract: This book tells the story of how Catholic and Protestant Indians have attempted to locate themselves within the evolving Indian nation. Ironically, British rule in India did not privilege Christians, but pushed them to the margins of a predominantly Hindu society. Drawing upon wide-ranging sources, the book first explains how the Indian judiciary's 'official knowledge' isolated Christians from Indian notions of family, caste and nation. It then describes how different varieties and classes of Christians adopted, resisted and reshaped both imperial and nationalist perceptions of their identity. Within a climate of rising communal tension in India, this study finds immediate relevance.
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    ISBN: 9780520929906
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    Series Statement: Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies of China v.3
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    Abstract: Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals-from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Why this should be-how Beida's historical importance has come to transcend that of a mere institution of higher learning--is a question at the heart of this book. A study of intellectuals and political culture during the past century's tumultuous early decades, The Power of Position is the first to focus on Beida, China's oldest and best-known national university. Timothy B. Weston portrays the university as a key locus used by intellectuals to increase their influence in society. Weston analyzes the links between intellectuals' political and cultural commitments and their specific manner of living. He also compares Beijing's intellectual culture with that of the rising metropolis of Shanghai. What emerges is a remarkably nuanced and complex picture of life at China's leading university, especially in the decades leading up to the May Fourth Movement.
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    ISBN: 9780203167533
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (167 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism (Routledge Critical Realism) v.2
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    Abstract: This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it. This is an important book for sociologists and anyone working in the social sciences, and for all those concerned with the methodology, and philosophy, of social science.
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    ISBN: 9780520937178
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (259 pages)
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    Keywords: Musikethnologie ; Weltmusik ; Ensemble ; Volksmusikgruppe ; Musikerziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning processes. Their perspectives, drawing upon expertise in Caribbean steelband, Indian, Balinese, Javanese, Philippine, Mexican, Central and West African, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Jewish klezmer ensembles, provide a uniquely informed and many-faceted view of this complicated and rapidly changing landscape. The authors examine the creative and pedagogical negotiations involved in intergenerational and intercultural transmission and explore topics such as reflexivity, representation, hegemony, and aesthetically determined interaction. Performing Ethnomusicology affords sophisticated insights into the structuring of ethnomusicologists' careers and methodologies. This book offers an unprecedented rich history and contemporary examination of academic world music performance in the West, especially in the United States. "Performing Ethnomusicology is an important book not only within the field of ethnomusicology itself, but for scholars in all disciplines engaged in aspects of performance-historical musicology, anthropology, folklore, and cultural studies. The individual articles offer a provocative and disparate array of threads and themes, which Solís skillfully weaves together in his introductory essay. A book of great importance and long overdue."-R. Anderson Sutton, author of Calling Back the Spirit Contributors: Gage Averill, Kelly Gross, David Harnish, Mantle Hood, David W. Hughes, Michelle Kisliuk, David Locke, Scott Marcus, Hankus Netsky,...
    Abstract: Ali Jihad Racy, Anne K. Rasmussen, Ted Solís, Hardja Susilo, Sumarsam, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Roger Vetter, J. Lawrence Witzleben.
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    ISBN: 9780203379493
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (190 pages)
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    Keywords: Interpersonale Kommunikation ; Konversationsanalyse ; Nichtverbale Kommunikation ; Materialität ; Aufgabensammlung
    Abstract: Our perception of our everyday interactions is shaped by more than what is said. From coffee with friends to interviews, meetings with colleagues and conversations with strangers, we draw on both verbal and non-verbal behaviour to judge and consider our experiences. Analyzing Multimodal Interaction is a practical guide to understanding and investigating the multiple modes of communication, and provides an essential guide for those undertaking field work in a range of disciplines, including linguistics, sociology, education, anthropology and psychology. The book offers a clear methodology to help the reader carry out their own integrative analysis, equipping them with the tools they need to analyze a situation from different points of view. Drawing on research into conversational analysis and non-verbal behaviour such as body movement and gaze, it also considers the role of the material world in our interactions, exploring how we use space and objects - such as our furniture and clothes - to express ourselves. Considering a range of real examples, such as traffic police officers at work, doctor-patient meetings, teachers and students, and friends reading magazines together, the book offers lively demonstrations of multimodal discourse at work. Illustrated throughout and featuring a mini-glossary in each chapter, further reading, and advice on practical issues such as making transcriptions and video and audio recordings, this practical guide is an essential resource for anyone interested in the multiple modes of human interaction.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 pages)
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    Abstract: Several recent analyses have focused on how social and cultural factors shape development, but less well understood are the individual constructive processes involved in this interplay. This volume showcases varied theoretical and empirical approaches to how individual, social and cultural factors shape development, and suggests new directions for future scholarship.
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    ISBN: 9780203299739
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (169 pages)
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    Keywords: Wissenschaftssoziologie
    Abstract: The world around us is continually being shaped by science, and by society's relationship to it. In recent years sociologists have been increasingly preoccupied with the latter, and now in this fascinating book, Massimiano Bucchi provides a brief introduction to this topical issue. Bucchi provides clear and unassuming summaries of all the major theoretical positions within the sociology of science, illustrated with many fascinating examples. Theories covered include Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific change, the sociology of scientific knowledge, actor-network theory, and the social construction of technology. The second half of the book looks at recent public controversies over the role of science in the modern world including: * the Sokal affair, otherwise known as the science wars * debates over public understanding of science, such as global warming and genetically modified food * the implications of the human genome project. This much needed introduction to a rapidly growing area brings theory alive and will be essential reading for all students of the sociology of science.
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    ISBN: 9780203417454
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought v.40
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    Keywords: Habermas, Jürgen ; Adorno, Theodor W. ; Sozialphilosophie
    Abstract: Theodor W. Adorno and Jnrgen Habermas both champion the goal of a rational society. However, they differ significantly about what this society should look like and how best to achieve it. Exploring the premises shared by both critical theorists, along with their profound disagreements about social conditions today, this book defends Adorno against Habermas' influential criticisms of his account of Western society and prospects for achieving reasonable conditions of human life. The book begins with an overview of these critical theories of Western society. Both Adorno and Habermas follow Georg Lukacs when they argue that domination consists in the reifying extension of a calculating, rationalizing form of thought to all areas of human life. Their views about reification are discussed in the second chapter. In chapter three the author explores their conflicting accounts of the historical emergence and development of the type of rationality now prevalent in the West. Since Adorno and Habermas claim to have a critical purchase on reified social life, the critical leverage of their theories is assessed in chapter four. The final chapter deals with their opposing views about what a rational society would look like, as well as their claims about the prospects for establishing such a society. Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society will be essential reading for students and researchers of critical theory, political theory and the work of Adorno and Habermas.
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    ISBN: 9781410611512
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (161 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
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    Abstract: This thought-provoking volume offers an innovative and intriguing approach to the study of long-distance relationships. Author Laura Stafford examines romantic long-distance relationships and then expands the conception of long-distance relationships to include other relational types. She summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types. In so doing, she reconsiders approaches to and offers an expanded vision of relational maintenance. By expanding her scope beyond romantic relationships, Stafford includes those that span residences and relational types, such as noncustodial parent-child and geographically and residentially separated adult children and parents. She contends that face-to-face interaction is not necessary to maintain healthy relationships, and questions the assumption that maintaining, rather than terminating, a particular relationship is always best for the involved parties. With its interdisciplinary approach to challenging commonly held assumptions about communication and close relationships, Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships will be engaging reading for scholars in communication, psychology, sociology, mass communication, and family studies. It is also appropriate for special topics graduate courses on long-distance relationships and human communication, and will serve as a unique supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in interpersonal, relational, and family communication and family studies.
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    ISBN: 9780203414149
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
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    DDC: 306.3/09173/2090511
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    Keywords: Stadt ; Postmoderne ; Konsumgesellschaft
    Abstract: The fact that we inhabit a consumer society has incredibly far-reaching implications. Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this book assesses the ways in which consumerism is reshaping the nature and meaning of the city. It examines the nature of consumption and its increasing centrality to post-modern society by; *considering the development of consumerism as a central facet of social life *demonstrating that social inequalities are increasingly structured around consumption *uncovering the hidden consequences of consumerism *pondering the meaning of lifestyle *revealing how the nature of reality is changing in an age of globalization. Employing a sustained and engaging theoretical analysis, the book ranges across a variety of sometimes unexpected topics. It represents an impassioned plea for everyone interested in the social life of cities to take the notion of the consumer society - and the arguments of its major theorists - seriously.
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    ISBN: 9780203448601
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
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    Series Statement: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    DDC: 303.4/0947
    Abstract: This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not paid for months on end, 'the New Poor', the falling birth rate, why so many Russian men die in middle age, whether regional identities are becoming stronger, and how people's sense of 'Russianness' has developed since the creation of the Russian Federation in 1992. It examines these issues by looking at actual experiences in three small Russian towns. It includes a great deal of original ethnographic research, and, by looking at real places overall, provides a good sense of how different aspects of social change are interlinked, and how they actually affect real people's lives.
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    ISBN: 9780203180488
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
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    Series Statement: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    DDC: 305.5/2/0947
    Abstract: Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the crucial strategic actors in reshaping Russia's economy, democratising its political system and decentralising its administration. This book analyses the role of elites under Yeltsin and Putin, discussing the extent to which they form a coherent political culture, and how far this culture has been in step with, or at odds with, the reform policies of the Kremlin leadership.
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    ISBN: 9780203323113
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (178 pages)
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    DDC: 305.230904
    Keywords: Sozialer Wandel ; Kind
    Abstract: In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in modern society. He critically examines 'the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering some of its key assumptions and positions and arguing that childhood is heterogeneous and complex. The study of childhood requires a broad set of intellectual resources and an interdisciplinary approach. Chapters include: the changing social and cultural character of contemporary childhood and the weakening boundary between adulthood and childhood a look back at the emergence of childhood studies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the nature/culture dichotomy the role of material artefacts and technologies in the construction of contemporary childhood. This book is essential reading for students and academics in the field of childhood studies, sociology and education.
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in European Politics v.20
    DDC: 305.42/0946
    Abstract: This book provides an up-to-date critical assessment of gender in Spain with reference to the key social and political fields. It addresses aspects of women's experience such as the public spheres of elective politics, public policy-making and the labour market. This is underpinned by an in-depth analysis of underlying dynamics and structures that contribute to shaping gender relations in Spain, including women's activism, the family and the state social security system.
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    ISBN: 9780203339367
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    Abstract: Offering a fresh and exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, this absorbing book investigates how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference. Exploring the topics of assortative mating; social capital; friendship networks and cultural identity; the book examines how hierarchy affects our tastes and leisure time activities, and who we choose (and hang on to) as our friends and partners. This book: * introduces debates on stratification by exploring its effect on everyday social relations * relates class inequalities to broader processes of social division and cultural differentiation, exploring the associational and cultural aspects of hierarchy * explores how groups draw on social, economic and cultural resources, using cultural 'cues', to admit some and exclude others from their social circle * explores new theoretical approaches to stratification: drawing on cultural theories of class, social interaction approaches, and research on differential association The book has a novel and fresh new way of looking at a well-established area in sociology - social stratification.
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    ISBN: 9780203335093
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (217 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
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    Keywords: Palästinafrage ; Juden ; Palästinenser ; Gruppenidentität ; Politisches Lernen ; Israel
    Abstract: The central objective of this book is to analyze the characteristics of the social contexts and environments in conflict situations, and the impact that these socializing environments may have on the political learning and emerging citizenship orientations of youngsters. Special attention is given to the socializing environments of Palestinian and Israeli youngsters, drawing on material recently collected in Israel. Ichilov's incisive research uses a multilevel and interdisciplinary approach to argue that political learning is structured within social environments and that there are fundamental differences between the socializing environments in conflict and non-conflict situations.
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    ISBN: 9780203338674
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (268 pages)
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    Abstract: Social Identities: Multidisciplinary Approaches attempts to make sense of the increasingly complex ways in which we define ourselves and others. It recognises that we are not simply individuals, or members of a certain class or a certain nationality. Rather, each of us comprises a rich blend of various identities. The book provides not only an eclectic spectrum of the forms of identity and influences through which identities are formed, but also critical treatment of the theoretical tools used to understand these phenomena.
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    ISBN: 9780203335352
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (285 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/33/091724
    Abstract: This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Third World. Whereas the concept of the "digital divide" tends to focus on technological and quantitative indicators, this work stresses the crucial role played by the political regime type, the pursued development model and the specific configuration of actors and decision-making dynamics. Two starkly contrasting Third World countries, state-socialist Cuba and the Latin America's "show-case democracy" Costa Rica, were chosen for two in-depth empirical country studies.
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    DDC: 303.48/2730596/0904
    Abstract: Spanning from the first US contacts with Cambodia in the 19th century up until the late 1960s and the outbreak of war with Vietnam, this book is the first to systematically explore American relations with Cambodia. A discussion of adventurers, tourists and missionaries initially sets the scene for the analysis of official relations which began in 1950. The book traces how relations with Cambodia's king, Norodom Sihanouk, were often troubled as Sihanouk strove to keep his country out of the Cold War even when pressured by the US to join the battle against communism.
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    ISBN: 9780203390603
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies on China in Transition v.21
    DDC: 306.450951
    Abstract: China's Scientific Elite is a study of those scientists holding China's highest academic honour - membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Having carried out extensive systematic data collection of CAS members Cao examines the social stratification system of the Chinese science community and the way in which politics and political interference has effected the stratification. The book then goes on to compare the Chinese system to the stratification of the US scientific elite. The conclusions are fascinating, not least because one national elite resides in a democratic liberal social system, and the other in an authoritarian social system.
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    ISBN: 9780203448694
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Human Geography v.10
    DDC: 306.34
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    Abstract: Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of (for example) production, distribution, retailing, design, advertising, marketing and final consumption. This timely volume draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation and consumption of commodities. Not only do these case study examples seek to transcend older understandings of production and consumption, but they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the meanings, origins and biographies of commodities. Taking a geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers and consumers, the book focuses upon the ways in which these ties increasingly are stretched across spaces and places. Critical engagements with the ways in which these spaces and places affect the economies, cultures and politics of the connections between producers and consumers are skilfully threaded through each section.
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    ISBN: 9780203299616
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
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    Series Statement: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series
    DDC: 304.6/0952
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Bevölkerungspolitik ; Japan
    Abstract: This book analyzes the political economy of reproduction and its role in the process of Japanese modernization. Hiroko analyzes state attempts and policies to intervene into women's bodies and everyday lives to integrate them into the Japanese political economy. Based on Foucault's concept of governmentality the author develops a model to assess reproduction in three forms - economic, biological and socio-political - from 1868 until the present day.
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    ISBN: 9780203300237
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    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Literacy
    DDC: 302.2/244/091724
    Abstract: Women's literacy is often assumed to be the key to promoting better health, family planning and nutrition in the developing world. This has dominated much development research and has led to women's literacy being promoted by governments and aid agencies as the key to improving the lives of poor families. High dropout rates from literacy programmes suggest that the assumed link between women's literacy and development can be disputed. This book explores why women themselves want to learn to read and write and why, all too often, they decide that literacy classes are not for them. Bringing together the experiences of researchers, policy makers and practitioners working in more than a dozen countries, this edited volume presents alternative viewpoints on gender, development and literacy through detailed first-hand accounts. Rather than seeing literacy as a set of technical skills to be handed over in classrooms, these writers give new meaning to key terms such as 'barriers', 'culture', 'empowerment' and 'motivation'. Divided into three sections, this text examines new research approaches, a gendered perspective on literacy policy and programming, and implementation of literacy projects in African, Asian and South American contexts. With new insights and groundbreaking research, this collection will interest academics and professionals working in the fields of development, education and gender studies.
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    ISBN: 9780203420409
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    DDC: 305.42
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    Keywords: Feminismus ; Frauenbewegung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Over the last two decades there has been considerable enthusiasm for the concept of civil society amongst researchers, practitioners and activists. Yet despite this enthusiasm for the concept, the gendered nature of civil society and the impact of feminist organizing on civil society has received minimal attention. This edited volume seeks to address this gap, and considers: * how the political environment and nature of the state shapes the way women organize, the issues they address, and their capacity to affect changes in state policies on gender * is the women's movement structurally different from other civil society organizations? * does the gender lens alter our vision of civil society? The chapters in this volume pursue two or more of these questions and cover a diversity of contexts, including the US, East and Central Europe, China, the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia, Central America and Chile. This book not only draws together the concepts of gender and civil society, but also adopts an international perspective, highlighting the diverse trajectories of women organizing in different country contexts and the historical, cultural and political specificities of civil society.
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    ISBN: 9780203338070
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    Series Statement: The Ancient World from A to Z
    DDC: 392.609
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    Keywords: Antike ; Sexualität ; Wörterbuch
    Abstract: In this fascinating and revealing A-to-Z, John G. Younger examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and Caligula, to orgies and obscenity, and from abstinence and incest, to pederasty and prostitution. The book opens with an overview of current thinking on ancient sex and sexuality, and goes on to provide an extraordinarily wide coverage of a sexual culture so very different from our own, approaching the subject from the perspectives of literature, history, archaeology and art. Comprehensive, reliable and eye-opening, this A-to-Z illuminates an important aspect of the classical world. For those who want to take their reading further, there are numerous references to ancient sources and modern scholarship, as well as a separate section of works of art. This is an ideal introduction to and exploration of sex in the ancient world for readers at every level.
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    ISBN: 9780203339978
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
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    Series Statement: Comedia
    DDC: 305.8/00941
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    Keywords: Kulturerbe ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being a peripheral concern, are at the core of how a nation's heritage is represented and imagined? This book interrogates just whose past gets to count as part of 'British heritage'. Bringing together a wide range of contributors, including academics, practitioners, policy makers and curators, it examines how many different of types of heritage - from football to stately homes, experience attractions to education - deal with the complex legacies of the idea of 'race'. Whether exploring the fallout of colonialism, the domination of 'England' over the other three nations, holocaust memorials, or the way British heritage is negotiated overseas, a recurring theme of this book is the need to accept that Britain has always been a place of shifting ethnicities, shaped by waves of migration, diaspora and globalization. Analyzing both theory and practice, this book is concerned with understanding the processes through which changes to heritage happens, and with exploring problems and possibilities for the future.
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    ISBN: 9780203309506
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
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    Keywords: Stereotyp ; Rassismus ; Sexualverhalten ; Vorurteil ; Schwarze ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Situation ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; USA
    Abstract: In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today.
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    ISBN: 9780203411650
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics v.2
    DDC: 306.85
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    Abstract: The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time.  In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family policy. The contributors: * show how social institutions limit the choices that individuals can make about how to divide their time between paid and unpaid work * challenge conventional surveys that offer simplistic measures of time spent in childcare or elder care * summarize empirical evidence concerning trends in time devoted to the care of family members * debate ways of assigning a monetary value to this time. This informative and enlightening book is well researched, well thought through and well written.  An important read for students of feminist economics, sociology and gender studies, the contributors here argue that time is not money, in fact time is more important than money.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937512
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (355 pages)
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    DDC: 306/.1
    Abstract: Heaven's Gate, a secretive group of celibate "monks" awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide. As a way of understanding such perplexing events, many have seen those who join cults as needy, lost souls, unable to think for themselves.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937468
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (303 pages)
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    DDC: 304.8/73/00922
    Keywords: Einwanderung ; USA ; Erlebnisbericht
    Abstract: A Korean street child is adopted into an upper-middle-class suburban home. A Vietnamese monk dishes up fast food to fund a spiritual center. A woman saves for a home back in Ghana, where she will never live. All are immigrants to the United States, known to most of their fellow Americans only as statistics.
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    ISBN: 9780203356548
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (205 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    DDC: 305.42/01
    Abstract: The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher, linguist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray and premodern writers, ranging from Empedocles and Homer, to Shakespeare, Spenser and Donne. They explore both the pre-Enlightenment roots of Luce Irigaray's thought, and the impact that her writings have had on our understanding of ancient, medieval and Renaissance culture. Luce Irigaray has been a major figure in Anglo-American literary theory, philosophy and gender studies ever since her germinal works, Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One, were published in English translation in 1985. This collection is the first sustained examination of Irigaray's crucial relationship to premodern discourses underpinning Western culture, and of the transformative effect she has had on scholars working in pre-Enlightenment periods. Like Irigaray herself, the essays work at the intersections of gender, theory, historicism and language. This collection offers powerful ways of understanding premodern texts through Irigaray's theories that allow us to imagine our past and present relationship to economics, science, psychoanalysis, gender, ethics and social communities in new ways.
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    ISBN: 9780203391181
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (217 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    DDC: 303.6/0942/09034
    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1800-1900 ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Kriminalität ; England
    Abstract: This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence. It explores the meaning of violence through an accessible mixture of detailed empirical research and a broad survey of cutting-edge historical theory. The author discusses topics such as street fighting, policing, sports, community discipline and domestic violence and shows how the nineteenth century established enduring patterns in views of violence. Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-Century England will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers of modern British history, social and cultural history and criminology.
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    ISBN: 9780203417287
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series v.2
    DDC: 306.766209510903
    Keywords: Geschichte 1644-1911 ; Chinesische Oper ; Schauspieler ; Homosexualität ; Mann ; Erotische Literatur ; China
    Abstract: Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China is the richest exploration to date of late imperial Chinese literati interest in male love. Employing primary sources such as miscellanies, poetry, fiction and 'flower guides', Wu Cuncun argues that male homoeroticism played a central role in the cultural life of late imperial Chinese literati elites. Countering recent arguments that homosexuality was marginal and disparaged during this period, the book also seeks to trace the relationship of homoeroticism to status and power. In addition to historical portraits and analysis, the book also advances the concept of 'sensibilities' as a method for interpreting the complex range of homoerotic texts produced in late imperial China.
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    ISBN: 9780520936416
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (292 pages)
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    DDC: 305.868/7295077311
    Abstract: The Near Northwest Side Story is a fascinating account of transnational migration as survival strategy, one bound up in kin, region, and gender. Gina M. Perez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico - two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information.
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    ISBN: 9780203323434
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (162 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture v.2
    DDC: 792.7
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-1960 ; Jazz ; Kabarett ; New York, NY
    Abstract: Gigs provides a fascinating account of a unique victory for musicians against repressive entertainment licensing laws. It provides a much-needed study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change in law and public attitudes toward vernacular music in New York City. This second edition includes a new preface by Hamish Birchall and an introduction by the series editors, Guy Osborn and Steve Greenfield, as well as an afterword by the author, and it will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of social attitudes toward the popular arts and the use of constitutional litigation for social change.
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    ISBN: 9780203392270
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
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    Series Statement: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    DDC: 338.4791
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    Abstract: Due to its centrality to the processes of transnational mobilities, migration and globalization, tourism studies has the potential to make a significant contribution to understanding the postcolonial experience. Drawing together theoretical and applied research, this fascinating book illuminates the links between tourism, colonialism and postcolonialism. Significantly, it creates a space for the voices of authors from postcolonial countries. Chapters are integrated and examined through concepts taken from the wider postcolonial literature, which identify tourism not only as an international industry but also as a postcolonial cultural form, which by its very nature is based on past and present day colonial structural relationships. The first book to explicitly explore the contribution tourism can make to the postcolonial experience, this book is an essential read for students of tourism, cultural studies and geography.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520937758 , 0520937759 , 0520238532 , 9780520238534 , 0520240979 , 9780520240971 , 1597349607 , 9781597349604
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 195 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Partner, Simon Toshié
    DDC: 306.85209520904
    Keywords: Sakaue, Toshié 1925- ; Sakaue, Toshié 1925- ; Sakaue, Toshié ; Sakaue, Toshi?e 1925- ; Sakaue, Toshié ; Rural families History ; 20th century ; Japan ; Villages History ; 20th century ; Japan ; Familles rurales Histoire ; 20e siècle ; Japon ; Villages Histoire ; 20e siècle ; Japon ; Villages History 20th century ; Rural families History 20th century ; Dagelijks leven ; Gezin ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family ; Villages ; Platteland ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference ; Rural conditions ; Rural families ; History ; Social conditions ; Japan Rural conditions ; 20th century ; Yokogoshi-mura (Japan) Social conditions ; 20th century ; Japon Conditions rurales ; 20e siècle ; Yokogoshi (Japon) Conditions sociales ; 20e siècle ; Yokogoshi-mura (Japan) Social conditions 20th century ; Japan Rural conditions 20th century ; History ; Japan Rural conditions 20th century ; Japan ; Yokogoshi-mura ; Japan ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Sakaue Toshie was born on August 14, 1925, into a family of tenant farmers and day laborers in the hamlet of Kosugi. The world she entered was one of hard labor, poverty, dirt, disease, and frequent early death. By the 1970s, that rural world had changed almost beyond recognition
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    ISBN: 9780203414415
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
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    DDC: 305.48/9664/09495
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    Keywords: Dorf ; Lesbische Orientierung ; Soziale Identität ; Dorfgemeinschaft ; Geschlechterrolle ; Griechenland
    Abstract: This extraordinary book opens up the strange world of the 'parea' - a lesbian secret society based in a small-town bar outside Athens, whose members meet clandestinely to drink, dance and flirt. Though conducting intense sexual affairs under the noses of other customers, the parea's members - many of whom are married with children and have perfectly conventional lives by Greek standards - do not identify themselves as gay and have very negative images of homosexuality. Based entirely on fieldwork within the parea, For The Love of Women weaves stories of women's lives and relationships into an intriguing and perceptive analysis.
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    ISBN: 9780203311851
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (666 pages)
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    Series Statement: Key Readings in Social Psychology
    DDC: 302.34
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    Keywords: Interpersonale Wahrnehmung ; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung ; Sozialpsychologie ; Interaktion
    Abstract: Each of the chapters in this reader is written by leading scholars in the area of relationships, reflecting the diversity of the field and including both contemporary and key historical papers for comprehensive coverage of research.
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    ISBN: 9780203311349
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy v.69
    DDC: 302/.13
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    ISBN: 9780203329757
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages)
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    DDC: 780
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    Keywords: Popmusik ; Folk music ; Propaganda ; Protestbewegung ; Politischer Protest ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Music, Power, and Politics presents sixteen different cultural perspectives on the concept of music as a site of socio-political struggle. Essays by scholars from around the world explore the means by which music's long-acknowledged potential to persuade, seduce, indoctrinate, rouse, incite, or even silence listeners, has been used to advance agendas of power and protest. The essays included examine: music used to convey political ideology in Nazi Germany, apartheid-era South Africa, and modern-day North Korea postcolonial musical efforts to reclaim ethnic heritage in Serbia and the Caribbean music as a means of establishing new cultural identities for recently empowered social groups in the UK and Brazil the subversion of racial stereotypes through popular music in the USA music as a tool of popular resistance to oppressive government policies in modern day Iran and the Bolivian Andes.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520930964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (206 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.482
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Kultur ; Bildung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and large-scale immigration are affecting children and youth, both in and out of schools. Taking into consideration broad historical, cultural, technological, and demographic changes, the contributors-all leading social scientists in their fields-suggest that these global transformations will require youth to develop new skills, sensibilities, and habits of mind that are far ahead of what most educational systems can now deliver. Drawing from comparative and interdisciplinary materials, the authors examine the complex psychological, sociocultural, and historical implications of globalization for children and youth growing up today. The book explores why new and broader global visions are needed to educate children and youth to be informed, engaged, and critical citizens in the new millennium. Published in association with the Ross Institute.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520931855 , 0520931858 , 159734723X , 9781597347235
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 334 pages) , maps
    DDC: 001.94
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    Abstract: During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria's incarnations across cultures, from Victorian-era science to Euro-American occultism to colonial and postcolonial India. The Lost Land of Lemuria widens into a provocative exploration of the poetics and politics of loss to consider how this sentiment manifests itself in a fascination with vanished homelands, hidden ci.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520930207 , 1417525746 , 9780520930209 , 9781417525744
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 284 pages)
    Series Statement: California series in public anthropology 6
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    DDC: 947.5/2
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    Keywords: Civil War (Chechni͡a / 1994- ) ; HISTORY. ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Social aspects ; HUMAN RIGHTS IN ARMED CONFLICTS. ; POLITICAL VIOLENCE. ; ETHNIC CONFLICT. ; POLITICAL CONDITIONS. ; WAR VICTIMS. ; CHECHNYA (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) ; RUSSIAN FEDERATION. ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Lebensbedingungen ; Zweiter Tschetschenienkrieg ; Gesellschaft ; Krieg ; Kultur ; Tschetschenien ; Zweiter Tschetschenienkrieg ; Gesellschaft ; Kultur ; Tschetschenien ; Krieg ; Lebensbedingungen
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index , This is an illumination of one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective - that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov examines the evolution of the war in Chechnya that erupted in 1994, untangling the myths and the long-held resentments that have fueled the crisis
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520922938
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (461 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Life Passages v.3
    DDC: 306.9
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    Abstract: How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country-and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of the inevitable end. In this book a preeminent and eminently wise writer on death and dying proposes a new way of understanding our last transition. A fresh exploration of the final passage through life and perhaps through death, his work deftly interweaves historical and contemporary experiences and reflections to demonstrate that we are always on our way. Drawing on a remarkable range of observations-from psychology, anthropology, religion, biology, and personal experience-Robert Kastenbaum re-envisions life's forward-looking progress, from early-childhood bedtime rituals to the many small rehearsals we stage for our final separation. Along the way he illuminates such moments and ideas as becoming a "corpsed person," going down to earth or up in flames, respecting or abusing (and eating) the dead, coping with "too many dead," conceiving and achieving a "good death," undertaking the journey of the dead, and learning to live through the scrimmage of daily life fully knowing that Eternity does not really come in a designer flask. Profound, insightful, often moving, this look at death as many cultures await it or approach it enriches our understanding of life as a never-ending passage.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520936874 , 0520936876 , 1417522593 , 9781417522590
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 275 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Taking back the streets
    DDC: 303.484098
    Keywords: Women Political activity ; Chile ; Women Political activity ; Argentina ; Women Political activity ; Spain ; Youth Political activity ; Chile ; Youth Political activity ; Argentina ; Youth Political activity ; Spain ; Protest movements Chile ; Protest movements Argentina ; Protest movements Spain ; Argentina ; Chile ; Spain ; Women Political activity ; Women Political activity ; Women Political activity ; Youth Political activity ; Youth Political activity ; Youth Political activity ; Protest movements ; Protest movements ; Protest movements ; Youth Political activity ; Youth Political activity ; Youth Political activity ; Protest movements ; Protest movements ; Protest movements ; Women Political activity ; Women Political activity ; Women Political activity ; Women ; Political activity ; Youth ; Political activity ; Gender Studies & Sexuality ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Social Sciences ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Protest movements ; Argentina ; Chile ; Spain ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Taking back the streets -- Staying alive through struggle -- Pots and pans will break my bones -- Democracy in the country and in the streets -- Searching and remembering -- Memory through mobilization -- Youth finds a way -- Demonstrating to remember in Spain -- Mobilizing for democracy.
    Abstract: Toward the end of the twentieth century in places ranging from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe, the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Japan, China, and South Asia, women and young people took to the streets to fight injustices they believed they could not confront in any other way
    Description / Table of Contents: Taking back the streetsStaying alive through struggle -- Pots and pans will break my bones -- Democracy in the country and in the streets -- Searching and remembering -- Memory through mobilization -- Youth finds a way -- Demonstrating to remember in Spain -- Mobilizing for democracy.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | [Ann Arbor, Michigan] : [ProQuest]
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 311 p. , Ill, maps.
    Series Statement: California series in public anthropology 8
    DDC: 972.8105/2
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520930490
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 781.24095982
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    Keywords: Gamelan ; Zentraljava
    Abstract: The gamelan music of Central Java is one of the world's great orchestral traditions. Its rich sonic texture is not based on Western-style harmony or counterpoint, but revolves around a single melody. The nature of that melody, however, is puzzling. In this book, Marc Perlman uses this puzzle as a key to both the art of the gamelan and the nature of musical knowledge in general. Some Javanese musicians have suggested that the gamelan's central melody is inaudible, an implicit or "inner" melody. Yet even musicians who agree on its existence may disagree about its shape. Drawing on the insights of Java's most respected musicians, Perlman shows how irregularities in the relationships between the melodic parts have suggested the existence of "unplayed melodies." To clarify the differences between these implicit-melody concepts, Unplayed Melodies tells the stories behind their formulation, identifying each as the creative contribution of an individual musician in a postcolonial context (sometimes in response to Western ethnomusicological theories). But these stories also contain evidence of the general cognitive processes through which musicians find new ways to conceptualize their music. Perlman's inquiry into these processes illuminates not only the gamelan's polyphonic art, but also the very sources of creative thinking about music.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520238745 , 0520238311
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 322 p
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 780/.89
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    Keywords: Ethnomusicology ; World music Instruction and study ; Folk music groups ; Weltmusik ; Volksmusikgruppe ; Ensemble ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Weltmusik ; Ensemble ; Volksmusikgruppe
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-302) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520231900 , 9780520927964
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 266 p.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.3/64
    Keywords: Hunting, Prehistoric ; Paleo-Indians Hunting ; Hunting and gathering societies ; Indianer ; Paläoethnologie ; Jagd ; USA Weststaaten ; USA Weststaaten ; Indianer ; Jagd ; Paläoethnologie
    Description / Table of Contents: Where the buffalo once roamed -- The education of a hunter -- Paleoindian hunters and extinct animals -- The North American bison -- The North American pronghorn -- The rocky mountain sheep -- Hunting the deer, elk, and other creatures -- Weaponry and tools used by the hunter -- Concluding thoughts
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520930964 , 9781597346351 , 0520929136 , 9780520929135 , 0520930967 , 1417525460 , 9781417525461 , 0520241231 , 9780520241237 , 0520241258 , 9780520241251 , 1597346357
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 275 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Globalization
    DDC: 303.482
    Keywords: Globalization ; Education ; Culture ; Electronic books ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization ; EDUCATION ; General ; Culture ; Education ; Globalization ; EDUCATION ; CULTURE ; GLOBALIZATION ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and large-scale immigration are affecting children and youth, both in and out of schools
    Note: "The Ross Institute. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520930025 , 0520930029
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvii, 200 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel More damned lies and statistics
    DDC: 303.38
    Keywords: Sociology Statistical methods ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Social indicators ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Sociology Statistical methods ; Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Social indicators ; Social problems ; Statistical methods ; Sociology ; Statistical methods ; Missbrauch ; Sozialstatistik ; Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek ; Statistieken ; Kritiek (algemeen) ; Sociale problemen ; Problemy społeczne ; metody statystyczne ; Socjologia ; metody statystyczne ; Wskaźniki rozwoju społecznego ; Electronic books ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining the importance of critical thinking in all matters numerical, Best illustrates his points with examples of good and bad statistics about such contemporary concerns as school shootings, fatal hospital errors, bullying, teen suicides, deaths at the
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520937413 , 0520937414
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 312 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Family of woman
    DDC: 306.874308664
    Keywords: Lesbian mothers Case studies ; United States ; Children of gay parents Case studies ; United States ; Sex role Case studies ; United States ; Lesbian mothers Case studies ; Children of gay parents Case studies ; Sex role Case studies ; Sex role Case studies ; Lesbian mothers Case studies ; Children of gay parents Case studies ; Lesbian mothers United States ; Children of gay parents United States ; Sex role United States ; Electronic books United States ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Parenting ; Motherhood ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Children of gay parents ; Lesbian mothers ; Sex role ; Case studies ; United States ; Electronic books Case studies ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Amidst the shrill and discordant notes struck in debates over the make-up - or breakdown - of the American family, the family keeps evolving. This book offers a close and clear-eyed look into a form this change has taken most recently, the lesbian coparent family. Based on intensive interviews and extensive firsthand observation, The Family of Woman chronicles the experience of thirty-four families headed by lesbian mothers whose children were conceived by means of donor insemination. With its intimate perspective on the interior dynamics of these families and its penetrating view of their pub
    Abstract: The emergence of lesbian-coparent families in postmodern society -- Becoming parents : baby making in the age of assisted procreation -- Being parents : the end of Oedipus and the expansion of intimacy -- Undoing the gender division of labor -- Truth and reconciliation : families of origin come around and come out -- Becoming familiar in the community of strangers -- The structure of donor-extended kinship -- The theoretical future of a conscious feminist kinship -- Appendix: Families by the bay : the study design, method, and participants.
    Description / Table of Contents: The emergence of lesbian-coparent families in postmodern societyBecoming parents : baby making in the age of assisted procreation -- Being parents : the end of Oedipus and the expansion of intimacy -- Undoing the gender division of labor -- Truth and reconciliation : families of origin come around and come out -- Becoming familiar in the community of strangers -- The structure of donor-extended kinship -- The theoretical future of a conscious feminist kinship -- Appendix: Families by the bay : the study design, method, and participants.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-303) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520939769
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (475 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studies on the History of Society and Culture v.51
    DDC: 306.85094409
    Abstract: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a social revolution within households and created space for thousands of French women and men to reimagine their most intimate relationships. Families negotiated new social practices, including divorce, the reduction of paternal authority, egalitarian inheritance for sons and daughters alike, and the granting of civil rights to illegitimate children. Contrary to arguments that claim the Revolution bound women within a domestic sphere, The Family on Trial maintains that the new civil laws and gender politics offered many women unexpected opportunities to gain power, property, or independence. The family became a political arena, a practical terrain for creating the Republic in day-to-day life. From 1789, citizens across France-sons and daughters, unhappily married spouses and illegitimate children, pamphleteers and moralists, deputies and judges-all disputed how the family should be reformed to remake the new France. They debated how revolutionary ideals and institutions should transform the emotional bonds, gender dynamics, legal customs, and economic arrangements that structured the family. They asked how to bring the principles of liberty, equality, and regeneration into the home. And as French citizens confronted each other in the home, in court, and in print, they gradually negotiated new domestic practices that balanced Old Regime customs with revolutionary innovations in law and culture. In a narrative that combines national-level analysis with a case study of family contestation in Normandy, Desan explores these struggles to bring politics into...
    Abstract: households and to envision and put into practice a new set of familial relationships.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520926578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.5
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1860 ; Industrialisierung ; Klassengesellschaft ; Sprache ; USA
    Abstract: In this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners-and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed-and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520938120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (309 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: California Series in Public Anthropology v.10
    DDC: 303.6/6
    Abstract: In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 1417508213
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 292 Seiten) , 23 cm
    Edition: Online_Ausgabe Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 E-Books von NetLibrary Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 22382847
    Parallel Title: Reproduktion von Bunzl, Matti Symptoms of modernity
    DDC: 305.892404361309049
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1990-2000 ; Gays - Social conditions - 20th century - Austria ; Jews - Social conditions - 20th century - Austria ; Nationalism - Social aspects - Austria ; Vienna ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Juden ; Nationalismus ; Gays Social conditions 20th century ; Jews Social conditions 20th century ; Nationalism Social aspects ; Soziale Situation ; Homosexueller ; Juden ; Austria - History - 1955- ; Austria - Social policy ; Vienna (Austria) - Ethnic relations ; Vienna (Austria) - Social life and customs - 20th century ; Wien ; Österreich ; Austria History 1955- ; Austria Social policy ; Vienna (Austria) Ethnic relations ; Vienna (Austria) Social life and customs 20th century ; Wien ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books History ; Wien ; Juden ; Homosexueller ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1990-2000
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-286) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520937252 , 1417508264 , 9780520937253 , 9781417508266
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 242 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 362.5/83
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    Keywords: Since 1991 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Food relief ; Poor ; Social history ; Social networks ; Soup kitchens ; Sozialgeschichte ; Soup kitchens ; Social networks ; Food relief ; Poor ; Armenspeisung ; Sozialdienst ; Soziale Unterstützung ; Russland ; Russland ; Sozialdienst ; Armenspeisung ; Soziale Unterstützung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index , Transnational soup -- Making do : everyday survival in a shortage society -- From hand to hand : informal networks -- The forest feeds us : organic exchange -- Strategic intimacy : communities of assistance -- The mythology of hunger -- Socialism revisited
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520937888 , 0520937880 , 1417545186 , 9781417545186
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 263 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 979.4/00468073
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    Keywords: Hispanos ; Minderheit ; Soziale Situation ; Kalifornien
    Abstract: Since late 2001 more than fifty percent of the babies born in California have been Latino. When these babies reach adulthood, they will, by sheer force of numbers, influence the course of the Golden State. This essential reference, based on decades of data, paints a vivid and energetic portrait of Latino society in California by providing a wealth of details about work ethic, family strengths, business establishment, and the surprisingly robust health profile that yields a life expectancy for Lations five years longer that that of the general population.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937062
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (291 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies
    DDC: 305.48697107
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    Keywords: Schwarze Frau ; Islam ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected subtleties and complexities in the relation of women, especially black women, to Islam? Carolyn Rouse sought answers to these questions among the women of Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles. Her richly textured study provides rare insight into the meaning of Islam for African American women; in particular, Rouse shows how the teachings of Islam give these women a sense of power and control over interpretations of gender, family, authority, and obligations. In Engaged Surrender, Islam becomes a unique prism for clarifying the role of faith in contemporary black women's experience. Through these women's stories, Rouse reveals how commitment to Islam refracts complex processes-urbanization, political and social radicalization, and deindustrialization-that shape black lives generally, and black women's lives in particular. Rather than focusing on traditional (and deeply male) ideas of autonomy and supremacy, the book-and the community of women it depicts-emphasizes more holistic notions of collective obligation, personal humility, and commitment to overarching codes of conduct and belief. A much-needed corrective to media portraits of Islam and the misconceptions they engender, this engaged and engaging work offers an intimate, in-depth look into the vexed and interlocking issues of Islam, gender, and race.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520939769 , 052093976X , 141752040X , 9781417520404
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 456 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Studies on the history of society and culture 51
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Desan, Suzanne, 1957- Family on trial in revolutionary France
    DDC: 306.85094409033
    Keywords: Families 18th century ; France ; Families Political aspects ; France ; Domestic relations History ; 18th century ; France ; Domestic relations History 18th century ; Families 18th century ; Families Political aspects ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference ; HISTORY ; Europe ; General ; Domestic relations ; Families ; Families ; Political aspects ; Women ; Sociology & Social History ; Family & Marriage ; Social Sciences ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family ; History ; France History ; Women ; Revolution, 1789-1799 ; France History ; Revolution, 1789-1799 ; France ; France History Revolution, 1789-1799 ; France History Revolution, 1789-1799 ; Women ; France ; Electronic book ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a social revolution within households and created space for thousands of French women and men to reimagine their most intimate relationships. Families negotiated new social practices, including divorce, the reduction of paternal authority, egalitarian inheritance for sons and daughters alike, and the granting of civil rights to illegitimate children. Contrary to arguments that claim the Revolution bound women within a domestic sphere, The Family on Trial maintains that the new civil laws and gender politics offered many women unexpected opportunities to gain power, property, or independence. The family became a political arena, a practical terrain for creating the Republic in day-to-day life. From 1789, citizens across France-sons and daughters, unhappily married spouses and illegitimate children, pamphleteers and moralists, deputies and judges-all disputed how the family should be reformed to remake the new France. They debated how revolutionary ideals and institutions should transform the emotional bonds, gender dynamics, legal customs, and economic arrangements that structured the family. They asked how to bring the principles of liberty, equality, and regeneration into the home. And as French citizens confronted each other in the home, in court, and in print, they gradually negotiated new domestic practices that balanced Old Regime customs with revolutionary innovations in law and culture. In a narrative that combines national-level analysis with a case study of family contestation in Normandy, Desan explores these struggles to bring politics into households and to envision and put into practice a new set of familial relationships
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-435) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937253
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (260 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 362.583
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    Abstract: What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex-if no less necessary and nourishing-than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world, Melissa L. Caldwell focuses on the everyday operations and civil transactions at CCM soup kitchens to reveal the new realities, the enduring features, and the intriguing subtext of social support in Russia today. In an international food aid community, Caldwell explores how Muscovites employ a number of improvisational tactics to satisfy their material needs. She shows how the relationships that develop among members of this community-elderly Muscovite recipients, Russian aid workers, African student volunteers, and North American and European donors and volunteers-provide forms of social support that are highly valued and ultimately far more important than material resources. In Not by Bread Alone we see how the soup kitchens become sites of social stability and refuge for all who interact there-not just those with limited financial means-and how Muscovites articulate definitions of hunger and poverty that depend far more on the extent of one's social contacts than on material factors. By rethinking the ways in which relationships between social and economic practices are theorized-by identifying social relations and social status as Russia's true economic currency-this book challenges prevailing ideas about the role of the state, the nature of poverty and welfare, the feasibility of Western-style reforms, and the primacy of social connections in the daily lives of ordinary people in post-Soviet Russia.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520937512 , 0520937511
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxiv, 329 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Ramji, Rubina Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults, by Janja Lalich. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2004, 353 pp.; 55.00 USD (cloth), 21.95 USD (paper) 2006
    Parallel Title: Print version Bounded choice
    DDC: 306.1
    Keywords: Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) ; Heaven's Gate (Organization) ; Heaven's Gate (Organization) ; Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) ; Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) ; Heaven's Gate (Organization) ; Heaven's Gate (Organization) ; Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) ; Cults Psychology ; Brainwashing ; Cults Psychology ; Brainwashing ; Cults Psychology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Brainwashing ; Cults ; Psychology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: It is easy to portray the members of cults as vunerable, needy people who cannot think for themselves. In this comparative study of the Heaven's Gate cult and the Democratic Workers Party, Janja Lalich offers a more complex and disturbing assessment of 'cult mentality'
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520233670 , 9780520233676 , 0520233689 , 9780520233683 , 1597347728 , 9781597347723 , 9780520936416 , 0520936418
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 276 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Near northwest side story
    DDC: 305.8687295077311
    Keywords: Puerto Ricans Migrations ; Illinois ; Chicago ; Puerto Ricans Migrations ; Puerto Ricans Migrations ; Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Emigration and immigration ; Puerto Ricans ; Migrations ; United States Local History ; Regions & Countries - Americas ; History & Archaeology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; Chicago (Ill.) Emigration and immigration ; History ; San Sebastián (P.R.) Emigration and immigration ; History ; Illinois ; Chicago ; Puerto Rico ; San Sebastián ; San Sebastián (P.R.) Emigration and immigration ; History ; Chicago (Ill.) Emigration and immigration ; History ; San Sebastián (P.R.) Emigration and immigration ; History ; Chicago (Ill.) Emigration and immigration ; History ; Puerto Rico ; San Sebastián ; Illinois ; Chicago ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: The Near Northwest Side Story is a fascinating account of transnational migration as survival strategy, one bound up in kin, region, and gender. Gina M. Perez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico - two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-264) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520929906 , 052092990X , 1417525673 , 9781417525676 , 1597348287 , 9781597348287
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 325 pages)
    Series Statement: Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China 3
    DDC: 379.51
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    Abstract: Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals--from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Why this should be--how Beida's historical importance has come to transcend that of a mere institution of higher learning--is a question at the heart of this book. A study of intellectuals and political culture during the past century's tumultuous early decades, The Power of Position is the first to focus on Beida, China's oldest an.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-312) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520927940 , 052092794X , 1417508191 , 9781417508198
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvi, 333 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China 2
    Parallel Title: Print version Is Taiwan Chinese?
    DDC: 305.89925
    Keywords: Taiwan aborigines Ethnic identity ; History ; Ethnicity History ; Taiwan ; Ethnicity History ; 20th century ; China ; Nationalism History ; 20th century ; Taiwan ; Nationalism History ; 20th century ; China ; Tujia (Chinese people) Ethnic identity ; History ; 20th century ; China ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Chinese reunification question, 1949- ; Tujia (Chinese people) Ethnic identity 20th century ; History ; Ethnicity History 20th century ; Ethnicity History ; Taiwan aborigines Ethnic identity ; History ; Chinese reunification question, 1949- ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Tujia (Chinese people) Ethnic identity 20th century ; History ; Ethnicity History 20th century ; Ethnicity History ; Taiwan aborigines Ethnic identity ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Chinese reunification question, 1949- ; Ethnic relations ; Ethnicity ; International relations ; Nationalism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; Taiwan Relations ; China ; China Relations ; Taiwan ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations ; History ; 20th century ; China Relations ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations 20th century ; History ; Taiwan Relations ; China Relations ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations 20th century ; History ; Taiwan Relations ; China ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou ; Taiwan ; China ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In a unique comparison of studies drawn from both Taiwan and China, Brown's book shows how identity is shaped by social experience - not culture and ancestry, as is commonly claimed in political rhetoric
    Description / Table of Contents: What's in a name? : culture, identity, and the "Taiwan problem"Where did the aborigines go? : reinstating plains aborigines in Taiwan's history -- "We savages didn't bind feet" : culture, colonial intervention, and long-route identity change -- "Having a wife is better than having a god" : ancestry, governmental power, and short-route identity change -- "They came with their hands tied behind their backs" : forced migrations, identity changes, and state classification in Hubei -- Theory and the politics of reunification : understanding past choices and future options.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-301) and index. - Description based on print version record
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  • 100
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937413
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (326 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.4896643
    Abstract: Amidst the shrill and discordant notes struck in debates over the make-up-or breakdown-of the American family, the family keeps evolving. This book offers a close and clear-eyed look into a form this change has taken most recently, the lesbian coparent family. Based on intensive interviews and extensive firsthand observation, The Family of Woman chronicles the experience of thirty-four families headed by lesbian mothers whose children were conceived by means of donor insemination.With its intimate perspective on the interior dynamics of these families and its penetrating view of their public lives, the book provides rare insight into the workings of emerging family forms and their significance for our understanding of "family"-and our culture itself.
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