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  • Brownell, Susan
  • Berkeley : University of California Press  (12)
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    American Nightmares : Social Problems in an Anxious World (2017)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520968905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.09730000000002
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    Keywords: Soziale Probleme ; Unsicherheit ; USA
    Abstract: In an accessible and droll style, well-known sociologist Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream--to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement--recent generations have been told that the next generation will not be able to achieve these goals, that things are getting--or are on the verge of getting--worse. In American Nightmares, Best addresses the apprehension that we face every day as we are bombarded with threats that the social institutions we count on are imperiled. Our schools are failing to teach our kids. Healthcare may soon be harder to obtain. We can't bank on our retirement plans. And our homes--still the largest chunk of most people's net worth--may lose much of their value. Our very way of life is being threatened! Or is it? With a steady voice and keen focus, Best examines how a culture develops fears and fantasies and how these visions are created and recreated in every generation. By dismantling current ideas about the future, collective memory, and sociology's marginalization in the public square, Best sheds light on how social problems--and our anxiety about them--are socially constructed.
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    The Anthropology of Sport : Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics (2017)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520963818
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (336 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Besnier, Niko The anthropology of sport
    Parallel Title: Print version Brownell, Susan The Anthropology of Sport : Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics
    DDC: 306.483
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Sport ; Sport
    Abstract: Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or China's parks, on Cuba's baseball diamonds or Fiji's rugby fields, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft, and ingest substances. Sport is a microcosm of what life is about. The Anthropology of Sport explores how sport both shapes and is shaped by the social, cultural, political, and historical contexts in which we live. Core themes discussed in this book include the body, modernity, nationalism, the state, citizenship, transnationalism, globalization, and gender and sexuality.
    Abstract: "Cover" -- "Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Sport, Anthropology, and History" -- "2 Sport, Colonialism, and Imperialism" -- "3 Sport, Health, and the Environment" -- "4 Sport, Social Class, Race, and Ethnicity" -- "5 Sport and Sex, Gender, and Sexuality" -- "6 Sport, Cultural Performance, and Mega-events" -- "7 Sport, Nation, and Nationalism" -- "8 Sport in the World System" -- "Epilogue: Sport for Anthropology" -- "Notes" -- "Selected Bibliography" -- "Index" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "Q" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V" -- "W" -- "X" -- "Y
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    Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians and ctivists (2012)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520953512 , 0520953517
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (218 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel Damned Lies and Statistics : Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
    DDC: 303.38
    Keywords: Sociology Statistical methods ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Social indicators ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Sociology Statistical methods ; Social indicators ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Sociology Statistical methods ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned Lies and Statistics has emerged as the go-to handbook for spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers
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    Everyone's a winner : life in our congratulatory culture (2011)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520948488 , 0520948483
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 199 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel Everyone's a winner
    DDC: 305
    Keywords: Social status United States ; Equality United States ; Motivation (Psychology) United States ; Social status ; Equality ; Motivation (Psychology) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Equality ; Manners and customs ; Motivation (Psychology) ; Social conditions ; Social status ; United States Social life and customs ; United States Social conditions ; United States ; United States Social conditions ; United States Social life and customs ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Every kindergarten soccer player gets a trophy. Many high schools name dozens of seniors as valedictorians--of the same class. Cars sport bumper stickers that read "USA--Number 1." Prizes proliferate in every corner of American society, and excellence is trumpeted with ratings that range from "Academy Award winner!" to "Best Neighborhood Pizza!" In Everyone's a Winner, Joel Best-- acclaimed author of Damned Lies and Statistics and many other books--shines a bright light on the increasing abundance of status in our society and considers what it all means. With humor and insight, Best argues that st
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    Flavor of the Month : Why Smart People Fall for Fads (2006)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520932357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: While fads such as hula hoops or streaking are usually dismissed as silly enthusiasms, trends in institutions such as education, business, medicine, science, and criminal justice are often taken seriously, even though their popularity and usefulness is sometimes short-lived. Institutional fads such as open classrooms, quality circles, and multiple personality disorder are constantly making the rounds, promising astonishing new developments-novel ways of teaching reading or arithmetic, better methods of managing businesses, or improved treatments for disease. Some of these trends prove to be lasting innovations, but others-after absorbing extraordinary amounts of time and money-are abandoned and forgotten, soon to be replaced by other new schemes. In this pithy, intriguing, and often humorous book, Joel Best-author of the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics-explores the range of institutional fads, analyzes the features of our culture that foster them, and identifies the major stages of the fad cycle-emerging, surging, and purging. Deconstructing the ways that this system plays into our notions of reinvention, progress, and perfectibility, Flavors of the Month examines the causes and consequences of fads and suggests ways of fad-proofing our institutions.
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    Flavor of the month : why smart people fall for fads (2006)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520932357 , 0520932358 , 1423745523 , 9781423745525 , 1598759264 , 9781598759266
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 201 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel Flavor of the month
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Fads Social aspects ; Social institutions ; Diffusion of innovations ; Fads Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Diffusion of innovations ; Fads ; Social aspects ; Social institutions ; Modeverschijnselen ; Innovatiediffusie ; Instituties ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Joel Best explores the range of institutional fads, analyses the features of our culture that foster them, and identifies the major stages of the fad cycle: emerging, surging, and purging. He examines the causes and consequences of fads and suggests ways of fad-proofing our institutions
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    More Damned Lies and Statistics : How Numbers Confuse Public Issues (2004)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520930025
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (222 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.38
    RVK:
    QH 244
    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 World Trade Center, college ratings, the risks of divorce, racial profiling, and fatalities caused by falling coconuts. More Damned Lies and Statistics encourages all of us to think in a more sophisticated and skeptical manner about how statistics are used to promote causes, create fear, and advance particular points of view. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues: missing numbers are relevant but overlooked; confusing numbers bewilder when they should inform; scary numbers play to our fears about the present and the future; authoritative numbers demand respect they don't deserve; magical numbers promise unrealistic, simple solutions to complex problems; and contentious numbers become the focus of data duels and stat wars. The author's use of pertinent, socially important examples documents the life-altering consequences of understanding or misunderstanding statistical information. He demystifies statistical measures by explaining in straightforward prose how decisions are made about what to count and what not to count, what assumptions get made, and which figures are brought to our attention. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues. Entertaining, enlightening, and...
    Abstract: very timely, this book offers a basis for critical thinking about the numbers we encounter and a reminder that when it comes to the news, people count-in more ways than one.
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    More damned lies and statistics : how numbers confuse public issues (2004)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    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
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    Chinese femininities, chinese masculinities : a reader (2002)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 460 p. , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Reproduction. Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004
    Series Statement: E-Books von NetLibrary
    DDC: 305.30951
    Keywords: Femininity ; Masculinity ; Sex role ; Electronic books.
    Note: pt. 1.Gender and the law (Qing dynasty).Femininity in flux: gendered virtue and social conflict in the mid-Qing courtroom /Janet M. Theiss.Dangerous males, vulnerable males, and polluted males: the regulation of masculinity in Qing dynasty law /Matthew H. Sommer --pt. 2.Ideals of marriage and family (mid-Qing dynasty and early Republican era).Grooming a daughter for marriage: brides and wives in the mid-Qing period /Susan Mann."The truths I have learned": nationalism, family reform, and male identity in China's New Culture Movement, 1915-1923 /Susan L. Glosser --pt. 3.Gender in literary traditions (May fourth era to Reform era).Invention and intervention: the making of a female tradition in modern Chinese literature /Lydia H. Liu.The self loving the self: men and connoisseurship in modern Chinese literature /Wendy Larson --pt. 4.Dangerous women and dangerous men (late Ming dynasty to early Communist period).Modernizing sex, sexing modernity: prostitution in early-twentieth-century Shanghai /Gail Hershatter.Approximations of Chinese bandits: perverse rebels, romantic heroes, or frustrated bachelors? /David Ownby --pt. 5.The gender of rebels (Cultural Revolution).Maoist mappings of gender: reassessing the Red Guards /Emily Honig."Little brothers" in the Cultural Revolution: the worker rebels of Shanghai /Elizabeth J. Perry,Nara Dillon --pt. 6.Blood, qi, and the gendered body (Qing dynasty and Reform era).Blood, body, and gender: medical images of the female condition in China, 1600-1850 /Charlotte Furth.Embodying qi and masculinities in post-Mao China /Nancy N. Chen -- , pt. 7.Shifting contexts of gender and sexuality (Reform era). Past, perfect or imperfect: changing images of the ideal wife /Harriet Evans.Proper men and proper women: parental affection in the Chinese family /William Jankowiak --pt. 8.Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity (Reform era).Gender and internal Orientalism in China /Louisa Schein.Tradition and the gender of civility /Ralph Litzinger --Afterword:putting gender at the center /Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom,Susan Brownell. , Sofern kein Zugang über ein Universitätsnetz zur Verfügung steht, kann eine Registrierung zur kostenlosen Nutzung erfolgen: http://www.nationallizenzen.de
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    Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities : A Reader (2002)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520935303
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (476 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes v.4
    DDC: 305.30951
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Mann ; Geschlechterrolle ; Frau ; China
    Abstract: The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present.
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    Chinese femininities, chinese masculinities : a reader (2002)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 1417508183
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 460 Seiten) , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: Online_Ausgabe Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 E-Books von NetLibrary Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 22382847
    Parallel Title: Reproduktion von Chinese femininities, chinese masculinities
    DDC: 305.30951
    Keywords: Geschichte 1644-2002 ; Geschichte 1650-1990 ; Femininity - China ; Masculinity - China ; Sex role - China ; Femininity ; Masculinity ; Sex role ; Geschlechterrolle ; China ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; China ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschichte 1644-2002 ; China ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschichte 1650-1990
    Note: pt. 1.Gender and the law (Qing dynasty).Femininity in flux: gendered virtue and social conflict in the mid-Qing courtroom /Janet M. Theiss.Dangerous males, vulnerable males, and polluted males: the regulation of masculinity in Qing dynasty law /Matthew H. Sommer --pt. 2.Ideals of marriage and family (mid-Qing dynasty and early Republican era).Grooming a daughter for marriage: brides and wives in the mid-Qing period /Susan Mann."The truths I have learned": nationalism, family reform, and male identity in China's New Culture Movement, 1915-1923 /Susan L. Glosser --pt. 3.Gender in literary traditions (May fourth era to Reform era).Invention and intervention: the making of a female tradition in modern Chinese literature /Lydia H. Liu.The self loving the self: men and connoisseurship in modern Chinese literature /Wendy Larson --pt. 4.Dangerous women and dangerous men (late Ming dynasty to early Communist period).Modernizing sex, sexing modernity: prostitution in early-twentieth-century S , pt. 7.Shifting contexts of gender and sexuality (Reform era). Past, perfect or imperfect: changing images of the ideal wife /Harriet Evans.Proper men and proper women: parental affection in the Chinese family /William Jankowiak --pt. 8.Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity (Reform era).Gender and internal Orientalism in China /Louisa Schein.Tradition and the gender of civility /Ralph Litzinger --Afterword:putting gender at the center /Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom,Susan Brownell.
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    Damned Lies and Statistics : Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists (2001)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520219786
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (203 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Damned Lies and Statistics : Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists
    DDC: 303.38
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these numbers are wrong. Examining how bad statistics emerge, spread, and come to shape policy debates, this book provides a guide to spotting, and learning to think critically, about these influential numbers
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. The importance of social statistics; 2. Soft facts; 3. Mutant statistics; 4. Apples and oranges; 5. Stat wars; 6. Thinking about social statistics; Notes; Index;
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