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  • 2000-2004  (7)
  • ebrary, Inc  (7)
  • Malden, MA : Blackwell  (5)
  • Oxford : Berg  (2)
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  • 1
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell
    ISBN: 0631236139 , 0631236120 , 0470755725 , 9780470755723
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 253 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: The language library
    Parallel Title: Print version Multilingualism in the English-speaking world
    DDC: 306.44/6
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    Keywords: Multilingualism ; Linguistic minorities ; Language and education ; Englisches Sprachgebiet ; Mehrsprachigkeit
    Abstract: With a flurry of recent public controversy surrounding legislation on language in education and the workplace, observers are beginning to assess the likely consequences of the shift in balance when speakers of English as a second and foreign language outnumber native speakers. At the same time there is a growing appreciation of the benefits which multilingualism brings for both minority language speakers and the wider English-speaking community in terms of business, the arts, diplomacy and defence. "Multilingualism in the English-speaking World: Pedigree of Nations" looks at the everyday realities for people living in 'inner-circle' English-speaking countries from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Accessibly written and drawing on real-life examples from North America, the British Isles, Australia and New Zealand, this book discusses the theoretical issues that underpin the current debates, drawing on the research literature on societal multilingualism, language maintenance and shift, language policy, language and power, and language and identity
    Abstract: With a flurry of recent public controversy surrounding legislation on language in education and the workplace, observers are beginning to assess the likely consequences of the shift in balance when speakers of English as a second and foreign language outnumber native speakers. At the same time there is a growing appreciation of the benefits which multilingualism brings for both minority language speakers and the wider English-speaking community in terms of business, the arts, diplomacy and defence. "Multilingualism in the English-speaking World: Pedigree of Nations" looks at the everyday realities for people living in 'inner-circle' English-speaking countries from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Accessibly written and drawing on real-life examples from North America, the British Isles, Australia and New Zealand, this book discusses the theoretical issues that underpin the current debates, drawing on the research literature on societal multilingualism, language maintenance and shift, language policy, language and power, and language and identity
    Description / Table of Contents: The myth of monolingualismRoots of diversity -- Language and the provision of services -- Language in the family -- Language and education : a history -- Language and education in the modern world -- Minority languages and majority speakers -- Language and the economy -- Language and the media -- Language and the arts -- Language, diplomacy, and defence -- Is life really too short to learn German?
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-240) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 2
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell
    ISBN: 0631234284 , 0631234292
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxx, 413 p) , ill , 26 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Blackwell readers in geography
    Parallel Title: Print version Blackwell cultural economy reader
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Economics Sociological aspects
    Abstract: Bringing together the most exciting and innovative work of the last ten years in the emerging field of cultural economy, "The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader" shows how this hybrid area of study is now posing a significant challenge to notions of the economic and what counts as economic action. The pursuit of prosperity has always been a cultural performance. However, since the nineteenth century, with the rise of a separate profession of economics, such performance has either been neglected or actively denigrated. With the help of a substantial introduction from the editors, this Reader shows that the pursuit of prosperity is the pursuit of many goals at once - from meeting material needs and making profit to seeking symbolic satisfaction and fleeting pleasures. It goes beyond just adding 'culture' to 'economy'. Organized around categories such as production, finance and money, economic regulation, commodity chains, consumption, and passions, this volume introduces developments at the cutting edge of a new and vibrant field
    Abstract: Bringing together the most exciting and innovative work of the last ten years in the emerging field of cultural economy, "The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader" shows how this hybrid area of study is now posing a significant challenge to notions of the economic and what counts as economic action. The pursuit of prosperity has always been a cultural performance. However, since the nineteenth century, with the rise of a separate profession of economics, such performance has either been neglected or actively denigrated. With the help of a substantial introduction from the editors, this Reader shows that the pursuit of prosperity is the pursuit of many goals at once - from meeting material needs and making profit to seeking symbolic satisfaction and fleeting pleasures. It goes beyond just adding 'culture' to 'economy'. Organized around categories such as production, finance and money, economic regulation, commodity chains, consumption, and passions, this volume introduces developments at the cutting edge of a new and vibrant field
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. A Mixed Economy of Fashion Design / Angela McRobbie2. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace / Sean O'Riain -- 3. Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice / Katie Vann and Geoffrey C. Bowker -- 4. The Economy of Qualities / Michel Callon, Cecile Meadel and Vololona Rabeharisoa -- 5. Inside the Economy of Appearances / Anna Tsing -- 6. Physics and Finance: S-Terms and Modern Finance as a Topic for Science Studies / Donald MacKenzie -- 7. Traders' Engagement with Markets: A Postsocial Relationship / Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger -- 8. Varieties of Protectors / Frederico Varese -- 9. The Agony of Mammon / Lewis H. Lapham -- 10. Governing by Numbers: Why Calculative Practices Matter / Peter Miller -- 11. African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown / P. Stoller -- 12. Retailers, Knowledges and Changing Commodity Networks: The Case of the Cut Flower Trade / A. Hughes -- 13. Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A Conventions Perspective / Jonathan Murdoch and Mara Miele -- 14. Making Love in Supermarkets / Daniel Miller -- 15. Window Shopping at Home: Classifieds, Catalogues and New Consumer Skills / Alison J. Clarke -- 16. What's in a Price? An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction / Haidy Geismar -- 17. It's Showtime: On the Workplace Geographies of Display in a Restaurant in Southeast England / Philip Crang -- 18. Feeling Management: From Private to Commercial Uses / Arlie Hochschild -- 19. Negotiating the Bar: Sex, Money and the Uneasy Politics of Third Space / Lisa Law -- 20. A Joint's a Joint / S. Denton and R. Morris -- 21. Marking Time with Nike: The Illusion of the Durable / Celia Lury.
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  • 3
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    Oxford : Berg
    ISBN: 1859737250 , 185973720X , 184788895X , 9781847888952
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 220 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Dress, body, culture
    Parallel Title: Print version Unzipping Gender : Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture
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    Keywords: Transvestites ; Transvestism Cross-cultural studies ; Transvestites ; Transvestism Psychological aspects ; Transvestism ; Transvestism Cross-cultural studies ; Transvestites ; Transvestism ; Transvestism Psychological aspects ; Transvestites
    Abstract: How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender? Why are transvestites in the West so often seen as deviant or perverse, while they are accepted in other societies? What are the implications for the categories of male and female when consideri ng transvestism? Transvestism, and its cultural practice, is a useful lens through which we can view and thus debate models of sex, gender and sexuality. Drawing on primary fieldwork, Unzipping Gender offers a cross-cultural study of transvestism thr ough an examination of transvestites in Britain and the Hijras of India. The author tackles the cr
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Clothing Sex, Sexing Clothes; 3 Transvestites in the UK; 4 Disorder Within the Pattern; 5 Crossing Gender Boundaries in Cultural Context; 6 Dressing Up/Dressing Down: Reconsidering Sex and Gender Culture; 7 Thinking of Themselves; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
    Description / Table of Contents: The doctrines of gender. The prevalence of transvestism. Clothing as gender landscapeClothing sex, sexing clothes : transvestism, material culture and the sex and gender debate. The importance of sex and gender. Dress and identity : transvestism and material culture. 'Is gender to culture as sex is to nature?' : transvestism and the discourses of sex and gender. Corporeality and the politics of sex. Clothing the brain -- Transvestites in the UK : the dream of fair women. Are those women's clothes? Fieldwork in the UK. Becoming extraordinary : the experience of the transvestite in Western societies. Becoming 'the other.' UK transvestites : interviews with Anthony/Suzanne, John/Joy, Dan/Shelly, Gavin/Gina and Simon/Sandra. The range of possibilities. Clothing choices. Some conclusions about UK transvestites -- Disorder within the pattern : the hijras of India. Fieldwork in India. Hijras in context : who are hijras? Why the hijras? The need to categorise : studies of the hijras. Becoming a hijra. Hijras and the principle of male and female union. Hijras and religion -- Crossing gender boundaries in cultural context : fieldwork comparisons and cultural influences. cross-dressing and clothing choices. Differences in lifestyle. Transvestism within contrasting cosmological contexts -- Dressing up/dressing down : reconsidering sex and gender culture. Woman=soft, man=hard : concepts of language made material. Gendered emotions and the ceremony of naven. Masculine representation of the feminine. Jung and the inner world of opposites. sex, gender or sexuality? Crossing gender as an 'institutionalised' role. The Brazilian travestis. Binary categorisation as 'common sense.' Masculinity, femininity ; genetics and mosaics. The correlates of gender culture-transvestism as material objectification. Cross-cultural evidence and the conceptualisation of gender crossing. Marking gender -- Thinking of themselves : transvestism and concepts of the person. Transvestism as a social phenomenon. Concepts of the person, individual and society in India and England : cultural contexts of transvestites and hijras. Contrasting concepts of self within the Hindu and Western traditions. Individuality and identity. Personhood and transvestism in cross-cultural perspective. Blurring the boundaries : deconstructing theories of the self. Transvestites, constructed selves, and issues of sex and gender. A broader conceptualisation of transvestism. 'This is an absurd ordination for people to live in, in 2002'.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-208) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 4
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell
    ISBN: 1405105941 , 0470999896 , 1405166754 , 9780470999899 , 9781405166751
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 436 p) , 25 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions to sociology
    Uniform Title: Blackwell companion to major social theorists.
    Parallel Title: Print version Blackwell companion to major classical social theorists
    DDC: 301/.01
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    Keywords: Sociology Philosophy
    Abstract: Introduction: narratives, geistesgeschichtes, and the history of social theory / Douglas J. Goodman -- Auguste Comte / Mary Pickering -- Harriet Martineau / Susan Hoecker-Drysdale -- Herbert Spencer / Jonathan H. Turner -- Karl Marx / Robert J. Antonio -- Max Weber / Stephen Kalberg -- Émile Durkheim / Robert Alun Jones -- Georg Simmel / Lawrence A. Scaff -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Charles Lemert -- George Herbert Mead / Dmitri N. Shalin -- W.E.B. Du Bois / Charles Lemert -- Alfred Schutz / Mary Rogers -- Talcott Parsons / Victor Lidz
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: narratives, geistesgeschichtes, and the history of social theory / Douglas J. GoodmanAuguste Comte / Mary Pickering -- Harriet Martineau / Susan Hoecker-Drysdale -- Herbert Spencer / Jonathan H. Turner -- Karl Marx / Robert J. Antonio -- Max Weber / Stephen Kalberg -- Émile Durkheim / Robert Alun Jones -- Georg Simmel / Lawrence A. Scaff -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Charles Lemert -- George Herbert Mead / Dmitri N. Shalin -- W.E.B. Du Bois / Charles Lemert -- Alfred Schutz / Mary Rogers -- Talcott Parsons / Victor Lidz.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Originally published, together with The Blackwell companion to major contemporary social theorists, as The Blackwell companion to major social theorists in 2000 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 5
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    Oxford : Berg
    ISBN: 1859736017 , 1859736068 , 1847888712 , 9781847888716
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 178 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Dress, body, culture
    Parallel Title: Print version Fashion Classics from Carlyle to Barthes
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    Keywords: Clothing and dress ; Fashion ; Clothing and dress History ; Fashion History
    Abstract: With so much focus on contemporary theory, it is easy to forget that the serious analysis of clothing and fashion has a long history. In fact, they have been the subject of intense cultural debate since the nineteenth century. Fashion Classics provid es an interpretative overview of the groundbreaking and often idiosyncratic writings of eight theorists whose work has profoundly influenced the conceptual and theoretical basis of our contemporary understanding of clothes and the fashion system. Car ter fully revives early fashion theorists -- some canonical and others less well known -- and exam
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Thomas Carlyle and Sartor Resartus; 2 Herbert Spencer's Sartorial Protestantism; 3 Thorstein Veblen's Leisure Class; 4 Georg Simmel: Clothes and Fashion; 5 Alfred Kroeber and the Great Secular Wave; 6 J. C. Flügel and the Nude Future; 7 James Laver, the Reluctant Expert; 8 Roland Barthes and the End of the Nineteenth Century; Appendix: Questionnaire Issued by J.C. Flügel in 1929; Bibliography; Index
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  • 6
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell
    ISBN: 0631226176 , 0631226184 , 0470753560 , 9780470753569
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (312 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version European Union
    DDC: 306.2/094
    Keywords: European Union ; Civil society ; Globalization ; European Union countries Social conditions ; Electronic resource ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The European Union is the first full-length treatment of European integration from a sociological perspective. It redirects the core concerns of political sociology away from nationally bounded societies towards a "sociology beyond societies," capable of making a valuable contribution to thinking about the nature and problems of the European Union. Within this broad objective the book concerns itself with such key issues as the relation between the EU and globalization, the nature of the EU state, and the question of whether a European society can be said to exist. Students, scholars, and soci
    Abstract: The European Union is the first full-length treatment of European integration from a sociological perspective. It redirects the core concerns of political sociology away from nationally bounded societies towards a "sociology beyond societies," capable of making a valuable contribution to thinking about the nature and problems of the European Union. Within this broad objective the book concerns itself with such key issues as the relation between the EU and globalization, the nature of the EU state, and the question of whether a European society can be said to exist. Students, scholars, and soci
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover13;Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: A New Approach to Studying European Integration -- 2 The European Union and Globalization -- 3 The Question of the European State -- 4 European Society -- 5 Unemployment, Social Exclusion, and Citizenship -- 6 Cohesion Policy and Regional Autonomy -- 7 Rethinking Core8211;Periphery Relations -- 8 Europe and Democracy -- 9 EU Enlargement -- 10 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-305) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 7
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell
    ISBN: 0631217886 , 0470998806 , 0470998792 , 9780631217886 , 9780470998809 , 9780470998793
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 579 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions in cultural studies 3
    Parallel Title: Print version Companion to cultural studies
    DDC: 306/.071
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    Keywords: Sociology Study and teaching ; Culture Study and teaching ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books Handboeken (vorm) ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 531-552) and index , 1.What it is and what it isn't : introducing cultural studies , 2.Interdisciplinary , 3.Is there a cultural studies of law , 4.The renewal of the cultural in sociology , 5.Sociology, cultural studies, and disciplinary boundaries , 6.Notes on the traffic between cultural studies and science and technology studies , 7.Political economy within cultural studies , 8.Cultural studies and philosophy : an intervention , 9."X" never, ever marks the spot : archaeology and cultural studies , 10.The unbalanced reciprocity between cultural studies and anthropology , 11.Media studies and cultural studies : a symbiotic convergence , 12.Comparative cultural studies traditions : Latin America and the US , 13.Can cultural studies speak Spanish , 14.Australasia , 15.Peripheral vision : Chinese cultural studies in Hong Kong , 16.Decentering the centre : cultural studies in Britain and its legacy , 17.European cultural studies , 18.Let's get serious : notes on teaching youth culture , 19.Looking backwards and forwards at cultural studies , 20.Close encounters : sport, science, and political culture , 21.Intellectuals, culture, policy : the practical and the critical , 22.Listening to the state : culture, power, and cultural policy in Columbia , 23.Museum highlights : a gallery talk , 24.The scandalous fall of feminism and the "first Black president" , 25.Rap and feng shui : on ass politics, cultural studies, and the timbaland sound , 26.Fashion , 27.Cultural studies and race , 28.Globalization and culture , 29."Cricket, with a plot" : nationalism, cricket, and diasporic identities , 30.Bibliographical resources for cultural studies. , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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