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  • 1
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    London : Pluto Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781849644273
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
    Series Statement: Anthropology, Culture and Society
    DDC: 303.482
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    Keywords: Antiglobalisierungsbewegung ; Demokratie
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  • 2
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    Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780742567900
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (247 pages)
    Series Statement: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    DDC: 303.3750951
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    Keywords: Propaganda ; China
    Abstract: After a period of self-imposed exclusion, Chinese society is in the process of a massive transformation in the name of economic progress and integration into the world economy, yet the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is seeking to maintain its rule over China indefinitely. Examining Chinese propaganda and thought work in the current period offers readers a unique understanding of how the CCP will address real and perceived threats to stability and its continued hold on power.
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  • 3
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203891650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (553 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.487
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    Keywords: Computerspiel ; Soziales Lernen ; Lernspiel ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the real world. "Serious games" is defined herein as any form of interactive computer-based game software for one or multiple players to be used on any platform and that has been developed to provide more than entertainment to players. With this volume, the editors address the gap in exisiting scholarship on gaming, providing an academic overview on the mechanisms and effects of serious games. Contributors investigate the psychological mechanisms that take place not only during gaming, but also in game selection, persistent play, and gaming impact. The work in this collection focuses on the desirable outcomes of digital game play. The editors distinguish between three possible effects -- learning, development, and change -- covering a broad range of serious games' potential impact. Contributions from internationally recognized scholars focus on five objectives: Define the area of serious games Elaborate on the underlying theories that explain suggested psychological mechanisms elicited through serious game play, addressing cognitive, affective and social processes Summarize the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of serious games, Introduce innovative research methods as a response to methodological challenges imposed through interactive media Discuss the possibilities and limitations of selected applications for educational purposes. Anchored primarily in social science research, the reader will be introduced to approaches that focus on the gaming process and the users' experiences. Additional perspectives will be provided in the concluding chapters, written from non-social science approaches by experts in academic game design and representatives of the gaming industry. The editors acknowledge the...
    Abstract: necessity for a broader interdisciplinary study of the phenomena and work to overcome the methodological divide in games research to look ahead to a more integrated and interdisciplinary study of digital games. This timely and singular volume will appeal to scholars, researchers, and graduate students working in media entertainment and game studies in the areas of education, media, communication, and psychology.
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  • 4
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    Berkerley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520944824
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (297 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 394.1209676
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    Keywords: Samburu ; Ernährung ; Lebensmittel ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social and material life. He shows that if Samburu reaction to the new foods is primarily negative--they are referred to disparagingly as "gray food" and "government food"--it is also deeply ambivalent. For example, the Samburu attribute a host of social maladies to these dietary changes, including selfishness and moral decay. Yet because the new foods save lives during famines, the same individuals also talk of the triumph of reason over an antiquated culture and speak enthusiastically of a better life where there is less struggle to find food. Through detailed analysis of a range of food-centered arenas, Uncertain Tastes argues that the experience of food itself--symbolic, sensuous, social, and material-is intrinsically characterized by multiple and frequently conflicting layers.
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  • 5
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    Lanham, MD : Lexington Books | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780739143445
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (110 pages)
    DDC: 305.89510593
    Abstract: Reproducing Chinese Culture in Diaspora describes how a group of anti-communist Chinese nationals managed to establish a farming community in Thailand's northern hills after voluntary exile from communist China in 1949. Though successful from an agricultural sustainability standpoint, this community of Chinese exiles has rigidly maintained its cultural ideals, driving away younger generations and ultimately threatening to derail the community's continued existence.
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    London : BFI Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781844575763
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
    Series Statement: International Screen Industries Ser.
    DDC: 302.23/4509174927
    Abstract: Arab Television Industries captures the fascinating metamorphosis of Arab television from separate state-owned terrestrial channels to a vibrant, pan-Arab, commercial satellite industries, and explores the momentous social and political implications of this transformation.
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9780230583986
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities Ser.
    DDC: 306.44/94499
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Sprachpolitik ; Language policy -- France -- Corsica (Region) ; Corsican language -- Political aspects ; Language policy -- European Union countries ; Korsika ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The author presents a new approach to the study of language policy, by focusing on language policy formation and implementation as a dynamic, conflict-laden process involving the interaction of various actors with different motivations and uneven bargaining powers, rather than as a product , examinable post hoc from existing language legislation.
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  • 8
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203872642
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.3420941
    Abstract: Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies and re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history. Simon During argues that the long and liberating journey towards democratic state capitalism has led to an unhappy dead-end from which there is no imaginable exit.
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  • 9
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    London : Routledge | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203873687
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Contemporary China Ser.
    DDC: 915.1/35
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    Keywords: Tourismus ; Lijiang
    Abstract: This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China's hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang.  It provides a compelling study of the dialectical relationships between global and domestic capital, the state, tourists and locals as they collude, collaborate and contest one another to ready Lijiang for tourist consumption. Using rich material from insightful interviews and quantitative data, the authors show how complex tourism development can be even as it strives to do good for the community.  Su and Teo investigate the practices of contestation and negotiation of identity within Lijiang; analyze the negotiations that transform material and vernacular landscapes; and suggests strategies that will enable sustained tourism interest in this location. Linking Gramsci's theory on hegemony to the cultural politics of space, this book has two major strengths: it establishes a theoretical framework to conceptualize power relations in tourism space and provides critical insights into the rapidly shifting socio-political landscape of contemporary China. Comparisons with other Chinese heritage sites are also provided. By addressing the power struggles inevitable in the process of tourism development, The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China provides an innovative understanding of China's dynamic politics in a period of transition. As such, it will address the needs of students and academic scholars working in the fields of China studies, tourism, cultural studies, urban studies, sociology, geography, political science and heritage studies.
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  • 10
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789048511075
    Language: Dutch
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (21 pages)
    Series Statement: VOR Geesteswetenschappen, 333 v.No. 333
    DDC: 306;623.82570924
    Keywords: Navigation -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History. ; Shipbuilding industry -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Amsterdam maakte als maritiem centrum vanaf het einde van de zestiende eeuw een explosieve ontwikkeling door binnen een zich voortdurend uitbreidend scheepvaartnetwerk. De stad groeide in de Gouden Eeuw uit tot een knooppunt van een mondiaal handels- en scheepvaartsysteem. Tussen 1580 en 1660 werd de stad in vier geplande stadsuitbreidingen gemoderniseerd. Dit resulteerde in de typische halfcirkelvormige plattegrond met een concentrisch grachtenpatroon en radiale straten. Het scheppen van ruimte aan het IJ voor havenfaciliteiten en bedrijfsgebieden was een belangrijke drijfveer bij de realisatie van dit stedenbouwkundig plan. Jerzy Gawronski gaat tijdens zijn oratie in op de betekenis van het maritieme bedrijf voor de moderniteit en uniciteit van de zeventiende-eeuwse Amsterdamse stedelijke structuur in het historisch planologisch debat. Hij vindt dat de rol van het maritieme bedrijf in dat debat is onderbelicht. Archeologische disciplines zoals maritieme archeologie en stadskernonderzoek bieden vanuit het concept van de maritieme stad nieuwe invalshoeken voor een meer integrale benadering. Uitgaande van de materiële en ruimtelijke relatie tussen schepen en stad behoren mobiliteit, decentralisatie, internationalisering en een dynamische topografie tot de kenmerkende elementen van het stadsplan van Amsterdam.
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    Leverkusen-Opladen : Budrich UniPress | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783863881078
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (168 pages)
    Series Statement: Familienforschung - Schriftenreihe des Österreichischen Instituts Für Familienforschung (ÖIF) Ser. v.20
    DDC: 306.8509436
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    Keywords: Familienpolitik ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Österreich ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 12
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    London : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781849204392
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (182 pages)
    DDC: 306.4812
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    Keywords: Freizeitverhalten ; Freizeitgestaltung
    Abstract: Discursive, engaging and enlightening challenge to orthadox approaches to the ideas of free time and leisure, from the preeminent figure in leisure studies.
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    Berlin : Logos Verlag Berlin | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783832598747
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (110 pages)
    Series Statement: Wirtschaftspsychologie Ser. v.2
    DDC: 303.34
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    Keywords: Teamentwicklung ; Mitarbeiterschulung ; Wirtschaftspsychologie ; Ratgeber
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    Stuttgart : Verlag W. Kohlhammer | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783170227255
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (185 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    DDC: 305.2
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    Keywords: Alter ; Diskriminierung
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  • 15
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    ISBN: 9780750672931
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (277 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Knowledge and Communities
    DDC: 307
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Knowledge and Communities is the first book dedicated to a major new knowledge management topic. ""Communities of Practice"" are cross-organizational groups of people sharing knowledge, solving common problems, and exchanging insights and frustrations. Knowledge and Communities, a collection of authoritative articles, describes the dynamics of these groups and explains how they enable organizational knowledge to be creating, shared, and applied. The book teaches how organizations can empower both traditional and on-line communities and make them a cornerstone of a general knowledge management
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Knowledge and Communities; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Part One Practical Applications; Chapter 1 Communities of Practice: The Key to Knowledge Strategy; Chapter 2 Why Information Technology Inspired but Cannot Deliver Knowledge Management; Chapter 3 The New Task of R&D Management: Creating Goal-Directed Communities for Innovation; Chapter 4 Communities of Practice: Learning Is Social. Training Is Irrelevant?; Chapter 5 Knowledge Diffusion through ""Strategic Communities""; Chapter 6 The Real Value of Online Communities; Part Two Theory Development
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7 Organizational Learning and Communities of Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning, and InnovationChapter 8 Communities of Practice, Social Capital and Organizational Knowledge; Chapter 9 Linking Competitive Advantage with Communities of Practice; Chapter 10 Communities of Practice at an Internet Firm: Netovation vs. On-Time Performance; Chapter 11 Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community; Chapter 12 Anatomy of a Flame: Conflict and Community Building on the Internet
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 13 Making Large-Scale Information Resources Serve Communities of PracticeIndex
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    ISBN: 9780750628921
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (184 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Sport: Social Problems and Issues
    DDC: 306.483
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    Abstract: 〈EM〉Sport: Social Problems and Issues〈/EM〉 provides a detailed analysis and critique of contemporary social problems and issues for the coach, organizer, teacher or student of sport. Drawing upon perspectives from social science, it examines change and development of modern sport, both nationally and internationally, enabling students and practitioners to address those problems and issues which threaten the integrity of sport.〈BR〉〈BR〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Sport: Social Problems and Issues; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part One: Sport as Social Practice and Social Institution; 1. Sport: inside out; Look at it this way; Sport as a social practice; Sport as a socal institution; A delicate balancing act; 2. Sports: change and development; Characteristics of modern sports; Changes to sports processes; Changes to sport worlds; Different sports, different problems; A critical note; 3. Sports in the marketplace; Introduction; Sport and capital; Sponsorship; The sponsorship-advertizing-media axis; Globalization
    Description / Table of Contents: Some key questions4. The corruption of sports practice; Introduction; Types of disassociation: contest problems; Typical response to contest problems; Types of disassociation: pre-contest problems; The exploitation and abuse of athletes; Responses to exploitation; Codes of conduct for coaches; A critical note: individual or system; Part Two: Sport and Structural Inequality; 5. Sport, racism and ethnicity; Multiculturalism; Racism; The Afro-Caribbean experience; South Asians and sport; 6. Sport, ability and disability; Introduction; Society disables; The accessibility of sports; Integration
    Description / Table of Contents: Competitive sportDifferent but equitable; 7. Sport and gender; What's the problem; Sex, gender and sexism; Gender relations; Who rules, who coaches?; Strategies for equity; 8. Sport and social class; Introduction: the end of the class; Social surveys; Dimension of class; The habitus; An underclass?; Class rules; Summary; References; Further reading; Index
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    ISBN: 9780805853551
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (484 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Communication and Social Cognition : Theories and Methods
    DDC: 302.2
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈EM〉Communication and Social Cognition〈/EM〉 represents the explosion of work in the field of social cognition over the past 25 years. Expanding the contribution made by 〈EM〉Social Cognition and Communication〈/EM〉, published in 1982, this scholarly collection updates the study of communication from a social cognitive perspective, with contributions from well-known experts and promising new scholars in diverse areas of communication.〈BR〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Celebrating Social Cognition and Communication; I Message Production; 2 Cognitive Models of Message Production; 3 Communication: A Goal-Directed, Plan-Guided Process; 4 Interaction Goals and Message Production: Conceptual and Methodological Developments; 5 Arguments; II Interpersonal Communication; 6 Cognitive Foundations of Communication in Close Relationships; 7 Attribution and Interpersonal Communication: Out of Our Heads and Into Behavior; 8 Shared Cognition and Communication Within Group Decision Making and Negotiation
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Social Cognition in Family Communication10 Social Cognition Under the Influence: Drinking While Communicating; III Mass Media; 11 Social Cognition and Cultivation; 12 Media and Racism; 13 News and Politics; 14 Comprehension of the Media; IV Social Influence; 15 Attitude Accessibility: Theory, Methods, and Future Directions; 16 Emotion and Persuasion: A Social Cognitive Perspective; 17 Compliance Gaining; 18 Motivation, Social Context, and Cognitive Processing as Evolving Concepts in Persuasion Theory; Author Index; Subject Index
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    ISBN: 9780415449564
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (262 p)
    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Aeromobilities
    DDC: 303.4832
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉〈EM〉Aeromobilities〈/EM〉 provides a broad introduction to the study of air travel, airspaces and aviation from the perspective of the social sciences and the humanities. The book〈EM〉 〈/EM〉makes a strong case for a systematic, interdisciplinary study of some of the most powerful forces that have shaped our mobile globalization.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introducing aeromobilities; Part I Aeromobilities, globalization and social theory; 1 Aeromobilities and the global; 2 Global transfer points: The making of airports in the mobile risk society; Part II The production of airspaces; 3 〉 store 〉 forward 〉: Architectures of a future tense; 4 Connecting the world: Analyzing global city networks through airline flows; 5 Airport code/spaces; 6 Air craft: Producing UK airspace; 7 Around the world in 80 airports; Part III The social life of air travel; 8 Airborne on time
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 A life in corridors: Social perspectives on aeromobility and work in knowledge organizations10 Getting into the flow; Part IV Governing air travel; 11 Science, expertise and local knowledge in airport conflicts: Towards a cosmopolitical approach; 12 Helipads, heliports and urban air space: Governing the contested infrastructure of helicopter travel; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415297677
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (188 p)
    Series Statement: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
    Parallel Title: Print version The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia : The inalienable gift of territory
    DDC: 305.89/9226
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    Abstract: Cynthia Chou focuses upon the predicaments of the Orang Suku Laut or 'tribe of sea people', an indigenous people of Indonesia, in view of the challenges imposed upon them by the emergence of new borders on their maritime world
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Orang Laut: People of the sea; 2 Social organization; 3 History and culture change: The making of a marginal culture; 4 The inalienable gift of territory; 5 The fishing economy; 6 Modernization and development: The Islamization process; 7 The transformation of Orang Laut territories: The Growth Triangle; 8 Conclusion; Appendix: Orang Laut fishing gear; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415552868
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (303 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Mourning Dress (Routledge Revivals) : A Costume and Social History
    DDC: 391/.8
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    Abstract: 〈P〉First published in 1983, Mourning Dress chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette from the middle ages to the present day, highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata. The result is a book which is not only of major importance to students of the history of dress but also to anyone who enjoys social history. 〈/P〉〈P〉 〈/P〉〈P〉〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One: The Function and Ritual of European Funerals; Chapter Two: The Social Status of Widows; Chapter Three: The Origins of Fashionable Mourning Dress up to 1600; Chapter Four: Mourning Dress 1600-1700; Chapter Five: Mourning Dress 1700-1800; Chapter Six: Mourning Dress 1800-1910; Chapter Seven: Children and Mourning; Chapter Eight: The Mourning Dress and Textile Industries; Chapter Nine: Mourning Jewellery; Chapter Ten: The Colours of Mourning
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Eleven: The Breakdown of Mourning Traditions: Mourning Dress From 1910Appendix 1: A Selection of Popular Mourning Fabrics; Appendix 2: Periods of Mourning; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780877193449
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (358 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Intercultural Services
    DDC: 305.8/0071/5
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    Abstract: For worldwide intercultural services, here is one-stop shopping at its best. This easy-to-use guide gives you practical advice to locate, evaluate, purchase, and oversee intercultural services. It describes and provides easy access (including websites and e-mail addresses) to the world's leading intercultural services. These high-impact, productive, and cost-effective service providers are critical to your operation's growth strategy and global success. This handy guide covers the gamut of intercultural services. Whether you are managing a multi-cultural workplace, preparing to enter the globa
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Intercultural Services; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; 1. Exploring Intercultural Services; About the Book; About the Intercultural Field; Terminology and Jargon; Mini-Case: One Company's Experience; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 2. Key Intercultural Concepts; Understanding the Core Concepts; Understanding Cultural Differences; Cross-Cultural Communications; Cross-Cultural Transitional Experiences; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 3. Cross-Border Organizations; Risks and Opportunities; The Globalizing Organization
    Description / Table of Contents: Cross-Border Organizational Relationships and IssuesThe Intercultural Synergy Model; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 4. Cross-Border Roles; New Roles - New Requirements; Cross-Border Team Membership; The Global Manager's Role; Cross-Border Role Analysis; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 5. Foundations of Intercultural Learning; Assessing Intercultural Needs; Intercultural Learning Objectives; Paths to Intercultural Learning; Selecting Approaches, Methods, and Models; Systematic Training and Development; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources
    Description / Table of Contents: 6. Intercultural ServicesOverview of Services; International Programs; Professional Services; Online Services; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 7. Intercultural Products; Overview of Products; General Considerations; "Stand Alone" Products; Facilitated Products; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; Videos and Audiotapes; Assessment/Selection Instruments; 8. Intercultural Service Providers; Finding Suitable Providers; Intercultural Trainer Qualifications; Assessing Vendors Information; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 9. Working with Suppliers
    Description / Table of Contents: Managing the RelationshipImproving Supplier Performance; Evaluating Intercultural Learning; Giving Feedback to Suppliers; Assisting Suppliers; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 10. The Case for Intercultural Services; The Downside Considerations; The Upside Considerations; Convincing Others; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; Bibliography of "Classics"; Index; About the Author
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    ISBN: 9780415352048
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (235 p)
    Series Statement: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Media and the Chinese Diaspora : Community, Communications and Commerce
    DDC: 302.230951
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    Abstract: The importance of the Chinese diaspora is widely recognized. ""Wanning Sun"" examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora. She focuses especially on the media's role in communication, in fostering a sense of community, in defining different kinds of 'transnational Chineseness' - overseas Chinese communities are often very different from one country to another - and in showing how media communication is linked to commerce, which is often a key activity of the overseas Chinese. Revealing a great deal about the vibrancy and dynamism of the Chinese-language media, the book considers
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: Transnationalism and a global diasporic Chinese mediasphere; 1 Disconnecting transnational ties: The Chinese Pacific Weekly and the transformation of Chinese American community after the Second World War; 2 Chinese-language media and immigrant life in the United States and Canada; 3 Gossip about stars: Newspapers and Pop Culture China; 4 'A hundred flowers bloom': The re-emergence of the Chinese press in post-Suharto Indonesia; 5 'Chinese' Indonesians in national cinema
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Chinese newspapers, ethnic identity and the state: The case of Malaysia7 Radio-activated business and power: A case study of 3CW Melbourne Chinese Radio; 8 Chinese media in New Zealand: Transnational outpost or unchecked floodtide?; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9781848728080
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (538 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Understanding Culture : Theory, Research, and Application
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This volume contains contributions from 24 internationally known scholars covering a broad spectrum of interests in cross-cultural theory and research. This breadth is reflected in the diversity of the topics covered in the volume's chapters, as well as in a closing dialog between 14 of the field's top experts
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the Editors; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Section I: Theoretical Approaches; Chapter 1. A Dynamic Constructivist Approach to Culture: Moving From Describing Culture to Explaining Culture; Chapter 2. Understanding Cultural Syndrome Effects on What and How We Think: A Situated Cognition Model; Chapter 3. Culture Comparison and Culture Priming: A Critical Analysis; Chapter 4. An Intersubjective Consensus Approach to Culture: The Role of Intersubjective Norms Versus Cultural Self in Cultural Processes
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5. Culture as a Vehicle for Studying Individual DifferencesSection II: Dimensions of National Cultures and Their Measurement; Chapter 6. Cultural Mapping of Beliefs About the World and Their Application to a Social Psychology Involving Culture: Futurescaping; Chapter 7. Culture Matters: National Value Cultures, Sources, and Consequences; Chapter 8. On Finding Improved Ways of Characterizing National Cultures; Chapter 9. Nagging Problems and Modest Solutions in Cross-Cultural Research: Illustrations From Organizational Behavior Literature
    Description / Table of Contents: Section III: Ecological and Economic Foundations of CultureChapter 10. Ecological Determinants of Cultural Variation; Chapter 11. Climate, Psychological Homeostasis, and Individual Behaviors Across Cultures; Chapter 12. The Mutual Constitution of Residential Mobility and Individualism; Chapter 13. The Social and Economic Context of Peace and Happiness; Section IV: Psychological Manifestations of Culture: Cognition, Perception, and Emotion; Chapter 14. Language, Culture, Cognition: How Do They Intersect?; Chapter 15. Culture and Emotional Expression
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 16. Cultural Dialects: Nonverbal Behavior and Person PerceptionChapter 17. Culture Through the Lens of Self-Regulatory Orientations; Chapter 18. Looking Forward, Looking Back: Cultural Differences and Similarities in Time Orientation; Section V: Bicultural and Intercultural Process; Chapter 19. The Bicultural Self and the Bicultural Brain; Chapter 20. Biculturalism in Management: Leveraging the Benefits of Intrapersonal Diversity; Chapter 21. Buffering Acculturative Stress and Facilitating Cultural Adaptation: Nostalgia as a Psychological Resource
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 22. Theory, Critical Incidents, and the Preparation of People for Intercultural ExperiencesChapter 23. Self-Conscious Emotions as Emotional Systems: The Role of Culture in Shame and Pride Systems; Chapter 24. A Cultural Analysis of Harmony and Conflict: Toward an Integrated Model of Conflict Styles; Section VI: Integration and Reflection; Chapter 25. Culture and Information Processing: A Conceptual Integration; Chapter 26. Society, Culture, and the Person: Ways to Personalize and Socialize Cultural Psychology; Section VII: A Dialogue
    Description / Table of Contents: The Present and Future State of Cultural Research and Theory: A Dialogue
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    ISBN: 9780415480031
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (353 p)
    Series Statement: RTPI Library Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Regional Planning for Open Space
    DDC: 303.660938
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    Abstract: Reviewing the limitations of various planning options, this book addresses the debate on how to preserve open space in the context of a growing metropolis. The importance of open spaces for well-being in urban life is well-established. With case studies on internalization and valuation methods, this book critically examines the liberal discourse that urges the transfer of responsibility for open space from government to the market. European and American expert authors confront political rhetoric with grounded analysis and conclude that the market needs to be combined with governmental efforts
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; About the authors; Chapter 1 Rethinking open space planning in Metropolitan areas; Chapter 2 Planning and development of the Fringe landscapes: On the outer side of the Copenhagen 'fingers'; Chapter 3 Threats to Metropolitan open space: The Netherlands economic and institutional dimension; Chapter 4 Development Constraints reduce urban open space: Actual conditions and future requirements in england; Chapter 5 The viability of Cross-subsidy strategies: A Netherlands case study
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6 Does proximity to open space increase the values of Dwellings?: Evidence from three Dutch case studiesChapter 7 Government or Market: Competing ideals in american metropolitan regions; Chapter 8 Maintaining the Working landscape: The portland Metro Urban Growth Boundary; Chapter 9 The Impact of open space preservation policies: Evidence from the Netherlands and the US; Chapter 10 Spaces of engagement For open space advocacy: A grounded theory on local opposition in the Netherlands; Chapter 11 Formalisation of 'open space as public space' in zoning: The Belgian experience
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 12 Aesthetic approaches to active urban landscape planning: European exemplarsChapter 13 Flächenhaushalt reconsidered: Alternatives to the German federal 30 hectares goal; Chapter 14 Planning open spaces: Balancing markets, state and communities; Index
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781400826414
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (325 pages)
    DDC: 305.8961/0427/53
    Abstract: The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity--a theme that becomes a window onto British politics of race, place, and nation, and Liverpool's own contentious origin story as a gloriously cosmopolitan port of world-historical import that was nonetheless central to British slave trading and imperialism. This ethnography also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity. It captures the contradictions of diaspora in postcolonial Liverpool, where African and Afro-Caribbean heritages and transnational linkages with Black America both contribute to and compete with the local as a basis for authentic racial identity. Crisscrossing historical periods, rhetorical modes, and academic genres, the book focuses singularly on "place," enabling its most radical move: its analysis of Black racial politics as enactments of English cultural premises. The insistent focus on English culture implies a further twist. Just as Blacks are racialized through appeals to their assumed Afro-Caribbean and African cultures, so too has Liverpool--an Irish, working-class city whose expansive port faces the world beyond Britain--long been beyond the pale of dominant notions of authentic Englishness. Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail studies "race" through clashing constructions of "Liverpool.".
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781400825363
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
    DDC: 305.42
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    Keywords: Feminismus
    Abstract: This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Hirschmann begins by arguing that the dominant Western understanding of freedom does not provide a conceptual vocabulary for accurately characterizing women's experiences. Often, free choice is assumed when women are in fact coerced--as when a battered woman who stays with her abuser out of fear or economic necessity is said to make this choice because it must not be so bad--and coercion is assumed when free choices are made--such as when Westerners assume that all veiled women are oppressed, even though many Islamic women view veiling as an important symbol of cultural identity. Understanding the contexts in which choices arise and are made is central to understanding that freedom is socially constructed through systems of power such as patriarchy, capitalism, and race privilege. Social norms, practices, and language set the conditions within which choices are made, determine what options are available, and shape our individual subjectivity, desires, and self-understandings. Attending to the ways in which contexts construct us as "subjects" of liberty, Hirschmann argues, provides a firmer empirical and theoretical footing for understanding what freedom means and entails politically, intellectually, and socially.
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781400825950
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (319 pages)
    Series Statement: Politics and Society in Modern America
    DDC: 305.8
    Abstract: During the past quarter century, free-market capitalism was recognized not merely as a successful system of wealth creation, but as the key determinant of the health of political and cultural democracy. Now, renowned British journalist and historian Godfrey Hodgson takes aim at this popular view in a book that promises to become one of the most important political histories of our time. More Equal Than Others looks back on twenty-five years of what Hodgson calls "the conservative ascendancy" in America, demonstrating how it has come to dominate American politics. Hodgson disputes the notion that the rise of conservatism has spread affluence and equality to the American people. Quite the contrary, he writes, the most distinctive feature of American society in the closing years of the twentieth century was its great and growing inequality. He argues that the combination of conservative ideology and corporate power and dominance by mass media obsessed with lifestyle and celebrity have caused America to abandon much of what was best in its past. In fact, he writes, income and wealth inequality have become so extreme that America now resembles the class-stratified societies of early twentieth-century Europe. More Equal Than Others addresses a broad range of issues, with chapters on politics, the new economy, immigration, technology, women, race, and foreign policy, among others. A fitting sequel to the author's critically acclaimed America In Our Time, More Equal Than Others is not only an outstanding synthesis of history, but a trenchant commentary on the state of the American Dream.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816670437
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    DDC: 305.3098
    Keywords: Weltbank ; Geschlechterrolle ; Sexualität ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: A nuanced critique of how the World Bank encourages gender norms through its policies, Developing Partnerships argues that financial institutions are key players in the global enforcement of gender and family expectations. By combining analysis of documents produced and sponsored by the World Bank with interviews of World Bank staffers and case studies, Kate Bedford presents a detailed examination of gender and sexuality in the policies of the world's largest and most influential development institution. Looking concurrently at economic and gender policy, Bedford connects reform of markets to reform of masculinities, loan agreements for export promotion to pamphlets for indigenous adolescents advising daily genital bathing, and attempts to strengthen institutions after the Washington Consensus to efforts to promote loving couplehood in response to economic crisis. In doing so, she reveals the shifting relationships between development and sexuality and the ways in which gender policy impacts debates about the future of neoliberalism.Providing a multilayered account of how gender-aware policies are conceived and implemented by the World Bank, Developing Partnerships demonstrates as well how institutional practices shape development.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816670499
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (250 pages)
    DDC: 302.209746/09032
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Kommunikation ; Indianer ; Neuengland
    Abstract: In The Networked Wilderness, Matt Cohen examines communications systems in early New England and finds that, surprisingly, struggles over information technology were as important as theology, guns, germs, or steel in shaping the early colonization of North America. Colonists in New England have generally been viewed as immersed in a Protestant culture of piety and alphabetic literacy. At the same time, many scholars have insisted that the culture of the indigenous peoples of the region was a predominantly oral culture. But what if, Cohen posits, we thought about media and technology beyond the terms of orality and literacy?Reconceptualizing aural and inscribed communication as a spectrum, The Networked Wilderness bridges the gap between the history of the book and Native American systems of communication. Cohen reveals that books, paths, recipes, totems, and animals and their sounds all took on new interactive powers as the English negotiated the well-developed informational trails of the Algonquian East Coast and reported their experiences back to Europe. Native and English encounters forced all parties to think of each other as audiences for any event that might become a kind of "publication." Using sources ranging from Thomas Morton's Maypole festival to the architecture of today's Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Cohen shows that the era before the printing press came to New England was one of extraordinary fertility for communications systems in America.
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    ISBN: 9781400826698
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 pages)
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    Keywords: Politische Anthropologie ; Postkolonialismus ; Kulturvergleich ; Gewalt ; Politik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: 9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries. New configurations of sovereignty are at the heart of political and cultural transformations globally. Sovereign Bodies shifts the debate on sovereign power away from territoriality and external recognition of state power, toward the shaping of sovereign power through the exercise of violence over human bodies and populations. In this volume, sovereign power, whether exercised by a nation-state or by a local despotic power or community, is understood and scrutinized as something tentative and unstable whose efficacy depends less on formal rules than on repeated acts of violence. Following the editors' introduction are fourteen essays by leading scholars from around the globe that analyze cultural meanings of sovereign power and violence, as well as practices of citizenship and belonging--in South Africa, Peru, India, Mexico, Cyprus, Norway, and also among transnational Chinese and Indian populations. Sovereign Bodies enriches our understanding of power and sovereignty in the postcolonial world and in "the West" while opening new conceptual fields in the anthropology of politics. The contributors are Ana María Alonso, Lars Buur, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, Oivind Fuglerud, Thomas Blom Hansen, Barry Hindess, Steffen Jensen, Achille Mbembe, Aihwa Ong, Finn Stepputat, Simon Turner, Peter van der Veer, and Yael Navaro-Yashin.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203938652
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.4/6
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    Abstract: This volume represents the next generation of research in media psychology, bridging selective exposure into a larger framework of choice in media usage. Considering the myriad media options available to use, this work seeks to answer such questions as: What mechanisms guide an individual's exposure to/choice of media? How can researchers model them? The questions why and how people decide to use media offerings are key in current communication scholarship. Research on selective exposure has addressed this area in the past, but the term 'media choice' is used here to represent any implicit/automatic/spontaneous or explicit/deliberate 'decisions' of the users and subsequent behavioral consequences that lead to a contact with a media stimulus.
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    ISBN: 9780203877388
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
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    Series Statement: Internationalizing Media Studies
    DDC: 302.23071
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: The explosion of transnational information flows, made possible by new technologies and institutional changes (economic, political and legal) has profoundly affected the study of global media. At the same time, the globalization of media combined with the globalization of higher education means that the research and teaching of the subject faces immediate and profound challenges, not only as the subject of enquiry but also as the means by which researchers and students undertake their studies. Edited by a leading scholar of global communication, this collection of essays by internationally-acclaimed scholars from around the world aims to stimulate a debate about the imperatives for internationalizing media studies by broadening its remit, including innovative research methodologies, taking account of regional and national specificities and pedagogic necessities warranted by the changing profile of students and researchers and the unprecedented growth of media in the non-Western world. Transnational in its perspectives, Internationalizing Media Studies is a much-needed guide to the internationalization of media and its study in a global context.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203875704
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    DDC: 303.6/9
    Abstract: Business, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding examines the actions currently being taken by businesses in areas of violent conflict around the world, and explores how they can make a significant contribution to the resolution of violent conflicts through business-based peacebuilding. This book combines two approaches to provide a comprehensive look at the current state and future of business- based peacebuilding.  It marries a detailed study of documented peacebuilding activities with a map of the possibilities for future business-related conflict work and pragmatic suggestions for business leaders, conflict resolution practitioners, and peacebuilding organizations.  The use of the label 'business-based peacebuilding' is new and signifies actions business can take beyond simple legal compliance or making changes to avoid creating a conflict. Although business-based peacebuilding is new, examples are included from around the world to illustrate that, working together, businesses have a strong contribution to make to the creation of peaceful societies. The book advocates pragmatic peacebuilding, which is not overly concerned with cause-driven models of conflict.  Instead, pragmatic peacebuilding encourages an examination of what is needed in the conflict and what can be provided.  This approach is free of some of the ideological baggage of traditional peacebuilding and allows for a much wider range of participants in the peacebuilding project.  This book will be of much interest to students of peace studies, conflict resolution, international security and business studies, as well as to practitioners and business leaders. Derek Sweetman is Dispute Resolution Director for Better Business Bureau in Washington, DC and Instructor at New Century College, George Mason University, USA.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (460 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Stadt ; Landflucht ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide. This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently conceive and execute their research on the population of cities. The subject cities are in Greece, Mesoamerica, the Andes, Italy, Egypt, Africa, United States, Denmark, and China. This broad sample provides a useful framework for answers to such questions as "Why did people agglomerate into cities?" and "What population size and what age of endurance constitute a city?" The study covers more than population magnitude and population makeup, the two major frameworks of urban demography. The contributors combine their archaeological and historical expertise to reveal commonalities, as well as theoretical extrapolations and methodological approaches, at work here and outside the sample. Urbanism in the Preindustrial World is a unique study revealing the variety of factors involved in the coalescing and dispersal of populations in preindustrial times.
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    Chicago : Chicago Review Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781569762615
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (282 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.800951
    Abstract: Traveling more than 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of China, the authors of this narrative explore the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their fields, monks in their monasteries, fishermen on their skiffs, and herders on the steppe. Closely observing daily life in these remote regions, they document the many lifestyles and adventures of the Chinese natives-they visit an old Catholic fisherman at a church that has been without a priest for 40 years; they hike around high-altitude Lugu Lake to farm with the matriarchal Mosuo women; and they descend into a dry riverbed to hunt for jade with Muslim Uyghur merchants. This account uncovers surprising truths about China's hidden minorities and their complex position in Chinese society through real discussions, including a heated debate with Ewenki village cadres on human rights and talks with aging hajjis about the Chinese government's razing of their mosque.
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    ISBN: 9780203092262
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 306.9
    Abstract: This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration. Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the authors discuss such issues as the basis of the sense of stigma involved in the receipt of welfare benefits, the right of welfare and the concepts of 'community'.
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    ISBN: 9780203873939
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (235 pages)
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    Series Statement: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    DDC: 306.4819095
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    Abstract: Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore 'exotic' holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls through the bazaars of Istanbul and cruises on the Nile are packaged into the sea, sand and sun culture of traditional forms of organized mass tourism. At the same time new technologies weave the fabric of tourism and everyday life even closer, circulating images, information, and objects between them. Taking off from this observation, Tourism, Performance and the Everyday invites readers to follow the flow's of tourist desires, objects, meanings, photographs, fears, dreams and memories weaving together the spaces of and between Western Europe, Turkey and Egypt. Tourism, Performance and the Everyday carefully analyzes the cultural and social impacts of mass-tourist experiences of 'exotic' places on the wider aspects of everyday life. It treats mass-tourism as a cultural phenomenon that feeds into the practices and networks of peoples' everyday lives rather than as an isolated, trivial or 'exotic' event. It traces how these impacts are mediated by various mobilities between home and away through innovate mobile and ethnographic research methods at tourist destinations and the home of tourists. The book contains analysis of diaries, photographs, blogs and photo web sharing sites, participant observation of performing tourists and 'home ethnographies' of the afterlife tourist photographs, souvenirs and memories. In doing this, the book traces out the multiple interconnections and mobilities between everyday spaces and leisure spaces as well as the multiple ways in which the Orient is consumed on holiday and at home. The book appeals to a wide audience among students, researchers and...
    Abstract: educators within the social and cultural sciences studying, researching and teaching theories and methods of tourism, Orientalism and cultural encounters as well as broader issues of leisure, consumption and everyday life.
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    ISBN: 9780203874158
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (421 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Companions
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    Abstract: The Routledge Companion to Semiotics provides the ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field. Topics covered include: the history, development, and uses of semiotics key theorists, including Saussure, Peirce and Sebeok crucial and contemporary topics such as biosemiotics, sociosemiotics and semioethics the semiotics of media and culture, nature and cognition. Featuring an extended glossary of key terms and thinkers as well as suggestions for further reading, this is an invaluable reference guide for students of semiotics at all levels.
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    ISBN: 9780203873762
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (195 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Contemporary China Series
    DDC: 306.76/60951091732
    Keywords: Homosexualität ; Homosexuellenbewegung ; Sozialer Wandel ; China
    Abstract: This book contributes to a critical understanding of how Chinese same-sex identity in urban China is variously imagined; how it is transformed; and how it presents its resistances as China continues to open up to global power relations. Equally important, the book will 1) sharpen knowledge of China's recent socio-economic change and political agenda, 2) build a greater awareness of Chinese cultural, sexual and ethical values and 3) offer new perspectives on 'Chineseness' and Chinese same-sex identity. Uniquely, it explores the emergence of Chinese same-sex identity through understanding the everyday, lived same-sex experience, amid China's opening up to cultural, sexual and economic globalisation. This understanding is based on a culturally sensitive framework which accommodates the diverse and sometimes paradoxical articulation of same-sex identity in urban China. It come sto the conclusion that same-sex identity in china is articulated in a paradoxical way: open and decentred, but at the same time, nationalist and conforming to state control. This book will be of interest to scholar and students in Chinese studies, Gender Studies, sexuality and cultural studies.
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    ISBN: 9780203870334
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (205 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Religion
    DDC: 306.6
    Abstract: In this study, E. Frances King explores how people first learn to relate to the images and artefacts of religious belief within their domestic environments. As a sense of religious belonging is instilled on a daily basis in the home, it also becomes emotionally linked to family, community, and homeland, resulting in two different genealogies - one to do with faith and one to do with motherland - that become entangled.
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    ISBN: 9780203872949
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (237 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    DDC: 302.2345
    Abstract: This book is about the relationship between media and globalization, explored through the unique study of the global expansion of Discovery Communications, spearheaded by the Discovery Channel, one of the world's largest providers of factual television programming and media content. The book argues that the study of Discovery's relationship with globalization provides both a specific and a more general practical and theoretical understanding of how the processes of increased linking and interweaving of media and communications unfold and develop, as well as some of the consequences of this.
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    ISBN: 9780203092811
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (362 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals: Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings in Social Theory
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    Abstract: Durkheim's study of socialism, first published in English in 1959, is a document of exceptional intellectual interest and a genuine milestone in the history of sociological theory. It presents us with the sociological theories of a truly first-rate thinker and his extensive commentary upon another key figure in the history of sociological thought, Henri Saint-Simon. The core of this volume contains Durkheim's presentation of Saint-Simon's ideas, their sources and their development.
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    ISBN: 9780203872482
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (249 pages)
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    Keywords: Pluralismus ; Zivilisation ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A highly original and readily accessible examination of the cultural dimension of international politics, this book provides a sophisticated and nuanced account of the relevance of cultural categories for the analysis of world politics. The book's analytical focus is on plural and pluralist civilizations. Civilizations exist in the plural within one civilization of modernity; and they are internally pluralist rather than unitary. The existence of plural and pluralist civilizations is reflected in transcivilizational engagements, intercivilizational encounters and, only occasionally, in civilizational clashes. Drawing on the work of Eisenstadt, Collins and Elias, Katzenstein's introduction provides a cogent and detailed alternative to Huntington's. This perspective is then developed and explored through six outstanding case studies written by leading experts in their fields. Combining contemporary and historical perspectives while addressing the civilizational politics of America, Europe, China, Japan, India and Islam, the book draws these discussions together in Patrick Jackson's theoretically informed, thematic conclusion.   Featuring an exceptional line-up and representing a diversity of theoretical views within one integrative perspective, this work will be of interest to all scholars and students of international relations, sociology and political science.
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    ISBN: 9780203882795
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
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    Series Statement: AFI Film Readers
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    Keywords: Film ; Geopolitik ; Transnationalisierung ; Globalisierung ; Transnationale Politik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection" The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states. The three sections of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives cover the geopolitical imaginary, transnational cinematic institutions, and the uneven flow of words and images.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203873465
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Migration ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Souveränität ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Vigorous debates swirl around issues of globalization, as global political economic relations in a nation-state system are complex and incompletely understood phenomena. The experiences of the late 1800's and first half of the twentieth century suggest that globalization requires nurturing to ensure that societies garner the advantages offered by globalization and manage the risks and fears unleashed by such dramatic transformation in social affairs. Featuring contributions by experts from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including economics, political science and law, this edited volume offers a timely examination of the complexities surrounding modern globalization. Through discussion and evaluation of the problems associated with immigration, social welfare and income inequality, and global governance the book offers a significant contribution to the continuing globalization debate. Providing both an overview of the debate and detailed discussion of specific examples, Challenges of Globalization will be of great interest to scholars of international political economy, international relations and globalization studies.
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    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780199716098
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (234 pages)
    DDC: 306.4
    Keywords: Geschichte 1784-2005 ; Ernährungsgewohnheit ; USA ; China
    Abstract: In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000 Chinese restaurants across the United States--by far the most plentiful among all our ethnic eateries. Now, in Chop Suey Andrew Coe provides the authoritative history of the American infatuation with Chinese food, telling its fascinating story for the first time. It's a tale that moves from curiosity to disgust and then desire. From China, Coe's story travels to the American West, where Chinese immigrants drawn by the 1848 Gold Rush struggled against racism and culinary prejudice but still established restaurants and farms and imported an array of Asian ingredients. He traces the Chinese migration to the East Coast, highlighting that crucial moment when New York "Bohemians" discovered Chinese cuisine--and for better or worse, chop suey. Along the way, Coe shows how the peasant food of an obscure part of China came to dominate Chinese-American restaurants; unravels the truth of chop suey's origins; reveals why American Jews fell in love with egg rolls and chow mein; shows how President Nixon's 1972 trip to China opened our palates to a new range of cuisine; and explains why we still can't get dishes like those served in Beijing or Shanghai. The book also explores how American tastes have been shaped by our relationship with the outside world, and how we've relentlessly changed foreign foods to adapt to them our own deep-down conservative culinary preferences. Andrew Coe's Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States is a fascinating tour of America's centuries-long appetite for Chinese food. Always illuminating, often exploding long-held culinary myths, this book opens a new window into defining what is American cuisine.
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    London : Bloomsbury Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781441100139
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (177 pages)
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    DDC: 306.43
    Abstract: This innovative monograph is concerned with a set of inter-related problems associated with the nature of knowledge, how it is produced within intellectual fields and the implications of those things for education and the transmission of knowledge in the classroom. It covers issues in the sociology of knowledge, the educational system and policy, social differences in educational attainment, educational research and teaching. At various points it critically engages with the ideas of major thinkers such as Durkheim, Bernstein and Bourdieu and others and draws on contributions representing an emerging new approach in the sociology of education associated with recent work by John Beck, Karl Maton, Johan Muller, Michael F.D. Young and others. This provocative and challenging book will undoubtedly stimulate debate among educationists across the world.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203092644
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (409 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 070.19
    Abstract: First published in 1980, More Bad News is the Second Volume in the research findings of the Glasgow University Media Group. It develops the analytic findings and methods of the first volume Bad News through a series of Case Studies of Television News Coverage, and argues that much of what passes as balanced and factual news reporting is produced from a highly partial viewpoint. Focusing on the British economy in crisis, and its thematic linkage with the Social Contract during the first four months of 1975, the book deals with three main levels of activity: the story, the language and the visuals. As the book unpacks each level of routine news coverage a picture emerges which has the surface appearance of neutrality and balance but is in fact highly partial and restricted.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203869383
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (337 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    DDC: 303.6/401
    Abstract: This book examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks with discourses of identity, and the possibility of social transformation. Drawing on a number of theorists including Deleuze and Guattari, authors Athina Karatzogianni and Andrew Robinson seek to reinterpret World Systems Theory in order to engage with issues of power, resistance, and conflict in the contemporary world. Discussing contemporary scholarship in global politics, the authors consider new and developing concepts including: global cities, bifurcations, hegemonic transitions, the relationship between capitalism and the state, the position of East Asia, and active and reactive network movements. Their analysis includes a very rich pool of empirical examples covering more than fifty countries and thirty resistance groups. Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World will be of interest to students and scholars looking for a comprehensive new theorization of the forces at work in global politics. The book provides a framework which crosses the boundaries between international relations, international political economy, comparative politics, conflict studies, social movement studies and critical theory, producing a study of a highly interdisciplinary scope.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789048507962
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (153 pages)
    Series Statement: MediaMatters, 3 v.No. 3
    DDC: 306.481
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    Abstract: A fascinating, eclectic analysis of the changing geographies of play in contemporary society.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203857335
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (301 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 305.3
    Abstract: This work, first published in 1990, reissues the first thorough examination of the essentially masculine nature of Max Weber's social and political thinking. Through a detailed examination of his central texts, the author demonstrates Weber's masculine reading of 'social life' and shows how his work advocates a masculine form of life that poses a challenge to contemporary women and to feminism. In particular, she addresses the patriarchal implications of Weber's belief in the need to relegate the ethic of brotherly love to a private sphere in order to make possible rational action and the achievement of greatness in the public sphere.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203857311
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (258 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 305.3
    Abstract: This thought-provoking book, first published in 1991, examines sexual politics in a world which is being radically changed by the challenges of feminism. Seidler explores how men have responded to feminism, and the contradictory feelings men have towards dominant forms of masculinity. Seidler's stimulating and original analysis of social and political theory connects personally to everyday issues in people's lives. It reflects the growing importance of sexual and personal politics within contemporary politics and culture, and demonstrates clearly the challenge that feminism brings to our inherited forms of morality, politics and sexuality.
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    New York : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511603556
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (360 pages)
    DDC: 306.461
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    Keywords: Sozialmedizin ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book examines the ways in which social relations condition health and the public policies that address it.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203871669
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    DDC: 306.76620952
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-2009 ; Homosexualität ; Männlichkeit ; Gesellschaftsbild ; Homophobie ; Japan
    Abstract: Japan's first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku ('The Rose Tribes'), was launched in 1971. Publicly declaring the beauty and normality of homosexual desire, Barazoku electrified the male homosexual world whilst scandalising mainstream society, and sparked a vibrant period of activity that saw the establishment of an enduring Japanese media form, the homo magazine. Using a detailed account of the formative years of the homo magazine genre in the 1970s as the basis for a wider history of men, this book examines the relationship between male homosexuality and conceptions of manliness in postwar Japan. The book charts the development of notions of masculinity and homosexual identity across the postwar period, analysing key issues including public/private homosexualities, inter-racial desire, male-male sex, love and friendship; the masculine body; and manly identity. The book investigates the phenomenon of 'manly homosexuality', little treated in both masculinity and gay studies on Japan, arguing that desires and individual narratives were constructed within (and not necessarily outside of) the dominant narratives of the nation, manliness and Japanese culture. Overall, this book offers a wide-ranging appraisal of homosexuality and manliness in postwar Japan, that provokes insights into conceptions of Japanese masculinity in general.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203869888
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
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    Series Statement: Perspectives on Gender
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    Abstract: This ethnographic study examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently situated women's organizations in the Northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco. The conventional narrative of globalization tells the story of inexorable forces beyond the capacity of individuals to mute or transcend. But this study tells a different story, one of social actors purposefully weaving cross-border relationships. From this vantage point, global social forces are not immaculately conceived. Instead, they are constituted by human actors with their own interests and identities, located in particular social contexts.  Making Transnational Feminism takes what some have called "global civil society" as its object, moving beyond both dire predictions and euphoric celebrations to understand how transnational political relationships are constructed and sustained across social and geographical divides. It also provides a compelling case study for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in globalization, gender studies, and social movements.
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    Boston : BRILL | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789047425601
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (220 pages)
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    Series Statement: Studies on the Interaction of Art, Thought and Power v.1
    DDC: 306.4/2
    Abstract: Starting from the comparison between the situation of Augustan poets and that of artists and intellectuals in the totalitarian regimes of our time, this book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the problem of the relation of art, thought and power.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816668120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 pages)
    DDC: 305.6/97
    Abstract: In We Are All Moors, Anouar Majid contends that the acrimonious debates about immigration and Islam in the West are the cultural legacy of the conflict between Christians and Moors. Offering a groundbreaking new history, Majid explores how "the Moor" has served as an unacknowledged but potent metaphor for all minority peoples in the West, endlessly reincarnated by the majority.
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    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780199736775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 pages)
    DDC: 302.2/244
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Schreibzeug ; Schriftliche Kommunikation ; Neue Technologie
    Abstract: Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself. A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love relationship with computers and the internet into perspective, describing how the digital revolution influences our reading and writing practices, and how the latest technologies differ from what came before. The book explores our use of computers as writing tools in light of the history of communication technology, a history of how we love, fear, and actually use our writing technologies--not just computers, but also typewriters, pencils, and clay tablets. Dennis Baron shows that virtually all writing implements--and even writing itself--were greeted at first with anxiety and outrage: the printing press disrupted the "almost spiritual connection" between the writer and the page; the typewriter was "impersonal and noisy" and would "destroy the art of handwriting." Both pencils and computers were created for tasks that had nothing to do with writing. Pencils, crafted by woodworkers for marking up their boards, were quickly repurposed by writers and artists. The computer crunched numbers, not words, until writers saw it as the next writing machine. Baron also explores the new genres that the computer has launched: email, the instant message, the web page, the blog, social-networking pages like MySpace and Facebook, and communally-generated texts like Wikipedia and the Urban Dictionary, not to mention YouTube. Here then is a fascinating history of our tangled dealings with a wide range of writing instruments, from ancient papyrus to the modern laptop. With dozens of illustrations and many colorful anecdotes, the book will enthrall anyone interested...
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    ISBN: 9780203860250
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)
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    Series Statement: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives
    DDC: 306.7409793
    Abstract: The State of Sex is a study of Nevada's brothels that situates the nation's only legal brothel industry in the political economy of contemporary tourism. Nevada is part of the "new American heartland," as its pastimes, people, and politics have become more central to the nation. The rise of a service and leisure economy over the past sixty years has propelled sexuality into the heart of contemporary markets. Yet, neoliberal laws in the United States promote business but limit sexual commerce. How have Nevada's legal brothels survived, while the rest of the country criminalizes prostitution? How do brothels operate? Who works in them? This book brings social theory on globalizing economies, politics, leisure consumption, and emotional labor in interactive service work together with research on contemporary prostitution and sexual commerce. The authors employ an innovative, multi-method sociological approach, combining historical analysis of how the brothels came to be with over a decade's worth of ethnographic research on the current state of the industry.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203869659
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (449 pages)
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    Keywords: Soziolinguistik ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social setting, The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World is the first single-volume collection surveying current and recent research trends in international sociolinguistics. With over 30 chapters written by leading authorities in the region concerned, all continents and their respective regions are covered. The book will serve as an important tool to help widen the perspective on sociolinguistics to readers of English. Divided into sections covering: The Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Middle East, and Europe, the book provides readers with a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field of sociolinguistics in each area. It clearly explains the patterns and systematicity that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternations between different language varieties mark personal style, social power and national identity. The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World is the ideal resource for all students on undergraduate sociolinguistics courses and researchers involved in the study of language, society and power. English Language and Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.
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    New York, NY : Brookings Institution Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780815701590
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (313 pages)
    DDC: 303.4
    Abstract: Research on social entrepreneurship is finally catching up to its rapidly growing potential. In The Search for Social Entrepreneurship, Paul Light explores this surge of interest to establish the state of knowledge on this growing phenomenon and suggest directions for future research. Light begins by outlining the debate on how to define social entrepreneurship, a concept often cited and lauded but not necessarily understood. A very elemental definition would note that it involves individuals, groups, networks, or organizations seeking sustainable change via new ideas on how governments, nonprofits, and businesses can address significant social problems. That leaves plenty of gaps, however, and without adequate agreement on what the term means, we cannot measure it effectively. The unsatisfying results are apple-to-orange comparisons that make replication and further research difficult. The subsequent section examines the four main components of social entrepreneurship: ideas, opportunities, organizations, and the entrepreneurs themselves. The copious information available about each has yet to be mined for lessons on making social entrepreneurship a success. The third section draws on Light's original survey research on 131 high-performing nonprofits, exploring how they differ across the four key components. The fourth and final section offers recommendations for future action and research in this burgeoning field.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816670307
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    DDC: 305.895
    Keywords: Vietnamesen ; Ethnische Identität ; USA
    Abstract: With a comparative and race-cognizant approach, Karin Aguilar-San Juan shows how places like Little Saigon and Fields Corner are sites for the simultaneous preservation and redefinition of Vietnamese identity. Intervening in debates about race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, and suburbanization as a form of assimilation, she elaborates on the significance of place as an integral element of community building and its role in defining Vietnamese American-ness.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789048508174
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
    Series Statement: ICAS Publications Series
    DDC: 301
    Abstract: An informative overview of the materiality of Asian cultures and the ways in which objects and practices can embody and also exhibit individual as well as collective tastes and values.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789048501458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (161 pages)
    Series Statement: ICAS Publications Series
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: Presents new topics from Chinese history of the last 1400 years.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789048508167
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (220 pages)
    Series Statement: ICAS Publications Series
    DDC: 305.409
    Abstract: The first study to discuss the construction of gender and Islamic identities in the works of contemporary Indonesian Muslim female writers.
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807898581
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 pages)
    DDC: 305.23089/951079461
    Abstract: Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation. Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally inferior to exotic and Orientalized images that catered to the tourist's ideal of Chinatown. All of these representations, Jorae notes, tended to further isolate Chinatown at a time when American-born Chinese children were attempting to define themselves as Chinese American. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality.
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    Farnham : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780754693840
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (359 pages)
    Series Statement: SOAS Musicology Series
    DDC: 306.4/8420956
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    Abstract: What is it about the history, geographical position and cultures of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia that has made music such a potent and powerful agent? This volume presents the first direct look at the complex relationship between music and power across a range of musical genres and countries. Discourses of power in the region centre on some of the most contested social issues, most notably in relation to nationhood, gender and religion. Individual chapters examine the ways in which music serves as a forum for playing out issues of power, ideology, resistance and subversion. How does music become a space for promoting - or conversely, resisting or subverting - particular ideologies or positions of authority? How does it accrue symbolic power in ways that are very particular, perhaps unique? And how does music become a site of social control or, alternatively, a vehicle for agency and empowerment, at times overt and at others highly subtle? What is it about music that facilitates, and sometimes disrupts, the exercise and flows of power? Who controls such flows, how and for what purposes?In asking such questions in the context of countries such as Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Tunisia and Tajikistan, the book draws on a wide range of relevant theoretical and critical ideas, and many disciplines including ethnomusicology, anthropology, sociology, politics, Middle Eastern studies, globalization studies, gender studies and cultural and media studies. The countries and areas explored share a great deal in historical and cultural terms, including a legacy of colonial and neo-colonial encounters and predominantly Judeo-Muslim religious traditions. It is hoped that the volume will contribute ultimately to a richer understanding of the role that music plays in these societies.
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    Golden : Fulcrum Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781555918866
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
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    Abstract: A best seller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence defines a new way of thinking about the unprecedented environmental pressures of our day. McCallum offers a compelling argument that we must think differently about ourselves and the earth if we are to take seriously the survival of wilderness areas, wild animals, and the human race. Ecological Intelligence explores the relationship between humans and nature from both a biological and poetic perspective, arguing that understanding and reinforcing the evolutionary bonds that connect all life will lead to a greater sense of our place in the world. The notion of ecological intelligence is a wild and ethical imperativean urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land, that the history of every living creature is within us, that we are, above all, a mindful species that must not be the creatures of our own undoing.
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807888667
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
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    Abstract: The state of Yucatán is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, Smith says that despite the intervention of women at many levels of Yucatecan society, the rigid definition of women's social roles as strictly that of wives and mothers within the Mexican nation guaranteed that long-term, substantial gains remained out of reach for most women for years to come.
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    Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781551523514
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (116 pages)
    DDC: 306.768
    Abstract: Essays on queer and trans life by the author of Butch is a Noun.
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    Oakland : Berrett-Koehler Publishers | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781605092744
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
    Edition: 3rd ed.
    DDC: 302.35
    Abstract: Many significant failures-from FEMA's response to Hurricane Katrina to the recent economic collapse-could have been prevented or mitigated if those lower in the hierarchy were successful at communicating to leaders the risks they saw in the system. Ira Chaleff's Courageous Follower model has facilitated healthy upward information flow in organizations for over 15 years. The Harvard Business Review called Chaleff a pioneer in the emerging field of followership-this new edition shares his latest thinking on an increasingly vital topic. The updated third edition includes a new chapter, "The Courage to Speak to the Hierarchy." Much of Chaleff's model is based on followers having access to the leader. But today, followers can be handed questionable policies and orders that come from many levels above them-even from the other side of the world. Chaleff explores how they can respond effectively, particularly using the power now available through advances in communications technology. Everyone is a follower at least some of the time. Chaleff strips away the passive connotations of that role and provides tools to help followers effectively partner with leaders. He provides rich guidance to leaders and boards on fostering a climate that encourages courageous followership. The results include increased support for leaders, reduced cynicism and organizations saved from serious missteps.
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780253003607
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (363 pages)
    Series Statement: Tracking Globalization
    DDC: 306.3/808991411
    Abstract: The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In this moving and insightful account, Sarah Lamb shows that older persons are innovative agents in the processes of social-cultural change. Lamb's study probes debates and cultural assumptions in both India and the United States regarding how best to age; the proper social-moral relationship among individuals, genders, families, the market, and the state; and ways of finding meaning in the human life course.
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    Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780275996482
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1213 pages)
    Series Statement: Praeger Security International
    DDC: 303.6094
    Abstract: Throughout history, wars have been fought for all kinds of causes, just and unjust. But while the political and military leaders make the decisions about when and how to fight, it is the everyday citizens and families that bear the brunt of the destruction, anguish, and sorrow. What do they think of war and peace?.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781135845728
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (489 pages)
    DDC: 302.22440973
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    Keywords: Gesicht ; Visuelle Wahrnehmung ; Mimik ; Wahrnehmung
    Abstract: Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces - our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive. In recent years there has been genuine progress in understanding how our brains derive all these different messages from faces and what can happen when one or other of the structures involved is damaged. Face Perception provides an up-to-date, integrative summary by two authors who have helped develop and shape the field over the past 30 years. It encompasses topics as diverse as the visual information our brains can exploit when we look at faces, whether prejudicial attitudes can affect how we see faces, and how people with neurodevelopmental disorders see faces. The material is digested and summarised in a way that is accessible to students, within a structure that focuses on the different things we can do with faces. It offers a compelling synthesis of behavioural, neuropsychological and cognitive neuroscience approaches to develop a distinctive point of view of the area. The book concludes by reviewing what is known about the development of face processing and re-examines the question of what makes faces 'special'. Written in a clear and accessible style, this is invaluable reading for all students and researchers interested in studying face perception and social cognition.
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    Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781443802567
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (247 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.3
    Abstract: Gender is an often misunderstood subject area, even within the discipline even to those who teach and write about it. One of my presenters, when she first approached me to present at the conference, asked, "What does my paper really have to do with gender"? To me the answer was obvious; everything has to do with gender. Gender is everywhere from the cradle to the grave. What color blanket are we given at birth? What clothes are we laid out in at death? We are bombarded with advertiseme...
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    Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781442201040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (131 pages)
    Series Statement: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    DDC: 305.3
    Abstract: Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena such as Big Brother, Terminator, girls' use of mobile phones, women news editors, the Wonderbra generation, the Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin phenomena, and so on.
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    ISBN: 9789956717521
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 pages)
    DDC: 305.23096711
    Keywords: Jugend ; Politik ; Kamerun
    Abstract: This meticulous and comprehensive documentation of Cameroonian Youth Day Messages and leadership discourse on youth from 1949 - 2009 is a gold mine for researchers, historians and anyone interested in studying youth, politics and society in Africa. The book presents and explores themes and content of Youth Day Messages: how these messages tied in with, or veered away from, key events and issues of the time; how they served as a platform for West Cameroon governments, and the Ahidjo and Biya regimes to articulate their political vision, justify their policies, sell their respective ideologies to the youth; and what lessons could be drawn from them on competing, conflicting and complementary perspectives on youth agency in Cameroon and Africa. Churchill links the Youth Day to ongoing discussions in Africa about the role and place of youths as agents of development in Africa. Most significantly, he finally puts Cameroon's controversial Youth Day in its appropriate historical context - not as a political device created by the Francophone politicians to distort Cameroonian history and erase 'plebiscite day' from the collective memory as Anglophone nationalists claim, but as a British Cameroons colonial legacy, successfully sold to the Ahidjo regime as a day to be commemorated throughout the federation, by leaders of the federated state of West Cameroon. Churchill Ewumbue-Monono, a senior career diplomat, is Minister Counsellor in the Cameroon Embassy in Moscow. A graduate of the International Higher School of Journalism, and the International Relations Institute of Cameroon in the University of Yaounde, he was a 1991-92 Fellow in Public Diplomacy in Boston University, USA. He has served in Cameroon in various professional capacities. Ewumbue-Monono has written extensively on Cameroon's political history, and his books include Men of Courage, published...
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    Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781483302096
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    DDC: 306.4/83
    Keywords: Sport ; Massenmedien ; Geschlechtsidentität ; Soziale Identität ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Cutting edge and interdisciplinary investigation of how various identity groups are framed, treated, affected, and shaped by a ubiquitous sports media.
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    Lanham, MD : Lexington Books | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780739142776
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (146 pages)
    DDC: 301.092
    Keywords: Bourdieu, Pierre ; Sozialphilosophie ; Politische Philosophie
    Abstract: This book provides an innovative cultural analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's oeuvre. Surpassing prior introductory presentations and critical discussions of his work, the book keenly exposes Bourdieu's overarching political commitment to the French Revolution and to the ideals of the Enlightenment. It is a must read for those interested in Bourdieu and for those seeking an understanding of the interplay between culture and social theory.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781135969349
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages)
    Series Statement: Electronic Media Research Series
    DDC: 331.12
    Abstract: This landmark work centers on media management and economics within a diverse, international, historical and constantly changing environment. The chapters herein reflect the current state of research and present directions for future study. Developed at the 2012 Research Symposium in conjunction with the annual convention of the Broadcast Education Association, it represents the most current theory and research in the area.
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781400825448
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (334 pages)
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftstheorie ; Rationalprinzip ; Kritik ; Wirtschaftssoziologie ; Handlungstheorie
    Abstract: Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty--phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action. Beckert levels an enlightened critique at neoclassical economics, arguing that understanding efficiency requires looking well beyond the market to the social, cultural, political, and cognitive factors that influence the coordination of economic action. Beckert searches social theory for the components of an alternative theory of action, one that accounts for the social embedding of economic behavior. In Durkheim and Parsons he finds especially useful approaches to cooperation; in Luhmann, a way to understand how people act under highly contingent conditions; and in Giddens, an understanding of creative action and innovation. Together, these provide building blocks for a research program that will yield a theoretically sophisticated understanding of how economic processes are coordinated and the ways that markets are embedded in social, cultural, and cognitive structures. Containing one of the most fully informed critiques of the neoclassical analysis of economic efficiency--as well as one of the most thoughtful blueprints for economic sociology--this book reclaims for sociology the study of one of the most important arenas of human action.
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781400824663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages)
    DDC: 306/.09495/12
    Abstract: Challenging the modern assumption that ancient Athens is best understood as a polis, Edward Cohen boldly recasts our understanding of Athenian political and social life. Cohen demonstrates that ancient sources referred to Athens not only as a polis, but also as a "nation" (ethnos), and that Athens did encompass the characteristics now used to identify a "nation." He argues that in Athens economic, religious, sexual, and social dimensions were no less significant than political and juridical considerations, and accordingly rejects prevailing scholarship's equation of Athens with its male citizen body. In fact, Cohen shows that the categories of "citizen" and "noncitizen" were much more fluid than is often assumed, and that some noncitizens exercised considerable power. He explores such subjects as the economic importance of businesswomen and wealthy slaves; the authority exercised by enslaved public functionaries; the practical egalitarianism of erotic relations and the broad and meaningful protections against sexual abuse of both free persons and slaves, and especially of children; the wide involvement of all sectors of the population in significant religious and local activities. All this emerges from the use of fresh legal, economic, and archaeological evidence and analysis that reveal the social complexity of Athens, and the demographic and geographic factors giving rise to personal anonymity and limiting personal contacts--leading to the creation of an "imagined community" with a mutually conceptualized identity, a unified economy, and national "myths" set in historical fabrication.
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781400827299
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
    Series Statement: The Public Square
    DDC: 303.48
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    Keywords: Antiamerikanismus ; Europa
    Abstract: No survey can capture the breadth and depth of the anti-Americanism that has swept Europe in recent years. From ultraconservative Bavarian grandmothers to thirty-year-old socialist activists in Greece, from globalization opponents to corporate executives--Europeans are joining in an ever louder chorus of disdain for America. For the first time, anti-Americanism has become a European lingua franca. In this sweeping and provocative look at the history of European aversion to America, Andrei Markovits argues that understanding the ubiquity of anti-Americanism since September 11, 2001, requires an appreciation of such sentiments among European elites going back at least to July 4, 1776. While George W. Bush's policies have catapulted anti-Americanism into overdrive, particularly in Western Europe, Markovits argues that this loathing has long been driven not by what America does, but by what it is. Focusing on seven Western European countries big and small, he shows how antipathies toward things American embrace aspects of everyday life--such as sports, language, work, education, media, health, and law--that remain far from the purview of the Bush administration's policies. Aggravating Europeans' antipathies toward America is their alleged helplessness in the face of an Americanization that they view as inexorably befalling them. More troubling, Markovits argues, is that this anti-Americanism has cultivated a new strain of anti-Semitism. Above all, he shows that while Europeans are far apart in terms of their everyday lives and shared experiences, their not being American provides them with a powerful common identity--one that elites have already begun to harness in their quest to construct a unified Europe to rival America.
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781400827022
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (235 pages)
    DDC: 303.3
    Abstract: America was built on stories: tales of grateful immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, Horatio Alger-style transformations, self-made men, and the Protestant work ethic. In this new book, renowned sociologist Robert Wuthnow examines these most American of stories--narratives about individualism, immigration, success, religion, and ethnicity--through the eyes of recent immigrants. In doing so, he demonstrates how the "American mythos" has both legitimized American society and prevented it from fully realizing its ideals. This magisterial work is a reflection and meditation on the national consciousness. It details how Americans have traditionally relied on narratives to address what it means to be strong, morally responsible individuals and to explain why some people are more successful than others--in short, to help us make sense of our lives. But it argues that these narratives have done little to help us confront new challenges. We pass laws to end racial discrimination, yet lack the resolve to create a more equitable society. We welcome the idea of pluralism in religion and values, yet we are shaken by the difficulties immigration presents. We champion prosperity for all, but live in a country where families are still homeless. American Mythos aptly documents this disconnect between the stories we tell and the reality we face. Examining how cultural narratives may not, and often do not, reflect the reality of today's society, it challenges readers to become more reflective about what it means to live up to the American ideal.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789048506293
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (191 pages)
    Series Statement: IMISCOE Research
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Bürgerliche Gesellschaft ; Ethnische Identität ; Politische Identität ; Religiöse Identität ; Arabische Staaten ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: The book is the fruit of five years of on-site research on citizenship in the Arab world. It takes a broader legal perspective to the multifaceted reality of nationality and citizenship. The methodology employed builds on the interdisciplinary approach of comparative legal studies, and brings in theories, concepts and insights from anthropology, political science, Arab and Islamic studies, linguistics and sociology. The work relies on a broad range of Western and Arab references, and all sources and documents were directly accessed in their original languages; this is particularly relevant for Arab legislation (all in-text reference has been translated by the author, and the original has been inserted using scientific transliteration).
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    Manchester : Manchester University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781847793577
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
    DDC: 305.409415
    Abstract: Until recently, women featured in the historiography of the landed class in Ireland either as bearers of assets to advantageous matches or as potential drains on family estates. Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families, this book provides fresh insights into the place of these women.Looking at women's experiences of property and power in twenty landed families between 1750 and 1850, and outlining the statutory developments that impacted upon the distribution of family property in Ireland, Wilson considers how women were provided for and examines the legal, social and familial factors that influenced the experience elite women had of property. Individual examples demonstrate the similarities and differences between women in this class, and illustrate how the experience women had of property in this period was more complex than their legal and social status might suggest. This book will appeal to scholars in the fields of Irish history, gender and women's studies.
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    Williston : Wiley | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781405152167
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (472 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Blackwell Handbooks in Management
    DDC: 303.6/9
    Abstract: This handbook invites readers who are interested in mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution to share the perspectives of experts in the field. Contributors include scholars, mediators, trainers and negotiators, all of whom are passionate about their work. Emphasises both internal and external factors as important sources of influence when negotiating conflicts. Explores the cultural and institutional frameworks that have shaped intervention processes. Considers what techniques might work when, how and why. Demonstrates the sophistication of contemporary studies of mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution.
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    Hoboken : Wiley | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781444305289
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (316 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Blackwell/Claremont Applied Social Psychology Series
    DDC: 306.3/6
    Abstract: Changing Realities of Work and Family is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the multiple realities of work and family from academic, commercial, and political perspectives. The book Brings together works by an extraordinary list of contributors, including Jane Swift, former governor of Massachusetts; practitioners from industry; the leading attorney in discrimination against mothers and pregnant women; and outstanding academics from psychology, business, economics, and human relations Examines work and family in the political arena, gay and lesbian workers, work and family as it relates to age, single mothers, and the role of culture and community Includes original empirical articles written expressly for this work, in which the most current research on the field of work and family will be presented Provides "real world" examples of the intersection of work and family in such fields as business, government, and the law.
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    New York : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780199717767
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (556 pages)
    DDC: 305.4071/073
    Abstract: Part I: Three Eras of U.S. Women's History. 1. Women in Colonial and Revolutionary America, Carol Berkin (Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center). 2. Women in Nineteenth Century America, Cindy Lobel (Lehman College). 3. Women in Twentieth Century America, Barbara Winslow (Brooklyn College). Part Two: Conceptualizing Issues in U.S. Women's History. 4. Conceptualizing U.S. Women's History through the History of Medicine, Rebecca Tannenbaum (Yale University). 5. Conceptualizing U.S. Women's History through the History of Sexuality, Christy Regenhardt (George Washington University). 6. Conceptualizing Citizenship in U.S. Women's History, Christine Compston (Western Washington University). 7. Conceptualizing U.S. Women's History through Consumerism, Jennifer Scanlon (Bowdoin College). 8. Conceptualizing U.S. Women's History in Medicine, Law, and Business, The Challenge of Success: Virginia Drachman (Tufts University). 9. Conceptualizing the Intersectionality of Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Women's History, Erica Ball (California State University, Fullerton). 10. Conceptualizing the Female World of Religion in U.S. Women's History, Barbara Welter (Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center). 11. Conceptualizing Radicalism in U.S. Women's History, Ronald G. Walters (Johns Hopkins University). 12. Thinking Globally about US Women's History, Mary Frederickson (Miami University of Ohio). Part Three: Teaching and Learning Women's History: Strategies and Resources. 13. Re-designing the U.S. Women's History Survey Course Using Feminist Pedagogy, Educational Research, and New Technologies, Michael Lewis Goldberg (University of Washington, Bothell). 14. Teaching Women's History with Visual Images, Tracy Weis (Millersville University). 15. History You Can Touch: Teaching Women's History through Three- Dimensional Objects, Anne Derousie and Vivien Rose...
    Abstract: (Women's Rights National Historical Park). 16, Teaching Women's History through Oral History. Margaret S. Crocco (Teachers College, Columbia University). 17. Who is Teaching Women's History? "Insight," "Objectivity," and Identity, Nicholas Syrett (University of Northern Colorado). Part Four: What We Know (and Don't Know) about Teaching Women's History. 18. What Educational Research Says about Teaching and Learning Women's History, Linda Levstik (University of Kentucky). Additional Resources.
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    ISBN: 9781444305227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.4
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    Abstract: Using case studies of top-level women and research in the field, Women at the Top breaks new ground and offers new insight into how women can create dually-successful lives. explores the work histories, motivation, leadership styles, mentors, and family backgrounds of a diverse assortment of top-level women includes the case studies of the President of Old Navy/Gap, the Chairman of Deloitte and Touche, the VP of IBM operations, a Supreme Court Judge in China, President of Legislative Council in Hong Kong, several university presidents, and more weighs the positive effects of multiple roles and positive and negative work-life spill over discusses strategies for success (e.g., scaling back, juggling), the need for social support, and the importance of cultural context.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203879696
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    DDC: 305.80095694/8
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    Keywords: Nahostkonflikt ; Juden ; Palästinenser ; Interaktion ; Geopolitik ; Stadtplanung ; Friedensbemühung
    Abstract: Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both exceptional and involuntary. Looking at Jewish-Arab relations in Israel in the context of the built environment, it is argued that there are complex links between socio-political relations and the production of contested urban space. The case study of one particular Jewish-Arab "mixed city", the city of Lod, is used as the platform for wider theoretical discussion and political analysis. This city has great significance in the present global context, as more and more cities are becoming polarized, ghettoized, and fragmented in surprisingly similar ways. This book examines the visible planning apparatuses and the "hidden" mechanisms of social, political, and cultural control involved in these processes. Focusing on the spatialities of power, this book brings to the fore a critical discussion of the urban processes that shape Jewish-Arab "mixed cities" in Israel, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Middle East Studies and Politics in general.
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    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410613707
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (531 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    DDC: 302.2/02/1
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    Abstract: Statistical Methods for Communication Science is the only statistical methods volume currently available that focuses exclusively on statistics in communication research. Writing in a straightforward, personal style, author Andrew F. Hayes offers this accessible and thorough introduction to statistical methods, starting with the fundamentals of measurement and moving on to discuss such key topics as sampling procedures, probability, reliability, hypothesis testing, simple correlation and regression, and analyses of variance and covariance. Hayes takes readers through each topic with clear explanations and illustrations. He provides a multitude of examples, all set in the context of communication research, thus engaging readers directly and helping them to see the relevance and importance of statistics to the field of communication. Highlights of this text include: *thorough and balanced coverage of topics; *integration of classical methods with modern "resampling" approaches to inference; *consideration of practical, "real world" issues; *numerous examples and applications, all drawn from communication research; *up-to-date information, with examples justifying use of various techniques; and *a CD with macros, data sets, figures, and additional materials. This unique book can be used as a stand-alone classroom text, a supplement to traditional research methods texts, or a useful reference manual. It will be invaluable to students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners in communication, and it will serve to advance the understanding and use of statistical methods throughout the discipline.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203870860
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: Modernism and Theory boldly asks what - if any - role theory has to play in the new modernist studies. Separated into three sections, each with a clear introduction, this collection of new essays from leading critics outlines ongoing debates on the nature of modernist culture. This collection examines aesthetic and methodological links between modernist literature and theory. addresses questions of the importance of theory to our understanding of 'modernism' and modernism as a literary category. considers intersections of modernism and theory within ethics, ecocriticism and the avant-garde. Concluding with an afterword from Fredric Jameson, the book makes use of an innovative dialogic format, offering a direct and engaging experience of the current debate in modernist studies. Contributors include: Charles F. Altieri, C.D. Blanton, Ian Buchanan, Pamela Caughie, Melba Cuddy-Keane, Thomas S. Davis, Oleg Gelikman, Jane Goldman, Ben Highmore, Fredric Jameson, Martin Jay, Bonnie Kime Scott, Neil Levi, Anneleen Masschelein, Scott McCracken, Andrew John Miller, Stephen Ross, Roger Rothman, Morag Shiach, Susan Stanford Friedman, Allan Stoekl, Hilary Thompson and Glenn Willmott.
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    New York : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780199716760
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (255 pages)
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    Abstract: From a very young age we are told not to stare, and one hallmark of maturation is the ability to resist (or at least hide) our staring behavior. And yet, rarely do we master the impulse. Despite the complicated role it plays in our development, and its unique brand of visual enticement, staring has not been considered before as a suitable object for socio-cultural analysis. What is it about certain kinds of people that makes it impossible to take our eyes off them? Why are some visual stimuli irresistible? Why does staring produce so much anxiety? Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, Garland-Thomson defines staring, explores the factors that motivate it, and considers the targets and the effects of the stare. A bodily inventory then enumerates how stares actually operate in daily life. A section on "Bodies" focuses on the question of size and scale as key indicators of normalcy, while certain body parts show themselves to be disproportionately arresting, as passages on "Faces" "Hands" and "Breasts" reveal. A concluding chapter on "Beholding" considers the frisson at play between starer and staree and offers an alternative way of understanding visual communication between people. Featuring over forty illustrations, Staring captures the stimulating combination of symbolic, material and emotional factors that make staring so irresistible while endeavoring to shift the usual response to staring, shame, into an engaged self-consideration. Elegant and provocative, this book advances new ways of thinking about visuality and the body that will appeal to readers who are interested in the overlap between the humanities and human behaviors.
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    ISBN: 9780203874165
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (136 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.207/2
    Abstract: This timely volume provides an in-depth look at why the field of communication is so central in initiatives for social impact around the world. In Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research, editors Donal Carbaugh and Patrice M. Buzzanell bring together scholars with varied and productive approaches to communication to address the question of what distinguishes communication research from similar studies in other disciplines. Each contributor responds to the question: "What makes your research communication research? How does your program of inquiry treat communication not simply as data, but as its primary theoretical concern?" Their responses are the heart of this book. The questions addressed and answered herein define the qualities that set research in communication apart from work in related fields, such as social psychology, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. The book begins and ends by looking across these studies generally, bringing into view not only the specific possibilities in the study of communication today, but also what such study contributes generally to understanding human problems, social relations, and communities. This volume provides an invaluable resource for graduate students beginning their study in communication; academics needing to define the distinctive contributions that communication research makes; and administrators who want to understand the scope and breadth of work in communication. It provides an invaluable resource for defining the role of communication research in the academic community and the contributions it makes to the study of human interaction.
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    ISBN: 9780203874363
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (165 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: ASAA Women in Asia Series
    DDC: 305.56209519
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    Abstract: Bringing together for the first time sexual and industrial labour as the means to understand gender, work and class in modern Japan and Korea, this book shows that a key feature of the industrialisation of these countries was the associated development of a modern sex labour industry. Tying industrial and sexual labour together, the book opens up a range of key questions: In what economy do we place the labour of the former "comfort women"? Why have sex workers not been part of the labour movements of Korea and Japan?  Why is it difficult to be "working-class" and "feminine"?   What sort of labour hierarchies operate in hostess clubs? How do financial crises translate into gender crises?  This book explores how sexuality is inscribed in working-class identities and traces the ways in which sexual and labour relations have shaped the cultures of contemporary Japan and Korea. It addresses important historical episodes such as the Japanese colonial industrialisation of Korea, wartime labour mobilisation, women engaged in forced sex work for the Japanese army throughout the Asian continent, and issues of ethnicity and sex in the contemporary workplace. The case studies provide specific examples of the way gender and work have operated across a variety of contexts, including Korean shipyard unions, Japanese hostess clubs, and the autobiographical literature of Korean factory girls.  Overall, this book provides a compelling account of the entanglement of sexual and industrial labour throughout the twentieth century, and shows clearly how ideas about gender have contributed in fundamental ways to conceptions of class and worker identities.
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    ISBN: 9780203926475
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.2308968
    Abstract: With the rise of Spanish language media around the world, The Handbook of Spanish Language Media provides an overview of the field and its emerging issues. This Handbook will serve as the definitive source for scholars interested in this emerging field of study; not only to provide background knowledge of the various issues and topics relevant to Spanish language media, but also to establish directions for future research in this rapidly growing area. This volume draws on the expertise of authors and collaborators across the globe. The book is an essential reference work for graduate students, scholars, and media practitioners interested in Spanish language media, and is certain to influence the course of future research in this growing and increasingly influential area.
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    ISBN: 9780203871294
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (128 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 303.372
    Abstract: First published in 1922, this title written by L. T. Hobhouse, British politician and one of the leading theorists of Social Liberalism, is a seminal work concerning the social application of ethical principles for the common good. The object of the book is to show that social and political institutions are not ends in themselves. Hobhouse argues that the social ideal is to be sought not in the faultless unchanging system of an institutional Utopia, but in the love of a spiritual life with its unfailing system of harmonious growth unconfined.
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    ISBN: 9780203872208
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (193 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    DDC: 303.485
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    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Bewaffneter Konflikt
    Abstract: This book examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends. Owing to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, current trends in climate change will not appreciably alter over the next half century even if drastic action is taken now. Changes in climate will produce unique types and modes of conflict, redefine the value of important resources, and create new challenges to maintaining social order and stability. This book examines the consequences of climate change and argues that it has and will produce two types of different types of conflict: 'cold wars' and 'hot wars'. Cold wars will occur in northern and southern latitudes as warming draws countries into possible conflict due to expanding interests in exploiting new resources and territories (inter-state conflict). Hot wars will break out around the equator as warming expands and intensifies dry areas, increasing competition for scarce resources (intra-state conflict). Conflict is not inevitable, but it will also be a consequence of how states, international institutions and people react to changes in climate. Climate change and conflict have always shaped human experiences. This book lays out the parameters of the relationship, shows its history, and forecasts its trends, offering future conditions and opportunities for changing the historical path we are on. This book will be of great interest for students of climate change and environmental security, peace and conflict studies, and IR/security studies in general. James R. Lee is a Professor in the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC and Associate Director of American University's Center for Teaching Excellence. He is author of several books on international relations, including, most recently, Exploring the Gaps: Vital...
    Abstract: Links Between Trade, Environment and Culture (2000).
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    ISBN: 9780203092279
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (71 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 302.5
    Abstract: First published in 1970, the aim of the book is to 'map the logical geography' of an important set of concepts which enter into the theory of social casework - those concerning the individual and society. Concepts examined include the individually orientated values of 'self-direction' and 'acceptance', and those of 'role', 'adjustment' and 'integration', which express the individual's relation to society. The author's main concern is to see whether a coherent theory of the relationship between individual and society can be given in terms of these concepts and to argue that such a theory is fundamental to casework discussion. Mr Plant also discusses what, if any, social or political commitments the activity of casework presupposes, and evaluates the view that casework is 'apolitical'.
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