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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108776899
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 330 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 330.9
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    Keywords: Internationale Migration ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Abstract: Economic arguments favoring increased immigration restrictions suggest that immigrants undermine the culture, institutions, and productivity of destination countries. But is this actually true? Nowrasteh and Powell systematically analyze cross-country evidence of potential negative effects caused by immigration relating to economic freedom, corruption, culture, and terrorism. They analyze case studies of mass immigration to the United States, Israel, and Jordan. Their evidence does not support the idea that immigration destroys the institutions responsible for prosperity in the modern world. This nonideological volume makes a qualified case for free immigration and the accompanying prosperity.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781108477635 , 9781108702454
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 330 Seiten , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 330.9
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    Keywords: Internationale Migration ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [285]-313
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781108449342
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 348 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: African studies series 142
    Series Statement: African studies
    DDC: 305.89653096743
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    Keywords: Daza (Dazaga-speaking people) ; Teda (African people) ; Tubu ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Politischer Konflikt ; Innenpolitik ; Politisches System ; Lebensbedingungen ; Lebensstil ; Faya (Chad) History ; Faya (Chad) Economic conditions ; Faya (Chad) Social conditions ; Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti (Chad) History ; Chad Politics and government ; Tschad ; Sahara ; Nordafrika ; Sahara ; Sozialstruktur ; Innerstaatlicher Konflikt ; Tschad ; Sozialer Prozess ; Innere Sicherheit ; Bevölkerungsgruppe ; Tubu-Sprache ; Tubu ; Dazaga ; Teda-Sprache ; Ennedi ; Tibesti ; Borkou ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte ; Politisches System ; Kolonialismus ; Feldforschung
    Abstract: Despite being central to the development of Saharan regional connectivity, northern Chad has been closed to researchers since the late 1960s and thus remains virtually unknown to scholarship. Based on long-term fieldwork, The Value of Disorder is an original and in-depth account of the area and its Tubu majority inhabitants. Julien Brachet and Judith Scheele examine trans-border connectivity and trade; civil war and rebellion; wealth creation and dispersal; labour and gender relations; and aspirations to moral autonomy in northern Chad from an internal point of view - a point of view that in turn participates in a dynamic process of regional interdependence. Vividly ethnographic, the book gives precedence to local categories of value, while asking broader questions about the nature of non-state regional political organisation. Questions that inform current political developments in the Sahara more widely, and have the potential to challenge key concepts in Saharan studies and the social sciences.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 314-340
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781108487474
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 230 Seiten , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Linnér, Björn-Ola Sustainability transformations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Linnér, Björn-Ola Sustainability transformations
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Sustainable development ; Social change ; Social ecology ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Partizipation ; Bedeutung ; Rolle ; Tendenz ; Erde ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Umwandlung ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: "Societal transformations are needed across the globe in light of pressing environmental issues. This need to transform is increasingly acknowledged in policy, planning, academic debate, and media, whether it is to achieve decarbonization, resilience, national development plans, or sustainability objectives. This volume provides the first comprehensive comparison of how sustainability transformations are understood across societies. It contains historical analogies and concrete examples from around the world to show how societal transformations could achieve the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through governance, innovations, lifestyle changes, education and new narratives. It examines how societal actors in different geographical, political and cultural contexts understand the agents and drivers of societal change towards sustainability, using data from the academic literature, international news media, lay people's focus groups across five continents, and international politics. This is a valuable resource for academics and policymakers working in environmental governance and sustainability"--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 199-225
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  • 5
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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108457934
    Language: English
    Pages: 75 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements
    Series Statement: Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Un, Kheang Cambodia
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    Keywords: Politisches System ; Autoritarismus ; Klientelismus ; Macht ; Staat ; Partei ; Abstimmung ; Wahl ; Gesellschaft ; Kambodscha
    Note: 1 Tabelle , Literaturangaben , Literaturhinweise Seite 62-75
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  • 6
    Book
    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107165120 , 9781316616895
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 270 Seiten , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Science, technology, and society
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Science Social aspects ; Technology Social aspects ; Genetic engineering Social aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Techniksoziologie ; Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Transdisziplinarität ; Gesellschaft
    Note: Literaturangaben
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  • 7
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316691489
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 270 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Science / Social aspects ; Technology / Social aspects ; Genetic engineering / Social aspects ; Innovation ; Technologie ; Gentechnologie ; Gesellschaft ; Wissenschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wissenschaft ; Technologie ; Innovation ; Gesellschaft ; Gentechnologie ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: This book gathers inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the effects that today's advances in science and technology have on issues ranging from government policy-making to how we see the differences between men and women. The chapters investigate how invention and innovation really take place, how science differs from competing forms of knowledge, and how science and technology could contribute more to the greater good of humanity. For instance, should there be legal restrictions on 'immoral inventions'? A key theme that runs throughout the book concerns who is taken into account at each stage and who is affected. The amount of influence users have on technology development and how non-users are factored in are evaluated as the impact of scientific and technological progression on society is investigated, including politics, economy, family life, and ethics
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  • 8
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316761663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 248 pages)
    Series Statement: Problems of international politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 325.73
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    Keywords: Border security ; Politische Theorie ; Grenze ; Gesellschaft ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Elfter September ; USA ; USA ; Grenze ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Elfter September ; Politische Theorie ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, it reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in recent decades. The book contributes to debates within political science on sovereignty, citizenship, cosmopolitanism, human rights and global justice. In particular, the new politics of borders reveal a sovereignty that is not waning, but changing, expanding beyond the state carapace and engaging certain logics of empire
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Nov 2017)
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9781108565691
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 455 Seiten)
    Edition: Third edition
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 46
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.30285
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    Keywords: Pajek (Electronic resource) ; Social networks / Mathematical models ; Social networks / Computer simulation ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Netzwerkanalyse ; Pajek ; Computersimulation ; Mathematisches Modell ; Netzwerkanalyse ; Computersimulation ; Pajek ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: An extensively revised and expanded third edition of the successful textbook on analysis and visualization of social networks integrating theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis (Pajek). The main structural concepts and their applications in social research are introduced with exercises. Pajek software and datasets are available, so readers can learn network analysis through application and case studies. In the end readers will have the knowledge, skills, and tools to apply social network analysis across different disciplines. A fundamental redesign of the menu structure and the capability to analyze much larger networks required a new edition. This edition presents several new operations including community detection, generalized main paths searches, new network indices, advanced visualization approaches, and instructions for installing Pajek under MacOSX. This third edition is up-to-date with Pajek version 5 and it introduces PajekXXL for very large networks and Pajek3XL for huge networks
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jul 2018)
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  • 10
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316841297
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages)
    Series Statement: International African library 53
    Series Statement: International African library
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 364.1532096761
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1986-2006 ; Gesellschaft ; Rape / Social aspects / Uganda ; Rape as a weapon of war / Uganda ; Conflict management / Uganda ; Justice, Administration of / Uganda ; Acholi (African people) / Uganda / Social conditions / 20th century ; Acholi (African people) / Uganda / Social conditions / 21st century ; Acholi ; Bürgerkrieg ; Vergewaltigung ; Menschenrecht ; Uganda ; Hochschulschrift ; Uganda ; Acholi ; Vergewaltigung ; Menschenrecht ; Bürgerkrieg ; Geschichte 1986-2006
    Abstract: Following the ICC intervention in 2005, northern Uganda has been at the heart of international justice debates. The emergent controversy, however, missed crucial aspects of Acholi realities: that the primary moral imperative in the wake of wrongdoing was not punishment but, instead, the restoration of social harmony. Drawing upon abundant fieldwork and in-depth interviews with almost 200 women, Holly Porter examines issues surrounding wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda. This intricate exploration offers evidence of a more complicated and nuanced explanation of rape and its aftermath, suggesting a re-imagining of the meanings of post-atrocity justice, whilst acknowledging the role of sex, power and politics in all sexual experiences between coercion and consent. With its wide investigation of social life in northern Uganda, this provocative study offers vital analysis for those interested in sexual and gender violence, post-conflict reconstruction and human rights
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jan 2017)
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  • 11
    Book
    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108420648
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 302 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Enos, Ryan D., 1978 - The space between us
    DDC: 305.800973
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    Keywords: Group identity Political aspects ; Political socialization ; Human geography ; Human geography ; Sozialgeografie ; Einflussgröße ; Politik ; Psychologie ; Ursache ; Raum ; Geografischer Raum ; Beispiel ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Jerusalem ; United States Race relations ; Political aspects ; Erde ; USA ; Anthropogeografie ; Politische Geografie
    Abstract: The red line -- The demagogue of space -- The demagogue's mechanism: groups, space, and the mind -- Laboratories: assigning space -- Boston: trains, immigrants, and the Arizona question -- Chicago: projects and a shock to social geography -- Jerusalem: walls and the problem of cooperation -- Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles: contact and exit -- Phoenix: the arc of intergroup interactions and the political future
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 276-292, Literaturhinweise Seite 250-275 , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9781107153363
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 400 Seiten
    DDC: 394.1200901
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Ernährungsgewohnheit ; Lebensmittel ; Gesellschaft ; Identität ; Archäologie ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 13
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139939720
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 299 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in sustainability and society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Sustainability / Social aspects / Case studies ; Sustainable development / Social aspects / Case studies ; Applied anthropology / Case studies ; Environmental archaeology / Case studies ; Angewandte Wissenschaften ; Umweltarchäologie ; Ethnologie ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Umweltarchäologie ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Angewandte Wissenschaften ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: Sustainability strives to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future, but increasingly recognizes the tradeoffs among these many needs. Who benefits? Who bears the burden? How are these difficult decisions made? Are people aware of these hard choices? This timely volume brings the perspectives of ethnography and archaeology to bear on these questions by examining case studies from around the world. Written especially for this volume, the essays by an international team of scholars offer archaeological and ethnographic examples from the southwestern United States, the Maya region of Mexico, Africa, India, and the North Atlantic, among other regions. Collectively, they explore the benefits and consequences of growth and development, the social costs of ecological sustainability, and tensions between food and military security
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction. Multiple perspectives on tradeoffs Michelle Hegmon; 2. Diversity, reciprocity, and the emergence of equity-inequity tradeoffs Jacob Freeman, Andrea Torvinen, Ben A. Nelson and John M. Anderies; 3. Modeling tradeoffs in a rural Alaska mixed economy: hunting, working, and sharing in the face of economic and ecological change Shauna B. BurnSilver, Randall B. Boone, Gary P. Kofinas and Todd J. Brinkman; 4. Trading off food and military security in contact-era New Guinea Paul Roscoe; 5. Will agricultural technofixes feed the world? Short- and long-term tradeoffs of adopting high-yielding crops Amanda L. Logan; 6. Tradeoffs in precolumbian Maya water management systems: complexity, sustainability, and cost Christian Isendahl and Scott Heckbert; 7. Growth and inter-generational tradeoffs: archaeological perspectives from the Mimbres region of the US Southwest; 8. Vulnerability to food insecurity: tradeoffs and their consequences Margaret C. Nelson, Ann P. Kinzig, Jette Arneborg, Richard Streeter and Scott E. Ingram; 9. Tradeoffs in coast Salish social action: balancing autonomy, inequality, and sustainability Colin Grier and Bill Angelbeck; 10. Tradeoffs and human well-being: achieving sustainability in the Faroe Islands Seth D. Brewington; 11. Household- vs national-scale food storage: perspectives on food security from archaeology and contemporary India Katherine A. Spielmann and Rimjhim M. Aggarwal; 12. Some analytical tradeoffs of talking about tradeoffs: on perspectives lost in estimating the costs and benefits of inequality Alf Hornborg
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017)
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  • 14
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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107167728 , 9781316618097
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 261 Seiten , 24 cm
    DDC: 322/.10959
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    Keywords: Religion and politics ; Nationalism ; Nationalism Religious aspects ; Identification (Religion) Political aspects ; Group identity ; Religion and politics Southeast Asia ; Nationalism Southeast Asia ; Nationalism Religious aspects ; Identification (Religion) Political aspects ; Southeast Asia ; Group identity Southeast Asia ; Südostasien ; Religion ; Nationalismus ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: "Religion and nationalism are two of the most potent and enduring forces that have shaped the modern world. Yet, there has been little systematic study of how these two forces have interacted to provide powerful impetus for mobilization in Southeast Asia, a region where religious identities are as strong as nationalist impulses. At the heart of many religious conflicts in Southeast Asia lies competing conceptions of nation and nationhood, identity and belonging, and loyalty and legitimacy. In this accessible and timely study, Joseph Liow examines the ways in which religious identity nourishes collective consciousness of a people who see themselves as a nation, perhaps even as a constituent part of a nation, but anchored in shared faith. Drawing on case studies from across the region, Liow argues that this serves both as a vital element of identity and a means through which issues of rights and legitimacy are understood"--
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; 1. Faith and flag; 2. Southern Philippines: reframing (Bangsa) Moro to Bangsamoro; 3. Thailand's southern border provinces: constructing narratives and imagining Patani Darussalam; 4. Malaysia: religion, ethno-nationalism, and turf-guarding; 5. Contesting principles of nationhood in post-independence Indonesia: narratives and counter-narratives; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Formerly CIP
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9781107446984
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 535 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302/.130285
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    Keywords: Informatik ; Social choice ; Interdisciplinary research ; Computer science ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Computerunterstütztes Verfahren ; Public-Choice-Theorie ; Informatik ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie ; Computerunterstütztes Verfahren ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Informatik
    Note: Auf der Frontpage: "Online publication date: May 2016" , Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2016)
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  • 16
    ISBN: 9781316671290
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 302 Seiten)
    Edition: First published
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ethnic minorities and politics in post-socialist Southeastern Europe
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    DDC: 323.1496
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    Keywords: Post-communism Balkan Peninsula ; Minorities Political activity ; Balkan Peninsula ; Post-communism ; Minorities Political activity ; Minorities ; Political activity ; Balkan Peninsula ; Post-communism ; Balkan Peninsula ; Balkan Peninsula ; Politics and government ; 1989- ; Balkan Peninsula Politics and government ; 1989- ; Balkan Peninsula Politics and government 1989- ; Balkan Peninsula ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Südosteuropa ; Nationale Minderheit ; Politik ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Situating ethnic minorities in post-socialist Southeastern Europe : an introduction / Marko Valenta & Sabrina P. Ramet -- Ethnic politics in post-socialist Southeastern Europe : an overview / Janusz Bugajski -- Social distance toward ethnic minorities in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Kosovo : a comparative analysis / Zan Strabac & Marko Valenta -- Ethnic minority parties of Romania / Aurel Braun -- Albanian political parties in Macedonia / Zachary T. Irwin -- The organization and political position of Serbs in Croatia / Filip Skiljan -- For the love of homeland : Croat ethnic party politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Jelena Subotic -- Ethnic minority parties in Montenegro : from marginalisation to integration / Kenneth Morrison -- The Movement for Rights and Freedoms in Bulgaria : beyond the ethnic vote / Maria Spirova -- Bosniak politics in Serbia : the struggle for recognition, emancipation, and historical revisionism / Aleksander Zdrdavkovski -- Hungarian society in Romania : political project and practical reality / Irina Culic, Milan Mesic & Dragan Bagic -- Nationalizing citizenship : the case of unrecognized ethnic minorities in Slovenia / Mojca Pajnik -- Ethnic boundaries and the position of minority groups in Croatian Istria / Marko Valenta, S. Gregurovic and Zan Strabac -- Ethnic boundaries and politics in Kosovo / Fred Cocozzelli -- Afterword : a few thoughts about autonomy and separatism / Sabrina P. Ramet
    Abstract: Situating ethnic minorities in post-socialist Southeastern Europe : an introduction / Marko Valenta & Sabrina P. Ramet -- Ethnic politics in post-socialist Southeastern Europe : an overview / Janusz Bugajski -- Social distance toward ethnic minorities in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Kosovo : a comparative analysis / Zan Strabac & Marko Valenta -- Ethnic minority parties of Romania / Aurel Braun -- Albanian political parties in Macedonia / Zachary T. Irwin -- The organization and political position of Serbs in Croatia / Filip Skiljan -- For the love of homeland : Croat ethnic party politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Jelena Subotic -- Ethnic minority parties in Montenegro : from marginalisation to integration / Kenneth Morrison -- The Movement for Rights and Freedoms in Bulgaria : beyond the ethnic vote / Maria Spirova -- Bosniak politics in Serbia : the struggle for recognition, emancipation, and historical revisionism / Aleksander Zdrdavkovski -- Hungarian society in Romania : political project and practical reality / Irina Culic, Milan Mesic & Dragan Bagic -- Nationalizing citizenship : the case of unrecognized ethnic minorities in Slovenia / Mojca Pajnik -- Ethnic boundaries and the position of minority groups in Croatian Istria / Marko Valenta, S. Gregurovic and Zan Strabac -- Ethnic boundaries and politics in Kosovo / Fred Cocozzelli -- Afterword : a few thoughts about autonomy and separatism / Sabrina P. Ramet
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Sep 2016)
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9781107095014
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 350 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in international relations 140
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in international relations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hutchison, Emma, 1980 - Affective communities in world politics
    DDC: 327.101/9
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    Keywords: Political psychology ; Emotions Political aspects ; Psychic trauma Political aspects ; Group identity Political aspects ; International relations Psychological aspects ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung ; Gemeinschaft ; Entstehung ; Identitätsentwicklung ; Gruppenidentität ; Psychologie ; Einflussgröße ; Internationale Politik ; Internationale Politik ; Psychisches Trauma ; Gruppenidentität ; Gefühl ; Politik ; Gemeinschaft
    Abstract: Emotions underpin how political communities are formed and function. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in times of trauma. The emotions associated with suffering caused by war, terrorism, natural disasters, famine and poverty can play a pivotal role in shaping communities and orientating their politics. This book investigates how 'affective communities' emerge after trauma. Drawing on several case studies and an unusually broad set of interdisciplinary sources, it examines the role played by representations, from media images to historical narratives and political speeches. Representations of traumatic events are crucial because they generate socially embedded emotional meanings which, in turn, enable direct victims and distant witnesses to share the injury, as well as the associated loss, in a manner that affirms a particular notion of collective identity. While ensuing political orders often re-establish old patterns, traumatic events can also generate new 'emotional cultures' that genuinely transform national and transnational communities.
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Conceptual Framework: 1. Trauma and political community; 2. Theorizing political emotions; 3. Representing trauma and collectivizing emotions; Part II. The Emotional Constitution of Political Community: 4. Emotions and national community; 5. Emotions and transnational community; 6. Trauma, grief and political transformation; Conclusion. Affective communities and emotional cultures in international relations.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 302-338, Register
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9781107159129
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 302 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ethnic minorities and politics in post-socialist Southeastern Europe
    DDC: 323.1496
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    Keywords: Minorities Political activity ; Post-communism ; Minderheit ; Minorities ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Politik ; Government ; Post-communism ; International ; Balkan Peninsula Politics and government 1989- ; Balkan Peninsula ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Südosteuropa ; Nationale Minderheit ; Politik ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Situating ethnic minorities in post-socialist Southeastern Europe : an introduction / Marko Valenta & Sabrina P. Ramet -- Ethnic politics in post-socialist Southeastern Europe : an overview / Janusz Bugajski -- Social distance toward ethnic minorities in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Kosovo : a comparative analysis / Zan Strabac & Marko Valenta -- Ethnic minority parties of Romania / Aurel Braun-- Albanian political parties in Macedonia / Zachary T. Irwin -- The organization and political position of Serbs in Croatia / Filip Skiljan -- For the love of homeland : Croat ethnic party politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Jelena Subotic -- Ethnic minority parties in Montenegro : from marginalisation to integration / Kenneth Morrison -- The Movement for Rights and Freedoms in Bulgaria : beyond the ethnic vote / Maria Spirova -- Bosniak politics in Serbia : the struggle for recognition, emancipation, and historical revisionism / Aleksander Zdrdavkovski -- Hungarian society in Romania : political project and practical reality / Irina Culic, Milan Mesic & Dragan Bagic -- Nationalizing citizenship : the case of unrecognized ethnic minorities in Slovenia / Mojca Pajnik -- Ethnic boundaries and the position of minority groups in Croatian Istria / Marko Valenta, S. Gregurovic and Zan Strabac -- Ethnic boundaries and politics in Kosovo / Fred Cocozzelli -- Afterword : a few thoughts about autonomy and separatism / Sabrina P. Ramet
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 19
    ISBN: 9781107110908
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 262 pages)
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    DDC: 306.43/2094821
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    Keywords: Erziehung ; Gesellschaft ; Education / Social aspects / Norway / Groruddalen / Case studies ; Learning / Social aspects / Norway / Groruddalen / Case studies ; Community and school / Norway / Groruddalen / Case studies ; Multicultural education / Norway / Groruddalen / Case studies ; Norwegen ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: This book offers a case study of children and young people in Groruddalen, Norway, as they live, study and work within the contexts of their families, educational institutions and informal activities. Examining learning as a life-wide concept, the study reveals how 'learning identities' are forged through complex interplays between young people and their communities, and how these identities translate and transfer across different locations and learning contexts. The authors also explore how diverse immigrant populations integrate and conceptualize their education as a key route to personal meaning and future productivity. In highlighting the relationships between education, literacy and identity within a sociocultural context, this book is at the cutting edge of discussions about what matters as children learn
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the learning lives of Groruddalen; 2. Groruddalen: Norway goes global; 3. From studying young people to creating narratives of learning lives; 4. Negotiating cultural identities: outdoor play, classroom discussions, and future orientation; 5. Learning identities: on the boundaries between work and play; 6. Forming learning identities through narrative; 7. Making choices to make a 'future': how community, the valley and the nation frame possibilities; 8. Schooling for tolerance: dealing with conflict and controversy; 9. Conclusion: the learning lives of new Norwegians; Appendices: 1. The education system in Norway: schools, levels, and transitions; 2. A map of Groruddalen; References
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107337503
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online Ressource (IX, 274 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Culinary culture in Colonial India
    DDC: 394.1/2095414
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-1955 ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Food habits / India / Bengal / History ; Food habits / Social aspects / India / Bengal / History ; Middle class / India / Bengal / History ; Mittelstand ; Essgewohnheit ; Indien ; Bengal (India) / Social life and customs ; Bengalen ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Bengalen ; Mittelstand ; Essgewohnheit ; Geschichte 1900-1955
    Abstract: This book utilizes cuisine to understand the construction of the colonial middle class in Bengal who indigenized new culinary experiences as a result of colonial modernity. This process of indigenization developed certain social practices, including imagination of the act of cooking as a classic feminine act and the domestic kitchen as a sacred space. The process of indigenization was an aesthetic choice that was imbricated in the upper caste and patriarchal agenda of the middle-class social reform. However, in these acts of imagination, there were important elements of continuity from the pre-colonial times. The book establishes the fact that Bengali cuisine cannot be labeled as indigenist although it never became widely commercialized. The point was to cosmopolitanize the domestic and yet keep its tag of 'Bengaliness'. The resultant cuisine was hybrid, in many senses like its makers
    Description / Table of Contents: Introducing 'foreign' food : changes in the gastronomic culture of colonial Bengal -- The cosmopolitan and the regional : understanding Bengali cuisine -- Aestheticizing labor? : an affective discourse of cooking in colonial Bengal -- Constructing 'Bengali' cuisine : caste, class and communal negotiations -- Fashioning the 'Bengali' middle-class : dilemma of the regional and the sub-regional
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    ISBN: 9781139061896
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 348 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    DDC: 306.44083
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Jugend ; Sprache ; Language and languages / Study and teaching (Higher) / Social aspects ; Second language acquisition / History / 21st century ; Youth / History / 21st century ; Public spaces / History / 21st century ; Identity (Psychology) / History / 21st century ; Multicultural education / History / 21st century ; Sociolinguistics ; Soziolinguistik ; Massenmedien ; Sprachgebrauch ; Identität ; Jugend ; Sprache ; Stadt ; Globalisierung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Jugend ; Sprache ; Stadt ; Identität ; Jugend ; Sprachgebrauch ; Soziolinguistik ; Sprache ; Massenmedien ; Globalisierung ; Jugend
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107100381 , 9781107496194
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 226 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Gesellschaft ; Nationalismus ; National characteristics ; Nationalism ; Identity (Psychology) Social aspects ; Group identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Nationalcharakter ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Schottland ; England ; England ; Schottland ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Nationalcharakter
    Abstract: "We live in a world in which being a 'citizen' of a state and being a 'national' are by no means the same. Amidst much scholarly debate about 'nations' and 'nationalism', comparatively little has been written explicitly on 'national identity' and a great deal less is solidly evidence-based. This book focuses on national identity in England and Scotland. Using data collected over twenty years it asks: does national identity really matter to people? How does 'national identity' differ from 'nationality' and having a passport? Are there particular people and places which have ambiguous or contested national identities? What happens if someone makes a claim to a national identity? On what basis do others accept or reject the claim? Does national identity have much internal substance, or is it simply about defending group boundaries? How does national identity relate to politics and constitutional change?"..
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107114760
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 315 S.
    DDC: 303.4
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    Keywords: Evolutionstheorie ; Verhaltensentwicklung ; Sozialverhalten ; Entwicklung ; Gesellschaft ; Hominisation ; Hominisation ; Sozialverhalten ; Verhaltensentwicklung ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Evolutionstheorie
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107337688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 426 pages)
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    DDC: 394.2
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Politik ; Festivals ; Fasts and feasts ; Food supply / Social aspects ; Food supply / Political aspects ; Agriculture and politics
    Abstract: In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in pre-industrial societies. As an important barometer of cultural change, feasting is at the forefront of theoretical developments in archaeology. The Power of Feasts chronicles the evolution of the practice from its first perceptible prehistoric presence to modern industrial times. This study explores recurring patterns in the dynamics of feasts as well as linkages to other aspects of culture such as food, personhood, cognition, power, politics, and economics. Analyzing detailed ethnographic and archaeological observations from a wide variety of cultures, including Oceania and Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Eurasia, Hayden illuminates the role of feasts as an invaluable insight into the social and political structures of past societies
    Description / Table of Contents: Before the feast : overview of the importance of feasting -- Food sharing and the primate foundations of feasting behavior by Suzanne Villeneuve -- Simple hunter/gatherers -- Transegalitarian hunter/gatherers -- Domesticating plants and animals for feasts -- The horticultural explosion -- Chiefs up the ante -- The first states -- Feasting in industrial societies
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107588349
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 379 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/330954
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Information society / India ; Knowledge economy / India ; Information technology / Social aspects / India ; Soziale Identität ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Indien ; Indien ; Indien ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Soziale Identität
    Abstract: This book depicts the emergence of knowledge society across rural and urban spaces and among cross sections of social collectivities in India. It analyses the new economic momentum and socio-cultural milieu as set in motion with the emergence of this society. The ensuing impact on the pre-existing facets of social identity and marginality, and the processes of construction of new social identities therein are studied. This book delineates both the hope and despair, as produced with the arrival of the knowledge society, and identifies the scope and conditions of alternative choice and liberation for the people within the emerging socio-economic order of this society. Rich in empirical data, this monograph will interest students, researchers, teachers, policy planners and social activists
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : conceptualising knowledge society : critical dimensions and ideal image -- Critiquing and contextualising knowledge society -- Strategising for knowledge society in India : the shifting backdrops and emerging contexts -- Education for knowledge society in India -- Information and communication technologies for knowledge society -- Indian growth story : service and knowledge dynamics -- Education, ICTs and work : the divergent empirical reality -- knowledge society : work, workers and work relations -- knowledge society : culture, continuity and contradictions -- Conclusion : marginality, identity, fluidity and beyond
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139939447
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 272 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Contesting international society in East Asia
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    Keywords: Social structure ; Social structure ; East Asia ; East Asia ; Foreign relations ; East Asia Foreign relations ; Ostasien ; Gesellschaft ; Internationalität
    Abstract: Bringing together some of the most innovative scholars in both the English School of international relations and East Asian studies, this volume investigates whether or not significant and distinct international social structures exist at the regional level represented by 'East Asia', and what this can tell us about international society both regionally and globally. The book's main finding is that the regional dispute over how its states and peoples should relate to the Western-dominated global international society makes the existence of East Asian international society essentially contested. While this regional-global social dynamic is present in many regions, it is particularly strong in East Asia. This book will appeal to audiences interested in developing English School theory, the study of East Asian international relations and comparative regionalism
    Abstract: Introduction : interrogating regional international society in East Asia / Barry Buzan and Yongjin Zhang -- International societies in pre-modern East Asia : a preliminary framework / Feng Zhang -- Imagining 'Asia' : Japan and 'Asian' international society in modern history / Shogo Suzuki -- An East Asian international society today? The cultural dimension / David C. Kang -- Regional and global forces in East Asia's economic engagement with international society / Mark Beeson and Shaun Breslin -- Outside-in and inside-out : political ideology, the English School and East Asia / Alice D. Ba -- East Asia and the strategic 'deep rules' of international/regional society / Yuen Foong Khong -- East Asia as regional international society : the problem of great power management / Evelyn Goh -- Social boundaries in flux : secondary regional organizations as a reflection of regional international society / Rosemary Foot -- Conclusion : the contest over East Asian international society / Barry Buzan and Yongjin Zhang
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511996443
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 399 pages)
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    DDC: 305.80097309/04
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    Keywords: Boas, Franz ; Century of Progress International Exposition / (1933-1934 / Chicago, Ill.) / Exhibitions ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Physical anthropology / United States / History / 20th century ; Race / Social aspects / United States / History / 20th century ; Somatotypes / United States / History / 20th century ; Race awareness / United States / History / 20th century ; Racism in anthropology / United States / History / 20th century ; Rasse ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Geschichte ; USA ; USA ; Ausstellungskatalog ; Ausstellungskatalog ; USA ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Boas, Franz 1858-1942 ; Rasse ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Constructing Race helps unravel the complicated and intertwined history of race and science in America. Tracy Teslow explores how physical anthropologists in the twentieth century struggled to understand the complexity of human physical and cultural variation, and how their theories were disseminated to the public through art, museum exhibitions, books, and pamphlets. In their attempts to explain the history and nature of human peoples, anthropologists persistently saw both race and culture as critical components. This is at odds with a broadly accepted account that suggests racial science was fully rejected by scientists and the public following World War II. This book offers a corrective, showing that both race and culture informed how anthropologists and the public understood human variation from 1900 through the decades following the war. The book offers new insights into the work of Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Ashley Montagu, as well as less well-known figures, including Harry Shapiro, Gene Weltfish, and Henry Field
    Description / Table of Contents: Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Race, anthropology, and the American public : an introductory essay -- 2. Franz Boas and race : history, environment, heredity -- 3. Order for a disordered world : The Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History -- 4. Mounting The Races of Mankind: anthropology and art, race and culture -- 5. Harry Shapiro's Boasian racial science -- 6. Rejecting race, embracing man? : Ruth Benedict's race and culture -- 7. Alternatives to race? : ethnicity, genetics, biology -- 8. Conclusion
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139381338
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 194 pages)
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    DDC: 302.23/1
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Consumers / Research ; Social media ; Marketing / Social aspects ; Internet marketing / Social aspects
    Abstract: In the world of Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, water-cooler conversations with co-workers and backyard small talk with neighbors have moved from the physical world to the digital arena. In this new landscape, organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies to political campaigns continuously monitor online opinions in an effort to guide their actions. Are consumers satisfied with our product? How are our policies perceived? Do voters agree with our platform? Measuring online opinion is more complex than just reading a few posted reviews. Social media is replete with noise and chatter that can contaminate monitoring efforts. By knowing what shapes online opinions, organizations can better uncover the valuable insights hidden in the social media chatter and better inform strategy. This book can help anyone facing the challenge of making sense of social media data to move beyond the current practice of social media monitoring to more comprehensive use of social media intelligence
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139196178
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 311 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jacka, Tamara, 1965 - Contemporary China
    DDC: 951.06
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    Keywords: Social change ; Social change ; China ; China ; Social conditions ; 2000- ; China Social conditions 2000- ; China ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ethnicity, labour, religion, education, class and rural/urban inequalities. It considers China's imperial past, the social and institutional legacies of the Maoist era, and the momentous forces shaping it in the present. It also emphasises diversity and multiplicity, encouraging readers to consider new perspectives and rethink Western stereotypes about China and its people. Real-life case studies illustrate the key features of social relations and change in China. Definitions of key terms, discussion questions and lists of further reading help consolidate learning. Including full-colour maps and photographs, this book offers remarkable insight into Chinese society and social change
    Abstract: Part I. Social institutions. Families, kinship and relatedness ; Marriage, intimacy, and sex ; Citizenship, household registration and migration ; Community institutions ; Work -- Part II. Cultures, socialization and the formation of identities. Religion, ritual and religiosity ; Ethnicity ; Education and the cultivation of citizens ; Modernity, youth identities and popular culture -- Part III. Inequalities, injustices and social responses. Class and stratification ; Regional, rural/urban and within-community inequalities ; The 'woman question' and gender inequalities ; Collective action and social change
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    ISBN: 9781107646995 , 1107646995 , 9780521761734
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 320 Seiten , 23 cm
    Edition: First paperback edition
    DDC: 306.301
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    Keywords: Violence Economic aspects ; History ; State, The History ; Social control History ; Social control ; State, The ; Violence Economic aspects ; History ; Social control ; Social control History ; State, The ; State, The History ; Violence Economic aspects ; History ; Violence Economic aspects ; History ; Gesellschaft ; Gewalt ; Sozialordnung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The conceptual framework -- The natural state -- The natural state applied : English land law -- Open access orders -- Explaining the transition from limited to open access orders : the doorstep conditions -- The transition proper -- A new research agenda for the social sciences
    Abstract: All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This study integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (page 283-305) and index , Originally published: 2009 , Auf dem Bucheinband: "With a new preface and afterword by the authors" , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107013940 , 1107013941 , 9781139211543 , 1139211544 , 9781139222877 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Edition: Ann Arbor Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139222877
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 302.13
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    Keywords: Empirische Sozialforschung ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit
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    ISBN: 9780511761249
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 269 pages)
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    DDC: 973
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Gesellschaft ; Migration ; National characteristics, American ; Americanization ; Immigrants / United States / Social conditions ; Social integration / United States ; Assimilation (Sociology) / United States ; Nationalcharakter ; Akkulturation ; Einwanderung ; USA ; United States / Emigration and immigration / Social aspects ; USA ; USA ; Nationalcharakter ; Einwanderung ; Akkulturation
    Abstract: This book explores public opinion about being and becoming American, and its implications for contemporary immigration debates. It focuses on the causes and consequences of two aspects of American identity: how people define being American and whether people think of themselves primarily as American rather than as members of a panethnic or national origin group. Importantly, the book evaluates the claim – made by scholars and pundits alike – that all Americans should prioritize their American identity instead of an ethnic or national origin identity. It finds that national identity within American democracy can be a blessing or a curse. It can enhance participation, trust, and obligation. But it can be a curse when perceptions of deviation lead to threat and resentment. It can also be a curse for minorities who are attached to their American identity but also perceive discrimination
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The 21st century Americanism survey; 3. Defining American identity in the 21st century; 4. Policy implications of multidimensional Americanism; 5. The myths and realities of identity prioritization; 6. Does 'becoming American' create a 'better' American?; 7. Immigrant resentment: when the work ethic backfires; 8. The politics of American identity
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511762475
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages)
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    DDC: 304.2/3
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Klimaänderung ; Menschenrecht ; Human beings / Effect of climate on ; Human security ; Human rights ; Climatic changes / Social aspects ; Klimaänderung ; Umweltethik ; Menschliche Sicherheit ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Klimaänderung ; Menschliche Sicherheit ; Umweltethik ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: Presenting human security perspectives on climate change, this volume raises issues of equity, ethics and environmental justice, as well as our capacity to respond to what is increasingly considered to be the greatest societal challenge for humankind. Written by international experts, it argues that climate change must be viewed as an issue of human security, and not an environmental problem that can be managed in isolation from larger questions concerning development trajectories, and ethical obligations towards the poor and to future generations. The concept of human security offers a new approach to the challenges of climate change, and the responses that could lead to a more equitable and sustainable future. Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security will be of interest to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners concerned with the human dimensions of climate change, as well as to upper-level students in the social sciences and humanities interested in climate change
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511778629
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages)
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    DDC: 393.0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1700 ; Funde ; Gesellschaft ; Funeral rites and ceremonies / Great Britain ; Funeral rites and ceremonies / Ireland ; Dead / Social aspects / Great Britain ; Dead / Social aspects / Ireland ; Human body / Social aspects / Great Britain ; Human body / Social aspects / Ireland ; Human remains (Archaeology) / Great Britain ; Human remains (Archaeology) / Ireland ; Totenglaube ; Sektion ; Heilmittel ; Leiche ; Bestattungsritus ; Volksmedizin ; Großbritannien ; Irland ; Great Britain / Antiquities ; Ireland / Antiquities ; Irland ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Irland ; Bestattungsritus ; Leiche ; Volksmedizin ; Heilmittel ; Totenglaube ; Sektion ; Geschichte 1500-1700
    Abstract: Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific and folkloric sources, Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland. From the theological discussion of bodily resurrection to the folkloric use of body parts as remedies, and from the judicial punishment of the corpse to the ceremonial interment of the social elite, this book discusses how seemingly incompatible beliefs about the dead body existed in parallel through this tumultuous period. This study, which is the first to incorporate archaeological evidence of early modern death and burial from across Britain and Ireland, addresses new questions about the materiality of death: what the dead body means, and how its physical substance could be attributed with sentience and even agency. It provides a sophisticated original interpretive framework for the growing quantities of archaeological and historical evidence about mortuary beliefs and practices in early modernity
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Religious belief -- 3. Scientific belief -- 4. Social belief -- 5. Folk belief -- 6. Conclusions
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511803871
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nitsan, Shemuʾel, 1948 - Collective preference and choice
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    DDC: 302.3
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    Keywords: Social choice Mathematical models ; Group decision making Mathematical models ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Group decision making ; Mathematical models ; Social choice ; Mathematical models ; Gruppenentscheidung ; Entscheidungstheorie ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: Collective decision-making is a familiar feature of our social, political, and economic lives. It ranges from the relatively trivial (e.g. the choice of the next family car) to the globally significant (e.g. whether or not a country should go to war). Yet, whether trivial or globally significant, such decisions involve a number of challenging problems. These problems arise in the standard social choice setting, where individuals differ in their preferences. They also arise in the standard decision-making setting, where individuals share the same preferences, but differ in their decisional capabilities. The distinctive feature of Collective Preference and Choice is that it looks at classical aggregation problems that arise in three closely related areas: social choice theory, voting theory, and group decision-making under uncertainty. Using a series of exercises and examples, the book explains these problems with reference to a number of important contributions to the study of collective decision-making
    Abstract: The reason for the problems -- Brief overview of the problems -- The relationship between preferences and choice -- Do social preferences exist? -- Arrow's and Sen's impossibility theorems -- The desirable decision rule: axiomatization -- Rule selection based on compromise with the unanimity criterion -- Paradoxes of voting -- Majority tyranny -- The problems of inefficient provision of public goods -- Do individuals reveal their true preferences?
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511664458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Perspectives on public choice
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    Keywords: Neue politische Ökonomie ; Theorie ; Political science Economic aspects ; Social choice ; Social choice ; Political science ; Economic aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behavior in that it builds on models in which rational individuals seek to advance their own interests. This five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions of the field. It contains twenty-five essays written by thirty scholars, both economists and political scientists, from North America and Europe. Part I discusses the nature and justification for the existence of government and various forms it can take, including mixed, private, and public institutions, international organizations, federalisms, and constitutional governments. Part II examines the properties of different voting rules and preference aggregation procedures. Part III explores multiparty systems, interest groups, logrolling and political business cycles. The individual decisionmaker is the focus of Part IV, with surveys of the experimental literature on individual behavior, and why people vote as they do. The final section applies public-choice reasoning to bureaucracy, taxation, and the size of government.
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  • 37
    ISBN: 9780521195331
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 727 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karte , 27 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Easley, David Networks, crowds, and markets
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    Keywords: Telecommunication Social aspects ; Information society ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: "Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread with surprising speed and intensity. These are phenomena that involve networks, incentives, and the aggregate behavior of groups of people; they are based on the links that connect us and the ways in which our decisions can have subtle consequences for others. This introductory undergraduate textbook takes an interdisciplinary look at economics, sociology, computing and information science, and applied mathematics to understand networks and behavior. It describes the emerging field of study that is growing at the interface of these areas, addressing fundamental questions about how the social, economic, and technological worlds are connected"--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Overview; Part I. Graph Theory and Social Networks: 2. Graphs; 3. Strong and weak ties; 4. Networks in their surrounding contexts; 5. Positive and negative relationships; Part II. Game Theory: 6. Games; 7. Evolutionary game theory; 8. Modeling network traffic using game theory; 9. Auctions; Part III. Markets and Strategic Interaction in Networks: 10. Matching markets; 11. Network models of markets with intermediaries; 12. Bargaining and power in networks; Part IV. Information Networks and the World Wide Web: 13. The structure of the Web; 14. Link analysis and Web search; 15. Sponsored search markets; Part V. Network Dynamics: Population Models: 16. Information cascades; 17. Network effects; 18. Power laws and rich-get-richer phenomena; Part VI. Network Dynamics: Structural Models: 19. Cascading behavior in networks.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511750717
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 224 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Nationalismus ; Psychologie ; National characteristics, American ; National characteristics, American / Psychological aspects ; Nationalism / Social aspects / United States ; Nationalism / United States / Psychological aspects ; Group identity / United States ; Loyalty / Social aspects / United States ; Social psychology / United States ; Nationalbewusstsein ; USA ; United States / Social conditions / 1980- ; USA ; USA ; Nationalbewusstsein
    Abstract: Why is national identity such a potent force in people's lives? And is the force positive or negative? In this thoughtful and provocative book, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse develops a social theory of national identity and uses a national survey, focus groups, and experiments to answer these important questions in the American context. Her results show that the combination of group commitment and the setting of exclusive boundaries on the national group affects how people behave toward their fellow Americans. Strong identifiers care a great deal about their national group. They want to help and to be loyal to their fellow Americans. By limiting who counts as an American, though, these strong identifiers place serious limits on who benefits from their pro-group behavior. Help and loyalty are offered only to 'true Americans,' not Americans who do not count and who are pushed to the periphery of the national group
    Description / Table of Contents: The need for a social theory of national identity -- Commitment to the national group -- The setting of national group boundaries -- The desire to help the national group -- Loyalty in the face of criticism -- Is national identity good or bad?
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511804670
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 490 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Culture and psychology
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Socialization ; Ethnopsychology ; Cognition and culture ; Learning / Social aspects ; Learning, Psychology of ; Kultur ; Kognition ; Kulturelle Identität ; Intergenerationentransfer ; Lernpsychologie ; Ethnopsychologie ; Sozialisation ; Kulturübertragung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kulturelle Identität ; Intergenerationentransfer ; Intergenerationentransfer ; Ethnopsychologie ; Kulturübertragung ; Sozialisation ; Ethnopsychologie ; Kultur ; Kognition ; Lernpsychologie
    Abstract: Cultural Transmission covers psychological, developmental, social, and methodological research on how cultural information is socially transmitted from one generation to the next within families. Studying processes of cultural transmission may help analyze the continuity or change of cultures, including those that have to cope with migration or the collapse of a political system. An evolutionary perspective is elaborated in the first part of the book; the second takes a cross-cultural perspective by presenting international research on development and intergenerational relations in the family; the third provides intra-cultural analyses of mechanisms and methodological aspects of cultural transmission. Made up of contributions by experts in the field, this source book is intended for anyone with interests in cultural issues – especially researchers and teachers in disciplines such as psychology, social and behavioral sciences, and education – and for applied professionals in culture management and family counseling, as well as professionals dealing with migrants
    Description / Table of Contents: General introduction to cultural transmission : developmental, psychological, social and methodological aspects / Ute Schönpflug -- Cultural transmission : a short history of research and theory / Ute Schönpflug -- Evolutionary perspective -- Cultural transmission : a view from chimpanzees and human infants / Michael Tomasello -- Transmission, self-organization, and the emergence of language : a dynamic systems point of view / Paul van Geert -- Relationship-specific intergenerational family ties : an evolutionary approach to the structure of cultural transmission / Harald A. Euler, Sabine Hoier, and Percy A. Rohde -- Cross-cultural perspective -- An ecocultural perspective on cultural transmission : the family across cultures / John W. Berry and James Georgas -- Intergenerational relations and cultural transmission / Gisela Trommsdorff -- Intergenerational transmission, social capital, and interethnic contact in immigrant families / Bernhard Nauck --
    Description / Table of Contents: Developmental processes related to intergenerational transmission of culture : growing up with two cultures in the USA / Amado M. Padilla -- The transmission process : mechanisms and contexts / Ute Schönpflug and Ludwig Bilz -- Accounting for parent-child value congruence : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence / Ariel Knafo and Shalom H. Schwartz -- Culture, migration, and family value socialization : a theoretical model and empirical investigation with Russian immigrant youth in Israel / Ariel Knafo, Avi Assor, Shalom H. Schwartz, and Limor David -- Immigrant parents' age expectations for the development of their adolescent offspring transmission effects and changes after immigration / Eva Schmitt-Rodermnd and Rainer K. Silberseisen -- Intracultural variations -- Intergenerational transmission of moral capital across the family life course / Merril Silverstein and Stephen J. Conroy --
    Description / Table of Contents: Similarity of life goals in the family : a three-generations study / Alexander Grob and Wibke Weisheit -- The intergenerational transmission of xenophobia and rightism in East Germany / Bernd Six, Kristina Geppert and Ute Schönpflug -- Intergenerational ransmission of violence / Haci-Halil Uslucan & Urs Fuhrer -- "Don't trust anyone over 25" : youth centrism, intergenerational transmission of political orientations and cultural change / Tom ter Bogt, Wim Meeus,Quinten Raaijmakers, Frits van Wel, and Wilma Vollebergh -- Value transmission and zeitgeist revisited / Klaus Boehnke, Andreas Hadjar and Dirk Baier -- Epilogue: Towards a model of cultural transmission / Ute Schönpflug
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511626999
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 323 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Memory / Social aspects ; Collective memory ; Recollection (Psychology) ; Cognition and culture ; Oral tradition ; Soziokultureller Faktor ; Gedächtnis ; Gedächtnis ; Soziokultureller Faktor
    Abstract: This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies, and the construction of history. The book is organised around several major questions: How do memories construct our past? How do we build shared collective memories? How does memory shape history? This volume presents a special perspective, emphasising the role of memory processes in the construction of self-identity, of shared cultural norms and concepts, and of historical awareness. Although the results are fairly new and the techniques suitably modern, the vision itself is of course related to the work of such precursors as Frederic Bartlett and Aleksandr Luria, who in very different ways represent the starting point of a serious psychology of human culture
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    ISBN: 9780521761734 , 9780511516573 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 328 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780511516573
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.301
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Gewalt ; Soziale Kontrolle ; Politische Kontrolle ; Institution ; Organisation ; Kapitalismus ; Feudalismus ; Sozialordnung
    Abstract: This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.
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  • 42
    ISBN: 9780511753749
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 310 pages)
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 30
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Organizational behavior / Social aspects ; Social networks ; Self-perception ; Social perception ; Power (Social sciences) ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Organisationssoziologie ; Organisationskultur ; Organisationspsychologie ; Organisationsverhalten ; Organisationsverhalten ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Organisationskultur ; Organisationssoziologie ; Organisationspsychologie
    Abstract: This book brings a social networks perspective to bear on topics of leadership, decision-making, turnover, organizational crises, organizational culture, and other major organizational behavior topics. It offers a new direction for organizational behavior theory and research by drawing from social network ideas. Across diverse research topics, the authors pursue an integrated focus on social ties both as they are represented in the cognitions of individuals and as they operate as constraints and opportunities in organizational settings. The authors bring their 20 years worth of research experience together to provide a programmatic social network approach to understanding the internal functioning of organizations. By focusing a distinctive research lens on interpersonal networks, they attempt to discover the keys to the whole realm of organizational behavior through the social network approach
    Description / Table of Contents: Perceiving networks. A network approach to leadership ; An analysis of the internal market for reputation in organizations ; Systematic biases in network perception ; Effects of network accuracy on individuals' perceived power -- The psychology of network differences. Social structure and decision making in an MBA cohort ; The social networks of low and high self-monitors ; Centrality in the emotion helping network : an interactionist approach -- Network dynamics and organizational culture. Network perceptions and turnover in three organizations ; Organizational crises; The control of organizational diversity ; Future directions
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511807596
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 222 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare 27
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Vietnamkrieg ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 / Social aspects ; Collective memory / Vietnam ; Ghosts ; Vietnamkrieg ; Geister ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Vietnam ; Vietnam ; Vietnamkrieg ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Geister
    Abstract: This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination, and Heonik Kwon explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate these hidden but vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of ghosts. Although these actions are fantastical, this book shows how examining their stories can illuminate critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam and the modern world more generally
    Description / Table of Contents: Ghosts of war -- Mass excavation -- Missing in action -- The phantom leg -- Death in the street -- Transforming ghosts -- Money for ghosts
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511488870
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Politik ; Soccer / Social aspects / Israel ; Soccer / Political aspects / Israel ; Minorities in sports / Israel ; Palestinian Arabs / Israel / Ethnic identity ; Palästinenser ; Diskriminierung ; Fußball ; Minderheitenfrage ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Israel ; Israel ; Palästinenser ; Fußball ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Israel ; Palästinenser ; Fußball ; Minderheitenfrage ; Israel ; Palästinenser ; Diskriminierung ; Fußball
    Abstract: Over the last two decades soccer has become a major institution within the popular culture of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel. They have attained disproportionate success in this field. Given their marginalisation from many areas of Israeli society as well as the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, such a prominent Arab presence highlights the tension between their Israeli citizenship and their belonging to the Palestinian people. Bringing together sociological, anthropological and historical approaches, Sorek examines how soccer can potentially be utilised by ethnic and national minorities as a field of social protest, a stage for demonstrating distinctive identity, or as a channel for social and political integration. Relying on a rich combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, he argues that equality in the soccer sphere legitimises contemporary inequality between Jews and Arabs in Israel and pursues wider arguments about the role of sport in ethno-national conflicts. Ideal for researchers and graduate students
    Description / Table of Contents: Sports, modernity and struggle in Palestine -- The emergence of the integrative enclave -- Soccer and municipal "labor quiet" -- "These points are Arab" : nationalist rhetoric in the sports press -- "Maccabi Haifa is my flag": Arab fans of Jewish teams -- The Islamic Soccer League -- Sakhnin -- between soccer and martyrdom
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511617430
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 591 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: Second edition
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 302/.13
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    Keywords: Social choice Mathematical models ; Social choice ; Mathematical models ; Personalwesen ; Arbeitsmotivation ; Anreiz ; Informationsverhalten ; Kollektiventscheidung
    Abstract: This book, first published in 2006, examines the incentives at work in a wide range of institutions to see how and how well coordination is achieved by informing and motivating individual decision makers. The book examines the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs. It investigates the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to kidney transplants, to see if they enhance general well being. The book examines a broad range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets, to the entire economy. The analysis is conducted using specific worked examples, lucid general theory, and illustrations drawn from news stories. Of the seventy different topics and sections, only twelve require a knowledge of calculus. The second edition offers new chapters on auctions, matching and assignment problems, and corporate governance. Boxed examples are used to highlight points of theory and are separated from the main text
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511617430
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 591 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
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    Keywords: Motivation ; Informationsökonomie ; Mathematisches Modell ; Wirtschaftliches Verhalten ; Anreiz ; Asymmetrische Information ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: This book, first published in 2006, examines the incentives at work in a wide range of institutions to see how and how well coordination is achieved by informing and motivating individual decision makers. The book examines the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs. It investigates the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to kidney transplants, to see if they enhance general well being. The book examines a broad range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets, to the entire economy. The analysis is conducted using specific worked examples, lucid general theory, and illustrations drawn from news stories. Of the seventy different topics and sections, only twelve require a knowledge of calculus. The second edition offers new chapters on auctions, matching and assignment problems, and corporate governance. Boxed examples are used to highlight points of theory and are separated from the main text.
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    ISBN: 9780511818059
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 815 Seiten)
    Edition: First published
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The handbook of political sociology
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    Keywords: Globalization ; Civil society ; State, The ; Political sociology ; Globalization ; Civil society ; State, The ; Political sociology ; Political sociology ; Civil society ; State, The ; Globalization ; Politische Soziologie ; Soziologie ; Politikwissenschaft ; Staat ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Globalisierung ; Handbuch ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Politische Soziologie ; Politische Soziologie
    Abstract: Political sociology in the new millenium / Alexander M. Hicks, Thomas Janoski, and Mildred A. Schwartz -- pt. I. Theories of political sociology. Rule making, rulebreaking. and power / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- Neopluralism and neofunctionalism in political sociology / Alexander M. Hicks and Frank J. Lecher -- Conflict theories in political sociology / Axel van den Berg and Thomas Janoski -- Institutionalist and state-centric theories of political sociology / Edwin Amenta -- Culture, knowledge, and politics / James Jasper -- Feminist theorizing and feminism in political sociology / Barbara Hobson -- The linguistic turn : Foucault, Laclau, Mouffe, and Žižek / Jacob Torfing -- Rational-choice theories in political sociology / Edgar Kiser and Shawn Bauldry -- Theories of race and the state / David R. James and Kent Redding
    Abstract: Political sociology in the new millenium / Alexander M. Hicks, Thomas Janoski, and Mildred A. Schwartz -- pt. I. Theories of political sociology. Rule making, rulebreaking. and power / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- Neopluralism and neofunctionalism in political sociology / Alexander M. Hicks and Frank J. Lecher -- Conflict theories in political sociology / Axel van den Berg and Thomas Janoski -- Institutionalist and state-centric theories of political sociology / Edwin Amenta -- Culture, knowledge, and politics / James Jasper -- Feminist theorizing and feminism in political sociology / Barbara Hobson -- The linguistic turn : Foucault, Laclau, Mouffe, and Žižek / Jacob Torfing -- Rational-choice theories in political sociology / Edgar Kiser and Shawn Bauldry -- Theories of race and the state / David R. James and Kent Redding
    Abstract: pt. II. Civil society : the roots and processes of political action. Money, participation, and votes : social cleavages and electoral politics / Jeffrey Manza, Clem Brooks, and Michael Sauder -- Public opinion, political attitudes, and ideology / David L. Weakliem -- Nationalism in comparative perspective / Liah Greenfield and Jonathan R. Eastwood -- Political parties : social bases, organization, and environment / Mildred A. Schwartz and Kay Lawson -- Organized interest groups and policy networks / Francisco J. Granados and David Knoke -- Corporate control, interfirm relations, and corporate power / Mark S. Mizruchi and Deborah M. Bey -- Social movements and social change / J. Craig Jenkins and William Form -- Toward a political sociology of the news media / Michael Schudson and Silvio Waisbord -- pt. III. The state and its manifestations. State formation and state building in Europe / Thomas Ertman -- Transitions to democracy / John Markoff -- Revolutions and revolutionary movements / Jeffrey Goodman -- Regimes and contention / Charles Tilly -- Theories and practices of neocorporatism / Wolfgang Streeck and Lane Kenworthy -- Undemocratic politics in the twentieth century and beyond / Viviane Brachet-Márquez -- State bureaucracy : politics and policies / Oscar Oszlak
    Abstract: pt. II. Civil society : the roots and processes of political action. Money, participation, and votes : social cleavages and electoral politics / Jeffrey Manza, Clem Brooks, and Michael Sauder -- Public opinion, political attitudes, and ideology / David L. Weakliem -- Nationalism in comparative perspective / Liah Greenfield and Jonathan R. Eastwood -- Political parties : social bases, organization, and environment / Mildred A. Schwartz and Kay Lawson -- Organized interest groups and policy networks / Francisco J. Granados and David Knoke -- Corporate control, interfirm relations, and corporate power / Mark S. Mizruchi and Deborah M. Bey -- Social movements and social change / J. Craig Jenkins and William Form -- Toward a political sociology of the news media / Michael Schudson and Silvio Waisbord -- pt. III. The state and its manifestations. State formation and state building in Europe / Thomas Ertman -- Transitions to democracy / John Markoff -- Revolutions and revolutionary movements / Jeffrey Goodman -- Regimes and contention / Charles Tilly -- Theories and practices of neocorporatism / Wolfgang Streeck and Lane Kenworthy -- Undemocratic politics in the twentieth century and beyond / Viviane Brachet-Márquez -- State bureaucracy : politics and policies / Oscar Oszlak
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511819568
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 360 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Emotions / Social aspects / Textbooks ; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung ; Gefühl ; Inter-Gruppenbeziehung ; Sozialpsychologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gefühl ; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung ; Inter-Gruppenbeziehung ; Gefühl ; Sozialpsychologie
    Abstract: This 2004 book showcases research and theory about the way in which the social environment shapes, and is shaped by, emotion. The book has three sections, each of which addresses a different level of sociality: interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup. The first section refers to the links between specific individuals, the second to categories that define multiple individuals as an entity, and the final to the boundaries between groups. Emotions are found in each of these levels and the dynamics involved in these types of relationship are part of what it is to experience emotion. The chapters show how all three types of social relationships generate, and are generated by, emotions. In doing so, this book locates emotional experiences in the larger social context
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511550461
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 448 pages)
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    DDC: 302/.12
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    Keywords: Risk perception ; Risk / Sociological aspects ; Public opinion ; Risikoverhalten ; Gesellschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Risikoverhalten ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: The management of and communication about risks has become a major question of public policy and intellectual debate in the modern world. The social amplification of risk framework describes how both social and individual factors act to amplify or dampen perceptions of risk and through this create secondary effects such as stigmatisation of technologies, economic losses or regulatory impacts. This volume, edited by three of the world's leading analysts of risk and its communication, brings together contributions from a group of international experts working in the field of risk perception and risk communication. Key conceptual issues are discussed as well as a range of recent case studies (spanning BSE and food safety, AIDS/HIV, nuclear power, child protection, Y2K, electromagnetic fields, and waste incineration) that take forward the state-of-the-art in risk amplification theory. The volume also draws attention to lessons for public policy, risk management and risk communication practice
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139165204
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 199 pages)
    Series Statement: New perspectives on anthropological and social demography 2
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    DDC: 304.6
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Demography ; Postmodernism / Social aspects ; Postmoderne ; Demographie ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Demographie ; Postmoderne
    Abstract: Demography has developed into a remarkably coherent field and now stands as a firmly established discipline with strong ties to policy-making agencies. However, in recent years there has been increasing recognition within demography of the limits of existing theories and methods, particularly its absence of a strong critical tradition and its isolation from recent theoretical developments in other social sciences. In this study, Nancy Riley and James McCarthy use the lens of postmodernism to structure a critical analysis of the field of demography. Paying particular attention to the fundamental epistemologies and methodologies that currently underlie the field, they explore how postmodern perspectives might serve to energize the field and how demography could be enhanced by the introduction of insights from other social sciences. Drawing on examples of new kinds of research in demography and related fields, this is an important new book that seeks to reinvigorate the field of demography
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511164026
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (418 pages)
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    Keywords: Soziales Lernen ; Koordination ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Kollektives Verhalten ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: This book was the first in the exciting field of social learning.
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    ISBN: 051104190X , 0511044526 , 0511489471 , 0521002664 , 0521807719 , 9780511041907 , 9780511044526 , 9780511489471 , 9780521002660 , 9780521807715
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 391 pages)
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    Keywords: Cellular telephones / Social aspects ; Téléphone cellulaire / Aspect social ; Transmission sans fil / Aspect social ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies ; Mobiele telefonie ; Draadloze communicatie ; Sociale aspecten ; Culturele aspecten ; Persoonlijke levenssfeer ; Openbare ruimte ; Vergelijkend onderzoek ; Öffentlichkeit ; Mobilfunk ; Kommunikation ; Handy ; Gesellschaft ; Kultur ; Cell phones Social aspects ; Wireless communication systems Social aspects ; Mobile Telekommunikation ; Sozialer Wandel ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Mobile Telekommunikation ; Sozialer Wandel
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction : Framing the issues / James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus -- Finland : a mobile culture / Jukka-Pekka Puro -- Israel : chutzpah and chatter in the Holy Land / Amit Schejter and Akiba Cohen -- Italy : stereotypes, true and false / Leopoldina Fortunati -- Korea : personal meanings / Shin Dong Kim -- United States : popular, pragmatic and problematic / Kathleen A. Robbins and Martha A. Turner -- France : preserving the image / Christian Licoppe and Jean-Philippe Heurtin -- The Netherlands and the USA compared / Enid Mante -- Bulgaria : mobile phones as post-communist cultural icons / Valentin Varbanov -- Hyper-coordination via mobile phones in Norway / Richard Ling and Birgitte Yttri -- Mobile culture of children and teenagers in Finland / Eija-Liisa Kasesniemi and Pirjo Rautiainen -- Pretense of intimacy in France / Chantal de Gournay -- Mobile phone consumption and concepts of personhood / Dawn Nafus and Karina Tracey -- The challenge of absent presence / Kenneth J. Gergen -- From mass society to perpetual contact : models of communication technologies in social context / James B. Rule -- Mobiles and the Norwegian teen : identity, gender and class / Berit Skog --The telephone comes to a Filipino village / Georg Strøm -- Beginnings in the telephone / Emanuel A. Schegloff -- Conclusion : Making meaning of mobiles -- a theory of Apparatgeist / James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus -- On "opening sequencing" : a framing statement ; Opening sequencing / Emanuel A. Schegloff , Perpetual Contact studies the impact of the mobile phone on contemporary society. Providing an overview of mobile phones and social interaction, the book covers key issues, contains a series of national studies, and examines specific issues
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    ISBN: 9780511802973
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxii, 183 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to the Americas
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    DDC: 305.48/9625
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Sklaverei ; Slavery / Social aspects / Brazil / Paraíba do Sul River Valley / History / 19th century ; Women / Brazil / Paraíba do Sul River Valley / Social conditions / 19th century ; Man-woman relationships / Brazil / Paraíba do Sul River Valley / History / 19th century ; Brasilien
    Abstract: This 2002 book presents the true and dramatic accounts of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each sought to retain control of their lives: the slave woman struggling to avoid an unwanted husband; the woman of privilege assuming a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. But these women's stories cannot be told without also recalling how their decisions drew them ever more firmly into the orbits of the worldly and influential men who exercised power in their lives. These are stories with a twist: in this society of radically skewed power, Lauderdale Graham reveals that more choices existed for all sides than we first imagine. Through these small histories she casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521524466 , 0521495512
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 278 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Edition: 1. paperback ed.
    Series Statement: African studies series 87
    Series Statement: African studies
    DDC: 790.0135096724
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    Keywords: Leisure Congo (Brazzaville) ; History ; Congo (Brazzaville) Social life and customs ; Brazzaville ; Gesellschaft ; Freizeit ; Geschichte 1880-1960 ; Brazzaville ; Gesellschaft ; Freizeit ; Geschichte 1880-1960
    Note: Literaturverz. S. 248-272
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511817373
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 408 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-1999 ; Geschichte ; Romanies / Europe, Eastern / History ; Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte ; Nationale Minderheit ; Minderheitenpolitik ; Gesellschaft ; Diktatur ; Staatssozialismus ; Roma ; Zigeuner ; Osteuropa ; Osteuropa ; Nationale Minderheit ; Roma ; Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1990-1999 ; Zigeuner ; Diktatur ; Nationale Minderheit ; Osteuropa ; Minderheitenpolitik ; Zigeuner ; Osteuropa ; Zigeuner ; Geschichte ; Osteuropa ; Roma ; Geschichte ; Staatssozialismus ; Roma
    Abstract: This 2001 book is an attempt by a social scientist to explain the predicament of Gypsies (or Roma), Eastern Europe's largest ethnic minority, and their relationship to the region's states and societies. Barany examines the Gypsies' socioeconomic and political marginality and policies toward them through seven centuries and in seven East European states. He illuminates the reasons why the Roma have consistently occupied the bottom of social, economic, and political hierarchies regardless of historical period or geographic location. Barany argues that the current nostalgia of many Gypsies for the socialist period is easy to understand, given the disastrous effect of the post-communist socioeconomic transformation on the Roma's conditions over the last decade. He explains the impact of Gypsy political mobilization, and the activities of international organizations and NGOs, on government policies. This pioneering multidisciplinary work will engage political scientists, sociologists and historians, as well as students of ethnic and racial studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: PART I. THE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK -- 1. Regimes, States, and Minorities -- 2. Marginality and Ethnic Mobilization -- PART II. NONDEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS AND GYPSY MARGINALITY -- 3. The Gypsies in Imperial and Authoritarian States -- 4. The Roma under State-Socialism -- PART III. THE GYPSIES IN EMERGING DEMOCRACIES -- 5. The Socioeconomic Impact of Regime Change: Gypsy -- Marginality in the 1990s -- 6. Romani Mobilization -- 7. The International Dimension: Migration and Institutions -- State Institutions and Policies toward the Gypsies -- 8. Romani Marginality Revisited -- Conclusion -- References
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511606076
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 240 pages)
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    Keywords: Arrow, Kenneth Joseph ; Sen, Amartya ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Wahl ; Entscheidungsfindung
    Abstract: It is not uncommon to be frustrated by the outcome of an election or a decision in voting, law, economics, engineering, and other fields. Does this 'bad' result reflect poor data or poorly informed voters? Or does the disturbing conclusion reflect the choice of the decision/election procedure? Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow's famed theorem has been interpreted to mean 'no decision procedure is without flaws'. Similarly, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen dashes hope for individual liberties by showing their incompatibility with societal needs. This highly accessible book offers a new, different interpretation and resolution of Arrow's and Sen's theorems. Using simple mathematics, it shows that these negative conclusions arise because, in each case, some of their assumptions negate other crucial assumptions. Once this is understood, not only do the conclusions become expected, but a wide class of other phenomena can also be anticipated.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511016239 , 0511118988 , 0511492308 , 0521791022 , 9780511016233 , 9780511118982 , 9780511492303 , 9780521791021
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 153 pages)
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    Keywords: PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology ; Social choice ; Voorkeur ; Wiskundige modellen ; Besliskunde ; Domein (wiskunde) ; Existentie van oplossingen ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Decision making / Mathematical models ; Social choice / Mathematical models ; Mathematisches Modell ; Social choice Mathematical models ; Decision making Mathematical models ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Mathematisches Modell
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-145) and index , 1 - Introduction -- - 2 - Notation, definitions, and two fundamental theorems -- - 3 - The existence of collective choice rules under exclusion conditions for finite sets of discrete alternatives -- - 4 - Arrovian social welfare functions, nonmanipulable voting procedures and stable group decision functions -- - 5 - Restrictions on the distribution of individuals' preferences -- - 6 - The existence of social choice rules in n-dimensional continuous space -- - 7 - Concluding remarks , "Wulf Gaertner provides a comprehensive account of an important and complex issue within social choice theory: how to establish a social welfare function while restricting the spectrum of individual preferences in a sensible way. Gaertner's starting point is K.J. Arrow's famous 'Impossibility Theorem', which showed that no welfare function could exist if an unrestricted domain of preferences is to be satisfied, together with some other appealing conditions. A number of leading economists have tried to provide avenues out of this 'impossibility' by restricting the variety of preferences: here, Gaertner provides a clear and detailed account, using standardized mathematical notation, of well over 40 theorems associated with domain conditions." , "Domain Conditions in Social Choice Theory will be an essential addition to the library of social choice theory for scholars and their advanced graduate students."--Jacket
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511011628 , 0511488890 , 0521590442 , 0521599695 , 9780511011627 , 9780511488894 , 9780521590440 , 9780521599696
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 246 pages)
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    Keywords: Habitudes alimentaires / Angleterre ; Restaurants / Angleterre / Aspect social ; Consommateurs / Comportement / Angleterre ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions ; Consumer behavior ; Food habits ; Manners and customs ; Restaurants / Social aspects ; Eetgewoonten ; Restaurants ; Consumentengedrag ; Cultuursociologie ; Soziologie ; Essgewohnheit ; Restaurant ; Gesellschaft ; Food habits ; Restaurants Social aspects ; Consumer behavior ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Restaurant ; Soziologie ; Essgewohnheit ; Großbritannien ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Großbritannien ; Essgewohnheit ; Soziologie ; Großbritannien ; Essgewohnheit ; Restaurant ; Großbritannien ; Restaurant ; Verbraucherverhalten
    Note: Includes bibliographical (pages 234-242) references and index , 1 - Studying eating out -- - pt. I. - Modes of provision -- - 2 - development of the habit of eating out in the UK -- - 3 - meanings of eating out -- - pt. II. - Access -- - 4 - Patterns of eating out -- - 5 - Domestic organisation, family meals and eating out -- - pt. III. - Delivery -- - 6 - Personal service in public and private settings -- - 7 - Last suppers -- - pt. IV. - Enjoyment: the attractions of eating out -- - 8 - Eating out as a source of gratification -- - 9 - enjoyment of meal events -- - pt. V. - Conclusion -- - 10 - Eating out and theories of consumption
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511802782
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Human body / Social aspects / Africa ; Human body / Social aspects / Melanesia ; Human body / Symbolic aspects / Africa ; Human body / Symbolic aspects / Melanesia ; Leib-Seele-Problem ; Kulturvergleich ; Afrika ; Melanesien ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Leib-Seele-Problem ; Kulturvergleich ; Melanesien
    Abstract: Large-scale comparisons are out of fashion in anthropology, but this book suggests a bold comparative approach to broad cultural differences between Africa and Melanesia. Its theme is personhood, which is understood in terms of what anthropologists call 'embodiment'. These concepts are applied to questions ranging from the meanings of spirit possession, to the logics of witchcraft and kinship relations, the use of rituals to heal the sick, 'electric vampires', and even the impact of capitalism. There are detailed ethnographic analyses, and suggestive comparisons of classic African and Melanesian ethnographic cases, such as the Nuer and the Melpa. The contributors debate alternative strategies for cross-cultural comparison, and demonstrate that there is a surprising range of continuities, putting in question common assumptions about the huge differences between these two parts of the world
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Transcending dichotomies: "It's a boy," "it's a girl!": reflections on sex and gender in Madagascar and beyond / Rita Astuti -- Modernity and forms of personhood in Melanesia / Edward Lipuma -- Refiguring the person: the dynamics of affects and symbols in an African spirit possession cult / Ellen Corin -- Body and mind in mind, body and mind in body: some anthropological interventions in a long conversation / Michael Lambek -- pt. 2. Transitions, containments, decontainments: Treating the affect by remodelling the body in a Yaka healing cult / René Devisch -- To eat for another: taboo and the elicitation of bodily form among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea / Sandra Bamford -- Electric vampires: Haya rumors of the commodified body / Brad Weiss -- pt. 3. From exchange to history: Creative possessions: spirit mediumship and millennial economy among Gebusi of Papua New Guinea / Bruce M. Knauft -- Dis-embodiment and concealment among the Atbalmin of Papua New Guinea / Eytan Bercovitch -- Melpa and Nuer ideas of life and death: the rebirth of a comparison / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Afterword: embodying ethnography / Janice Boddy
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    ISBN: 9780511557910
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Cultural pluralism ; Difference (Psychology) / Social aspects ; Lesbian feminist theory ; Gay and lesbian studies ; Postmodernism / Social aspects ; Postmoderne ; Geschlechtsunterschied ; Feminismus ; Homosexualität ; Soziologische Theorie ; Postmoderne ; Soziologische Theorie ; Geschlechtsunterschied ; Feminismus ; Homosexualität
    Abstract: Difference Troubles, first published in 1997, examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the social sciences, but also for the people - feminists, queer theorists, postmodernists - who champion difference. Seidman asks how social thinkers should conceptualize differences such as gender, race, and sexuality, without reducing them to an inferior status. This is a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of contemporary social theory and sexual politics, presented with Seidman's familiar imagination and clarity. In addition, it argues persuasively for a pragmatic approach to difference troubles in theory and politics
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511664458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 672 pages)
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    Keywords: Politische Wissenschaft ; Social choice ; Political science / Economic aspects ; Ökonomische Theorie der Politik ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Ökonomische Theorie der Politik ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behavior in that it builds on models in which rational individuals seek to advance their own interests. This five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions of the field. It contains twenty-five essays written by thirty scholars, both economists and political scientists, from North America and Europe. Part I discusses the nature and justification for the existence of government and various forms it can take, including mixed, private, and public institutions, international organizations, federalisms, and constitutional governments. Part II examines the properties of different voting rules and preference aggregation procedures. Part III explores multiparty systems, interest groups, logrolling and political business cycles. The individual decisionmaker is the focus of Part IV, with surveys of the experimental literature on individual behavior, and why people vote as they do. The final section applies public-choice reasoning to bureaucracy, taxation, and the size of government
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521034
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 210 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 101
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1995 ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Marriage customs and rites / Cyprus ; Social change / Cyprus ; Social classes / Cyprus ; Brauch ; Griechen ; Hochzeit ; Gesellschaft ; Cyprus / Social life and customs ; Zypern ; Zypern ; Hochzeit ; Brauch ; Griechen ; Geschichte 1930-1995 ; Zypern ; Brauch ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1930-1995
    Abstract: The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernisation, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations from the 1930s to the present day. He argues that modernisation is not a secular, progressive process, that remodels the life of a society, ironing out local differences. Rather, it is a legitimising discourse. It is an idiom which Greek Cypriots employ to represent, and contest, relationships between social classes, old and young, men and women, city folk and villagers. At the same time, by involving modernisation, they are submitting to foreign standards, and accepting the symbolic domination of Europe
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The island of Aphrodite -- 2. Nationalism and the poverty of imagination -- 3. The weddings of the 1930s -- 4. The meaning of change -- 5. Distinction and symbolic class struggle -- 6. Anthropology and the specter of "monoculture" -- 7. The dialectics of symbolic domination
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    ISBN: 9780511607653
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Indianer ; Dwellings / Social aspects ; Dwellings / Southeast Asia ; Dwellings / South America ; Kinship / Southeast Asia ; Indians of South America / Kinship ; Hausbau ; Verwandtschaft ; Wohnen ; Haus ; Ethnologie ; Ethnosoziologie ; Südostasien ; Südostasien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wohnen ; Verwandtschaft ; Ethnologie ; Wohnen ; Hausbau ; Ethnologie ; Haus ; Ethnosoziologie ; Südostasien ; Wohnen ; Ethnosoziologie
    Abstract: The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast Asia and South America, exploring the interrelationships between buildings, people, and ideas. They reveal some of the ways in which houses can stand for social groups and serve as images of process and order
    Description / Table of Contents: Houses and hierarchies in island Southeast Asia / Roxana Waterson -- The resurrection of the house amongst the Zafimaniry of Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- The hearth-group, the conjugal couple and the symbolism of the rice meal among the Kelabit of Sarawak / Monica Janowski -- Houses in Langkawi : stable structures or mobile homes? / Janet Carsten -- Having your house and eating it : houses and siblings in Ara, South Sualwesi / Thomas Gibson -- The Lio House : building, category, idea, value / Signe Howell -- Houses and hierarchy : the view from a South Moluccan society / Susan McKinnon -- Houses, places and people : community and continuity in Guiana / Peter Rivière -- The houses of the Mẽbengokre (Kayapó) of Central Brazil : a new door to their social organization / Vanessa Lea -- Inside-out and back-to-front : the androgynous house in Northwest Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones
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    ISBN: 9780511553707
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 329 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1880-1914 ; Geschichte 1890-1914 ; Geschichte 1880-1900 ; Geschichte ; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism ; Literature and society / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Social problems in literature ; Psychoanalysis and literature ; Geistesleben ; Kultur ; Literatur ; Literatursoziologie ; Englisch ; Kunst ; Gesellschaft ; Kulturpolitik ; Fin de siècle ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / History / Victoria, 1837-1901 ; Great Britain / Civilization / 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Kunst ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1880-1914 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Kulturpolitik ; Geschichte 1880-1914 ; Großbritannien ; Kulturpolitik ; Geistesleben ; Geschichte 1890-1914 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Kulturpolitik ; Geschichte 1890-1914 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1880-1900 ; Englisch ; Literatursoziologie ; Geschichte 1880-1900 ; Fin de siècle ; Literatur ; Englisch
    Abstract: Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion of the 'New Woman', the reconstruction of masculinities, and of feminism and empire. The imperialist theme is pursued in essays on Yeats and Ireland, Gilbert and Sullivan, and the figure of the vampire. The rise of socialism and psychoanalysis, and the relationship between nascent modernism and late twentieth-century postmodernism are also addressed in this radical account
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken -- The flight to the real / Terry Eagleton -- The new woman and the crisis of Victorianism / Sally Ledger -- Empire, 'race' and feminism at the fin de siècle : The work of George Egerton and Olive Schreiner / Laura Chrisman -- W.B. Yeats and Irish cultural politics in the 1890's / Stephen Regan -- The double lives of man : narration and identification in late nineteenth-century representations of ec-centric masculinities / Ed Cohen -- Henry James and the spectacle of loss : psychoanalytic metaphysics / Marcia Ian -- 'A very curious construction' : masculinity and the poetry of A.E. Housman and Oscar Wilde / Ruth Robbins -- The pilgrims of hope : William Morris and the dialectic of romanticism / Anne Janowitz -- Urban utopias : socialism, religion and the city, 1880 to 1900 / Lynne Hapgood -- Vampires and the empire : fears and fictions of the 1890s / Alexandra Warwick -- Utopia, limited : nationalism, empire and parody in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan / Carolyn Williams -- Technologies of monstrosity : Bram Stoker's Dracula / Judith Halberstam -- Postmodernism, a Chance to reread? / Scott McCracken -- Is market society the fin of history? / Regenia Gagnier
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    ISBN: 9780511622137
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Sozialgeschichte 1750-1900 ; Geschichte 1750-1900 ; Wirtschaft ; Industrial revolution / Great Britain ; Industrielle Revolution ; Gesellschaft ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Economic conditions / 18th century ; Great Britain / Economic conditions / 19th century ; Great Britain / Social conditions / 18th century ; Great Britain / Social conditions / 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Industrielle Revolution ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1750-1900 ; Großbritannien ; Industrielle Revolution ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1750-1900 ; Großbritannien ; Sozialgeschichte 1750-1900
    Abstract: The Industrial Revolution and British Society is an original and wide-ranging textbook survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries. The distinguished international team of contributors each focus on topics at the very centre of scholarly interest, and draw together the prevailing research in an accessible and stimulating manner: the intention throughout is to introduce a broad student readership to important, but less familiar aspects and consequences of the first Industrial Revolution. A variety of different disciplinary skills are employed in the analysis of empirical and conceptual data, and each chapter opens up its subject with indications for further reading. The Industrial Revolution and British Society offers a topical overview on perspectives of this central historical problem, and will be widely used as a course text by teachers in the field
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : modern conceptions of the Industrial Revolution / Patrick K. O'Brien -- Women in the workforce / Duncan Bythell -- Reinterpretation of the Industrial Revolution / Gary Hawke -- Religion and political stability in early industrial England / Alan D. Gilbert -- Sex and desire in the Industrial Revolution / Thomas Laqueur -- Political preconditions for the Industrial Revolution / Patrick K. O'Brien -- Crime, law and punishment in the Industrial Revolution / David Philips -- The Industrial Revolution and parliamentary reform / Roland Quinault -- Margins of the Industrial Revolution / Eric Richards -- Social aspects of the Industrial Revolution / John Stevenson -- Technological and organizational change in industry during the Industrial Revolution / G.N. von Tunzelmann -- Postscript : An appreciation of Max Hartwell / Eric Jones
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    ISBN: 9780511625473
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xxi, 333 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Naturwissenschaft ; Science / Social aspects ; Science / Methodology ; Sociology / Methodology ; Ethnomethodology ; Ethnomethodologie ; Methode ; Wissenschaftstheorie ; Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Methode ; Ethnomethodologie ; Wissenschaftstheorie
    Abstract: Philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science have grown interested in the daily practices of scientists. Recent studies have drawn linkages between scientific innovations and more ordinary procedures, craft skills, and sources of sponsorship. These studies dispute the idea that science is the application of a unified method or the outgrowth of a progressive history of ideas. This book critically reviews arguments and empirical studies in two areas of sociology that have played a significant role in the 'sociological turn' in science studies: ethnomethodology (the study of ordinary practical reasoning) and the sociology of scientific knowledge. In both fields, efforts to study scientific practices have led to intractable difficulties and debates, due in part to scientistic and foundationalist commitments that remain entrenched with social-scientific research policies and descriptive language. The central purpose of this book is to explore the possibility of an empirical approach to the epistemic contents of science that avoids the pitfalls of scientism and foundationalism
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    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 183 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Migration ; Emigration and immigration / Social aspects ; Ethnicity ; Griechen ; Kultur ; Migration ; Internationale Migration ; Ethnizität ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Situation ; Auswanderung ; Einwanderung ; Australien ; Griechenland ; Australia / Emigration and immigration / Social aspects ; Greece / Emigration and immigration / Social aspects ; Australien ; Internationale Migration ; Ethnizität ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Situation ; Migration ; Ethnizität ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Situation ; Griechen ; Australien ; Einwanderung ; Migration ; Kultur ; Internationale Migration ; Kultur ; Auswanderung
    Abstract: Never before have so many people ended up in a place different from where they began, something which made the twentieth century a century of migration. Culture is central to the process of migration, yet it is rarely examined in studies of the political economy of labour migration. Originally published in 1992, From Another Place explores definitions and understandings of the relations between migration and cultural processes, calling into question the interrelation between circumstance and cultural practice. It is an insightful attempt to move away from the limitations of dichotomous explanations of migration, using the findings of sociology, political economy and literature in the discussion of cultural beliefs and practices. The book is a fascinating, empirically grounded study, useful in its discussion of the dynamics of gender and class as well as those of ethnicity and culture
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    ISBN: 9780511521911
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    Keywords: Politik ; Politische Wissenschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Social choice ; Economics / Political aspects ; Political science / Decision making ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie ; Arrow-Paradoxon ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Arrow-Paradoxon ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: This textbook provides a survey of the literature of social choice. It integrates the ethical aspects of the subject, (discussing potentially desirable conditions for social judgements) with positive aspects of decision mechanisms that centre on the revelation of true preferences. The literature on the subject presently consists of a great many papers. This book draws them together in common notation and points out interpretations which are often missing in specialist papers. Applications in economics, electoral politics, and ethics are discussed. The book will be used by senior undergraduate and graduate students of economics, political science and philosophy as a text book in the subject
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    ISBN: 9780511586354
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 231 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
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    Keywords: Catholic Church ; Catholic Church History 1965- ; Religionspolitik ; Gesellschaft ; Südasien ; Christian shrines Sri Lanka. ; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages Sri Lanka. ; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages ; Christian shrines ; Catholic Church ; Sri Lanka ; History ; 1965- ; Christian shrines ; Sri Lanka ; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages ; Sri Lanka ; Sri Lanka ; Religion ; 20th century ; Sri Lanka Religion, 20th century. ; Sri Lanka Religion 20th century ; Sri Lanka ; Katholische Kirche ; Wallfahrt ; Geschichte 1965-1990
    Abstract: Over the past few decades a series of Catholic shrines have sprung up in Sri Lanka which draw hundreds of pilgrims. Although best known as centres for the exorcism of the demonically possessed, their miraculous efficacy also extends to helping people find jobs and preferment, and to alleviating suffering. Dr Stirrat, who has worked in Sri Lanka over a long period, is interested both in how people behave at the shrines, and in the historical and social contexts in which the shrines have appeared. He argues that an understanding of their religious importance is intricately connected with power, religious and political. This view challenges the conventional distinction between 'religion' and 'politics', and accordingly, religious suffering is seen as a complex metaphor linking together various social domains and a means through which conflicts over power and authority can be expressed.
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    ISBN: 9780511621659
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Exchange / Cross-cultural studies ; Money / Social aspects / Cross-cultural studies ; Economic anthropology ; Geld ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geld ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Geld ; Kulturanthropologie
    Abstract: This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole. One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems making some ideological space for relatively impersonal, competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform the nature of social relationships
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    ISBN: 9780511621598
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in literacy, family, culture, and the state
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1980 ; Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Writing / History ; Writing / Social aspects ; Social evolution ; Civilization, Ancient ; Schriftlichkeit ; Sozialgeschichte ; Schrift ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Geschichte ; Analphabetismus ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Africa, West / Civilization ; Afrika ; Alter Orient ; Westafrika ; Westafrika ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Geschichte 1930-1980 ; Alter Orient ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Geschichte ; Alter Orient ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Geschichte ; Afrika ; Schrift ; Sozialer Wandel ; Alter Orient ; Schrift ; Sozialer Wandel ; Gesellschaft ; Analphabetismus ; Gesellschaft ; Schriftlichkeit ; Schriftlichkeit ; Sozialer Wandel ; Schrift ; Sozialgeschichte
    Abstract: This book assesses the impact of writing on human societies, both in the Ancient Near East and in twentieth-century Africa, and highlights some general features of social systems that have been influenced by this major change in the mode of communication. Such features are central to any attempt at the theoretical definition of human society and such constituent phenomena as religious and legal systems, and in this study Professor Goody explores the role of a specific mechanism, the introduction of writing and the development of a written tradition, in the explanation of some important social differences and similarities. Goody argues that a shift of emphasis from productive to certain communicative processes is essential to account adequately for major changes in human societies. Whilst there have been previous descussions of the effect of literacy upon social organisation, no study has hitherto presented the general synthesis developed here
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    ISBN: 9780511528309
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    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 390 pages)
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    Keywords: Mathematisches Modell ; Game theory / Congresses ; Negotiation / Mathematical models / Congresses ; Spieltheorie ; Verhandlungstheorie ; Mathematisches Modell ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Verhandlungstheorie ; Spieltheorie ; Verhandlungstheorie ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: Game-Theoretic Models of Bargaining provides a comprehensive picture of the new developments in bargaining theory. It especially shows the way the use of axiomatic models has been complemented by the new results derived from strategic models. The papers in this volume are edited versions of those given at a conference on Game Theoretic Models of Bargaining held at the University of Pittsburgh. There are two distinct reasons why the study of bargaining is of fundamental importance in economics. The first is that many aspects of economic activity are directly influenced by bargaining between and among individuals, firms, and nations. The second is that bargaining occupies an important place in economic theory, since the 'pure bargaining problem' is at the opposite pole of economic phenomena from the case of 'perfect competition'. This volume is an outgrowth of the renewed interest in the strategic approach to the theory of bargaining and to the general theory of non-cooperative games
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    ISBN: 9781139052283
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    Keywords: Mathematisches Modell ; Social choice / Mathematical models ; Voting / Mathematical models ; Committees / Mathematical models ; Game theory ; Abstimmung ; Spieltheorie ; Wahlverhalten ; Mathematisches Modell ; Ausschuss ; Ausschuss ; Abstimmung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Wahlverhalten ; Spieltheorie
    Abstract: This book is a theoretical and completely rigorous analysis of voting in committees that provides mathematical proof of the existence of democratic voting systems, which are immune to the manipulation of preferences of coalitions of voters. The author begins by determining the power distribution among voters that is induced by a voting rule, giving particular consideration to choice by plurality voting and Borda's rule. He then constructs, for all possible committees, well-behaved representative voting procedures which are not distorted by strategic voting, giving complete solutions for certain important classes of committees. The solution to the problem of mass elections is fully characterised
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    ISBN: 9780511897993
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    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 278 pages)
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    Keywords: Social choice ; Welfare economics ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Fürsorge ; Wohlfahrtstheorie ; Rationalität ; Rationalität ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Wohlfahrtstheorie ; Fürsorge
    Abstract: Left freely to themselves, a group of rational individuals often fail to cooperate even when the product of social cooperation is beneficial to all. Hence, the author argues, a rule of collective decision making is clearly needed that specifies how social cooperation should be organised among contributing individuals. Suzumura gives a systematic presentation of the Arrovian impossibility theorems of social choice theory, so as to describe and enumerate the various factors that are responsible for the stability of the voluntary association of free and rational individuals. Among other topics covered are an axiomatic characterisation of the concept of a rational choice, the simple majority decision rule and its extensions, the social choice implications of the concept of equity as nonenvy, the constrained majoritarian collective choice rules and the conflict between the Paretian ethics and the libertarian claims of individual rights
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    ISBN: 9780511607745
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    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 253 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Cooking / Social aspects ; Food habits / Social aspects ; Sozialgeschichte ; Kochen ; Ernährung ; Ernährungsgewohnheit ; Soziologie ; Essgewohnheit ; Essgewohnheit ; Sozialgeschichte ; Ernährung ; Sozialgeschichte ; Kochen ; Sozialgeschichte ; Ernährung ; Soziologie ; Ernährungsgewohnheit
    Abstract: The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous anthropological work that Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa. He criticises those approaches which overlook the comparative historical dimension of culinary, and other, cultural differences that emerge in class societies, both of which elements he particularly emphasises in this book. The central question that Professor Goody addresses here is why a differentiated 'haute cuisine' has not emerged in Africa, as it has in other parts of the world. His account of cooking in West Africa is followed by a survey of the culinary practices of the major Eurasian societies throughout history - ranging from Ancient Egypt, Imperial Rome and medieval China to early modern Europe - in which he relates the differences in food preparation and consumption emerging in these societies to differences in their socio-economic structures, specifically in modes of production and communication. He concludes with an examination of the world-wide rise of 'industrial food' and its impact on Third World societies, showing that the ability of the latter to resist cultural domination in food, as in other things, is related to the nature of their pre-existing socio-economic structures. The arguments presented here will interest all social scientists and historians concerned with cultural history and social theory
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