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Social structure is arguably the central concept of sociology, and in recent years a much wider public has taken up with fresh vigor the sociological idea that persistent inequalities are rooted in social structures. Yet there seem to be as many definitions of the term...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-12-03
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Today, a new kind of freedom fighter has emerged in our midst: liberal and open-minded, these individuals champion liberty and resent the imposition of more and more rules and exhortations that constrain their freedom. They are angry, disgruntled, offended. Why should...
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Polity
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2024-12-03
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How can we hope to understand social inequality without considering race, class, and gender in tandem?How do they interact with other categories such as sexuality, citizenship, and ableism?How does an inclusive analysis of domination and privilege move us closer to...
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Polity
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2024-12-03
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The story of China–Africa relations is one of the most important geopolitical and geoeconomic developments of the past two decades. This book uses the interaction between China and African countries in football to critically examine how engagement through football...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-12-03
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As the major driver of US demographic change, Latinos are reshaping key aspects of the social, economic, political, and cultural landscape of the country.In this second edition of Latina/os in the United States, Sáenz, Morales, and Rayo-Garza highlight the experiences...
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Polity
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2024-12-03
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Ziel dieses Sammelbands ist es, historisch-theoretische, empirische und handlungsbezogene Zugänge zu Differenzkonstruktionen und (Un-)Gleichheiten sowie Diversitätsorientierung an (Fach-)Hochschulen und deren bildungspraktische Relevanz und Spannungsfelder aus...
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Springer VS
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2024-12-02
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This book is an ethnography of Chinese daigou (cross-border shopping on the behalf of mainland Chinese customers) and their mobilities practices. Daigou practitioners, predominantly women, engage in selling, purchasing, and delivering goods between mainland China and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-02
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This book explores youth involvement in public safety, measuring the success of historic programs in school districts, fire departments, and police departments, and evaluating their potential to mitigate youth violence in the U.S. In its examination of structured...
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Springer
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2024-12-02
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Queer and Femme Gazes in AfroAsian American Visual Culture is a scholarly collection that takes comparative Black-Asian representations in televisual culture from queer and femme perspectives. AfroAsian representations on screen—as well as their attendant critical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-01
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This book offers a novel approach to studying war and peace by foregrounding motherhood in times of conflict and peace processes from a sociological perspective. Through qualitative research resting on individual and focus group interviews with 55 mothers who had lived...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
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Dieses Buch untersucht die zugrundeliegenden und bis dato unterrepräsentierten Dynamiken der Auseinandersetzung mit der Digitalisierung in der strategischen Kommunikation. Dies findet ausgehend von einer leitenden Grundannahme statt, die die strategische Kommunikation...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-12-01
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This book presents cutting-edge methods and findings that are expected to contribute to significant advances in the areas of communication design, fashion design, interior design and product design, as well as musicology and other related areas. It especially focuses on...
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Springer
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2024-12-01
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This book analyzes poverty and the mechanisms that lead to it in ethnic rural areas in China using macro- and micro-examinations as well as field studies. It identifies new poverty situations and poverty alleviation in China’s ethnic areas and discusses the shortcomings...
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Springer
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2024-12-01
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Historische Verletzungen zwischen Angehörigen von Großgruppen verblassen nicht einfach über die Zeit hinweg. Am empirischen Fallbeispiel der alevitisch-sunnitischen Verletzungsbeziehungen zeigt sich, dass postmigrantische Gesellschaften durch vielfältige, oftmals...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-12-01
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This book investigates whether and how drone technology is changing how we see and experience our visual cultures. Knowing more about these visuals is essential to understand how our visual experience of the world is changing and the creative potential these new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-30
Collection :
Social Visualities
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This open access Palgrave Pivot explores the experiences of nonreligious asylum seekers in Northern Europe. While religious persecution is often cited as a reason for seeking asylum, nonbelievers also face significant persecution in their home countries due to their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-30
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This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the contemporary global landscape characterized by unsettling dynamics in identity politics, state authority, capitalism, nationalism, and nationhood, during the twenty-first century. Using cricket as a lens, it argues...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-30
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This open access handbook combines multiple theoretical and practical approaches for enabling a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of marriage in the Arab world. Adopting a holistic, interdisciplinary approach, it provides a framework for the contextual and macro...
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Springer
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2024-11-30
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of archaeology and the direction of future advances in the field. Written by thirty-six archaeologists, historians, and historians of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-29
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In 1980, single mother families were five times more likely than two-parent families to be poor. Forty years later, single-mother families are still five times more likely to be poor. How can this be given the vast increases in education and employment achieved by...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-29
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