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Taking as its starting point the diagnosis that events such as the pandemic, the ecological crisis, and the increasingly volatile international situation have made our relationship to the world problematic, the book aims to survey the ways in which this...

The emergence of sport for development as a developmental strategy led by the United Nations and the use of sport by companies around the world as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility strategies have brought to the fore its developmental utility...

Cosmology or cosmological ideas are often sought to solve problems in our daily lives. This book aims to rethink the topic of cosmology in anthropology through an ethnographic description of the many entanglements of cosmological ideas and the personal...

Bringing together the main critical Marxist perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies, it engages with a range of issues connected to the 'urban question', such as urban sprawl, housing and increasing rates of urbanization across...

Over the course of more than seventy years, symbolic interactionism as a resourceful and conceptually rich perspective has generated variegated lines of research.In Essential Methods in Symbolic Interaction, symbolic interactionists who adopt...

The book brings together a range of socio-legal and law and humanities scholars to elaborate and explore the idea of the legal 'masterplot'.

Il mito del progresso è stata una delle più grandi invenzioni della ModernitàSolo che, a un certo punto, questo movimento sì è interrotto. Pochi hanno riflettuto su una circostanza: la capacità sì creativa, ma insieme distruttiva delle forze scatenate...

This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the Asia Pacific region. It will be an important read for scholars, researchers and students in sustainability,...

This book explores the notion of cultural capital, offering insights into its evolution and definitions, as well as the relationship between cultural, social and human capital, the distinctions between capital and capitalism, and the conflicts that exist...

This book-containing contributions from scholars who are well-known for their research on gangs, and selected as experts on the assigned topics-examines youth gangs from a developmental/life-course perspective, exploring a myriad of issues related to...

This book investigates the sociohistorical making of place and people in Copenhagen from around 1900 to the present day. Drawing inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of social space and symbolic power, and from Loïc Wacquant's hypothesis of...

This book of essays presents actors within our historical and contemporary context, at the standpoint of the turn of a twenty-first century. We shall artistically and interpretively think of these societal actors, persons, ideas, authoritative...

With great subtlety and eerie detail, the author provides descriptions of cities, along with several working definitions of motion, and possible critiques therein. From here examples and metaphors arise.

Societies Of The Arikara Indians is a book written by Robert Harry Lowie in 1913. The book provides a detailed description of the social organization and cultural practices of the Arikara Indians, who were a Native American tribe that lived in the Great...

This book is a collection of essays by prominent thinkers on the historist and humanist transcendence of the caste system such that an authentic democracy can bloom in India. It locates caste as not only a social problem, but a moral evil and...

Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life.

Social Healing draws on a transdisciplinary approach- bringing sociology, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality together - to understand health, social suffering, and healing in our contemporary world.

This book looks at the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy, including Hegel's 'World-Spirit', Weber's 'Verstehen' and Marx's phantasms, exploring the relationships and interactions between those spirits and materiality across...

This book examines the current state of capitalism in relation to the advance of ICTs, considering the ways in which the rise of the internet has shaped capitalism - or otherwise - and the implications of our increasingly digital society for social...

This book investigates the relationship of secrecy as a social practice to contemporary media, news cultures and public relations. It will appeal to students of public relations, sociology, media studies, cultural studies and communication studies.

This book reiterates pluralism as the basic feature of the Indian social sphere. It highlights challenges to the continuity of the plural fabric of India's society and culture.

This book presents a study of the figure of the stranger in US Latinx literary and cultural forms, ranging from contemporary novels through essays to film and transborder art activism.

This book calls attention to the continued relevance of Alfred Schutz's social thought and his efforts to bring phenomenology to bear on social theory and the epistemology of social research, arguing that his social theory offers a robust framework for...

This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result. The chapters explain the realities that administration poses...

This book examines the social production of our world, of the worlds of the past and of the worlds of the future, considering the ways in which worlds are created in both actuality and imagination. Bringing together central concepts of classical...

The six essays in this volume are designed to introduce the general reader to some of the main issues in the fields of education, industry, politics, family changes and the like, which concern British sociologists. While each of the essays is...

Seki presents an ethnography of uncertainty and precarity experienced by people in urban, rural, and transnational, communities in the Philippines as a case study of social protection without the possibility of a robust welfare state. He deals with...

This book explores the thought of the three 'founding' members of the Austrian School of economics: Carl Menger, Friedrich von Wieser and Eugen Böhm-Bawerk, considering the overlapping and specialisation of their work on money, value and capital.

The impasse currently affecting human rights as a language used to express struggles for dignity is, to a large extent, a reflection of the epistemological and political exhaustion which blights the global North. Since the global hegemony of human rights...

Any person can be analyzed on sight. This photo-filled how-to book reveals the secrets, using the latest 21st century methods.  It's perfect for someone on a first date, at a job interview, or anytime a new person comes into one's life...

Examines the relevance of Bauman's concept of liquid modernity, exploring his complex and multifaceted legacy, while emphasising his intentional avoidance of systematic theory in favour of a more nuanced, observational approach to society.What remains of...

Soziale Psychiatrie ist eines der originalen Projekte der Generation, welche wir kurz und knapp die "68er" nennen.Insofern schauen wir in diesem Buch auf 40 Jahre Soziale Psychiatrie zurück.1975 war das Ziel der sozialpsychiatrischen Reformer von 68...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Allgemein, Note: 1,0, Hochschule Koblenz (ehem. FH Koblenz), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Welche Faktoren haben Einfluss darauf, wie ein Mensch sozialisiert wird, wie wird er sozial handlungsfähig...

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek's notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin's notion of the optical unconscious to offer newer concepts: "tinted glasses", through which we see the world; "unit-thinking",...

Postmodern theory has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest students because of its apparent political and social radicalism. Despite this Professor Gavin Kitching claims that, 'At the heart of postmodernism is very poor, deeply confused and...

Available in English for the first time, Célestin Bouglé's (1870-1940) French Socialisms (1932) provides a comprehensive overview of the relevance of Saint-Simonism, Fourierism, and Proudhonism for today. Bouglé, who is sometimes called the "alter-ego"...

Consumption studies are underrated in the social sciences. Drawing specific attention to this need for further analysis, this latest volume of Comparative Social Research presents a rich collection of chapters offering an up-to-date view of the sociology...

Title: The Pianos: Exploring the Historical, Cultural, and Societal Impact of a Timeless Instrument Title: The Pianos: Exploring the Historical, Cultural, and Societal Impact of a Timeless Instrument Title: The Pianos: Exploring the Historical, Cultural,...