Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation.
Building, largely, on insights from India, and case studies in Brazil, China, and South Africa, this book provides insights into the contested topic of 'governance and governed' from a state-society inter-relationship perspective.
Containing a novel compilation of theoretical and methodological approaches, this textbook lays out the most relevant foundations of clinical sociology.
Die fünfte Auflage des Handbuches folgt einem neuen Konzept und liefert aktuelle Beiträge zu Themen, die im Diskurs und in der Alltagsarbeit der Offenen Kinder- und Jugendarbeit unabdingbar sind.
This book is a collection of original essays grouped into four parts under the headings "e;Greece and European integration,"e; "e;Issues in the Methodology of Economics,"e; "e;Institutions and the Free Market Economy,"e; and "e;Insights for Today from Ancient Greece.
This book introduces a ten-year-long design research project in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China, based on international cooperation studios, design workshops, a Ph.
Nach der Gründung der Volksrepublik China sollte das ganze Land aus einem "rückständigen Agrarland" in ein fortschrittliches, industrialisiertes Neues China verwandelt werden.
Das Buch bietet einen von den Rezensenten anerkannten kompetenten Überblick über Geschichte, Theorie, Handlungsfelder und Reformprobleme der staatlichen Sozialpolitik.
The Sandvik, Diener, and Seidlitz (1993) paper is another that has received widespread attention because it documented the fact that self-report well-being scales correlate with a number of other methods of measuring the same concepts, such as with reports by knowledgeable "e;informants"e; (family and friends), expe- ence sampling measurement, and the memory for good versus bad life events.
The Platform of Those Affected by Mortgages (PAH) has left a crucial mark in the history of Spanish social movements by advocating for the over 700,000 families that have been evicted since its inception in 2009.
Focusing on care workers for the elderly, this book examines the paradoxical position of irregular migrants in European society, who are often labelled as 'illegal' residents but who in fact provide much needed, essential support to welfare systems.
This book focuses on the influence of socio-economic and land-use policies on the commuting problems and quality of life of the poor in Singapore and Hong Kong.
An international team of academics and experienced practitioners here bring together scholarship on academic migrants to the United States - the world's top recipient of academic talent.
This book is about relating the concepts of rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are linked and related and also how stories of rape and murder are related or told.
Originally published in 1980, this book provides an analysis and assessment of events in local government management during the late 20th Century set within an overall conceptual framework of organisation theory.
Philippine political history, especially in the twentieth century, challenges the image of democratic evolution as serving the people, and does so in ways that reveal inadequately explored aspects of many democracies.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
Dieses Buch greift ein Thema auf, das sowohl für die kommunale Praxis als auch für die Forschung von aktueller Relevanz ist: die Integration in Kommunen.
Since the normalization of Sino-Korean diplomatic relations in 1992, many South Koreans have moved to China for business, education, and other purposes.
Originally published in 1987, this title reviews and evaluates the methodologies suitable for highway evaluation, along with the UK transport supplementary grant and TPP (Transport Policies and Programme) system.
