Society and culture: general

In the wake of the considerable cultural changes and social shifts that the United States and all advanced industrial democracies have experienced since the late 1960s and early 1970s, social discourse around the disempowered has changed in demonstrable ways.

James Connelly and Giuseppina D'Oro present a new edition of R.

The concept of systematicity is central to Immanuel Kant's conception of scientific knowledge and to his practical philosophy.

What does it mean to be Chinese?

This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories.

This lavishly illustrated book offers the first full, interdisciplinary investigation of the historical evidence for the presence of ancient Greek tragedy in the post-Restoration British theatre, where it reached a much wider audience - including women - than had access to the original texts.

In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance humanists rediscovered a secret, natural language hidden in the visual wisdom of the proverb 'the eyes are the windows of the soul'.

A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans is a study of intellectual life at the abbey of St Albans - one of Britain's greatest Benedictine monasteries - during the lifetime of Thomas Walsingham (c.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,3, University of Gottingen (Philosophische Fakultat), language: English, abstract: At the turn of the nineteenth century, the city of New York underwent a tremendous change that is regarded as a complete "e;transformation of American culture"e; (Zurier).

'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New StatesmanThe Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde.

This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment on the issue of regal succession, 'Questions relative to Hereditary Right', discovered and edited by Quentin Skinner.

The experience of becoming an ex is common to most people in modern society.

Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual.

We are often told that social media well-being is simply the result of individual users making healthy digital choices.

What worlds take root in war?

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous.

What worlds take root in war?

How do you experience a public space?

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, grade: 89%, University of British Columbia (Department of Anthropology and Sociology), course: Community Studies, language: English, abstract: "e;And me, I still believe in paradise.

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften allgemein, Note: 1,3, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit verfolgt die folgenden zentralen Fragen: Welche ökonomischen Konzepte und Theorien werden in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften in Bezug auf das Themenfeld Geld, dessen Entstehungsgeschichte und Charakter diskutiert und wie werden diese dargestellt?

"e;This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,7, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Sprach- und Geisteswissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen dieser Forschungsarbeit soll die Frage beantwortet werden, inwiefern das Tragen von Dreadlocks an weißen Personen als problematisch zu bewerten und als kulturelle Aneignung zu bezeichnen ist.

Sarah Preston's happy family life was shattered when a chance encounter with her ex-abuser brought horrendously painful memories flooding back.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1,3, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der folgenden Arbeit werde ich mich mit dem Thema der Geschlechterungleichheit beschäftigen und die Entwicklung des letzten Jahrhunderts genauer betrachten.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Natalie Livingstone's deeply researched, unfailingly fascinating book gives the many extraordinary women at or near the centre of the Nuremberg trials their proper, important, and often ignored place in history' Salman Rushdie'Brilliant .

Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Individuum, Gruppe, Gesellschaft, Note: 1,3, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wenn Literatur als Spiegelbild des Geisteslebens einer Gesellschaft gesehen werden kann, dann müssten sich in den Charakteren der Literatur realgesellschaftliche Formen von Männlichkeiten wiederfinden, dort produziert und reproduziert werden.

On the surface, Riverview High School looks like an exemplar of an integrated community.

Why do nations actively publicize previously overlooked disputes?

This book offers a powerful reappraisal of the history of British boxing, revealing how the sport became both a platform for visibility and a site of struggle for migrants and minority individuals and communities.

Social work is a complex career - a hugely rewarding way to make a difference in people's lives, paired with an enormous responsibility to get it right.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: A, The University of Chicago, language: English, abstract: Was Barbie, as feminists said, poisonous for young girls' self-image, did she represent the fact that a woman had choices as Handler remarked, or was she - as conservatives insisted - simply good childhood fun?

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Note: 1,5, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Wirtschaftsgeschichte), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Anhand einer vergleichenden Studie soll in dieser Arbeit die folgenden Fragen beantwortet werden: Kann man eine Verbindung zwischen der Funktionsweise des Bankensystems und den Finanzierungsmodalitäten von Unternehmen herstellen?

Misogyny is of course not the whole story of medieval discourse on women: medieval culture also envisaged a case for women.

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Allan Spear explores here the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty-year period when a relatively fluid patter of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and discrimination.

In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state.

For too long, Native American people in the United States have been stereotyped as vestiges of the past, invisible citizens in their own land obliged to remind others, ';We are still here!

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zahlreiche Studien belegen, dass Unterricht in MINT-Fächern (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft, Technik) noch immer von geschlechts-basierten Differenzen geprägt ist.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Vergangenheit stellte die Thematik Frauen im Rechtsextremismus nur einen Nebenschauplatz in der Forschung dar.

In 2020, feminist scholars and activists celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations' Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, a landmark achievement that mainstreams gendered concerns into international peace and security.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Medien und Politik, Pol.

The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life.

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, author Hannah Lewis gives readers fascinating new insights into the development, style, and reception of the 2016 film musical La La Land.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Germanistik, Note: 1,0, Universitat Vechta; fruher Hochschule Vechta, Veranstaltung: Fachdidaktische Vertiefung: Lernbereich Mundlichkeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Lernbereich der Mundlichkeit, ferner: mit dem Erzahlen und dessen Erwerb im Kindesalter.

The experience of becoming an ex is common to most people in modern society.

Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless immoralities.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1,0, Universität zu Köln, Veranstaltung: Wertewandel, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zunächst soll betont werden, dass es in dieser Ausarbeitung nicht um die Sinnhaftigkeit oder Sinnlosigkeit des Genderns gehen soll.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften allgemein, Note: 1,3, Universität Vechta; früher Hochschule Vechta, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den Medien hört man des Öfteren über die angespannte Situation zwischen Taiwan und der Volksrepublik China.

From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes a sweeping new view of artificial intelligence as an evolutionary force that will pose deep political and spiritual challenges and could, in the process, give our species a unifying sense of purpose.