Sociology

Recent cases of corporate failures, including the fixing of LIBOR rates and money laundering issues in the banking industry, highlight how behavioural issues on the part of company directors are significant contributory factors in corporate governance and the success or failure of companies.

From the dramatic find in the caves of Qumran, the world's most ancient version of the Bible allows us to read the scriptures as they were in the time of Jesus.

A riveting look at the real reasons Americans feel inadequate in the face of their dreams, and a call to celebrate how we support one another in the service of family and work in our daily life.

In an increasingly globalised world manifested in greater economic integration, human capital is an important factor.

For several years legal professions across the world have, to varying degrees, been undergoing dramatic changes as a result of a range of forces such as globalization, diversification and changes in regulation.

This book situates Roma mobility as a critical vantage point for migration studies in Europe, focusing on questions about Europe, 'European-ness', and 'EU-ropean' citizenship through the critical lens of Roma racialisation, marginalisation, securitisation, and criminalisation, and the dynamics of Roma mobility within and across the space of 'Europe'.

Controversy and Coalition is a comprehensive and engaging overview of the American women's movement from the 1960s to the 1990s.

​In der empirischen Wahlforschung ist man der Meinung, dass der regionale Kontext keinen relevanten Einfluss auf das individuelle Wahlverhalten mehr ausübt.

Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia.

Informal norms and political practices can act to facilitate or block changes to formal rules, with important consequences for efforts to promote gender equality.

The city has always been a locus of research and discussion within the debates of modernity and, more recently, postmodernity.

Focusing on moral, social and legal responsibilities as opposed to rights or obligations, this volume explores the concept of responsibility in family life, law and practice.

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Long before modern medicines became so widely available, families treated everyday illnesses with home-made remedies.

Never before has there been so extensive a collection of what has been thought, said, and written about the sociology of the military.

During the last few years, there has been growing medical interest in the problem of obesity.

Vorwort Vorgesetze, Kollegen, Mitarbeiter – Menschen im Arbeitsleben sind essenziell für uns: Wir orientieren uns an ihnen, sie geben uns Sicherheit, gemeinsam schaffen wir herausragende Leistungen.

This book analyzes the recent development of accounting in Japan from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing specifically on how institutional reality is constructed.

A foundational resource for readers investigating religiously motivated environmentalism, this book provides both a global overview of the subject and a detailed discussion of key figures, concepts, organizations, events, and documents.

One current challenge of conducting research from the leadership-as-practice perspective is a practical one: how to capture and analyse the elusive practice of leadership within the web of mundane organising processes.

Faith-based organizations continue to play a significant role in the provision of social work services in many countries but their role within the welfare state is often contested.

Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society.

Christianity Today 2020 Book Award (Award of Merit, Theology/Ethics)Outreach 2020 Recommended Resource of the Year (Theology and Biblical Studies)The question of what makes life worth living is more vital now than ever.

The concept of the imaginary is pervasive within contemporary thought, yet can be a baffling and often controversial term.

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book examines the social construction and representation of 'youth on the move' in the context of the migration process, using El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as a case study to reinterpret the immigration process under the frameworks of coloniality and epistemologies of the South.

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This book analyses the gendered nature of patent law and the knowledge governance system it supports.

Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women's workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of subject-formation, pointing to some of the reasons for the persistence of limiting gender roles and occupational hierarchies that arose during the first 60 years of the 20th century.

This volume examines significant social transformations engendered by the ongoing Syrian conflict in the lives of Syrian Armenians.

This small-group study is based on Steve Harper's book Five Marks of a Methodist.

A critical examination of the principles and practice of qualitative research is provided in this book which examines the interplay between context and method, making it invaluable for both the experienced and the beginning researcher.

Urban sustainability has become a political and social agenda of global significance, of which real estate is an integral dimension.

In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection.

This volume explores the complexities of governance, law, and politics in India's Scheduled Areas.

Since 1938 and 1941, nutrient intake recommendations have been issued to the public in Canada and the United States, respectively.

A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy.

This book focuses on food policy, and its relationship to public health, as an increasingly important issue in today's society.

This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency.