Sociology and anthropology

This book provides an alternative agenda to deepen understanding of grassroots governance and interaction in Taiwan.

Making something measurable means being able to control itSustainability is a term with a wealth of meanings and many possible misinterpretations.

This book uses Pierre Bourdieu's cultural capital model as a theoretical framework for exploring how students in Beijing and Hong Kong perceive parental influences-their parents' cultural capital and support-on their participation in musical activities.

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This book demonstrates the use of dance/movement therapy to directly counteract social injustices and promote healing in international settings.

This book examines the construction of the EU's political identity (or identities), variations in its strength, and the nature of its content.

This book adopts collaborative autoethnography as its methodology, and presents the collective witnessing of experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic within the higher education sector.

This book approaches grassroots governance and democracy from a sociological perspective, focusing on the interaction between the community and the State.

This book provides an overview of recent trends and developments in the field of English language education.

The book is about Ubuntu-loosely translated-I am because we are-or, our common humanity in Zulu, about Unity, and global solidarity.

Tracing the evolution of Chinese Sociology from the late 1970s to the present day, the book aims to record the path of reconstruction, localization, change, and reform of Chinese Sociology through interviews with 40 Chinese top sociologists such as Su Guoxun, Zhou Xiaohong, Bian Yanjie, Zhao Dingxin, Zhou Xueguang et al.

This book brings the tools and ideas of Anglo-American analytic philosophy to bear on how we think about issues of contemporary significance, in a way that is accessible to a broad audience.

This book explores Ireland's Marriage Bar, examining its impact on women's lives and the predominantly feminised nursing profession.

This book examines the relevance of global strategic perspective, as international competition continues to intensify & gain momentum, and management of human resource remains  a challenge in contemporary corporate scenario.

This book focuses on product design which is evolving conceptually and practically with advances in technology.

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This book bridges knowledge gaps by exploring transformative approaches for sustainable development to ensure high-quality and positive education and increase educators' and learners' well-being.

This book, situated at the intersection of humanistic management, aesthetics, and artificial intelligence (AI) studies, aims to explore how the emergence of AI-driven solutions reshapes managerial paradigms, alters human experiences within organisations, and redefines the values guiding leadership, communication, and organisational development.

This volume presents a global study of the economic and cultural global systems in which smoking materials, practices and ideas circulate, intertwine, and transform.

This book addresses key issues in the context of the national policy of educating children accused of crimes in Juvenile Courts in Australia.

This book deals with the contemporary subject of perception of risk and its influence on accidents and disasters.

One of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet.

   The dependency on animal biotechnology in livestock industries has been increased in the recent past.

This book provides a summary of the main concepts involved in environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions and a consistent sequence of environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions.

This book examines how Turkey's ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan produces and employs necropolitical narratives in order to perpetuate its authoritarian rule.

This book presents a new step farther into the twenty-first century, for the first time truly combining a comprehensive global data analysis with social policy theory development.

Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan from a regional variation perspective by municipality along the ancient Tokaido, which comprises 15 provinces, and seven prefectures today.

This book addresses key issues in the context of the national policy of educating children accused of crimes in Juvenile Courts in Australia.

This is a collection of essays marking the 30th anniversary of the historic Cold War's formal conclusion in 1991.

The monograph examines the sources of Polish social divisions.

"e;This book is an important analysis of how police themselves define and respond to police corruption and wrongdoing.

This book provides a collection of key papers about migration, focusing on multiple aspects of international and internal migration in various times and places.

This book examines and reports the findings regarding the level of satisfaction by students, teachers and parents with an innovative senior secondary Religious Education curriculum 'Religion, Meaning and Life' (RML).

Through a socio-legal lens, this book focuses on the feasibility of implementing board gender diversity rules in Sri Lanka.

The book addresses the gaps in the body of knowledge from two grounds.

This book primarily examines human-animal and human-plant interactions in Asian forests (Southeast Asia and Japan) and inland waters (China).

This book identifies and analyzes the significant regional differences in suicide rates of various age groups and different sexes among Chinese rural residents.

Do good and evil exist?

This volume in the Epigenetics and Human Health series explores the intersection of diet and epigenetic modifications.

The book explores the evolving relationships between parents and children, the significance of the Jewish school in their lives, how young people think about religious practices, and their lives in the UK.

This book examines dominant discourses in values education globally.

This book addresses quantitative assessment of forest governance and how local-level institutions work in governing efficient ways of forest resource management so that sustainable development of forest is ensured.

This book proposes a new method for working on the complex and polysemic notion of interculturality, aimed at scholars, students and educators who have an interest in enriching and challenging their own take on this somewhat controversial scientific notion.

This edited collection is the first part of a two-volume set.

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact.

In Family and Civilization, the distinguished Harvard sociologist Carle Zimmerman demonstrates the close and causal connections between the rise and fall of different types of families and the rise and fall of civilizations, particularly ancient Greece and Rome, medieval and modern Europe, and the United States.