Sociology and anthropology

This volume presents selected papers from the International Conference on Urban Intelligence and Applications (ICUIA), which took place on May 10-12, 2019 in Wuhan, China.

This book covers methodology of the study for all aspects of human geography.

This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history.

Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja MAller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in several important eighteenth-century periodicals and satirical prints.

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath.

In this book, Professor Kreps presents a first course on the basic models of choice theory that underlie much of economic theory.

Arme, Kranke, Kriminelle, Behinderte oder hilfsbedürftige Familien stellen Kategorien der Betroffenheit von soziale Problemen dar, mit denen jeweils bestimmte Institutionen der Problemarbeit und der sozialen Kontrolle verbunden sind.

Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book puts forward a unique and insightful analysis of "e;neo-avant-garde"e; architecture.

This is a book about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities.

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions.

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Performance appraisal is a key tool for meeting the managerial needs of the modern organization.

This book examines a dramatic rise of nonviolent youth movements on the eve of national elections in Eastern Europe.

A ground-breaking collection applying Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality to the black diasporic experience in Britain.

`Barne's work is remarkable in its attempt to transcend previously held dualisms like causal versus voluntaristic explanations, and to advance a model of social action that can contribute to a possible resolution of the problematic relation between 'structure' and 'agency' - Debasis Giri, Contributions to Indian SociologyIn this penetrating and assured book, one of the leading commentators in the field argues that social theory is moving in the wrong direction in its reflections on human freedom and autonomy.

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Juvenile Delinquency, Eleventh Edition, discusses delinquency as it relates to and emerges from the youth's family, neighborhood, school, peer group, social class, and overall cultural and social environment.

Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World sheds new light on the interrelationship between gender and the nation, focusing on the role of masculinities in various processes of nation-building in the modern world between 1800 and the 1960s.

Serving in the military is often a disruptive event in the lives of those who join, precipitating a reassessment of the service member's ethical sensibilities or, tragically, resulting in lasting moral injury and trauma.

Jean Baudrillard on consumption: `It is not defined by the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the car we drive .

This volume showcases cutting-edge research in the linguistic and discursive study of masculinities, comprising the first significant edited collection on language and masculinities since Johnson and Meinhof's 1997 volume.

What images come to mind when you read the word 'intoxication'?

Marriage, Sexuality, and Gender examines contemporary debates about the meaning and value of marriage.

This book explores the mechanisms and elements of populism to develop new theoretical and methodological approaches.

Every person has the potential to contribute to an organization as long as they have access to the right opportunities and connections, yet it sometimes is all too obvious that the stigma associated with a person's disability can have a negative impact on their ability to develop healthy work relationships with peers and supervisors.

Using empathy around the workplace.

Autoethnography allows researchers to make sense of the 'ethno' - the cultural - by studying their own experiences - the 'auto'.

Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations.

Economic liberalisation associated with globalisation is causing a pervasive growth of economic insecurity experienced all over the world.

 Climate change-related effects and aftermaths of natural disasters, such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, have wreaked havoc on local peoples' lives and livelihoods, especially in impoverished coastal communities.

Extensively revised and updated to serve today's needs for insight and solutions to the most vexing ethical and regulatory problems faced by researchers today, Planning Ethically Responsible Research, Second Edition guides readers through one of the most important aspects of their social or behavioral research: planning ethically responsible research.

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A few years ago, a book of this type and style could not or would not have been written.

Le tissu africain est à la fois parole humaine et parole divine.

Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women's voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories.

Billions of minutes a month are spent globally on social media.

How do contemporary young people construct their sexual identities?

Annette Silvia Gille geht der Frage nach, wie die seit Jahrzehnten populären Jugendzeitschriften „Bravo“ und „Bravo Girl!

Deviancy: The Psychology of Being Different discusses the effects of deviancy on behavior.

Temporality in Qualitative Inquiry explores the relationship between time and qualitative research and unpacks some of the conceptual, methodological, practical, and pragmatic areas of qualitative inquiry related to time and temporality.

This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present.

An essential guide to the basic concepts that comprise the study of sociology with contributions from an international range of leading experts Core Concepts in Sociology is a comprehensive guide to the essential concepts relevant to the current study of the discipline and wider social science.

Combining psychology and spirituality, this practical book considers archetypes from Asian, Middle Eastern and European myths and explains how they can be used in therapeutic practice to help clients achieve personal or clinical goals.

Without energy, there is no well-functioning economy, besides facing social risks.

This book offers an expert perspective on two key phenomena in the development of the information society, namely digital inclusion and digital exclusion.

For some, socialism is a potent way of achieving economic, political and social transformations in the twenty-first century, while others find the very term socialism outdated.

The effective development of human resources within the organisation is one of the most powerful contributions to the long-term growth and survival of the enterprise.

Das Künstlerbuch "UNAULUTU - Steinchen im Sand" von Frieder Heinze und Olaf Wegewitz nimmt im buchkünstlerischen Schaffen der DDR eine besondere Stellung ein: Die 130 Exemplare des Werkes sind mit hohem finanziellen und organisatorischen Aufwand in Handarbeit gefertigt und 1986 bei Reclam Leipzig veröffentlicht worden.