Sociology and anthropology

While interest in the relations of power and identity in food explodes, a hesitancy remains about calling these racial.

Nach dem großen Erfolg des ersten Soul@Work-Kongresses in 2014 war auch die zweite von Katharina Maehrlein und ihrer Initiative "Stark wie Bambus" organisierte Veranstaltung zur Prävention von psychischen Erkrankungen am Arbeitsplatz im Frühjahr 2015 ein großer Erfolg.

First published in 1998, this book is a fully revised and updated edition of Social Work Practice, first published in 1993 as a training manual.

The National Childrens Study (NCS) is planned to be the largest long-term study of environmental and genetic effects on childrens health ever conducted in the United States.

Traditionally social science treated culture as a peripheral issue, but the last twenty years have witnessed a cultural turn throughout the social sciences.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Islamist organizations' conceptions of political order based on a comparative case study of the Shiite Lebanese Hezbollah and the Sunni Palestinian Hamas.

This book explores how leading news media responded to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, showing how journalists regularly framed discussions about post-crisis regulatory reform in ways that reinforced the same market liberal policy paradigm that had ushered in the crisis.

In diesem Buch wird einer qualitative Studie zur intergenerationellen Armutstransmission in Deutschland vorgestellt.

This book explores the relationship between women, the state and democratic politics in Ireland today.

Much has been made of the speed and constancy of modern politics.

No single introductory book has until now captured the range of thought appropriate for scrutinizing the idea of leisure.

In this book, Peter Hartl offers a novel and comprehensive interpretation of David Hume's philosophy of religion focusing on various notions of 'true religion' in Hume's overall philosophy and how these ideas relate to various early modern positions on religion, society and philosophy.

The growth of technology allows us to imagine entirely new ways of committing, combating and thinking about criminality, criminals, police, courts, victims and citizens.

As the new administration moved beyond its first year in office, Obama's politics of hope increasingly has been transformed into a politics of accommodation.

In this second edition of his classic work, Joel Savishinsky expands and updates his highly acclaimed study of mobility and stress in a sub-Arctic community of Hare Indians.

This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways.

How much does art provide escape from everyday life, and how much does it aid in controlling life?

Delivering a great employee experience is crucial, but how can organizations create an experience that enables their teams to unlock their potential and thrive?

When data consist of grouped observations or clusters, and there is a risk that measurements within the same group are not independent, group-specific random effects can be added to a regression model in order to account for such within-group associations.

Ageing is a complex, time-related biological phenomenon that is genetically determined and environmentally modulated.

Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional psychoanalytic thinking to recognise the foundational character of ethical values.

The Royal Navy and the Slavers, first published in 1969, examines not only the Royal Navy's 60-year campaign to eradicate slavery, but also the British Government's diplomatic pressure on other countries to discontinue the slave trade.

The philosopher Michael Dummett was one of the sharpest and most prominent commentators and campaigners for the fair treatment of immigrants and refugees in Britain and Europe.

Humor at its best is a somewhat fluid and transitory element, but most books about it are illustrated with hardened old jokes from the comic papers, or classic witticisms jerked out of their context.

Women in Behavior Science is a unique text that showcases the perspectives, stories, and lessons of notable female behavior scientists at all stages of their careers, with relevance for the field's many women pursuing careers in academia today.

This study examines findings from a 4-year-long ethnography of communication among a research university's community of scientists and engineers working in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Providing a sweeping, archaeologically grounded view of human history, Justin Jennings explores the origins, endurance, and elasticity of ideas about fairness and how these ideas have shaped the development of societies at critical moments over the last 20,000 years.

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A BBC Arts & The Reading Agency's Big Sporting Read selection'Warm, sad and funny.

What exactly is hope and how does it influence our decisions?

Artificial intelligence is changing the world of work.

Discusses the importance and development of analytical sociology, emphasizing the centrality of mechanisms in explaining social life.

This book examines the consequences of educational segregation from the perspective of social cohesion.

The constantly changing circumstances of rural life in sub-Saharan Africa have brought with them both successes and failures.

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A hands-on guide to using R to carry out key statistical practices in educational and behavioral sciences research Computing has become an essential part of the day-to-day practice of statistical work, broadening the types of questions that can now be addressed by research scientists applying newly derived data analytic techniques.

An examination of race and political/cultural/religious movements in the West in the context of transatlantic debates on modernity.

Meet the indispensable people who can bring your organization to that crucial next level.

A vast and complicated array of subject matter is subjected to analysis, comment, and speculation by fifteen contributors representing three separate but contiguous disciplines.

Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling serves as a minimally technical overview of multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM) for applied researchers and advanced graduate students in the social sciences.

Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized.

L’insecte, ce nouvel aliment facteur de conflits entre consommateurs et institutions.

The actions social workers take are aimed at helping people, communities, and societies attain a sense of mastery, become or remain competent, and achieve or retain a sense of well-being.