Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in the country.
Though often associated with foreigners and refugees, many Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the founding of the country.
This English translation of Gebser's major work, Ursprung und Gegenwart (Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlag, 1966), offers certain fundamental insights which should be beneficial to any sensitive scientist and makes it available to the English-speaking world for the recognition it deserves.
Lifestyle Society offers a compelling exploration of how lifestyles have become the central organizing principle of contemporary social life, reshaping traditional understandings of class, identity, and social differentiation.
"e;The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists.
This book examines the implementation of immigration policy in Mexico through an ethnographic and relational lens, focusing on the subjectivities of state officials.
This tried and tested book provides practical guidance with specific writing samples and guidelines for producing strong reports in criminal justice-related professions.
This fully revised and expanded second edition of Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies presents an informed and critical commentary on a range of key issues related to children and childhood, from birth to eighteen years.
This fully revised and expanded second edition of Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies presents an informed and critical commentary on a range of key issues related to children and childhood, from birth to eighteen years.
In Subtle Webs, Jose Eos Trinidad reveals how organizations outside schools have created an invisible infrastructure not only to affect local school districts but also to shape US education.
In Subtle Webs, Jose Eos Trinidad reveals how organizations outside schools have created an invisible infrastructure not only to affect local school districts but also to shape US education.
The experimental family planning program begun in 1963 in Taichung, the provincial capital of Taiwan, was the largest intensive program of its kind ever to be carried out for a sizable concentrated population.
For poets, priests, and politicians and especially ordinary Germans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large.
First published in 1984, The Social Life of Britain's Five-Year-Olds follows the first five years of life of 13,135 children in England, Scotland, and Wales, who were born during the week 5-11 April 1970.
Transcending geographic and cultural lines, From Toussaint to Tupac is an ambitious collection of essays exploring black internationalism and its implications for a black consciousness.
In this important study of women with alcoholic husbands, Asher vividly describes the process of coming to terms with a profound crisis in one''s private life.
In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings.
In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America.
Lydia Cabrera (19001991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent.
In this masterful work of family-focused sociology, Lois Benjamin considers the lives of Pennie and Roscoe James and their children, revealing how a large, close-knit African American family with humble origins in a small town of North Carolina is shaped by the contours of its religious and ethical value system.
Relationality is a core principle of Indigenous studies, yet there is relatively little work that assesses what building relations looks like in practice, especially in the messy context of Native nations' governance.
When Bombay changed its name to Mumbai in 1995, it was the culmination of a long process that transformed India's primary symbol of modernity and cultural diversity into a site of intense ethnic conflict and violent nationalism.
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of how the European Union defines, practises, operationalises, and is perceived through science diplomacy in the Middle East.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Bekämpfung "sozialer Ungleichheit" ist eine bedeutende gesellschaftliche Aufgabe und Gegenstand politischer Diskussionen und Bemühungen in Deutschland.
