Sociology and anthropology

In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M.

The idea that an external force can enter an individual and possess their body is prevalent in most cultures across the globe and throughout history.

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.

The evolution and spread of Protestantism has been shaped largely by its focus on reading and interpreting the Bible.

Why would a researcher be willing to subject themselves to scorching heat, frigid conditions, or swarms of Anopheles mosquitoes?

The Handbook examines contemporary trends and issues in the formation of families over the different stages of the life cycle and how they interact with family-oriented social policies of modern welfare states, mainly in the OECD countries of Western Europe, East Asia and the U.

Marriage is the novel's traditional subject matter.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Sozialpädagogik, Note: 1,3, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Fokus dieser Arbeit soll auf der Familie als Ganzes liegen und die Fragestellung demnach lauten: „Wird das familiale Zusammenleben durch die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf wirklich positiv beeinflusst und die Chancengleichheit im Zuge dessen gefördert?

The Handbook examines contemporary trends and issues in the formation of families over the different stages of the life cycle and how they interact with family-oriented social policies of modern welfare states, mainly in the OECD countries of Western Europe, East Asia and the U.

This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as 'interactive grammar', based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the world.

In many low-income neighborhoods in El Salvador, two groups have significant influence over the public sphere: gangs and evangelical churches.

In many low-income neighborhoods in El Salvador, two groups have significant influence over the public sphere: gangs and evangelical churches.

The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars.

Siblings share a unique relationship: They have known each other longer than anyone else.

Siblings share a unique relationship: They have known each other longer than anyone else.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Arbeit, Ausbildung, Organisation, Note: 1,3, FernUniversität Hagen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit wird zunächst genauer auf den neoinstitutionalistischen Ansatz eingegangen und anschließend näher die strukturelle Angleichung zwischen Organisationen untersucht.

Michelle Fishburne did the unthinkable during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: she motor-homed 12,000 miles all over the United States and sat down with hundreds of people face to face.

Marriage is the novel's traditional subject matter.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Politik, Majoritäten, Minoritäten, Note: 1,3, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit befasst sich mit der sozialen Spaltung der Gesellschaft und greift die aktuelle Situation sowie die Entwicklung in Deutschland auf.

The term "e;fundamentalism"e; has its roots in specific forms of American Protestantism that arose around the turn of the twentieth century in reaction to liberalizing and modernizing trends within the church.

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Odenwald ist in der Schönheit seiner Wälder, Höhen, Täler und Hänge ein einzigartiges Gebirge.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Sociology - Relationships and Family, grade: B, Lund University, language: English, abstract: This study explores how single professional women in Shanghai deal with the challenge of negotiating between intergenerational obligations and career development.

The first expert critical treatment of Mormon visual art, featuring over 200 high-quality color illustrationsWinner of the 2024 AML Award for CriticismNearly every major religion has a significant artistic tradition, and religion's relationship with art--sometimes inspirational, sometimes antagonistic, often complex--has generated a substantial body of writing stretching back centuries.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Sonstiges, Note: 3,0, FernUniversität Hagen (Fakultät für Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Allgemeine Soziologie uns Soziologische Theorie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zu den klassischen Fragen der Soziologie zählt die Frage, warum Menschen sich anderen Menschen unterordnen.

The realm of higher education, much like everything else in a global and mobile world, has rapidly altered in the last few decades.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 2,0, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Kulturwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Kultursoziologie(n) des digitalen Kapitalismus.

This book explores the time that we (think we) experience and the concept of time in our beliefs, our knowledge, and our fears.

This book explores the time that we (think we) experience and the concept of time in our beliefs, our knowledge, and our fears.

In Interactive Music Therapy - A Positive Approach, Amelia Oldfield explains how her approach to music therapy sessions establishes a constructive musical dialogue with children that emphasises positive experiences - these establish trust and allow feelings to be expressed through music.

Over the last thirty years, governments across the globe have formalized new relationships with religious communities through their domestic and foreign policies and have variously sought to manage, support, marginalize, and coopt religious forces through them.

Over the last thirty years, governments across the globe have formalized new relationships with religious communities through their domestic and foreign policies and have variously sought to manage, support, marginalize, and coopt religious forces through them.

In Living Together Across Borders, author Lynnette Arnold tells the stories of extended families living stretched between a rural Salvadoran village and the urban locations in the United States where their migrant relatives live.

A classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan.

"e;An excellently rounded introduction by an eminent Shinto scholar.

Japan's Cultural Code Words offers a study of Japanese society through analysis of key terms and concepts that define Japanese attitudes and behaviors.

In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an insightful guide to understanding the unique aspects of Japanese culture.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Beziehungen und Familie, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Erforschung der Frage, warum die Umsetzung des modernen Gleichheitspostulats in Form einer symmetrischen Aufteilung der Haushaltsaufgaben in einer zusammenwohnenden Liebesbeziehung so schwer ist, ist für den Autor dieser Hausarbeit von großem Interesse.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Jura - Zivilrecht / Handelsrecht, Gesellschaftsrecht, Kartellrecht, Wirtschaftsrecht, Note: 1,1, Hochschule Wismar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Lässt sich zwischen der Selbsttötung und der beruflichen Tätigkeit ein direkter Zusammenhang erkennen, ergibt sich die Frage, ob Hinterbliebenenansprüche gegen die gesetzliche Unfallversicherung (GUV) geltend gemacht werden können.

"e;The best book on Bali for the serious visitorHas the freshness of personal experience.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Individuum, Gruppe, Gesellschaft, Note: 1,3, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem wissenschaftssoziologischen Ansatz Bruno Latours im Hinblick auf die Auswirkungen des SARS-CoV-2-Virus (oder auch Corona-Virus) auf Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft.

'Homeland Insecurities' engages with the impact of counterinsurgency, migration, and conflicts arising out of demands for autonomy in Assam, Northeast India.

The realm of higher education, much like everything else in a global and mobile world, has rapidly altered in the last few decades.

Matters of space, spatiality, geography, topography and place have mostly remained neglected in modern scholarship and teaching because in most modern and postmodern literary criticism history and temporality have been dominating discourses.

Ethnographies fatefully rely on chance encounters and mysteriously so such encounters come true.

Cricket has been the single most popular sport in India.

What is education, and who counts as an 'educated person' amidst competing religious, political, and pedagogical ideologies, which have shaped contemporary educational practices and institutions in Nepal?

Successive amendments in the citizenship law in India have spawned distinct regimes of citizenship.

Cricket has been the single most popular sport in India.

What is education, and who counts as an 'educated person' amidst competing religious, political, and pedagogical ideologies, which have shaped contemporary educational practices and institutions in Nepal?

'Homeland Insecurities' engages with the impact of counterinsurgency, migration, and conflicts arising out of demands for autonomy in Assam, Northeast India.