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An immersive and authoritative history of the school choice movement--from its idealistic roots among Black activists to the costly unaccountable programs of today.
Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education and demands to desegregate public schools, race and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book offers a multidisciplinary insight into the significance of infrastructural change for global orders. While infrastructures form the material basis of our everyday lives and their design and use determine the further development of our societies,...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-05-22
Collection :
RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft
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Dieser Open-Access-Band befasst sich mit dem Zusammenhang von Grundbildung und sozialer Ungleichheit. Er bietet einen Überblick über theoretische, konzeptionelle und methodische Grundlagen und thematisiert habituelle Einflüsse sowie konkrete Praktiken im Bereich der...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-05-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird das Zusammenspiel von Demokratie, Digitalisierung und Partizipation untersucht und hinterfragt, wie das Internet als Plattform zur politischen Mobilisierung dienen kann. Die Digitalisierung hat neue Wege eröffnet, politische...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-03-28
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A powerful argument for a class-based approach to college admissions that “shows where we have gone wrong so far, and how we will get to justice, equality, and even diversity for real” (John McWhorter) For decades America’s colleges and...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2025-03-25
Format(s) : ePub
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Die Vorstellung von sozialer Gerechtigkeit hat sich als normative Grundlage in Gesellschaften westlicher Moderne verbreitet. Damit einher geht die Erwartung, dass der Staat sozialen Ungleichheiten – somit auch Geschlechterungleichheiten – politisch entgegengewirkt....
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-02-12
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This open access book explores the link between African languages, decolonisation and transformation. It has its origins in a survey of students and instructors at higher education institutions both inside and outside Africa, and takes as a starting point the 2015...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-02-06
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This book analyzes poverty and the mechanisms that lead to it in ethnic rural areas in China using macro- and micro-examinations as well as field studies. It identifies new poverty situations and poverty alleviation in China’s ethnic areas and discusses the shortcomings...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-12-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Eine Nachhaltige Entwicklung ist unabdingbar für die weitere Entwicklung menschlicher Gesellschaften. Die Sustainable Development Goals der Vereinten Nationen sind mit dem Anspruch angetreten, diese sicherzustellen. Diese wurden auch mit einem weitreichenden Set an...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2024-11-22
Collection :
RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft
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The inclusion of marginalised groups is a problem of modern democratic societies as representative democracy is built on principles which favour the majority. Around the world, some sections of society are silenced and actively excluded--including women, migrants,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-07-17
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political power.
Elite networks are informal social networks between politicians in power and top executives of politically connected firms where personal ties and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In the pandemic, the state in Germany reacts in lockdown with restrictions within the private sphere of a shutdown of the leisure and cultural sphere, while the work contexts are only peripherally affected. Out of this crisis, new techniques of leadership are...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2024-03-30
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This edited collection considers the task of teaching Shakespeare in general education college courses, a task which is often considered obligatory, perfunctory, and ancillary to a professor’s primary goals of research and upper-level teaching. The contributors apply a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-02-22
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics today, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. Inequality is America’s biggest problem. Unions are the...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2024-02-13
Format(s) : ePub
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This book focuses on the discourse of de-globalisation in Malaysia by looking at the implications of this process politically, economically, socially, and environmentally.
The rise of right-wing political parties and a decline in global economic interdependence...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-01-29
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This is an open access book. International Conference on Law, Governance and Social Justice is organized by Faculty of Law, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman.The conference provides a forum for scholars, researchers and prationers to share their ideas, results of researchs...
Editeur : Atlantis Press
Parution : 2023-12-21
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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Social mobility has long been one of the central topics of sociology. It has been the subject of major theoretical contributions from the earliest generations of scholars, as well as being of persistent political interest and concern.Social mobility is frequently used...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-11-28
Collection :
Key Concepts
Format(s) : ePub
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Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, but also a topic which has fascinated, amused, incensed and galvanized the general public. But what exactly is a ‘class’? How do sociologists study and measure it, and how...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-11-28
Collection :
Key Concepts
Format(s) : ePub
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This book analyzes climate change from a societal risk perspective, considering IPCC data, harm reduction, and global impact. Climate change is a globalised agent of social disruption whose impacts will worsen societal inequities and inequalities around the world. For...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-11-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Architecture has played a very important role in colonization of the society and the earth, and today we have the urgent task to crack the theory and practice of this same Architecture. We can achieve this only by working collectively towards reframing concepts that has...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-09-27
Collection :
Sustainable Development Goals Series
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