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An “indispensable” (Nation) examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you...
Editeur : Bold Type Books
Parution : 2021-01-26
Format(s) : ePub
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This book is a detailed account of how hierarchy has been maintained historically by the Nepali state, affirming the uniqueness of a caste-based social order by bringing outsiders, especially ethnic groups and religious minorities, into the caste fold. Focusing on the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-01-05
Collection :
Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs.Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2020-09-08
Format(s) : ePub
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This book explores the foundations and potential of a theory of need-based distributive justice, supported by experimental evidence. The core idea is that need-based distributive justice may have some legitimatory advantages over other important principles of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-04-29
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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There are two narratives of the American class structure: one of a country with boundless opportunities for upward mobility and one of a rigid class system in which the rich stay rich while the poor stay poor. Each of these narratives holds some truth, but each...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-03-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book explores navigations of contemporary masculinities amongst young, advantaged men living in Australia and Germany. Taking an intersectional approach, the book argues that more open, egalitarian forms of masculinity, such as caring masculinities,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-02-25
Collection :
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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?Unter dem Begriff der „Devianz“ können Verhaltensweisen oder Einstellungen verstanden werden, welche von allgemein anerkannten, normativen Erwartungen einer Gesellschaft abweichen und entsprechend einer informellen oder formellen Sanktionsdrohung unterliegen. Die...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2020-01-03
Collection :
Kriminalität und Gesellschaft
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In an unprecedented exploration of space and power in rural Xinjiang, a Chinese region home to the Muslim population of the Uyghurs, this book adopts a grounded theory approach and a trans-ethnic perspective into the complex and sensitive topic of land issues and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-12-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Gewalthafte Ereignisse schaffen Atmosphären von Bedrohung und Unsicherheit. Unter den Rufen nach politischen und justiziellen Lösungen wird die Sicherheitsfrage mit der Bestimmung und Bearbeitung vermeintlich spezifischer sozialer Gruppen beantwortet: die islamistischen...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2019-07-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions.
Graham Scambler extends his analysis beyond common social interactionist understandings of stigma by linking experiences to the larger social...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2019-07-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Steffen Rudolph widmet sich in seiner Studie der empirischen Untersuchung digitaler Ungleichheiten mit dem besonderen Fokus auf Partizipation im Internet. Vor dem Hintergrund einer an Pierre Bourdieu anknüpfenden Perspektive zeigt sich, dass nicht nur der Zugang,...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2019-06-24
Format(s) : PDF
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Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people’s lives. Examining social class, gender, ethnicity, disability and migration status, it...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-05-29
Format(s) : ePub
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This book describes the experience of joblessness and unemployment in contemporary Poland. It does so by combining qualitative and quantitative data from a special project conducted in Poland after the Great Recession and the long-term Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN) to...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-05-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Yana Kavrakova fokussiert den Misserfolg der EU-Governance im bislang unerforschten Feld der Roma-Politik und deckt dabei Inkonsistenzen, Widersprüche und kontraproduktive Wirkungen auf. Die Autorin analysiert ihr Zustandekommen im Wechselspiel zwischen...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2019-04-29
Format(s) : PDF
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Danielle Gluns examines how urban housing governance reacts to the onset of urban growth in an internationally comparative perspective. The study is based on in-depth case studies of Washington, D.C., which is an example of primarily market-based interactions, and...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2019-03-07
Collection :
Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft
Format(s) : PDF
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This book presents a reconstruction of the history of well-being on the European continent with special attention to the European Union, as people from Europe have a history of a long-term march towards well-being. It discusses ancient civilizations on the European...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-12-14
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book critically examines how race is constructed globally to intersect gender, class, sexuality, language ability and religion and answers some very important questions, like how does anti-black racism manifest itself within various contexts? Chapters in the book...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-12-04
Collection :
Critical Studies of Education
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?Im Fokus des Bandes stehen die Beziehungen zwischen Ungleichheitskonflikten und Europäisierungsprozessen. Wie und wann tragen Ungleichheitskonflikte zum Wandel europäischer Ordnungen bei? Inwieweit werden sie durch europäische Rechtsetzung, Staatstätigkeit oder...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2018-10-26
Collection :
Europa – Politik – Gesellschaft
Format(s) : PDF
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The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback. A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live...
Editeur : Bold Type Books
Parution : 2018-09-11
Format(s) : ePub
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Journalist Beth Macy's definitive account of America's opioid epidemic "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" (New York Times) -- from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the...
Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2018-08-07
Format(s) : ePub
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