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This open access book explores the macro-social influences on loneliness in later life, emphasizing how societal structures, cultural contexts, and broader social transformations shape the experience of loneliness. Dedicated to the social construction of loneliness and...
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Springer
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2025-07-31
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This book uses the contrast between the theoretical positions of the two Max Webers - that is the Weber of the Protestant Ethic thesis and the Weber of the theory of action – as the basis for developing a theory of agency and an associated dynamic interpretive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This book argues for, while critically engaging with, the proposition that leisure is a human right. The structure of the book sets this proposition within historical and international legal human rights contexts, particularly exploring the human rights/legal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-07-31
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This book is open access.The idea that automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics might lead to a utopian future for humanity is a powerful one both in mainstream and radical discourse. The paradigm of ‘Industry 4.0’ where digital manufacturing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This book investigates the unintended and deadly consequences of criminal justice reforms through observing the effects of prison depopulation sentencing reform on county jails.This mixed-methods case study explores how California’s sentencing reform efforts in...
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Springer
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2025-07-31
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Ziel des Bandes ist es, der im letzten Jahr veröffentlichten Skizze einer Theorie der Relation (2022) eine kompakte Nachschrift zur Seite zu stellen, die dem interessierten Publikum, insbesondere aber Sozialwissenschaftlern und Sozialwissenschaftlerinnen sowie...
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Springer VS
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2025-07-31
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Was passiert, wenn eine Medienfigur plötzlich anders handelt, als erwartet? Um der Frage nachzugehen, wie solche Erwartungsenttäuschungen entstehen und wie Rezipient*innen auf diese Erfahrungen reagieren, entwickelt Inga Korte im Rahmen dieser Arbeit ein...
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Springer VS
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2025-07-30
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Since the 1970s, sentencing in many countries has evolved from a system in which courts enjoyed wide discretion to one where courts must follow or at least consider guideline recommendations. This movement towards greater structure has also led to the creation of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-30
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This Open Access book provides detailed practical guidance on how to do a Delphi study to establish a consensus across the broad range of social, psychological, health and environmental sciences. The book informs the design of Delphi studies by drawing on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-29
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This book offers an invaluable study on class composition in Leipzig, the city renowned for its pivotal role in the downfall of state socialism. It describes how class changes with the city’s neoliberal restructuring, that has at its core the commodification...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-29
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This book looks at deep-seated elements of racism in Indigenous-settler relations through detailed analyses of the October 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia and its outcome---and discusses what might come next. The Voice to Parliament referendum proposed...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-29
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This book offers a critical examination of the global diffusion and local reception of disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs through the lens of Indonesia’s unique challenges and successes.This book critically examines the global diffusion and local reception of...
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Springer
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2025-07-29
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Dieses Buch versammelt vielfältige Beiträge zum Verständnis gegenwärtiger Kultur(en), zur Gestaltung (pop-)kultureller Religionspraxis und zur Konturierung einer (POP-)Theologie des 21. Jahrhunderts. Entstanden sind sie anlässlich der gleichnamigen Jahrestagung der...
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Springer VS
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2025-07-29
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Talking with God examines the neuroscience of belief and belief change related to prayer. It puts forward a model based on neuroscience and theology to understand how God speaks to us individually and inspires us through the human capacities for language and...
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Springer
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2025-07-29
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This study explores the relationship between the sacred and the virtual, emphasizing the sacred as a divinely dependent, consecrated space activated through ritual, mediating between the profane and the holy. The central argument is that the virtual is fundamentally...
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Springer
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2025-07-29
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Dass die Welt verletzt, womöglich niemals mehr repariert werden kann, und dass die Menschen verletzlich sind, auch arg verletzend sein können – all dies ist in den Kulturen des POP und des Populären eingehend zur Sprache gebracht worden. Und weiter...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-07-28
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This book, based on in-depth field interviews, takes a fresh look at the phenomenon of diaspora communities exercising ‘soft power’ in the context of the Indian American diaspora in the US. By using an interdisciplinary approach, it marks a departure from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-28
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Die Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse (WDA) analysiert gesellschaftliche Wissensverhältnisse und Wissenspolitiken. Sie entwirft dazu theoretische und methodologische Grundlagen sowie Vorschläge zur methodischen Umsetzung. Das beinhaltet kein standardisiertes...
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Springer VS
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2025-07-28
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Raising a Nation offers a new framework for thinking about a comprehensive, inclusive child care system: one that supports families in all their diversity, whether they want to utilize a licensed child care program, family member, or have a parent as the primary child...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-28
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The demographic change presents new, primarily financial challenges for the state, politics, and the economy (level of power and domination relations). Aging (doing age) should be understood as a social construct that primarily offers self-empowerment opportunities for...
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Springer
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2025-07-28
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