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Erna Dosch untersucht aus der Genderperspektive anhand von 30 biografisch-narrativen Interviews mit häuslich pflegenden (Ehe-)Partnern und Söhnen, wie diese in dem weiblich konnotierten Bereich der Pflege ihre Pflegearrangements gestalten. Hieraus resultiert eine...
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Springer VS
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2018-06-14
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Vechtaer Beiträge zur Gerontologie
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‘I can’t believe I bought a toaster with no bagel setting!’ ‘Irritating… just done a massive pre-cleaner clean, and they’ve just texted to say they’re not coming!’ Have you ever had to buy cava because the shop's out of champagne? Ever put too much wasabi on your sushi?...
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Summersdale
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2018-05-10
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This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest. It goes on to show how such values were then adapted as part of the imperial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-28
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This resource supports evidence-informed approaches to improving the cultural competence of health service delivery. By reviewing the evidence from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US, it provides readers with a clear and systematic overview of the interventions...
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Springer
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2017-10-13
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This book re-evaluates New Left and Marxist texts from the 1980s, in order to explore problems facing the study of ‘class’ which have emerged within Australian and international theories. The author contrasts the popular ideas of Connell, Bourdieu and the ‘Death of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-21
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This volume engages with the renewed focus on various forms of persisting and new marginalities in globalising India. The persistence of hunger in pockets of India; forcible land acquisitions and their impact on deprived sections of society; the effects of urban...
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Springer
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2017-09-20
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'A persuasive and highly readable account of how rising inequality, and not just absolute poverty, is undermining our politics, social cohesion, long-term prosperity and general well-being' Barack ObamaInequality makes us feel poor and act poor, even when we're not. It...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2017-05-25
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This book addresses the recent marginalisation of class theory in youth sociology. The authors argue for the importance of reinstating class analysis as central to understanding young people’s lives in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Their analysis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-05-23
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This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics. Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms. The...
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Springer
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2017-05-19
Collection :
Critical Studies of Education
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This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in detail how status is inherited and maintained within families; the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of social decline start within families. The author also examines how rigidly status...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-09
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Powerfully synthesizing major currents in the field, this book addresses the issue of inequality across American politics and society, using race as a lens for the exploration of major themes in American history. It considers the concept of race as a social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-12-16
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Oliver Winkler zeichnet in dieser Studie nach, wie sich die Durchlässigkeit im deutschen Bildungssystem entwickelt hat. Anhand von Daten des Nationalen Bildungspanels untersucht er, wie sich der Einfluss der sozialen Herkunft beim vorzeitigen Abgang vom Gymnasium und...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-29
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Life Course Research
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This book discusses the multifaceted concept of disability in the context of India. Through analyses of theoretical propositions of disability in South Asia and empirical explorations of the lives of persons with disabilities in India, this book not only brings to the...
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Springer
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2016-09-13
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Dynamics of Asian Development
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Shortlisted for the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017Against long-standing characterizations of British Asians as ‘flying the flag’ for traditional life, this book identifies an increase in marital breakdown and argues to reorient debates about conservatism and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-11
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Christoph Homuth legt die bisher umfassendste Evaluationsstudie zu den Auswirkungen der G8-Reform vor, um belastbare Aussagen über die Ergebnisse einer der kontroversesten Bildungsreformen treffen zu können. Er zeigt, dass - anders als oft von den medial präsenten...
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Springer VS
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2016-08-16
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This book is the first comprehensive account of how Anglo-American popular music transformed Italian cultural life. Drawing on neglected archival materials, the author explores the rise of new musical tastes and social divisions in late twentieth century Italy.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-16
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Damian Hedinger untersucht die Frage der Gesundheitsversorgung am Lebensende, die durch die Demografische Alterung und eine weiterhin steigende Lebenserwartung immer zentraler wird. Er geht sowohl aus wissenschaftlicher als auch aus gesellschaftspolitischer Perspektive...
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Springer VS
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2016-08-02
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Sophie Hahn analyses downward mobility in educational attainment from a sociological life-course perspective. In order to avoid status loss children of higher-educated parents have to persevere through long educational careers. How large is their risk of...
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Springer VS
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2016-07-27
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Life Course Research
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Sabine Gerhartz-Reiter recherchiert, warum bekannte Einflussfaktoren aus dem schulischen und außerschulischen Feld von so unterschiedlicher Relevanz für individuelle Bildungsverläufe sind und wieso manchen Schülerinnen bzw. Schülern trotz vieler Risikofaktoren ein...
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Springer VS
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2016-07-25
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Who exactly are the middle classes in India? What role do they play in contemporary Indian politics and society, and what are their historical and cultural moorings? The authors of this volume argue that the middle class has largely been understood as an ‘income/...
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OUP India
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2016-06-16
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