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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/...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2016-06-16
Format(s) : ePub
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This volume informs the reader about new teachers in urban underserved schools and their development as teachers for social equity. The accounts of five novice teachers who grew up outside the communities in which they teach lead to chapters that contain advice for...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-03-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Dass derzeit zu wenig Wohnungen gebaut werden, dass das Angebot – trotz anziehender Baugenehmigungen – nicht die Nachfrage deckt, dass die Mieten in manchen Städten – nach 10 ruhigen Jahren – anziehen und dass Haushalte mit geringem Einkommen – vor allem beim...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2016-02-08
Collection :
Stadtforschung aktuell
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Dieses essential klärt den vielschichtigen Begriff der Sicherheit, untersucht die Verantwortung für die Schaffung von Sicherheit und diskutiert, ob es umfassende Sicherheit überhaupt geben kann. Sicherheit ist ein Grundbedürfnis des Menschen – und gleichzeitig ist...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2016-01-04
Collection :
essentials
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Andreas Haupt untersucht, warum Arbeitnehmer in unterschiedlichen Berufen unterschiedliche Löhne beziehen und warum sich die Lohnungleichheit in Deutschland immer mehr erhöht. Er analysiert die Wirkung berufsspezifischer Marktzutrittsbarrieren, die sich in...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2015-10-22
Format(s) : PDF
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This book investigates the interface of ethnicity with occupation, empirically observed in luxury international hotels in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It employs the two main disciplines of anthropology and sociology in order to understand the root causes and meaning of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-07-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Kerstin Botsch untersucht, inwiefern die Öffnung der Bundeswehr für Frauen und Homosexuelle zu Beginn der 2000er Jahre eine Veränderung in der „Männerbastion“ Militär bewirkt hat. Auf der Grundlage von Gruppendiskussionen und Einzelinterviews belegt sie, wie Soldatinnen...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2015-07-06
Format(s) : PDF
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This book examines the effects of Europeanization on two cross-border states, Italy and Slovenia, in the period between 1990 and 2012. It does so by means of an analysis of specific funding programmes such as Interreg and Phare. The book explores whether...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-05-07
Collection :
United Nations University Series on Regionalism
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In an era in which class divisions are becoming starker than ever, some individuals are choosing to marry across class. The Power of the Past traces the lives of a subset of these individuals - highly-educated adults who married a partner raised in a class different...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-01-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Despite the fact that the globalization process tends to reinforce existing inequality structures and generate new areas of inequality on multiple levels, systematic analyses on this very important field remain scarce. Hence, this book approaches the complex question of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-12-03
Format(s) : ePub
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the People?s Republic of China. This timely book examines the emerging structures of class and social stratification: how they are interpreted...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-13
Collection :
China Today
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?Maximilian Vollmer untersucht anhand sechs explorativer Fallstudien, wie die Mobilisierung von Immobilieneigentümern auch in immobilienwirtschaftlich schwierigen Lagen gelingen kann. Vor dem Hintergrund heterogener Eigentümerstrukturen und einer zunehmenden...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2014-09-24
Collection :
Quartiersforschung
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This book argues that interior architects have a responsibility to practice their profession in collaborative ways that address the needs of communities and of to be the agents of social justice and cultural heritage. The book is divided into three sections, based on...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-04-30
Format(s) : ePub
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Politikwissenschaftliche Pluralismustheorien betrachten Gemeinwohl als Resultat politischer Kompromisse. Solche prozeduralen Konzepte finden sich auch in der Rechtswissenschaft, wenn es darum geht, allgemeinen und schwachen Interessengruppen besondere Klagerechte...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2014-01-03
Collection :
essentials
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This book situates ethnic heterogeneity in the larger discussion of the welfare state and its redistributive outcomes, poverty and inequality. By using comprehensive, longitudinal data covering 1980 to 2010 from 17 high income countries, this analysis helps achieve a...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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The Value of the Humanities provides a critical account of the principal arguments used to defend the value of the Humanities.The claims considered are: that the Humanities study the meaning-making practices of culture, and bring to their work a distinctive...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-10-04
Format(s) : PDF
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This book examines the notion of children having full citizenship. It does so historically, through intellectual discourse, beliefs, and moral and ideological positions on children. It looks at the status and extent of knowledge of the position of children covering...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-04-15
Format(s) : ePub
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Did you know that where you were born may affect when you die?
The Population of the UK explains how geography - in the widest sense - makes a difference to life outcomes. It explains the geographical differences in key socio-economic variables - like education, health,...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2012-11-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A New York Times bestseller America's unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world's greatest consumer economy. It was...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2012-07-31
Format(s) : ePub
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