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Nazim Diehl untersucht das Image von Versicherungsunternehmen und Versuche der Branche, darauf Einfluss zu nehmen. Ereignisse wie die Riester-Renten-Debatte und die Finanzkrise 2008 haben ihren Teil dazu beigetragen, dass das Bild von Versicherern in der Öffentlichkeit...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-10
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This book explores the journey of young people through a Secure Training Centre and, more generally, the criminal justice system in the UK. It examines the extent to which young people have been failed by the system at every stage of their lives, with incarceration used...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-10
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In the context of ageing populations, increasing participation of women in the labour market, growing marketisation of care provision, and, most importantly, global inequalities, racialised care workers have come to fulfil a key role within older-age care in western...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-10
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Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
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Eight years after the Arab Spring there is still much debate over the link between Internet technology and protest against authoritarian regimes. While the debate has advanced beyond the simple question of whether the Internet is a tool of liberation or one of...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-10
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This book offers a sociological exploration of street children in India and what pulls and pushes them into delinquency, at a time when the government of India is contemplating strengthening its juvenile justice system. It draws on in-depth, qualitative research carried...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-09
Collection :
Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
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This book is about the business of distribution, around which the international film business revolves. Considering sales agents and distributors as primary gatekeepers, the book examines the networks in which they operate, how they operate, how their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-09
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In Why Do People Sing? Paddy Scannell explores some of the mysteries at the heart of vocal communication. What explains the communicative musicality of the voices between parent and child as a baby learns to talk? Can readers of fiction hear the voices of authors and...
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Polity
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2019-07-09
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For many years, the history of British Sociology has been a neglected area of study among sociologists. In more recent times, there are signs of a growing curiosity among British sociologists about their subject’s origins and development. This collection sets out both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-09
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This book is a fascinating, wide-reaching interdisciplinary examination of urbanism in the context of humanities and social sciences research, comprising cutting-edge theoretical and empirical investigations of urban livability and sustainability. Urban livability is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-09
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From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist...
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Polity
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2019-07-09
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Karrieren in der Wissenschaft gelten als nur schwer planbar. Manuela Tischler beleuchtet die Ressourcen und Rahmenbedingungen, die den Nachwuchswissenschaftlern dabei helfen, mit der Unsicherheit auf dem wissenschaftlichen Qualifizierungsweg umzugehen. Ein zentraler...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-08
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Social work educators (SWEs) are doers, thinkers, go-getters, troublemakers, movers, and shakers. In their efforts to convert difficult challenges into positive realities, they live through unique experiences and possess knowledge of lifespan development that qualifies...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-08
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This insightful volume examines key research questions concerning police decision to arrest as well as police-led diversion. The authors critically evaluate the tentative answers that empirical evidence provides to those questions, and suggest areas for future...
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Springer
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2019-07-06
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This authoritative, state-of-the-art reference work builds on its first edition to provide a cutting-edge systematic review of the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality. Studying 25 different national contexts drawn from every inhabited...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-05
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Der Wohlfahrtstaat kann die Arbeitsmarktinklusion von Menschen mit Behinderungen fördern, aber die Entscheidung über die Beschäftigung liegt bei der Wirtschaft. Diese Studie untersucht die Koordination von Arbeitgebern und Invalidenversicherung in der Schweiz und fragt,...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-05
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Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book demonstrates the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-05
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This book makes a unique contribution to contemporary research into masculinities, men’s movements, and fathers’ rights groups. It examines the role of changing masculinities in creating equality and/or reinforcing inequality by analysing diverse men’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-05
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Rasant verbreitet sich im Zuge der Digitalisierung der Wille, alltägliches Geschehen nicht nur im Spektrum der Worte, sondern in Form von Zahlen zu dokumentieren. Im Kontext von Diabetes und Quantified Self analysiert Lisa Wiedemann in dieser Studie das sogenannte...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-05
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Carmen Böhm liefert einen Beitrag zur diskursiven Erforschung des fachlichen Umgangs Klinischer Sozialarbeit mit der sozial prekären Lage Wohnungslosigkeit, auf Basis der eingangs dargelegten Hypothese, Wohnungslosigkeit als ambivalenten gesellschaftlichen Zustand zu...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-04
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This book covers the methodological, epistemological and practical issues of integrating qualitative and socio-anthropological factors into archaeological modeling.This text fills the gap between conceptual modeling (which usually relies on narratives describing the...
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Springer
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2019-07-04
Collection :
Computational Social Sciences
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