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This is an open access book.Modern society is characterized by the fact of contingency, uncertainty, and ambiguity. The purpose of this book is to transform this phenomenal fact into a hopeful norm. As a clue, the book examines the concept of dignity and looks forward...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-21
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This book explores the experiences of older people who provide care within marriage, highlighting the neglected role of older spouse carers and the positive social contributions they make. Drawing on relevant data, literature and research including in-depth interviews...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-21
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The recently-coined term digital religion refers to the understanding that contemporary religion is practiced in both online and offline contexts, and these contexts intersect with one another. Scholars of digital religion recognize that religion is increasingly...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-06-21
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The approach to images as cultural documents of collective memory and instruments of social shaping builds a central theoretical component of cultural theories since its establishment as a critical discipline. Prominent thinkers ofcultural studies and art history...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-06-21
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This book is the voice of everyday people talking about their city’s poetry–prose transformation. Through the narrative-imagination of the local lives, the book takes the reader on a journey of the past–present–future of Yazd: how the city was formed and transferred...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-20
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This book argues for the reconstitution of the cultural in African cultural industries and societies. It posits that African cultural industries face a deep-seated problem of the crisis of normativity that is largely rooted in the coloniality of modern cultural policy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-20
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This book takes urban Wolof beyond Senegal to consider the effects of mobility on language and examine how the diasporans engage in their daily language practices as transmigrants. The parallel between languaging and migrating underpins the author's argument, as he...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-20
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Drawing on theories in politics, sociology, gender and feminist studies, and social movement studies, this book compares and contrasts NGOized feminist organizations and informal street feminist groups in Belgium and Romania in order to understand the transformation of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-20
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This is an open access book. The 4th ICHaD 2022 International Conference on Halal Development on “Halal industry as a Lifestyle in Artificial Intelligence Era” is a discussion forum organized by the Halal Center, a research and community service institution at the...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-06-20
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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Over the last decade, images have become a key feature of digital culture; at the same time, they have made a mark on a wide range of research practices.Visual Methods for Digital Research is the first textbook to bring the fields of visual methods and digital research...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-06-19
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Eine breite Rezeption der Arbeiten Luc Boltanskis steht in literatursoziologischen Zusammenhängen aus. Der Band setzt an diesem Befund an und eruiert explorativ die Anschlussfähigkeit von Boltanskis Studien für die Generierung und Schärfung literatursoziologischer...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-06-19
Collection :
Literatur und Gesellschaft. Literatursoziologische Studien
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The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman’s engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish and never translated into English, and in part because many important...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-06-19
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of ‘societal deception’ - how and why people are deceived and led to believe fake news. Coherently blending critical political economy and sociology, the author provocatively examines how corporations, political parties, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-18
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The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlapping inequalities within the shifting institutional boundaries and organisational processes across diverse welfare settings.The volume explores the...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-18
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This book includes presentations given at the 88th annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, held in Maryland, USA on July 24–28, 2023.
The proceeding covers a diverse set of psychometric topics. The topics include, but are not limited to item response theory,...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-18
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This book aims at explaining romantic love between straight adults through literary texts of the western canon from the nineteenth and twentieth century. Each chapter comes with a multidisciplinary approach in which protagonists are mutilated in their quest for loving...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-15
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Revealing a world of secret messages contained within a single petal.Floriography – the language of flowers – is the ancient art of encoding hidden messages in the type, colour and arrangement of plants, allowing individuals to express emotions and sentiments that they...
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OH
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2024-06-15
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This book explores modern European religious and non-religious rituals and their main features by focusing on music as a key element required for the full expression of beliefs. It specifically examines the relationship between religious, non-religious, pagan, cultural,...
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Springer
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2024-06-14
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'A must-read for everyone' Stylist'Tender, emotive and quietly revelatory' Irish Times'A vital work' Stella DuffyIn a world that expects all women to become mothers, what happens to those who circumvent motherhood?Now and throughout history, women without children have...
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Dialogue Books
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2024-06-13
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Have you always wanted to know what makes an ordinary person commit a crime? Explore the dark side of human nature with this illuminating beginner's guide to criminology.There are few subjects more compelling or divisive than criminology. Whether crime dominates the...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2024-06-13
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