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`As the study of social policy comes increasingly to address issues of theorising welfare in a period of fundamental social change, Culpitt's book is especially welcome in helping to update the reader in many of the debates and explorations surrounding social change, in...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-04-16
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George Ritzer's McDonaldization thesis argued that contemporary life is succumbing to the standardization, flexibility and practicability of fast-food service. This book brings together specially commissioned papers by leading social and cultural analysts to engage in a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-04-16
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This original textbook provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to using quantitative methods in the social sciences. Thomas R Black guides the student and researcher through the minefield of potential problems that may be confronted, and it is this emphasis on...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-03-30
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Over the last 30 years the post-war centre-ground which recognized the welfare state, the funding of education, protection of the environment and the management of capitalism as the proper business of the state, has fragmented. Emphasis on the freedom of the individual...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-03-30
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In Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? Do critical perspectives still apply, or does the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
1999-03-30
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This book decodes the ambivalence of gift-giving. It examines its socio-ethical and integrative potential. Following a short recollection of contemporary gift-giving, its motives, occasions and its rules, the reader is invited to travel back in time and space examining...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-03-30
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The dramatic transformation of relationships between humans and animals in the 20th century are investigated in this fascinating and accessible book. At the beginning of this century these relationships were dominated by human needs and interests, modernization was a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-03-30
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This major collection explores the contested nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture. It investigates the spatial dimension of erotic life through considerations of Bohemian...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-03-19
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What are the relationships between the self and fieldwork? How do personal, emotional and identity issues impact upon working in the field?
This book argues that ethnographers, and others involved in fieldwork, should be aware of how fieldwork research and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-03-10
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Seven years after the publication of the first edition, Spain is still different, but it is changing, too—modernizing rapidly and participating as an active member of the European Union. While thoroughly updating her original work, Helen Wattley-Ames has maintained her...
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John Murray Business
Parution :
1999-03-01
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Seven years after the publication of the first edition, Spain is still different, but it is changing, too?modernizing rapidly and participating as an active member of the European Union. While thoroughly updating her original work, Helen Wattley-Ames has maintained her...
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Intercultural Press
Parution :
1999-03-01
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This book goes beyond Baudrillard's writings on consumer objects, the Gulf War and America, to identify the fundamental logic that underpins his writings. It does this through a series of close readings of his main texts, paying particular attention to the form and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
1999-02-24
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This text is the proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Hazards and Challenges in the New Working Life, held January 11-13, 1999, in Stockholm, Sweden. The globalization of the...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution :
1999
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Leading experts review the research on resilience and represent the diverse perspectives and opinions found among both scientists and practitioners in the field. Although the chapters are written to...
Editeur :
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution :
1999
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Psychological vulnerabilities and environment influences are the most powerful forces shaping the behaviour and choices of students to use harmful substances. This book employs computer-assisted...
Editeur :
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution :
1999
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This collection demonstrates the use and variety of applications of time use methodology from multidisciplinary, multinational and multicultural perspectives. Contributors from such fields as...
Editeur :
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution :
1999
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This book employs historical archaeological evidence to demonstrate how polite rituals reproduced the social and material world of commerce in colonial Massachusetts. The author situates artifacts...
Editeur :
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution :
1999
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This volume is a study of the power relationships inherent in domestic architecture and household material culture that were essential to the maintenance of the Spanish colonial empire. Using the...
Editeur :
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution :
1999
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The volume summarizes the results of interdisciplinary archaeological investigations at Aetokremnos which present the earliest well-supported evidence of humans in Cyprus and demonstrate the...
Editeur :
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution :
1999
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Stratigraphic excavation is perhaps the best known of the various relative-dating methods used by prehistorians. Although there are several techniques of using artifacts from superposed strata to...
Editeur :
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution :
1999
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