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Across three different centuries, the American Jewish Year Book has provided insight into major trends among Jews primarily in North America. Part I of the current volume contains two chapters: One is a critical assessment of the major American Jewish Population Surveys...
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Springer
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2023-10-31
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American Jewish Year Book
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This book presents a critical and reflective view of fundamental theoretical orientations, thematic domains, and current debates in Indian sociology. It covers the growth of sociology as an academic and pedagogical subject, with four main parts. Part I discusses...
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Springer
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2023-10-31
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This book discusses the displacement of urban populations, inequality, and poverty in three cities in South Asia—Colombo, Jaffna in Sri Lanka, and Kochi in India. It focuses on the long-term effect resettlement and relocation has on the lives and livelihoods of urban...
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Springer
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2023-10-31
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This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective. It documents the antiquity and widespread occurrence of the belief in supernatural gamekeepers at the global level.This...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-31
Collection :
Conflict, Environment, and Social Complexity
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Structure and power are two defining and interrelated aspects of the German theater business. It is based on the strictly hierarchical organization of 1900 and has undergone hardly any structural changes since then. This not only impairs the innovative capacity of this...
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Springer
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2023-10-30
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This volume explores the enduring influence of Introduction to the Science ofSociology, published a century ago by Robert Park and Ernest Burgess. It bringstogether scholars from the United States, Canada, and Italy, who collectivelydemonstrate the work’s enduring...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2023-10-30
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This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world’s leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach.This book includes...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-28
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This open access book focuses on climate change, indigenous reindeer husbandry and the underlying concept of connecting the traditional knowledge of indigenous reindeer herders in the Arctic with the latest research findings of the world’s leading...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-27
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This book provides you with a concise and accurate overview of the key business challenges, opportunities and risks related to social media. Regardless of the type and size of company or department you manage, whether you offer industrial goods, consumer goods or...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-27
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This is an open access book. 2023 2nd International Conference on Public Culture and Social Services (PCSS 2023) was held on August 11–13, 2023 in Qingdao, ChinaPublic culture is a cultural form formed to meet the common needs of society, where everyone can...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2023-10-27
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Partnerschaften zwischen Frankreich und der DDR hatten vorranging einen politischen Nutzen zu erfüllen. Die SED wollte sich von der Bundesrepublik abgrenzen und die Überlegenheit des zweiten deutschen Staates demonstrieren, was in Bonn mit großer Aufmerksamkeit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-10-27
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Wie prägen stereotypes Denken und Handeln eine Gesellschaft? Verstärken neue Technologien die gängigen Diskriminierungen und erzeugen neue? Ist eine vorurteilsfreie Gesellschaft überhaupt möglich? Zehn Beiträge thematisieren Ergebnisse der Grundlagenforschung zur...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-27
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The authors examine identity strategies of middle-class couples who come under pressure of over-indebtedness. Based on biographical interviews collected in a qualitative panel study in three waves, they explore the question of how identity is worked on in the couple and...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-26
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'Illuminating.' New Statesman'Ditum's prose is never overwrought, and she treats pop culture with a rare seriousness. She is right to do so. The women who came of age in the noughties are entering middle age, with all the agency that brings... Ditum's reframing of an...
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Fleet
Parution :
2023-10-26
Collection :
Dilly's Story
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RESCALING URBAN POVERTY “In this path-breaking book, Mahito Hayashi explores the rescaled geographies of homelessness that have been produced in contemporary Japanese cities. Through an original synthesis of regulationist political economy and immersive place-based...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2023-10-26
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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The book focuses on the modus operandi of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee), the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) monitoring body, and its main tasks, namely monitoring functions and interpreting the...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-26
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This handbook articulates how sociology can re-engage its roots as the scientific study of human moral systems, actions, and interpretation.This second volume builds on the successful original volume published in 2010, which contributed to the initiation of a new...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-25
Collection :
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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This book discusses legal services clinics and various other access-to-justice initiatives that are established to protect and represent the rights and interests of children and youth in several countries across the globe. These could include legal services or...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-24
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This book, a revised version of Lundgren’s PhD thesis, offers a deepened understanding of the changes in the governance of religious diversity and the complex relationship between state and religion. Linnea Lundgren explores how the narrative of risk and resource came...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-24
Collection :
Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
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How does society form and transform individuals? Sociology has been asking this question since its inception and “socialization” has been analyzed from different vantage points by various prominent thinkers. Socialization offers an overview of some of these perspectives...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-23
Collection :
Key Concepts
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