TAO - Sociology 1

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of visual analysis of behaviour from computational-modelling and algorithm-design perspectives. Topics: covers learning-group activity models, unsupervis……続きを見る

This book examines the nature and internal dynamics of China’s urban construction land (UCL) development, drawing insights from the recently developed theory of regional political ecology. Based on ……続きを見る

This book is a valuable resource for those involved in translation studies and discourse analysis. Drawing on a corpus-based approach and a combined framework of Appraisal and Ideological Square, th……続きを見る

This book is an anthology of English writing on education by Tao Xingzhi, the great Chinese educator and thinker. It includes several articles that represent his educational ideas and life philosoph……続きを見る

A common story of teachers from the Global South portrays them as deficient, unreliable and unprofessional. However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal ……続きを見る

First published in 1997, this volume emerged in the wake of China’s Open Door policy. Qu and Green focus on the spatial aspects of foreign direct investment within China. They aim to locate FDI with……続きを見る

A rising proportion of the global population are moving to cities in search of a better standard of living. However, although urbanisation has its benefits, unchecked urbanisation can lead to a host……続きを見る

Based on the re-discovery of a lost sociological project led by Norbert Elias at the University of Leicester, this book re-visits the project: The Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and ……続きを見る

Levels of suffering among young people have always been much higher than governments suggest. Indeed, policies aimed at young workers have often been framed in ways that help secure conformity to a ……続きを見る

As China has become the world's second largest economy and risen rapidly amid various internal and external challenges, its profound social transformation and changing social policies are seemingly ……続きを見る

The crowning achievement of Afro-Colombian author Manuel Zapata Olivella, Changó, Decolonizing the African Diaspora depicts the African American experience from a perspective of gods who stand over ……続きを見る

"Prestationsprinsessor", "duktiga flickor". Samhällets syn på högpresterande kvinnor skevar. Vi har bland annat hört röster som menar att kvinnor ska sluta vara duktiga och sänka kraven på sig själv……続きを見る

In the twenty-first century, fatherhood is shifting from simply being a sidekick in the parental team to taking center stage with new expectations of involvement and caretaking. The social expectati……続きを見る

Perder a un ser querido es inevitable, es parte de la vida misma. Todos sabemos que esto va a pasar tarde o temprano, pero lo que no sabemos es cuándo ni cómo. Lamentablemente cuando sucede, parece ……続きを見る

It is said that Japan is currently experiencing its third opening to the outside world. However, in terms of importance, rather than the so-called second opening-which refers to the reforms followin……続きを見る

Asian Americans and the Media provides a concise, thoughtful, critical and cultural studies analysis of U.S. media representations of Asian Americans. The book also explores ways Asian Americans hav……続きを見る

Drawing on cultural trauma theory, this book investigates how collective memory of the Nanjing Massacre is fashioned in China and how the mass media, political power and public praxis jointly shape ……続きを見る

This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated i……続きを見る

«O nosso país constitui, de há muito, um exemplo tristemente esclarecedor da sanha descontrolada de anti-património. As fases subterrâneas da História portuguesa pululam de ondas de descaracterizaçã……続きを見る

Esta é uma breve colectânea de textos, sobre as questões da Economia Social, onde se pretende reflectir sobre as coberturas sociais amplas e abrangentes trazidas pelo Estado de Bem-Estar, alcançando……続きを見る