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How have animation fans in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Canada formed communities and dealt with conflicts across cultural and geographic distance? This book traces animation fandom fr……続きを見る

What determines Europe's migrant policies and where does the EU fit into this picture? This book is a comparative analysis of the impact of the EU, if any, on the policies and politics of immigrant ……続きを見る

What role does 'vanity' play in the lives of 21st century subjects? Exploring a range of fields including public health, information technology, media studies and feminist approaches to the body and……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1998 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Klassiker und Theorierichtungen, Note: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Ausgewählte Ans……続きを見る

Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contributio……続きを見る

In recent decades the rise of the so-called "global obesity epidemic" has led to fatness and fat bodies being debated incessantly in popular, professional, and academic arenas. Fatness and fat bodie……続きを見る

Hanneke Stuit delves into Ubuntu's relevance both in South Africa and in Western contexts, analyzing the political and ethical ramifications of the term's uses in different media including literatur……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Universität Passau, 14 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In seinem Hauptwerk ' Über den P……続きを見る

Autorität ist das Thema dieses Buches. Eskalationen im Polizeidienst, die offenbar im Zuge der Individualisierung eine neue Qualität erreicht haben, erfordern ein Umdenken der Polizei. Das betrifft ……続きを見る

Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the ……続きを見る

This book provides a unique and innovative perspective on the controversial phenomenon of ‘stem cell tourism’. A growing number of patients are embarking on stem cell treatments that are clinically ……続きを見る

"Provides rich new ethnographic material on a little-known population, the Bedouin of the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. It positions such marginal populations in the broader theoretical context of modern……続きを見る

Around the world there are a myriad of NGOs using human rights education (HRE) as a tool of community empowerment with the firm belief that it will help people improve their lives. One way of unders……続きを見る

This book provides a new perspective on the association between religious beliefs and mental health. The book is divided into five parts, the first of which traces the development of theories of org……続きを見る

Anomie, strain and subcultural theories are among the leading theories of crime. Anomie theories state that crime results from the failure of society to regulate adequately the behavior of individua……続きを見る

The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions……続きを見る

A founder of contemporary social science, Max Weber was born in Germany in 1864. At his death 56 years later, he was nationally known for his scholarly and political writings, but it was the interna……続きを見る

Influential minorities have existed in some form in all human societies. Throughout history, such elites have evoked varied responses--respeet. hos-tility, fear. envy, imitation, but never indiffere……続きを見る

In his inaugural address in 1993, President Clinton said: "I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service to act on your idealism by helping troubled children, keeping compan……続きを見る

This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a European perspective. It addresses key challenges that contemporary societies face in regards to ageing, welfare sustainab……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Politische Soziologie, Majoritäten, Minoritäten, Note: bestanden, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, 12 Quellen im Literatu……続きを見る

The marriage license as a hitting license, child abuse, sibling war is the powerful message of "Behind Closed Doors". The book is grounded in the unprecedented national survey of the extent, pattern……続きを見る

This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political processes, including the forces of globalisation and t……続きを見る

This study, first published in 1996, investigates the effects that local labor market conditions may have on the economic status of women and blacks, relative to their white male counterparts. More ……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2000. Patterns of racism and disadvantage vary throughout Britain, yet most British research continues to focus on data from England and Wales. This Scottish study……続きを見る

The ability to adapt to a changing environment has ensured the continued survival of the human race into the 21st century. The challenges to be faced in this century are now well documented by the U……続きを見る

Ausgehend von den Grundlagen des Städtebaus beschäftigt sich dieser Titel mit dem besonderen Aspekt der Nachhaltigkeit in der aktuellen Stadt- und Verkehrsentwicklung und dem Umgang mit bestehenden ……続きを見る

This book explores the microsensing technologies and systems now available to monitor the quality of air and water within the urban environment and examines their role in the creation of sustainable……続きを見る

This book focuses on the creation of space as an activity. The argument draws not only on aspects of movement in time, but also on a cultural and specifically social context influencing the creation……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Arbeit, Beruf, Ausbildung, Organisation, Note: 1,0, Technische Universität Berlin (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Organisation u……続きを見る