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This book retraces the intellectual career of committed sociologist and maverick, Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962), whose work is considered "classic" in the USA. Unlike some existing works that focus primarily on Mills’ theoretical contributions or political...
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Springer
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2025-02-28
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Scholarly attention to the concept of the posthuman has increased recently in response to pressing problems about what it means to be human and what distinguishes the human from the nonhuman. The ongoing ecological catastrophes, recent technological breakthroughs, and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2025-02-27
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„Wohnen“ hat in den letzten Jahren wieder Konjunktur; manche bezeichnen es schon als neue soziale Frage. Die rasante Steigerung der Angebotsmieten führt dazu, dass für viele das Wohnen insbesondere in einigen Groß- und Schwarmstädten unerschwinglich wird und sie in die...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-27
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This book is an Open Access Publication. The Guidelines for Trustworthy AI developed by the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI is a framework that has been developed to promote and achieve the trustworthiness of AI systems. It provides seven ethical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-02-27
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Wie konnte sich die Graffiti-Szene in Deutschland von einem kleinen, vorwiegend rechtswidrig und improvisierend agierenden Netzwerk zu einer der ältesten und stabilsten Szenen des Landes entwickeln?
Die Untersuchung beleuchtet diese Entwicklung und zeichnet den...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-27
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This is an open access book.
Welcome esteemed colleagues, scholars, and practitioners to the 1st International Conference on Social Environment Diversity (ICOSEND). In today’s rapidly evolving world, the intricate interplay between social environments and...
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Atlantis Press
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2025-02-27
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Nach öffentlichkeitswirksam gewordenen Straftaten, die durch Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund oder mit ausländischer Staatsangehörigkeit begangen worden sind, wird von politischen Meinungsführenden nahezu aller parteilichen Couleur regelmäßig die Dringlichkeit der...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-27
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Gegenstand des Buches sind die sich wandelnden Funktions- und Deutungsweisen des Begriffs ›Solidarität‹ im Kontext des gesellschaftlichen Wandels seit dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Ausgangspunkt ist die Frage, warum der Begriff zu dieser Zeit aufkam und welche...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-27
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In diesem Buch werden die geografischen Unterschiede in der Unterstützung der Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) 2017-2018 untersucht. Ziel ist es, diese Unterschiede zu erklären und die zugrunde liegenden Mechanismen zu verstehen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf dem Einfluss...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-27
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In The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects, David B. Resnik, PhD/JD, develops and defends an approach to thinking about ethical and policy dilemmas in research with human subjects based on the notion of trust. The book explains why trust is important not only between...
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Springer
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2025-02-27
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Based on extensive fieldwork and longitudinal studies, this book posits that the household registration (hukou) system is a fundamental institutional arrangement in contemporary China. It employs the theoretical framework of local citizenship to analyze the rights and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-27
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Trillions of dollars are lost annually due to corporate fraud, a growing global problem. For savvy professional investors, however, this crisis presents an opportunity. This book is the first to comprehensively explore a systematic and updated approach to identify,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-02-27
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Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny. The editors posit that funny moves are dance's Other--the missteps or oversteps that don't fit a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-02-26
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Waste as a Critique reveals how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating 21st century society. Drawing on growing interdisciplinary concerns for discards, it contextualizes waste in cultural, symbolic, historical, spatial,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-26
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Islamic schools are growing exponentially in the West to meet the demands of Muslim learners and their parents. Today, there are hundreds ofIslamic schools that are constantly expanding. A key focus of the philosophy ofIslamic schools and education is the nurturing of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-26
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This book focuses on health risks, a domain in which risk expansion has been particularly prolific. As a result of massive gains in scientific knowledge, made possible by statistical developments, data accumulation and computerisation over the last decades, more and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-26
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This book presents a novel approach to the study of contemporary social movements and activism. Based on extensive ethnographic research of the life and politics of feminist, LGBTQI+, and women’s religious groups in Istanbul from 2007 to 2015, it explores the affects,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-26
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This open access book offers a structured approach that aligns indicators of social value and provides a stable foundation amidst the dynamic and ever-changing social complexities. From detailed system scales of participation to an overview of how it works, this book...
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Springer
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2025-02-26
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