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  • Beyond Buffoonery
    K-Moses Nagbe
    This book, Beyond Buffoonery, reflects on postwar politics and social situations and conditions in Liberia, West Africa. It extends a conversation on the critical and perennial question of productive governance in the country. In its prequel, titled The Scum of the Earth, the theme was that any significant sector of society left unattended would foist its own relevance on the ...
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    39,43 €

  • Media Sociology and Journalism
    Greg Nielsen
    While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward. ...
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    158,42 €

  • Living in Transit: Youth, Nomads and Reality
    Sebastián Alejandro González Montero
    Living in Transit: being in motion is an actual condition. Movement is real. Moreover, it is essential because it concerns kinetic events. We can insistently perceive that everything changes and moves. All living beings undergo experiences revealing flows, adaptations, and becomings.Quotidian experiences testify to that. Directly or indirectly, we face reality's movements all t...
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    17,68 €

  • Al crepuscolo - Gli immaginari del progresso e il loro declino
    Linda De Feo / Lorenzo Fattori / Stefano Bory
    Il mito del progresso è stata una delle più grandi invenzioni della ModernitàSolo che, a un certo punto, questo movimento sì è interrotto. Pochi hanno riflettuto su una circostanza: la capacità sì creativa, ma insieme distruttiva delle forze scatenate dai processi di modernizzazione.In questo volume collettivo, che raccoglie solo un primo punto d’arrivo, preliminare e incomplet...
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    16,13 €

  • An Invitation to Social Construction
    Kenneth J Gergen
    This book uses real-world examples to bring together complex theories that are foundational to, and sometimes critical of, social constructionism in a way that is highly approachable for social sciences students. ...
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    64,98 €

  • An Invitation to Social Construction
    Kenneth J Gergen
    This book uses real-world examples to bring together complex theories that are foundational to, and sometimes critical of, social constructionism in a way that is highly approachable for social sciences students. ...
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    190,27 €

  • The Centrality of Sociality
    What do we mean by the word 'social?' In The Centrality of Sociality, scholars respond to themes of The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities in dialogue with Michael E. Brown. ...
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    178,58 €

  • Trump and the Deeper Crisis
    As far-right forces cement their hold on the Republican Party, and as the Democratic Party appears unable to stop them, what lies ahead? The authors argue that confronting Trumpism requires a frontal attack on the conditions that incubated the monster. ...
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    167,78 €

  • Doping in Sport and Fitness
    Doping in Sport and Fitness argues that rigid differentiations between doping contexts are less clear than it might seem. Breaking down these boundaries allows for a more complete understanding of substance use patterns, behaviours, and policy responses related to sport, fitness, and society. ...
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    178,61 €

  • Diversity and Discrimination in Research Organizations
    Clemens Striebing
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The era of team science has long since dawned. However, in order for the individual members of a team to work well, research organizations need to provide a productive and naturally non-discriminatory working environment. Bringing together and integrating researchers and their diverse background...
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    44,79 €

  • Critical theory and social pathology
    Neal Harris
    Axel Honneth’s critical theory of recognition has failed the Frankfurt School. A new social-theoretical foundation is urgently needed. As this book argues, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm are crucial allies in this task. ...
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    157,59 €

  • Cultures of Authenticity
    This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. This collection explores the complex and controversial idea of authenticity. Addressing the concept from an interdisciplinary perspective and offering a diverse range of topical cases. ...
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    142,22 €

  • Festschrift in Honour of Kathy Charmaz
    This Festschrift to honour Kathy Charmaz’s scholarship features fourteen chapters plus an editors’ introduction, exploring CGT extensively, examining topics including 'Indigenization' of the method, its approaches to decolonizing research, uses of CGT in social justice research, and the legacies of Kathy Charmaz’s remarkable mentorship. ...
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    167,70 €

  • Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement
    Ignacio López-Calvo
    This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge. ...
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    180,16 €

  • Lies Trickery Obfuscation
    John Brown
    A retrospective point of view seems quite capable of accurately identifying fallacious socially constructed realities as well as widely shared cultural perspectives based on falsehoods. Thus, the enhanced analytical ability afforded by a 21st century standpoint often evokes a sense of bewilderment and sometimes horror. For example, an objective study of the 20th century easily ...
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    15,84 €

  • A Sociological Perspective on Hierarchies in Educational Institutions
    Einav Argaman
    A Sociological Perspective on Hierarchies in Educational Institutions bridges the gap between theory and practice, drawing together research from different perspectives without losing comprehensiveness, accuracy, and in-depth coverage of hierarchy and educational institutions - a novel contribution to Organizational Studies. ...
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    136,16 €

  • Interdisciplinary Essays on Monsters and the Monstrous
    Interdisciplinary Essays on Monsters and the Monstrous analyses and explores the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human societies, and from a unique interdisciplinary scope tackles the critical question: when faced with an existential threat, what can we do? ...
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    142,92 €

  • Festschrift in Honor of Norman K. Denzin
    Shing-Ling S. Chen
    Due to his major contributions in qualitative inquiries, Norman K. Denzin is regarded as ’the Father of Qualitative Inquiries.’ Volume 55 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction is a compilation of writings published in his honor. ...
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    158,17 €

  • The Corruption of Play
    Christopher McMahon
    The Corruption of Play explores how neoliberal ideology corrupts play in AAA videogames by creating conditions in which play becomes unbound from leisure, allowing play to be understood, undertaken, and assessed in economic terms, and fundamentally undermining the nature of play. ...
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    136,19 €

  • Rooted in Decency
    Colleen Doyle Bryant
    What happened to common decency? And how do we move forward toward cooperation and kindness?Take a quick scan of the headlines and... wow. From disrespect to deception, it’s easy to question whether indecency has taken root in society. Rooted in Decency offers insights from a range of sources-from Aristotle to today’s thought leaders, from happiness research to neuroscience-tha...
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    15,33 €

  • Conceptualizing and Modeling Relational Processes in Sociology
    Jacqueline Joslyn
    With broad appeal across scholars and graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences, Joslyn presents new ideas for expanding relationship modeling methods in a way that unites relationship scholars and extends relational theory. ...
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    136,27 €

  • The Story of Utopias
    Lewis Mumford
    This survey of utopias, which spans from Plato to the twentieth century, was Lewis Mumford’s first success. He was particularly interested in what he calls utopias of reconstruction, models for reshaping an imperfect world. Beginning with a survey of famous utopian ideas and writings, he moves from Plato’s Republic, More’s Utopia, Andreæ’s Christianopolis, Bacon’s New Atlantis,...
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    24,08 €

  • Crime and Reconciliation
    Mark Umbreit
    Crime and Reconciliation describes the original setting in the United States where contemporary restorative justice practices first took root. Having worked with the Indiana-based Prisoner and Community Together program (PACT), which eventually advocated for healing dialogue between offending and victimized parties along with family and community members, Mark Umbreit received ...
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    18,71 €

  • Crime and Reconciliation
    Mark Umbreit
    Crime and Reconciliation describes the original setting in the United States where contemporary restorative justice practices first took root. Having worked with the Indiana-based Prisoner and Community Together program (PACT), which eventually advocated for healing dialogue between offending and victimized parties along with family and community members, Mark Umbreit received ...
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    35,46 €

  • Digital Transformation and Institutional Theory
    This volume contains two Open Access chapters. Digital Transformation and Institutional Theory explores how manifestations of digital transformation requires rethinking of our understanding and theorization of institutional processes. ...
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    113,60 €

  • Entrepreneurialism and Society
    Entrepreneurialism and Society invigorates academic research by developing new perspectives on how entrepreneurs and their organizations shape our social world. ...
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    158,29 €

  • Entrepreneurialism and Society
    Entrepreneurialism and Society invigorates academic research by developing new perspectives on how entrepreneurs and their organizations shape our social world.? ...
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    158,02 €

  • RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
    Stuart J. Murray / Stuart Murray
    Presents a rhetorical critique of contemporary neoliberal biopolitics through a series of transdisciplinary case studies. ...
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    158,36 €

  • RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
    Stuart J. Murray
    Presents a rhetorical critique of contemporary neoliberal biopolitics through a series of transdisciplinary case studies. ...
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    39,33 €

  • Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse
    This book presents a dialogue between scholars on different aspects of reproductive technologies. If we continue to work in disciplinary silos, reproductive studies is in danger of missing, and thereby reproducing, the kinds of power structures that shape reproductive life. ...
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    150,73 €


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