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Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, T…
As we enter a new millennium, it is clear that we are in the midst of one of the most dramatic technological revolutions in history that is changing everything from the ways that we work, communicate, participate in politics, and spend our leisure time. The technological revolution centers on computer, information, communication, and multimedia technologies, is often interpreted as the beginnin…
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- 978-3-658-31790-4
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- vii, 303p.:ill
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- 301 Kel t
Racism in Australia Today
This book focuses on historical and current data to examine racism in Australia. Making use of the latest state and federal data sets, it critically synthesises contemporary research on race relations with a focus on racism and anti-racism initiatives. Employing innovative analytical methods, the book provides students and researchers with a current and up-to-date analytical framework, and …
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- 978-981-16-2137-6
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- xviii, 377p.:ill
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- 320.56 Eli r
The Ethnographic Radiographer
Written from the perspective of a diagnostic radiography educator, this book introduces readers to ethnography as a methodology and examines how an ethnographic researcher sees the world in which they live.
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- 978-981-16-7252-1
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- viii, 138p.:ill
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- 301 Str t
Culture and Policy-Making
This book advances the understanding and modelling of sensemaking and cultural processes as being crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It outlines a dynamic, processual conception of culture and a general view of the role of cultural dynamics in policy-making, drawing three significant methodological implications: pluralism, performativity, and semiotic capital. It…
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- 978-3-030-71967-8
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- xxxii, 217p.:ill
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- 306.2 Cul
The Biomedical Sciences in Society
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the interdisciplinary field of the Social Studies of Science and Technology (SSST). Over the past two decades, the biomedical sciences have transformed our understanding of the relationship between the social and natural worlds, while its ‘promissory visions’ are seen to offer extraordinary opportunities for economic and social developm…
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- 978-981-15-9523-3
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- ix, 203p.:ill
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- 362.1 Cri t
Housing Movements in Rome
This book explores contemporary challenges of housing movement organizations, looking specifically at the case of Rome, Italy. The work identifies conditions that allow the re-composition of a class of housing dispossessed and, consequently, the features of its action in urban spaces. The book offers fresh analytical perspectives to understanding contemporary urban transformation via new spatia…
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- 978-981-16-2738-5
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- Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
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- Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias
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- 307.7 Cac h
Assessing Spirituality in a Diverse World
This volume addresses an important problem in social scientific research on global religions and spirituality: How to evaluate the role of diverse religious and spiritual (R/S) beliefs and practices within the rapid evolution of spiritual globalization and diversification trends. The book examines this question by bringing together a panel of international scholars including psychologists, soci…
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- 978-3-030-52140-0
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- xx, 618p.:ill
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- 306.6 Ass
A Sociology of Place in Australia
This book weaves a social, economic and cultural history of Australia with rare first-hand accounts of the lived experience of change related to farming and agriculture. It provides a rich sociology of how living on the land has changed throughout Australia’s history. The book investigates the complex effects of the state on everyday life, using an historical agricultural case study of place …
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- 978-981-33-6240-6
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- xvi, 320p.:ill
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- 306.3 Bak a
European Social Work After 1989
This book presents a unique analysis of the learning derived from East-West contacts in social work and reflects on the discipline's inalienable trans-national dimensions, of high actuality in the face of the re-emergence of nationalisms. The fundamental transformations in Europe subsequent to the revolutions of 1989 had a profound impact on social work in terms of raising sharply the professio…
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- 978-3-030-45811-9
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- xvi, 211p.:ill
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- European Social Work Education and Practice
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- 305.9 Eur
Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse
This book takes up the challenge of examining women’s understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse away from a framework focused on pathology. The central argument is that women’s distress is an enactment of their engagement with certain discourses and practices, rather than a reaction triggered by child sexual abuse. Guided by a contemporary feminist framework and Mikhail Bakh…
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- 978-981-33-6296-3
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- xi, 280p.:ill
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- 362.1 Hod e
The knowledge of experience
This book explores the role of social and epistemic diversity in science, technology, and medicine in the 21st century. It argues that most contemporary endeavours to democratize science are epistemically conservative. Using illustrative case studies, Dr Dana Mahr shows how epistemic diversity can contribute to a renewal of the production of scientific knowledge. Her exploration of online self-…
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- 978-981-16-3702-5
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- Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
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- 301 Mah t
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India
This book offers a reading of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s engagement with the idea and practice of socialism in India by linking it to his lifelong political and philosophical concerns: the annihilation of the caste system, untouchability and the moral and philosophical systems that justify either. Rather than view his ideas through a socialist lens, the author suggests that it is important to measure…
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- 978-3-030-80375-9
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- xix, 341p.:ill
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- 320.954 Gee b
Healthcare Technology in Context
This book investigates how the technology used by telehealth services shapes our healthcare, and how we, as humans, collectively change and shape the technology and services used in healthcare. Based on extensive field research on telehealth services in Australia and Brazil, the book reveals some surprisingly obvious conclusions about our powers to shape the society.
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- 978-981-16-4075-9
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- xix, 298p.:ill
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- 362.1 Tay h
Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory
This is the first handbook focussing on classical social theory. It offers extensive discussions of debates, arguments, and discussions in classical theory and how they have informed contemporary sociological theory. The book pushes against the conventional classical theory pedagogy, which often focused on single theorists and their contributions, and looks at isolating themes capturing the ess…
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- 978-3-030-78205-4
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- vii, 725p.:ill
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- 301 Han
Sociology in Germany
This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author relates the discipline’s history to its historical, economic, political and cultural contexts. The book begins with sociology in…
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- 978-3-030-71866-4
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- xi, 222p.:ill
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- 301 Moe s
New Approaches to Health Literacy
In this anthology of health literacy, drawing on New Social Literacy studies and contemporary debates on equity, we discuss health literacy within German regional and cultural contexts as well as in selected non-European regions, such as in Asia and South America. Topics include unique reviews on health literacy, new empirical results on different population groups, in-depth ethnographic insigh…
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- 978-3-658-30909-1
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- xiii, 326p.:ill
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- 362.1 New
Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents with Disabilities
This book investigates various experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to adolescents with disabilities. Following the adoption of the UNCRPD, adolescents with disabilities still commonly suffer from widespread violation of their rights particularly concerning sexual and reproductive health – often being viewed as either asexual or hypersexual. Contemporary societies do not rea…
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- 978-981-15-7914-1
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- xv, 223p.:ill
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- 362.1 Sex
Thinking about Belonging in Youth Studies
This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings. While belonging offers new alignments across previously divergent approaches to youth studies, its pervasiveness in the field has led to criticism that it means both everything and nothing a…
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- 978-3-030-75119-7
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- xiii, 236p.:ill
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- 306.85 Har t
Topologies of Digital Work
This book provides a unique contribution to the controversial discussion that surrounds the digitalisation and virtualisation of work. With a focus on the new formation of space and place, it critically discusses the idea that places in the context of work are increasingly losing their importance, and becoming more arbitrary with new technical possibilities. Theoretical considerations that …
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- 978-3-030-80327-8
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- xvii, 289p.:ill
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- 305.9 Top
Chemical Youth
This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables across diverse socio-cultural settings, illustrating how young people seek to avoid harm, while harnessing the bene…
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- 978-3-030-57081-1
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- xxiii, 318p.:ill.
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- 362.1 Har c
COVID in the Islands: A comparative perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific
This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two contrasting island regions - the Caribbean and the Pacific - and in several islands and island states. It traces the complexity of effects and responses, at different scales, through the first critical year. Written by a range of scholars and practitioners working in the region the book focuses on si…
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- 978-981-16-5285-1
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- xxvii, 538p.:ill
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- 362.1 Cov
Connectivity and Global Studies
This textbook provides readers with evocative and analytical accounts of social processes that are linked to globalization and connectivity, which includes a wide range of multi-centred connections in history, DNA analysis, technology, art, populism and political economy. Rather than globalization, Nederveen Pieterse focuses on connectivity. His approach to globalization differs from both struc…
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- 978-3-030-59598-2
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- xxii, 230p.:ill
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- 301 Pie c
Impacts of Racism on White Americans In the Age of Trump
In this third iteration of the classic work The Impacts of Racism on White Americans (1981, 1996), a new generation of scholars make the case that racism often negatively affects Whites themselves, especially during the Trump era. In 1981, Impacts introduced an alternative understanding of racism, arguing that it went beyond white-black and/or inter-race relations. Instead, the book proposed th…
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- 978-3-030-75232-3
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- xxvii, 275p.:ill
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- 320.56 Imp
European Dispute over the Concept of Man
The book represents original research in a field of study rarely pursued while analysing the intellectual dimensions of disputes over ethically sensitive issues that occur in European Union politics. These disputes are generally analysed at ideological, ethical, economic and interstate levels. However, these references do not suffice in understanding the issue, which is related to a divergent p…
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- 978-3-030-61520-8
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- xv, 504p.:ill
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- -
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- 306.6 Gie e
Religion, Citizenship and Democracy
This innovative volume is focused on the impact of religion on the realization of democratic citizenship. The researchers contributing provide empirical evidence on how religion influences attitudes towards citizenship and democracy in different countries. The book also tackles the challenges and opportunities for citizenship education. Experts contributing from sociology, political science…
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- 978-3-030-83277-3
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- vi, 274p.:ill
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- 306.6 Rel
Ibn Khaldūn and the Arab Origins of the Sociology of Civilisation and Power
This book presents Ibn Khaldūn's anticipatory sociology of civilisations and power. Half a millennium before the birth of modern sociology in the West, Ibn Khaldūn—scholar, political counsellor, and Malikite judge—wrote a revolutionary sociological-philosophical treatise, the Muqaddima. This book places his broad, complex, and refined treatise against the background of the Islamo-Greek cu…
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- 978-3-030-70339-4
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- xxiii, 255p.:ill
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- 301 Ver i
Social Capital and Collective Action in Pakistani Rural Development
This book distinguishes conceptually between indigenous and constructed social capital and the associated spontaneous and induced collective action for rural development and natural resource preservation. While some of the case studies in this book show that induced collective action can lead to cost-effective, community-centric and empirically grounded rural development initiatives, other case…
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- 978-3-030-71450-5
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- xviii,, 295p.:ill
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- 306.4 Kha s
The Social Construction of AIDS Issues
This book explores AIDS from a relatively macro perspective rather than concrete operational methods and focuses on the social construction of AIDS issues instead of its transmission level in the context of China. First, it begins with the theoretical analysis and the social significance of AIDS, which is different from the simple conflict between different schools of thought. Second, it analys…
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- 978-981-16-7519-5
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- viii, 237p.:ill
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- 301 Pan t
Hope
This book provides a concise, interdisciplinary perspective on the emotion and practice of ‘hope'. Based on the idea that hope is a dream that we carry in different ways, the five chapters draw on the author’s original research and align it with literature on the sociology of culture and emotion, to explore the concept in relation to cultural and community practices and mental health. …
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- 978-3-030-69870-6
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- xvii, 150p.:ill
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- 306.4 Den h
Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts
This book explores an escalating modern-day crisis; managing waste in a sustainable way. The central question posed is whether advancing a circular economy provides a way to shift waste management practices towards more sustainable approaches. It begins with an in-depth analysis of the nature of waste management and the prevailing crisis, followed by a discussion about the circular economy in t…
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- 978-981-33-6280-2
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- xxiv, 324p.:ill
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- 362.1 Hum
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