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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Sosiology"
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Emerging Sports as Social Movements
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Woods, Joshua

This volume examines the rise of an emerging sport as a grassroots effort (or “new social movement”), arguing that the growth of non-normative sports movements occurs through two social processes: one driven primarily by product development, commercialization, and consumption, and another that relies upon public resources and grassroots efforts. Through the lens of disc golf, informed by th…

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978-3-030-76457-9
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xv, 232p.:ill
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301 Woo e
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Measures of Social Evolution
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Aslaksen, Erik W.

This book extends a previously published model of social evolution by using macroeconomic measures to indicate both the current state of the society, and its evolutionary trajectory. This model considers society as a system of interacting elements evolving through stages of increasing strength of interaction and complexity of structure. It measures society in constituting the world collectively…

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978-981-16-1800-0
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x, 83p.:ill
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306.3 Asl m
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Conservative Religion and Mainstream Culture
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Gelfgren, StefanLindmark, Daniel

This book highlights tensions and negotiating processes between modern society and conservative religious groups. Conservative religion and society have co-existed for at least a century in an increasingly pluralist society. Still, the right to religious freedom and tolerance clashes with certain expressions of religious exclusivity. In this book, scholars from different disciplines look at the…

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978-3-030-59381-0
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xvi, 266p.:ill
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306.6 Con
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Multicultural and Interreligious Perspectives on the Ethics of Human Reproduc…
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Tham, JosephGómez, Alberto GarciaLunstroth, John

This book includes a number of distinct religious and secular views on the anthropological, ethical and social challenges of reproductive technologies in the light of human rights and in the context of global bioethics. It includes contributions of bioethics experts from six major religions—Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism—as well as secular authors. The c…

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ISBN/ISSN
978-3-030-86938-0
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xxxiv, 282p.:ill
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306.6 Mul