Sociologi & antropologi

Terror warnings, fake news, spectacles and scandals in real time the networked world has wound itself up into a nervous frenzy, where everything has become visible: the banal and the terrible, the uninhibited abuse and the anonymous attack. Transl...

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This book is based on the understanding that the diversity and heterogeneity of science and society are not only issue of critique, but engender experimental forms of collaboration. Building on John Deweys experimental theory of knowledge and inqu...

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This book is based on the understanding that the diversity and heterogeneity of science and society are not only issue of critique, but engender experimental forms of collaboration. Building on John Deweys experimental theory of knowledge and inqu...

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Apprÿsentation gehört zu den Schlüsselkonzepten im Werk des Philosophen und Begründers der Phÿnomenologie Edmund Husserl (1859?1938) und des ihm nachfolgenden Alfred Schütz (1899?1959). In dem Buch bringt der Autor die Ergebnisse ihrer leben...

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This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of Friedrich Engels as much more than junior partner to Karl Marx or second fiddle in the Marxist orchestra. The nineteen critical essays in this collection are the wor...

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This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of Friedrich Engels as much more than junior partner to Karl Marx or second fiddle in the Marxist orchestra. The nineteen critical essays in this collection are the wor...

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This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences in social status with ...

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This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences in social status with ...

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This "Open Access" book investigates the legal reality of the church through a sociological lens and from the perspective of canon law studies, the discipline which researches the law and the legal structure of the Catholic Church. It in...

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This book describes official statistics as a tool to hold up a mirror to society but also as an instrument for those who can manipulate this mirror. It addresses the precarious interaction of politics, official statistics, and ethical principles. ...

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This book describes official statistics as a tool to hold up a mirror to society but also as an instrument for those who can manipulate this mirror. It addresses the precarious interaction of politics, official statistics, and ethical principles. ...

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This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective. It investigates the political institutions, actors, and processes in eleven states, covering democr...

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This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective. It investigates the political institutions, actors, and processes in eleven states, covering democr...

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In times of globalization, digitalization and demographic change, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the fragility and complexity of the world of work. It represents the peak of a process of change in the world of work in economic, social, socio-p...

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In times of globalization, digitalization and demographic change, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the fragility and complexity of the world of work. It represents the peak of a process of change in the world of work in economic, social, socio-p...

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This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe. Whereas in our own time reproductive behaviour is regulated by demographic policy in the interest of upholding the intergenerational c...

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This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe. Whereas in our own time reproductive behaviour is regulated by demographic policy in the interest of upholding the intergenerational c...

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This open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a digital humanism. This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment with the way digitalization is...

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This book examines social inequalities in Europe, especially those caused by economic factors. It starts with the paradox of European inequality, where on the one hand, even total income inequality in Europe is significantly lower than in most par...

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This book examines social inequalities in Europe, especially those caused by economic factors. It starts with the paradox of European inequality, where on the one hand, even total income inequality in Europe is significantly lower than in most par...

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This book sheds new light on the work of Jean-Franois Champollion by uncovering a constellation of epistemological, political, and material conditions that made his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs possible. Champollions success in understandi...

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This introductory textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the main issues in contemporary philosophy of social cognition. It explains and critically discusses each of the key philosophical answers to the captivating question o...

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Dieses Buch bewertet systematisch die politischen und sozialen Werte der mehr als 1,3 Milliarden Katholiken auf der ganzen Welt, der bei weitem gröÿten Konfession des westlichen Christentums. Auf der Grundlage einer umfassenden Analyse von Daten...

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Die psychosozialen Studien im Vereinigten Konigreich sind ein vielfaltiger Arbeitsbereich, der sich durch Innovation in Theorie und empirischer Forschung auszeichnet. Die auerordentliche Lebendigkeit dieses Bereichs zeigt sich in diesem Buch, das ...

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Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der Entwicklung der Soziologie in Argentinien von Mitte der 1950er Jahre bis zur Gegenwart und zeichnet den bewegten Werdegang der Disziplin und ihre enge Beziehung zum breiteren (und turbulenten) arg...

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Dieses Buch gibt einen ÿberblick über die institutionelle und intellektuelle Entwicklung der Soziologie in Brasilien von den frühen 1900er Jahren bis heute, über Militÿrputsche, Diktaturen und Demokratien hinweg. Es zeichnet den tiefgreifende...

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Dieses Buch ist der erste umfassende Bericht über die Geschichte und den aktuellen Stand der südafrikanischen Soziologie. Es bietet ein ganzheitliches Bild des Fachs, wie es an den Universitÿten gelehrt wird, und zeigt die Entwicklung einer Dis...

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Dieses Buch ist ein Leitfaden, der Lehrern, Eltern, Berufsberatern und anderen Beteiligten helfen soll, die Bedeutung der Forderung begabter Kinder zu verstehen und sich fur diese Menschen einzusetzen, die in ihrer Entwicklung weit fortgeschritten...

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In diesem Buch wird anhand empirischer Untersuchungen die Beziehung zwischen Nationalismus, Militarismus und Mÿnnlichkeit dargestellt. Die Ko-Konstitution zwischen diesen drei Faktoren ist anfÿllig für Verÿnderungen und behindert die Versöhnu...

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