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Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice
The Standpoint of the Vulnerable
Av Tina Sikka
Häftad, 2019
560 kr
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This book is the first to undertake a gendered analysis of geoengineering and alternative energy sources. Are either of these technologies sufficiently attendant to gender issues? Do they incorporate feminist values as articulated by the renowned social philosopher Helen Longino, such as empirical …
Dynamics and Complexities of Interracial Gay Families in South Africa: A New Frontier
Gay Relationships in South Africa
Häftad, 2019
555 kr
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This book provides an in-depth account of a qualitative study on the familial arrangements and domestic settings shaping interracial gay partnerships in the South African context, and it offers both empirical and theoretical insights on the topic. While heterosexual intimate relationships, …
Queer in the Tropics
Gender and Sexuality in the Global South
Häftad, 2019
663 kr
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This book aims to reflect on how to translate “queer” in the context of Latin America. Queer theory is becoming consolidated on an international scale as an effort to understand dissident bodies and their inventions. But how can we utilize such a rich body of literature and proposals without merely …
Contemporary Bohemia: A Case Study of an Artistic Community in Philadelphia
Av Geoffrey Moss, Rachel Wildfeuer m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
555 kr
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This book presents an investigation and assessment of an artistic community that emerged within Philadelphia’s Fishtown and the nearby neighborhood of Kensington. The book starts out by examining historical and sociological work on bohemia, and then provides a detailed history of greater …
Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe
Selected Cases
Av Blahoslav Kraus, Leona Stašová m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
226 kr
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This open access book brings together a unique set of comparative data from Western and Central Europe on how contemporary families live, and discusses the similarities and differences in family lifestyles in this region. The empirical data comes from the authors‘ original research derived from …
Rethinking Georg Simmel's Social Philosophy
Häftad, 2020
555 kr
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This textbook examines interaction, reciprocity, dualism, conflict, and personality in the work of Georg Simmel. These themes, which made Simmel the founder of relational sociology, are presented uniquely in the light of intimate relations. According to Simmel, intimate relations rather than the …
Society and Economy in Venezuela
An Overview of the Bolivarian Period (1998-2018)
Häftad, 2020
555 kr
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This book presents an overview of the economic policies adopted by the Bolivarian governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela between 1998 and 2018, and the economic and social results of these policies. The recent history of Venezuela has attracted much attention due to Chávez’s and …
Parenting and Work in Poland
A Gender Studies Perspective
Häftad, 2021
336 kr
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The open access book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers and fathers engage with parenthood and also function in the labour market. Parenting in contemporary Poland is not only affected by individual preferences and …
Social Stratification in Central Europe
Long-term Developments and New Issues
Häftad, 2022
572 kr
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This book provides a comparative and contemporary account of social stratification in the Central European states of Czechia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia (the Visegrad Four – V4 group), and also by contrast with Austria. It looks at the shared history of these countries as part of the erstwhile …
Robots in Care and Everyday Life
Future, Ethics, Social Acceptance
Av Uwe Engel
Häftad, 2022
346 kr
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This open access book presents detailed findings about the ethical, legal, and social acceptance of robots in the German and European context. The key resource is the Bremen AI Delphi survey of scientists and politicians and a related population survey. The focus is on trust in robotic assistance, …
Social Science Research in the Arab World and Beyond
A Guide for Students, Instructors and Researchers
Av Mark Tessler
Häftad, 2022
326 kr
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This book presents and discusses the logic and method of social science research adapted mainly for instruction at Arab universities and for research in Arab countries, but with applicability beyond the region. It illustrates major concepts and methods pertaining to research with examples of …
Collective Consciousness and the Phenomenology of Émile Durkheim
Häftad, 2023
555 kr
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The book is addressed to scholars and students in sociology and in phenomenological philosophy. It presents the work of Durkheim in a new light and discusses the prevailing interpretations in the collective intentionality approach. It also provides a fresh conception of collective consciousness …
Employment and Tourism
New Research Perspectives in the Social Sciences
Av Christophe Guibert, Bertrand Réau
Häftad, 2023
555 kr
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This book proposes a new and original analysis of tourism employment in order to understand the multiple dimensions (economic, cultural, temporal, geographical, etc.) of this cross-cutting sector. It offers an overview of French knowledge, mainly in sociology, anthropology, geography and law, in …
NEETs in European rural areas
Individual features, support systems and policy measures
Av Francisco Simões, Emre Erdogan
Häftad, 2024
336 kr
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This open access book constitutes a transnational and multidisciplinary inquiry of the most pressing challenges faced by young people Not in Employment, nor in Education or Training (NEET) in rural areas across Europe. . Rural NEETs are one of the most invisible segments of the youth population, in …
Sexualised Governmentalities
Critical Perspectives on Homosexism
Häftad, 2024
486 kr
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This book critically examines the concept of sexualised governmentalities, a framework for understanding the evolving discourse and power dynamics surrounding discrimination on the basis of sexual practices. Central to this exploration is the shift from traditional heteronormative perspectives to a …
Bruno Latour in the Semiotic Turn
An Inquiry into the Networks of Meaning
Häftad, 2024
555 kr
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This open access book highlights the link between Bruno Latour's works and the semiotic perspective on social phenomena analysis. It identifies and relaunches a dialogue that was as heated as it was fruitful, but still little recognized within the social sciences. It asks why the theory of …
Sociology of C. Wright Mills
Power, Politics, and Knowledge
Av François Denord, Bertrand Réau
Häftad, 2025
610 kr
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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 commitments, this book weaves together …
Youth Political Activism in Italy
Participation in Radical-Left Groups
Av Carlo Genova, Martina Tazzara
Häftad, 2025
555 kr
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This book asks readers to rethink youth activism in the political field as a lifestyle whose sense goes beyond the logic of political action. Reviewing the debate on the relationship between young people, politics and political participation, it shows that a significant portion of young people are …
Theories of Social Conflict
From Overview to Conceptual Development
Häftad, 2025
1101 kr
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After a low-threshold introduction, this book offers an orientation on various theories of social conflict and their potential for understanding conflicts in order to be able to deal with them constructively. Classic theories of social conflict are presented briefly first. Based on this, two …
Capitalism, State Power, and the Production of Extremism
Av Tahir Abbas
Häftad, 2025
555 kr
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This book develops a comprehensive Marxist theory of radicalisation by synthesising and extending the author’s two decades of research in this area. The central argument of this book is that radicalisation cannot be fully understood without examining capitalism’s role in creating and exacerbating …
Feminism, Power and Public Opinion in Mexico
Fighting for Civil Repair
Av Luz Angela Cardona Acuña, Nelson Arteaga Botello
Häftad, 2026
317 kr
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This book shows how four feminist mobilizations in the early 2020s in Mexico expressed widespread rejection of harassment, sexual violence, and femicide. It discusses the cultural environment in Mexico that has allowed violence and femicides to be interpreted as a serious situation, to the point …
Understanding Polarization in Brazil
Inequalities, Differences, Political Choices
Av Sérgio Costa
Häftad, 2026
346 kr
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This Open access book explores the connections between everyday life, institutional politics, and social hierarchies that underlie the disputes between progressive forces and the radical right. It studies the case of Brazil, which is especially suggestive, given the particular combination of …
Sociology of Mental Health
Selected Topics from Forty Years 1970s-2010s
Av Robert J. Johnson, R. Jay Turner m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
569 kr
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This volume provides an overview of mental health research conducted by sociologists. It discusses dominant themes such as stress, the community and mental life, family structure, social relations and recovery. The unique contribution of sociology to the study of mental health has a long history …
Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia
A National Study
Av Tiffany Jones, Andrea del Pozo de Bolger m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
683 kr
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This Briefs is the first national study on female-to-male (FtM) transgender people’s experiences in Australia. It describes an extensive study that fills the current gap in Australian research on the specific experiences and beliefs about transition for contemporary Australian FtM transgender …
Understanding the Course of Social Reality
The Necessity of Institutional and Ethical Transformations of Utopian Flavour
Häftad, 2016
555 kr
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This book offers a comparison between our earthly society and the society of a hypothetical twin planet with the aim to understand and deal with some of the main problems of our global society, as well as to advance interaction with some extra-terrestrial society no less advanced than ours that …
Postcolonial Reconstruction: A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz
Häftad, 2016
608 kr
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This book presents a close reading of the work of the Mexican writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, Octavio Paz. It does so from the specific perspective of sociology and the more general perspective of the social sciences. The book identifies opportunities for relating Paz’ sociological ideas to …
Artistic Enclaves in the Post-Industrial City
A Case Study of Lawrenceville Pittsburgh
Häftad, 2017
555 kr
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This SpringerBriefs presents a case study and theoretical analysis of an artistic enclave that emerged within Lawrenceville Pittsburgh. It briefly describes the history of greater Pittsburgh, and Lawrenceville’s transition from thriving blue-collar community to depopulated low-income neighborhood …
Making of Resistance
Brazil’s Landless Movement and Narrative Enactment
Häftad, 2017
555 kr
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This Briefs advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises. It explores the endurance of social movements over time, by developing analytical tools to study how social movement heterogeneities are simultaneously acknowledged and articulated together, …
Achieving Social Impact
Sociology in the Public Sphere
Häftad, 2017
609 kr
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This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence for all), a research community based in Barcelona, showing how social transformation combines scientific excellence with the political and social impact of the research. Analyzing the …
Genealogical History of Society
Häftad, 2017
569 kr
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This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the process of formation of the modern concept of society as an objective entity from the 1820s onwards, thus helping to better understand the shaping of the modern world and the nature of the current crisis of modernity. The concept has exerted …
