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Fears and Fantasies: Modernity, Gender, and the Rural-Urban Divide explores the ways in which fantasies about returning to, or revitalising, rural life helped to define Western modernity in the early twentieth century. Scholarship addressing responses to modernity has...
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The Holy Spirit and Salvation in African Christian Theology challenges the dominant understanding of the Holy Spirit in African Christian salvific discourse.The most prevalent approach in reflections on the Holy Spirit and salvation in African Christian theology insists...
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What are the critical gaps in thinking about reflexivity and social research? How is reflexive practice shaped by the contexts and cultures in which researchers work? How might research practice respond to twin demands of excellence and relevance in the...
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SAGE has been a major force shaping the field of qualitative methods, not just in its specialist methods journals like Qualitative Inquiry but in the 'empirical' journals such as Social Studies of Science. Delving into SAGE's deep backlist of qualitative research...
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In a world where global flows of people and commodities are on the increase, crimes related to illegal trafficking are creating new concerns for society. This, in turn, has brought about new and contentious forms of regulation, surveillance and control. There is a...
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Gender, Crime and Victimisation is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book, exploring gender patterns in both offending and victimisation. It offers a thorough examination of how these patterns in society are variously established and represented, researched, explained...
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Ziel dieser Arbeit ist, durch eine interdisziplinäre Annäherung an Hermann Hesses Prosa die zentrale Rolle des sinceritas-Konzeptes in der hesseschen Poetik hervorzuheben. Sinceritas erweist sich als dynamischer Begriffskomplex, der immer der Epoche gemäß definiert...
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«Nun meine ich, dass es überhaupt nicht selbstverständlich ist, das Geschlechterverhältnis und damit auch die ‘Konstruktion von Geschlecht’ auf Identitätsfestschreibungen zurückzuführen. Oder nochmals anders ausgedrückt: Es ist überhaupt nicht selbstverständlich, die...
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If the new cultural sociology is to gain firm grounds, it should rediscover the classic studies on cultural dynamics and cultural systems. This book contributes to a better understanding of Florian Znaniecki as an eminent culturologist and the lasting relevance of his...
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The re-conceptualization of South Africa as a democracy in 1994 has influenced the production and reception of texts in this nation and around the globe.The literature emerging after 1994 provides a vision for reconciling the fragmented past produced by the brutality of...
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Surveillance has a long-standing relationship with crime and its identification, prevention, detection and punishment. With information on each citizen spanning up to 700 databases, and over 4 million CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom alone, this book explores how new...
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This book is a major source for scholars of the latest American poetry. These exciting essays comprise energy and documented discussions on experimentalism, multiculturalism, hyperspace, and gender. Anthologies and little magazines form the matrix for this exploration...
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Although Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2004) was the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize, she occupies a curious position in the larger black canon. Despite her importance, with the exception of very few critical accounts of her work, she has been usually...
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Tagtäglich müssen Millionen von Menschen mit den Folgen des Verlustes ihrer Arbeit umgehen. Dabei können zum einen die mit einer Arbeit verbundenen psychischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Funktionen verloren gehen. Daneben sind die Betroffenen oftmals gesellschaftlichen...
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Die Arbeit befasst sich mit einem in der juristischen wie politischen Diskussion weitgehend vernachlässigten Institut – dem ehrenamtlichen Richter in der allgemeinen Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit. Grundlage der theoretischen Untersuchung bildet zunächst die Darstellung der...
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Since 1997, advertisements for lifestyle drugs have saturated the U.S. airwaves, print media, and the Internet. Viewers are asked to see their children’s difficulty in school as attention deficit disorder, their worry as anxiety, and their flagging sex life as...
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"A treasure trove for sociolinguistic researchers and students alike. Edited by three leading sociolinguists, the 39 chapters cover a wealth of valuable material... And the cast list reads like a veritable Who's Who of sociolinguistics, with a refreshing number of...
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This book draws on both the historical context and contemporary research evidence to present the roles of the Mental Health Social Worker, the Approved Mental Health Professional and Best Interest Assessor, within an ethical framework. Codes of practice and statutory...
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The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research is a comprehensive and authoritative source on qualitative research methods.
The Handbook compiles accessible yet vigorous academic contributions by respected academics from the fast-growing field of...
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This SAGE Handbook integrates basic research on social dimensions of aging. It presents programmatic applications of research in areas not often seen in Handbooks including imprisonment, technology and aging, urban society aged, and elderly migration. The authors...
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