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  • Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Mapping the Present Heidegger Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History

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    Book Synopsis"Mapping the Present" assesses the relationship between Foucault and Heidegger, particularly on the issue of space and history. It suggests that space and history need to be rethought, and combined as a spatial history, rather than as a history of space.Trade Review"Offers a powerful reinterpretation of Foucault and reveals the frequently neglected significance of the work of Heidegger to Foucault's intellectual project. Mapping the Present provides analytically rigorous yet accessible reinterpretations of relevant works of both Foucault and Heidegger and demonstrates the crucial importance of spatial relations in the exercise of modern forms of power."--Barry Smart"A marvellous book--critical and generous, clear and sophisticated, wise and witty. For those interested in the project of a spatial history, Elden has opened up wholly new ways of thinking about (and working with) Heidegger and Foucault that are alert to the philosophical and theoretical complexities of their writings and to the political and ethical responsibilities of a history of the present."--Derek Gregory"...excellent study...It is a rich and complex book, which is at once an interpretation of Heidegger and Foucault, an argument for the importance of Heidegger for understanding Foucault and a forceful case for the claim that Foucault's Nietzsche is a Nietzsche mediated by Heidegger...it is an amazing book in the sense that it can handle such a variety of topics, and thinkers and issues and so many layers of argument in a concise, readable and yet immaculate manner. Stuart Elden is a master of brevity. The main body of the book is supplemented by nearly fifty pages of notes and an excellent bibliography that will be of great help to those who want to pursue the issues of their interest further, leaving the book accessible to the 'general' reader." -- The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2005 -- The Journal of Natural and Social PhilosophyTable of ContentsSpace and history in being and time; in the shadow of Nazism - reading Holderlin and Nietzsche; art, technology, place and the political; towards a spatial history; the spaces of power.

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Culture of Fear Revisited RiskTaking and the Morality of Low Expectation

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    Book SynopsisArgues that the greater danger in our culture is the tendency to fear achievements representing a more constructive side of humanity. This work relates the author's thinking on the sociology of fear to the thought of earlier thinkers such as Darwin and Fred and to the sociological tradition of Durkheim, C Wright Mills, Anthony Giddens and others.Trade ReviewMentioned in Psychologies (main) in article by Hannah Borno, 1 March 2009Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The explosion of risks; 2. Why do we panic?; 3. the culture of abuse; 4. A world of risky strangers; 5. Who can you trust?; 6. The new etiquette; 7. The Politics of Fear; 8. Towards a sociology of fear; Bibliography; Index.

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  • Vanderbilt University Press Artful Assassins

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  • Vanderbilt University Press The Woman in the Violence

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  • Vanderbilt University Press Body Battlegrounds

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  • Vanderbilt University Press Body Battlegrounds

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  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Global Formation

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    Book SynopsisThe fall of communism, the emergence of ''the information age,'' and the expansion of economic globalism are the points of departure for this new edition of Chase-Dunn''s landmark book. The author shows how these seemingly new developments fit with earlier patterns of global formation and change, extending the influential model that drew wide attention to this award-winning book. The new edition also evaluates recent major studies of the modern world-system and assesses the implications for the future of the contemporary system.Trade ReviewIn this impressive book, Chase-Dunn . . . explains in masterly fashion the political and social factors that make the capitalist system so good at producing wealth. -- Susan Strange * Times Higher Education *[T]he major statement to date of American world-systems theory and research. -- Walter L. Goldfrank, University of California, Santa CruzThe second edition of Global Formation brings us doubly up to date on Chase-Dunn's contributions to the joint effort. * International Sociology Review *An updated edition extends a world-systems structural modelof the world economy to take into account events that have occurred since 1985, including the emergence of the information age, the expansion of economic globalism, & the fall of communism..... * Sociological Abstracts, April 2000 *An updated edition extends a world-systems structural modelof the world economy to take into account events that have occurred since 1985, including the emergence of the information age, the expansion of economic globalism, & the fall of communism. * Sociological Abstracts, April 2000 *Table of ContentsPart 1 Part I: The Whole System Chapter 2 The Deep Structure: Real Capitalism Chapter 3 Constants, Cycles and Trends Chapter 4 Stages of Capitalism or World-System Cycles? The World-System Since 1945: What Has Changed Chapter 5 World Culture, Normative Integration and Community Part 6 Part II: States and Interstate System Chapter 7 States and Capitalism Chapter 8 Geopolitics and Capitalism: One Logic or Two? Warfare and World-Systems Chapter 9 Rise and Decline of Hegemonic Core States Part 10 Part III: Zones of the World System Chapter 11 Core and Periphery Chapter 12 Reproduction of the Core/Periphery Relationship

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Beyond Alternative Food Networks Italys Solidarity Purchase Groups

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  • University of the West Indies Press SerpentHandling Believers

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  • Taylor & Francis Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat

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  • Whitaker House,U.S. Strongmans His NameWhats His Game Book 1

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  • Taylor & Francis Inc The Winding Passage Sociological Essays and Journeys

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    Book SynopsisThis collection brings together Daniel Bell''s best work in essay form. It deals with a variety of topics: technology and culture, religion and personal identity, intellectuals and their societies, and the uses and abuses of doctrines of social class. The Winding Passage demonstrates the author''s continuing concern with the salient issues of our times, while its inspiration draws upon an older, humanistic sociological tradition.In a central essay on intellectuals, Bell examines the term new class and calls it a muddle. Though the idea of class has been relevant to Western industrial society for the past two hundred years, the concept is less useful for examining Communist states, the Third World, and even the emerging postindustrial sectors of the West. Bell seeks to establish the idea of situs, the competitive conflict of functional groups for shares in the state budgetary process.A more personal note is struck in the final section of the bTable of ContentsForeword, Preface, Part I - Techne and Themis, Part II - Prophets of Utopia, Part III - The Intellectuals and The New Class, Part IV - Directions of Social Change, Part V - Culture and Beliefs, Acknowledgements, Index

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    £59.36

  • Gateways Books & Tapes,US Warriors Way

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    Trade Review"Warrior's Way offers an uncompromising view of life through the eyes of one who sees more clearly than most--one man's experiences that mirror the universal quest for understanding, for spirit, for peace." --Dan Millman, author, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

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  • John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of Citizenship

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    Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Citizenship introduces the theoretical foundations of and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world, in local, national and global contexts. Key readings provide a cross-cultural perspective on citizenship practices, and an individual citizen's relationship with the state. Introduces a range of exciting and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world Provides key readings for students and researchers who wish to gain an understanding of citizenship practices, and an individual's relationship with the state in a global context Offers an anthropological perspective on citizenship, the self and political agency, with a focus on encounters between citizens and the state in education, law, development, and immigration policy Provides students with an understanding of the theoretical foundations of citizenship, as characterized by liberal and civic republican ideas of political bTrade Review"Lazar should be commended for her impressive introduction to the volume, which is in itself a valuable introduction to the anthropology of citizenship." (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 February 2015) Table of ContentsIntroduction 1Sian Lazar Part I Theoretical Foundations 23 Introduction 25 I.1 Civic Republican Traditions 27 1 The Democratic Citizen 29Pericles 2 The Politics 31Aristotle 3 The Social Contract, 1762 35Jean-Jacques Rousseau 4 The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man, 1951 38Hannah Arendt I.2 Liberal Traditions 41 5 Two Treatises of Government, 1689 43John Locke 6 Declaration of the Rights of Man, France, 1789 47 7 The Second Constitution of Haiti (Hayti), May 20, 1805 49 8 Citizenship and Social Class, 1950 52T. H. Marshall The Liberal–Communitarian Debate 61 9 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference, 1986 63Iris Marion Young I.3 Constructing an Anthropology of Citizenship 73 10 Cultural Citizenship in San Jose, California, 1994 75Renato Rosaldo 11 Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States, 1996 79Aihwa Ong 12 Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship, 1999 93James Holston Part II Ethnographic Explorations 99 II.1 Citizenship Regimes, Subject-Formation and the State 101 Introduction 103 13 Education for Credit: Development as Citizenship Project in Bolivia, 2004 107Sian Lazar 14 Producing Good Citizens: Languages, Bodies, Emotions, 2008 120Véronique Benei 15 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations, 2004 139Adriana Petryna Inclusive Citizenship and Claims-Making from Below 147 16 Reframing Agrarian Citizenship: Land, Life and Power in Brazil, 2009 149Hannah Wittman 17 Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship, 2010 163Vinh-Kim Nguyen II.2 Citizenship beyond the Nation-State 177 Introduction 179 18 The Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Nationalism, En-Gendering Diaspora, 2005 181Lok C. D. Siu 19 Transborder Citizenship: An Outcome of Legal Pluralism within Transnational Social Fields, 2005 196Nina Glick Schiller 20 Difficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice and Political Identification in Gaza, 2007 208Ilana Feldman Urban Citizenship 227 21 The Implosion of Modern Public Life, 2000 229Teresa P. R. Caldeira 22 Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State and the Logic of the Market, 1999 248Dorothy J. Solinger II.3 The Citizen and the Non-citizen 267 Introduction 269 23 The War of ‘Who is Who’: Autochthony, Nationalism and Citizenship in the Ivoirian Crisis, 2006 271Ruth Marshall-Fratani 24 Practicing German Citizenship, 2008 292Ruth Mandel 25 The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant ‘Illegality’, 2005 309Nicholas de Genova Index 326

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  • Palgrave Macmillan Epistemology Fieldwork and Anthropology

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    Book SynopsisEpistemology, Fieldwork, and Anthropology explores the space between epistemology and methodology, offering a systematic examination of the empirical foundations of interpretations in anthropology. Trade Review"The author's theoretical erudition and practical research experience more than 40 years ensures that no choice is taken for granted, but is subjected to reasoning. The book carves out a very important niche for itself between more abstract epistemology and a field hand book." - Christian Lund, Professor of Development Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark "Indeed, a basic tenor in the book is a determined search for guarantees that qualitative does not become synonymous with impressionistic." - Peter Geschiere, Professor of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands "Anthropology has been waiting for this book for a long time. It is not only a felicitous marriage between French rationalism and American pragmatism, but also a response to the increasingly tired ideological wars that pit objectivity against subjectivity and culture against text, especially from a North American perspective." - Bob White, Professor of Anthropology, University of Montreal, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introduction: Empirical Adequacy, Theory, Anthropology 2. The Policy of Fieldwork. Data Production in Anthropology And Qualitative Approaches 3. Emic and the Actors' Point Of View 4. From Observation To Description 5. The Methodological 'I': Implication and Explicitation in Fieldwork 6. Methodological Populism and Ideological Populism in Anthropology 7. The Violence Done To Data: On A Few Figures of Over-Interpretation 8. Common Sense and Scholarly Sense. Conclusion Postface: Researcher And Citizen: Science And Ideology

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Durkheim and the Internet

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    Book SynopsisJan Blommaert is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.Trade ReviewBlommaert's book is a theoretical tour-de-force, entertaining, challenging and immensely enlightening. It encompasses a wide swath of thinking about the relationship between language and society, both in history and now. * Internet Pragmatics *Once again, Blommaert challenges sociolinguists to reflect on our discipline in new and exciting ways. While we have long devoted much energy to the linguistic half of the sociolinguistic equation, here Blommaert makes a compelling argument for engaging more fully with the social half, and for the relevance of classical sociology to understanding the new ways language is being used in the age of globalisation and digital communication. * Rodney H. Jones, Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Reading, UK *In this concise but absorbing book, Blommaert provides a highly persuasive argument for why sociology should engage seriously with research into language. In doing so he details the profound and wide-ranging benefits that the study of communicative interaction can offer for a theorization of society in general. The book is likely to become essential reading for both sociolinguists, sociologists, and those interested in the ways that digital media are transforming the modern world. * Philip Seargeant, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, The Open University, UK *Table of Contents1. Sociolinguists as sociologists 2. Durkheim’s social fact 2.1 Norms and concepts 2.2 Integration and anomie 2.3 Durkheim’s impact and the challenge of 'Rational Choice' 3. Sociolinguistics and the social fact: Avec Durkheim 3.1 Language as a normative collective system: ordered indexicality 3.2 Language variation: dialects, accents & languaging 3.3 Inequality, voice, repertoire 3.4 Language, the social fact 4. What Durkheim could not have known: Après Durkheim 4.1 Preliminary: A theory of vernacular globalization 4.2 An indexical-polynomic theory of social norms 4.3 A genre theory of social action 4.4 A microhegemonic theory of identity 4.5 A theory of “light” social groups 4.6 A polycentric theory of social integration 4.7 Constructures 4.8 Anachronism as power 5. The sociological re-imagination References

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Becoming a Citizen Linguistic Trials and Negotiations in the UK Advances in Sociolinguistics

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    Book SynopsisKamran Khan is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain.Trade ReviewThis is a book that inspires reflection. It is thoughtful, accessibly written and scholarly, with rich theoretical insights emerging out of careful ethnography ... The book has much to offer a wide readership, from sociolinguistic ethnographers to those involved in policy and delivery. * Journal of Sociolinguistics *The book provides a timely contribution to understanding how language testing policy related to citizenship is taken up, resisted and discursively reconstructed by recent migrants and refugees. * Language Problems and Language Planning *A fine example of scholarship that is informed by contemporary developments in politics and policy ... It combines skilful storytelling with academic rigour. * MoneyControl.com *What makes this book unique and a must-read for scholars in the fields of migration studies, language testing and related areas is the ethnographic approach that allows to foreground a subject perspective and to trace in detail how a journey to citizenship is experienced by an applicant, how he deals with the challenges and requirements of the procedure and how subject positions and aspirations are negotiated and reevaluated during this process. * Brigitta Busch, University of Vienna, Austria *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Trials of a citizen 2. Four forms of becoming 3. Testing for citizenship 4. Ideological becoming 5. Education as a space of becoming 6. The ceremony 7. Conclusion References Index

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  • Bloomsbury USA 3pl Free Zone Scientology

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    Book SynopsisAled Thomas is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, Visiting Fellow at the Open University, UK and co-founder of alt-ac.uk.Trade ReviewA major work on the lives of Scientologists beyond the Church of Scientology is long overdue. Aled Thomas has produced a timely and insightful book. The work moves scholarship forward from the study of Scientology to the study of Scientologies. * Stephen E. Gregg, University of Wolverhampton, UK *Aled Thomas gives us an ethnographic look into a fascinating phenomenon on the alternative religious landscape: Scientology as interpreted and practiced among those who left the Church of Scientology or were never members in the first place. This book is highly recommended for scholars of new religions and is a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship on Scientology and Scientologists. * Donald A. Westbrook, San Jose State University, USA *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Researching ‘Scientologies’ Part 1: From Scientology to Scientologies 2. The Church of Scientology and the ‘Free Zone’: A Complex Relationship 3. Auditing and the ‘Tech’: The Basics 4. ‘You are YOU in a body’: Negotiating the Self in Scientology Part 2: Fluidity and Boundaries 5. Authenticity and Innovation: The ‘True Tech’ and ‘Mistakes by Hubbard’ 6. ‘Doing Scientology’: E-Meters, Objects, and Material Culture 7. Moving Forward: Reflections on Free Zone Scientology and the Wider Study of Religions 8. Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Notes References Index

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  • Hyperion The Center Cannot Hold

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    Book SynopsisA much-praised memoir of living and surviving mental illness as well as a stereotype-shattering look at a tenacious woman whose brain is her best friend and her worst enemy (Time). Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry, and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life, and still has ongoing major episodes of the illness. The Center Cannot Hold is the eloquent, moving story of Elyn''s life, from the first time that she heard voices speaking to her as a young teenager, to attempted suicides in college, through learning to live on her own as an adult in an often terrifying world. Saks discusses frankly the paranoia, the inability to tell imaginary fears from real ones, the voices in her head telling her to kill herself (and to harm others), as well as the incredibly difficult obstacles she overcame to bec

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sikhism A Guide for the Perplexed

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    Book SynopsisArvind-Pal Singh Mandair is an Associate Professor and holder of the S.B.S.C. Endowed Chair in Sikh Studies at the University of Michigan, USA. His earlier books include: Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality and the Politics of Translation (2009), Teachings of the Sikh Gurus (with Christopher Shackle, 2005), Secularism and Religion-Making (2009). He is a founding editor of the journal Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory.Trade ReviewSikhism – A Guide for the Perplexed is an insightful and well-crafted introduction to the study of Sikhism as a dynamic and internally fluid tradition. Mandair offers a novel approach in this introductory text that avoids the common pitfalls of historicism and that denaturalizes the tendency to frame Sikhi as purely religious experience within the parameters of the secular-religious binary. Focusing on key issues that reflect what animates Sikh activity and the lived experiences of Sikhs today, Mandair is able to achieve what might seem incommensurable objectives: introducing novices to a field of study, while challenging those already engaged in Sikh Studies with new insights and perspectives. Intriguing and at times provocative, this text will without doubt stand out among introductory texts to Sikhism for its interdisciplinary format, its success in engaging readers intellectually, and its capacity to actively relate ideas from the history and philosophy of religion in a way in which the encounter between these disciplines and Sikhi as an emerging philosophy and way of life remains always in sight. -- Michael Nijhawan, Associate Professor of Sociology, York University, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements \ Introduction \ Part I: Evolution of the Sikh Tradition \ 1. Guru Nanak and His Early Successors \ 2. Martyrdom and Militancy: Rise of the Khalsa \ 3. Modernity and Colonialism \ Part II: Teachings and Practices \ 4. Way of Life \ 5. Sikh Philosophy \ Part III: Pluralism & its Challenges \ 6. Sikh Ethics \ 7. Sikhs and the Public Sphere \ Glossary of Punjabi Terms \ Notes \ Index

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  • Rowman & Littlefield Provocateur

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    Book SynopsisIn the fourth edition of Provocateur, sociologist Anthony J. Cortese offers an up-to-date, critical analysis of modern advertising. Though we often hear that we live in a period of unprecedented gender and racial equality, both racism and sexism persist in a most telling areathe ads with which we are inundated every day in newspapers and magazines and online. Cortese examines the ideologies surrounding gender and race by delving into the presentation of women, ethnic minorities, children, and anyone who is qualified as other in society. Featuring a fresh selection of nearly 400 advertisements, this edition includes new scholarship from gender, racial, and cultural studies, new chapters on gay and lesbian marketing and aggression and violence in the media, an expanded chapter on race in advertising, and more. This edition is ideal for sociology, communication, and gender and ethnic studies courses as well as for use as go-to reference.Trade ReviewA fascinating examination of an underexplored aspect of advertising and its impact on all of our lives. -- Jean KilbourneCortese’s analysis should motivate readers to pay more careful attention to the multitude of images that daily bombard us through advertising. Cortese teaches readers how to deconstruct and critically respond to the sexism, racism, and heterosexism embedded in many advertisements, making Provocateur as much a call to action as it is a textbook. -- Claire M. Renzetti, professor and chair of sociology and Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair at the Center for Research on Violence against Women, University of KentuckyCortese continues to offer timely and important insights into how women, members of ethnic and racial minorities, and members of LGBT communities are framed and imaged in advertising. -- Jim Snow, Loyola University MarylandPraise for Previous Editions This volume is an excellent historical and up-to-date analysis of how advertising targets ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, as well as white heterosexuals. Academic readers will find eclectic scholarship representing feminist theory, sociology of advertising, ethnic studies, dramaturgy, postmodernism, and media literacy. In addition, Cortese provides practical advice on how readers can combat their own cultural conditioning, which may be racist. An outline for evaluating advertising is also included as an appendix. These guides, along with the excellent analysis throughout, make this an outstandingly useful volume. Excellent bibliography and index. Essential. * CHOICE *The author takes a close look behind the scenes of contemporary culture, examining the hidden messages and social meaning of advertising and its use of images of women and minorities. * Business Horizons *A well-researched, thoughtful examination of an aspect of advertising that is seldom discussed and would be an excellent textbook or supplemental reading for advertising, media in society, and women and minorities in media courses. * Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly *Cortese asks some very good questions, and he has a good eye for recent trends. * Ideology and Cultural Production *Table of ContentsPreface to the Fourth Edition 1. Representations, Multiculturalism, and Mass Media 2. Visual Attraction, Body Display, and Advertising 3. Gay and Lesbian Advertising 4. Constructed Bodies, Deconstructing Gender: Sexism in Advertising 5. Aggression and Violence in Mass Media 6. Symbolic Racism in Advertising 7. Ethnic Marketing 8. Speed and Visual Fragments: Toward Postmodern Consciousness Appendix: Advertising Evaluation Glossary References Index

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  • SAGE Publications, Inc Schools and Society

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    Book SynopsisThis comprehensive anthology features classical readings on the Sociology of Education, as well as current, original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated Sixth Edition uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework for understanding and analyzing the book’s range of topics. Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, and new co-editor Jenny M. Stuber, all experienced instructors in this subject, have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the field’s major theoretical perspectives, methods, and issues.The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and neighborhood influences on learning, growing inequality in schools, and charter schools.   

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  • John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Invention of the 'Underclass': A Study in the

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    Book SynopsisAt century’s close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban “underclass.” Soon the scarecrow category and its demonic imagery were exported to the United Kingdom and continental Europe and agitated the international study of exclusion in the postindustrial metropolis. In this punchy book, Loïc Wacquant retraces the invention and metamorphoses of this racialized folk devil, from the structural conception of Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal to the behavioral notion of Washington think-tank experts to the neo-ecological formulation of sociologist William Julius Wilson. He uncovers the springs of the sudden irruption, accelerated circulation, and abrupt evaporation of the “underclass” from public debate, and reflects on the implications for the social epistemology of urban marginality. What accounts for the “lemming effect” that drew a generation of scholars of race and poverty over a scientific cliff? What are the conditions for the formation and bursting of “conceptual speculative bubbles”? What is the role of think tanks, journalism, and politics in imposing “turnkey problematics” upon social researchers? What are the special quandaries posed by the naming of dispossessed and dishonored populations in scientific discourse and how can we reformulate the explosive question of “race” to avoid these troubles? Answering these questions constitutes an exacting exercise in epistemic reflexivity in the tradition of Bachelard, Canguilhem and Bourdieu, and it issues in a clarion call for social scientists to defend their intellectual autonomy against the encroachments of outside powers, be they state officials, the media, think tanks, or philanthropic organizations. Compact, meticulous and forcefully argued, this study in the politics of social science knowledge will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, urban studies, ethnic studies, geography, intellectual history, the philosophy of science and public policy.Trade Review“Loïc Wacquant's exploration of the rise and decline of the 'underclass' concept features extraordinary archival research. This important and unique book is destined to become a standard reference in studies ranging from the sociology of knowledge to urban poverty.”William Julius Wilson, author of The Truly Disadvantaged“In this thoroughly historicized account, Wacquant dissects the politics, panic, and obscurantism that accompanied the ‘underclass’ debate in the closing decades of the twentieth century – at the expense of the communities the concept purported to represent. It is an essential guide to a more ethical, genuinely reflexive sociology.”Alice O’Connor, author of Poverty Knowledge ''The Invention of the 'Underclass' is a must-read for specialists and students of urban poverty, social policy, and social theory.''Social Forces "there is much to enjoy and admire here. The investigation is focused, rich and detailed and the writing is robust and engaging.... the book is an excellent addition to scholarship in this area and will undoubtedly become an important reference point for future sociological work on the construction of undeserving and marginalised groups.''Critical Social Policy "Wacquant has erected a critical yield sign that social scientists should heed but are likely to ignore. . . . if we are to learn anything from Wacquant’s must-read text, it should be that the line between use and abuse of a concept is perilously thin."Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"[A]n interesting exploration of an uncomfortable episode in the history of social science."Critical CriminologyTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Prologue PART ONE ~ THE TALE 1. Between concept and myth: genealogy of a shifty category 2. “The tragedy of the underclass”: policy theater and scholarship 3. The three faces of the “underclass” 4. The strange career of a racialized folk devil 5. Implications for the social epistemology of urban marginality PART TWO ~ LESSONS FROM THE TALE Quandaries and consequences of naming Forging robust concepts Epistemic opportunity costs Bandwagons, speculation, and turnkeys Coda: Resolving the trouble with “race” in the 21st century Appendix: The afterlives of the “underclass” Bibliography Index

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  • Wilfrid Laurier University Press The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, 1898-1948

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    Book SynopsisWhat binds together Louis Riel's former secretary, a railroad inventor, a Montreal comedienne, an early proponent of Canada's juvenile system and a prominent Canadian architect? Socialists, suffragists, musicians, artists - from 1898 to 1948, these and some 550 other individual Canadian Bahá'ís helped create a movement described as the second most widespread religion in the world. Using diaries, memoirs, official reports, private correspondence, newspapers, archives and interviews, Will C. van den Hoonaard has created the first historical account of Bahá'ís in Canada. In addition, The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 clearly depicts the dynamics and the struggles of a new religion in a new country. This is a story of modern spiritual heroes - people who changed the lives of others through their devotion to the Bahá'í ideals, in particular to the belief that the earth is one country and all of humankind are its citizens. Thirty-nine original photographs effectively depict persons and events influencing the growth of the Bahá'í movement in Canada. The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 makes an original contribution to religious history in Canada and provides a major sociological reference tool, as well as a narrative history that can be used by scholars and Bahá'ís alike for many years to come.Trade Review``van den Hoonaard has produced a book that I am sure will be considered for many years to come, not only as the standard history of the Canadian Bahãi'ã community but also as a model for anyone wishing to produce a history of any Bahãi'ã community or indeed of any religious movement.'' -- Moojan Momen -- Bahãi'ã Studies Bulletin``Van den Hoonaard's dual perspective makes this book of interest to both historians and sociologists of religion. Anyone interested in the Bahãi'ã faith will find the book a very useful introduction.'' -- Henry G. MacLeod -- Canadian Book Review Annual``The research was conducted over a period of ten years. The result is an exhaustive detailing of how the Bahãi'ã faith came to be established in Canada--where it occurred and who was involved.... The strength of van den Hoonaard's account is the detailed research on members....The fact that he is able to study the contours of the religion over a relatively long time span makes the study particularly interesting and unusual. It is also the only extensive study of the Bahãi'ã community in Canada. As such, it will be of surpassing interest to all Canadian Bahãi'ã s, and a useful addition to the sparse sociological literature on specific religious groups in Canada. -- J. Graham Morgan, Dalhousie University -- Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology``While taking a narrative historical approach, van den Hoonaard also demonstrates considerable familiarity with the sociological literature on new religious movements, noting where the Bahãi'ã s follow or depart from the patterns of other groups.... [T]he book provides a wealth of information about how a new religion sank its roots deeply into Canadian soil.'' -- Robert H. Stockman, DePaul University -- Nova Religio``Will van den Hoonaard has performed a commendable service to sociologists of religion by providing one of the few sociological analyses of a national Bahãi'ã community.... Overall, van den Hoonaard accomplished his objectives. His solid scholarship reveals the struggles of the early Canadian Bahãi'ã community, and its growing identity as an independent religious movement with maturing institutional boundaries.... Van den Hoonaard provides sociologists with an important text for comprehending the extensive array of religious movements in a pluralistic cultural marketplace.... His combination of qualitative and quantitative methodology is skillfully woven into a coherent narrative of the early history of the Canadian Bahãi'ã community.'' -- Mike McMullen, University of Houston-Clear Lake``One of the book's strengths is the author's ability to bring out the eminent ordinariness of the early Canadian Bahãi'ã s and how a typical population cross-section of any town could accomplish something so extraordinary. The prime importance of this book is it shows that in order to understand how a foreign religion can implant itself in a new environment, multiple paradigms for different periods in time are needed.... The author's research has produced a theory, that of `religious singleness,' which merits further investigation by scholars. Religious singleness refers to individuals who belong to a religion different from that of their family members, colleagues, and associates....It is hoped that the author's theory and work receive the attention they deserve in the academic world.'' -- Loni Bramson-Lerche -- The Journal of Bahãi'ã Studies``Meticulously and with myriads of details, van den Hoonaard has succeeded in uncovering the history and identity formation of this group which today numbers 15,000 out of a world total of about 5 million members.... What van den Hoonaard has accomplished with this book is the backbone of all research. Without such thorough, time-consuming, empirically oriented studies it is impossible to advance our general understanding of new religions.'' -- Margit Warburg, University of Copenhagen -- Studies in Religion``Van den Hoonaard's study is an important contribution to much-needed `detailed research onnon-Christian or non-Western styles of religious communities.' Methodologically, this book standson sound ground. Both interpretive historical sociology and the sociology of social movementsprovide the conceptual framework that guides, along the contours of a `shifting theoretical paradigm,' van den Hoonaard's analysis....The author adroitly and seamlessly combines both quantitative and qualitative research methods to provide `fresh theoretical orientations.''' -- Christopher Buck -- University of Toronto Quarterly

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    Book SynopsisDie letzte Hürde im Studium ist manchmal die schwerste: die Abschlussarbeit. Welches Thema passt am besten? Wie gliedern Sie Ihre Arbeit am sinnvollsten? Was hat es mit der Quellenarbeit auf sich? Wie gestalten Sie Ihren Empirie-Teil? Daniela Weber zeigt Ihnen in dieser aktualisierten Auflage, wie Sie mit dem Druck fertig werden und welches Handwerkszeug für Sie wichtig ist - unabhängig davon, in welchem Fach Sie Ihren Abschluss machen.Table of ContentsÜber die Autorin 9 Vorwort zur 4 Auflage 21 Einführung 23 Über dieses Buch 23 Konventionen in diesem Buch 24 Törichte Annahmen über den Leser 25 Wie dieses Buch aufgebaut ist 25 Teil I: Sie sollen also eine Abschlussarbeit schreiben 26 Teil II: Notwendiges und nützliches Handwerkszeug zurechtlegen 26 Teil III: Das Wissen der anderen nutzen 26 Teil IV: Ihre Arbeit entsteht 27 Teil V: Fertig! Oder noch nicht ganz? 27 Teil VI: Der Top-Ten-Teil 28 Symbole, die in diesem Buch verwendet werden 28 Downloads zu diesem Buch 29 Teil I: Sie sollen also eine Abschlussarbeit schreiben 31 Kapitel 1 Was »Abschlussarbeit schreiben« bedeutet 33 Die Aufgabe: Abschlussarbeit 33 Arten von wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten 35 Hausarbeit, Seminararbeit oder Projektarbeit 35 Bachelorarbeit 36 Master-Thesis 36 Diplomarbeit 37 Dissertation und Habilitation 37 Ein Thema suchen und loslegen 38 Was kann ich und was habe ich? 38 Eine Entscheidung treffen 39 And nothing else matters … 42 Und es kann dazu noch Spaß machen! 42 Kapitel 2 Ihre Erwartungen und die der anderen 45 Was Sie von sich erwarten können und sollten 45 Vom Sinn und Unsinn, sich selbst unter Druck zu setzen 46 Wie gut kann es werden? 46 Die Perspektive der Betreuenden 50 Was Betreuende wollen 50 Wie Betreuende bewerten 53 Die Erwartungen weiterer Beteiligter abschätzen 55 Was will das Unternehmen? 55 Was will Ihr Umfeld? 56 Kapitel 3 Phasen einer Abschlussarbeit – und ein Plan 59 Die einzelnen Phasen einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit 59 Phase 1: Vorbereitung 60 Phase 2: Recherchieren und das Thema erarbeiten 63 Phase 3: Zusammenhänge verstehen und beschreiben 64 Phase 4: Die Eigenleistung 65 Phase 5: Nacharbeiten 66 Machen Sie sich einen konkreten Plan 66 Grundlagen des Zeitmanagements 66 Das Wichtigste von allem: Den schriftlichen Zeitplan anlegen 71 Teil II: Das Handwerkszeug zurechtlegen 77 Kapitel 4 Textverarbeitung und mehr in Office-Paketen 79 Allgemeines im Umgang mit Computer und Dateien 80 Microsoft Office – Umgang mit dem Platzhirsch 82 Microsoft Word 84 Microsoft Excel 87 Microsoft PowerPoint 88 Microsoft OneNote 89 Cloud- und Onlinedienste in MS Office 90 Sonstige Microsoft-Office-Programme 91 LibreOffice, OpenOffice und NeoOffice – gute Alternativen 92 LibreOffice Writer 93 LibreOffice Math und Calc 94 LibreOffice Impress 94 LibreOffice Draw 95 LibreOffice Base 95 Office-Lösungen fürs Handy oder Tablet 96 WPS Office + PDF (früher: Kingsoft Office) 96 AndrOpen Office 97 OfficeSuite 98 LaTeX 98 Tipps zur Auswahl des Textverarbeitungsprogramms 99 Kapitel 5 Notwendige und nützliche Software und Apps 101 Literaturverwaltungsprogramme 101 Die üblichen Verdächtigen 102 Brauchbare Freeware 111 Alternativen für den Mac 114 Apps für die Literaturverwaltung 115 Mindmap – Ideenauswertung 116 MindManager 117 XMind 119 MindMeister 120 Visio 2019 120 KnowledgeMap 121 Zeichen- und Grafikprogramme 121 Hilfe bei der Anwendung 124 Kapitel 6 Analoge Helfer und Lerntechniken 127 Richtig lesen 128 Systematisch lesen: PQ4R 128 Schnell lesen: Speedreading 129 Schreiben – mit der Hand 129 Oldschool: Stift, Zettel & Co. 130 Post-its und Textmarker 132 In der Hand: Zettelkästen 133 An der Wand: Boards und Charts 134 Vergessen Sie nicht, dass Sie denken können 135 Brainstorming 135 Ideen in Mindmaps sammeln 136 Sie sind nicht allein! 137 Unterstützung annehmen 137 Unterstützung (online) organisieren 138 Professionelle Hilfe 139 Teil III: Das Wissen der anderen nutzen 141 Kapitel 7 Das 1 x 1 der Literaturrecherche 143 Was Sie grundsätzlich über Literaturrecherche wissen müssen 144 Recherchereihenfolge 144 Recherchephasen 146 Technisches Vorgehen 148 Hilfe beim Recherchieren 150 Online-Quellensuche 152 Bereits geschrieben: Abschlussarbeiten und Dissertationen 152 Online nach Veröffentlichungen suchen 154 Kataloge und Datenbanken 158 Offline-Quellensuche 162 Bibliotheken nutzen 163 Unternehmensquellen sammeln 165 Kapitel 8 Gefundene Quellen beschaffen und sortieren 167 Wie viele Quellen sollen es sein? 167 Woher Sie bekommen, was Sie recherchiert haben 168 Volltexte im Internet finden 169 Quellen aus der Bibliothek bekommen 170 Bücher und Studien kaufen 172 Was tun mit all den Büchern und Kopien? 174 Wie man Quellen nach Arten unterscheidet … 174 Quellen erfassen und strukturieren 178 Literaturverwaltungsprogramme und andere Hilfsmittel nutzen 179 Kapitel 9 Quellen korrekt zitieren 181 Relevante Daten einer Quelle 181 Fremdes Wissen in der Arbeit unterbringen 185 Allgemeine Überlegungen zu Zitaten 186 Grundsätzlich: Quellenangaben im Text oder Fußnoten 190 Zitationsstile 191 Abkürzungen in Quellenangaben 196 Der richtige Ort für Quellenangaben 197 Die passenden Einträge im Literaturverzeichnis 198 Quellenangaben aus dem Verwaltungsprogramm in die Textverarbeitung einfügen 201 Citavi und Word 202 EndNote und Word 202 Zotero und LibreOffice 203 Teil IV: Ihre Arbeit entsteht 205 Kapitel 10 Ein Exposé zum Thema erstellen 207 Vorab: Das grobe Layout einrichten 208 Vom Thema zum Titel und zur Forschungsfrage 208 Wie kommt das Thema zum Studierenden? 209 Wie wird ein Titel formuliert? 210 Das Grundkonzept: Thema – Titel – Forschungsfrage 216 Was macht ein gutes Exposé aus? 217 Ausgangssituation – Was ist gesetzt? 218 Problemstellung – Was wollen Sie lösen? 218 Forschungsfrage – Welches Ziel hat die Arbeit? 218 Weitere Teile des Exposés 219 Kapitel 11 Die Gliederung anlegen 223 Die Arbeit gliedern – für wen? 223 Aufbau der Grob- und der Feingliederung 224 Erste Ansätze zum Gliederungsaufbau 224 Grobe Bestandteile Ihrer Arbeit 225 Verfeinerung der Grobgliederung 227 Nachrecherche 231 Gliederungsmethoden 232 Eine einfache Gliederungsmethode 232 Weiterführende Gliederungsmethoden 234 Systematik von Gliederungen 236 Regeln und Fallstricke beim Gliedern 237 Zur Namensgebung von Überschriften 240 Weitere Bestandteile Ihrer Arbeit 242 Der Überblick: Verzeichnisse 242 Dahinter: Der Anhang 245 Die Garnitur: Deckblatt, Sperrvermerk, Abstract, Vorwort und eidesstattliche Versicherung 246 Kapitel 12 Die Formatierung einrichten 251 Wieso genau kommt nun die Form ins Spiel? 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