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Communication and information technologies annual
This volume brings together nine studies of the digital public sphere. The contributions illuminate three key areas of digital citizenship, namely political engagement, participation networks, and content production. As a whole, the contributions revisit old questions and answer important new que...
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Communication as gesture
This book critiques current assumptions about 'communication', particularly digitally mediated communication, by re-examining conceptual foundations in rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, information theory, and cybernetics. The result is a dimensional account of interaction that is at once both in...
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Communicative ai in (inter-)action
This book brings together contributions from a growing community of researchers who are committed to exploring communicative AI »in (inter-)action« by using and adapting qualitative (and mostly ethnographic) methods.
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Community participation and civic engagement in the digital era
Understanding the challenges in research and practice of participation in the digital era, and the important role of local governance in achieving the sustainable development goals, Singh explores the complex relationship of community participation, social capital and social networks.
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Competing climate cultures in germany
In this book, Sarah Kessler shows that conventional assumptions of an implicit consensus on the need to prioritize climate action should be reconsidered.
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Competition in world politics
The “return of great power competition” among (among others) the United States, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. This cutting-edge edited collection offers a fresh account of competition in world politics, looking beyond its military dimensions to questions...
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Concepts and categories
A team of sociologists presents a groundbreaking model of concepts and categorization that can guide sociological and cultural analysis of a wide variety of social situations. Using this model, important yet commonplace phenomena such as routine buying decisions can be quantified in terms of the ...
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Conceptualizing and modeling relational processes in sociology
With broad appeal across scholars and graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences, Joslyn presents new ideas for expanding relationship modeling methods in a way that unites relationship scholars and extends relational theory.
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Concrete and water
An extraordinary ethnographic dive into documenta fifteen, analyzing its organization, execution, impact, and unique atmospheric forces.
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Condemn and resist
Condemn and Resist brings together a series of essays from leading sociologists in response to the first year of Trump 2.0 at a time when expert voices are essential for effective critical analysis of political and social climates.
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Confronting gouldner
An important new appraisal of one of the 20th century’s most important activist sociologists.
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Conjugal trajectories
Multidisciplinary in scope and using predominantly qualitative approaches, Conjugal Trajectories: Relationship Beginnings, Change, and Dissolutions focuses upon relevant trajectories to better comprehend the evolving nature of conjugal relationships and its implications for family life moving for...
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Connected histories, shared present
The essays in the book look at the transcontinental dialogic relationship which emerges from the cross-cultural experiences between Latin America, Caribbean and India and directs our gaze towards a present animated by mutual interest and transcultural fertilization.
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Connecting sounds
An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores the doing and meanings of music, as well as its interface with economic, political and wider social structures.
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Conservatorship
This book is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning—and failings—of California’s conservatorship system, drawing on hundreds of interviews with professionals, policy makers, families, and conservatees.
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Consumed nostalgia
Gary Cross reveals how consumed nostalgia shapes how we cope with accelerating change, unpacking the cultural dynamics that turn pop tunes into oldies and childhood toys into valuable commodities. By unmasking the character of modern nostalgia, Cross helps us better understand the rituals of reca...
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Consumers and consumption in comparison
Providing a theoretically informed discussion of the specificities of sociology of consumption, Consumers and Consumption in Comparison focuses on three main approaches: Consumption and social inequality; Consumption and gender; and Consumption and social movements.
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Contested tastes
An inside look at the complex and controversial debates surrounding foie grasIn the past decade, the French delicacy foie gras—the fattened liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through a tube—has been at the center of contentious battles. In Contested Tastes, Michaela DeSoucey takes u...
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Contingencies in urban future-making
How can cities be shaped in times of uncertainty? Through a range of case studies, this volume explores how contingency influences urban future-making.
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Contradictions in fan culture and club ownership in contemporary english football
Showcasing a robust conceptual model primed for use in future studies, this work offers a close analysis of the culture of the fast-moving football club ownership world, football fandom and consumption, and what it might mean for the future of the sport.
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Contributions from european symbolic interactionists
The papers in this volume were presented in at the third conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). The theme of the 2012 conference was "Conflict, Cooperation and Transformation in Everyday Life." This volume focuses on 'Reflections on Methods'.
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Contributions to alternative concepts of knowledge
In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not conform to their own definition of scientific knowledge as an alternative kind of knowledge, as 'indigenous' knowledge. Perception has changed with time: not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ...
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Coping with uncertainty
Ground-breaking volume is the first comprehensive study on youth in the MENA region, based on 9000 interviews across nine countries.
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Cosmopolitan communication studies
A timely call and a guideline on how to make communication studies and its various fields truly international.
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Cracks in tradition
Cracks in Tradition is a bold, data-driven account of the rise of liberal values in the Middle East.
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Craving earth
Humans have eaten earth, on purpose, for more than 2,300 years. They also crave starch, ice, chalk, and other unorthodox items of food. Some even claim they are addicted and "go crazy" without these items, but why?Sifting through extensive historical, ethnographic, and biomedical findings, Sera L...
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Creating culture through media and communication
Sponsored by the American Sociological Association Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS), Creating Culture Through Media and Communication asks important questions about digitalization shaping our everyday lives, and the ethics of tech occasioned by AI.
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Creating spaces for an ageing society
Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society considers the existing social science literature on shared neighbourhood spaces through the perspective of an ageing population. It asks the question; how can we use social infrastructure to build local neighbourhoods that are supportive of the social relatio...
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Creative ageing and the arts of care
Making a case for cultural participation by older adults to enhance the quality of their lives and building on concepts of adult human development and empowerment, Elizabeth Brooke reframes 'active ageing' to include forms of creative expression and cultural participation crucial to transforming ...
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Creative control
Michael L. Siciliano draws on nearly two years of ethnographic research as a participant-observer in a Los Angeles music studio and a multichannel YouTube network to explore the contradictions of creative work. Creative Control explains why “cool” jobs help us understand how workers can participa...
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Creative resistance
During the uprisings of the Arab Spring, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to expose the absurdities of sociopolitical conditions. This comprehensive study of political humor in the uprisings explores the varieties and functions of humor as a creative t...
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Credit and blame
In his eye-opening book Why?, world-renowned social scientist Charles Tilly exposed some startling truths about the excuses people make and the reasons they give. Now he's back with further explorations into the complexities of human relationships, this time examining what's really going on when ...
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Crime and social control in pandemic times
Theoretically and methodologically diverse, Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times addresses important questions of crime, punishment, policing, social control, and law in relation to COVID-19.
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Crises and popular dissent
A timely and updated second edition, this version of Crises and Popular Dissent moves on from a focus on the causes of populism to a wider analysis of the global struggle between liberal democracy and authoritarianism, including the continuing impact of populism.
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Crisis communication in china
Crisis Communication in China examines crisis communication strategies taken by the Chinese government during public crises and discusses how the public react to these strategies, exploring the cultural context and the development of digital media as critical factors underlying the strategies ado...
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Crisis, politics and critical sociology
In order to understand the forces that created our social world, we need the tools provided by a critical sociology.
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Critical by design?
With contributions from design theory, practice and education, art theory, philosophy, and informatics, »Critical by Design?« aims to question and unpack the ambivalent tensions between design and critique.
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Critical perspectives on social control and social regulation in canada
Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada is an introduction to the sociology of what has traditionally been called deviance and conformity. This book shifts the focus from individuals labelled deviant to the political and economic processes that shape marginalizatio...
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Critical political theory
How can political theory advance democracy and emancipatory social change while remaining critical of its own norms and foundations?
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Critical questions for ageing societies
This myth-busting and question-focused textbook tackles the fascinating and important social and policy issues posed by the challenges and opportunities of ageing. The unique pedagogical approach recognises the gap between the lives of students and older people, and equips students with the conce...
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Critical race theory and the search for truth
This book presents a comprehensive exploration of Critical Race Theory, offering a clear understanding of its origins, the way it has been problematized and its potential for societal change. By examining the historical influence of imperialism and capitalism, the author critiques both liberal a...
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Critique of rationality
A fascinating rectification for the distortion of technical necessity in Western Society due to unbridled instrumental reason.
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Cultural diversity in motion
What does migration-generated diversity mean for cultural policy and the performing arts scene in Germany and how is it promoted? Bridging theory and practice, Özlem Canyürek introduces the concept of “thinking and acting interculturally” and proposes ways to achieve a fair and accessible perform...
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Cultural mavericks
Cultural Mavericks takes readers inside the world of independent bookselling in China, showing how a wide range of figures navigate the challenges of book retailing in the digital age amid rapidly shifting social, political, and economic dynamics.
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Culture shift in advanced industrial society
Economic, technological, and sociopolitical changes have been transforming the cultures of advanced industrial societies in profoundly important ways during the past few decades. This ambitious work examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives for work, in the issues that give rise to politi...
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Culture, power, and history
Theoretical meditations and empirical studies of the intersection of culture, power and history in social life.
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Cultures of authenticity
This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. This collection explores the complex and controversial idea of authenticity. Addressing the concept from an interdisciplinary perspective and offering a diverse range of topical cases.
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