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Disrupting d.c.
A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a playbook for how to deal with intransigent regu...
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Distancing the past
Winner: Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award, Oliver Cromwell Cox Book AwardHonorable Mention: Bourdieu Best Book AwardShortlisted: Barrington Moore Book Award, Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, MSA First Book AwardFinalist: C. Wright Mills AwardHow are histories of racial oppression dealt with...
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Diversity and complexity
This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than ...
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Diversity and discrimination in research organizations
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Diversity and Discrimination in Research Organizations considers whether and to what extent the social identity of the academic workforce affects their individual integration in research organizations.
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Diversity in criminology and criminal justice studies
This volume explores the theoretical and methodological maturity and diversity in reflexive accounts of criminology and criminal justice in a number of areas, such as and teaching and research in criminology, queer criminology, the intersections of race and gender, indigeneity and decolonization,...
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Diversity issues in the usa
This book examines how the American elections will influence diversity issues in the United States and elsewhere.
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Doctors' orders
Doctors’ Orders offers a groundbreaking examination of the construction and consequences of status distinctions between physicians. Tania M. Jenkins spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals to reveal the unspoken mechanisms...
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Doing reflexivity
Reflexivity is vital in social research projects, but there remains relatively little advice on how to execute it in practice. This book provides social science researchers with both a strong rationale for the importance of thinking reflexively and a practical guide to doing reflexivity within th...
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Doing sociology through film and literature
This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
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Doping in sport and fitness
Doping in Sport and Fitness argues that rigid differentiations between doping contexts are less clear than it might seem. Breaking down these boundaries allows for a more complete understanding of substance use patterns, behaviours, and policy responses related to sport, fitness, and society.
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Drawing
Drawings are everywhere. Daubed on ancient cave walls and projected on screens. Drawings helps us describe science, depict emotions and discover. Yet many of us laid aside drawing - or more simply, mark-making - in childhood, thereby losing a rich and varied way to tell our stories.
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Dreams of a lifetime
How social status shapes our dreams of the future and inhibits the lives we envision for ourselvesMost of us understand that a person’s place in society can close doors to opportunity, but we also tend to think that anything is possible when someone dreams about what might be. Dreams of a Lifetim...
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Drones
Delving into philosophical discussions about the implications of drone technology, Andy Miah delivers in this book a comprehensive analysis of the wide-reaching applications of drones, as well as a critical interrogation of the social, cultural, and moral issues that they provoke.
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Drug assemblages – policies, counternarratives, and local experiences
A transdisciplinary critique of global drug regimes, exploring how power, policy, and inequality intertwine across the Americas.
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Dumbing us down - 25th anniversary edition
John Taylor Gatto's radical treatise on public education, a bestseller for 25 years, continues to advocate for the unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. Now, in a changing world with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world o...
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Durable economies
This book argues for a deeper engagement with durability, which is essential for understanding of how economies work; and for envisaging alternative economies built on principles of environmental stewardship and social justice.
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Dvs mindz
DVS Mindz might be the greatest rap group you’ve never heard of. Geoff Harkness takes readers on a unique two-decade journey alongside the members of DVS Mindz, chronicling their childhoods, their brush with success, and what became of them in the years that followed.
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Economic lives
Revealing the human side of economic lifeOver the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No on...
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Economic sociology
The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the importance of context and power in economic life, yet the field lacks a clear understanding of the role that conce...
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Educating young people for a sustainable future
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Focusing on issues affecting young people in educational contexts using an inclusivity lens, chapters delve into causes, consequences & proposed interventions of inequal...
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Education and development in afghanistan
After years of military interventions, the current situation in Afghanistan is highly ambivalent and partially contradictory – especially regarding the interplay of development, peace, security, education, and economy. Despite numerous initiatives, Afghanistan is still confronted with a poor secu...
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Education and social stratification in south korea
South Korea is noted for the hard-fought competition in university admission exams, which are widely believed to determine one’s prospects and shape their takers’ entire lives. In this book, Shin Arita validates this belief with vast amounts of sociological data. He traces the mechanisms that sho...
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Education and the family
Chapters cover a wide array of topics, such as: family emotional support for students, family stressors and education, gendered nature of parental support, cultural variation in parental engagement and involvement, among others.
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Education and the family
Chapters cover topics such as: family economic and cultural resources and school performance and attainment of students, family multilingualism and academic success, family stressors and education, valuation of higher education versus employment and family contestations of public schooling and it...
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Elder care and the family
This collection covers topics such as financial strains of elder care, healthcare decision making, family communication, mobility and family residence, stress and burnout, gender differences in the provision of elder care, elder abuse, mental deterioration and family care, stressors related to ca...
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Elites, nonelites, and power
Bringing together cutting-edge, multidisciplinary papers that weigh in on central issues of the world and social science, the collection consider power, elites, and nonelites in a new, inclusive way, drawing in researchers who deal with topics central to elite theory, but who might not be repres...
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Elusive togetherness
Many scholars and citizens alike have counted on civic groups to create broad ties that bind society. Some hope that faith-based civic groups will spread their reach as government retreats. Yet few studies ask how, if at all, civic groups reach out to their wider community. Can religious groups--...
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Emancipation and history
Emancipation and History assesses critical theory today, focusing on the connection between history and emancipation and on the trends that structure modernity and may lead us beyond it.
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Embedding into our lives
No longer the exclusive domain of the wealthy, the specialist, or the enthusiast, today the internet is available to almost anyone who desires to use it and has become an integral part of our everday world. The essays in this volume examine the effect of the online environment on our social lives...
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Emerging conceptions of work, management and the labor market
Economic institutions are undergoing radical transformations, and with these has come a reconfiguration of labor market institutions, managerial conceptions of work, and the nature of authority and control over employees as well. This volume addresses a wide array of questions to better understan...
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Emotional drivers of innovation
The contributors to this book argue that emotions influence innovations as they are inherent in initial ideas, expectations and habitual evaluation criteria that impact the development process.
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Enforcing freedom
Kerwin Kaye offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and mandatory treatment centers as a system of coercion, demonstrating how the state uses notions of rehabilitation as a means of social regulation. Enforcing Freedom presents a critical perspective on the punitive side of criminal-justice...
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Engage and evade
How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrants—but also offer them hope for societal inclusionSome eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, carving out lives amid a growing web of surveillance that threatens their and their families’ societal presen...
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Entitled
An in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitanTwo centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture—museums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras—to mirror European art. But today’s Amer...
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Entrepreneurialism and society
Entrepreneurialism and Society invigorates academic research by developing new perspectives on how entrepreneurs and their organizations shape our social world.
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Environmental criminology
Using sociological, criminological, anthropological, historical and media analysis, this multi-disciplinary volume examines local and regional issues in environmental criminology.
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Environmental security in greece
Environmental Security in Greece establishes stakeholders' perceptions of environmental security and energy security taking a Q methodology and Digital Media Research Framework approach. In-depth individual viewpoints and opinions of policymakers, energy-industry leaders, NGOs' members and the pu...
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Envisaging dataist modernity
Who gets to imagine datafied visions of the future city (region) and why is it important to look at universities as powerful urban stakeholders?
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Envisioning the world: mapping and making the global
The “global” is continually made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, language, and literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets.
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Erich fromm and global public sociology
Erich Fromm was one of the most influential and creative public intellectuals of the twentieth century. He was a mentor to David Riesman and an inspiration for the New Left. As the rise of global right-wing populism and Trumpism creates new interest in the kind of psycho-social writing and popul...
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Essential issues in symbolic interaction
Seeking a concise and substantial vision of symbolic interactionism, this volume manifests the crucial research endeavors and key elements that contribute to the vitality of the interactionist theoretical framework.
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Essential methods in symbolic interaction
Volume 60 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction is a forum for symbolic interactionists to "duke it out" regarding the equally critical methodological issues to symbolic interactionist research.
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Essentiality of work
Raising pressing questions about the essence of work and its place in contemporary society, this volume inspires new debates about the centrality of the work experience in modern life for those working as well as those who benefit from that work.
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Establishing child centred practice in a changing world, part b
Furthering dialogues around the applied relevance of key principles in childhood studies, this diverse edited collection is an important contribution to the fields of education, sociology, childcare and youth policy and practice.
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Ethics and integrity in visual research methods
Ethics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods aims to unpack the multiple considerations for ethics and integrity that accompany research methods involving visual data generation and analysis.
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Ethnographies of work
Presenting cutting-edge ethnographic research on contemporary worlds of work and the experiences of workers from a range of contexts, this volume offers fine-grained, exploratory ethnographic data to provide insights unmatched by other research methods.
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