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Making the most of your research journal
Providing practical guidance based on real-life examples, this book shows researchers different forms and ways of keeping a research journal and how to get the most out of journaling. Appealing to postgraduate students, new and experienced researchers, the book: • provides a theoretical groundi...
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Malleable, digital, and posthuman
This book proposes a posthumanist research methodology for future research in the areas of the economy, the human self, politics, and research ethics, providing a novel explanatory and methodological framework for studying today's world.
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Manifesto for new social movements
This book explores the new context for education, labor, and social movements, emphasizing the role of educators in developing transnational pedagogies. It highlights the importance of democracy, social movements, and critical education in challenging capitalist priorities.
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Mastering the universe
Economist Rob Larson combines wit, righteous anger, and clear-eyed analysis as he dissects the lifestyle, moral bankruptcy, and stupidly large sums of money hoarded by the disgustingly wealthy. The fact that we live in one of the most unequal societies in the history of the world is becoming com...
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Mate selection in china
This book examines the changing nature of dating and mate selection in contemporary China, and addresses a wide array of both causes and consequences concerning mate selection, including economic change, traditional cultural norms, evolving gender roles, and both marriage and fertility aspirations.
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Media, technology and education in a post-truth society
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the impact of media, emerging technologies, and education on the resilience of the so-called post-truth society.
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Men explain things to me updated edition
A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word mansplaining,” and prompted fierce arguments.
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Modern studies in african society
Omeihe & Harrison, both global scholars, strip down modern African society to its core elements. As editors, they focus on what defines a modern African society & for whom, carefully curating chapters that relate to and illustrate these questions through key topics such as migration, equa...
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Neoliberalism and academic repression
A timely, necessary, and incisive look by a diverse array of scholars into the dire situation facing academia in the Trump era.
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Neoliberalism's war on higher education
Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people.
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On rumors
Many of us are being misled. Claiming to know dark secrets about public officials, hidden causes of the current economic situation, and nefarious plans and plots, those who spread rumors know precisely what they are doing. And in the era of social media and the Internet, they know a lot about how...
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On the move
Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States? Is there a typical Mexican migrant? Beginning in the 1970s, survey data indicated that the average migrant was a young, unmarried man who was poor, undereducated, and in search of better employment opportunities. This is the general view that most Ame...
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Out of turmoil
This volume argues that social sciences are in transition, marked by uncertainty and ideological tensions. It calls on educators to reimagine education, using lessons from recent years and history to foster innovation, solidarity, and re-imagine teaching.
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Overinvested
What happens when children become investment projects and child-rearing becomes exhausting laborParents are exhausted. When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort? In this eye-opening book, Nina Bandelj explains how we ...
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Personal data collection risks in a post-vaccine world
The editors observe that in key texts written to teach international relations less mention is made of personal data collection risks in countries around the globe.
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Policing a class society
An in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities.
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Power
An introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on the subject of power within social and political theory. Contains extracts from such leading contemporary thinkers as Giddens, Lukes and Bourdieu alongside recent conceptions of power from important twentieth century figures in...
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Power and international relations
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the concept of power has not always been central to international relations theory. During the 1920s and 30s, power was often ignored or vilified by international relations scholars—especially in America. Power and International Relations explores how this changed...
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Process philosophy
The book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution, learning and innovation, language and meaning, self and society and ethics and morality. Taking a realistic approach, the book is inspired by pragmatic philosophy, in particular, that of Dewey, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein ...
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Quantitative social science
An introductory textbook on data analysis and statistics written especially for students in the social sciences and allied fieldsQuantitative analysis is an increasingly essential skill for social science research, yet students in the social sciences and related areas typically receive little tra...
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Rational ritual
Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answe...
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Re-imagining spaces and places
The contributors in this edited collection scrutinize the changing dynamics of space and place in relation to current political, social, and environmental urgencies across the globe. The discussions provide a cohesive study for disclosing latent understandings of multiple phenomena characterizing...
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Reading greek australian literature through the paramythi
This book explores Greek Australian literature through its paramythic tropes and focuses on reading it as a bridge between multiculturalism and world literature.
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Real talk
This book provides a foundation for understanding and engaging in difficult dialogues, emphasizing their power to inspire transformative change. It covers the impact of power, belonging, motivation, and defensiveness on dialogues, and includes case studies and practical skills for engaging in aut...
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Red state religion
What Kansas really tells us about red state AmericaNo state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challe...
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Relational scholarship with indigenous communities
This book addresses settler colonialism in U.S. social studies education, advocating for relational approaches and Indigenous Ways of Knowing. It offers guidance for researchers, educators, and policymakers, featuring dialogues on relational research and improving social studies for Indigenous co...
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Reproductive rights and wrongs
With a new preface, this feminist classic reveals the dangers of contemporary population-control tactics, especially for women in developing countries.
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Researching craft beer
Researching Craft Beer offers insights for aspiring and present owners of breweries, those looking to open a craft beer bar as well as other beer researchers. The volume offers a prescient assessment of historic, present, and likely future developments within the sector.
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Researching happiness
In the past, happiness studies has been dominated by the work of philosophers, economists and psychologists, but more recently there has been a growing interest from social scientist into the natures of happiness and wellbeing. This original collection draws on the latest empirical research to ex...
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Rural versus urban
How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarization Why have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between “us” and “them”? In Rural Versus Urban, Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown argue that political polarization is not just about red states and blue st...
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Scotland
An academic analysis of the foundations and structures of modern-day Scotland that provides insight into Scottish politics, society and culture.
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Seven rules for social research
Seven Rules for Social Research teaches social scientists how to get the most out of their technical skills and tools, providing a resource that fully describes the strategies and concepts no researcher or student of human behavior can do without. Glenn Firebaugh provides indispensable practical...
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Sex and suffrage in britain, 1860-1914
Although other historians have viewed the suffrage movement as aimed at exclusively political ends, she argues that such a categorization ignores many of the most compelling reasons why thousands of middle and upper-class women risked ostracism, obloquy, and, often, physical harm in the pursuit o...
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Shell shock cinema
How war trauma haunted the films of Weimar GermanyShell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting new book, Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such...
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Social democracy in the 21st century
Social democracy is in a process of change as a number of developments challenge its organizational, ideational and electoral basis. This book elaborates on how social democracy should be understood under these changing circumstances, how social democratic parties have responded and what future t...
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Social justice case studies
Social Justice Case Studies: Interdisciplinary and Non-Traditional Interdisciplinary Approaches provides individuals interested in social justice the ability to discuss and engage in interdisciplinary and non-traditional interdisciplinary team processes.
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Social trends in american life
Changes in American social attitudes and behaviors since the 1970sSocial Trends in American Life assembles a team of leading researchers to provide unparalleled insight into how American social attitudes and behaviors have changed since the 1970s. Drawing on the General Social Survey—a social sci...
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Sociology global
The book examines the world of sociology and its global features and trends. It covers themes such as: sociologies in the world, major research areas in sociology, collaboration and interdisciplinarity, and contemporary challenges, pertinent issues and debates.
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Stardust to stardust: reflections on living and dying
One of the 21st century's most brilliant sociologists confronts his own mortality.
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Supply chain justice
How the UK’s immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain In the UK’s fully outsourced “immigration detainee escorting system,” private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national citizens. Run and organiz...
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Taxing the rich
A groundbreaking history of why governments do—and don't—tax the richIn today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax th...
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Technology vs. government
Technology vs. Government examines why government fails at technology acquisitions, innovation, and implementation, the impact on people, and the future opportunities and implications for government service, administration and policy.
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Tell me something, tell me anything, even if it's a lie
Now in paperback: an exhilarating journey through the world of books, ideas, and activism; a finalist for the Foreword Reviews INDIES Editor's Choice Prize for Nonfiction. "Steve Wasserman is a treasure of American letters and his book is a testament, above all, to a literary life lived to the fu...
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The 2017 hampton reader
Featuring diverse political essays addressing contemporary issues, written by political organizers & revolutionaries.Including popular essays from The Hampton Institute, aiming to develop the working class into a self-conscious force for societal change. The essays clarify our political momen...
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The ambiguities of desistance
This book explores the ongoing and individual desistance journeys of ex-offenders during re-integration into society. It introduces nuanced and rich data around the growing interest in desistance, examines the reasons why individuals move away from crime, and highlights the importance of Higher E...
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The anthem companion to raymond boudon
This book seeks to identify the main threads of a resolutely complex course of thought which has contributed greatly to sociology.
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The body positivity movement
The Body Positivity Movement: A Story of ‘Acceptable’ Fatness investigates the contemporary body positivity movement and its origins. Starting in 1969, using memoirs, life writing and autobiography, author Gemma Lucy Gibson traces body positive activities and practices of the fat activist movemen...
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The cultural dimensions of peacebuilding
The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding details aspects of cultures, including language, films, journalism, political economics, museums, education, parenting, gender, artistic activism, and spirituality, which can contribute to either more violent societies or more peaceful ones. Solutions-orie...
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