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Voluntary and involuntary childlessness
While interest in the drivers, consequences, nature and manifestations of voluntary and involuntary childlessness increases, knowledge progress is hampered by poor linkages across disjointed research fields. The book brings together theoretical insights and empirical investigations into the pheno...
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The lives of stay-at-home fathers
An in-depth sociological look at stay-at-home fathers’ familial experiences for a deeper understanding of this new familial role, of men’s evolving masculinity and fathering identities, and the interaction of community and sense of belonging among those considered “outsiders"
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Education, migration and family relations between china and the uk
This book provides a fresh perspective on the understanding of transnational families by examining the one-child generation of Chinese migrants who came to the UK to study, and their parents, who remain in China.
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Work matters
How new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare, and the easy ways employers can helpLow-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers. Work Matters brin...
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Indebted
How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequen...
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Rites of compassion
Cather and Flaubert's ultimate "servants" provide piercing commentary on aging and individuals taken for granted. Personally selected by award-winning writer Mary Gordon, these two stories by Willa Cather and Gustave Flaubert render a flawless portrait of characters who unquestioningly offer thei...
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Between riverside and crazy (tcg edition)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about one's struggle to hold on to the past.
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The reproductive bargain
An insightful analysis of gender relations’ role in the Japanese economy’s transition from unstoppable growth to inescapable stagnation.
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Sight unseen and other plays
Includes: Found a Peanut, The Loman Family Picnic, The Model Apartment, What's Wrong with This Picture?, and Sight Unseen.. With a palpable affection for the traditions of the stage and a taste for surreal comedy, Margulies "manages to transform what might have been kitchen-sink drama into theatr...
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The end of american childhood
How American childhood and parenting have changed from the nation's founding to the presentThe End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the begi...
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What to expect when no one's expecting
Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded?For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet that’s busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else.It’s all bunk. The population b...
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Living kinship in the pacific
Provides strong accounts of contemporary understandings of kinship in the Pacific. The ethnographic focus is on transformation and continuity over time. Describes how kinship is constituted in day-to-day ritual and ritualized behavior.
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Family values
The family is hotly contested ideological terrain. Some defend the traditional two-parent heterosexual family while others welcome its demise. Opinions vary about how much control parents should have over their children's upbringing. Family Values provides a major new theoretical account of the m...
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Beyond civil rights
Shortly after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored a government report titled The Negro Family: A Case for National Action that captured the attention of President Lyndon Johnson. Responding to the demands of African American activists that the United States go beyond civil...
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Parenthood between generations
A focus on the intergenerational transmission of parenthood. Brings together innovative, qualitative research by anthropologists, historians and sociologists.
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Just married
The case for marriage equality and monogamy in a democratic societyThe institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture. As gay marriage equality gains acceptance in law and public opinion, questions abound regarding marriage's future. Will same-sex marriage lead to more radical marriage ref...
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Religious parenting
How parents approach the task of passing on religious faith and practice to their childrenHow do American parents pass their religion on to their children? At a time of overall decline of traditional religion and an increased interest in personal “spirituality,” Religious Parenting investigates t...
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Understanding institutions
A groundbreaking new synthesis and theory of social institutionsUnderstanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic. Francesco Guala presents a theory that combines the...
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Small-town america
A revealing examination of small-town lifeMore than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range ...
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Reconceiving the second sex
Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women’s reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologies, and their experiences as mothers and nurturers of children. Meanwhile, few if any volumes have explored men’s reproductive concerns or contributio...
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Practicing the family
How is family construed on a material and discursive level? This book addresses that question in relation to the diverse everyday practices of doing family by its heterogeneous members.
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Taking it big
C. Wright Mills (1916–1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectu...
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Democratic and authoritarian political systems in 21st century world society
This book defines structural core characteristics of modern policy, such as the political inclusion of everyone as a reaction to individualism; the complexity of polities arising from internal differentiation; and the increasing political decision-making handed to experts and autonomous organizat...
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Deserved
Till Hilmar examines memories of the postsocialist transition in East Germany and the Czech Republic to offer new insights into the power of narratives about economic change.
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Karl polanyi
Karl Polanyi was one of the twentieth century’s most original interpreters of the market economy. His writing still serves as an effective counterargument to free market fundamentalism. Gareth Dale shows how the major personal and historical events of Polanyi’s life transformed him from a bourgeo...
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Improvisation erforschen – improvisierend forschen / researching improvisation – researching by improvisation
Dieser durchgehend zweisprachige Band versammelt Beiträge zu ästhetischen, künstlerischen und pädagogischen Fragestellungen der musikalischen Improvisation. Er beinhaltet Reflexionen und Modelle, die sich mit der Kunst der Improvisation und den in ihr handelnden Menschen befassen und darüber hina...
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Democracy on the ground
This book examines the complex relationship of the Left, the Right, and democracy through the lens of local politics in Venezuela and Bolivia. Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Gabriel Hetland compares attempts at participatory reform in cities governed by the Left and Right in each country.
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Victoriana
In Victoriana, leading feminist cultural critic Cora Kaplan reflects on our modern obsession with Victorian culture. She considers evocations of the nineteenth century in literature (The French Lieutenants' Woman by John Fowles, Possession by A. S. Byatt, Nice Work by David Lodge, The Master by C...
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Transport in capitalism
To understand why sustainable transport has not been developed yet, Oliver Schwedes highlights the special features of the transport sector and describes the political conditions for a successful change in transport development.
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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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Interdisciplinary exhibitions and the production of knowledge
Henriette Pleiger identifies different ways of producing knowledge during the exhibition-making process, as well as the mechanisms that are necessary for an exhibition to be considered interdisciplinary.
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How the social sciences think about the world's social
At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences took an epochal 'turn' that revolutionized their theory-building. As a response to what they called the globalization of the social, they found the need to globalize their theorizing as well. It is curious that only after two centuries o...
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On becoming a rock musician
In On Becoming a Rock Musician, the sociologist H. Stith Bennett observes what makes a rock musician and then persuades others to take him seriously.
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Reforesting the earth
Thomas K. Rudel examines a wide range of conservation and reforestation efforts to shed new light on the social factors that lead to success.
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Thinking of space relationally
Xiaoxue Gao takes relational spatial theories as “travelling conceptual knowledge,” distinguishes them, and reflects on the epistemic fallacy that arises from recontextualising them uncritically in studying contemporary urban space in China.
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Hamburg climate futures outlook 2024
The Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 provides a unique systematic and global assessment of the plausibility of specific climate futures by synthesizing research across diverse disciplines from the social and natural sciences.
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Migration and (im)mobility
In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a "mobilities perspective" by combining migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich empirical data...
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Monospace and multiverse
Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential of an actor-network-theory approach to space in the field of architecture. Sabine Hansmann focuses on the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, England by Foster Associates (1978) to investigate the mutual e...
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After pluralism
The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions. Their critique considers how religious difference is framed as a problem ...
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Waste(d) collectors
Going beyond a techno-managerial approach, Sneha Sharma critically interrogates the politics around urban waste disposal in Mumbai. She undertakes an ethnographic journey to the city’s most unwanted space, a dumping site, to reveal how spaces and people are made into waste through exclusionary fo...
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The classical hollywood cinema
How films are conceived,planned, and produced leaves a mark upon the films, directly and structurally. The relations between film style and mode of production are, according to the authors, reciprocal and mutually influencing. The authors trace such topics as style, economics, and technology over...
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Sustainable development in science policy-making
This study focuses on German science policy for research cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies in sustainability research. Based on interviews with policy makers and researchers, it scrutinizes the actors, processes and contents of science policy in Germany.
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A kind of refugee
This moving account of taking responsibility for your home and your history concludes with several essays on theater published between 2015 and 2021.
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Race on the brain
Jonathan Kahn argues that an uncritical embrace of implicit bias, to the exclusion of power relations and structural racism, undermines wider civic responsibility for addressing racial inequality by turning it over to experts. Race on the Brain challenges us to engage more democratically in the d...
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A covenant with color
Spanning three centuries of Brooklyn history from the colonial period to the present, A Covenant with Color exposes the intricate relations of dominance and subordination that have long characterized the relative social positions of white and black Brooklynites. Craig Steven Wilder—examining both...
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Genealogy of popular science
This volume considers the popularization of science as a recurrent cultural technique. Classicists, archaeologists, medievalists, art historians, sociologists, and historians of science provide a multilayered approach to the rhetorics, aesthetics, and social conditions that have shaped the dissem...
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Southeast asian transformations
This volume offers a timely approach to Southeast Asian studies, covering recent transitions in the realms of urbanism, rural development, politics, and media. An interdisciplinary project, it brings together authors from disciplines as diverse as area studies, sociology, history, geography, and ...
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Social empathy
Elizabeth A. Segal explains how we can develop our ability to understand one another and have compassion toward different social groups. A useful explanation of an often misunderstood concept, Social Empathy brings together sociology, psychology, social work, and cognitive neuroscience to illustr...
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