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Routine dynamics
Exploring the power of routines in navigating our increasingly complex world, this volume argues that routines are as much engines of change as they are of stability, and that organizations are in a position to benefit from both.
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The intersections of a working-class academic identity
Teresa Crew,The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Acknowledging the institutional challenges that hinder the work and careers of working-class academics, Teresa Crew calls for a more inclusive and equitable higher education...
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The emerald handbook of childhood and youth in asian societies
Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Xiaorong Gu, Jessica Schwittek, Elena Kim,The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revising established research, this handbook equips readers with an understanding of the complex interplay between local and global and public and private contexts in the development of young people in Asian count...
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Crime and social control in pandemic times
Mathieu Deflem,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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Wellness culture
Stephanie Alice Baker,Stephanie Alice Baker traces the emergence of wellness culture as a trillion-dollar industry, situating the wellness industry in a historical and cultural context, examining how the internet has altered our relationship to wellness and the popular assumption that the internet has democratised kno...
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A companion to crime, harm and victimisation
Karen Corteen, Sharon Morley, Paul Taylor, Jo Turner,This is the first accessible, succinct text to provide definitions and explanations of key terms and concepts relating to the expanding field of crime, harm and victimisation. Written by a wide range of experts, it includes theories, ideas and case studies relating to victims of conventional crim...
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Deter, detain, dehumanise
Rachel Sharples, Linda Briskman,Taken together, this body of work examines how Australia has politicised the right to seek asylum, to the detriment of asylum seekers and refugees as well as Australian citizens, and tentatively offers hope on how we might seek to normalise, legitimise and re-humanise the processes.
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Participatory practice
Margaret Ledwith, Jane Springett,In this second edition of a bestselling book, the authors’ unique, holistic and radical perspective on participatory practice has been updated to reflect advances made in the past decade, the impact of neoliberalism and austerity, and the challenges of climate change and the pandemic. Bridging t...
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Sport, gender and development
Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst, Holly Thorpe, Megan Chawansky,The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Sport, Gender and Development brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and lo...
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On the cross road of polity, political elites and mobilization
Barbara Wejnert, Paolo Parigi,This volume discusses the various interrelations that exist within and between social and political phenomena.
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Elites, nonelites, and power
Rebecca Jean Emigh, Dylan Riley,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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Cultures of sport hazing and anti-hazing initiatives for the 21st century
Jay Johnson, Jessica W. Chin,Providing a much-needed cutting-edge update on the last major publication on sport hazing practices published more than two decades ago, chapters cover the continuation of potentially harmful, traditional initiations, and the cycle of status from initiated to initiator.
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Consumers and consumption in comparison
Eivind Jacobsen, Pål Strandbakken, Arne Dulsrud, Silje Elisabeth Skuland,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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Children and youth in armed conflict
Tamanna M. Shah,This book contains an Open Access chapter. The second of two volumes, the chapters offer a compelling exploration of how children and youth endure conflict and how their stories are told and retold in the public sphere, influencing advocacy, policymaking, and community responses worldwide.
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A comparative historical and typological approach to the middle eastern state system
Lars Mjøset, Nils Butenschøn, Kristian Berg Harpviken,Showcasing the legacy of Norwegian political scientist and sociologist Stein Rokkan, this volume ushers in a new vision in the field of state formation and nation building.
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The sociology of housework
Ann Oakley,In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed sociologist Ann Oakley undertook one of the first serious sociological studies to examine women’s work in the home. She interviewed 40 urban housewives and analysed their perceptions of housework, their feelings of monotony and fragmentation, the length of ...
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Debating childhood masculinities
Utsa Mukherjee,Foregrounding children’s agency and voices, this expert collection brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship to examine how childhood masculinities are constructed, experienced, regulated and represented in different parts of the world.
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From here to maternity
Ann Oakley,Ann Oakley is a pioneer in the field of sociological research. In this classic re-issue, she interviewed 60 women to find out what it’s really like to have a baby. Covering pregnancy, birth and child care, she relies on the stories mothers tell to discuss whether and why women want to become preg...
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Creating spaces for an ageing society
Sophie Yarker,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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Family environments, school resources, and educational outcomes
Grace Kao, Hyunjoon Park,Contributions come from authors spread around the globe, illuminating how the efficacy and ideologies of schooling variably unfold in differing national and historical contexts. Written by sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and cultural critics, this journal offers lively and accessible e...
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Identity, territories, and sustainability
Salvatore Monaco,Addressing the urgent need to tackle the global challenges of poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation, this is highly valuable reading for those interested in implementing sustainable development strategies across a variety of contexts.
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Digital theology
Erkki Sutinen, Anthony-Paul Cooper,Digital theology is an emerging and evolving field of research in academia. It is gaining traction with scholars across a variety of subjects including; Computer Science, Theology, Sociology of Religion and the wider Humanities.
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Prisons of the world
Andrew Coyle,How do governments and societies use prison to respond to underlying and fundamental social, economic and political issues? Using data on world imprisonment and numerous international examples from his personal experience, Coyle, a prison practitioner, academic and international expert, discusses...
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Diversity and discrimination in research organizations
Clemens Striebing, Jörg Müller, Martina Schraudner,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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Sport in korea
Eunha Koh,With growing interest in Korean sports and its social significance from academia and in public, Sport in Korea: Culture, Politics and Policy brings together research on social, cultural, and political aspects of Korean sports today.
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Social democracy in the 21st century
Nik Brandal, Øivind Bratberg, Dag Einar Thorsen,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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Creative ageing and the arts of care
Elizabeth Brooke,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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Organizing for societal grand challenges
Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Emilio Marti, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Christopher Wickert,The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges unpacks how diverse forms of organizing help tackle-or reinforce-grand challenges,while emphasizing the need for researchers to expand their methodological repertoire and r...
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Rich crime, poor crime
Colin Webster,An important and challenging book comprehensively spanning across the establishment of power systems, Rich Crime, Poor Crime is a vital read for academics, professionals and those interested in the fields of history, sociology, criminology, and politics.
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When reproduction meets ageing
Nolwenn Bühler,When Reproduction meets Ageing questions the nature of reproductive ageing and reproductive biomedicine.
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The emerald guide to zygmunt bauman
Shaun Best,This book is the first introductory guide to the work of Zygmunt Bauman, designed specifically for students and those new to his work. It provides a firm foundation for the independent reading of Bauman and for exploring the many interpretations of his influential ideas.
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Festschrift in honor of norman k. denzin
Shing-Ling S. Chen,Due to his major contributions in qualitative inquiries, Norman K. Denzin is regarded as ‘the Father of Qualitative Inquiries.’ Volume 55 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction is a compilation of writings published in his honor.
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Postcolonial sociologies
Julian Go,How can postcolonial thought be most fruitfully translated and incorporated into sociology? This special volume brings together leading sociologists to offer some answers and examples. The chapters offer new postcolonial readings of canonical thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and...
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Conceptualizing and modeling relational processes in sociology
Jacqueline Joslyn,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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Expertise in and around organizations
Kasper T. Elmholdt, Ruthanne Huising, Elina I. Mäkinen,The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Expertise In and Around Organizations explores the shifting ecology of expertise in an era where the authority of traditional domain experts is increasingly challenged, yet expertise remains indispensable.
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A beginner’s guide to building better worlds
Levi Gahman, Nasha Mohamed, Filiberto Penados, Johannah-Rae Reyes, Atiyah Mohamed, Shelda-Jane Smith and moreThis ambitious book offers radical alternatives to conventional ways of thinking about the planet’s most pressing challenges, ranging from alienation and exploitation to state violence and environmental injustice. Bridging real-world examples of resistance and mutual aid in Zapatista territory wi...
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The other america
Harris Beider, Kusminder Chahal,Widely stereotyped as anti-immigrant, against civil-rights or supporters of Trump and the right, can the white working class of America really be reduced to a singular group with similar views? Based on extensive interviews across five cities at a crucial point in US history, this significant bo...
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Necessity entrepreneurship
Sophie Bacq, Katrin M. Smolka, Angelique Slade Shantz, Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens,Necessity entrepreneurship is broadly understood as the identifying and seizing of business opportunities to address one’s basic needs such as food and shelter. This volume collectively proposes new ways of seeing, theorizing, and researching necessity entrepreneurship.
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Disability welfare policy in europe
Angela Genova, Alice Scavarda, Maria Świątkiewicz-Mośny,Disability Welfare Policy in Europe:Cognitive Disability and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on persons with cognitive disabilities and their families, including its effects on education, employment, social and health care services.
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Technology and (dis)empowerment
Aaditeshwar Seth,This timely work draws attention to the varying factors by which technology often leads to disempowerment effects. Seth makes a call to technologists to burst the technology positivism bubble, build an ethos for taking greater responsibility in their work, and engage with the rest of society to s...
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Sport development and sport for development in the caribbean
Roy McCree,Sport Development and Sport for Development in the Caribbean offers a unique focus on the Caribbean context to examine issues related to sport development and sport for development across a range of Caribbean countries that include Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, and Tri...
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Festschrift in honour of kathy charmaz
Antony Bryant, Adele E. Clarke,This Festschrift to honour Kathy Charmaz’s scholarship features fourteen chapters plus an editors’ introduction, exploring CGT extensively, examining topics including “Indigenization” of the method, its approaches to decolonizing research, uses of CGT in social justice research, and the legacies ...
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William r. freudenberg, a life in social research
Susan Maret,True to the nature of the Gedenkschrift, this commemorative publication celebrates the work of sociologist Dr. William Freudenburg, one of the founding editors of RSPPP and Dehlsen Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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A sociological examination of the gift economy
Vjeran Katunarić,On the whole, this book presents gift-giving as an intuitive path toward a viable economy, society, and culture here on Earth, and even toward an amiable engagement with our cosmic surroundings in the future.
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University collegiality and the erosion of faculty authority
Kerstin Sahlin, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist,The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revealing the globalization, homogenization and variation that have come to characterize the collegiate system, this volume considers the future of the higher education system, and how we can consciously shape it ...
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Advances in disability research ethics
Anne Good, Iris Elliott, Sharon Mallon,Considering important aspects of general ethical research principles, this volume establishes an inspiring vision for both present and future improvements across all levels of disability research.
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Bauman's legacy
Carlo Bordoni,What remains of the idea of liquid modernity? Is Bauman’s thought still relevant? This volume aims to answer these questions, without forgetting the vastness and complexity of his work, where the idea of liquidity remains fundamental, before and after the central turning point of the year 2000.
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Marxist thought in south asia
Kristin Plys, Priyansh, Kanishka Goonewardena,Forging an anti-imperialist Marxism through dialectical and historical approaches, this volume of Political Power and Social Theory demonstrates how the South Asian facet of this revolutionary tradition can contribute to and even reenergize global Marxist theory.
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Creating culture through media and communication
Sonia Virgínia Moreira, Katia Moles, Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz,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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Radical empathy
Terri E. Givens,Structural racism has impacted the lives of African Americans in the United States since before the country’s founding. Although the country has made some progress towards a more equal society, political developments in the 21st century have shown that deep divides remain. The persistence of ineq...
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