Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Social capital and ethnicity are crucial to young people’s understandings of their social world. The strong bonding networks often assumed in ethnic groups suggest that individuals may prefer to be bonded to each other according to shared socio-cultural factors such as shared histories, memories,...
by Jonathan White
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
In Italian Cultural Lineages, Jonathan White seeks answers to the elusive questions: what is Italian culture and what is the Italian identity? By tracing Italian life and art through several themes – viewing and spectatorship, fantasy, passion, justice, reputation, and lifestyles – White offers...
The Centennial Cure
Commemoration, Identity, and Cultural Capital in Nova Scotia during Canada's 1967 Centennial Celebrations
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
In The Centennial Cure, the second volume in the Studies in Atlantic Canada History series, Meaghan Elizabeth Beaton critically examines the intersection of state policy, cultural development, and commemoration in Nova Scotia during Canada’s centennial celebrations.
Beaton’s engaging and...
by Jerome H Schiele, Jerome Schiele
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Discover how human services professionals can help to eliminate cultural oppression!
Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm presents a new way of understanding human behavior, attacking social problems, and exploring social issues. This excellent guide shows that understanding the simultaneous...
by Guy Ramsay
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies, more attention is being paid by their governments, the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia. While clinical research on mental illness and dementia in Chinese societies acknowledges the importance...
Cultures of Migration
The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Around the globe, people leave their homes to better themselves, to satisfy needs, and to care for their families. They also migrate to escape undesirable conditions, ranging from a lack of economic opportunities to violent conflicts at home or in the community. Most studies of migration have analyzed...
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
A Sociological Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
The debate about Japan's 'uniqueness' is central to Japanese studies. This book aims to illuminate that debate from a comparative and theoretical perspective. It also tests theories of ethnicity and cultural nationalism through the use of Japan as a case study.
Yoshino examines how ideas of national...
The Japanese Industrial Economy
Late Development and Cultural Causation
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book reveals that the manipulation of culture was of more importance than the character of the original cultural stock in explaining Japan's modern industrialization. Thus the features of private enterprise culture that are so often isolated as keys to the nation's historical competitiveness...
Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India
Studies in Youth, Class, Work and Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The promotion of an enterprise culture and entrepreneurship in India in recent decades has had far-reaching implications beyond the economy, and transformed social and cultural attitudes and conduct. This book brings together pioneering research on the nature of India’s enterprise culture, covering...
by Kristen J. Warner
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This book fills a significant gap in the critical conversation on race in media by extending interrogations of racial colorblindness in American television to the industrial practices that shape what we see on screen. Specifically, it frames the practice of colorblind casting as a potent lens for...
by Carolyn S. Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the "other" to "normal" able-bodiedness. Most studies of disability consider disability in North American or European contexts; and studies of diversity in Japan consider ethnic and cultural diversity,...
by Victor Karandashev
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
This volume presents a conceptual, historical, anthropological, and sociological review of how culture affects our experience and expression of romantic love. What is romantic love and how is it different from and similar to other kinds of love? How is romantic love related to sex and marriage in...
South Asia and Disability Studies
Redefining Boundaries and Extending Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Incorporating scholarship that addresses the social, economic, cultural, and historical facets of the experience of disability in South Asia, this book presents the reader with a comprehensive, cogent, and nuanced view of the constructions of disability in this region. In doing so, it focuses on the...
Refashioning Pop Music in Asia
Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Examining the cultural, political, economic, technological and institutional aspects of popular music throughout Asia, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of Asian popular music and its cultural industries. Concentrating on the development of popular culture in its local socio-political...