Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Disability and Popular Culture
Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies, this book examines disability across a number...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The current era is marked by an unparalleled level of human migration, the consequence of both recent and long-term political, economic, cultural, social, demographic and technological developments. Despite increased efforts to limit its size and consequences, migration has wide-ranging impacts upon...
by Mohammad Qadeer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is the first English-language survey of Pakistan’s socio-economic evolution. Mohammad Qadeer gives an essential overview of social and cultural transformation in Pakistan since independence, which is crucial to understanding Pakistan’s likely future direction.
Pakistan examines how...
La trama interétnica
Ritual, sociedad y figuras de intercambio entre los grupos negros y Emberá del Chocó
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 2, 2015
¿Qué es ser “moreno”, “libre”, “chocoano”, “cholo” o “Emberá” en los ríos del Chocó rural? ¿Son necesarios la presencia, el impacto cultural y la parcial inclusión del otro en el espacio social propio para desplegar todos los recursos y competencias sociales y culturales...
Social Science Research Ethics for a Globalizing World
Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Research in the humanities and social sciences thrives on critical reflections that unfold with each research project, not only in terms of knowledge created, but in whether chosen methodologies served their purpose. Ethics forms the bulwark of any social science research methodology and it requires...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies in this field of Tourism. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 1,33, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, language: English, abstract: Over the last decades, the rise of Social Capital as a central field of research in Social Science has contributed to...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Countries across the Middle East face a number of social problems such as poverty, unemployment, housing, internal immigration and caring for vulnerable groups such as children, women, the disabled and the elderly. Providing an overview of the wide range of social issues addressed by social work practitioners,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
When thinking about the culture and economy of East Asia, many attribute to the region a range of dispositions, including a preference for consensus and social harmony, loyalty and respect towards superiors and government, family values, collectivism, and communitarianism. Affect is central to these...
Cultural Constructions of Identity
Meta-Ethnography and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Education research has seen a phenomenal growth in studies that explore the multiple, fluid, and changing complexities of culture and identity work. The nuanced, contradictory, and process-oriented nature of identity and identification has meant that the studies in education are largely, and appropriately,...
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...
Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China
The participation of local communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This edited book examines the significance of intangible cultural heritage to local communities and the state in Hong Kong and China. Through ethnographic studies, the various chapters in this edited book argue for the role of the local community in the creation and conservation of the intangible...
Lived Experiences of Multiculture
The New Social and Spatial Relations of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In an increasingly ethnically diverse society, debates about migration, community, cultural difference and social interaction have never been more pressing.
Drawing on the findings from a two-year, qualitative Economic and Social Research Council funded study of different locations across England,...