Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Trickster and the System
Identity and agency in contemporary society
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
For centuries, the trickster has been used in various narratives, including mythological, literary and cinematic, to convey the idea of agency, rebellion and, often turbulent, progress. In The Trickster and the System: Identity and Agency in Contemporary Society,Helena Bassil-Morozow shows how the...
Counterstorytelling Narratives of Latino Teenage Boys
From «Vergueenza» to «Échale Ganas»
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Counterstorytelling Narratives of Latino Teenage Boys presents an ethnographic portrait of the experiences and counterstories of nine Latino teenage boys representing different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds attending a high school in North Carolina. Using critical race theory (CRT), Latino...
Social Work Research with Minority and Oppressed Populations
Methodological Issues and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Learn the latest and most effective strategies and ideas so you can accurately research oppressed and minority populations!
Social Work with Minority and Oppressed Populations: Methodological Issues and Innovations provides social workers, social work researchers, and graduate students with...
Unequal China
The political economy and cultural politics of inequality
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Economic development and a dramatic improvement in living standards in many parts of the People’s Republic of China during the past three decades of economic reforms have been hailed by the Chinese Communist Party and many commentators in the international arena as the most spectacular achievements...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Social differentiation, poverty and the emergence of the newly rich occasioned by the collapse of the Soviet Union have seldom been analysed from a class perspective. Rethinking Class in Russia addresses this absence by exploring the manner in which class positions are constructed and negotiated in...
Heritage Keywords
Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Situated at the intersection of scholarship and practice, Heritage Keywords positions cultural heritage as a transformative tool for social change. This volume unlocks the persuasive power of cultural heritage—as it shapes experiences of change and crafts present and future possibilities from historic...
Border Politics
Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the social and political landscape. “Borders”—defined broadly to include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural boundaries—have become increasingly salient...
Crime and Punishment in Latin America
Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2001
Crowning a decade of innovative efforts in the historical study of law and legal phenomena in the region, Crime and Punishment in Latin America offers a collection of essays that deal with the multiple aspects of the relationship between ordinary people and the law. Building on a variety of methodological...
by Edward E. Telles, Howard Winant, Michael Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1999
Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil represents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. While previous scholarship on this subject...
by Nina Buschle
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 2,3, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, course: Cultural Studies, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'An upper-class child may learn the 'facts of life' at an age when a lower-class...
Chicana Without Apology
The New Chicana Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
By approaching Chicana/o issues from the frames of feminism, social activism, and cultural studies, and by considering both lived experience and the latest research, Torres offers a more comprehensive understanding of current Chicana life. Through compelling prose, Torres masterfully weaves her own...
Co-opting Culture
Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Co-opting Culture: Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies represents a collection of new scholarship on culture from the social sciences and from work done under the rubric of 'cultural studies'. Working from the idea that Sociology and Cultural Studies have developed distinct and valuable...
Consuming China
Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this characterization by examining the cultural significance of consumption and consumerism in the People’s Republic of China today. In questioning the notion of consumption,...
by Colin Hawes
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
In recent years, Chinese policymakers and corporate leaders have focused significant attention on the concept of corporate culture. This book will reveal the political, social and economic factors behind the enormous current interest in corporate culture in China and provide a wide range of case studies...