Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Politics of the 'Other' in India and China
Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The social sciences have been heavily influenced by modernization theory, focusing on issues of economic growth, political development and social change, in order to develop a predictive model of linear progress for developing countries following a Western prototype. Under this hegemonic paradigm...
Social Transformation in Post-conflict Nepal
A Gender Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
The concept of social transformation has been increasingly used to study significant political, socio-economic and cultural changes affected by individuals and groups. This book uses a novel approach from the gender perspective and from bottom up to analyse social transformation in Nepal, a country...
Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation
Ireland in Europe and the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
In the space of around ten years Ireland went from being a traditional labour exporter to a leading European economy, and thus an attractive destination for immigrants from Eastern Europe and further afield. This produced a singular social laboratory, which this book explores in all its complexity...
Beyond Hate
White Power and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Beyond Hate offers a critical ethnography of the virtual communities established and discursive networks activated through the online engagements of white separatists, white nationalists, and white supremacists with various popular cultural texts, including movies, music, television, sport, video...
The Social Use of Media
Cultural and Social Scientific Perspectives on Audience Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Drawing on long traditions in both cultural studies and the social sciences, it brings together competing research approaches usually discussed separately. The topics include up-to-date research on activity and...
The Multiplex in India
A Cultural Economy of Urban Leisure
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
During the decade of its existence in India, the multiplex cinema has been very much a sign of the times – both a symptom and a symbol of new social values. Indicative of a consistent push to create a ‘globalised’ consuming middle class and a new urban environment, multiplex theatres have thus...
Frontiers of Capital
Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and production techniques, and global integration that...
Contemporary Parenting
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Through a global, multidisciplinary perspective, this book describes how four factors influence parenting practices: a countries historical and political background, the parent’s educational history, the economy and the parent’s financial standing, and advances in technology. Case studies that...
Handbook of Social Resource Theory
Theoretical Extensions, Empirical Insights, and Social Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Our lives as human beings are characterized by production and use of social resources, material (e.g., money and physical possessions) as well as immaterial (such as love, knowledge, and power). Distribution and exchange of these resources are central to individuals’ physical and mental health and...
Social Capital and Institutional Constraints
A Comparative Analysis of China, Taiwan and the US
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The sociological concept of social capital has grown in popularity in recent years and research programs in North America, Europe, and East Asia have demonstrated how social capital has a significant impact on occupational mobility, community building, social movement, and economic development.
This...
Cultural Exclusion in China
State Education, Social Mobility and Cultural Difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
Ethnic minorities form a very substantial proportion of the population of China, with over 100 million people in 55 formally designated minority groups inhabiting over 60% of the country’s land area. Poverty and economic inequality of minority groups are widely-recognised problems. However, as this...
by Tiantian Zheng, Kevin Carrico, Professor Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In globalizing Asia, sexual mores and gender roles are in constant flux. How have economic shifts and social changes altered and reconfigured the cultural meanings of gender and sexuality in the region? How have the changing political economy and social milieu influenced and shaped the inner workings...
Performing Citizenship
Social Movements across the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In this book, Tamar Groves and Inbal Ofer explore the effects of social movements' activism on the changing practices and conceptions of citizenship. Presenting empirically rich case studies from Latin America, Asia and Europe, leading experts analyze the ways in which the shifting balance of power...
by Lyn Parker, Pam Nilan
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The youth demographic is a large and growing cohort in Indonesia, and adolescents embody the currents of social change. Throughout the twentieth century they were significant agents of social protest leading to social and political transformation. This book looks at the importance of adolescents in...