Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce discursive practices that maintain gender and racial hierarchies....
by Annie O. Derthick, PhD, E.J.R. David
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Written in an engaging and relatable manner, this book reviews the psychological theories and research on the topic of oppression – its evolution, its various forms, and its consequences. Painful historical examples and modern-day occurrences of oppression including mass incarceration, LGBT and...
by Thanh V. Tran
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Social workers engage in cross-cultural research in order to understand how diverse populations cope with life situations, to identify risk and protective factors across cultures, and to evaluate the effectiveness of policies and programs on the well-being of individuals from different cultures. In...
Indian Arranged Marriages
A Social Psychological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Despite the fact that more than 80% of cultures practice varying degrees of arranged marriage, scholars have thus far concentrated exclusively on American and European cultures from choice marriages, not yet fully exploring the psychology of arranged marriages. India is a prominent South Asian nation...
Paradoxes of Individualization
Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary sociology: whether a process of individualization is liberating selves from society so as to make them the authors of their personal biographies. The book adopts a cultural-sociological approach that firmly...
Unaccompanied Migrant Children
Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Unaccompanied migrant children are the most vulnerable group of migrants and refugees. Their experiences, their contested legal status in the host countries, and their treatment before, during, and after migration call for an ethics of child migration that places unaccompanied migrant children at...
Innovative Departures
Anthropology and the Indian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This volume brings together analytical insights from modern social and cultural anthropology to unravel processes of globalization in the 21st century through diasporic migrations. Developments in anthropological theory and method are traced from the heritage of Enlightenment to the present times,...
by Michael Walonen
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
We are in the midst of the third tectonic social transformation in human history. Our current transition toward greater forms of transnational interconnection, consumption- and finance-driven rather than production-based capitalism, digital information and cultural flows, and the attendant large-scale...
Sonic Politics
Music and Social Movements in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
This volume analyses the narration of the social through music and the seismographic function of music to detect social problems and envision alternatives.
Beyond state-driven attempts to link musical production to the official narrative of the nation, mass musical movements emerged during...
The Cultural Authority of Science
Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
The cultural authority of science is the authority that is granted to science in any particular context. This authority is as much a matter of image and perceived legitimacy as of statutory guarantee. However, while authority can be charismatic, based on tradition or based on competence, we would...
African Landscapes
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The research explores both the way that natural processes have affected the development of culture and society, as well as the ways...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
This book provides a multi-faceted picture of the many complex processes taking place in the field of contemporary Russian media and popular culture. Russian social and cultural life today is strongly individualised and consumers are offered innumerable alternatives; but at the same time options are...
by Monika Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Socio - Cultural Life of Merchants in Mughal Gujarat by Monika Sharma focuses on the identification of the varied communities involved in commercial activities and maritime trade - Banias, Bohras. Parsis, Khojas, Memons, Ghanchis, Chalebis, Armenians and European during 16th-17th centuries. The project...
The End of Black Studies
Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Following a history of racial oppression and segregation, Black Americans were able to move in greater numbers into previously all- or predominantly-White colleges and universities. However, they encountered normative structures that excluded or distorted the Black experience and denied Black perspectives....