Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Cultural Discontinuity
The New Social Face of the Awajun
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Over time, indigenous groups in the Amazon region have developed subsistence strategies and cultural practices, reflecting a long process of cultural adaptation. However, the intensification of their intercultural relations during the last few decades has been in many cases creating a series of ruptures...
Why We Take Drugs
Seeking Excess and Communion in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In older cultures, the use of intoxicant drugs was integrated into the rhythms of social existence and bounded by rituals and taboos that ensured their dangerous forces were contained and channelled. In modern western societies, by contrast, the state and the institutions of society have washed their...
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...
by Dayabati Roy
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work...
Provincial Globalization in India
Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
The movement of people from small towns and villages of India to places outside the country raises a number of questions– about the networks that enable their mobility, the aspirations that motivate them, what they give back to their home regions, and how their provincial home worlds engage with...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book is the third publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, present and future, which was organised in June 2013 by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname.
Leisure Activities in Context
A Micro-Macro/Agency-Structure Interpretation of Leisure
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
There have been many analyses of leisure, drawing on the social, historical, cultural, temporal, and geographical contexts in which acts of leisure are pursued. Yet these studies lack a theoretical framework that can explain how leisure studies interact in various social contexts (cultural, temporal,...
Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation
Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
New media and technology are firmly embedded in our contemporary society and culture. The application of the internet and mobile communications, including online gaming, has made a huge impact on political participation, business, education, and social relations. Global Media Convergence and Cultural...
by Immanuel Nama
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Sociology - Culture, Technology, Peoples / Nations, grade: 1,3, University of Passau (Professur für Amerikanistik / Cultural and Media Studies), language: English, abstract: This paper is focused on the cultural transfer of contemporary American fitness...
African American Women in the News
Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates...
by Ainin Sulaiman, M Muzamil Naqshbandi
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The social media phenomenon has vastly changed the landscape of communication around the world. Boundaries have disappeared, and now people can be easily connected for a variety of purposes. In Social Media: Dynamism, Issues, and Challenges, editors Ainin Sulaiman & M Muzamil Naqshbandi present...
Comedy and Distinction
The Cultural Currency of a ‘Good’ Sense of Humour
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book was shortlisted for the 2015 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.
Comedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the British culture industries. Defying the recent economic downturn, it has exploded into a booming billion-pound industry both on TV and on the live circuit. Despite...
Ecological and Social Healing
Multicultural Women's Voices
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book is an edited collection of essays by fourteen multicultural women (including a few Anglo women) who are doing work that crosses the boundaries of ecological and social healing. The women are prominent academics, writers and leaders spanning Native American, Indigenous, Asian, African, Latina,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Cultural Practices of Victimhood aims to set the agenda for a cultural study of victimhood. Words such as ‘victim’ and ‘victimhood’ represent shifting cultural signifiers, their meaning depending on the cultural context of their usage. Using case studies and through a practice-based approach,...