Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory
From Individualization to Globalization in Japan Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory breaks new ground in providing a detailed, systematic appraisal of the major traditions of social theory prominent in Japan today – from theories of identity and individualization to globalization studies. The volume introduces readers...
Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?
Community Engagement in Small Cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
We live, by consensus, in an Age of the Metropolis, and the vast preponderance of scholarship about contemporary urban life has focused on the phenomenon of big–city life. But that is an approach that overlooks the smaller cities and towns where many of us choose to live. Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?...
Rethinking Social Studies and History Education
Social Education through Alternative Texts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The book is unique in that it mixes theory and practical applications in rethinking traditional social studies education. It focuses on essays integrating media, popular culture, and alternative texts for teaching and learning in social studies and history education through a social education lens. Social...
Mexican American Children and Families
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Offering new insight on Mexican American culture and families, this book provides an interdisciplinary examination of this growing population. Contributors from psychology, education, health, and social science review recent quantitative and qualitative literature on Mexican Americans. Using current...
Transforming Images
Screens, affect, futures
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book explores...
South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11
Masks of Threat
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This collection of essays interrogates literary and cultural narratives in the contexts of the incidents following 9/11. The collected essays underscore the new and (re)emerging racial, political, and socio-cultural discourse on identity related to terrorism and identity politics. Specifically, the...
by Mario A. Tovar
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Providing in-depth coverage of the Mexican American population from social, cultural, and psychological (clinical) perspectives, this book promotes the understanding of cultural practices and sociological characteristics of this important ethnic group.
• Addresses the characteristics of members...
Hop on Pop
The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Hop on Pop showcases the work of a new generation of scholars—from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies—whose writing has been informed by their ongoing involvement with popular culture and who draw insight from their lived experiences as critics, fans, and consumers....
by Bob Ashley, Joanne Hollows, Steve Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information both about ourselves and about our positions in the world around us. Yet, food has only recently become...
Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids
Teenagers in an Era of Consumerism, Standardized Tests, and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
In Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: Teenagers in an Era of Consumerism, Standardized Tests, and Social Media, Second Edition, award-winning sociologist Murray Milner tries to understand why teenagers behave the way they do. The first edition drew upon two years of intensive fieldwork in one high school...
Critique for What?
Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Students want to know: What does one do with critique? Fortunately, some of the most provocative self-critical intellectuals, from the postwar period to the postmodern present, have wrestled with this. Joel Pfister, in Critique for What?, criss-crosses the Atlantic to take stock of exciting British...
Cultural Crisis and Social Memory
Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos. It explicates the ways in which social memory constructed by the people enters modernity, and how this in turn causes fundamental ruptures with their past, as well as the various ways cultural crises...
Cinematic Social Studies
A Resource for Teaching and Learning Social Studies With Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Action! Film is a common and powerful element in the social studies classroom and Cinematic Social Studies explores teaching and learning social studies with film. Teaching with film is a prominent teaching strategy utilized by many teachers on a regular basis. Cinematic Social Studies moves readers...
by Erdener Kaynak, Lalita Manrai
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Global Perspectives in Cross-Cultural and Cross-National Consumer Research deals with several important issues crucial for greater understanding of international and cross-cultural consumer behavior. This understanding in turn can provide international marketers with valuable insights, such as conditions...