Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The last decade has witnessed the rise of the cell phone from a mode of communication to an indispensable multimedia device, and this phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of mobile communication studies in media, cultural studies, and communication departments across the academy.
The Routledge...
Cultures of Development
Vietnam, Brazil and the Unsung Vanguard of Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The North Atlantic development establishment has had a blemished track record over the past 65 years. In addition to a sizeable portfolio of failure, the few economic success stories in the developing world, such as South Korea and China, have been achieved by rejecting the advice of Western experts....
Going Native
Indians in the American Cultural Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Since the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves. Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultural artifacts such as...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource that explores the formation and transformation of Korean culture and society.
Each chapter provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking overview on key topics, including: compressed modernity,...
Multinationals and Cross-Cultural Management
The Transfer of Knowledge within Multinational Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Globalisation makes our world appear smaller: it is easier to connect, communicate and do business with people all over the world. But cultural differences remain and challenge globalized knowledge communication and transfer. This book examines cross-cultural management within multinational enterprises...
by Hongmei Li
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Chinese advertising as an industry, a discourse and profession in China’s search for modernity and cultural globalization. It compares and contrasts the advertising practices of Chinese advertising agencies and foreign advertising agencies, and Chinese...
Unveiling Traditions
Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2000
In Unveiling Traditions Anouar Majid issues a challenge to the West to reimagine Islam as a progressive world culture and a participant in the building of a multicultural and more egalitarian world civilization. From within the highly secularized space it inhabits, a space endemically suspicious of...
Market Society
Markets and Modern Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. The book considers markets as social institutions rather than simply formal models, arguing that modern ideas of the market are based on critical notions of social order, social...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical conversation between the interdisciplinary fields of...
Decentralization, Local Governance, and Social Wellbeing in India
Do Local Governments Matter?
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Over the past three decades, decentralization has been seen as the means for allowing local governments to become more accountable, and for encouraging the deepening of democracy and the building of village communities. By drawing on original village-level case studies of six villages in three different...
Women in a Globalizing World
Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
An exciting Canadian collection of feminist articles that pro- vide cutting-edge gender analysis for understanding diverse personal and political challenges and opportunities in our fast-changing global world. Canadian and international au- thors offer varied social justice, anti-racist, Indigenous,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Innovation - the process of obtaining, understanding, applying, transforming, managing and transferring knowledge - is a result of human collaboration, but it has become an increasingly complex process, with a growing number of interacting parties involved. Lack of innovation is not necessarily caused...
The Drama of Social Life
A Dramaturgical Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Whatever else they may be doing, human beings are also and always expressing themselves whenever they are in the awareness of others. As such, the metaphor of life as theater - of people playing roles to audiences who review them and then coordinate further action - is an ancient idea that has been...
Objects and Materials
A Routledge Companion
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality. This Companion focuses on the objects and...