Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
War Echoes
Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post–Viet Nam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o...
by Pablo Markin
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2001 in the subject Sociology - Miscellaneous, grade: 90, erg International School - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (Helmut Kohl Institute for European Studies), course: The Popular Culture in the Nineteenth Century Europe, 27 entries in the bibliography,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Although recent scholarship has shown that the term ‘Theravāda’ in the familiar modern sense is a nineteenth- and twentieth-century construct, it is now used to refer to the more than 150 million people around the world who practice that form of Buddhism. Buddhist practices such as meditation,...
The Wedding Complex
Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings—as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation—are sites for imagining and enacting...
Cities of Culture
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Culture now has a prominent place on the urban policy and re-profiling agendas of cities around the world. City-based cultural planning emphasising creativity in all its guises has emerged as a significant local policy initiative, while the notion of the ‘creative city’ has become an urban imaging...
by Sam Whimster
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Understanding Weber provides an accessible and comprehensive explanation of the central issues of Weber's work. Using the most recent scholarship and editions of Weber's writings, Sam Whimster establishes the full range, depth and development of Max Weber's approach to the social and cultural sciences....
by Jeffrey C. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life.
Central to Alexander’s approach is a new model of social performance that combines...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Cosmopolitanism is about the extension of the moral and political horizons of people, societies, organizations and institutions. Over the past 25 years there has been considerable interest in cosmopolitan thought across the human social sciences.
The second edition of the *Routledge International...
Strategic, Policy and Social Innovation for a Post-Industrial Korea
Beyond the Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Export-oriented industrialization has transformed the Korean economy so profoundly that it has become known as the "Miracle on the Han." Yet, this industrial model has become fragile, as Korea’s chaebols are being challenged by Chinese competitors. Attempts to seek out new engines of economic...
Economy Hotels in China
A Glocalized Innovative Hospitality Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
While economy or budget hotels have been popular in western countries since the end of the Second World War, they have only emerged as a sector in their own right in China since the mid-1990s. Indeed, as a new service industry sector, economy hotels in China demonstrate important characteristics which...
Indian Blood
HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies
The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "two-spirit"...
German-Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers
Global Dynamics in Transnational Lands
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book approaches Australo-German relations from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It maps new pathways into the rich landscape of the Australo-German transnational encounter, which is characterized by dense and interwoven cultural, historical and political terrains. Surveying an...
China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-69: Not a Dinner Party
Not a Dinner Party
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Mao Zedong launched the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" 30 years ago. This documentary history of the event presents a selection of key primary documents dealing with the Cultural Revolution's massive and bloody assault on China's political and social systems.
Change and Continuity in the Pacific
Revisiting the Region
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Thousands of studies have been conducted by social scientists in the villages and islands, and increasingly in the towns, of the Pacific. Despite this, there are few longitudinal studies of any great depth and sophistication in the region.
The contributors to this book have all conducted long-term...