Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Well-Being of Youth and Emerging Adults across Cultures
Novel Approaches and Findings from Europe, Asia, Africa and America
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The current volume presents new empirical data on well-being of youth and emerging adults from a global international perspective. Its outstanding features are the focus on vast geographical regions (e.g., Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America), and on strengths and resources for optimal well-being....
Marxism and Media Studies
Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Although media studies is a popular academic discipline, there are remarkably few books that analyse it from a specifically Marxist perspective. Mike Wayne's book is ideal for all students of media studies who are interested in bringing a radical political methodology to bear on their work. He presents...
African American Behavior in the Social Environment
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
An essential text to help to understand human behavior and the processes that guide human adaptation
Social workers and therapists need to assess the full range of aspects of their client problems such as socioeconomic status, academic achievement, parental incarceration, psychopathology, and...
Value and the Media
Cultural Production and Consumption in Digital Markets
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations with media texts and cultural objects, as we constantly make judgements of various kinds with respect to them. This book focuses on how value - aesthetic, political and social and economic value - is produced...
Social Class in Contemporary Japan
Structures, Sorting and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-mass" society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990’s, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far away.
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by Haomin Gong, Xin Yang
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
New information technologies have, to an unprecedented degree, come to reshape human relations, identities and communities both online and offline. As Internet narratives including online fiction, poetry and films reflect and represent ambivalent politics in China, the Chinese state wishes to enable...
by Arthur Asa Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book provides a cultural studies analysis of Millennials and their impact on American culture and society. Beginning with an introduction that touches upon which part of the population is described as Millennial, the book also explores the Millennial psyche, marketing to Millennials, Millennials’...
Packing Them In
An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865–1954
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Sylvia Hood Washingtons Packing Them In provides strong and often startling evidence of the depths and complexities of environmental racism in Chicago, and offers an innovative historical explanation for how this social ill developed in nineteenth and twentieth century America. Drawing from Michel...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Asia has long been a testing ground for efforts to augment financial and social security by developing assets that may support individuals and households and contribute to long-term social development. Rapid growth in the number and breadth of asset-based social policies has prompted Asian scholars,...
National Identity
Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
National identity has been the subject of much controversy and debate. Some have even suggested dropping the concept entirely. One group, Essentialists, argue that national identity is fixed, cultural, based on birth and ancestry. Another viewpoint is posited by Postmodernists who argue that national...
Japanese Diasporas
Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents and Uncertain Futures
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Japanese Diasporas examines the relationship of overseas Japanese and their descendents (Nikkei) with their home and host nations, focusing on the political, social and economic struggles of Nikkei. Frequently abandoned by their homeland, and experiencing alienation in their host nations, the diaspora...
Food and Foodways in Asia
Resource, Tradition and Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and kinship, class and consumption, gender ideology, and cultural symbolism. However, a truly comprehensive view of food cannot neglect the politics...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse regions in the world – hosting a wide range of languages, ethnicities, religions, economies, ecosystems and political systems. Amidst this diversity, however, has been a common desire to develop. This provides a uniting theme across landscapes of difference.
This...
The Extreme in Contemporary Culture
States of Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in ‘extreme cultures’. These are cultural practices and representations of humans in risky, painful or life-threatening conditions where the limits of their humanity are tested, and producing heightened...