Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Leadership Peruvian Style
How Peruvians Define and Practice Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Leadership across cultural borders is the new frontier in leadership studies. Increased globalization means leaders are dealing with a variety of cultures in and out of their own countries. Leaders must be experts in understanding what cultural dimensions mean for being effective outside their own...
by Yolanda Webb
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
The divisions within colonized groups are often manifestations of a system designed to perpetuate racism and discrimination. Hierarchical systems of oppression have historically been created to maintain confusion and division. Whats more, media images have often been used as tools to support a colonial...
Hidden in Plain Sight
Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2005
The history of Aboriginal people in Canada taught in schools and depicted in the media tends to focus on Aboriginal displacement from native lands and the consequent social and cultural disruptions they have endured. Collectively, they are portrayed as passive victims of European colonization and...
The Story of the Origins of the Bura/Pabir People of Northeast Nigeria
Language, Migrations, the Myth of Yamta-Ra-Wala, Social Organization and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A Synopsis of the Bura Project The three major rationale for writing this book are primarily to: through the study of African language family groups trace the origin of the tribe to a more specific location rather than the diffused response of from the East; secondly to investigate why and how the...
Daoist Ritual, State Religion, and Popular Practices
Zhenwu Worship from Song to Ming (960-1644)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Zhenwu, or the Perfected Warrior, is one of the few Chinese Deities that can rightfully claim a countrywide devotion. Religious specialists, lay devotees, the state machine, and the cultural industry all participated, both collaboratively and competitively, in the evolution of this devotional movement....
Deafening Modernism
Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Deafening Modernism tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a critical Deaf theory independent of identity-based discourse, Rebecca Sanchez excavates the intersections between Deaf and modernist studies. She traces the ways that Deaf culture,...
by Anthony Elliott, Charles Lemert
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert examine the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to globalization and beyond. When first published, the book’s wide range set new standards for introductory...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The Routledge Companion to Social Theory provides an authoritative, comprehensive and provocative introduction to the key traditions of thought in social theory today. This ground-breaking reference work brings together major contributors, both established and emergent new voices, to reflect on the...
Black Charlestonians
A Social History, 1822-1885
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1994
This revisionist work delineates the major social and economic contours of the large black population in the pivotal Southern city of Charleston, South Carolina., historic seaport center for the slave trade. It draws upon census data, manuscript collections, and newspaper accounts to expand our knowledge...
Once You Go Black
Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT Studies
Richard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II intellectuals announced the very themes of race, gender, and sexuality with which so many contemporary critics...
The Myth of the Russian Intelligentsia
Old Intellectuals in the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Russia is one of the few countries in the world where intellectuals existed as a social group and shared a unique social identity. This book focuses on one of the most important and influential groups of Russian intellectuals - the 1960s generation of shestidesyatniki - often considered the last...
The Vernaculars of Communism
Language, Ideology and Power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social roles, rituals and behaviours emerged, so did...
by Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych, Maria G. Rewakowicz
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The concept of a 'return to Europe' has been integral to the movement for Ukrainian national rebirth since the nineteenth century. While the goal of a more fully reformed politics remains elusive, numerous expressions of Ukrainian culture continue to develop in the European spirit. This wide-ranging...
by Brian Meeks (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Stuart Hall, in whose honour this volume is compiled, has made significant contributions to contemporary social and political discourse. Constantly praised for his scholarly prescience, he was at the helm of the forging and definition of the discipline of Cultural Studies and nurtured an entire...