Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Smearing the Queer
Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Discover how gay men’s health care can be improved!
Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men explores how social prejudices embedded in scientific research and practice often act as a detriment to gay men’s health. This book provides an agenda for addressing heterosexism...
Sport
A Critical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals such as the Olympic Games and football’s World Cup demonstrate, sport’s social, political, economic and cultural significance is becoming ever more...
Childhood and Tween Girl Culture
Family, Media and Locality
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book explores the ways in which notions of childhood are being influenced by a rapidly expanding consumer-media culture in the 21st Century. It has been argued that new stages of childhood are being created and defined by children’s role as consumers. The concept of ‘tween’, girls aged...
Chains of Babylon
The Rise of Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the movement created the category of "Asian American" to join Asians of many ethnicities in racial solidarity. Drawing on the Black Power and antiwar movements, Asian...
Handbook of Asian Education
A Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives.
Using a culture-based framework,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Korea Confronts Globalization looks at the way in which the phenomenon of globalization has impacted on Korean society in terms of national identity, corporate change, labour markets, democracy, tradition and social policy, and the implications for Korea's social cohesion in a continually globalizing...
A World of Its Own
Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today.
As the citrus-growing regions of the San Gabriel and...
Blackening Europe
The African American Presence
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the secondarization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African American culture...
Dance Matters Too
Markets, Memories, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new avenues of scholarly inquiry and critical engagement and opens the field in innovative ways. This volume builds on Dance Matters (2009), which mapped the...
by Professor Chris Shilling
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
"Great to have a new edition - this is essential reading and provides a clear, accessible yet original overview of social theory and the body."
- Sarah Nettleton***, University of York***
"Lucidly argued and accessibly written, this book avoids the pitfalls of either too much...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technology in Japan has taken a different trajectory compared with Western nations. This is the first book to look at the specific dynamics of Japanese Internet...
The End of Cool Japan
Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Today’s convergent media environment offers unprecedented opportunities for sourcing and disseminating previously obscure popular culture material from Japan. However, this presents concerns regarding copyright, ratings and exposure to potentially illegal content which are serious problems for those...
Trauma, Stress, and Resilience Among Sexual Minority Women
Rising Like the Phoenix
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Prevent victimization of sexual minority women by raising your awareness level!
Trauma, Stress, and Resilience Among Sexual Minority Women: Rising Like the Phoenix is the first resource to examine trauma, violence, and stress as experienced by lesbian and bisexual women. You’ll gain a better...
Divided Spaces
Discourse on Social Exclusion and Women in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
About the Book Social exclusion has become one of the important themes in contemporary social policy debates in both the developed and developing countries. It has become central to policy and academic discourse in Western Europe, and increasingly in other parts of the globe. In India, the exclusion...