Búsqueda de SOCIOLOGIA

38214 resultados

CIENCIAS - HUMANIDADES / SOCIOLOGIA
eBooks Eliminar filtro CIENCIAS - HUMANIDADES Eliminar filtro SOCIOLOGIA Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • INTRODUCTION TO HOUSING
    ebook
    INTRODUCTION TO HOUSING
    ANACKER, KATRIN B.
    This foundational text on housing tenure, housing policy, homelessness, and housing in a global context has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes in the United States during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This third edition delves into the complexities of housing and related issues, to provide a deep understanding of housing’s relationship to national economic factors an...

    $1,900.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE POWER OF FEMINIST THEORY
    ebook
    THE POWER OF FEMINIST THEORY
    AMY ALLEN
    In this new second edition of The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity, Amy Allen diagnoses the inadequacies of previous feminist conceptions of power, and draws on the work of a diverse group of theorists of power, including Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, bell hooks, and Hannah Arendt, in order to construct a new feminist conception of power. The conce...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE LIBERAL MIND IN A CONSERVATIVE PARTY
    ebook
    THE LIBERAL MIND IN A CONSERVATIVE PARTY
    GEOFFREY ROBINSON
    Robinson analyses the peculiarly Australian intellectual tradition of liberal conservatism within the mainstream centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. Conservative intellectuals in Australia have forged a pragmatic, sceptical and utilitarian liberal conservatism focused on the tasks of government. It remains distant both from the romantic and organicist ideas of the populist...

    $1,100.00

    Ver detalle
  • GLOBAL HEALTH IN THE GLOBAL NORTH
    ebook
    GLOBAL HEALTH IN THE GLOBAL NORTH
    STEVEN P. BLACK
    This book investigates how health interventions are imagined into being in high-income countries, drawing on over seven years of fieldwork in the self-described “global health capital” Atlanta to consider the role of storytelling in the construction of global health futures. The volume highlights the ways in which scientific storytelling is critical to our understanding of how ...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle
  • MIS/DISINFORMATION AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY
    ebook
    MIS/DISINFORMATION AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY
    Drawing on a variety of perspectives and methodologies, this collection explores the intricate relationship between mis- and disinformation and the functioning of democratic society. This book seeks to show how mis- and disinformation is destabilizing our collective confidence in institutions fundamental to the functioning of democratic society, including our electoral processe...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle
  • MUSEUM DESIGN WITH, BY, AND FOR CHILDREN
    ebook
    MUSEUM DESIGN WITH, BY, AND FOR CHILDREN
    CLARE MURRAY
    Museum Design with, by, and for Children makes an important contribution to contemporary museum theory and practice by focusing on the role and rights of children in museums from a new angle: design. At a time when museum practitioners are challenged to work within their particular buildings and contexts to help the children in their communities feel welcome, invited, and invol...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE REGULATION OF SEX ROBOTS
    ebook
    THE REGULATION OF SEX ROBOTS
    CARLOTTA RIGOTTI
    This book proposes a framework for regulating sex robots – human-like machines designed to engage emotionally and sexually with users through customisable, often AI-powered features. Although they occupy a niche in the adult entertainment and technology industries, sex robots raise complex issues that extend beyond current debates. To date, sex robots are frequently portrayed e...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle
  • DISABILITY AND DIGITAL MARKETING
    ebook
    DISABILITY AND DIGITAL MARKETING
    This book explores how digital marketing can drive disability inclusion in consumer culture by addressing accessibility, representation, and research methodologies. It offers practical and theoretical insights for academics, practitioners, and policymakers interested in marketing, communication, sociology, and public policy. The first part, Digital Marketplace Accessibility, ex...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle
  • LATIN AMERICAN ART AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    ebook
    LATIN AMERICAN ART AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    MIRIAM M. BASILIO GAZTAMBIDE
    This book sheds light on an as-yet unstudied aspect of The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term “Latin American art” in the United States from the 1930s to the present through its collection displays. In examining the shifting categorization of Latin American works according to stylistic and geographic taxonomies, ...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle
  • ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS OF LAND POLITICS
    ebook
    ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS OF LAND POLITICS
    SATURNINO M. BORRAS JR. / JENNIFER C. FRANCO
    This book compiles, discusses, and explains the key concepts in land politics in an easy-to-navigate A–Z format. This book takes a broad view on land, across the rural and urban corridor, and advocates for a holistic view of the politics of land, as an aggregation of land and global social life, that is, the politics of food, climate, labour, citizenship, and geopolitics. The a...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • A TIME OF DISASTROUS ANTICIPATIONS
    ebook
    A TIME OF DISASTROUS ANTICIPATIONS
    REIDAR STAUPE
    This book explores the pervasive anticipation of catastrophe in contemporary society, examining how temporal expectations shape personal and collective experiences and influence our perspectives and responses. A Time of Disastrous Anticipations highlights the role of anticipation in shaping societal narratives, exploring strategies for redefining responses to catastrophic imagi...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LIFESTYLE JOURNALISM
    ebook
    THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LIFESTYLE JOURNALISM
    ALICE BAKER, STEPHANIE
    Taking stock of research in an area that has long been starved of scholarly attention, The Routledge Handbook of Lifestyle Journalism brings together scholars from across journalism, communication, and media studies to offer the first substantial volume of its kind in this dynamic field. This Handbook is divided into five major sections covering definitions; current trends; the...

    $1,380.00

    Ver detalle
  • REINTRODUCING TALCOTT PARSONS
    ebook
    REINTRODUCING TALCOTT PARSONS
    JAMES J. CHRISS
    This book examines the contributions made by Talcott Parsons to sociology over the course of a career spanning half a century. Summarizing the development of Parsons’ thought, it shows how his work on the conceptualization of the social world via the unifying structure of four functions—adaptation, goal-attainment, integration, and latent pattern maintenance (or AGIL)—can furth...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
    ebook
    HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
    ANISSA ROGERS
    Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Perspectives on Development and the Life Course returns for a seventh edition to provide students with an expansive overview of the major theories and issues related to human behavior and the social environment that are important to understand for professional practice across a variety of cases and contexts. Maintaining its clarity a...

    $2,420.00

    Ver detalle
  • UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN LEGISLATURES
    ebook
    UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN LEGISLATURES
    JAMES M. CURRY
    In this passionately argued book, James M. Curry introduces legislative scholars to the value and importance of interpretive research. His field guide for getting started on using an interpretive approach is designed so that the reader can understand a new methodological approach, not just new methods or “tools” within a singular approach. Weaving in his own story from student ...

    $1,040.00

    Ver detalle
  • ONLINE SEXUAL CRIMES, OFFENDERS, AND VICTIMS
    ebook
    ONLINE SEXUAL CRIMES, OFFENDERS, AND VICTIMS
    SARAH PAQUETTE / JULIEN CHOPIN / FRANCIS FORTIN
    Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume explores contemporary knowledge regarding the online sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, and challenges prevailing myths perpetuated by society and the media concerning this form of violence, the offenders, and their victims. Drawing on a wealth of data collected from real cases in Quebec, the book introduces re...

    $1,100.00

    Ver detalle
  • BONFIRE
    ebook
    BONFIRE
    CHARLES DERBER
    Charles Derber shows how the US is moving toward sociocide – the erosion of durable, positive social relations in the economy, family, politics, and civil society essential to sustaining society itself – while offering pragmatic solutions. Bonfire: American Sociocide, Broken Relations, and the Quest for Democracy examines how new technologies and financial strategies are part o...

    $660.00

    Ver detalle
  • LOSS AND LIQUID CITIZENSHIP IN EUROPE
    ebook
    LOSS AND LIQUID CITIZENSHIP IN EUROPE
    ULRIKE M. VIETEN
    Loss and Liquid Citizenship in Europe offers a means of understanding how experiences of loss intersect with discourses of migration and citizenship, to affect feelings of belonging with respect to host communities and newcomers. Adopting a de-colonial and intersectional perspective, it examines the condition of postmigration, regarding it as a space of social, cultural, and po...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle
  • QUANTITATIVE AND APPLIED RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN ECONOMICS
    ebook
    QUANTITATIVE AND APPLIED RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN ECONOMICS
    NIRANJAN DEVKOTA / SUSHANTA KUMAR MAHAPATRA
    This book is an illustrative and comprehensive guide designed to help readers understand and navigate the complex world of academic writing and research in economics. Written by experienced researchers, this book offers theoretical and practical insights into the research process. It provides an understanding of the foundations of the research process like research design, meth...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • MAHASWETA DEVI IN DEFENCE OF THE HUMAN
    ebook
    MAHASWETA DEVI IN DEFENCE OF THE HUMAN
    ANURADHA GHOSH
    This book re-thinks the literary and social worlds of Mahasweta Devi, the prolific and influential writer and social activist, in connection to her praxis. It brings into focus Devi’s preoccupation with the human, nature and life, and unwritten or distorted histories that underline her poetics of translating resistance in terms of a radical alterity. The defining feature of Dev...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle
  • MULTIPLE CAPITALS APPROACH FOR UPLAND AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
    ebook
    MULTIPLE CAPITALS APPROACH FOR UPLAND AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
    LOIS MANSFIELD
    This book focuses on upland agricultural systems and applies a multiple capitals approach to explain what they can provide at a time when many are struggling to survive. Marginal upland agricultural systems have been distorted and derailed by modern economics, politics, and the drive to intensification. This book argues for the application of a multiple capitals approach to res...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle
  • PHOTOGRAPHY AS SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
    ebook
    PHOTOGRAPHY AS SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
    MACIEJ FRĄCKOWIAK
    Photography as Social Transformation resituates the practices of photography within contemporary sociological thinking. It examines how photography influences and shapes social order in the social media age and offers a methodological framework for studying transformation, revealing the forms the process can take and the settings in which it occurs. Photography and the transfor...

    $1,060.00

    Ver detalle
  • NIRANJAN MONDAL’S A TALE OF HIGH AND LOW TIDES
    ebook
    NIRANJAN MONDAL’S A TALE OF HIGH AND LOW TIDES
    Niranjan Mondal is one of the most prolific writers of Dalit literature in Bangla known for his immersive fictions that root themselves in the lives of people from the Sundarbans, the mangrove forest in east India. This volume of the translation of his novel, A Tale of High and Low Tides (Ujaan Bhatir Kathokata), along with critical essays and an interview of the author, introd...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle
  • VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
    ebook
    VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
    NICOLE WESTMARLAND
    Providing an overview of different forms of violence against women, this second edition has been significantly updated to reflect the changes that have taken place in recent years. Much has changed since the publication of the first edition, which is reflected throughout this new volume. It is organised thematically into three parts – men’s violence against women in relationshi...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • AUTHENTICITY AND URBANISM
    ebook
    AUTHENTICITY AND URBANISM
    ALI MADANIPOUR
    This book investigates authenticity, an important but controversial cultural concept, and its relevance for urban socio-spatial processes. Defining authenticity as an evaluative relationship with an origin, it unpacks a range of origins from a critical, non-essentialist perspective: self, author, substance, event, time, place and society. Authenticity is a key concept in contem...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • PROBLEM SOCIETY
    ebook
    PROBLEM SOCIETY
    NIKI J.P. ALSFORD / FATIMAAH J. MENEFEE
    Problem Society is an essential introduction to the many facets of divided societies. It examines the complexities of how and why ancient grievances and new conflicts coexist with unprecedented connectivity and develops students’ understanding of the daily lived experience of people in cultural, economic, and political landscapes affected by global shifts. Structured around cri...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • DIALOGUES ON ETHICAL VEGETARIANISM
    ebook
    DIALOGUES ON ETHICAL VEGETARIANISM
    MICHAEL HUEMER
    Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students – a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian – discuss this question in a series of dialogues conducted over five days. Issues covered include: how intelligence affects the badnes...

    $440.00

    Ver detalle
  • CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF QUEER AGING IN SPAIN
    ebook
    CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF QUEER AGING IN SPAIN
    MEDINA, RAQUEL
    This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in Spanish culture with wider implications for queer aging studies research. The volume builds on theoretical foundations establis...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle
  • MAN, DECISIONS, SOCIETY
    ebook
    MAN, DECISIONS, SOCIETY
    TOM R. BURNS / THOMAS BAUMGARTNER / PHILIPPE DEVILLE
    In Man, Decisions, Society (1985) the authors offer an innovative approach to social science research: a new methodology, actor-system dynamics, makes possible a more effective analysis of modern societal developments and problems. Using flow charts, this methodology brings out the critical aspects of social phenomena, making complex processes visible and comprehensible. ...

    $1,480.00

    Ver detalle
  • MUM FANS
    ebook
    MUM FANS
    YE LI
    This book explores the phenomenon of “mum fans”: fans who identify themselves as their idols’ mothers and participate in online, data-related fan activities termed “parenting.” With over 50% active fans identifying as mum fans in China, the vast majority of whom have no children and state no desire to have children in real life, it examines their creation of a unique identity a...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 » Última