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Work creates and transforms the social world. Its least predictable and most admired embodiment, artistic and scientific invention, seems to defy causal analysis and statistical regularities. Far more than the exploration of the conscious and infraconscious processes of...
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Collège de France
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2016-03-16
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Leçons inaugurales
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This volume commemorates Richard H. Grathoff’s (1934–2013) contribution to interpretative sociology. Reconsidering the legacy of social phenomenology, it demonstrates the usefulness of concepts such as life-world, milieu and symbolic transcendence in the studies of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-11
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This book takes stock of opinion polls in communist and post-communist states, presents specific case studies and answers the question how opinion polls under conditions of censorship and lack of media pluralism differ from those in liberal democratic societies. These...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-03-11
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Leihmütter werden heute zunehmend von Paaren aus aller Welt in Anspruch genommen. Die Autorin geht den aktuellen Fragen, die dieser Trend aufwirft, insbesondere mit Blick auf das internationale Privat- und Zivilverfahrensrecht nach. Die Abstammung des Kindes, seine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-03-11
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Since the first book was signed almost ten years ago, the Mediated Youth series has published nearly two dozen volumes, with more in process or production. This milestone provides the perfect opportunity to reflect on how the series has evolved, how it has contributed...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-03-10
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Using interviews with world-renowned and innovative hip-hop DJs, as well as technology manufacturers that cater to the market/culture, this book reveals stories behind some of the iconic DJ technologies that have helped shape the history and culture of DJing. More...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-03-10
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As we grow up and grow old, embrace new experiences, try new roles, and adopt new technologies, our senses of time, space, connection, and identity are fundamentally explored through communication. Why, how, with whom, and to what end humans communicate reflect and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-03-10
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This study investigates long-lasting cultural constructions of childbirth. Four symbolic patterns of childbirth emerge from the analysis of a variety of texts ranging from myths, philosophy, literature and religion to ethics of modern medicine. On a symbolic level «The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-03-04
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This volume addresses the crucial role of knowledge and innovation in coping with and adapting to socio-economic and political transformation processes in post-Soviet societies. Unique are the bottom up or micro-sociological and ethnographic perspectives offered by the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-04
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Walt Whitman wrote: «The real war will never get into the books.» To this day, however, American soldier-authors write about their war and translate traumatic experiences into language accessible to the reader. Veterans of the recent Iraq war do not differ here. Joining...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-26
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Kulturkritik ist oft als ein spezifisch deutsches Phänomen beschrieben worden. Seit Sterns Studie über «Kulturpessimismus als politische Gefahr» war das Augenmerk vermehrt auf die Nähe zum Nationalismus gerichtet. Seitdem verblieb die deutscheKulturkritik im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-02-26
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Die Autorin behandelt Texte von Autorinnen, die Gefängnis- und vereinzelt auch Lagerhaft, zumeist aus politischen Gründen, erfahren haben. Sie untersucht in erster Linie, wie das Gefangensein subjektiv wahrgenommen und erlebt wird. Ein zweiter Schwerpunkt liegt auf der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-19
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China’s New 21st-Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change examines the new social justice realities in China. Often when people think of China they think of a very rigid, patriarchal society where oppression is the order of the day. However, this book aims...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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The revolution in media technologies and the political upheavals intertwined with them demand a new media ethics. Given the power of global media corporations and the high-speed electronics of media technologies worldwide, more and more people are either brought...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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The book gives a detailed overview of relevant traditional indigenous Sámi myths, beliefs and rituals based on empirical findings.The author inquires whether and how they are related to an ecologically sustainable use of the natural environment. Her main sources are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-12
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This book presents an interdisciplinary investigation into the emergence of the actor and theater. Scholarship helps us to realize how we have evolved to who we are today and to understand the transformative power of performance. The author proposes to boost and advance...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-02-12
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In 1994, the world joined South Africa in celebration of the results of its first democratic election. The results, emblazoned on the world’s memory with President Nelson Mandela waving to a multiracial crowd, signified the end of apartheid and an emerging new era of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-02-09
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The first edition of Reel Diversity: A Teacher’s Sourcebook won the 2009 Phillip C. Chinn Book Award of the National Association for Multicultural Education. This revised edition is an updated resource guide for educators in secondary and university classrooms who...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-02-09
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Die Heiligen Kyrill und Method spielen durch ihre Bibelübersetzung und die Schaffung eines slawischen (glagolitischen) Alphabets eine herausragende Rolle für die religiöse, kulturelle und nationale Identität der Slawen.Die Beiträge dieses Bandes aus Kultur-, Literatur-...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-05
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As our experience regarding the practice of deliberation grows, the position from which we evaluate it, and the criteria of this evaluation, change. This book presents a synthesis of recent research that has brought detailed and robust results. Its first section...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-05
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