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Content Analysis in Social Research - Study Contexts, Avenues of Research, and Data Communication Strategies (Hardcover): Maria... Content Analysis in Social Research - Study Contexts, Avenues of Research, and Data Communication Strategies (Hardcover)
Maria Faggiano
R3,465 Discovery Miles 34 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume is a comprehensive overview of Content Analysis (CA), whose extraordinary potential is operationally flexible, compatible with different techniques, theoretically creative, and multidisciplinary at its core. Also, CA keeps tradition and innovation together: as technology advances, CA can more efficiently perform its typical functions and proves its worth in new fields. The book illustrates the main characteristics, perspectives, plurality of objects, and contexts of use of CA, focusing on the various practical strategies that it entails and on their combinations. The aim is to provide readers with a concrete guide, presenting a research notebook that explores a unique empirical-methodological heritage - such working style is replicable and the goal is to transmit it as clearly as possible.

Essential Concepts in Sociology (Hardcover, 2nd Edition): Anthony Giddens, Philip W. Sutton Essential Concepts in Sociology (Hardcover, 2nd Edition)
Anthony Giddens, Philip W. Sutton
R1,730 Discovery Miles 17 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, sociology today is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to this endeavour is the use of core concepts and ideas which allow sociologists to make sense of societies, though our understanding of these concepts necessarily evolves and changes. This clear and jargon-free book introduces a careful selection of essential concepts that have helped to shape sociology and others that continue to do so. Going beyond brief, dictionary-style definitions, Anthony Giddens and Philip W. Sutton provide an extended discussion of each concept which sets it in historical and theoretical context, explores its main meanings in use, introduces relevant criticisms, and points readers to its ongoing development in contemporary research and theorizing. Organized in ten thematic sections, the book offers a portrait of sociology through its essential concepts, ranging from capitalism, identity and deviance to globalization, the environment and intersectionality. It will be essential reading for all those new to sociology as well as anyone seeking a reliable route map for a rapidly changing world.

Against Better Judgement: Rethinking Multicultural Society - Liber Amicorum: In Honour of Professor Dr Ruben Gowricharn... Against Better Judgement: Rethinking Multicultural Society - Liber Amicorum: In Honour of Professor Dr Ruben Gowricharn (Hardcover)
Jaswina Elahi, Sandra Trienekens Trienekens, Hans Ramsoedh
R3,077 Discovery Miles 30 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The topics addressed in this book varies from issues in multicultural society to scholarship. In fourteen short essays the authors discuss crucial topics, including (personal sociology, arts, policy making, creolisation, diaspora communities, minority empowerment, political exclusion, homemaking, practice of science). This liber amicorum offers a unique collection of essays that opens a fresh window for everybody interested in multicultural societies, history, arts and social science. The contributions to this book represents a fine scholarship dealing with contemporary issues in society and academia. Contributors include: Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Frank Bovenkerk, Miriela G.L. Carolina, Gurkan Celik, Chan E.S. Choenni, Hans Crebas, Jaswina Elahi, Frits van Engeldorp Gastelaars, Roshni Ganpat, Halleh Ghorashi, Wiren Gowricharn, Rosemarijn Hoefte, Saira Jahangir-Abdoelrahman, Michiel van Kempen, Slawomir Magala, Brij Maharaj, Rinus Penninx, Artie Ramsodit, Hans Ramsoedh, Sandra Trienekens, Wilfred Uunk, and Tanya Wijngaarde.

The History of the Progressive Movement in the United States and How Liberalism Has Created a Mediocre Society (Hardcover):... The History of the Progressive Movement in the United States and How Liberalism Has Created a Mediocre Society (Hardcover)
Ralph E Saucier
R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback): Guy Debord The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
Guy Debord; Translated by Fredy Perlman, Ken Knabb
R227 R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Save R15 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Anthology of Noonomy: Fourth Technological Revolution and Its Economic, Social and Humanitarian Consequences - Technology and... Anthology of Noonomy: Fourth Technological Revolution and Its Economic, Social and Humanitarian Consequences - Technology and Socio-economic Progress: Traps and Opportunities for the Future (Hardcover)
Sergey Bodrunov
R3,976 Discovery Miles 39 760 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Anthology of Noonomy: Fourth Technological Revolution and Its Economic, Social and Humanitarian Consequences' prepared by the international team of authors representing leading universities from different parts of the world, reveals various aspects of the theory of noonomy, developed by Professor S.Bodrunov. A positive assessment is given to the key provisions of this theory (the transition to knowledge-intensive production, the gradual socialisation of economy, the diffusion of property, the progress of solidarity relations, the removal of simulative needs and the progress of a culture). Much attention is paid to the global context of currently undergoing technological and socio-economic transformations, issues of political, economic and philosophical understanding of the theory of noonomy provisions. Contributors are Sergey Glazyev, James Kenneth Galbraith, Oleg Smolin, Enfu Cheng, Siyang Gao, Alan Freeman, Andrey Kolganov, Jesus Pastor Garcia Brigos, Anatoly Porokhovsky, Radhika Desai and Leo Gabriel.

Traces of the Animal Past - Methodological Challenges in Animal History (Hardcover): Jennifer Bonnell, Sean Kheraj Traces of the Animal Past - Methodological Challenges in Animal History (Hardcover)
Jennifer Bonnell, Sean Kheraj
R1,858 Discovery Miles 18 580 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Understanding the relationships between humans and animals is essential to a full understanding of both our present and our shared past. Across the humanities and social sciences, researchers have embraced the 'animal turn,' a multispecies approach to scholarship, with historians at the forefront of new research in human-animal studies that blends traditional research methods with interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks that decenter humans in historical narratives. These exciting approaches come with core methodological challenges for scholars seeking to better understand the past from non-anthropocentric perspectives.Whether in a large public archive, a small private collection, or the oral histories of living memories, stories of animals are mediated by the humans who have inscribed the records and organized archival collections. In oral histories, the place of animals in the past are further refracted by the frailty of human memory and recollection. Only traces remain for researchers to read and interpret. Bringing together seventeen original essays by a leading group of international scholars, Traces of the Animal Past showcases the innovative methods historians use to unearth and explain how animals fit into our collective histories. Situating the historian within the narrative, bringing transparency to methodological processes, and reflecting on the processes and procedures of current research, this book presents new approaches and new directions for a maturing field of historical inquiry.

Digital Fissures - Bodies, Genders, Technologies (Hardcover): Julia Heim, Sole Anatrone Digital Fissures - Bodies, Genders, Technologies (Hardcover)
Julia Heim, Sole Anatrone; Volume editing by Carlotta Cossutta, Valentina Greco, Arianna Mainardi, …
R3,853 Discovery Miles 38 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

From rethinking feminist archives, to inserting postpornography in academia, to approaching sex toys from a transpositive perspective, to dismantling the foundations of techno-capitalism, the areas of inquiry in this book are lenses through which to explore the relationships between genders, bodies and technologies. All the various chapters work to reimagine the body as a hybrid, malleable and subversive source of potentiality. These essays offer readers road maps for unimagined and uncharted social scapes: the relationship between bodies-technologies-genders means working within a space of monstrosity. Through this embodied discomfort the book questions existing techno-social norms, and imagines tranfeminist futures. Contributors are: Carlotta Cossutta, Valentina Greco, Arianna Mainardi, Stefania Voli, Lucia Egana Rojas, Ludovico Virtu, Angela Balzano, Obiezione Respinta, Elisa Virgili, Rachele Borghi, and Diego Marchante "Genderhacker".

Conventionasl Lies of Our Civilization. (Hardcover): Max Nordau Conventionasl Lies of Our Civilization. (Hardcover)
Max Nordau
R918 Discovery Miles 9 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Global Citizenship Student Workbook Year 7 (Paperback): Eilish Commins, Mary Young Global Citizenship Student Workbook Year 7 (Paperback)
Eilish Commins, Mary Young
R736 Discovery Miles 7 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

iLowerSecondary Global Citizenship Workbooks provide structured, yet flexible, support for schools teaching Global Citizenship in the Lower Secondary Years. Written specifically to work alongside iLowerSecondary, the Workbooks additionally provide an effective standalone resource for any school or student wanting to explore this fascinating subject. Key features: * An introduction to the week's teaching which explains what students will be learning, plus objectives and key vocabulary * An activity for every day of the week, designed for students to practise and reinforce their skills and knowledge * Written and developed by subject experts * Aligned to the iLowerSecondary Global Citizenship curriculum and progression, the Workbooks provide explicit progression towards Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Global Citizenship

Multispecies Ethnography - Methodology of a Holistic Research Approach of Humans, Animals, Nature, and Culture (English,... Multispecies Ethnography - Methodology of a Holistic Research Approach of Humans, Animals, Nature, and Culture (English, German, Hardcover)
Katharina Ameli
R2,854 Discovery Miles 28 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How are natures and animals integrated inclusively into research projects through Multispecies Ethnography? While preceded by a vision that seeks to question holistically how scientists can integrate natures and animals into research projects through Multispecies Ethnography, this book focuses on inter- and multidisciplinary collaboration. From an examination of the interfaces between social and natural science-oriented disciplines, a complex view of natures, humans, and animals emerges. The insights into interdependencies of different disciplines illustrate the need for a Multispecies Ethnography to analyze HumansAnimalsNaturesCultures. While the methodology is innovative and currently not widespread, the application of Multispecies Ethnography in areas of research such as climate change, species extinction, or inequalities will allow new insights. These research debates are closely interwoven, and the methodological inclusion of the agency of natures and animals and the consideration of Indigenous Knowledge allow new insights of holistic multispecies research for the different disciplines. Multispecies Ethnography allows for positivist, innovative, attentive, reflexive and complex analyses of HumansAnimalsNaturesCultures.

Hijras, Lovers, Brothers - Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India (Paperback): Vaibhav Saria Hijras, Lovers, Brothers - Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India (Paperback)
Vaibhav Saria
R1,892 Discovery Miles 18 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Against easy framings of hijras that render them marginalized, Saria shows how hijras makes the normative Indian family possible. The book also shows that particular practices of hijras, such as refusing to use condoms or comply with retroviral regimes, reflect not ignorance or irresponsibility but rather a specific idiom of erotic asceticism arising in both Hindu and Islamic traditions. This idiom suffuses the densely intertwined registers of erotics, economics, and kinship that inform the everyday lives of hijras and offer a repertoire of self-fashioning distinct from the secularized accounts within the horizon of public health programmes and queer theory. Engrossingly written and full of keen insights, the book moves from the small pleasures of the everyday laughter, flirting, and teasing to impossible longings, kinship networks, and economies of property and of substance in order to give a fuller account of trans lives and of Indian society today.

Financialisation and Poverty Alleviation in Ghana - Myths and Realities (Hardcover): Francis Boateng Frimpong Financialisation and Poverty Alleviation in Ghana - Myths and Realities (Hardcover)
Francis Boateng Frimpong
R4,922 Discovery Miles 49 220 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The neoliberal policy response to the crisis in Ghana did not succeed in reversing the economic decline in both the medium and long term. In fact, quite the opposite, rather than undoing the economic decline, Frimpong argues that the policy prescriptions further weakened the country's ability to develop. This is because the policies intentionally and unintentionally encouraged factors that destabilised the possibility of the real productive assets to earn commensurate returns to facilitate the flow of capital to the real sectors to ensure the survival of industrial enterprises. Rising profit in the financial sector incentivised financial capitalist to divert capital into financial assets at the expense of productive investment, further decelerating the pace of real capital accumulation in the country.

Teaching and Learning from Neuroeducation to Practice - We Are Nature Blended with the Environment. We Adapt and Rediscover... Teaching and Learning from Neuroeducation to Practice - We Are Nature Blended with the Environment. We Adapt and Rediscover Ourselves Together with Others, with More Wisdom (Hardcover)
Adriana Volpiansky
R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging - Religion and Multiculturalism from Israel to Canada (Hardcover): Rene Provost Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging - Religion and Multiculturalism from Israel to Canada (Hardcover)
Rene Provost
R3,844 Discovery Miles 38 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between religion and multiculturalism and the role of the state and law in the creation of boundaries. Western secular democracies are composed of increasingly religiously diverse populations. The idea of "multiculturalism" was formed as a constructive response to this phenomenon, but, in many areas of the globe, support for multiculturalism is challenged by attempts to preserve the cultural and legal norms of the majority.
The State of Israel offers a particularly pertinent case study, and is a central focus of this collection. The contributors to this volume address the concepts of religious difference and diversity, as well as the various ways in which states and legal systems understand and respond to them. Mappingthe Legal Boundaries of Belonging shows that, as a consequence of a purportedly secular human rights perspective, state laws may appear to define religious identity in a way that contradicts the definition found within a particular religion. Both state and religion make the same mistake, however, if they take a court decision that emphasizes individual belief and practice as a direct modification of a religious norm: the court lacks the power to change the internal authoritative definition of who belongs to a particular faith. Similarly, in the pursuit of a particular model of social diversity, the state may adopt policies that imply a particular private/public distinction foreign to some religious traditions.
This volume, which includes contributions from leading scholars in the field, will be an invaluable resource to anyone seeking to understand the legal meaning and impact of religious diversity.

Social Security in the Balkans - Volume 2 - An Overview of Social Policy in the Republics of North Macedonia and Montenegro... Social Security in the Balkans - Volume 2 - An Overview of Social Policy in the Republics of North Macedonia and Montenegro (Hardcover)
Marzena Zakowska, Dorota Domalewska
R4,120 Discovery Miles 41 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The book offers a comprehensive overview of social security in the Balkan states. Social security is presented from a broad perspective as a mechanism that addresses human needs, provides protection against social risks, reduces social tensions and secures peace. Various sectors of social policy, pension systems, health care systems, disability insurance, labor policy as well as social risks, such as poverty and unemployment, have been analyzed from historical, economic, political, sociological and security perspective. The book also offers recommendations for improving the level of social security in the region. Contributors are: Maja Bacovic, Agata Domachowska, Dorota Domalewska, Tomasz Ferfecki, Afet Mamuti, Katerina Mitevska Petrusheva, Natalija Perisic, Kire Sharlamanov, Katerina Veljanovska Blazhevska, and Marzena Zakowska.

Criminal Profiling - An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis (Hardcover, 5th edition): Brent E Turvey Criminal Profiling - An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis (Hardcover, 5th edition)
Brent E Turvey
R2,217 Discovery Miles 22 170 In Stock

Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, Fifth Edition, maintains the same core foundation that made previous editions best sellers in the professional and academic community worldwide. Written for practicing behavioral analysts and aspiring students alike, this work emphasizes an honest understanding of crime and criminals. Newly updated, mechanisms for the examination and classification of both victim and offender behavior have been improved. In addition to refined approaches toward international perspectives, chapters on psychological autopsies, scene investigation reconstruction, court issues and racial profiling have also been added.

The Public Value of Anthropology (Hardcover): Dorothy Zinn, Elisabeth Tauber, Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali The Public Value of Anthropology (Hardcover)
Dorothy Zinn, Elisabeth Tauber, Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali
R1,055 Discovery Miles 10 550 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Migrant Organising - Community Unionism, Solidarity and Bricolage (Hardcover): Emma Martin Diaz, Beltran Roca Migrant Organising - Community Unionism, Solidarity and Bricolage (Hardcover)
Emma Martin Diaz, Beltran Roca
R4,571 Discovery Miles 45 710 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Migrant Organising: Community Unionism, Solidarity and Bricolage, Emma Martin-Diaz and Beltran Roca explore recent developments in community unionism and solidarity networks among migrant workers in a post-Fordist context characterised by transnationalism and global chains. The contributions in this edited book describe different types of trade union strategies toward migrant workers and the rise of solidarity and bricolage initiatives in situations in which conventional union organising cannot succeed. Cases from Germany, Spain, Italy and Argentina reveal that the transformation of work, the rise of global chains and the intensification of international migrations are the basis of new forms of union and extra-union intervention. Contributors include: Beltran Roca, Emma Martin-Diaz, Simone Castellani, Mark Bergfeld, Juan Pablo Aris-Escarcena, Giulia Borraccino, Paula Dinorah Salgado, Alicia Reigada, Giuseppe D'Onofrio and Jon Las Heras.

The Social Significance of the Modern Drama (Hardcover): Emma Goldman The Social Significance of the Modern Drama (Hardcover)
Emma Goldman
R746 Discovery Miles 7 460 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level, Book one (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith... AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level, Book one (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend
R1,028 Discovery Miles 10 280 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The contents are carefully mapped to the AQA AS and A level specifications, so you can be sure you are studying exactly what you need to. The book focuses on the key topics of Families and Households, Education, Methods in Context and Research Methods to achieve the depth of coverage required for top grades. Clear headings and subheadings signpost and organise the content - particularly important for students new to the subject. The text is accessible to students of all abilities, with key concepts, methods and studies explained in straightforward language pitched at just the right level for first year A level students. The attractive, full-colour design and thought-provoking photos stimulate students' interest and engagement. There are realistic practice exam questions throughout the book, together with detailed guidance on tackling them, plus marked student answers with examiner's commentaries to show what is expected. A separate chapter on preparing for the exams gives detailed examiner's advice and provides separate practice exam questions for AS and A level papers. Every Topic includes activities for individual and group work to check students' understanding and consolidate and deepen their learning. The book comes with a comprehensive, free online resource package, including free student workbooks, online activities and schemes of work. The authors are experienced chief and principal examiners, teachers and authors who have written extensively for AS and A level students and teachers. This book is the companion volume to AQA A Level Sociology Book Two by the same authors.

Case of the Vigilante, a Ship Employed in the Slave-trade - With Some Reflections on That Traffic (Hardcover): Anonymous Case of the Vigilante, a Ship Employed in the Slave-trade - With Some Reflections on That Traffic (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Degree for Henry - Stories from Minnesota's Stillwater Prison (Hardcover): Charles Slabaugh A Degree for Henry - Stories from Minnesota's Stillwater Prison (Hardcover)
Charles Slabaugh
R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Young People and Social Media: Contemporary Children's Digital Culture (Paperback): Steve Gennaro Young People and Social Media: Contemporary Children's Digital Culture (Paperback)
Steve Gennaro
R2,402 Discovery Miles 24 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Lesbianism - A Study in Female Homosexuality (Hardcover): David H. Rosen, Rachel Rosen Lesbianism - A Study in Female Homosexuality (Hardcover)
David H. Rosen, Rachel Rosen; Foreword by Evelyn Hooker
R795 R694 Discovery Miles 6 940 Save R101 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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