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Future Of Television - Cultural Trajectories Of Media Consumption In The Digital Age Of Emotion

by Abílio Almeida

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 The book is divided into two sections: one focusing on the phenomenon of television and the other on audiences. It argues that television is changing from a singular object, fixed in a particular place, to a social phenomenon distributed across many devices and platforms.
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Death And The Afterlife - Multidisciplinary Perspectives From A Global City

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 What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited collection offers a multidisciplinary perspective of how individuals and collectives â€œdoâ€ death and interact with the dead.
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Manufacturing Digitalization In Italy - The Future Behind

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 Manufacturing Digitalisation in Italy: The Future Behind examines how digitalisation is transforming manufacturing in Italy, with particular attention to the interplay between new technologies and territorially embedded manufacturing systems.
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Avoiding Retirement In Chile - Extending Working Lives In An Uncertain And Precarious Context

by Ignacio (Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile, Chile) Cabib

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 Drawing on life-course, gender, and welfare regime theories, and relying on primary longitudinal qualitative data and primary longitudinal quantitative data, this book critically examines the generalizability of traditional age norms involving the transition to retirement, within a persistently uncertain and precarious setting.
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A Sociology Of Awkwardness - On Social Interactions Going Wrong

by Pauwke (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherland) Berkers e Yosha (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) Wijngaarden

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 A Sociology of Awkwardness shows how awkward feelings are the outcome of social interactions going wrong.
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Public Procurement And The Welfare State - Public Purchasing Between Technical Tool And Socio-Political Practice

by E.K. Sarter

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 Advancing a new social science-based approach to the welfare state, Public Procurement and the Welfare State puts forward a systematic understanding of public procurement that brings together perspectives from legal, public administration, sociological, and policy studies.
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Pandemics And Predicting The Probable - A Longitudinal And Mixed Methods Analysis Of Covid-19 In Italy

by Carmelo Lombardo e Maria Paola Faggiano

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 Utilizing an extensive and assorted Italian data set, it revolves around the contemporary sociological discussion between subjective expectations and objective chances, showing how disadvantaged actors self-excluded themselves while facing ambiguous prospects during the Covid-19 pandemics.
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Dynamics Of Uncertainty, Unrest And Fragility In Europe - In The Shadow Of The Ukraine And Migration Crises

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 This book examines some of the most pressing issues affecting contemporary societies in Europe in the 2020s, namely uncertainty, unrest and the fragility of individuals and groups.
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Deysi, Gender, And Violence - Making A Life Under Democracy And Dictatorship

by Ana S.Q. Liberato

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 This book shares the life narrative of Deysi QuiÃ±ones to shed light on the intricate relationship between her life and the wider cultural, political, social, and historical contexts of the Dominican Republic.
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Hybrid Labour - Measuring, Classifying, And Representing Workers At The Boundaries Of Employment And Self-Employment

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 This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise the dichotomies between standard and non-standard work, and between self-employment and dependent employment.
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Legacies Of The Surveillance State - Communities Living In The Shadows

by Cliodhna (Technological University Dublin, Ireland) Pierce

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 Legacies of the Surveillance State offers a chilling exploration of two historical surveillance societies: East Germany and Northern Ireland during the 1970s and 1980s to provide a unique perspective on the human cost of surveillance.
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Young Migrant Narratives - Ontological Security, Identity, And Belonging In Scotland

by Marcus Nicolson

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 This book explores how young adult migrants in Scotland navigate everyday life through processes of ontological security-seeking, revealing how identity is negotiated in relation to experiences of uncertainty, perceived difference, and political narrative.
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Pandemic Mothering And Neoliberalism - Insights From India

by Jagriti Gangopadhyay

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 This book illustrates how mothers have crafted their own forms of motherhood care in urban India. It appeals to scholars, researchers, and students of sociology, as well as policymakers, practitioners, and activists interested in how emerging demographic trends, global health crises, and state economic policies shape motherhood identities.
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Digital Technologies And Aging In South Asia And Middle East - Transforming Elderly Care

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 Khalid, Muschert, and Daran explore how digital technologies are reshaping elderly care in South Asia and the Middle East, addressing the opportunities and challenges of this transformation through a critical sociological and interdisciplinary lens.
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Failure Irrationality - Obsession, Engendering And Sound In Contemporary Policymaking

by Adriana (University Of Warsaw, Poland) Mica, Mikolaj (University Of Warsaw, Poland) Pawlak e Pawel (Sgh Warsaw School Of Economics, Poland) Kubicki

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 This book is about irrationality and policy failures. It argues that policy failures are not rational in the sense of a policy action plan that led to an error of implementation or lack of success, followed by decision-making, coping and learning.
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Medicine, Money, And Meaning - Practicing Money And Making Medicine

by Luka Jakelja

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 This book explores the tension between money and medicine: how it emerges, how doctors of different medical disciplines deal with it, and what its consequences are. Of appeal to scholars and post-graduate students of economic and medical sociology and the sociology of money, with interests in ethics, morality and Simmel studies.
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Stories, Imaginations And Sociology - Essays In Honour Of Ken Plummer

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 This book is in honour of the late sociologist Ken Plummer â€" a remarkable scholar whose work transformed several fields, from his early writing on symbolic interactionism, stigma and sexualities, through methodological innovations that have underpinned the â€˜narrative turnâ€™, to his explorations of citizenship and humanism.
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Home And Climate Change - Transforming Societies In The Face Of Climate Emergency

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 This book highlights the role of the home as a central social unit of resilience in the face of climate change and sustainable living in contemporary cities.
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Politics Of Sensibilities In Global Perspective

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 This book introduces and analyses different ways of studying sensibilities. It explores the global production, circulation, management and reproduction of sensibilities in the twenty-first century, and considers the link between emotions, body and society.
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Youth Radicalisation In Europe - Nativists Vs. Islamists

by Ayhan (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey) Kaya

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 Based on extensive in-depth interview research with young Europeans, this book reveals the root causes of radicalization among European youth with different ethno-cultural and religious backgrounds.
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Youth Radicalisation In Europe - Nativists Vs. Islamists

by Ayhan (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey) Kaya

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 Based on extensive in-depth interview research with young Europeans, this book reveals the root causes of radicalization among European youth with different ethno-cultural and religious backgrounds.
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Transdisciplinary Perspectives On Sharenting - Parenting, Privacy, And Consent

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 This book explores sharentingâ€"the widespread practice of parents or caregivers sharing information about their children onlineâ€"and explores how this pervasive digital practice is reshaping childhood, parenting, and family life in a networked society.
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Social Construction As A Complex Attractor - The Multiple Dimensions Of Entanglement, Innovation And Recurrence

by Anna (University Of Glasgow, Uk) Wilson e John A. Smith

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 This book examines the dominance of social construction within sociology while shedding light on what social construction looks like in practice beyond the realm of sociological thought.
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The Future Of Television - Cultural Trajectories Of Media Consumption In The Digital Age Of Emotion

by Abilio (University Of Minho, Portugal) Almeida

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 The book is divided into two sections: one focusing on the phenomenon of television and the other on audiences. It argues that television is changing from a singular object, fixed in a particular place, to a social phenomenon distributed across many devices and platforms.
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