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Transport In Capitalism - Transport Policy As Social Policy

by Oliver Schwedes

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 Technological innovation in the transport sector must be accompanied by making it more sustainable, turning transport policy into social policy.
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Being There, But How? - On The Transformation Of Presence In (Post-)Pandemic Times

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 An exploration of how Â»presenceÂ« as a fundamental form of human world experience is being reshaped in the wake of digital-media transformation.
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Sound Formations - Towards A Sociological Thinking-With Sounds

by Remy Bocquillon

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 Making sociology through sound.
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Organizing Networks - An Actor-Network Theory Of Organizations

by Andréa Belliger e David J. Krieger

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 In the digital age, organizations are not anonymous systems operating behind the backs of individuals. Instead, they are scalable actor-networks guided by network norms of connectivity, flow, communication, participation, authenticity and flexibility.
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Where The Everyday Begins Â€“ A Study Of Environment And Everyday Life

by James Morrow

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 Environment precedes everyday life. Therefore, society is an environmental phenomenon, and it must be examined as such.
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Woman Today - Comparative Sociological-Juridical Research On Gender Inequality

by Francesco Nicola Maria Petricone

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 A team of scholars, academics and researchers from fourteen different countries â€" Cuba, Haiti, India, Iraq, Iran, Italy, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Tunisia, United States and Venezuela â€" bring out instead in a synchronous and transversal way the gender discrimination for womenâ€™s experiences at work, in family, for education.
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Searching For A Self - Identity In Popular Culture, Media And Society

by Arthur Asa Berger

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Seniors, Foreign Caregivers, Families, Institutions - Linguistic And Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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 The studies included in this edited volume explore discourses surrounding the ageing population, those who assist them, their families and the institutions/organisations that offer services to them.
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Society And The City - The Dark Sides Of Social Innovation

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 Is there a connection between the increasingly widespread concept of Social Innovation (SI) and the success of todayâ€™s model of capitalist regulation? According to most studies focusing on SI, the existing relation is restorative in nature but this volume is based on different assumptions.
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Futurism: Anticipating Postmodernism - A Sociological Essay: On Avant-Garde Art And Society

by Ilaria Riccioni

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 It was to become the first avant-garde movement in art â€" it aimed to change the function of art within society, foster Italian culture beyond its provincial domains, and last but not least, to extend language as free expression of a new and forthcoming society of technology.
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Solidarity Bodies - A Storytelling On Workfare And Volunteering Policies

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 This book aims to investigate the phenomenon of volunteering as a workfare event, as a synchronous rewriting of territorial policy and advocacy, according to the principles of risk and border.
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Gino Germani - Towards A Sociology Of Justice

by Marco Alberto Quiroz Vitale

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 The author highlights Germaniâ€™s idea of â€˜freedomâ€™ as a crucial and unavoidable concept at the core of the â€œmodernâ€ way of being persons, subjects, social actors and active participants within a social system.
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The West Removed - Economics, Democracy, Freedom: A Counter-History Of Our Civilization

by Paolo Ercolani

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 The seven chapters of this book cover a variety of concepts (liberalism, freedom, Marxism) and classic thinkers (Mill, Marx, Hayek, Popper) in order to disclose several myths weâ€™ve become accustomed to taking for granted in the West.
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Beyond Nihilism - The Knot Of Plurality

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 Touching on different themes and authors, the papers presented here probe the prolificness that the terms sacred and community could have â€" if subtracted from the game of reactive nihilism â€" in checking the violence of the diverse political and religious ideologies that the West administers.
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Geographies Of Psychoanalysis. - Encounters Between Cultures In Tehran

by Lorena Preta

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 The modern world is dominated by technology that subverts the perception of the body, by new families and group organization, and by a global violence that enforces a changed geometry of the mind. The answers to these new situations differ from country to country, regardless of the uniformity brought about by globalization.
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Political Audiences

by Damiano Garofalo

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 This book deals with the popular reception of early Italian television, during the years of the so-called â€œlungo miracoloâ€ (1954-1969). To do so, the author focuses on the Catholic and Communist audiencesâ€™ perception of the first TV programs.
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The Gift In The Heart Of Language - The Maternal Source Of Meaning

by Genevieve Vaughan

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 The author offers a paradigm-shifting view of the structure of material and verbal communication, based on the mother-child experience and confirmed by recent research in infant psychology. This view justifies a relational epistemology that informs the material gift economy, as well as the structure of language itself.
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Queer Crossings

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 Drawing together established and emerging scholars in the field, this volume offers a broad, transdisciplinary and international approach to queer studies. In the light of recent critical perspectives, it proposes a number of theoretical developments concerning three key thematic fields: theories, bodies and texts.
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Wor(L)Ds In Progress

by Alessandra Di Maio

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 In the contemporary world, the figure if the migrant, moving across spaces, cultures and languages, has unprecedented centrality. By engaging with the notions of diaspora, postcoloniality, nomadism, translation and exile, Di Maio moves across the Anglophone and Italophone spectra offering a compelling definition of migrant literature.
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Wallerstein 2.0 - Thinking And Applying World-Systems Theory In The Twenty-First Century

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 A modern rereading of Wallerstein's thoughts that brings the famous sociologist and economic historian into the 21st century.
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Sensing Collectives - Aesthetic And Political Practices Intertwined

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 A practice turn in aesthetics and politics: Creating sensory experiences and shaping collective interests â€" how are they intertwined, both innovating and governing our lives?
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Towards A Multiversity? - Universities Between Global Trends And National Traditions

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 Science and politics all over the world are generating new ideas and models for the functions and structures of the higher education sector and its institutions. This volume identifies the most influential models and investigates the context of their origin, and their dissemination mechanisms and chances to establish themselves.
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Negotiating Urban Conflicts - Interaction, Space And Control

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 Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict, as places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles. This volume presents major urban conflicts and analyzes modes of negotiation among groups against the theoretical background of post-colonialism.
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A Sociological Theory Of Value Â€“ Georg Simmel`S Sociological Relationism

by Natàlia Cantó Milà

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