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Building Movement Bridges - The Coalition Of Labor Union Women

by Silke Roth

89,44€ + 10% CARD

 The author provides a case study of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), an organization which was founded in 1974. Using the CLUW as a model, the author demonstrates how one organization can address the needs of diverse social movements, in this case the women's movement and the labor movement.
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Human Evolution - A Guide To The Debates

by Brian Regal

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 A fascinating and wide-ranging look at the controversies surrounding the search for the origins of the human species. Written for those new to the subject, Human Evolution: A Guide to the Debates presents the remarkable history of our understanding of human origins as it developed from the 1800s to the present.
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Great Dinosaur Controversy - A Guide To The Debates

by Keith Parsons

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 A historical review of the most important scientific controversies that have shaped our knowledge of dinosaurs since the discovery of important fossils in the 1820s. In The Great Dinosaur Controversy: A Guide to the Debates, the major scientific disputes that have contributed to the understanding of dinosaurs come to light.
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Animals And Science - A Guide To The Debates

by Niall Shanks

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 Animals and Science examines the debates, from the Renaissance to the present, surrounding issues of animal rights, consciousness, and self-awareness.
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Women'S History As Scientists - A Guide To The Debates

by Leigh Ann Whaley

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 A comprehensive historical review of the debates surrounding women's contributions and roles in science, with emphasis on women's access to education, training, and professional careers. This remarkable work illuminates the debates surrounding women's involvement with science throughout history, covering a broad range of disciplines.
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Exchange, Action, And Social Structure - Elements Of Economic Sociology

by Milan Zafirovski

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 Arguing against commonly held assumptions about network exchange theory and its interpretation of all social actions as economic exchanges, Zafirovski seeks to explain these processes by employing an interdisciplinary approach and by examining the impact of social and institutional structures on market-economic exchange.
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Women, Work, And Gender Relations In Developing Countries - A Global Perspective

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 The chapters in this collection are based on qualitative fieldwork studies and collectively offer the reader a perspective on women, work, and gender relations that is at once multidisciplinary and feminist.
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International Perspectives On Homelessness

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 Students can use this ready reference to compare and contrast homelessness populations, analyze the ways in which various countries approach this issue, and to evaluate what is precluding and encouraging this reaching issue. The problem of homelessness is clearly defined here from a global perspective.
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Citizenship And Ethnicity - The Growth And Development Of A Democratic Multiethnic Institution

by Feliks Gross

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 minorities tended to have an inferior status, subordinated to the ruling, dominant ethnic class. While Athens provides an early example of a state formed by alliance and association, the Romans advanced this concept when they extended to subjected peoples the status by means of citizenship.
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Postmodern Social Analysis And Criticism

by John W. Murphy

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 Murphy's study is the first to present postmodernism as a coherent social theory. Responding with compelling arguments to critics of postmodernism, Murphy develops a model that offers a viable alternative to traditional approaches to conceptualizing and studying social life.
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New Poverty - Families In Postmodern Society

by David Cheal

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 This work describes the fall of individuals and countries who used to be affluent and dreamed their affluence would go on for ever. It turns the experience of this poverty into sociological theory and social statistics to provoke reflection about families today and the risks of being poor.
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Ngos In India - A Cross-Sectional Study

by K. D. Gangrade e R. Sooryamoorthy

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 A comprehensive overview of NGOs in India. It focuses on NGOs that work in the areas of rural development, women and children, and seeks to shed light on the contributions of the sector in the spheres of social welfare, empowerment, service, and rural development.
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Chinese Triangle Of Mainland China, Taiwan, And Hong Kong - Comparative Institutional Analyses

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 To fill this gap, this book adopts a systematic institutional approach designed to examine the different patterns of institutions in the three countries and to discuss how such social institutions as the economy, gender, social networks, and the Chinese diaspora have exerted a profound impact on all three societies.
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Sociocybernetics - Complexity, Autopoiesis, And Observation Of Social Systems

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 An analysis of rapidly increasing societal complexity. The 18 contributors propose elements of a methodology based on sociocybernetic principles aimed at describing and explaining the growth of societal complexity, and the contribution of "autopoiesis".
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American Ritual Tapestry - Social Rules And Cultural Meanings

by Mary Jo Deegan

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 American rituals are vital to the creation and renewal of cultural meanings and rules for social interaction. The theory examines both participatory rituals and mass-media rituals to show how everyday people become attached to and alienated from other rituals.
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Ideology And The Social Sciences

by Graham Kinloch e Raj Mohan

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 The extent to which modern social science continues to reflect the subjective traits of authors and the contexts in which they operate, rather than the objective facts or insights they claim to develop, remains one of the most striking features of social science research and writing.
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Consciousness And Culture - An Introduction To The Thought Of Jean Gebser

by Eric Kramer

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 One of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth century was Jean Gebser, whose varied writings on the philosophy of culture gave birth to postmodernist thought.
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Animals And Science - A Guide To The Debates

by Niall Shanks

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 Animals and Science examines the debates, from the Renaissance to the present, surrounding issues of animal rights, consciousness, and self-awareness.

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