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National Matters investigates the role of material culture and materiality in defining and solidifying national identity in everyday practice. Examining a range of "things"-from art objects, clay fragments, and broken stones to clothing, food, and urban green space-the contributors to this volume explore the importance of matter in making the nation appear real, close, and important to its citizens. Symbols and material objects do not just reflect...
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#1 I was trying to be humane, by creating a different awful situation, by telling my new husband to divorce me. I didn't want to ruin his life.
#2 The wedding is often the most important thing in a woman's life, eclipsing all of her accomplishments. And while we've made great strides in America to not be obsessed with weddings, we're still a society that loves them.
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#1 President Lyndon B. Johnson gave the first known affirmative action speech for black students at Howard University in 1965. He stated that the country had overcome legal segregation, but that the disparity between white and black Americans had widened after the Second World War.
#2 By the start of 1965, the Selma voting rights campaign had already been going on for...
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A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her research in Taiwan-a piece of fiction, anthropological fieldnotes, and a social science article-to explore some of these criticisms. Each text takes a different perspective, is written in a different...
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Entre el 19 y el 21 de mayo de 2010 tuvo lugar el Seminario Internacional: Las Otras Voces de la Independencia: Sectores Populares, Afrodescendientes e Indígenas en la Independencia de Colombia, organizado por la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín, en conjunto con la Corporación Afrocolombiana de Desarrollo Social y Cultural Carabantú. Planteado en el contexto de las celebraciones del Bicentenario de la Independencia de Colombia,...
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#1 In October 1978, I was an Intelligence Unit detective for the Colorado Springs Police Department. I was assigned to scan the two daily newspapers for any reports of information concerning any hint of subversive activity that might impact the safety and well-being of Colorado Springs.
#2 I answered an ad placed by the KKK, and two weeks later I spoke to Ken O'Dell,...
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In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism. After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, recreational drinking became increasingly accepted among white, suburban, middle-class men and women. But excessive...
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Malgré certains incidents de parcours, le doctorat fut l'expérience la plus marquante de ma vie intellectuelle. Un doctorat, c'est fait par du monde, mais ce projet exige une grande persévérance et de l'acharnement au travail. Surtout, condition première, il faut aimer lire, écrire et rechercher l'étincelle de la découverte.
Ce livre a été écrit du point de vue des doctorants. Il couvre les différents aspects du doctorat, de l'inscription...
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Captains of Consciousness offers a historical look at the origins of the advertising industry and consumer society at the turn of the twentieth century. For this new edition Stuart Ewen, one of our foremost interpreters of popular culture, has written a new preface that considers the continuing influence of advertising and commercialism in contemporary life. Not limiting his critique strictly to consumers and the advertising culture that serves them,...
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This book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. A wide range of expert contributors outline what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.
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¿Está en crisis la universidad pública argentina? Considerando que desde 1984 hasta hoy el presupuesto ha crecido, la cantidad de instituciones se ha ampliado, la oferta académica es más diversa y los programas de posgrado se multiplican, diríamos que no.
Sin embargo, aunque todavía se sostengan facultades y centros de excelencia dispersos a lo largo del país, el conjunto del sistema ha ido quedando a la zaga del mundo y está lejos de poder...
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A mother, Mary, who didnt want her son, Joseph, to know he had a father, did everything she could to prevent anyone from talking about his father. She didnt even talk to Joseph about his father herself. But when the little boy started his preschool year, he soon found out that he must have a father because some of the other children had fathers who would bring them to the classroom and would pick them up in the afternoon. After few weeks of observation,...
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There are significant variations in how healthcare systems and health professionals are regulated globally. One feature that they increasingly have in common is an emphasis on the value of including members of the public in quality assurance processes. While many argue that this will help better serve the public interest, others question how far the changing regulatory reform agenda is still dominated by medical interests. Bringing together leading...
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Luc Boltanski is Professor at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is the author of Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics, Le Nouvel Esprit du Capitalisme, and (with Laurent Thévenot) Les Économies de la Grandeur. Laurent Thévenot is Professor at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of L'action au pluriel: Sociologie des régimes d'engagement, coauthor of Les Économies de la Grandeur,...
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Cybersecurity Governance in Latin America discusses how the massification of the Internet has exposed emerging democracies' high-tech vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks and questions why states have decided to introduce policies and legislation facilitating the militarization of cyberspace. Carlos Solar offers a comparative analysis using the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela to help navigate the changing security landscape...
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Power and Privilege seeks to answer the central question of the field of social stratification: Who gets what and why? Using a dialectical view of the development of thought in the discipline, Gerhard Lenski describes the outlines of an emerging synthesis of theories. He shows that perspectives as diverse and contradictory as those of Marx, Spencer, Sumner, Veblen, Mosca, Pareto, Sorokin, Parsons, and Dahrendorf are parts of an evolving and systematic...
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Designed to address practical questions, applied ethics is one of the most exciting areas in contemporary philosophy. Yet the relevance of ethical theories to social policy has been under-explored. Until now. In Applied ethics and social problems Tony Fitzpatrick presents introductions to the three most influential moral philosophies: Consequentialism, Kantianism and Virtue Ethics. He then relates these to some of the most urgent questions in contemporary...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching political and social consequences across the globe. Published in collaboration with the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this book addresses the greatest social challenges facing the world as a result of the pandemic. The authors propose public policy solutions to help refugees, migrant workers, victims of human trafficking, indigenous populations and the invisible poor of the Global South....
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Somos víboras, cerdas, hijas de perra, gatas en celo o incluso "más putas que las gallinas". Son muchos los insultos machistas y, curiosamente, muchos están relacionados con el mundo animal.
Este es un compendio crítico y necesario de "animaladas machistas", que el escritor y la ilustradora abordan con ironía y humor. ¡Un imprescindible!
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Digital technologies, digital media, and mobile technologies now shape the experience of everyday life in the Western world, yet the way our quotidian lives are enmeshed with these technologies is far from clearly understood. Through studies of the digital every day, sociologists are beginning to reinvigorate the sociological imagination in light of digitization. Chapters in this Byte cover topics such as designing a research framework and how to...
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