Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Long a recipient of migrants from its surrounding areas, the Arabian Peninsula today comprises a mosaic of communities of diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious origins. For decades, while the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have housed and employed groups of migrants coming and...
Delinquents and Debutantes
Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of...
by David Bell, Kate Oakley
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
David Bell and Kate Oakley survey the major debates emerging in cultural policy research, adopting an approach based on spatial scale to explore cultural policy in cities, nations and internationally. They contextualise these discussions with an exploration of what both ‘culture’ and ‘policy’...
Media Control
News as an Institution of Power and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control challenges traditional (and even some radical) perceptions of how the news works. While it's clear that journalists don't operate objectively – reporters don't just cover news, but they make it – Media Control goes a step further...
Questioning Gypsy Identity
Ethnic Narratives in Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2005
Brian Belton's powerfully original book examines Gypsy lives against the framework of social theories that illustrate how identity arises out of the cultural complexity of individual biographies, families, and communities. Addressing the lack of contextual and social perspectives in the existing literature...
Gendered Tropes in War Photography
Mothers, Mourners, Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Photographic stills of women, appearing in both press coverage and relief campaigns, have long been central to the documentation of war and civil conflict. Images of non-Western women, in particular, regularly function as symbols of the misery and hopelessness of the oppressed. Featured on the front...
Education and Cultural Politics
Interrogating Idiotic Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Education and Cultural Politics: Interrogating Idiotic Education is a conceptualization of protest and resistance against the cultural politics of oppression and domination of people of African descent in the Caribbean and North America. It is also a theorization of their redemption from being victims...
The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context
Case Studies in Resilience and Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic “collapses,” including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750–1050), were not caused solely by climate...
The Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation
Seen and Unseen Dimensions of Indigenous Knowledge among Q'eqchi' Communities in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This brilliant and engrossing work of social synthesis, replete with profound insights, opens up new vistas on the relationship between culture and mental health. The author uses his own extensive findings and his abundant knowledge of the cross-cultural studies in psychiatry, anthropology, and sociology...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Native Studies Keywords explores selected concepts in Native studies and the words commonly used to describe them, words whose meanings have been insufficiently examined. This edited volume focuses on the following eight concepts: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism,...
by Fatmegyul Aliosman
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, Technical University of Munich (Degree programme in Consumer Affairs), language: English, abstract: The objective of this thesis is to understand whether Muslim groups have any shared values which are distinct...
by Letha A See
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In Human Behavior in the Social Environment from an African American Perspective, leading black scholars come together to discuss complex human behavior problems faced by African Americans and to force the abandonment of conceptualization theories made without consideration of the Black experience....
Cross-Cultural Women Scholars in Academe
Intergenerational Voices
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices, experiences, and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian, Asian American, Black/African American and Hispanic descent at various levels of academe, actively engaged in the advancement of marginalized groups in the U.S. and...