Is the Internet the key to a reinvigorated public life? Or will it fragment society by enabling citizens to associate only with like-minded others? Online community has provided social researchers with insights into our evolving social life. As suburbanization and the breakdown of the extended family and neighborhood isolate individuals more and more, the Internet appears as a possible source for reconnection. Are virtual communities 'real' enough to support the kind of personal commitment and g...
The SAGE Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
With new chapters on key topics such as mental health, the environment, race, ethnicity and health, and pharmaceuticals, this new edition maintains its multidisciplinary framework and bridges the gap between health policy and the sociology of health. It builds upon the success of the first by encompassing a range of issues, studies, and disciplines. The broad coverage of topics in addition to new chapters present an engagement with contemporary issues, resulting in a valuable teaching aid. This...
Japan has many unique strengths, but it also faces numerous challenges, many of which are related to population ageing. Rapid demographic change is projected to reduce Japan's population by one-quarter by 2060 while increasing the share of elderly people from 29% of the total population to 38%, which would be the highest share among advanced countries. This book analyses the Japanese economy and the challenges it faces, and suggests policies to promote wellbeing, high living standards, fiscal su...
Les Formes de L'expertise Artistique en Europe (Xive-Xviiie Siecle) (Revue de Synthese, #132)
Si chacun croit connaitre la figure de l'expert, les historiens ont neglige l'expertise artistique. Loin des recits sur la naissance des institutions ou la liberalisation des arts, l'enquete porte ici sur les contextes juridiques, commerciaux ou museaux. Elle saisit localement la constitution des savoirs. Les oeuvres sont a l'epreuve, prises entre materialite et categories du jugement, faisant de la singularite l'un des paradigmes de l'art.
One of the leading artifacts of modern technology, the automobile has shaped our physical, economic, social, and cultural environment. The history of the automobile demonstrates how the decisions of governments, entrepreneurs, and the general public influence technological evolution. A succinct yet comprehensive history, Cars and Culture highlights the technical changes that altered the appearance and performance of automobiles, along with the myriad forces that have shaped the car's developmen...
Sociology
Balancing the Secrets of Private Disclosures (Routledge Communication)
by Sandra Sporbert Petronio
This book joins together disclosure, privacy, and secrecy to pursue a greater understanding of how people are both public and private in their interactions. To be social yet autonomous, known yet unknown, independent yet dependent on others is essential to the communicative world. How do people manage these seemingly incongruous goals? This book argues that they actively work at balancing simultaneous needs of being both public and private. It highlights many different ways that people balance t...
Companies and Trade (Comparative Studies in Overseas History, #3)
Sociology Of Culture Ils Usa
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Growing Up (Information Plus Reference: Growing Up, #2007)
by Melissa J Doak
Volumes in the Information Plus Reference Series are completely revised and updated every two years.
This book deals with Newton's understanding of the original divine design hidden in the mathematical laws of nature and delivered to humanity by messengers, such as Noah, Moses and Christ. It is the first scholarly work to point out that for Newton the three laws of motion, the Principia and the two central Biblical Commandments (worshipping and loving God alone and loving thy neighbor) touch upon the practical applications of God's original design.
A sociological and historical account of the development of an Italian-American community in the Trenton, New Jersey area and an examination of the influences on the present third generation residents and their forebears.
Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalized the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias's sociology contains a sweeping radicalism which declares an academic 'war on all your houses'. His sociology of the 'human condition' sweeps aside the contemporary focus on 'modernity' and rejects most of the paradigms of sociology as one-sided, economistic, teleological, individualistic and/or rationalistic. As sociologists,...
Animals and Society (Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences)
Animals are crucial to the functioning of any society: they provide humans with food, labour, raw materials, modes of transport, companionship, scientific knowledge through observation and experimentation, and forms of leisure and entertainment. Given both the wide variety of ways in which animals are involved in human societies, and also the broad range of controversies (from vivisection for scientific and commercial purposes, to factory farming) that have arisen, the study of animals is by its...
Historical Dictionary of Guinea (African historical dictionaries, #16) (African Historical Dictionaries S., #16)
by Thomas E. O'Toole
For English speakers, the collection is a double blessing as this is the first time such a source of information on the French speaking countries is presented to them in their own language. --WEST AFRICA ...a valuable addition to Africanist reference collections. --INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES
In this authoritative book, the only work to cover the full sweep of German foreign policy since the end of World War II, noted scholar Helga Haftendorn explores Germany's remarkable recovery from wartime defeat and destruction. Offspring of the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic entered the international arena in 1949 under three crippling constraints: they were held accountable for the crimes of the Third Reich, they were fully dependent on the occupat...
'Red' Nichols, although celebrated in his own day, has long been a neglected figure in jazz history. Stephen Stroff has written a full analysis of Nichols' work, focusing on the jazz-oriented recordings made between 1925 and 1932. Discussions and listings cover jazz recordings made with other bands and jazz and popular recordings made under Nichols's name. Also included is a bibliography, selected discography, and index.
Bodies in Motion: Spanish Vanguard Poetry, Mass Culture, and Gender Dynamics examines Spanish avant-garde poetry within the context of the culture of the twenties that promoted physical movement and values of change, youthfulness, and freedom. Dance, sports, and the machine are singled out because they clearly set the body in motion and helped create a radically new outlook on life. In this book, references are made to socio-political factors and special attention is paid to gender. The interpla...
Assistant editors are Christine Consentino, Volker Granslow, Nancy A. Lauckner, Duncan Smith, Alexander Stephan, and W. Christoph Schmauch.
When did humans begin to kiss? Why is kissing integral to some cultures and alien to others? Do good kissers make the best lovers? And is that expensive lip-plumping gloss worth it? Sheril Kirshenbaum, a marine biologist and science journalist, tackles these questions and more in THE SCIENCE OF KISSING. It's everything you always wanted to know about kissing but either haven't asked, can't find out, or didn't realize you should understand. Sheril's a serious scientist, and the material here is i...