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Social Media: Principles and Applications thoroughly examines social media in interpersonal, mass-mediated, educational, organizational, and political settings. Sheldon provides a must-have survival tool for communication, psychology, and social media scholars.

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Social Media: Principles and Applications thoroughly examines social media in interpersonal, mass-mediated, educational, organizational, and political settings. Sheldon provides a must-have survival tool for communication, psychology, and social media scholars.

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David G. LoConto explores the development of the Star Trek fandom through a social psychological approach, using symbolic interaction theory and strategic ritualization theory as well as ideas from Habermas and Foucault to track the fandoms movements, values, and evolution.

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David G. LoConto explores the development of the Star Trek fandom through a social psychological approach, using symbolic interaction theory and strategic ritualization theory as well as ideas from Habermas and Foucault to track the fandoms movements, values, and evolution.

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Focusing on poverty and class in its analysis of social movements, this work shows how social movements have had to change because poverty reduction did not serve its role as a political template. It includes chapters on gender, lower castes, environment, the Hindu Right, Kerala, labor, farmers, and biotechnology.

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Finally, based on these insights and on the recent developments in sociology of law, a new theory of law is advanced, which utilizes as its important axis a conceptual differentiation between the official and intuitive law.

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Despite the recent growth of research on social problems facing the people of sub-Saharan Africa, there remains a critical lack of conceptual, epistemological, and empirical research and documentation.

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This volume represents a critical, issue-oriented approach to law and society, emphasizing its important relationship to contemporary social problems. Various empirical studies within the text explore the contradictory dynamics of class as they relate to race and gender in bot...

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Globalization dramatically changed the way business is conducted in the apparel manufacturing industry. This title combines an analysis of apparel manufacturing with a discussion of how social responsibility can influence corporate strategy and decisions made throughout the global supply chain.

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In a variety of ways the contributors to this volume address the issue of how biological factors may interact with social experiences to affect social stratification.

Chapters 1 and 2 present a detailed review of the issues surrounding how social stratification is defined and subdivided.

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This is the second volume of a two volume work on biosocial approaches to social stratification and human inequality. The contributors explore topics that environmentalists shun, and discuss how the effect of biological variables on social stratification may have evolutionary consequences.

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Examines the relationship between institutional structures and community integration.

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This book explores the many ways that digital communication media, such as online forums, social networking sites, and mobile applications, enhance and constrain social support in health-related contexts.

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This book attempts to identify two central areas for the study of aging and the epistemological differences and continuities between them: constructions of aging (modern) and deconstructions of aging (postmodern).

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This book explores biomedical and sociological theories of aging and their inter-relationship to historical, contemporary and future issues affecting social welfare and older people.

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The first collection dedicated to analysing the casual, social, and mobile gaming movements that are changing games the world over.

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This book addresses the major challenge for HIV prevention: that is, to reach beyond the limitations of biomedical approaches to disease and to design prevention strategies informed by and connected with the social realities of peoples lives.

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Careful followers of reform movements within Communist bloc countries will profit from this new work by a specialist on Hungarian politics.

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Through the lens of a neologism, sociocide, the killing of society, Keith Doubt provides persuasive evidence of the social, political, and human consequences of todays wars, focusing on war crimes, scapegoating, torture, and capitalism.

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The book examines the world of sociology and its global features and trends. It coversthemes such as: sociologies in the world, major research areas in sociology, collaborationand interdisciplinarity, and contemporary challenges, pertinent issues and debates.

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This book offers a series of critical discussions of how sociology is responding to the challenges of globalization, to local counter-reactions to them, to the many ways the global impacts our lives, and to the new questions about research this poses.

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