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This book seeks to investigate the nature of contemporary Shi'ism, focusing on the creation of identities - showing the diversity of thought within the Shi'i world, the transnational nature of Shi'i networks, and the forces of tradition and modernity influencing current developments in Shi'i identity.

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Erika Rappaport reconstructs London's Victorian and Edwardian West End as an entertainment and retail centre.

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Silencing Shanghai examines the paradoxical and counterintuitive contrast between Shanghai's emergence as a global city and marginalization of the Shanghai dialect. The endangerment of the vernacular exposes how state-sponsored social exclusion silences a significant voice of the people and shakes the linguistic foundation of the local identity.

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The twenty-two contributors to this volume find a common bond in their diversity, based on their desire to explore ways that single women can live more fully in a society that places such great emphasis on marriage and narrowly defines family as spouse and children.

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Drawing from her travels in 26 countries, Andrews presents a compelling picture of the universality of women's struggle for empowerment. Among the stories are discussions of the value of women's work, violence against women's bodies, women in the Presbyterian ministry, sexual harassment, and women's peace movements.

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Israel: Jewish state and national homeland to Jews the world over. But a fifth of its population is Arab, a people who feel themselves to be an inseparable part of the Arab nation, most of which is still technically at war with the State of Israel.

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Characterized by the rapid growth of spontaneous squatter settlements, the urbanization process in Africa differs substantially from that of more developed countries.

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Paints a portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality.

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A study of factors shaping the decisions and life experiences of homeless and runaway girls who are either pregnant or mothers already. Social bond theory is used as a framework for thoughts on developing prevention and intervention programmes for at-risk girls. Actual case studies are included.

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Defining the parameters of social change for Native Nations in the 21st century.

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Bringing together the classic statements on social stratification, this collection offers the most significant contributions to ongoing debates on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality.

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Despite the ubiquity of conflict, gaps remain in our knowledge of what influences its escalation and resolution. How collective identity formation impacts social conflicts is taken up in this text, ranging from church and community disputes, to international trade disputes and wars.

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By means of ethnographic descriptions and personal anecdotes, Social Entrepreneurship and Neoliberalism offers an immersive account of the lifeworld of social entrepreneurs, delving into what is arguably one of the most significant phenomena of our time.

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By means of ethnographic descriptions and personal anecdotes, Social Entrepreneurship and Neoliberalism offers an immersive account of the lifeworld of social entrepreneurs, delving into what is arguably one of the most significant phenomena of our time.

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An in-depth look at some of the most important fields of inquiry in social gerontology.

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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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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.