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Shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. This book offers a distinctive vision of economic activity that brings out the hidden meanings and social actions behind the supposedly impersonal worlds of production, consumption, and asset transfer.

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The increasing focus on the use of computer games across all ages prompts an investigation into how games can be effectively applied in everyday learning contexts. This book aims to establish a framework for understanding educational use of computer games. It presents an overview, analysis and discussion of the relevant research.

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An informed and often moving account of the crucial role of place in the lives of elders and what researchers and city planners are doingand need to doto make communities more age-friendly.

Elderburbia: Aging with a Sense of Place in America argues that aging is not about time and the body, but about place and relationships.

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Was there really a golden age of the family in the 1950s,or ever This penetrating history of the American family mounts a withering criticism of the culture of nostalgia" that clouds current debate and offers a plan for reconstituting the American family dream.

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The book outlines the sociological arguments and political activities of the US pragmatist sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller, part of the milieu of Chicago sociology and involved in its studies of race and immigration.

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This research guide provides a comprehensive summary of all quantitative research in the World Politics field published in scholarly journals between 1970 and 1991.

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Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, this book confronts the realities of how modern social structures, ideologies, and utopianisms affect ones ability to purpose existence with self-authored meaning.

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Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, this book confronts the realities of how modern social structures, ideologies, and utopianisms affect ones ability to purpose existence with self-authored meaning.

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This annotated bibliography surveys the significant research from the last 20 years about the legal, medical, psychological, social, and economic aspects of the employment of the elderly.

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Employment security is under pressure in public and private sectors because of fluctuating economic conditions and unstable markets.

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Adult Education contradicts the theorists and practitioners who claim that empowering organizations can only be created when those at the top decide to share power. Those people who work in organizations and are trying to improve their understanding of how to reshape the organization into a democratic workplace will find this useful.

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Some 250 thorough and thoughtfully written entries, each with plenty of cross referencing and "resource" listings (books, films, articles), make available up-to-date, authoritative information. This is a serious, useful reference much needed in an area crowded with myths and with books that perpetua

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From ancient times to the present, taboos have affected our societies, as demonstrated in this encyclopedia full of unusual information from around the world.

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Presents a demographic history of England covering the period since the Norman conquest. This work charts the magnitude and characteristics of population change in England since the eleventh century. It includes three appendices that describe the main documentary sources and how they can be exploited to yield important demographic data.

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This is the first single-volume demographic history of England covering the entire period since the Norman conquest.

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The author presents an in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitan.

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This book studies the history of business, capitalism, and entrepreneurship to examine the values of social and cultural capital and trace the moral legitimations of capitalism from the reformation to today.

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Environmental Sociology: Risk and Sustainability in Modernity examines the encounter between sociology and contemporary environmental issues. It presents the proposal for an environmental sociology considering the dilemmas surrounding sustainable development, ecological modernization, and risk society.

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Issues around the environment provoke ethical, cultural, scientific and political debates. This unique inter-disciplinary introduction guides readers through these debates, drawing on recent and influential social theory and empirical cases to map out scholarship in the area. It is essential reading for anyone interested in social environmentalism.

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Ethical responsibility has intellectual and practical implications for social researchers. This book explores a range of issues, theories and questions, enabling readers to reflect upon, understand and critique these with confidence. With helpful examples and a glossary of terms, it is essential reading for new and experienced researchers alike.

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What causes genocide And why do some stand by, doing nothing, while others risk their lives to help the persecuted This tile analyzes interviews with bystanders, Nazi supporters, and rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust to lay bare critical psychological forces operating during genocide.

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The book explores the violence enacted on Europe's many internal and external Souths and Easts through forms of political, cultural and security-development related "Europeanisation". It proposes inter-referencing between South and East as a space of political possibilities emerging through and despite of the violence of Europeanisation.