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The service sector has not always received the attention it merits in industrial relations research when set against its enormous economic significance. One factor in this is certainly the highly diverse nature of services. Research attention has also lagged behind...
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This book examines recent debates on the political dynamics of cosmopolitanism, particularly in its connection with European civil society and the public sphere. The aim of the volume is to trace to what extent cosmopolitanism corresponds to «second modernity», with the...
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In Wilhelm Genazinos Roman Das Glück in glücksfernen Zeiten wird nichts Geringeres verhandelt als die existenzielle Suche des Protagonisten nach einem sinnvollen Leben. Matthias Hoffmann untersucht das Buch als kritischen Gegenwartsroman und verbindet die Lektüre mit...
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Where do feelings of national belonging come from? Why is it that this belonging often seems both fundamental and banal, both intangible and omnipresent? This book argues that the answers to these questions lie in childhood and the socialisation to the nation that we...
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This volume analyses the problems and instruments of European citizens’ political participation and focuses in particular on the «European Citizens’ Initiative» (ECI) right. Introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, the ECI enables European citizens to propose legislative...
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«Die vorliegende Untersuchung möchte Genaueres über die Abstammung der akademischen Jugend ermitteln. Die leitenden Fragestellungen waren: 1) Um wieviel lebhafter und bunter stellt sich die Umrekrutierung des Akademikerstandes dar, wenn man die jungen Akademiker nicht,...
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The way sociology frames the relation between formality and informality is not only complex and multifaceted, but has also evolved over time. This volume offers contributions by international authors that illustrate distinct types of theoretical framings and present...
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Janika Suck greift ein aktuelles Thema auf: Trotz eines funktionierenden medizinischen Versorgungssystems können sozial benachteiligte Familien die Gesundheitsförderung ihrer Kinder häufig nur unzureichend realisieren. Eine Vielzahl von Studien weist auf einen...
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This volume explores Armenian migration around the world, including the interrelation between domestic communities in Armenia and Armenian communities elsewhere. It takes a close look at the motivation to migrate and the specifics of Armenian communities in different EU...
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Das Berliner Osteuropa-Institut wurde in den Jahren des Kalten Krieges gegründet. Beginnend mit den Gründerjahren zeichnet die Autorin entscheidende Phasen der Organisationsbiografie bis in die 1970er-Jahre nach. Als innovativ erweist sich die Verknüpfung des...
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Following the transformation of the Soviet-controlled Eastern European system, there has been a renewal of discourses on civil society. The collection of essays discusses this complicated and controversial concept and explores the possibility of new approaches for the...
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Magali Lehners bezieht sich in ihrem Buch auf die Erweiterung der schulischen und außerschulischen Fördermöglichkeiten in sozial benachteiligten Stadtvierteln der Stadt Luxemburg. Ein zentrales Anliegen ist hierbei die Untersuchung der Kooperation zwischen Schulen und...
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Strangers by Choice explores voluntary otherness as a philosophy of life. This philosophy is asocial in the sense that its followers tend to privilege separateness over belonging, and yet it does not lead to alienation or isolation from society. Building on Simmel’s...
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Raymond Williams: A Short Counter-Revolution amply demonstrates the continuing relevance of Williams’s analysis, from the early 1980s, to our current situation. After thirty years of neoliberalism his insights still read as freshly and as incisively as they first did....
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China has one-fifth of the world’s total elderly population. This rapidly aging population presents serious challenges to the state to develop a social service system. To satisfy increasing demands for diversified and continuous care, a policy known as «Socializing...
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"A new generation of truly global sociology, grappling with the contemporary world through the lenses of critique, contestation, and social movements. A significant contribution." - Göran Therborn, University of Cambridge "This is a truly global and politically...
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In the areas of peacebuilding and conflict resolution, the word ‘reconciliation’ has often been branded a negative term because it implies a resolution agreed upon by all parties in a given society, which for many seems an unachievable ideal. This book looks at the...
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Die Studie analysiert erstmals die Einführung einer gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung in China in den 2000er Jahren, basierend auf umfangreichen Feldforschungen. Mit der Unfallversicherung hat sich China für die Idee individueller sozialer Rechte geöffnet, die weder in...
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The topics of bullying and hazing have sparked interest and discussion in recent years. Hazing is a crime in the United States, and Western nations have made efforts to stamp out bullying in schools, the workplace, and institutions. However, for the most part, bullying...
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"The political and academic worlds are fractured by two competing discourses: the universalism of human rights and cultural relativism. This fracture is represented by the deep separation of cultural analysis and theories of international politics. Derek Robbins in a...
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