Chapter 1. Introduction; Conny Roggeband and Bert Klandermans -- Chapter 2. Sociological Understandings of Social Movements: A North American Perspective; Deana Rohlinger and Haley Gentile -- Chapter 3. Protest and Social Movements in Political Science; Kateřina Vráblíková -- Chapter 4. Anthropology and the Study of Social Movements; Ton Salman and Willem Assies -- Chapter 5. Individuals in…
1. Introduction -- 2. World Society and Neo-Institutionalisation -- 3. World Society and the Individual -- 4. The International Level: IGOs and INGOs -- 5.Development in Selected Countries -- 6. Individual Environmentalism -- 7. Individual Attitudes Towards Human Rights -- 8. Conclusion.This book explores whether individual attitudes and behaviors are swayed by global developments in a world i…
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Post-Colonial Critique of Capital Accumulation Today -- Part I: New Dynamics of Accumulation -- Chapter 2. Flexible Labour and Capital Accumulation in a Post-Colonial Country Byasdeb Dasgupta -- Chapter 3. Law, Statistics, Public Private Partnership and the Emergence of a New Subject Mithilesh Kumar -- Chapter 4. S ecurity and the City: Postcolonial Accumulation, Secu…
Introduction from the Editors -- Part I. Community Well-Being: General Considerations for the Work -- Chapter 1. Rethinking Diversity, Inclusion, and Inclusiveness: The Quest to Better Understand Indicators of Community Enrichment and Well-being; Craig A. Talmage and Richard C. Knopf -- Chapter 2. Community Well-Being or Quality of Place?: A Few Notes and Their Application in Czech Republic; Fr…
Foreword; John Solomos; Chapter 1. Asylum Screening from Within -- Chapter 2. Asylum Seeking and the Threatened State -- Chapter 3. Subcultures of Social Control -- Chapter 4. Trained to Spot the Truth -- Chapter 5. Deconstructing asylum seekers’ narratives -- Chapter 6. A Subculture of Disbelief -- Chapter 7. Pulling Back the Screen.This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum…
This volume identifies some of the remaining gaps in extant theories of systemic racism, and in doing so, illuminates paths forward. The contributors explore topics such as the enduring hyper-criminalization of blackness, the application of the white racial frame, and important counter-frames developed by people of color. They also assess how African Americans and other Americans of color under…
Introduction -- Precarity within Digital Media -- Precarity through Digital media.The book deals with precarity within the digital age and focuses on media change and social insecurity. Change arising from digital developments takes place on micro-, meso- and meta-levels and have always social implications. Concepts such as Social Media, eHealth and Digital Capitalism, Informational Capitalism …
Chapter 1. Introduction (Raghubir Chand) -- Part I: Poverty, social inequalities, marginalization and globalization -- Chapter 2. Marginality and marginalization (Stanko Pelc) -- Chapter 3. Poverty and Global Warming: an Example of the Kyrgyz Republic (Asylbek A. Aidarliev) -- Chapter 4. Socio-economic wellbeing and mental health profile of rural hill women of Uttarakhand, India (Lata Pande) --…
Introduction -- 1. A History of the Value accorded to Work -- 2. The Immense Expectations attached to Work -- 3. The Disappointment of Expectations as a Result of the Transformation of Work -- 4. The Meaning of Work through the Lens of Generational Difference -- 5. The Coexistence of Generations at Work.This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time. T…
Introduction -- Developing the curriculum: Issues and challenges for educators -- Teaching Practice: Solution Focused Teaching -- Teaching Practice: Mentor Assisted Learning -- Exploring the issues and identifying the challenge for educators -- Collaborative Working in the Statutory and Voluntary Sectors -- Community Methodologies -- A model for change: sharing ideas and strategies -- Establish…