Sociology & anthropology (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity.

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in urban China. It brings together evidence from a variety of Chinese government, academic, pedagogic and media publications, and ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book explores the use of technology in young people’s social lives against a backdrop of “online safety measures” put in place by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with online services. The UK landscape is used as a case ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This book presents an integral, cross-cultural reflection on the social reality of children's rights and citizenship, giving an insight into new perspectives on the history and different concepts of children's rights in a contextualized and localized...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism provides a platform for a new politics of criticism, a collaborative ethos for a different kind of relationship to cross-cultural cinema that invites further conversations between filmmakers and aud...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:In this book, university teachers provide case studies illustrating methods employed to prepare citizens for meaningful participation in democracies, whether long-standing, young or emerging. Examples of practice from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2008
description:It is often argued that the enhanced consultation of civil society contributes to the democratization of European and global governance. This collection investigates whether this theoretical argument is supported by empirical evidence. Ten original e...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Examining the interplay between distrust, trust and corruption, this book maps out the social mechanisms that make actors and organizations in the public sphere perform their activities in a civilized manner.

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:How does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? How have class-based labels been revived o...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to critical interrogation by exposing the interests behind th...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, Valentin Volosinov and Mikhail Bakhtin, the book examines key issues for working-class studies including: the idea of the 'death' of class; the importance of working-class writing; the significance of place an...

publisher: Edições Pedago
year: 2013
description:“Classe” e “classes” são termos usados de forma indistinta nas ciências sociais. Contudo, o seu significado preciso raramente é explorado com grande rigor e atenção, e, de facto, o significado varia de acordo com a formação teórica da pessoa que usa ...