Sociedade e ciências sociais (500)

editor: Edições Pedago
ano: 2013
descrição:“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 ...

editor: Springer
ano: 2014
descrição:The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema. This book reassesses these films as a cinematic form, focusing on the depiction of heroic masculinity. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations has grea...

editor: Springer
ano: 2014
descrição:A comprehensive examination of the inability of liberal capitalism to generate the technological innovations necessary to prevent dangerous climate change. The case is made for the need for institutional evolution to drive the climate innovation, and...

editor: Springer
ano: 2015
descrição:Hong Kong's anti-corruption agency, ICAC, is hailed as among the world's best having almost completely purged systemic corruption within a decade of its inception. This book explains how Hong Kong maintains the myth of a clean city and examines the p...

editor: Springer
ano: 2016
descrição:This book analyzes national anti-poverty measures at a local level via a set of unique and up-to-date empirical studies of minimum income support schemes and activation measures in five European cities. In examining this 'local welfare system' approa...

editor: Springer
ano: 2015
descrição:The increasing development of partnerships between universities and communities allows the research of academics to become engaged with those around them. This book highlights several case studies from a range of disciplines, such as psychology, soci...

editor: Springer
ano: 2014
descrição:In the first volume of its kind, a collection of top policy scholars combine empirical and methodological analysis in the field of comparative policy studies to provide compelling insights into the formulation, implementation and evaluation of polici...

editor: Springer
ano: 2015
descrição:The author aims to develop conceptual refining and theoretical reframing of the productivist welfare capitalism thesis in order to address a set of questions concerning whether and how productivist welfarism has experienced both continuity and change...

editor: Springer
ano: 2014
descrição:By using a wide diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches and by encompassing both cross-national and longitudinal analyses, this volume sheds new light on comparative political communication research, such as personalization, globalizat...

editor: Springer
ano: 2015
descrição:This edited collection presents an alternative set of reflections on India's contemporary global role by exploring a range of influential non-Western state perspectives. Through multiple case studies, the contributors gauge the success of India's eff...

editor: Springer
ano: 2015
descrição:Examining an intramural conflict that erupted within the English Faculty at Cambridge University in the early 1980s, this book develops a theoretical analysis of disputes as they unfold within the academy and explores the broader historical shifts wi...

editor: Springer
ano: 2017
descrição:This book critically reviews recent social scientific investigations of consumption, a controversial topic with moral overtones, and of popular public interest and political and economic significance. The author explores how consumption affects p...