Zbirka: Sociologija in antropologija
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Beyond Headscarf Culture in Turkey’s Retail Sector(2016) SAYAN-CENGIZ, F.The headscarf issue draws a great deal of public and academic attention in Turkey, yet the debate largely unfolds within the contours of the discussions over modernization, Westernization, and the Islamic / secular divide.Vezava: Trda107,18 € -
Questions of Cultural Identity(1996)Hall offers a wide-ranging exploration of the issues surrounding cultural identity. He outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. Outstanding contributors then interrogate different dimensions of the crisisVezava: Mehka91,00 € -
Anti-Oppressive Practice(2006) DALRYMPLE, JANE,BURKE, BEVERLEYChallenges the notion that anti-oppressive practice has lost its potency or become commodified into a professional response to inequalities. This book explores key questions such as : How is anti-oppressive practice relevant in contemporary practice? andVezava: Mehka55,11 € -
Social Shaping of Technology(1999) MACKENZIE, DONALD,WAJCMAN, JUDYDemonstrates that technology is affected at a fundamental level by the social context in which it develops. This book features arguments about the relation of technology to society. It examines different types of technology and argues that social scientisVezava: Mehka57,01 € -
Ethnography(2019) HAMMERSLEY, MARTYN (THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, UK),ATKINSON, PAUL (CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, UK)This edition has been expertly updated to reflect the important developments in digital and mobile technologies and social media. The ease with which recordings, audio or video, as well as photographs, can be produced via the use of mobile devices has opeVezava: Mehka75,24 € -
On Insignificance(2019) LEONE, MASSIMO (UNIVERSITY OF TURIN, ITALY)Focussing on the anthropological consequences of the disappearing of materiality and sensory embodiment, On Insignificance highlights some of the most perturbing patterns of insignificance that have seeped into our everyday lives.Vezava: Mehka64,61 € -
Selling Our Souls(2016) REICH, ADAM DALTONHealth care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as bigVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Islamizing Intimacies(2019) SMITH-HEFNER, NANCY J.Examines the personal lives and sexual attitudes of educated Muslim Javanese youth in the city of Yogyakarta to explore the dramatic social and ethical changes taking place in Indonesian society. Drawing on more than 250 interviews, this vivid, well-craftVezava: Trda125,51 € -
Guardians of the Buddha's Home(2019) STARLING, JESSICADraws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bomori, or temple guardians) at its centre. Throughout, Jessica Starling focuses on “domestic relVezava: Trda79,34 € -
Super Age(2022) SCHURMAN, BRADLEYA demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age—when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen—and explores what it could mean for our collective future.Vezava: Trda32,16 € -
Sexual Violence in Intimacy(2022)Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy through the development of more nuanced and evidence-based conceptual frameworks.Vezava: Mehka75,24 € -
Power and Inequality(2021)With strong integration of race and gender throughout, this new edition of Chorbajian’s Power and Inequality offers a coherent analysis of power that reflects the contributions of a variety of critical perspectives, including Marxism, feminism, critical rVezava: Mehka73,49 € -
Field Experiments(2012) GERBER, ALAN S. (YALE UNIVERSITY),GREEN, DONALD P. (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)A brief, authoritative introduction to field experimentation in the social sciences.Vezava: Mehka89,36 € -
Complexity and the Art of Public Policy(2016) COLANDER, DAVID,KUPERS, ROLANDComplexity science--made possible by modern analytical and computational advances--is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentaliVezava: Mehka35,55 € -
Coming of Age in Second Life(2015) BOELLSTORFF, TOMMillions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meeVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Queens Nobody Knows(2020) HELMREICH, WILLIAM B.The only neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to New York City's largest borough, from the award-winning author of The New York Nobody KnowsBill Helmreich walked every block of New York City-some six-thousand miles-to write the award-winning The New York NoVezava: Mehka32,31 € -
Essential Hirschman(2015) HIRSCHMAN, ALBERT O.The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability toVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
How God Becomes Real(2020) LUHRMANN, T.M.The hard work required to make god real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faithHow do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people-as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see sVezava: Trda40,39 €
