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Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION: The Reworking of Class Analysis / Hall, John R. -- PART I. Changing Cultures of Class Analysis -- CHAPTER I. Rethinking, Once Again, the Concept of Class Structure / Wright, Erik Olin -- CHAPTER 2. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Qass Formation Theory: Narrativity, Relational Analysis, and Social Theory / Somers, Margaret R. -- CHAPTER 3. Statistical Classifications and the Salience of Social Class / Donnelly, Michael -- CHAPTER 4. Class Formation and the Quintessential Worker / Rose, Sonya O. -- PART II. Cultural Structurings of Class Identities -- CHAPTER 5. Work and Culture in the Reception of Class Ideologies / Biernacki, Richard -- CHAPTER 6. The Meaning of Class and Race: French and American Workers Discuss Differences / Lamont, Michele -- CHAPTER 7. Rethinking Cultural and Economic Capital / Rupp, Jan C. C. -- CHAPTER 8. Cannery Row: Class, Community, and the Social Construction of History / Walton, John -- PART III. The Economic, the Social, and the Political Agencies of Class -- CHAPTER 9. World of Capital I Worlds of Labor: A Global Perspective / Tomich, Dale -- CHAPTER 10. Class Location versus Market Interests in Macropolitical Behavior: The Social Origins of the German Nazi Party / Brustein, William / Brustein, William -- CHAPTER 11. Social Class and the Reemergence of the Radical Right in Contemporary Germany / Steinmetz, George -- CHAPTER 12. Class Analysis and Social Movements: A Critique and Reformulation -- Index

Anthropology of and for higher education : implications for research, policy and practice / Brian Foster, Teresa McCarty, and Tazin Daniels -- Today's institutions of higher learning : clashing values in motion / Steven W. Graham, Joe F. Donaldson, and Michael J. Offerman -- Gender inequality and managerialism : a self-ethnographic exploration of a woman department chair / Jeni Hart -- Domestic and immigrant entrepreneurs : a significant disparity / Brian L. Foster -- The situated university : political-cultural context, organizational culture, and leadership / James H. McDonald -- Journey of creation : a photoethnographic, autoethnographic, and ethnographic look at leadership, culture, and community in a young northern New Mexico college / Florence M. Guido and Alicia Fedelina Chavez -- Intercultural leadership : communicating for change within the academy / Ariane Schauer and Duncan Earle -- The end of higher education : assumptions, implications, and impacts of apocalyptic narratives / Michael Wesch -- Saving the university in Rrance / Eli Thorkelson -- The anthropology of interdisciplinary programs in higher education / Wayne A. Babchuk and Robert K. Hitchcock -- Race and the production of knowledge in black higher education : the legacy and contributions of Charles H. Thompson and the Journal of Negro education in evaluation / Stafford Hoodand, Rodney Hopson -- Makerspaces as an epistemic community / Anne Larrivee -- Concluding comments : beginning to put the pieces together / Brian Foster, Don Brenneis, Glen Davidson, and Teresa McCarty

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Recurrent Implantation Failure -- Chapter 1: Signaling Between Embryo and Endometrium: Normal Implantation -- Timing of Implantation -- The Endometrium -- Endometrial Receptivity -- Histologic Dating -- Adhesion Molecules -- Growth Factors and Cytokines -- Matrix Metalloproteinases -- HOX Genes -- Prostaglandins -- Cytokines -- Theories of Endometrial Receptivity Defects -- Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2: Embryo and Endometrial Synchrony in Implantation Failure -- Introduction -- Pathology or Physiology -- The Endometrium -- The Embryo -- Management of Embryo and Endometrial Synchrony -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: Spermatogenesis: Fertile Ground for Contributing to Recurrent Implantation Failure? -- Male Gamete Factor, Why it Matters? -- Major Male Gamete Factors in Recurrent Implantation Failure -- Sperm Chromosomal Aneuploidy -- Sperm DNA Damage/Sperm DNA Fragmentation (SDF) -- Sperm Epigenetics -- Potential Therapeutic Options and Interventions -- Future Directions -- References -- Chapter 4: Embryonic Factors Associated with Recurrent Implantation Failure -- Cleavage Stage Embryos -- Developmental Rate and Abnormal Kinetics in the Cleavage Stage Embryo -- Morphologic Features Associated with Implantation at the Cleavage Stage -- Laboratory Interventions to Improve Implantation Potential at the Cleavage Stage -- Time-Lapse Imaging for Detection of Abnormal Cleavage Patterns, Abnormal Phenotypes, and Multinucleated Embryos -- Assisted Hatching for Treatment of the Thick Zona Pellucida -- Co-culture of Embryos -- Extended Culture of Embryos to the Blastocyst Stage -- Blastocyst Stage Embryos -- Developmental Rate and Abnormal Kinetics in the Blastocyst -- Morphologic Features of the Blastocyst Associated with Implantation.

Given the enormous struggles, efforts and money expended on the equalities enterprise, why has more progress not been made? And further, why have things actually become worse in some circumstances? It is argued this has occurred because:- The values of Equality have been bureaucratized, allowing the liberal principle of "live and let live" to be perverted and put in the service of fear and control.- The Diversity discourse has been hijacked by the libertarians and put in the service of increasing profit, under the guise of liberty and inclusivity.- The equality movements have become apolitical, sidetracked into the project of the indiscriminate celebration and preservation of cultures, in lieu of challenging the status quo within cultures as much as between them.- The versions of psychology and sociology that the equality movements have drawn on are over simple.- The attempts to do away with judgementalism and unfair discrimination have ended up vilifying the capacities for judgment and discrimination per se.The book walks the thin line between the apologists who deify "difference" and the zealots and bigots who vilify the different, to argue that to create a fairer world, we need to enhance our capacities for discrimination, not stifle them.Although the work is focussed around equality, it has bigger things to say about the human condition and organizational life in general.

"Norway is by history and culture very much a Scandinavian nation with its own unique profile. This book analyzes the factors that have shaped the sociocultural fabric of Norwegian politics. One of the most important themes Heidar analyzes is the power of the periphery, both in social as well as geographic terms. In the geographic sense, Norway is a small nation, and although it has been able to remain economically and politically stable, it is situated on the European flank. It is therefore dependent upon and vulnerable to external economic and political developments. In critical periods of its history, Norway's size has made it an object rather than an initiator of change. In the social sense, Norway has existed as a?periphery nation?. It is this multi-dimensional center-periphery situation that has been crucial in shaping institutional structures and practices. Another theme that Heidar explores is Norway's enduring egalitarian culture. This book focuses on the primacy of politics in Norway and the role played by the nineteenth-century peasant movement and the twentieth-century labor movement in shaping modern Norway. Today, political and cultural traditions are challenged by the force of globalization. Norway is defined as a stable, parliamentary, multiparty system with a social democratic tradition. It was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2001"--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword from first edition -- Foreword for the second edition -- Preface -- Authors -- 1: Introduction -- Developing management and leadership skills -- Core competences of managers and leaders -- Starting in a new situation -- Conclusions -- References -- 2: Maintaining productive key relationships -- Understanding our interactions with colleagues -- Relationships in the multidisciplinary team -- Relationships with doctors -- Supervisory and educational relationships -- Relationships with medical 'peers' -- Relationships between doctors in management and other doctors -- Appraisal and job planning -- Managing performance -- Relationships with managers -- Relationships with people who use our services (and their caregivers/families) -- Relationships, relationships, relationships -- References -- Further reading and useful resources -- 3: Understanding your organisation -- Understanding your organisation in context -- Governance and management issues in the English NHS -- Metaphors as a framework for understanding -- Organisational culture -- Organisation as flux and transformation -- Practical applications -- Culture is related to outcome -- References -- Further reading -- 4: Personal vision, values and goals: Alignment with the organisation -- What's important to you? Developing your 'vision' -- What's important to you? Checking your values -- Making decisions -- Difficult choices - when personal and organisational values clash -- Influencing and persuading -- Conclusions -- References -- Further reading -- 5: People skills -- Communication -- Communication is essentially two-way (or multilateral) -- What is said must match what is done -- Tackling toxic workplace dynamics -- The form of communication must suit the situation

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Introduction -- 1. The Theory of Population Homeostasis -- Food -- Anticipatory Mechanisms -- Individual Fitness -- Nonhuman Primate Examples -- Homeostatic Regulation of Human Populations -- Perceived Scarcity -- 2. Measures of Scarcity -- Problems in Evaluating Scarcity -- Direct Indicators -- Inferential Indicators -- Crowding -- 3. Sociocultural Mechanisms which Limit Population -- Premarital Sex and Marriage Rules -- Abstinence -- Sexual Outlets with Low Fertility Consequences -- Birth Control -- Abortion -- Mortality -- Conclusion -- 4. The Evidence: Its Quality, Order of Presentation, and Material from Nonwestern Societies -- The Theory of Scientific Proof -- Evidence From Nonwestem Societies -- The New Guinea Highlands -- Population Pressure Differentials -- The Enga Response: Restrictions on Sex -- Enga Theory -- Fore Sexuality -- Fore Response to Death -- Culture Contrasts -- The Netsilik Eskimo -- Environmental Pressure -- Infanticide -- Male-Female Relationships -- Testing the Hypothesis -- Conclusion -- 5. The Sensitivity of Self-Contained Societies, and Other Sources of Evidence -- Islands -- Three Longitudinal Studies -- Norway -- Environmental Pressure -- Marriage Age -- The Irish Potato Famine and the Ascendancy of the Roman Catholic Church -- Population Growth -- The Catholic Church -- Marriage Age -- Yap: A Pacific Island -- Environmental Pressure -- Sexual Mores -- Sterility -- Infanticide -- Other Research Possibilities -- The Late Roman Empire -- Population Fluctuations -- Culture Change -- The Christian Church -- Conclusion -- 6. Delayed Response to Population Pressure -- Alternate Hypotheses -- Scarcity -- The Locus of Responsibility

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Introduction -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Security Redefined -- Introduction -- International Relations and 'Security' as an Abstract Concept -- Security Studies -- Economic and Human Security -- Psychological Security -- Sociological Security -- A New Analytical Framework -- Security as a Right -- Security, Culture and Religion -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Campus Security -- Introduction -- The Research Approach -- The New Context of Campus Security -- Challenges Facing Campus Security -- Trust in Security Personnel Versus Trust in Police -- Cultural Perception and Sub-culture -- Campus Security in Practice -- Campus Security in US -- University, Campus Security and Local Police -- Police Participation in Orientation -- Campus Watch -- Addressing Cultural Barriers -- Campus Security in UK -- Information Sharing and the Use of Advanced Technology -- Campus Security and Local Police -- Professional Security Organisations -- Breaking Down Cultural Barriers -- Temporary Migration -- Resource Constraints -- Campus Security in Australia -- Information Sharing -- Addressing Cultural Barriers -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Campus Security: Australian Case Study -- Introduction -- Background to the Study -- Research Method -- The University Campus as the Best Test Case Scenario -- Campus Policing as a Community Engagement Strategy -- Breaking Down Barriers and Building Confidence -- Summary and Discussion -- References -- 5: Employment Security -- Introduction -- The Case Study Setting and Research Approach -- The Mobile Worker -- Unions -- The Company View -- The Community View -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: International Student Housing Security -- Introduction -- Accommodation Versus Other Concerns -- Finding Accommodation -- Accommodation Choice -- Near or On-Campus Accommodation

"The Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia is designed to serve as a comprehensive reference guide to politics in Asia. Covering East, South, Southeast and Central Asia, this Handbook brings together the work of leading international academics to cover the political histories, institutions, economies and cultures of the region. Taking a comparative approach, it is divided in four parts, including: - A thorough introduction to the politics of the four regions of Asia, from the perspectives of democratization, foreign policy, political economy, and political culture. - An examination of the 'Big Three' of Asia: China, India, and Japan, focusing on issues including post-Mao reform, China's new world outlook, Indian democracy and Japanese foreign policy. - A discussion of important contemporary issues such as human rights, the politics of the internet, security, nationalism, and geopolitics. - An analysis of theoretical ideologies and belief systems connected with the politics of the continent, such as Confucianism, Hinduism, socialist constitutionalism and gender norms. As an invaluable and all-inclusive resource, this handbook will be useful for students, scholars, researchers and practitioners of Asian politics and comparative politics. Shiping Hua is Calvin and Helen Lang Distinguished Chair in Asian Studies, Professor of Political Science, and Director of Asian Studies Program at the University of Louisville, USA" --

Europa als Gegenstand der Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte lässt sich nicht ohne einen genauen Blick auf regionale Ressourcen und globale Entwicklungen denken. Die verschiedenen Beiträge des Bands widmen sich diesem Programm auf dem Weg einer Analyse verschiedener (regionaler und nationaler) Industrialisierungspfade, Arbeitsmärkte und Arbeiterbewegungen. Sie bieten exemplarische Untersuchungen zu bisher mitunter vernachlässigten Branchen und Unternehmen in ihren regionalen, nationalen, europäischen und globalen Verflechtungen. Dabei werden stadt- und regionalgeschichtliche Perspektiven, vor allem aber auch Fragen der Industriekultur systematisch einbezogen, um etwa Chemnitz und Sachsen als wichtige Kerne einer regionalen, deutschen und globalen Industriegeschichte herauszuschälen und wieder zu entdecken. Die Beiträge greifen Themen, Fragen und Forschungsperspektiven von Rudolf Boch als europäisch und global denkenden Wirtschafts- und Sozialhistoriker auf, dem der Band zum 65. Geburtstag gewidmet ist. / »Regional Resources and Europe« -- It is impossible to view Europe as an object of economic and social history without first considering the effects of regional resources and global developments. The contributions in this volume adhere to these guidelines by analysing different (regional and national) paths of industrialisation, employment markets and labour movements. They offer exemplary studies on hitherto neglected industries and enterprises with regional, national, European and global interdependencies. In the process, they include research on regional and urban perspectives history as well as the matter of industrial culture in order to emphasize and rediscover Chemnitz and Saxony as centres of regional, German and global industrial culture. The articles cover Rudolf Boch's themes, questions and research perspectives and show to what extent he has been an economic and social historian with a regional, European and global outlook. This dedicated volume marks the occasion of his 65th birthday.

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Productivity and Behavior of Chinese Rural Industrial Enterprises -- Introduction -- Institutional Background -- The Growth and Institutional Evolution of TVEs -- Ownership -- Data -- Methodology -- Growth and Productivity -- TVE Behavior -- Empirical Results -- Growth and Productivity -- Behavior of TVEs -- Discussion of TVE Behavior -- Labor Shortages in the TVE Sector -- Productivity Comparison -- Conclusions -- Appendix A -- Endnotes -- Chapter 3. Chinese Township-Village Enterprises as Vaguely Defined Cooperatives (with Martin L. Weitzman) -- Introduction -- The Standard Property Rights Theory -- The Standard Model and The Chinese Model -- The TVE as a Vaguely Defined Cooperative -- What is a TVE? -- TVE Performance -- The TVE as a Vaguely Defined Cooperative -- The Basic Paradox -- Cooperative Culture: A Possible Reconciliation of the Paradox -- The Folk Theorem of Repeated Games and Cooperative Culture -- Ownership -- Some Implications of A Generalized Property Rights Theory -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4. Risk Aversion, Rural-Urban Wage Differentiation, and Migration -- Introduction -- Insufficient Rural-Urban Migration: Evidence -- Rural-rural vs. Rural-urban Migration -- Crop Land as an Insurance Instrument -- Insufficient Migration -- Rural-Urban Migration: the Basic Model -- Rural-Rural and Rural-Urban Migration -- Land Tax and Landless Rural Households -- Land Tax -- Landless Rural Households -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- References -- Index

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Introduction: 'Street-Fighters and Philosophers': Traversing Ecofeminisms -- Feminist Ecological Theory -- Glocal Australia -- Ecofeminism and New Materialisms -- Changing Environments -- Bibliography -- Part I: Foundational Ecofeminisms -- 2: Deeper than Deep Ecology: The Eco-Feminist Connection -- Bibliography -- 3: Relating to Nature: Deep Ecology or Ecofeminism? -- The Two Metaphysical Axioms of Deep Ecology -- The Identification Dilemma -- Holistic and Individualistic Readings of the Two Axioms -- Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism: Complementary Perspectives? -- Dualism: Deep Ecological and Ecofeminist Responses -- Bibliography -- 4: Women and Nature Revisited: Ecofeminist Reconfigurations of an Old Association -- Bibliography -- 5: Women and Land Claims -- Invisible Women -- Women's Evidence -- Recent Developments and Potentials -- Bibliography -- 6: Ecofeminist Analysis and the Culture of Ecological Denial -- The Historical Development of Human Apartness -- The Environmental Crisis and the Culture of Ecological Denial -- Hyper-separation and the Structure of Human/Nature Dualism -- Humans or Non-humans? Choice and Emphasis -- Cultural Transformation and Partnership Ethics -- Bibliography -- Part II: Ecofeminist Currents -- 7: From The Female Eunuch to White Beech: Germaine Greer and Ecological Feminism -- The Female Eunuch: Dismantling the 'Conceptual Apparatus' -- The 'Smorgasbord of Ideas' -- White Beech: Secret Women's Business -- Greer's Ecological Self at Cave Creek -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8: Climate Guardian Angels: Feminist Ecology and the Activist Tradition -- Ecology Environment Nature -- Climate Guardians -- COP 21 Paris -- Angels in Religion and the Arts -- Ecofeminist Performance Activism -- Bibliography.

"A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair--drug abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate. America, says Pulitzer Prize­-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress, the pornification of culture, the rise of magical thinking, the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. As our society unravels, we also face global upheaval caused by catastrophic climate change. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet. Donald Trump rode this disenchantment to power. In America: The Farewell Tour, Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate coup d'etat is reversed these diseases will grow and ravage the country. A poignant cry reported from communities across the country, America: The Farewell Tour seeks to jolt us out of our complacency while there is still time"--

"This book examines claims for recognition of cultural difference from immigrant and Indigenous minorities, highlighting the ways in which they intersect with ideas of national community. Busbridge argues that there is an important, albeit under-explored, relationship between nation and multicultural politics of recognition.Drawing on the Australian context, the book explores how nation features as a productive, if somewhat ambivalent, discursive resource in contemporary Muslim and Aboriginal struggles to be recognised. In demanding recognition, minorities enter into the business of 'making the nation' by positing alternative conceptions of national identity, culture and belonging that are more attentive to their differences and claims. This dynamic is engaged as an expression of 'postcolonial citizenship'. Postcolonial citizenship is imagined in terms of the ways in which minority groups actualise multicultural realities through rewriting ideas of national community. It underlines the critical importance of revising the power relations that deem some groups 'more national' and others less so--and which, in Western multicultural societies, are typically tied to notions of the 'West' and its 'others'.This book is an important conceptual, theoretical and political intervention that brings postcolonialism and multiculturalism into dialogue on the increasingly potent issues of nation and national identity. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of sociology, politics, postcolonial studies, culture, identity and nation."--Provided by publisher.

Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place. Many rich traditional practices associated with community, tacit knowledge and culture are being rapidly lost due to globalisation and urbanisation. Yet they have much to offer for the future in terms of sustainability, identity, wellbeing and new opportunities in design. This book considers the creative roots, the place-based ecologies, and deep understandings of cultural significance, not only in terms of history and tradition but also in terms of locale, social interactions, innovation, and change for the sustainment of culturally significant material productions. Importantly, these are not locked in time by sentimentality and nostalgia but are evolving, innovative, and adaptive to new technologies and changing circumstances. Contributing authors explore the historical roots of culturally significant designs, products and practices, emerging directions, amateur endeavours, enterprise models, business opportunities and the changing role and contribution of design in the creation of material cultures of significance, meaning and value. An international perspective is provided through case studies and research from North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia, with examples including Aran jumper production in Northern Ireland, weaving in Thailand, Iranian housing design, Brazilian street design and digital crafting in the United Kingdom