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Preliminary -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Towards a broader understanding of Indigenous disadvantage -- 2. Mobile people, mobile measures: Limitations and opportunities for mobility analysis -- 3. Fertility and the demography of Indigenous Australians: What can the NATSISS 2008 tell us? -- 4. Does the 2008 NATSISS underestimate the prevalence of high risk Indigenous drinking? -- 5. Improving Indigenous health: Are mainstream determinants sufficient? -- 6. What shapes the development of Indigenous children? -- 7. The benefits of Indigenous education: Data findings and data gaps -- 8. What are the factors determining Indigenous labour market outcomes? -- 9. The Indigenous hybrid economy: Can the NATSISS adequately recognise difference? -- 10. Is Indigenous poverty different from other poverty? -- 11. Is there a cultural explanation for Indigenous violence? A second look at the NATSISS -- 12. NATSISS crowding data: What does it assume and how can we challenge the orthodoxy? -- 13. Do traditional culture and identity promote the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians? Evidence from the 2008 NATSISS -- 14. A mile wide, inch deep:The future for Indigenous social surveys? -- CAEPR Research Monograph Series.

"Cross-Cultural Research Methods" pretends to be a primer on the "how to" of conducting cross-cultural research, but focuses only on quantitative methods that use secondary data in the service of generating knowledge. The book is caught twice in the dialectic of the general and the specific, by putting all its eggs into the former basket and failing to recognize the role of the latter both in research itself and in the teaching of research methods to its readers. Because I know that the students in my graduate research methods course would fail to appreciate the book, I would neither select nor recommend it to others as a resource in teaching (quantitative) research methods or research designs courses.

The emergence and institutionalization of cooperation in sizable groups without reciprocity receives considerable attention in game-theoretical modeling. Agents in our study play the Prisoner's Dilemma game cooperating with tolerably similar neighbors. They may imitate cultural markers (tags) and tolerance from more successful neighbors. Alternatively, they break ties to out-group neighbors. New partners are selected either from neighbors' neighbors (clustering) or randomly. Variations in network plasticity (the likelihood of changing partners rather than being influenced) and clustering are explored. With high plasticity and high clustering, networks tend to fragment. With low plasticity and low clustering, networks tend toward global cooperation, but with severe losses of cultural diversity and tolerance. Cooperation in such regimes also proves to be vulnerable to defection. Between, there is a space displaying relatively stable and widespread cooperation with diversity and tolerance. We note some important structural characteristics of the networks evolving in this space.

This incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of "development" or "rationalization" have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence. Andrew E. Barshay argues that Japan, together with Germany and pre-revolutionary Russia, represented forms of developmental alienation from the Atlantic Rim symptomatic of late-emerging empires. Neither members nor colonies of the Atlantic Rim, these were independent national societies whose cultural self-image was nevertheless marked by a sense of difference. Barshay presents a historical overview of major Japanese trends and treats two of the most powerful streams of Japanese social science, one associated with Marxism, the other with Modernism (kindaishugi), whose most representative figure is the late Maruyama Masao. Demonstrating that a sense of developmental alienation shaped the thinking of social scientists in both streams, the author argues that they provided Japanese social science with moments of shared self-understanding.

This book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora. It is the first book to present a broad-ranging analysis of cultural dance in Australia. Topics include adaptation of dance customs within a post-migration context, multicultural festivals, prominent performers, historiographies and archives, and the relative positionings of cultural and Western theatrical dance genres. The book offers a decolonized appraisal of dance in Australia, critiquing past and present praxes and offering suggestions for the future. Overall, it underscores the highly variegated nature of the Australian dance landscape and advocates for greater recognition of amateur community dance practices. Cultural Dance in Australia makes a substantial contribution to the catalogue of work about immigrants and cultural dance styles that continue to be preserved in Australia. This book will be of interest to scholars of dance, performance studies, migration studies and transnationalism

On purpose to analyse a certain part of social world it is useful to apply a concept of field introduced in the field theory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Field is a structure of relations between the objective positions occupied by its agents. The positions of the agents, their success, recognition and distinction in the field depend on special resources they own, called capital. According to Bourdieu, capital determines the habitus of the field agents. Habitus might be understood as a set of dispositions, perceptions and beliefs inherent to an individual. It is the result of the internalization of external economic, social, cultural conditions and practices, contrary to popular belief that it depends only on subjective individual experience.Two types of cultural capital – academic and scientific capital – are authentic to scientific field. Although the activity of the agents of scientific field might look disinterested and based only on intellectual principles, in reality this field is a subject to competition for better positions like all other fields. Beyond the normative and philosophical disputes on perceptions of science may be hidden interests to impose such principles which could bring the highest benefit to the field agents.Normative discussions about the perceptions of science are common in a field of political science as well. Mostly they are related to the question of the purpose of political science (whether it should be "pure" science or to focus on real political problems), methodological orientations (positivist vs. anti-positivist approach), attitude towards internationality of political science (local or cosmopolitan) and its relation to other disciplines (autonomy of political science). In the article these perceptions of political science are considered as dispositions of political scientists composing a part of their habitus. Since habitus is structured by capital, a research hypothesis that the perceptions are related to certain types of capital was proposed.Lithuanian political science field was chosen as the object of the research. The main problem analysed in the article is the "origin" of different perceptions of political science If only individual experience affects these perceptions, how could we explain the fact that some beliefs are more typical to certain groups of scientists and are not inherent to other groups?The investigation using semi-structuralized survey method was executed. Eighty-eight Lithuanian political scientists took part in the research. Received data was analysed by multiple correspondence analysis technique and other methods of statistical analysis. It was identified that those political scientists who own the highest academic and scientific capital tend to support a vision of political science not oriented towards practical politics. They also give priority to the national, local political science and to the positivist approach. Sociology and partly philosophy disciplines are privileged among them. On the other hand, those scientists who have higher economic and political capital (extraneous capital to scientific field) are more liable to support practical and cosmopolitan orientations, disciplines of economics, administration and management. Also a relation between the education of political scientists and their perceptions was established.These results might be interpreted as demonstrating the above mentioned interests to impose such perceptions of political science which could be the most useful to the scientists and as confirming the hypothesis of the research. ; Straipsnyje analizuojamas Lietuvos politikos mokslų laukas, ieškant atsakymo į klausimą, kaip jo veikėjai suvokia savo discipliną, ir bandoma aiškinti jų politikos mokslų sampratas. Kaip alternatyva požiūriui, kad politikos mokslų suvokimą formuojančios nuostatos yra subjektyvios ir individualios, remiantis Pierre'o Bourdieu teoriniu modeliu, siekiama parodyti objektyvių struktūrų (užimamų pozicijų, disponuojamo kapitalo) įtaką šioms nuostatoms. Straipsnyje išskiriamos politikos mokslininkų bendruomenę dalijančios skirtys, atspindinčios mokslininkų požiūrį į politikos mokslų paskirtį, jų moksliškumo sampratas, santykį su kitomis disciplinomis ir tarptautiškumo reikšmės vertinimą. Straipsnio pagrindas – empirinis Lietuvos politikos mokslininkų bendruomenės tyrimas.

Published Article ; Indian cities seem to be in transition regardless of the various sustainability challenges they have experienced in recent years. Globalization, market economy, and technological developments have brought economic, social and infrastructural advantages. However, population growth, proliferation of urban functions, insurmountable increase in size of cities, and environmental crises because of climate change have caused the cities to experience severe spatial, infrastructural and environmental ailments. Besides, the significant rise of Information Communication Technology (ICT) industries in the cities and their socio-economic and spatial influence have brought about inequitable development. At this juncture emancipation of a political will to build smart cities in India provides a new impetus for changing the planning perspectives and warrants a politico-cultural discourse to examine the prerequisites and paradigms, which could aid in development of smart cities in India. Drawing upon the stimulating mix of past experiences and prospective approaches across the world and discussions with experts in the political science, local governance and urban development, this explorative paper provides a discourse on the concept of smart cities, opportunities, challenges and the way forward to realize the goals of smart city development in a heterogeneous but democratically unified country like India. Based on the discourse, it is argued that the current urban governance system is not congruent for development of smart cities in India. Therefore, it is advocated that a cultural theory inspired politico-cultural mechanism be explored and crafted to assemble the requisite elements of an urban governance system that should enable the dynamics and cohesion needed for developing smart cities in India.

In the Russian historical science there are almost no studies devoted to propaganda, mass cultural and educational activities of the Department of Plenipotentiary of Soviet Union onrepatriation of Sovietcitizens amongthe Soviet displaced persons duringtheGreat PatrioticWar and after it. The article analyzes the propaganda, mass cultural and educational work of the Administration of the Plenipotentiary of the USSR Council of People's Commissars, political organs, the administration of collecting-transfer points and collection camps in 1944–1946. Special attention is paid to the identification and analysis of the forms and methods of political and educational work with repatriates, its difficulties and shortcomings.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernity's Challenges to Self -- PART I: New Patterns of Social Experience -- 1. Karl Marx: Alienation under Capitalism -- 2. Émile Durkheim: The Search for Social Connection -- 3. Max Weber: Rationalization's Iron Grip -- 4. Georg Simmel: Marginality as the Modern Condition -- 5. Erich Kahler: Split from without - and within -- 6. Robert Nisbet: The Eclipse of Community -- 7. Robert Bellah: Communitarianism and Religion in a Post-Traditional World -- 8. Daniel Bell: Capitalism's Contradictions -- 9. Hannah Arendt: Politics as Possibility -- PART II: Culture Transformed -- 10. Johan Huizinga: The Decline of the Play Spirit -- 11. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno: The Perils of Enlightenment -- 12. David Riesman: Seeking Autonomy in the Other-Directed Society -- 13. Daniel Boorstin: Extravagant Expectations -- 14. Lewis Mumford: In the Shadows of the Machine -- 15. Jane Jacobs: Cities Where People Matter -- 16. Marshall Berman: Swimming in the Maelstrom -- 17. Christopher Lasch: Cultural Narcissism -- 18. Juliet Schor: The Work and Spend Cycle -- PART III: Forms of Inequality -- 19. C. Wright Mills: Social Structure, Elites, and Masses -- 20. Michel Foucault: Knowledge as Control -- 21. Simone De Beauvoir: Woman as Other -- 22. W.E.B. Du Bois: Divided Consciousness -- 23. Frantz Fanon: The Long Reach of Colonialism -- 24. Margaret Mead: The Enculturation of Gender -- 25. Lillian Rubin: Worlds of Pain -- 26. Betty Friedan: Responding to Traps of Gender and Age -- 27. William Julius Wilson: Dilemmas of the Truly Disadvantaged -- PART IV: Modern Selves -- 28. Sigmund Freud: Repression and Other Conflicts -- 29. Erich Fromm: Society against Self -- 30. Herbert Marcuse: Resistance in the Affluent Society.

The goal of this research project was to investigate the current network of relationships involved in Siem Reap, Cambodia's tourism network, focusing on the tour guide specifically as a cultural, economic, and political nexus. Closer examination and interviewing revealed the tour guide licensing process as complex and corrupted, but crucial to the tourism industry in Cambodia's current economy. The question of cultural transmission and self-identification through state intervention is also examined from the tour guide perspective. Rather than focusing on the negative effects of tourism development in a country emerging from third-world status, the focus of this paper was merely to examine the current day-to-day relationships that contribute to the intricacy of the tourism industry with the utilization of a singular position. It is impossible to consider the Cambodian tour guide's social position without placing it into historical context. Cambodian culture and economy was greatly diminished by the Khmer Rouge; how did this effect the tour guide's position in society as transmitters of Khmer culture and history? What was the economic and social position most commonly associated with the Khmer tour guide, and how did this affect everyday life and self-identification? Cambodia is still renowned for political corruption, however, the tourism industry seems to be the most bureaucratic and enforced sector as it remains one of the largest sources of income for the country. By exploring the details of becoming a tour guide, interviewing individuals, and observing everyday struggles and successes this paper attempts to approach these conceptual questions.