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"This book is the first comprehensive account of the history and current state of South African sociology. Providing a holistic picture of the subject both as it is taught in universities and as a field of research, it reveals the trajectories of a discipline in a challenging socio-political context. With the support of historical and scientometric data, it demonstrates how the changing political situation, from colonialism to apartheid to democracy, has influenced the nature, direction and foci of sociological research in the country. The author shows how, during the apartheid era, sociology was professionally fragmented and divided along language and race lines. It was, however, able to flourish with the advent of democracy in 1994 and has become a unique academic movement. This insightful work will appeal to students and scholars of the social sciences, and all those interested in the history and society of South Africa"--Provided by publisher.

Die Allgegenwart des Begriffes verhindert nicht, dass Wissen doch ein weitgehend rätselhaftes Phänomen bleibt. Beladen mit philosophischer Schwere, zugleich gekennzeichnet von lästiger Flüchtigkeit, bekommen auch die Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften Wissen nur schwer zu fassen. Als gesellschaftliche Größe wiederum wird Wissen stets hofiert, selten jedoch expliziert. Im Alltag verflüchtigt sich Wissen gerne in Routinen, Institutionen und Sozialfiguren. Der Status dessen was wir wissen – als Wissen –, bleibt oft verborgen. Wir unterscheiden selten zwischen dem Wissen von und dem Wissen wie und überlassen das Wissen der Wissenschaft und Technik. Was aber passiert, wenn man Wissen konsequent als soziales Geschehen begreift? Welche Aspekte des Wissens treten hervor, wo finden wir es, und welche Rolle spielt Wissen für das Werden der modernen Gesellschaft – und unsere Gegenwart?Der vorliegende Band vollzieht nicht nur die Geschichte der sozialwissenschaftlichen Karriere des Wissensbegriffes nach, sondern verfolgt auch die Rolle des Wissens in verschiedene Gesellschaftsbereiche. Wo und von wem wird Wissen produziert, wie unterscheiden sich Wissensarten, und welche soziale Auswirkungen zeitigt es? Kann man Wissen als Ware begreifen, braucht es so etwas wie eine Wissenspolitik, und leben wir nicht längst in einer Wissensgesellschaft? Diese und andere Fragen werden ausführlich diskutiert, und in Beziehung zu gesellschaftlichen Prozessen und Entwicklungsdynamiken gesetzt.Das Buch überbrückt die Kluft zwischen abstrakter Philosophie und der alltäglichen Rolle des Wissens und expliziert die zentrale Rolle des Wissens für die moderne Gesellschaft

4 Ambiguities of interaction: South West Africa, Angola and Tanganyika, 1920-1930Windhoek and Sandfontein, 1920-1921; Mapping language, trade, genealogies and boundaries; Photography; Sound; Objects; Angola, 1925; Tanganyika, 1930; Maturing science and making 'bushmen'; 5 Testimony of the rocks: A 'cave journey', 1928-1932; The edited book; In the field; The field notebooks; Science, society and visiting prehistorians; Seeing for herself; 6 Intimacy and marginality in rock art recording, 1932-1940; Research by correspondence; Negotiating the field; 'Co-production' of knowledge

"Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice is a collection of scholarly essays that examine the relationship between the exploitation of the working-class and environment injustices in the US and Canada. These scholars, from the fields of environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, seek to assess the current unprecedented rates of environmental degradation, expanding economic inequality, and wide-spread social injustice. Without dividing worker from wilderness, or labor from landscape, they present solutions to the global climate crisis. Ultimately, this book advances the idea of a working-class ecology that must be an integral part of achieving just and sustainable human development"--

Status quaestionum and the present study -- Jerusalem, Herodium, Jericho, and environs -- En Gedi, Mahoza, and Kephar-Baru -- Epistolary culture in Roman Judaea -- Language and literacy in Roman Judaea -- Appendix A: Significant documents of the Bar Kokhba discoveries: signatories and writers -- Appendix B: Signatories and writers listed by name

Introduction : Setting the stage for romance -- The ambassador -- Spending the night together -- Going steady -- Invisible love poetry -- Demons, danger, and desire : the "aragvian" sexual revolution -- Intelligentsia and people : a love story -- Echoes of love lost : socialist novels and films.

FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 What is the art of language?; 2 Playing with the heroes of human history; 3 'Artisting the self': A tale of personal story; 4 Forget the words : It's performance!; 5 Reclothing the 'oral'; 6 Song. What comes first: words, music, or performance?; 7 Competence and performance: Was Chomsky right after all?; 8 Poem and story: The arts of dreaming and waking to sweet words; 9 Where is literature?; Further reading; Bibliography; Index.

Cover -- I. Russia in the Caucasus: Contemporary Challenges -- Assessing Russian Soft Power in the South Caucasus:Ten Reasons Why Moscow Looks Lame -- INTRODUCTION -- A DECADE OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES -- RUSSIA IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS: A PROBLEM OF THE POLICY-MAKING -- THE INTERNAL DIMENSION AS A DIAGNOSIS -- CONCLUSION -- The North Caucasus in Contemporary U.S.-Russia relations: Key Problems and Implications for the Future -- American attitudes towards The North Caucasus in the 1990 s: a decade of misconceptions? -- THE ATTACKS OF 9/11 AND THE FIRST WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY

Die Digitalisierung stellt die Gesellschaft – Bürger, Wirtschaft, Staat und Verwaltung - vor große Herausforderungen. Wie wird die Digitalisierung unser Leben verändern? Dieser Leitfrage widmet sich der Tagungsband zum 3. Speyerer Forum zur digitalen Lebenswelt 2014. Die Beiträge geben neue Impulse und bieten Lösungsansätze an.Zunächst wird eine übergreifende Prognose der digitalen Zukunft skizziert. Weitere Untersuchungen umreißen die Folgen der Digitalisierung für die verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Lebensbereiche. Zu nennen sind hier das Datenschutzrecht und Big Data, die IT im Kulturbereich, aber auch die neue digitale Arbeitswelt und die digitale Souveränität des Internetnutzers - auch im Kontext zu nationalen und internationalen Sicherheitsbehörden. Zum Thema E-Government wird in mehreren Artikeln analysiert, wie der Ausrüstungsstand des Staates mit moderner IT ist, welche Erwartungen die Nutzer an E-Government haben und welche (design-)technischen Anforderungen erfüllt sein müssen.Mit Beiträgen von:Mario Martini, Nikolas Hill, Heinrich A. Wolff, Wolfgang Ewer, Ellen Abel, Edgar Wagner, Horst Westerfeld, Robert Piehler, Fabian Dziamski, Annette Tapper

"Fans are everywhere: from Fifty Shades of Grey to Veronica Mars, from Comic-Con to sitcom, from niche to Geek Chic, fans are becoming the most visible and important audience of the twenty-first century. For years the media industries ignored fans and fan activities, but now they're paying attention and a lot of money to develop a whole new wave of products intended to harness the power of fandom. What impact do such corporate media efforts have on fan practice and fan identities? And are the media industries actually responding to fans as fans want them to? In Playing Fans, Paul Booth argues that the more attention entertainment businesses pay to fans, the more mainstream fans have become popularized. But such mainstreaming ignores important creative fan work and tries to channel fandom into activities lucrative for the companies. Offering a new approach to the longstanding debate about the balance between manipulation and subversion in popular culture, the author argues that we can understand the current moment best through the concepts of pastiche and parody. This sophisticated alternative to conceiving of fans as either dupes of the media industry or rebels against it takes the discussion of "transformative" and "affirmative" fandom in a productive new direction. With nuanced analyses of the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff, the representations of fans in TV shows like Community and films like Fanboys, SuperWhoLock fans' use of gifs, and the similarities in discussions of slash fandom and pornographic parody films, this book reveals how fans borrow media techniques and media industries mimic fan activities. Just as the entertainment industry needs fans to succeed, so too do fans need-and desire-the media, and they represent their love through gif fics, crowdfunding, and digital cosplay. Everyone who wants to understand how consumers are making themselves at home in the brave new world being built by the contemporary media should read this book."--

"Senior citizens face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do disadvantages accumulated over a lifetime make the final years especially difficult for some people? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent seniors converge? Corey Abramson investigates whether lifelong inequality structures the lives of the elderly"--