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Katholizismus und Protestantismus zur Eigentumsfrage: eine gesellschaftspolitische Analyse
In: Rowohlts deutsche Enzyklopädie 153/154
In: Sachgebiet Staats- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Building rural community resilience through innovation and entrepreneurship
In: The community development research and practice series
"Drawing from empirical analyses, case studies, and a synthesis of best practices, this book explores how innovation manifests itself in rural places and how it contributes to entrepreneurial development and resilience. Innovation in rural places may come about as a result of new forms of collaboration; policies that leverage rural assets and address critical service or product gaps, novel strategies for accessing financial capital; infusion of arts into aspects of community life; and cultivation of networks that bridge entrepreneurs, organizations, and institutions. The chapters illustrate how a number of innovation-related characteristics relate to economic vibrancy in rural places, such as a strong connection to the arts, adaptive and sustainable use of natural resources, value-chain integrated food systems, robust bridging social capital networks, creative leveraging of technology, and presence of innovation-focused entrepreneurs. Through exploration of these and other topics, this book will provide insights and best practices for rural community and economic development scholars and practitioners seeking to strengthen the rural innovation ecosystem."
Above the fray: the Red Cross and the making of the humanitarian NGO sector
"We now take humanitarian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) such as the Red Cross or Oxfam for granted, but as sociologist Shai Dromi shows us, these social organizations are a relatively recent invention. In fact, when the Red Cross movement, which arose from the efforts of orthodox Calvinists, first began to advocate for impartial humanitarian work in the mid-1800s, it was met with incredulity, suspicion, and ethical objections. But within two decades the idea that humanitarian organizations are an absolute social necessity swept North Atlantic civil societies, giving rise to a growing humanitarian sector that spanned three continents and appealed to aristocrats, professionals, clergy, and working classes alike. The genesis of the humanitarian field from the religious convictions of its founders provides an exceptionally revealing historical case that demonstrates how abstract moral beliefs create new social institutions that, in turn, preserve and replicate them through history"--
Blue skies over Beijing: economic growth and the environment in China
"Over the last thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of the most polluted cities in the world are in China. Yet, millions of people continue moving to its cities seeking opportunities. Blue Skies over Beijing investigates the ways that China's urban development impacts local and global environmental challenges. Focusing on day-to-day choices made by the nation's citizens, families, and government, Matthew Kahn and Siqi Zheng examine how Chinese urbanites are increasingly demanding cleaner living conditions and consider where China might be headed in terms of sustainable urban growth. Kahn and Zheng delve into life in China's cities from the personal perspectives of the rich, middle class, and poor, and how they cope with the stresses of pollution. Urban parents in China have a strong desire to protect their children from environmental risk, and calls for a better quality of life from the rising middle class places pressure on government officials to support greener policies. Using the historical evolution of American cities as a comparison, the authors predict that as China's economy moves away from heavy manufacturing toward cleaner sectors, many of China's cities should experience environmental progress in upcoming decades. Looking at pressing economic and environmental issues in urban China, Blue Skies over Beijing shows that a cleaner China will mean more social stability for the nation and the world."--
Moving difference: Brazilians in London
In: Routledge advances in ethnography 24
"Moving Difference demonstrates how differences between migrants who share the same nationality travel with them and can impact on every aspect of their 'mobile lives'. Analysing the lived experiences and narratives of Brazilians in London, it adds an in-depth ethnographic understanding of the specific contours of difference to studies of migration by demonstrating how social differences, rooted in colonial legacies, are constantly being re-created and negotiated in the everyday making of the global world. By using ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews, in addition to historical and contextual analyses, the book allows us to understand how people speak of, engage with and negotiate difference in their everyday lives and how this is shaped by the macro political and social contexts of immigration and emigration. Giving attention to the complex interrelations between 'here' and 'there', past and present, Moving Difference allows us to go beyond the proliferated homogenised stereotypes of 'the migrant' and 'the migrant community' often reproduced by academics as well as by the media and politicians whether with a view to pathologizing or romanticizing the 'migrant other'. This title will appeal to students, scholars, community workers and general readers interested in migration, social class, gender, 'race' and ethnicity, colonialism and slavery, social exclusion, globalisation and urban sociology"--
Industrial development and eco-tourisms: can oil extraction and nature conservation co-exist?
This book examines the "oil-tourism interface", the broad range of direct and indirect contact points between offshore oil extraction and nature-based tourism. Offshore oil extraction and nature-based tourism are pursued as development paths across the North Atlantic region. Offshore oil promises economic benefits from employment and royalty payments to host societies, but is based on fossil fuel-intensive resource extraction. Nature-based tourism, instead, is based on experiencing natural environments and encountering wildlife, including whales, seals, or seabirds. They share social-ecological space, such as oceans, coastlines, cities and towns where tourism and offshore oil operations and offices are located. However, they rarely share cultural or political space, in terms of media coverage, public debate, or policy discussion that integrates both modes of development. Through a comparative analysis of Denmark, Iceland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Norway, and Scotland, this book offers important lessons for how coastal societies can better navigate relationships between resource extraction and nature-based tourism in the interests of social-ecological wellbeing.
Hegemony in the digital age: the Arab/Israeli conflict online
In: Critical media studies
Acknowledgements -- Introduction : identity and authority in the age of networks -- Aims and scope -- Key terms and concepts -- Political mobilization -- The web as a mass medium -- War on the web -- Ideology and civil society -- Net based activism and American Mid-East policy -- Grassroots mobilization and political opportunity -- Activism and the net : relevant precedents -- Contemporary peace camp activism -- Net-based activism and American Mid-East policy -- Public opinion -- Backdrop : the mainstream media as a legitimating identity -- The web as an alternative mass medium -- The voice of legitimacy : CNN.com and the Arab/Israeli conflict -- Introduction -- CNN.com's, "land of conflict" -- Dominant themes and validity claims -- Anchoring authority in a de-centered medium -- Hate and holy war on the www -- Confronting the other -- Stormfront.org : promoting the cause of "white nationalism" -- Kahane.org : fighting to eliminate Israel's "Arab cancer" -- Radioislam.org : defending Islam and the West from the "Jewish threat" -- Hate and holy war on the www -- The struggle for influence -- Social movement integration and growth -- Building alliances : virtual and real -- hegemony reconsidered : the internet, civil society and social fragmentation
What is pluralism?
From pluralism to liberalism : the long way around / Robert Talisse -- Pluralism and deliberation / Matteo Bianchin -- Social choice or collective decision-making : what is politics all about? / Thomas Mulligan -- Liberalism, pluralism, and a third way / Giulia Bistagnino -- Sideways at the entrance of the cave : a pluralist footnote to Plato / Alessandro Ferrara -- Pluralism and the possibility of a liberal political consensus / Catherine Audard -- Modus Vivendi liberalism, practice-dependence and political legitimacy / Valentina Gentile -- A pluralist model of democracy / Maeve Cooke -- Rawls, religion, and the clash of civilizations / David Rasmussen -- The practice of liberty / Erin Kelly -- Sharing a conception of justice, sharing a conception of the good : liberalism as a pluralist theory vs. Pluralism as a non-liberal theory / Ingrid Salvatore -- Pluralism and solidarity : non-authoritarian reasoning and non-fundamentalist attitude / Sadek Karim -- Populism, liberalism and nationalism / Volker Kaul.
Risk society and school educational policy
In: Routledge research in education policy and politics
"Risk Society and School Educational Policy explores the impact of risk society on policy in the US, UK and Australia through both practical and theoretical perspectives. The book both develops an in-depth understanding of risk society itself, and guides the reader in applying this knowledge to the problem of how this impacts policy and practice in school education. Drawing on work by Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens, Rodwell explores the development of risk society as a field of interest, discussing its history, contemporary significance, and links with neoliberalism, school education, and both mainstream and social media. He also examines its impact on government policies and the practical implications of how this impacts the educational experiences of children around the globe today. A book for policy professionals, researchers, academics and postgraduate students interested in Education Studies, Theory, and Policy, and International and Comparative Education, Risk Society and School Educational Policy is the first international academic monograph published in the field'--
Research ethics: a philosophical guide to the responsible conduct of research
In: Cambridge Medicine
"Ordinarily, responsible conduct of research (RCR) 'training' consists of lectures accompanied by generic exercises on 'core' topics. Research Ethics takes a novel, philosophical approach to the RCR and the teaching of moral decision-making. Part I introduces egoism and explains that it is in the individuals own interest to avoid misconduct, fabrication of data, plagiarism and bias. Part II takes up contractualism and covers issues of authorship, peer review and responsible use of statistics. Part III introduces moral rights as the basis of informed consent, the use of humans in research, mentoring, intellectual property and conflicts of interests. Part IV uses two-level utilitarianism to explore the possibilities and limits of the experimental use of animals, duties to the environment and future generations, and the social responsibilities of researchers. This book replaces mind-numbing rote exercises with an adventure in moral imagination and is an essential guide for graduate students in all disciplines"--
Islam-latino: identidades étnico-religiosas : un estudio de caso sobre los mexicanos musulmanes en Estados Unidos
In: Investigación
Islam en movimiento : desde una reflexión de las prácticas contemporáneas y transnacionales -- Heterogeneidad racial y cultural en Estados Unidos : los latinos -- Islam en Estados Unidos : formas de integración religiosa, étnico-racial y social -- Cartografía del ciberentorno del islam latino -- Las propuestas del islam latino : palabra, imagen y memoria -- La Asociación Latino Musulmana de América (LALMA) -- Procesos de indentidad en mexicanos musulmanes -- Conclusiones : construcciones de identidad étnico-religiosa "Ser musulmán, latino y mexicano".
Language, culture and mind
Language, culture, and mind in the comparative perspective -- To awaken a sleeping giant: cognition and culture in September 11 political cartoons -- Affect in language interpretation -- Development of community in computer mediated communication: a social network analysis -- The status of clause and vp in spoken Indonesian; evidence from repair -- The cognitive linguistics of scalar humor -- Is cognitive linguistics our best phenomenology; a philosophical challenge -- Icebox moms and hockey dads: context and the mapping of N-N metaphorical expressions -- On similie -- Happiness in English and German: a metaphorical-pattern analysis -- Ego-based and field-based frames of reference in space to time metaphors -- Factors underlying spatial particle distribution in Japanese and Korean -- Going getting tired: associated motion through space and time in lowland Chontal -- A study of motion events in Saisiyat and Cebuano -- Comparing elicited data and Corpora -- Covarying collexemas in the into-causative -- Linking perceptual properties in linguistic expressions of causation -- Contrastive analyses, translation, and speaker involvement: the case of Puisque and Aangezien -- I can see the church to my house: directionality in expressions of visual perception in Finnish -- The growing of embedded WH-clauses in scenes of visual perception -- Aspect as a cue for represented perception -- Aspect in the making: a corpus analysis of English aspect-marking prepositions -- Present and imperfect for past description in Spanish narratives: syntactic, semantic, and functional factors -- Clause structure, focus, and topic types in Cora (Uto-Aztecan) -- Indentity and perspective: the Jekyll-and-Hyde effect in narrative discourse -- Inclusive and exclusive patterning of English first person plural: evidence from conversation -- Ideophones in Karo -- Isn't that fantabulous? How similarity motivates intentional morphological blends in English -- A semantic study of the classifier Dao -- Subjectification and synchronic variation: two negation forms in Kansai dilect of Japanese -- Basic voice patterns in Tarascan (P'orhepecha) -- You wanna consider a constructional approach towards wanna-contraction? -- Towards a symbolic typology of -ing nominalizations -- The interaction of quantification and identification of English determiners -- Aspects of the grammar of finite clauses
The Routledge handbook of elections, voting behavior and public opinion
In: Routledge international handbooks
Democratic theory and electoral behavior / Ian McAllister -- The sociological and social-psychological approaches / Vincent Hutchings and Hakeem Jefferson -- Rational choice theory and voting / Keith Dowding -- Institutions and voting behavior / B. Guy Peters -- The big picture : turnout at the macro level / Jack Vowles -- Demographic and the social bases of voter turnout / Eric Plutzer -- Turnout and the calculus of voting : recent advances and prospects for integration with theories of campaigns and elections / John Aldrich and Libby M. Jenke -- Voting and the expanding repertoire of participation / Jan van Deth -- The acquisition of voting habits / Elias Dinas -- Long-term factors : class and religious cleavages / Geoff Evans and Ksenia Northmore-Ball -- Ideology and electoral choice / Martin Elff -- Party identification / Shaun Bowler -- Trends in partisanship / Oliver Heath -- Politics, media and the electoral role of party leaders / Anthony Mughan and Loes Aaldering -- Preferences, constraints, and choices : tactical voting in mass elections / R. Michael Alvarez, D. Roderick Kiewiet and Lucas Núñez -- Economic voting / Marianne Stewart and Harold Clarke -- Electoral systems / Iain McLean -- Electoral integrity / Pippa Norris -- Voting behavior in multi-level electoral systems / Hermann Schmitt and Eftichia Teperoglou -- Local context, social networks and neighbourhood effects on voter choice / Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie -- Voting behavior in referendums / Michael Marsh -- Networks, contexts, and the process of political influence / Robert Huckfeldt, Matthew T. Pietryka and John B. Ryan -- Persuasion and mobilization effects by parties and candidates / Justin Fisher -- Campaign strategies, media and voters : the fourth era of political communication / Holli Semetko and Hubert Tworzecki -- The role of mass media in shaping public opinion and voter behaviour / Susan Banducci -- Digital campaigning / Stephen Ward, Rachel Gibson and Marta Cantijoch -- Attitudes, values and belief systems / Oddbjørn Knutsen -- The stability of political attitudes / Robert Erikson -- Political knowledge: measurement, misinformation and turnout / Jennifer Hudson -- Is there a rational public? / Jørgen Bølstad -- The geometry of party competition. parties and voters in the issue space / Lorenzo de Sio -- The thermostatic model : the public, policy and politics / Christopher Wlezien -- Regime support / Pedro Magalhaes -- Generational replacement : engine of electoral change / Wouter van der Brug and Mark Franklin -- The dependent variable in election studies : studying respondents or responses as units of analysis / Cees van Der Eijk -- The quest for representative survey samples / Laura Stoker and Andrew McCall -- Horses for courses : using internet surveys for researching public opinion and voting behaviour / Edward Fieldhouse and Chris Prosser -- The use of aggregate data in the study of voting behavior : ecological inference, ecological fallacy and other applications / Luana Russo -- Election forecasting / Stephen Fisher -- Field experiments in political behavior / Donald Green and Erin A. York -- Making inferences about elections and public opinion using incidentally collected data / Jon Mellon
The Routledge handbook of elections, voting behavior and public opinion
In: Routledge international handbooks
Democratic theory and electoral behavior / Ian McAllister -- The sociological and social-psychological approaches / Vincent Hutchings and Hakeem Jefferson -- Rational choice theory and voting / Keith Dowding -- Institutions and voting behavior / B. Guy Peters -- The big picture : turnout at the macro level / Jack Vowles -- Demographic and the social bases of voter turnout / Eric Plutzer -- Turnout and the calculus of voting : recent advances and prospects for integration with theories of campaigns and elections / John Aldrich and Libby M. Jenke -- Voting and the expanding repertoire of participation / Jan van Deth -- The acquisition of voting habits / Elias Dinas -- Long-term factors : class and religious cleavages / Geoff Evans and Ksenia Northmore-Ball -- Ideology and electoral choice / Martin Elff -- Party identification / Shaun Bowler -- Trends in partisanship / Oliver Heath -- Politics, media and the electoral role of party leaders / Anthony Mughan and Loes Aaldering -- Preferences, constraints, and choices : tactical voting in mass elections / R. Michael Alvarez, D. Roderick Kiewiet and Lucas Núñez -- Economic voting / Marianne Stewart and Harold Clarke -- Electoral systems / Iain McLean -- Electoral integrity / Pippa Norris -- Voting behavior in multi-level electoral systems / Hermann Schmitt and Eftichia Teperoglou -- Local context, social networks and neighbourhood effects on voter choice / Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie -- Voting behavior in referendums / Michael Marsh -- Networks, contexts, and the process of political influence / Robert Huckfeldt, Matthew T. Pietryka and John B. Ryan -- Persuasion and mobilization effects by parties and candidates / Justin Fisher -- Campaign strategies, media and voters : the fourth era of political communication / Holli Semetko and Hubert Tworzecki -- The role of mass media in shaping public opinion and voter behaviour / Susan Banducci -- Digital campaigning / Stephen Ward, Rachel Gibson and Marta Cantijoch -- Attitudes, values and belief systems / Oddbjørn Knutsen -- The stability of political attitudes / Robert Erikson -- Political knowledge: measurement, misinformation and turnout / Jennifer Hudson -- Is there a rational public? / Jørgen Bølstad -- The geometry of party competition. parties and voters in the issue space / Lorenzo de Sio -- The thermostatic model : the public, policy and politics / Christopher Wlezien -- Regime support / Pedro Magalhaes -- Generational replacement : engine of electoral change / Wouter van der Brug and Mark Franklin -- The dependent variable in election studies : studying respondents or responses as units of analysis / Cees van Der Eijk -- The quest for representative survey samples / Laura Stoker and Andrew McCall -- Horses for courses : using internet surveys for researching public opinion and voting behaviour / Edward Fieldhouse and Chris Prosser -- The use of aggregate data in the study of voting behavior : ecological inference, ecological fallacy and other applications / Luana Russo -- Election forecasting / Stephen Fisher -- Field experiments in political behavior / Donald Green and Erin A. York -- Making inferences about elections and public opinion using incidentally collected data / Jon Mellon