Modern social sciences have, over the past forty years, been committed to the improvement of public policy. More recently, however, doubts have arisen about the possibility and desirability of a policy-oriented social science. In this book, leading specialists in the field analyze both the development and failings of policy-oriented social science. In contrast to other writings on the subject, this volume presents a distinctively historical and comparative approach. By looking at earlier periods, the contributors demonstrate how policy orientation has been central to the emergence and...
Modern social sciences have, over the past forty years, been committed to the improvement of public policy. More recently, however, doubts have arisen...
We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed. This book proposes such an analysis.
Every society seeks answers to certain basic questions: how to order life in common; how to satisfy human needs; how to establish knowledge. Sociology long assumed that the answers had been found once and for all: a liberal-democratic state, a market economy, and free scientific...
We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalizati...
We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed. This book proposes such an analysis.
Every society seeks answers to certain basic questions: how to order life in common; how to satisfy human needs; how to establish knowledge. Sociology long assumed that the answers had been found once and for all: a liberal-democratic state, a market economy, and free scientific...
We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalizati...
Die literarische Zeitreise eines Grenzgangers. Leidenschaftliche Augenblicke als Entschadigung fur ein Leben voller Bruche, die Suche nach Nahe und Vertrauen in der Wuste der Grossstadt. Eine zweite Chance in einem anderen Leben. Eine Geschichte fur Singles und alle die am Leben interessiert sind
Die literarische Zeitreise eines Grenzgangers. Leidenschaftliche Augenblicke als Entschadigung fur ein Leben voller Bruche, die Suche nach Nahe und Ve...
With contributions of scholars from Europe and North America, this book covers the representation of women in word and image in the context of changing frames of mentalities in two distinct periods - the Enlightenment and postmodernism. Subjects and artists/authors covered include prostitution, English and French art (Hogarth, Reynolds, Beardsley, Greuze), postmodern feminist theatre, recent fiction by Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood and Spanish literature. Special chapters deal with the construction of women in recent popular animated cartoons and computer games.
With contributions of scholars from Europe and North America, this book covers the representation of women in word and image in the context of changin...
