Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Sociology - General

Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood. With close attention to the dominant practices through which children encounter animals and mainstream representations of animals in children's culture - whether in terms of the selective exposure of children to animals as pets or as food in the home or in school, or the representation of animals in mass media and social media - Our Children and Other Animals reveals the...

Educational research on migration and minorities has a long record of research and discussion in which the so-called conflict of cultures has been seen as the crucial reason for the marginalization of migrants and minority members since they grow up with a fundamental cleavage between cultures.

In educational theory, this thesis is now under review because it has been shown to support essentializing processes of ethnization and culturalization. The in-between-ness of minorities is no longer seen only as a hindrance but also as a benefit for biographical development. In this...

What is education? This volume thinks through this question from a range of perspectives unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of a new engagement with the question of education, it will give you new insights into education: what it is, what it is not, and what is to be done about it.

At a time when education is so important as to be considered an essential human right, yet is under attack from funding cuts, this book will open the thinking on education onto new and important territory.

Every year millions of people are displaced from their homes, livelihoods and communities due to land-based development projects. There is no limit to what can be called a 'development project'. They can range from small-scale infrastructure or mining projects to mega hydropower plants; can be public or private, well-planned or rushed into. Knowledge of development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) remains limited even after decades of experience and research. Many questions are yet unanswered: What is "success" in resettlement? Is development without displacement possible or...

" This book] frames the Chilean case nicely in the context of theories of democratization, democracy, and the case for political participation in democracy. It will clarify our thinking about the many different modalities of participation....This is a huge advance and contribution to the debate. And, of course, the book makes a very significant, unique empirical contribution to understanding the state of political participation by civil society in Chile." - Eduardo Silva, Tulane University

"This is an excellent book, both in terms of its theoretical discussion and of the analysis of...

This book is a detailed comparative analysis of development politics in four urban regions of Latin America, two in Mexico and two in Colombia. John Walton has based his studies on the assumption that the problems of economic growth are essentially political, that is, are problems of choice, decision-making, and the exercise of power. His fundamental purpose has been to discover how elites of different kinds are more and less successful in the promotion of economic development, which he defines as a process in the organization of a society leading not only to higher levels of efficient...

In Israel, anthropologists have customarily worked in their "home"-in the company of the society that they are studying. "In the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology in Israel "by Orit Abuhav details the gradual development of the field, which arrived in Israel in the early twentieth century but did not have an official place in Israeli universities until the 1960s.Through archival research, observations and interviews conducted with active Israeli anthropologists, Abuhav creates a thorough picture of the discipline from its roots in the Mandate period to its current place in...

Provides graduate students in the social sciences with the basic skills they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish basic regression models using contemporary standards.

Key features of the book include:

interweaving the teaching of statistical concepts with examples developed for the course from publicly-available social science data or drawn from the literature.

thorough integration of teaching statistical theory with teaching data processing and analysis.

teaching of Stata and use of chapter exercises in which students practice programming and interpretation on...