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International Handbook of Violence Research
An international manual is like a world cruise: a once-in-a-lifetime experience. All the more reason to consider carefully whether it is necessary. This can hardly be the case if previous research in the selected field has already been the subject of an earlier review-or even several competing surveys. On the other hand, more thorough study is necessary if the intensity and scope of research are increasing without comprehensive assessments. That was the situation in Western societies when work began on this project in the summer of 1998. It was then, too, that the challenges emerged: any manual, espe cially an international one, is a very special type of text, which is anything but routine. ...
Wie der Film den Körper schuf
"Wie der Film den Körper schuf" – mit dem Titel des Bandes soll freilich nicht behauptet werden, dass es vor dem Film noch keinen Körper gab. Aber das allgemeine Verständnis des Körpers wird maßgeblich von jenen Diskursen geprägt, die von den Medien ausgehen. So hat das Kino – und in seiner Folge die generelle Entwicklung der audiovisuellen Medien bis hin zu Fernsehen und Video – unser Verhältnis zum Körper und zu den Geschlechtern stark beeinflusst oder sogar erst ›hergestellt‹. Die Beiträge des Buches widmen sich der Frage nach der geschlechtlichen Codierung des filmischen Sehens, sie untersuchen die Konstruktion von Geschlecht durch den Film sowie die geschlechtliche Co...
Kriminologie
Die 7. Auflage der „Kriminologie“, nun von Tobias Singelnstein mitverfasst, bietet eine grundlegend überarbeitete Fassung des seit 1994 bewährten Lehrbuches. Die Darstellung wurde komplett neu strukturiert, um neue Kapitel erweitert und durchgehend auf den aktuellen Stand der Forschung gebracht. Wie in den Vorauflagen stellt das Lehrbuch die zentralen kriminologischen Themen von Grund auf und mit Tiefgang dar. Es bietet eine sehr gut verständliche Einführung in das Fach, die zum eigenen Nachdenken anregt, sich aber ebenso hervorragend als Quelle für Wissenschaft und Praxis eignet.
Social Identifications
The authors of Social Identifications set out to make accessible to students of social psychology the social identity approach developed by Henri Tajfel, John Turner, and their colleagues in Bristol during the 1970s and 1980s. Michael Hogg and Dominic Abrams give a comprehensive and readable account of social identity theory as well as setting it in the context of other approaches and perspectives in the psychology of intergroup relations. They look at the way people derive their identity from the social groups to which they belong, and the consequences for their feelings, thoughts, and behaviour of psychologically belonging to a group. They go on to examine the relationship between the indi...
Sports Violence
Books about sports, even those written by scholars, are frequently little more than hagiography. They extol the virtue of athletics for participant and spectator alike. Of greater rarity are those that look critically at the political, social, economic, and psychological underpinnings of contemporary sports. Violence in sports is among the relatively neglected issues of serious study. Sports Violence is perhaps the first collection of scholarly theory and research to examine in detail aggression within and surrounding sports. As such, it seeks to present the broadest possible range of interpretations and perspectives. The book is, therefore, both interdisciplinary and international in scope....
Realities and Relationships
Recent attempts to challenge the primacy of reason--and its realization in foundationalist accounts of knowledge and cognitive formulations of human action--have focused on processes of discourse. Drawing from social and literary accounts of discourse, Kenneth Gergen considers these challenges to empiricism under the banner of "social construction." His aim is to outline the major elements of a social constructionist perspective, to illustrate its potential, and to initiate debate on the future of constructionist pursuits in the human sciences generally and psychology in particular.
