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Sociological Life Course Research
This introductory book provides an insight into sociological life course research and informs about its theoretical assumptions, analytical concepts and main results. Sociological life course research - like biographical research - has developed into an independent and fruitful field of research since the end of the 1960s. It is true that half a century earlier, in their famous study of "The Polish Peasant in Europe and America" (1918-20), Thomas and Znaniecki had already used life records to examine the connection between social change, social structures, and the life histories of individuals. However, such a research perspective was supplanted by other methodological-conceptual approaches ...
Biography Between Structure and Agency
While bookstore shelves around the world have never ceased to display best-selling “life-and-letters” biographies in prominent positions, the genre became less popular among academic historians during the Cold War decades. Their main concern then was with political and socioeconomic structures, institutions, and organizations, or—more recently—with the daily lives of ordinary people and small communities. The contributors to this volume—all well known senior historians—offer self-critical reflections on problems they encountered when writing biographies themselves. Some of them also deal with topics specific to Central Europe, such as the challenges of writing about the lives of ...
Islands and Captivity in Popular Culture
The choices that individuals make in moments of crisis can transform them. By focusing on fictional characters trapped on fictional islands, the book examines how individuals react when forced to make hard choices within the liminal space of a "prison" island. At stake is the perception of choice: do characters believe that they have the power to choose, or do they think that they are at the mercy of fate? The results reveal certain patterns--psychological, historical, social, and political--that exist across a variety of popular/public cultures and time periods. This book focuses on how the interplay between liminality and the Locus of Control theory creates dynamic sites of negotiated meaning. This psychological concept has never before been used for literary analysis. Offered here as an alternative to the defects of Freudian psychology, the Locus of Control theory has been proven reliable in thousands of studies, and the results have been found, with few exceptions, to be consistent in both women and men. That consistency is explored through close readings of islands found in popular culture books, films, and television shows, with suggestions for future research.
Difference and Sameness in Schools
Presenting European Anthropology of Education through eleven studies of European schools, this volume explores the constructing and handling of difference and sameness in the central institutions of schools. Based on ethnographic studies of schools in Greece, England, Norway, Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Austria, Russia, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark, it illustrates how anthropological studies of schools provide a window to larger society. It thus offers insights into cultural lessons taught to children through policies, institutional structures and everyday interactions, as well as into schools’ entanglement in state projects, cultural processes, societal histories and conflicts, and hence into contemporary Europe.
Voters and Voting in Context
This volume examines and assesses the role of context in affecting electoral behaviour.
IBSS: Sociology: 1993 Vol 43
This bibliography lists the most important works published in sociology in 1993. Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, the IBSS provides researchers and librarians with the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. The IBSS is compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics, one of the world's leading social science institutions. Published annually, the IBSS is available in four subject areas: anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.
Lehrbuch der Bildungssoziologie
Das Buch ist eine umfassende Darstellung von Theorien, Methoden, zentralen Befunden der Bildungssoziologie und eine kritische Würdigung des Erkenntnisstandes in dieser Disziplin. Es bietet eine weit gefasste Abhandlung zentraler Themen, Fragestellungen und Forschungsergebnisse der gegenwärtigen Bildungssoziologie. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei Wechselwirkungen zwischen gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen, Bildungsverhalten, Bildungssystem und Arbeitsmarkt. Zugleich wird eine soziologische Einführung in Struktur, Funktion und Entwicklungen der Bildung und Bildungssysteme im historischen und internationalen Vergleich gegeben. Mit dem Lehrbuch sollen Studierende und Sozialwissenschaftler einen einführenden Überblick über Bildung, Bildungsprozesse, Bildungssysteme, Bildungsexpansion, Bildungspolitik und Folgen von Bildung für Individuen und Gesellschaft aus soziologischer Perspektive vermittelt bekommen.
Academic Days of Timişoara
Academic Days of Timişoara: Social Sciences Today is a book of the proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium “Social Sciences Today: Between Theory and Practice” held in Timişoara, Romania, on May 6–7, 2011, under the auspices of the Romanian Academy. It will appeal to teachers of social sciences, no matter the level of instruction. The papers it contains deal with economics (economic crisis, communications, and Total Quality Management), education (systems of formal education, process of education, and educational theory), philosophy (education of the future, orthodoxy and nationalism, philosophy of history, Islamic tourism, rites and beliefs, and aesthetics), psychology (family imaginary, self-esteem, stress, personality, behaviour, intelligence, violence, and communication), and sociology (education, communication, social rituals, and non-formal education).
Bibliographie Internationale de Science Politique
IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.
Die Geschichte einer Jugend
Der Lebenslauf in modernen Gesellschaften folgt den Linien des Berufs und der Familie und wechselt zwischen den Ebenen des Handelns und Reflektierens. In diesem Buch werden die beiden Linien und die beiden Ebenen des Lebenslaufs im Zusammenhang analysiert, Stichprobe sind 2000 ehemalige Gymnasiasten, die ihr berufliches und privates Leben zwischen dem 15. und 30. Lebensjahr erzählen und einen wertenden Rückblick im 30. Lebensjahr geben. Die breite Anlage und die große Stichprobe der Untersuchungen erlaubt es, aus den Lebensdaten einer Kohorte von Jugendlichen die Geschichte einer Jugend zu konstruieren. Das geschieht in drei Formen. Erstens wird der Einfluß früherer auf spätere Schritt...
