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Family, Ties and Care
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 672

Family, Ties and Care

Families international – the new milestone How may care be secured—particularly in ageing societies, how may families, relatives and friends support each other and live together beyond market reasons? How can social welfare be secured? How do different countries and different cultures solve the problems they may or may not, now or in days to come, share with other countries and cultures? Families, as is found in this publication by internationally renowned experts, are the base and well of society’s fortune in a humane paradigm. Furthermore, it is the very backbone of lifelong solidarity in inter-generational relations, and the very place where the readiness of taking on care and responsibility are experienced and learned. The publication’s underlying idea opens up two perspectives: on the one hand, differences and similarities in family life forms are chiselled out on the base of an international cooperation. Simultaneously, the international authors are called upon to express their ideas about their own country’s future more distinctly and clearly; thus, distinctions and similarities of the respective paths of development are rather easily perceived.

Current Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 704

Current Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Supporting Family Carers of Older People in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 108

Supporting Family Carers of Older People in Europe

The following publication offers an outline of a situation of family caregivers just before the significant changes brought about by the new legislation on social services will have occurred. That the timing is right since the publication proves that the situation of family caregivers must be substantially changed and improved. If there are any doubts regarding necessity of the new law on social services, this publication will belong to the ones that will help to overcome such presumptions.

Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Soviet World: Case Studies and Analysis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Soviet World: Case Studies and Analysis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-04-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Presents 16 case studies of ethnic conflict in the post-Soviet world. The book places ethnic conflict in the context of imperial collapse, democratization and state building.

Respecifying Lab Ethnography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Respecifying Lab Ethnography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary orientation of lab work and exploring the discipline in its social order, formal stringency and skilful performance - in situ and in vivo. Drawing upon extensive participant observation, this book articulates and draws upon two major strands of ethnomethodological inquiry: reflexive ethnography and video analysis. In bringing together these two approaches, which have hitherto existed in parallel, Respecifying Lab Ethnography introduces a practice-based video analysis. In doing so, the book recasts conventional distinctions to shed fresh light on methodological issues surrounding the descriptive investigation of social practices more broadly. An engaged and innovative study of the encountered worksite, this book will appeal not only to sociologists with interests in ethnomethodology and the sociology of work, but also to scholars of science and technology studies and those working in the fields of ethnography and social science methodology.

A History of The Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 411

A History of The Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-09-23
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  • Publisher: Springer

In this fully updated edition with a new foreword by Andre Liebich, David M. Crowe provides an overview of the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Roma, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages up until the present, drawing from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources.

Mapping the Perimeter of Death and Dying
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 175

Mapping the Perimeter of Death and Dying

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. Insomuch that death is both universal as well as subject to varied registers of meaning, death as a field of research occupies a necessarily inter-disciplinary position. This volume gathers multiple perspectives on death and dying composed by a selection of papers that were presented at the 9th Global Conference on Making Sense of: Dying and Death, held in Salzburg, Austria in November, 2012. Countering notions of death as mere negation, these chapters map out regions of sense-making along the perimeters of life. It approaches death and dying from an array of scholarly, theoretical, and practical disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, theology, political science, media studies, education, art studies, anthropology, sociology, and health care.

Intellectuals and the Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Intellectuals and the Nation

This book proposes a cultural theory of national identity, and also studies nineteenth-century and post-war German identity formation.

Jehovah's Witnesses in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 371

Jehovah's Witnesses in Europe

The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. How Jehovah’s Witnesses found their way in these countries has depended upon the way this missionary association was treated by the majority of the non-Witness population, the government and established churches. In this respect, the history of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe is also a history of the social constitution of these countries and their willingness to accept and integrate religious minorities. Jehovah’s Witnesses faced suppression and persecution not only in dictatorships, but also in some democratic states. In other countries, however, they developed in relative freedom. How the different situations in the various national societies affected the religious association and what challenges Jehovah’s Witnesses had to overcome – and still do in part even until our day – is the theme of this history volume.

More than a resource - the social significance of local seed systems and seed exchange in the Global South
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

More than a resource - the social significance of local seed systems and seed exchange in the Global South

Seeds are at the heart of a transformation process that affects more than two billion people worldwide. This study on smallholder farmers in Tanzania examines how local seed systems are anchored in the socio-cultural structures of smallholder life worlds. Using the example of seeds, the close interweaving of agricultural and social practice is traced and it is worked out how individual processes of modernisation brought in from outside have far-reaching consequences for smallholder coexistence. The study provides a concrete, detailed and differentiated account of everyday farming life and of how smallholder households deal with seeds. A particular focus is on seed exchange relationships and how these provide both social security and social cohesion in the study region. The study is based on extensive field research and intensive interviews with farmers, who also have their own say in the work.