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Investigating Radicalization Trends
This book provides a detailed insight into the complex dynamics of radicalization that are in play amongst contemporary society. The authors focus on understanding emerging trends and models that can be used to analyse and understand modern violent extremist and xenophobic discourse. The chapters cover multiple regions, providing a collective analysis of country-specific case studies for the formulation of best practices, recommendations and learning material. It is recommended that this book may serve as a compendium for practitioners, academics, teachers and students wishing to gain state-of-the art knowledge. Topics covered by the authors vary from hands-on practical information to tactic...
School Shootings
School shootings are a topic of research in a variety of different disciplines—from psychology, to sociology to criminology, pedagogy, and public health—each with their own set of theories. Many of these theories are logically interconnected, while some differ widely and seem incompatible with each other, leading to divergent results about potential means of prevention. In this innovative work, leading researchers on the topic of school shootings introduce their findings and theoretical concepts in one combined systematic volume. The contributions to this work highlight both the complementary findings from different fields, as well as cases where they diverge or contradict each other. Th...
Lone Wolves
As the attacks in Norway, Munich and most recently Christchurch have shown: a new threat is now shaking liberal Western societies. Radicalized right-wing extremists – so-called lone wolves – are engaging in individually planned terror attacks. Written by an expert on terrorism and populism, this book highlights the dynamics of this new breed of terrorism. By providing in-depth insights into the biographies of individual perpetrators, it illustrates the changing profile of the typical lone terrorist. This new kind of terrorist engages in violence without being a member of a party or organization, yet is radicalized by a global right-wing subculture that communicates in virtual networks. This startling and well-written book reveals the ideological roots of lone wolf terrorism and urges governments and civil society to take the threat seriously and implement suitable countermeasures.
Alone
A book for our times: a moving meditation on the tension between loneliness and freedom, individualism and love. At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure? And can we ever be happy on our own? Drawing on personal experience, as well as philosophy and sociology, Daniel Schreiber explores the tension between the desire for solitude and freedom, and the desire for companionship, intimacy, and love. Along the way he illuminates the role that friendships play in our lives—can they be a response to the loss of meaning in a world in crisis? A profoundly enlightening book on how we want to live, Alone spent almost a year on Germany’s bestseller list.
Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health
This engaging Research Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research on social factors and mental health, examining how important it is to consider the social context in which mental health issues arise, and are dealt with in the mental health care system. It illustrates how social factors affect the interactive process of psychiatric diagnosis and how society responds to people who are labelled as mentally ill.
Freundschaft und politische Macht
English summary: Friends and friendships are important structural parameters of human social life. Until recently, these two categories have been regarded as marginal, purely private phenomena and have thus been neglected in political science. Broadening this one-sided point of view, the author, Judith Gurr, systematically investigates friendship's role as a central political category. According to Aristotle's typology, political friendships are regarded as friendships of convenience based on the concept of philia. Serving as useful political and social capital by facilitating acquisition, accumulation and sustainment of power, they represent elemental instruments of power to political leade...
Varieties of friendship
Nahbeziehungen, die über familiäre und verwandtschaftliche Bindungen hinausgehen, haben sich zu einem vielbeachteten Thema interdisziplinärer Forschung entwickelt. Beziehungen wie Freundschaft, Patronage und soziale Netzwerke als Variationen sozialer Bindungen sind das Ergebnis unterschiedlicher historischer wie kultureller Kontexte und stellen deshalb einen wesentlichen, aber immer noch unterrepräsentierten Gegenstand interdisziplinären Forschens dar. Fragen nach sich ändernden Freundschaftssemantiken, historischen und interkulturellen bzw. politischen Praktiken von Freundschaft, Patronage und Loyalität standen im Mittelpunkt einer internationalen Tagung, die eine kritische Diskussio...
Foundations of Global Communication
This book provides a wide-ranging theoretical and empirical overview of the disparate achievements and shortcomings of global communication. This exceptionally ambitious and systematic project takes a critical perspective on the globalization of communication. Uniquely, it sets media globalization alongside a plethora of other globalized forms of communication, ranging from the individual to groups, civil society groupings, commercial enterprises and political formations. The result is a sophisticated and impressive overview of globalized communication across various facets, assessing the phenomena for the extent to which they live up to the much-hyped claims of globalization’s potential t...
Jugend im Diskurs - Beiträge aus Theorie und Praxis
Jugend im Diskurs - angesichts der unüberschaubaren Vielfalt von Monographien, Aufsätzen und anderweitiger Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Jugend erscheint dieser Titel gewagt und zugleich unkonkret. Ziel dieses Buches ist es nicht, den Diskurs über Jugend historisch, sozial, pädagogisch oder im Sinne der Jugendhilfe professionstheoretisch nachzuzeichnen. Ebenso wenig ist hier das Ziel verfolgt worden, ein systematisches Lehrbuch oder Überblickswerk zu erstellen. Vielmehr verstehen sich die hier unter dem globalen Titel "Jugend im Diskurs" versammelten Beitrage als mogliches Anregungs- und Diskussionsangebot, um reflexiv uber die vielschichtigen Aspekte und gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen in Bezug auf die Themen Jugend und Jugendhilfe nachzudenken.
Informalität
Die Autorin präsentiert ein Ordnungssystem, mit dem Informalität als Faktor politischer Entscheidungsprozesse beschrieben, eingeordnet und einer Analyse des empirischen Einzelfalls zugeführt werden kann. Gefragt wird nach den Strukturmerkmalen von Informalität und nach Mustern informellen Regierens und ihrer Kausalmechanismen sowie möglicher Leistungen bzw. funktionaler Beiträge von Informalität. Im Mittelpunkt des Analysemodells steht das Konzept der „Informalitätskultur“, mit dem die stabilen informellen Parameter (Akteure, Handlungsmuster und informelle Regelsysteme) einer Handlungsarena umfasst werden.
