Sociology – Page 50 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Dictating the Rules of Engagement for Contemporary Women

Edited By: Vivek Kumar Dwivedi, Majed Alenezi

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This book challenges the standards, values, and parameters used to judge women in society. Drawing on literary texts, case studies, and insights from global scholars, it serves as an authentic representative of the women’s cause.

Radio at the Edges

Perspectives on Alternative, Community and Pirate Radio

Edited By: Matt Mollgaard

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This collection engages with alternatives to mainstream radio, addressing the impacts and challenges of community and pirate radio. It will appeal to scholars and students of radio studies, as well as those interested in alternative media systems.

Designing and Testing the Volunteer Motive Assessment Tool during Recruitment and Placement

By: Beverly Ochieng, Dan Kaseje

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This book provides a framework for recruiting and retaining long-term volunteers, especially in health programs. It details a screening process to improve cost-efficiency by considering the motivations of volunteers, offering a novel way of conceptualizing volunteering.

Forensics and Physics

By: Renata Holubova, Jiří Straus, Jana Slezáková

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This book offers a view of the science behind crime scene investigations, demonstrating the connection between forensic science and physics. It details the basic physics needed to understand crime scene findings and will appeal to students and any reader interested in forensics.

Behind the Rise of Global Supply Chains

By: Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead

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This is the first book to address the root causes of poor working conditions within global supply chains. From a unique survey of nearly 2,000 suppliers, it presents fresh evidence on how purchasing practices impact wages and identifies changes for more sustainable supply chains.

Reinventing Utopian Spaces

Edited By: Grzegorz Zinkiewicz

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This volume explores Utopia from diverse, contemporary perspectives. From literature to media and philosophy, its interdisciplinary character is a main asset. As leading authority Lyman Towers Sargent states, “Utopia has universal relevance, but the way it is applied… varies.”

The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Women’s Empowerment in Saudi Arabia

By: Khadija A. Nasseef

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This book explores non-governmental organisations empowering women in Saudi Arabia. Given the unique cultural context, this empowerment follows unconventional paths, revealing the tactics and negotiation processes used by these organizations and by women in their daily lives.

Race and Agency in Thomas Sowell

Revisiting the African American Liberal Integrationist Experience

By: Sami C. Nighaoui

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This book exposes the ideological dogmatism behind Thomas Sowell’s attacks on Black culture and calls to end preferential policies, revealing them as a direct threat to the ideal of an ethnically integrated society.

Dementia Caregiving East and West

Issues of Communication

Edited By: Boyd H. Davis, Margaret Maclagan

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This book pulls together practical and adaptable communicative approaches to dementia care from global researchers. With contributions from fields like gerontology, linguistics, and nursing, it highlights communication as the most helpful non-pharmacological means of assistance.

A Bourdieusian Analysis of 64 Students Pursuing a Second Chance in a Community College in Hong Kong

By: Yi-Lee Wong

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This book offers an application of Bourdieu’s framework to the under-examined experiences of community-college students seeking a second chance in Hong Kong. It explores how middle and working-class students see themselves and face academic challenges throughout their journey.

Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies

The Wisdom of Transkeit

Edited By: Jane Rachel Litman, Jakob Hero-Shaw

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This extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies explores cutting-edge ideas about gender through tradition, art, and personal stories. With richly diverse voices, each page reveals startling insights into the construction of gender from a Jewish perspective.

Transforming Magazines

Rethinking the Medium in the Digital Age

Edited By: Carla Rodrigues Cardoso, Tim Holmes

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This book is a vital contribution to Magazine Studies, showing the urgent need for industry and academia to find solutions for the challenges magazines face transitioning to digital. With global contributions, it offers fresh research for scholars and professionals alike.

Aspects of Social Justice in an Arab Israeli Teachers’ College

Principles, Practices and Politics

Edited By: Deborah Court, Randa Khair Abbas, Zaki Kamal

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These essays shed a social justice-focused light on teacher education. Based on real-life experiences, contributors share practical strategies for supporting Arabic-speaking students in a multicultural setting. A vital resource for educators working in diverse environments.

Africana-Melanated Womanism

In It Together

Edited By: Clenora Hudson (Weems)

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Through the Africana Womanist lens, this book tackles contemporary societal ills, including generational wealth for Blacks. It speaks truth to Africana women and their families, offering solutions for combatting racial dominance by prioritizing race, class, and gender.

Understanding Risks and Crises through the Media

Edited By: Bahar Kayıha

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We are surrounded by risks, but the media's presentation of them is just as important. From causing public worry to legitimizing foreign policy, this book explores how the media covers risk and the profound consequences of its coverage.

We are surrounded by risks, but the media’s presentation of them is just as important. From causing public worry to legitimizing foreign policy, this book explores how the media covers risk and the profound consequences of its coverage.

Journeys through the Ideological Unconscious

Marx, Althusser and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

By: Malcolm K. Read

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This book introduces the concept of the ideological unconscious, analyzing its expression in Spanish literature from feudalism to capitalism. It uncovers the historical intertwining of the ideological and the libidinal, upending assumptions in history and cultural theory.

A Literary, Philosophical and Religious Journey into Well-Being

Fulfilled Lives

Edited By: Nili Alon Amit

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This volume traces the concept of happiness through the history of thought, from early Greek philosophy to contemporary psychology. As the volume shows, happiness appears in many forms, all connected with the human sense of approaching oneness with the world or with the divine.

Trends and Advances in Sport and Leisure Management

Expanding the Frontiers

Edited By: Vassilios Ziakas

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This interdisciplinary volume explores the dynamics reshaping sport and leisure and the responses of key organisations. It brings together contributions that pinpoint advances for theory and practice, ultimately expanding the frontiers of sport and leisure management.

An Integrated Investigation of Family Violence

By: Joseph H. Michalski

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This book offers an integrated framework to analyze four types of family violence. Drawing from psychology and sociology, it reveals both the shared risk factors common to all and the unique mechanisms specific to particular relationships, based on state-of-the-art research.

The Conservative Party and the Creation of the Welfare State

By: Eric Caines

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This book challenges the myth that the UK's post-war Welfare State was solely a Labour Party creation. It examines the contributions of figures like Churchill and Beveridge to argue that, over the half-century, the greater share of credit belongs to the Conservative Party.

This book challenges the myth that the UK’s post-war Welfare State was solely a Labour Party creation. It examines the contributions of figures like Churchill and Beveridge to argue that, over the half-century, the greater share of credit belongs to the Conservative Party.