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Series
Documentos de docencia volume núm. 5
Publication Date
1991.
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1 online resource
Description
Esta obra presenta los contenidos del curso de sociología para alumnos de las maestrías en demografía y desarrollo urbano.
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Series
Sammlung Göschen volume Band 1101
Publication Date
1970
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1 online resource
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Publication Date
2021.
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1 online resource.
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This reference book provides the reader with an exhaustive array of epistemological, theoretical, and empirical explorations related to the field of cosmopolitanism studies. It considers the cosmopolitan perspective rather as a relevant approach to the understanding of some major issues related to globalization than as a subfield of global studies. In this unique contribution to conceptualizing, establishing, experiencing, and challenging cosmopolitanism,...
Publication Date
[2020]
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1 online resource
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"Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its current and future articulations. The dictionary serves a broad readership of practitioners, students, and researchers by providing informed access to the extensive humanitarian vocabulary"--
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Publication Date
[2015]
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1 online resource
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Die Historische Soziologie ist eine klassische Forschungsperspektive der Sozialwissenschaften. Nicht zuletzt aufgrund des wachsenden Einflusses der US-amerikanischen Soziologie tritt sie auch hierzulande wieder stärker in den Vordergrund. Welche Aufgaben hat sie? Welche Konturen weist sie auf? Was unterscheidet sie von den historischen Disziplinen? Und was heißt eigentlich "Soziologie der Geschichte"?Diese programmatische Einführung in das Thema...
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Publication Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 229 pages)
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This title proposes a theoretical grounding for the study of cities and the people who live and work in them, using a threefold, interdisciplinary approach to urban identities linking agency, space, and structure.
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ROOTS volume 2
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (214 p.)
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This book is a presentation of the basic concept of social, environmental and cultural connectivity in past societies, as embodied in a diversity of disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. Thus, rather pragmatically driven ideas of socio-environmental connectivities are described, which form the basis of the Cluster of Excellence in its research. A discussion of the fluidness of the term 'connectivity' and the applicability of the concept...
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2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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For most of the twentieth century, Auguste Comte, a controversial but highly influential nineteenth-century figure, and his vast treatises on positive philosophy, politics and religion were disregarded and largely ignored. More recently, however, Comte's life and writings have been reexamined together with the project of social reform to which his intellectual labors were devoted, producing a much more complicated picture of his thought and its significance....
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2020.
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1 online resource
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Not your typical sociology primer, this straightforward yet challenging text begins with a discussion of foundational theories, central concepts and areas of study. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology and history to illustrate key points, the book offers a thorough examination of the field, covering such often neglected topics as the mass production of deviance (Stalin's lethal purges, for example) and the sociology of war. This multifaceted approach...
13) Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung: Die Umsetzung der Sustainable Development Goals auf kommunaler Ebene
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Series
Publication Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 electronic resource (53 p.))
Description
Dieses Open Access Buch thematisiert den Beitrag der Städte zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Die Autor*innen stellen die Agenda 2030 und die 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) vor, auf die sich die Mitgliedstaaten der Vereinten Nationen im Jahr 2015 einigten. Sie zeigen auf, wie die Ziele kommunal umgesetzt werden und welche Herausforderungen sich dabei ergeben. Ansätze nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung werden vorgestellt und nationale sowie...
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Publication Date
1992
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320 p. ; 23 cm.
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Defeated in the East and discredited in the West, Marxism has broken down as an ideology and as a guide to governance. But, for all its flaws, it remains an important tool for understanding and raising questions about key aspects of modern life. In Marxism and the City Ira Katznelson critically assesses the scholarship on cities that has developed within Marxism in the past quarter century to show how some of the most important weaknesses in Marxism...
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Publication Date
1999
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xi, 291 p. ; 24 cm.
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Examines the work of key figures and institutions in the classical tradition and the agenda they provide for contemporary sociology. It analyzes theories such as those of Karl Marx and Max Weber, and then covers debates on the family, religion, the city, social stratification and citizenship.
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Research in urban sociology volume 11
Publication Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xx, 333 pages) : illustrations
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This volume of Research in Urban Sociology is composed of a selection of the papers presented at the conference 'Everyday Life in the Segmented City' held in July 2010, Florence. The conference gathered a multiplicity of approaches and points of view dealing with issues of global urbanization. Urbanization is a phenomenon inscribed into the globalization process that has enormous consequences in the transformation of urban space and the everyday life...
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[2021]
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1 online resource
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"The fourth edition of the book-Introductory Rural Sociology-has been brought out by the addition of a new chapter on Gandhi's Theory of Social Change. In it, his prominent ideas have been discussed, increasing students? awareness of Gandhian mode of living and thinking. Other aspects of the text have been kept intact as their revision has been considered neither necessary nor desirable. They have proved themselves over the years to stand valid, relevant...
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Publication Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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"A textbook in Rural Sociology can follow many approaches. It may describe or analyse rural people and rural society in a particular country or culture; it may focus on one aspect of rural life and study analytically; it may deal with the rural situation in terms of specific social problems; or it may study rural society from some other point of view. This book is introductory and foundational in its approach. Its purpose is to introduce students...






