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  • Technical Universities

    Past, present and future

    Edited by Lars Geschwind, Anders Broström, Katarina Larsen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is challenged and reconstituted. More specifically, the book connects the development of technical universities to changes in the structure and ... Read more

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  • Undeclared Work, Deterrence and Social Norms

    The Case of Germany

    by Lars P. Feld, Claus Larsen ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    For a long time, it has been the declared aim in many countries to fight tax evasion in all its different manifestations, from undeclared work by cleaners and gardeners in private households to tax evasion in the international capital markets. This study focuses on the phenomenon of undeclared work and the case of Germany, presenting the most comprehensive analysis of tax non-compliance for ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Social Theory

    A Textbook

    by Carsten Bagge Laustsen, Tine Ravn, Lars Larsen, Mathias Nielsen, Mads Sørensen ...
    This textbook offers a new approach to understanding social theory. Framed around paired theoretical perspectives on a series of sociological problems, the book shows how distinctive viewpoints shed light on different facets of social phenomena. The book includes sociology’s "founding fathers", major 20th-century thinkers and recent voices such as Butler and Zizek. Philosophically grounded and ... Read more

    Was $79.99 CAD Now $71.44 CAD

  • Morality Politics in Western Europe

    Parties, Agendas and Policy Choices

    by Isabelle Engeli, Lars Thorup Larsen, Christoffer Green-Pedersen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Why do some countries have 'Culture Wars' over morality issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage while other countries hardly experience any conflict? This book argues that morality issues only generate major conflicts in political systems with a significant conflict between religious and secular parties. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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    Comparative Case Studies

    Edited by Sebastiano Benasso, Dejana Bouillet, Tiago Neves, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop their life courses amidst diverse living conditions and are confronted with a variety of institutional and structural arrangements that impact on their opportunities in education ... Read more

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  • The Consequences of Modernity

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... Read more

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  • Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation

    Living the Contradiction

    by Oili-Helena Ylijoki, Marja Vehviläinen, Hanna-Mari Ikonen, Päivi Korvajärvi, Charlotte Silander, Maria Pietiälä, Liza Reisel, Ida Drange, May-Linda Magnussen, Rebecca Lund, Trond Stalsberg Mydland, Malin Lindberg, Ulf Mellström, Paula Wennberg, Siri Øyslebø Sørensen, Guro Korsnes Kristensen, Gilda Seddighi, Hilde Corneliussen, Carol Azungi Dralega ...
    ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The Nordic countries are regarded as frontrunners in promoting equality, yet women’s experiences on the ground are in many ways at odds with this rhetoric.Putting the spotlight on the lived experiences of women working in tech-driven research and innovation areas in the Nordic countries, this volume explores why, despite numerous ... Read more

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  • Anthropology

    A Student's Guide to Theory and Method

    by Stanley Barrett ...
    Stanley R. Barrett's Anthropology has long been a premiere sourcebook for students, providing a comprehensive overview of both theory and method in the discipline. In this updated second edition, Barrett's discussion of the origins and evolution of anthropology remains, augmented by sections addressing recent changes and ongoing questions in the field.The second edition of Anthropology adds ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism

    Edited by Mike Dent, Jean-Louis Denis, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Ellen Kuhlmann ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism is a state-of-the-art reference work which maps out the current developments and debates around the sociology of the professions, and how they relate to management and organizations.Supported by an international contributor team specializing in the disciplines of organizational studies and sociology, the collection provides extensive ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Social Theory and Modern Sociology

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth century.Composed of closely integrated papers, all written over the past few years, the book includes seven essays not previously published, plus two have not appeared in English before.In assessing the ... Read more

    $46.50 CAD

  • Europe’s New Scientific Elite

    Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area

    by Barbara Hoenig ...
    Series series Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge
    Winner of the Harald Kaufmann Prize for Senior Researchers, 2018This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research Council (ERC), the author investigates profound structural change in the social organization of science, ... Read more

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  • Beyond Learning

    Democratic Education for a Human Future

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. Beyond Learning asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be human as a radically ... Read more

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