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Voices of South Asia: Essential Readings from Antiquity to the Present
by Patrick PeeblesAn ideal supplement for any course treating the history or culture of South Asia, this collection offers a cross-section of South Asia's ancient and modern classics of thought and expression. It includes a unique mix of poetry, novels, drama, and political and philosophical treatises, each accompanied by a detailed introductory essay on the specific historical context, the author, and the work.
Voices of Transgender Children in Early Childhood Education: Reflections on Resistance and Resiliency (Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood)
by Ashley L. Sullivan Laurie L. UrraroThis volume explores transgender children and internalized body normalization in early childhood education settings, steeped in critical methodologies including post-structuralism, queer theory, and feminist approaches. The book marries theory and praxis, submitting to current and future teachers a text that not only presents authentic narratives about trans children in early childhood education, but also analyzes the forces at work behind gender policing, gender segregation, and transphobic education policies. As the struggles and triumphs of trans individuals have reached a watershed moment in the social fabric of the United States, this text offers a snapshot into the lives of ten transgender people as they reflect on their earliest memories in the American educational system.
Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions
by Asaad AlsalehNarrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Beginning in 2011, these stories offer unique access to the message that inspired citizens to act, their experiences during revolt, and the lessons they learned from some of the most dramatic changes and appalling events to occur in the history of the Arab world. The riveting, revealing, and sometimes heartbreaking stories in this volume also include voices from Syria. Featuring participants from a variety of social and educational backgrounds and political commitments, these personal stories of action represent the Arab Spring's united and broad social movements, collective identities, and youthful character. For years, the volume's participants lived under regimes that brutally suppressed free expression and protest. Their testimony speaks to the multifaceted emotional, psychological, and cultural factors that motivated citizens to join together to struggle against their oppressors.
Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France
by David HopkinThis innovative study of the lives of ordinary people – peasants, fishermen, textile workers – in nineteenth-century France demonstrates how folklore collections can be used to shed new light on the socially marginalized. David Hopkin explores the ways in which people used traditional genres such as stories, songs and riddles to highlight problems in their daily lives and give vent to their desires without undermining the two key institutions of their social world – the family and the community. The book addresses recognized problems in social history such as the division of power within the peasant family, the maintenance of communal bonds in competitive environments, and marriage strategies in unequal societies, showing how social and cultural history can be reconnected through the study of individual voices recorded by folklorists. Above all, it reveals how oral culture provided mechanisms for the poor to assert some control over their own destinies.
Voicing Dissent: American Artists and the War on Iraq (Routledge Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture)
by Violaine Roussel Bleuwenn LechauxVoicing Dissent presents a unique and original series of interviews with American artists (including Guerrilla Girls on Tour, Tony Shalhoub, Shepard Fairey, Sean Astin, and many others) who have voiced their opposition to the war in Iraq. Following Pierre Bourdieu's example, these discussions are approached sociologically and provide a thorough analysis of the relationships between arts and politics as well as the limits and conditions of political speech and action. These painters and graphic artists, musicians, actors, playwrights, theatre directors and filmmakers reveal their perceptions of politics, war, security and terrorism issues, the Middle East, their experiences with activism, as well as their definition of the artist's role and their practice of citizenship. Addressing the crucial questions for contemporary democracies - such as artists' function in society, the crisis of political legitimacy and representation, the rise of new modes of contestation, and the limits to free public speech - this book will be of interest to scholars in sociology, politics, and the arts.
Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior #45)
by Margit Tavits Efrén PérezWhy your political beliefs are influenced by the language you speakVoicing Politics brings together the latest findings from psychology and political science to reveal how the linguistic peculiarities of different languages can have meaningful consequences for political attitudes and beliefs around the world. Efrén Pérez and Margit Tavits demonstrate that different languages can make mental content more or less accessible and thereby shift political opinions and preferences in predictable directions. They rigorously test this hypothesis using carefully crafted experiments and rich cross-national survey data, showing how language shapes mass opinion in domains such as gender equality, LGBTQ rights, environmental conservation, ethnic relations, and candidate evaluations.Voicing Politics traces how these patterns emerge in polities spanning the globe, shedding essential light on how simple linguistic quirks can affect our political views. This incisive book calls on scholars of political behavior to take linguistic nuances more seriously and charts new directions for researchers across diverse fields. It explains how a stronger grasp of linguistic effects on political cognition can help us better understand how people form political attitudes and why political outcomes vary across nations and regions.
Vol Soc Serv Snce 1918 Ils 195: The Diaries Of Escher, Bodmer, May And De Gallois 1814-18 (International Library of Sociology)
by Henry MessFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies
by Steve Kroll-Smith Valerie J. GunterVolatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies is a thoughtful guide to the spirited public controversies that inevitably occur when environments and human communities collide. The movie "An Inconvenient Truth" based on the environmental activism of Al Gore and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina are specifically highlighted. Authors Valerie Gunter and Steve Kroll-Smith begin with a simple observation and offer a provocative case study approach to the investigation of community and environmental controversies.
Vold's Theoretical Criminology
by Thomas J. Bernard Jeffrey B. Snipes Alexander L. GerouldThe standard text in the field, Vold's Theoretical Criminology is universally known by scholars in the discipline. Taking a largely historical approach, it discusses both classic and contemporary theories, presenting historical context, empirical research, and policy implications for each one. The book concludes with a critical assessment of the state of theory in criminology.
Vold's Theoretical Criminology
by Thomas J. Bernard Rick Trinkner Jeffrey B. SnipesThe standard text in the field, Vold's Theoretical Criminology is universally known by scholars in the discipline. Taking a largely historical approach, it discusses both classic and contemporary theories, presenting historical context and empirical research for each one. Vold's is a classic, trusted for decades as the definitive, comprehensive source of criminological theories. One of the marks of its success is that its usage spans introductory and upper-level courses, and even is used in graduate level courses. The writing style is crisp, clear, easy to understand but not watered down.
Volunt Work&Welf State Ils 197 (International Library of Sociology)
by Mary MorrisFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Voluntary Associations (Nomos Ser. #No. Xi)
by John W. ChapmanA vast and complicated array of subject matter is subjected to analysis, comment, and speculation by fifteen contributors representing three separate but contiguous disciplines. Their approaches are as various as one would expect. One is concerned with the bonds that hold associations together, and another with the tendency for the private to become public. One sees associations as interferences with democratic political processes, while another is more impressed by their positive values. Still another shows that the way in which they operate in the political process depends not only on the kind of association but also upon the political context within which they operate.Pennock and Chapman say that the theorist's job is to speculate and to interpret the facts as he sees them. It is also the theorist's job to suggest hypotheses for testing: to point to lines of inquiry that should be pursued. One cannot read the essays in this volume, without having his eyes opened--or opened wider--both to the paucity of information about the political features of voluntary associations and to the wide variety of aspects from which the subject needs to be approached.The kinds of questions that need to be examined can be grouped in categories. The first focuses on the individual: What kinds of memberships does he have? Even more, what is the effect upon him of membership in each kind of association? The second examines internal composition and workings of organizations. The third focuses on the state as a whole and the effect of organized groups upon it, the political processes of the associational structure of the society, and modes of behavior of these associations.Organized groups play an intermediate role in the polity. At the same time, the state, and those charged at any particular time with the performance of its functions, must look primarily to new associations within it to secure compliance with its law and for guidance in shaping those laws.
Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World
by John S. Kloppenborg Stephen G. WilsonBased upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical schools and pagan mystery cults, this collection addresses the question of what can legitimately be termed a 'voluntary association'.Employing modern sociological concepts, the essays show how the various associations were constituted, the extent of their membership, why people joined them and what they contributed to the social fabric of urban life. For many, those groups were the most significant feature of social life beyond family and work. All of them provided an outlet of religious as well as social commitments.Also included are studies of the way in which early Jewish and Christian groups adopted and adapted the models of private association available to them and how this affected their social status and role. Finally, the situation of women is discussed, as some of the voluntary associations offered them a more significant recognition than they received in society at large.
Voluntary Societies and Social Policy (International Library of Sociology #Vol. 196)
by Madeline RooffFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Voluntary and Public Sector Collaboration in Scandinavia: New Approaches to Co-Production (Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research)
by Bjarne IbsenIn thirteen chapters, the contributors to this volume analyse the different dimensions of a new form of collaboration, termed collective co-production, in the Scandinavian countries. It is a characteristic of the Scandinavian countries – Sweden, Norway and Denmark - that they have both a large public and voluntary sector. For decades, the dominant type of collaboration between the two sectors has consisted of the public sector providing financial support to organisations in the voluntary sector, while the activities are undertaken by the organisation itself. In recent times, however, a new discourse has emerged, with a strong political focus on developing closer collaboration between the two sectors. The book analyses collective co-production between the voluntary and public sectors, and identifies what distinguishes this form of collaboration from others. It looks at the scope of collective co-production, how and why it differs between welfare areas, as well as the political vision for co-production and the extent to which it lives up to those expectations. This discourse promotes a type of collaboration wherein organisations, associations and volunteers can participate in the implementation of tasks for which public institutions are responsible. The book is a valuable resource for professionals in voluntary organizations and public welfare units working with co-production and for researchers and students in the fields of civil society, voluntary sector and welfare policy.
Volunteer Management: A Strategic Approach (Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations)
by Jessica E. Sowa Jaclyn S. PiatakVolunteers play a critical role in serving communities and delivering public services. Volunteers serve across many areas — in schools, human service organizations, emergency services, and more. By providing services to those in need, volunteers expand the capacity of organizations and can devote extra time to the populations they serve. While research on volunteering has shifted from a focus on recruitment and motivation to management and retention, the focus is largely on universal, one-size-fits-all prescriptions. Volunteer management only recently moved to a contingency perspective focused on organizational needs. However, volunteer management should adapt to meet the needs of organizations and volunteers.Taking a strategic approach, this book provides an overview of volunteer management from planning and recruitment to engagement and evaluation, considering both organizational and volunteer needs and capacity. We develop a strategic volunteer management approach for volunteering to benefit not only the organizations and communities served, but also volunteers and society more broadly.This book advances research on volunteer management by combining the organizational and volunteer perspectives, provides a guide for volunteer administrators and coordinators, and serves well as a text for courses in volunteer management, nonprofit management, and human resource management.
Volunteering: The Ultimate Teen Guide
by Kathlyn GayWritten for teenagers, her resource text explores the world of volunteering in the U.S., including an overview of what volunteering is, the range of opportunities that are available, the benefits of participating, and how to get started. Also included is a list of selected resource organizations to contact; each entry includes the organization's name, address, website, and brief description of its focus. For teens and those who work with teens. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives (Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics)
by Larissa Semiramis Schedel Cori JakubiakThis edited volume extends current voluntourism theorizing by critically examining the intersections among various forms of work-leisure travel and language learning/teaching. The book’s contributors investigate volunteer tourism and its cognates such as working holidaymaking, international internships, and gap year labor, as discursive fields in which powerful ideas about language(s), their speakers, and pedagogical practices are propagated worldwide. The various authors’ chapters shed light on the hegemony of global English, the social consequences of linguistic commodification and neoliberal rationalities, the ways in which speaker identity positions can alter the exchange value of languages, and how language competencies are tied to power in the labor market, among related topics. This volume will be of interest to readers in Applied Linguistics, Critical Sociolinguistics, Educational and Linguistic Anthropology, Tourism and Leisure Studies, Migration and Mobility Studies, and Language Teaching and Learning.
Vom Mythos des starken Staates und der europäischen Integration der Türkei: Über eine Ökonomie an der Peripherie des euro-atlantischen Raumes (Globale Politische Ökonomie)
by Axel GehringAxel Gehring rekonstruiert das ökonomische und ideologische Verhältnis von Staat und Gesellschaft in der Türkei und analysiert, wie das Projekt der europäischen Integration im Kontext der Interessen türkischer Klassen- und klassenrelevanter Akteurinnen und Akteure zu verorten ist. Der Mythos, ein starker, über der Gesellschaft stehender Staat bilde das Haupthindernis der Demokratisierung der Türkei, entstand in den Kämpfen des 20. Jahrhunderts um die politische und ökonomische Macht. EU‐Reformen und ein „moderater politischer Islam“ in Gestalt der AKP sollten den „starken Staat“ demokratisieren. Der Autor zeigt, dass die 1980 durch einen Militärputsch etablierte sozioökonomische Ordnung weder durch das EU‐Projekt noch von der AKP entscheidend herausgefordert, sondern vielmehr neu kodiert und noch tiefer verankert wurde. Der Staatsmythos erleichterte der AKP, den Umbau der Staatsapparate selektiv zu betreiben und dabei lange Unterstützung aus der EU zu erfahren.
Vom Nischentrend zum Lebensstil: Der Einfluss Des Lebensgefühls Auf Das Konsumentenverhalten
by Katharina KlugCocooning, Neo-Nomadismus, Minimalismus, Slow Living, Precycling und Freecycling – das sind sechs unkonventionelle Lebensstile, die sich derzeit stark ausbreiten. Das Buch zeigt, wie diese Lebensstile das Verhalten von Verbrauchern beeinflussen und welche Relevanz dies für Unternehmen hat.Jedem Lebensstil widmet die Autorin ein eigenes Kapitel und zeigt darin die grundlegenden Verhaltensmotive der Konsumenten auf. Leser erfahren, welches spezifische Lebensgefühl dem jeweiligen Lebensstil zugrunde liegt und welche Entwicklungen sich daraus künftig ergeben können. Schließlich werden die Auswirkungen des Lebensstils für die Handlungsoptionen von Unternehmen dargelegt und darüber hinaus konkrete Marketingstrategien vorgeschlagen. Jedes Kapitel des Buchs schließt mit einem Resümee und fasst die zentralen Aspekte zusammen. Daher ist es als wissenschaftlich fundierte Orientierungs- und Argumentationshilfe geeignet, um sich etwa auf Gespräche mit Kunden, Auftraggebern oder Vorgesetzten vorzubereiten.Katharina Klug wendet sich mit ihrem Buch an Marketingfachkräfte in Unternehmen und Agenturen, die Konsumenten bereits aus einer lebensstilzentrierten Perspektive betrachten oder sich mit dem Thema unkonventioneller Lebensstile vertraut machen möchten. Studierenden bietet dieses Buch einen fundierten Überblick zur Kundensegmentierung aus der Lebensstilperspektive mit einem ersten einfachen Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Studien. Sie erhalten einen anwendungsbezogenen Einblick in den aktuellen Forschungsstand und lernen, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse in konkrete (Marketing-)Aktivitäten zu überführen. Nicht zuletzt kann das Buch Dozenten als Grundlage dienen, wenn sie das Thema aktuelle Consumer Movements und Lifestyles innerhalb einer Lehrveranstaltungsreihe einführen möchten.
Vom Trainer zum agilen Lernbegleiter: So funktioniert Lehren und Lernen in digitalen Zeiten
by Jacqueline Wolf Jürgen SammetReine Präsenztrainings werden immer mehr ergänzt oder gar abgelöst durch moderne Lernformen wie Blended Learning, Online-Trainings, E-Learning und informellem Lernen. Was bedeutet dies für Sie als Trainer (Dozent, Referent, Personalentwickler)?Dieses Fachbuch zeigt auf, wie sich das Berufsbild des Trainers durch die Digitalisierung ändert und welche Kompetenzen Sie als Trainer benötigen, um in der „Learning Revolution“ erfolgreich zu sein. Denn: Fachwissen gepaart mit Präsenzdidaktik reichen hier nicht mehr aus.Dieses Werk nimmt Sie an der Hand, um als Trainer selbst wieder Lerner zu werden und sich zum „agilen Lernbegleiter“ weiterzuentwickeln. Es gibt Ihnen eine Orientierung im digitalen „Trainerkompetenz-Dschungel“. Praxistauglich und klar verständlich erhalten Sie sowohl theoretisches Hintergrundwissen als auch praktische Umsetzungsmöglichkeiten für die Modernisierung Ihres Weiterbildungsangebots.
Vom Wohnen erzählen – Narrative Pragmatik und Beispielhermeneutik: Aufsätze zu einer wissenschaftstheoretischen Fundierung der Architektur- und Wohnwissenschaft (Interdisziplinäre Architektur-Wissenschaft: Praxis – Theorie – Methodologie – Forschung)
by Achim HahnDie Beiträge dieses Bandes vereinigen in sich die Aufgabe, ein überzeugendes und kritisches wissenschaftliches Konzept vorzulegen, das aussichtsreich und nachvollziehbar Bedingungen formuliert und Möglichkeiten aufzeigt, den „komplexen Sitz“ einer beherbergenden Architektur im Leben methodisch kontrolliert zu erkunden.
Vom Zeitmanagement zum Zeitbewusstsein: Wie Selbstbewusstsein Ihr Zeitmanagement revolutioniert (Fit for Future)
by Gerold ThalerDieses Buch richtet sich an junge Erwachsene und Berufseinsteiger, die Orientierung suchen, an ihrem Selbstbewusstsein zweifeln oder sich von der Geschwindigkeit des Lebens überfordert fühlen. Es zeigt, wie Sie Selbstvertrauen systematisch aufbauen und dadurch ein zeitbewusstes Leben führen können – ohne darauf zu warten, dass ein Schicksalsschlag oder eine Krise Sie dazu zwingt. Selbstbewusstsein ist die Grundlage für selbstbestimmte Entscheidungen und die Fähigkeit, mit Stress und der Schnelllebigkeit der modernen Arbeitswelt umzugehen. Dieses Buch beleuchtet, warum Zeit unsere wertvollste Ressource ist und wie wir lernen können, Herausforderungen des Alltags besser zu meistern. Es gibt praktische Einblicke in Themen wie Resilienz und den Umgang mit Zukunftsängsten. Die zentrale Botschaft verdeutlicht: Selbstbewusstsein ist die Basis unserer persönlichen Produktivität und lässt sich steigern! Mit persönlichen Geschichten und wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen inspiriert dieses Buch zu einem Leben, in dem Sie nicht nur Zeit managen, sondern bewusst gestalten. Denn: Es lässt sich leichter leben, wenn Sie zeitbewusst leben. Starten Sie jetzt Ihre Reise zu einem zeitbewussten Leben!
Von Bauingenieurinnen und Sozialarbeitern: Studien(fach)wahlen im Kontext von sozialem Milieu und Geschlecht
by Lena LogeDieses Open-Access-Buch geht theoretisch und empirisch der Frage nach, wie Studien(fach)wahlen im Kontext von sozialem Milieu und sozialem Geschlecht entstehen und nutzt dazu das Habituskonzept nach Pierre Bourdieu und die daran anschließende Methode der Habitushermeneutik. Der Weg an eine Hochschule und in ein spezifisches Studienfach wird nach wie vor grundlegend durch die soziale Herkunft wie auch das soziale Geschlecht beeinflusst. Allerdings wird das Zusammenspiel dieser beiden Dimensionen in Studien der Bildungs- und Geschlechterforschung häufig nur ungenügend berücksichtigt. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Entscheidung, ob und warum überhaupt ein Studium aufgenommen wird, primär durch das soziale Milieu bestimmt ist – ‚Frauen‘ und ‚Männer‘ eines sozialen Milieus verbindet hier mehr als sie trennt. Innerhalb dieses milieuspezifischen Rahmens prägt das soziale Geschlecht den weiteren Möglichkeitsraum der Studienfachwahl.