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Bruno Latour in the Semiotic Turn : An Inquiry into the Networks of Meaning
This open access book highlights the link between Bruno Latour's works and the semiotic perspective on social phenomena analysis. It identifies and relaunches a dialogue that was as heated as it was fruitful, but still little recognized within the social sciences. It asks why the theory of signification has so far been only sporadically acknowledged in literature derived from Latour's work. Sta…
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- 978-3-031-57178-7
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- VIII, 113
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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NEETs in European rural areas : Individual features, support systems and poli…
This open access book constitutes a transnational and multidisciplinary inquiry of the most pressing challenges faced by young people Not in Employment, nor in Education or Training (NEET) in rural areas across Europe. . Rural NEETs are one of the most invisible segments of the youth population, in spite of the fact that the percentage of NEETs is higher in the countryside, compared to those in…
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- 978-3-031-45679-4
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- XIII, 113
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Social Science Research in the Arab World and Beyond : A Guide for Students, …
This book presents and discusses the logic and method of social science research adapted mainly for instruction at Arab universities and for research in Arab countries, but with applicability beyond the region. It illustrates major concepts and methods pertaining to research with examples of previous studies carried out in the Arab world and with exercises using Arab Barometer and other dataset…
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- 978-3-031-13838-6
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- XXII, 160
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Robots in Care and Everyday Life : Future, Ethics, Social Acceptance
This open access book presents detailed findings about the ethical, legal, and social acceptance of robots in the German and European context. The key resource is the Bremen AI Delphi survey of scientists and politicians and a related population survey. The focus is on trust in robotic assistance, human willingness to use this assistance, and the expected personal well-being in human-robot inte…
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- 978-3-031-11447-2
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- IX, 130
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Parenting and Work in Poland : A Gender Studies Perspective
The open access book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers and fathers engage with parenthood and also function in the labour market. Parenting in contemporary Poland is not only affected by individual preferences and choices, but significantly by the institutional context, in particular the family policy system, as we…
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- 978-3-030-66303-2
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- XIII, 107
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe : Selected Cases
This open access book brings together a unique set of comparative data from Western and Central Europe on how contemporary families live, and discusses the similarities and differences in family lifestyles in this region. The empirical data comes from the authors‘ original research derived from adult representatives of families with children in the Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Slo…
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- 978-3-030-48299-2
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- X, 125
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Transgovernance : Advancing Sustainability Governance
‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion…
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- 978-3-642-28009-2
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- XX, 324
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Organisiertes Misstrauen und ausdifferenzierte Kontrolle : Zur Soziologie der…
Martin Weißmann legt in diesem Open-Access-Buch theoretische Synthesen zu zentralen Themen der interdisziplinären Polizeiforschung vor und leistet damit einen Beitrag zur Integration dieser ansonsten oft empiristischen Forschung in die stärker theorieorientierte Soziologie. Er schlägt vor, (Kriminal-)Polizeien als Fall misstrauischer Sozialsysteme zu analysieren. Wie beispielsweise auch Geh…
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- 978-3-658-39227-7
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- XI, 436
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- Organisationssoziologie (ORGANISAT)
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Irregularising Human Mobility : EU Migration Policies and the European Commis…
This is an open access book. What is the history and current state of play of EU law and policy covering irregularised human mobility? What has been the role and contributions of the 2019-2024 European Commission as regards EU migration policy? This book investigates how migration policies have been problematised at the EU institutional level, in particular by the European Commission. It critic…
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- 978-3-031-74021-3
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- XII, 91
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Regulating the Metaverse Economy : How to Prevent Money Laundering and the Fi…
This open access book examines regulating an environment that has no jurisdiction, is fully anonymous and infinitely vast? Welcome to the Metaverse, an online virtual reality that is expected to add billions to the global economy. The Metaverse offers a new type of virtual economy with practically endless business opportunities. The question is how to prevent these opportunities from being abus…
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- 978-3-031-46417-1
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- VIII, 112
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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