Studieboeken (143)
Een overzicht van studieboeken die relevant zijn binnen het onderwijs.
Sociology / 9th edition
A Global Perspective
2014 || Paperback || Joan Ferrante || Cengage Learning
Offers an introduction to sociology text that applies and relates key sociological concepts and theories to the forces of globalization-forces shaping virtually every aspect of daily life. This book discusses forces such as social robotics, social relationships in the digital age , mass surveillance and the industrial food system.
Cultural Anthropology: A Global Perspective / 8th edition
Pearson New International Edition
2013 || Paperback || Raymond Scupin || Pearson
Societal Organization and Globalization in Cultural Anthropology Cultural Anthropology: A Global Perspective provides students with an introduction to cultural anthropology through a traditional holistic and integrative approach. Organized by societal type, this book's primary emphasis is on applied anthropology, with a strong coverage of globalization. Additionally, it emphasizes three unifying themes: 1) the diversity of human societies and cultural patterns the world over, 2) the similarit...
Theory Construction and Model-Building Skills, Second Edition
A Practical Guide for Social Scientists
2020 || Paperback || James Jaccard e.a. || Guilford Publications
This accessible, hands-on text has now been revised and updated, with expanded coverage of topics including how theory may emerge from exploratory data analysis. The book prepares graduate students, new researchers, and even seasoned investigators to develop their own theories and build on existing ones.
Mass Starvation
The History and Future of Famine
2017 || Paperback || Alex de Waal || Wiley || ook als eBook
The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy.
In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvati...
Social Anthropology and Human Origins
2019 || Paperback || Alan Barnard || Cambridge University Press
The study of human origins is one of the most fascinating branches of anthropology, yet it has rarely been considered by social anthropologists. This powerful study aims to bridge this gap, addressing the fundamental questions surrounding human evolution from the perspective of social anthropology.
The Making of a Counter Culture
Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
1995 || Paperback || Theodore Roszak || University of California Press
Discusses such matters as the generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society, with constructive criticism.
Media, Communication, Culture / 2nd edition
A Global Approach
2000 || Paperback || James Lull || Polity Press
Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization. James Lull, one of the leading scholars in the discipline, draws from a wide range of social and cultural theory, including the work of John B. Thompson, Thomas Sowell, Nestor Garcia Canclini, Anthony Giddens and Samuel P.
Huntington, to formulate a well balanced and highly original account of key contemporary developments worldwide. The fi...
The Age of Migration
International Population Movements in the Modern World
2020 || Paperback || Hein de Haas || Guilford Publications
Migration is a central dynamic in globalization that is recasting contemporary states and societies in distinctive, powerful ways. Now with more balanced coverage of Western and non-Western regions, this leading text has been revised and updated with the latest theories, policy information, and interdisciplinary research. The book explores the causes, dynamics, and consequences of international population movements, as well as the experiences of migrants themselves. Chapters examine migration...
Food and Place
A Critical Exploration
2020 || Paperback || Pascale Joassart-Marcelli e.a. || Rowman & Littlefield
This text provides a comprehensive and critical exploration of food from the unique perspective of place. It shows that our experiences with food are deeply influenced by their cultural, social, economic, and political contexts. The authors explore a wide range of questions such as: Do GMOs threaten rural livelihoods? Why don't we eat dogs? Does your neighborhood make you fat? Do community gardens encourage urban gentrification? Can cheese save a local economy? Why are gourmet burgers appeari...
Moroccan Households in the World Economy / 1st edition
Labor and Inequality in a Berber Village
2008 || Paperback || David Crawford || Louisiana State Univ Press
In the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, far from the hustle and noise of urban centers, lies a village made of mud and rock, barely discernible from the surrounding landscape. Yet a closer look reveals a carefully planned community of homes nestled above the trees, where rock slides are least frequent, and steep terraces of barley fields situated just above spring flood level. The Berber-speaking Muslims who live and farm on these precipitous mountainsides work together at the arduous task of...