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Understanding Communication Research Methods / 3rd Edition
A Theoretical and Practical Approach
2021 || Paperback || Stephen M. Croucher e.a. || Taylor & Francis
COMPREHENSIVE: The book offers an unbiased introduction to all three methodological paradigms: positivist, interpretive, critical/cultural (quantitative, qualitative, critical). - INNOVATIVE: The book includes new sample student papers along with critiques of these papers to that students can model their own work on that of their peers.
FOCUSED ON THE STUDENT: Specific attention is given to presenting conceptual and theoretical information regarding methods, and to providing real-life exampl...
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.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology / 2nd editionn
2023 || Hardcover || Alan Barnard || Taylor & Francis Ltd
Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. The fully revised and expanded second edition reflects major changes in anthropology in the past decade.
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...