‘Vechten met het leven’ beschrijft de dagelijkse problematiek op het gebied van huisvesting, inkomen, gezondheid en sociale inbedding van de oudere langdurig verblijvende ongedocumenteerden in Nederland. Het rapport laat op soms onthutsende wijze zien hoe de ouderen, die vaak wel bij de overheid bekend zijn, een gemarginaliseerd bestaan leiden in de Nederlandse samenleving.

Dit sociaalwetenschappelijke onderzoek naar de leefsituatie van oudere ongedocumenteerden maakt deel uit van een twe...

Afgemeten aan de gestage aanwas van ex post evaluaties verslapt de aandacht voor doeltreffend beleid niet. Maar manifesteert die aandacht zich ook in toekomstgericht onderzoek naar de effecten van uiteenlopende beleidsvoornemens? Met deze metastudie wordt inzicht geboden in de omvang en de aard van dergelijk ex ante onderzoek op departementaal niveau dat tussen begin 2005 en eind 2011 openbaar is gemaakt.

Het onderzoek laat zien dat in de onderzoeksperiode honderden ex ante analyses zijn ve...

This resource is a much-needed support to the few textbooks in the field and offers an excellent introduction and overview to the established principles and new thinking in cultural heritage management . Leading experts in the field from Europe, North America and Australia, bring together recent and innovative works in the field. With geographically and thematically diverse case studies, they examine the theoretical framework for heritage resource management.

Setting significant new thinking ...

Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation -- an open and trusting alliance between interviewer and respondent, dedicated to specific and honest accounts of both internal and external events. Against the eclectic background of his work in national sample surveys, studies based o...

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.

This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam's sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen, Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese living abroad), Western businessmen, and Western budget-tourists. Dealing in Desire takes an in-depth and often personal look at both the sex workers and their clients to ...

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...