Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Global Horseracing Industry
Social, Economic, Environmental and Ethical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Horseracing, thoroughbred breeding and gambling on racing are global industries worth several hundred billion dollars. They are also industries facing serious challenges, from the rise of alternative forms of leisure gambling to concerns about the ethical treatment of animals in all equestrian sports....
Understanding the Social Economy
A Canadian Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors’ ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission –...
New Directions in Diaspora Studies
Cultural and Literary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical paradigms, and geo-political contexts. The...
Interpreting Tyler Perry
Perspectives on Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Tyler Perry has become a significant figure in media due to his undeniable box office success led by his character Madea and popular TV sitcoms House of Payne and Meet the Browns. Perry built a multimedia empire based largely on his popularity among African American viewers and has become a prominent...
by Stephen J. McNamee
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The Meritocracy Myth challenges the widely held American belief in meritocracy—that people get out of the system what they put into it based on individual merit. The book examines talent, attitude, work ethic, and character as elements of merit and evaluates the effect of nonmerit factors such as...
The Digital Divide
Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Netwo rking
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.
Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the...
Media Studies
Texts, Production, Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Media Studies: Texts, Production, Context, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive introduction to the various approaches in the field. From outlining what media studies is to encouraging active engagement in research and analysis, this book advocates media study as a participatory process and provides a framework...
Speaking for Ourselves
Environmental Justice in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Environmental justice as a concept has evolved over the past two decades to offer new, challenging directions for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity...
Creative Industries in China
Art, Design and Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Creative industries in China provides a fresh account of China’s emerging commercial cultural sector. The author shows how developments in Chinese art, design and media industries are reflected in policy, in market activity, and grassroots participation.
Never has the attraction of being...
Connecting Taiwan
Participation – Integration – Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Taiwan has often been characterised as an isolated society in its search for sovereignty and security. Its contact with the world in an era of globalization and post-modernity, however, has increasingly led to Taiwanese actors successfully participating in many regional and global fields.
In...
The Internet of Women
Accelerating Culture Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Female scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians worldwide are making historic contributions to their fields. The modern workforce is closer to gender-equal than it has ever been, and many efforts are in place to support further progress. The Internet of Women provides an exciting look...
Asian American Society
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Asian Americans are a growing, minority population in the United States. After a 46 percent population growth between 2000 and 2010 according to the 2010 Census, there are 17.3 million Asian Americans today. Yet Asian Americans as a category are a diverse set of peoples from over 30 distinctive Asian-origin...
African Diaspora Identities
Negotiating Culture in Transnational Migration
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
African Diaspora Identities provides insights into the complex transnational processes involved in shaping the migratory identities of African immigrants. It seeks to understand the durability of these African transnational migrant identities and their impact on inter-minority group relationships....
Staging Philanthropy
Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Staging Philanthropy is a history of women's philanthropic associations during Germany's "long" nineteenth century. Challenged by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic occupation and war, dynastic groups in Germany made community welfare and its defense part of newly-gendered social obligations,...