Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The idea of corporations exercising corporate social responsibility has spread from the West and is now firmly embedded in Asian countries and in Asian corporations. The latest trend in corporate social responsibility, evident also in Asia, is for corporations to apply corporate social responsibility...
Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism
Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Rural life in Southeast Asia is being transformed by new and intensifying processes of migration and mobility. Migration out of rural areas creates new forms of class mobility, familial relations, production processes and income. Migration into rural areas creates a new and sometimes marginalized...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In migration studies, the nexus between migration and development in the global South has been meticulously debated. However, a unanimous resolution to this debate has not been found, due to the ever-changing nature of international migration. This book advances knowledge on the global debate on the...
China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution
Social changes and state responses
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as the world’s largest telephone market, and as of February 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users has become the largest in the world. At the same time, China...
China's Unruly Journalists
How Committed Professionals are Changing the People’s Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Despite operating in one of the most tightly controlled media environments in the world, Chinese journalists sometimes take extraordinary risks, braving the perils of job loss or imprisonment to report sensitive stories. As a result, a group of journalists stands at the forefront of some of China’s...
World Culture Re-Contextualised
Meaning Constellations and Path-Dependencies in Comparative and International Education Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Impressive strands of research have shown the emergent reality of increasing world-level interconnection in almost every field of social action. As a consequence, theories and models have been developed which are aimed at conceptualising this new reality along the lines of an ‘institutionalised’...
Cultural Strategy:Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands
Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Market innovation has long been dominated by the worldview of engineers and economists: build a better mousetrap and the world will take notice. But there's another important way to build new businesses: with innovative ideologies rather than innovative mousetraps. Consider Coca-Cola, Nike, Jack Daniel's,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006
Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of unprecedented social and economic change in one of...
Race in Society
The Enduring American Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Race in Society is a comprehensive, but brief, book that introduces readers to current research scholarship on race, emphasizing the socially constructed basis of race and the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. institutions. The book is anchored in contemporary social science scholarship and...
The Expediency of Culture
Uses of Culture in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2004
The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly globalized world. George Yúdice explores critically how groups ranging from indigenous activists to nation-states to nongovernmental organizations have all come to see culture as a valuable resource...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The Caribbean ranks among the earliest and most completely globalized regions in the world. From the first moment Europeans set foot on the islands to the present, products, people, and ideas have made their way back and forth between the region and other parts of the globe with unequal but inexorable...
Ethnic Dress in the United States
A Cultural Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.
The clothing...
The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators
American Society at the End of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
For decades Americans have turned to the Commerce Department's Index of Leading Economic Indicators to spot trends in the economy. The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators brings a similar kind of empirical analysis to the moral, social, and behavioral condition of American society from 1960 to the...