Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Intoxication
The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
A scientific and cultural exploration of the pursuit of altered states of consciousness in both humans and animals
• Contains myriad studies and examples from the author's 20 years of research
• By the foremost authority on the social and psychological effects of drug use
History...
The End of Normal
Identity in a Biocultural Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept...
Contemporary Social Studies
An Essential Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The field of social studies is unique and complex. It is challenged by the differing perspectives related to the definition, goals, content, and purpose of social studies. Contemporary Social Studies: An Essential Reader discusses the contemporary issues surrounding social studies education today....
Social Welfare Policy
Regulation and Resistance Among People of Color
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Applying the social control paradigm to people of color, this text uses a racism-centered perspective of social welfare policy analysis to examine how such policies have regulated the lives of people of color and then employs a strengths-based approach to describe how they have refused to go along...
Freedom Rights
New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
In his seminal article "Freedom Then, Freedom Now," renowned civil rights historian Steven F. Lawson described his vision for the future study of the civil rights movement. Lawson called for a deeper examination of the social, economic, and political factors that influenced the movement's...
Introducing the New Sexuality Studies
3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Introducing the New Sexuality Studies is an innovative, reader-friendly anthology of original essays and interviews that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of sexualities, this anthology is designed to serve...
Remaking Black Power
How Black Women Transformed an Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought...
by Uroš ?voro
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Theoretically ambitious and innovative, this book is a new account of popular music that has been at the centre of national, political and cultural debates for over two decades. Beginning with...
Pathways of Desire
The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
With Pathways of Desire, Héctor Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attention to the full arc of these men’s migration...
Asian America
Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States more generally, both historically and today. In this timely new text, Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez critically...
African Cultural Values
Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Although numerous studies have been made of the Western educated political elite of colonial Nigeria in particular, and of Africa in general, very few have approached the study from a perspective that analyzes the impacts of indigenous institutions on the lives, values, and ideas of these individuals....
When Greeks think about Turks
The View from Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The contributors...
Youthscapes
The Popular, the National, the Global
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors....
Ethnicities and Global Multiculture
Pants for an Octopus
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Arguing that ethnicity and multiculturalism are essential for understanding globalization, Jan Nederveen Pieterse offers one of the first sustained treatments of the reach of these key forces beyond a limited national context. He shows that multiethnicity preceded the nation-state by millennia; but...