Devorah Kalekin Fishman: 3 books
Practicing Social Science
Sociologists and their Craft
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dimension of developments in the discipline by compiling a set of interviews that exemplify the life and work of a sociologist today. Their ideas and conceptualizations...
Ideology, Policy, and Practice
Education for Immigrants and Minorities in Israel Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Systems of state education are a crucial means for realizing the state’s focal aspiration of guaranteeing solidarity and civil loyalty (Van Kemenade, 1985 pp. 854ff. ). The means at hand include the state’s structuring and organization of schooling, determination of what education is compulsory,...
Everyday Life in Asia
Social Perspectives on the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Everyday Life in Asia offers a range of detailed case studies which present social perspectives on sensory experiences in Asia. Thematically organized around the notions of the experience of space and place, tradition and the senses, cross-border sensory experiences, and habitus and the senses - its...