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Structuring the “Structureless” and Leading the “Leaderless”: Power and Organization in the Student Movement at the University of California
This chapter examines the tensions and challenges experienced by participants in the student movement at the University of California as they...
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Climate and Reputation Risks in an Asian Century
The purpose of this chapter is to explore through the eyes of a nation, its corporation’s leaders, and its citizens, the risks and opportunities of...
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Arroyo Hondo Pueblo
In the Northern Rio Grande, Arroyo Hondo was a major settlement that ushered in a new configuration of large, aggregated villages during the...
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Critical Theory and the Digital Culture-Industry
The emergence of millions of amateurs and unpaid works on the web during the blooming of social media and the rise of sharing discourse over the past...
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Women and Civil Society Activism
While Chap. 3 focused on women’s deliberative engagement through the media, this chapter concentrates on the...
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Globalization, Diasporas, and Transnationalism: Jews in the Americas
This paper analyzes the structures and trends of the establishment, growth, and transformation of the Jewish presence in the Americas. After...
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A Theorization of Informal Public Social Life and Interaction in Urban Public Space
This chapter examines established and emerging theories, which describe contemporary informal public social life and interaction in urban public...
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Distributive effervescence: emotional energy and social cohesion in secularizing societies
Research suggests that societies are becoming more materially secure, less intensely religious and that social interactions are increasingly computer...
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Centennial Turns, Neo-Ottomanism and the New Tyranny of Distance
This final chapter of the book examines the role of travel to the Gallipoli battlefield as part of Turkey and Australia’s World War I Centennial...
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Plural media ethics? Reformist Islam in India and the limits of global media ethics
The transatlantic field of global media ethics is premised on a search for the conceptual foundations of plurality. This article is a critique of...
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The Future of American Jewish Denominations
Denominationalism is the skeletal framework of Judaism in America, and Lawrence Grossman provides a roadmap of the denominational streams—or, as they...
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Community Question: Classical Debates
The chapter provides an overview of the classical debates on community question. It discusses various approaches to community, comprehended as a...
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Water and Wastewater Service Market
The chapter analyzes the phenomenal ascendance of water and wastewater service market since the late 1990s. Water and wastewater service sectors were...
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Transnational Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia: An Introduction
Transnational Chinese diaspora is constantly in flux. The term refers to extraterritorial Chinese populations, including temporary, permanent, or...
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(Dis)Empowered Civic Voices in Social Media
Social media are central to democracy, whose strong mechanisms rely on recognizing the rights of individuals and citizens to take part in all...
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Redefining the Boundaries of Family and Personal Relationships
This chapter focuses on research developments which, in recent decades, have contributed to redefining what sociology considers to be family and...
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Globalization
The liberalization of the economy, the deregulation of the political and cultural life that globalization brought with it, had an impact on the...
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The Balkans and South Caucasus – Eurasia Minor
This chapter intends to sketch the emerging situation in the 15 Eurasia Minor countries in the two decades between approximately 1990 and 2010, and...
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The Role of Argumentation in the Building of Concepts of Territory and Citizenship
The study presented here focused on the process of forming citizens in Geography classes in a middle school in Brazil. In the context of previous...
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Children of the reform and opening-up: China’s new generation and new era of development
China’s new generation, born during the 1980s and 1990s, is a social cohort that has grown up in the era of reform and opening-up. They are...
