Focuses on the ways in which working-class youth graduating from vocational colleges in the province of Ulianovsk negotiates and experiences transition from school to work. Discusses changes in the vocational education system and the reproduction of social identities and inequal…
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown--made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners--were rational respo…
Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many oppertunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity. This volume compares and conceptualises the sociological significance of Indigen…
From this collection of essays by anthropologists and sociologists emerges a picture of Japan far more diverse and complex than the standard image of a harmonious, orderly or unitary society.
Africa works: disorder as political instrument
by Daloz, Jean-Pascal, Chabal, Patrick
fromAfrican issues
Collects the writings of a diverse group of people who survived imprisonment in the Gulag, recounting their experiences and relationships, and offering insight into the psychological aspects of life in the camps.
"Based on extensive ethnographic research and interviews, this longitudinal work explores the experience of Burakumin youth from two different communities and with different social movement organizations."
"Known in early modern Europe by many names--the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis--the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow and painful death. The main institution which treated it, the pox hospital, has com…
"This book explores local notions of public wealth in indigenous Amazonia, placing particular importance in how indigenous views of wealth are linked to the creation of strong, productive, and moral individuals and collectivities, providing thought-provoking new approaches to un…
The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and upheaval…
"Becoming a Nazi Town reveals the ways in which ordinary Germans changed their cultural lives and their politics from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. Casting the origins of Nazism in a new light, David Imhoof charts the process by which Weimar and Nazi culture flowed into each o…