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Bulgaria: politics, economics, and society
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Bulgaria: politics, economics and society
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An examination and critical evaluation of the application of Marxist doctrine to Bulgaria, assessing its interpretations, its successes and failures, covering social and economic as well as political aspects.
This 1999 book presents a variety of exciting perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it. Using the framework of recent social and cultural theory, it reflects the fact that risk has become integral to contemporary understandings …
This work presents perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it. It reflects the fact that risk has become integral to contemporary understandings of selfhood, the body and social relations.
Long description:>>Thema: Theorie der Gesellschaft; Laufzeit: 30 Jahre; Kosten: keine<<- so lautet die berühmte Antwort, die Niklas Luhmann Ende der 1960er Jahre auf die Frage nach seinem Forschungsprojekt gab. Der Zeitplan wurde eingehalten: 1997 erschien Die Gesellschaft der G…
"In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sichuan, and lived there for two and a half months, until the newly arrived Communi…
"In this new work, political theorist Michael J. Thompson argues that modern societies are witnessing a decline in one of the core building blocks of modernity: the autonomous self. Far from being an illusion of the Enlightenment, Thompson contends that the individual is a defin…
"First primer in the emerging field of discard studies. It explores the way that social, economic, and political systems maintain themselves by discarding certain people, places, and things"--.
Manuel Castells has drawn together a group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity.
This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system -- such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem -- consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in …
"This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a c…
