Mario Diani 
Cement of Civil Society [EPUB ebook] 
Studying Networks in Localities

Published in 1998. Interest in the subject of ‘critical thinking’ has mounted, seeking ways to transcend rote learning and to remedy a widely perceived lack of critical, analytical abilities amongst …

This book resituates the political correctness debates in the humanities branch of the academy. It contends that conservatives have tainted entire academic disciplines to cause university humanists t …

This book captures a range of important developments that have occurred in Information Systems over the last forty years, with a particular focus on India and the developing world. Over this time, In …

This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television cover …

Does violence on TV lead to violent behaviour? How does screen time impact child development? What is the effect of advertising on a child’s behaviour? Twenty years after the publication of the first …

This book broadens the scope of thinking about ethics in global social relations, criticizing the ”leading traditions” in international ethics, and exploring the ways in which some strands of femin …

This book examines how the economic performance of immigrants is shaped by national and urban social institutions. In the United States, particularly in the high-immigration cities, most immigrant-or …

African Political Activism in Postcolonial France engages with several areas of scholarly inquiry, ranging from the study of immigrants to the investigation of surveillance and the legacy of colonial …

Originally published in 1974, Deviance and Social Control represents a collection of original papers first heard at the annual meeting of the British Sociological Association in 1971. They reveal how …