Kirsten Bruhns & Wolfgang Mack 
Aufwachsen und Lernen in der Sozialen Stadt [PDF ebook] 
Kinder und Jugendliche in schwierigen Lebensraumen

Maurice Peress leads an unusual American musical life. Born to a Baghdadian father and Polish mother, his first music was Arabic and Yiddish songs. He grew up in New York”s Washington Heights, becam …

This text provides an ethnography of a Chinese middle school based on fieldwork conducted in 1988 to 1989. It provides a way of looking at classroom and societal interactions in terms of the interpla …

This volume examines the legal dimension of the ILO”s action in the field of Child Labour. The authors investigate the implementation of the relevant legal instruments and assess the effectiveness o …

Many myths surround male bodies and associated bodywork, especially when such bodywork is labelled culturally or socially atypical or ”problematic”. Bodybuilding, for example, has been explained in …

This book offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the tropes employed in the categorization of international students living and studying in Australia. Establishing the position of migrant st …

Proposing a new, dynamic conception of citizenship, this book argues against understandings of citizenship as a collection of rights that can be either possessed or endowed, and demonstrates it is an …

Globalisation influences every aspect of post-modern social reality. However, little empirical research has considered how globalisation affects people’s perception of their national attachments. Thi …

Worlding brings ideas about ‘virtual’ places and societies together with perceptions about the ‘real’ world in an era of mounting global uncertainty. As mass media and the Internet consume ever-incre …

‘This is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical intervention. It provides ground zero-the starting place for the next generation of theorists wh …

An interdisciplinary introduction to the aging process which uses symbolic interactionism as the main theoretical perspective. Accessible, interdisciplinary coverage with chapters covering a variety …