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UNISA996218672303316 |
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The turn to biographical methods in social science : comparative issues and examples / / edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat, and Tom Wengraf |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
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1-134-58537-3 |
1-280-40377-2 |
0-203-46604-7 |
1-134-58538-1 |
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1 online resource (365 p.) |
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ChamberlaynePrue |
BornatJoanna |
WengrafTom |
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Social sciences - Biographical methods |
Social sciences - Research |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Introduction: the biographical turn; Issues of methodology and theory; Reflections on the biographical turn in social science; Biographical analysis: a 'German' school?; Case histories of families and social processes: enriching sociology; The vanishing point of resemblance: comparative welfare as philosophical anthropology; Biographical work and biographical structuring in present-day societies; Clinical hermeneutics: from the ontology of self to a case example |
Uncovering the general from within the particular: from contingencies to typologies in the understanding of casesExamples of biographical methods in use; Biography, anxiety and the experience of locality; Texts in a changing context: reconstructing lives in East Germany; Situated selves, the coming-out genre and equivalent citizenship in narratives of HIV; Extreme right attitudes in the biographies of West |
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German youth; The metamorphosis of habitus among East Germans; R |
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Biographical research methods have become a useful and popular tool for contemporary social scientists. This book combines an exploration of the historical and philosophical origins of this important field of qualitative research. |
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UNINA9910778104903321 |
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Katz Steven T. <1944-> |
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Titolo |
The shtetl [[electronic resource] ] : new evaluations / / edited by Steven T. Katz |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2007 |
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0-8147-4862-7 |
0-8147-9011-9 |
1-4356-0730-9 |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series |
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Jews - Europe, Eastern - Social conditions |
Jews - Europe, Central - Social conditions |
Shtetls |
Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations |
Europe, Central Ethnic relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction / Samuel Kassow -- The importance of demography and patterns of settlement for an understanding of the Jewish experience in East-Central Europe / Gershon David Hundert -- A shtetl with a yeshiva : the case of Volozhin / Immanuel Etkes -- Rebbetzins, wonder-children, and the emergence of the dynastic principle in Hasidism / Nehemia Polen -- Two Jews, three opinions: politics in the shtetl at the turn of the twentieth century / Henry Abramson -- The shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918 / Konrad Zieliński -- The shtetl in interwar Poland / Samuel Kassow -- Looking at the Yiddish landscape : representation in nineteenth-century Hasidic and Maskilic literature / Jeremy Dauber |
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-- Imagined geography : the shtetl, myth, and reality / Israel Bartal -- Gender and the disintegration of the shtetl in modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature / Naomi Seidman -- Rediscovering the shtetl as a new reality : David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis / Mikhail Krutikov -- Agnon's synthetic shtetl / Arnold J. Band -- The image of the shtetl in contemporary Polish fiction / Katarzyna Wiecławska -- Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust : a case study of two townships in Wolyn (Volhynia) / Yehuda Bauer -- The world of the shtetl / Elie Wiesel. |
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Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls-Jewish settlements-in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important respects from previous types of Jewish settlements in the Diaspora in that Jews had rarely formed a majority in the towns in which they lived. This was not true of the shtetl, where Jews sometimes comprised 80% or more of the population. While the shtetl began to decline during the course of the nine |
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UNINA9910143288003321 |
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A companion to urban economics / / edited by Richard J. Arnott, Daniel P. McMillen |
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Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2006 |
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©2006 |
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1-78268-501-4 |
1-280-85087-6 |
9786610850877 |
1-4051-6416-6 |
0-470-99622-6 |
1-4051-7835-3 |
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1 online resource (604 p.) |
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Blackwell Companions to Contemporary Economics ; ; 4 |
THEi Wiley ebooks |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A Companion to Urban Economics; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; PART I URBANIZATION; 1 The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies; 2 Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues; 3 The First Cities; 4 Cross-Country Patterns of Urban Development; PART II URBAN LAND USE; 5 The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States; 6 Monocentric Cities; 7 Space in General Equilibrium; 8 Testing for Monocentricity; PART III HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE; 9 The Economic Theory of Housing Tenure Choice |
10 Housing Policy:Low- Income Households in France11 Housing Demand: An International Perspective; 12 Discrimination in Mortgage Lending; 13 Commercial Real Estate; 14 Housing Price Indexes; PART IV URBAN TRANSPORTATION; 15 Urban Transport Economic Theory; 16 Urban Passenger Travel Demand; 17 Urban Transportation and Land Use; 18 Urban Transport Policies:The Dutch Struggle with Market Failures and Policy Failures; PART V URBAN PUBLIC ECONOMICS; 19 Financing Cities; 20 Strategic Interaction among Governments; 21 Property and Land Taxation |
22 A Theory of Municipal Corporate Governance with an Application to Land- Use RegulationPART VI URBAN LABOR MARKETS AND MACROECONOMICS; 23 Urban Labor Markets; 24 A Primer on Spatial Mismatch within Urban Labor Markets; 25 Urban Labor Economic Theory; 26 Macroeconomic Analysis Using Regional Data:An Application to Monetary Policy; 27 Measuring and Analyzing Urban Employment Fluctuations; PART VII QUALITY OF LIFE; 28 Measuring Quality of Life; 29 Air Pollution in Cities; 30 Urban Crime,Race, and the Criminal Justice System in the United States; 31 Ethnic Segregation and Ghettos; Index |
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A Companion to Urban Economics provides a state-of-the-art overview of this field, communicating its intellectual richness through a diverse portfolio of authors and topics. Unique in both its rigor and international treatment An ideal supplementary textbook in upper-level undergraduate urban economics courses, or in master's level and professional courses, providing students with the necessary foundation to tackle more advanced topics in urban economics Contains contributions from the world's leading urban economists |
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