American Nightmares : Social Problems in an Anxious World / / Joel Best |
Autore | Best Joel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 306.0973 |
Soggetto topico | Anxiety - Social aspects - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
american dream
anxiety collective memory daily apprehension dismantling ideas about the future early retirement fantasies fears generations graduate from college healthcare insecure social times kids not learning net worth own a home schools failing social institutions social problems socially constructed problems sociology marginalization sociology |
ISBN | 0-520-96890-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part One: Contemporary Concerns -- 1. Popular Hazards; or, How We Insist Similar Social Problems Are Different -- 2. American Nightmares; or, Why Sociologists Hate the American Dream / Schweingruber, David -- Part Two: Constructing Future Problems -- 3. Evaluating Predictions; or, How to Compare the Maya Calendar, Social Security, and Climate Change -- 4. Future Talk; or, How Slippery Slopes Shape Concern -- Part Three: Looking Backward and Beyond Sociology -- 5. Memories as Problems; or, How to Reconsider Confederate Flags and Other Symbols of the Past / Nichols, Lawrence T. -- 6. Economicization; or, Why Economists Get More Respect Than Sociologists -- Afterword: The Future of American Nightmares -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796240803321 |
Best Joel
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Hamas and civil society in Gaza : engaging the Islamist social sector / / Sara Roy |
Autore | Roy Sara M |
Edizione | [With a New afterword by the author] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 p.) |
Disciplina | 324.25695308209531 |
Collana | Princeton studies in Muslim politics |
Soggetto topico |
Arab-Israeli conflict
Islamic fundamentalism - Gaza Strip |
Soggetto non controllato |
Christians
Fatah Gaza City Gaza Strip Gaza strip Gaza Hamas Intifada Islam Islamic Resistance Movement Islamic authenticity Islamic civil society Islamic movement Islamist mobilization Islamist movement Islamist social institutions Islamist social sector Islamists Israel Jews Middle East Muslim Brotherhood Muslim community Oslo peace process Oslo period Oslo process Palestine Palestinian people Palestinian uprising Palestinians Second Intifada civic engagement civic restoration civism community development cultural identity grassroots development humanitarian supplies individual organizations non-Israeli political force political leadership political mobilization politics public sphere religion second Intifada secular civil society social institutions social sector work social system terrorist organization |
ISBN | 1-4008-4894-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Language and Transliteration -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Structure, Arguments, and Conceptual Framework -- Chapter 2. A Brief History of Hamas and the Islamic Movement in Palestine -- Chapter 3. Islamist Conceptions of Civil Society -- Chapter 4. The Evolution of Islamist Social Institutions in the Gaza Strip -- Chapter 5. Islamist Social Institutions: Creating a Descriptive Context -- Chapter 6. Islamist Social Institutions: Key Analytical Findings -- Chapter 7. A Changing Islamist Order? From Civic Empowerment to Civic Regression-the Second Intifada and Beyond -- Postscript. The Devastation of Gaza-Some Additional Reflections on Where We Are Now -- Appendix. Islamist (and Non-Islamist) Social Institutions -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789452003321 |
Roy Sara M
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Inventing the needy [[electronic resource] ] : gender and the politics of welfare in Hungary / / Lynne Haney |
Autore | Haney Lynne A (Lynne Allison), <1967-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.5/09493 |
Soggetto topico |
Public welfare - Hungary - History
Women - Hungary - Social conditions |
Soggetto non controllato |
1948
1968 1985 anthropology archives case histories ethnographers ethnography europe gender identities gender issues historical ethnography hungary ideological impoverished peoples interviews liberal materialism modern history motherhood need nonfiction policies in practice political perspective political science political theory poverty social groups social institutions textbooks welfare policies welfare society welfare state theory welfare systems world history |
ISBN |
0-520-23101-5
9786612762581 0-520-93610-8 1-282-76258-3 1-59734-685-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Conceptualizing the Welfare State -- Part I. The Welfare Society, 1948-1968 -- Part II. The Maternalist Welfare State, 1968-1985 -- Part III. The Liberal Welfare State, 1985-1996 -- Conclusion: Welfare Lessons from East to West -- Methodological Appendix: Historical Excavation in an Era of Censorship -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Altri titoli varianti | Gender and the politics of welfare in Hungary |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783063103321 |
Haney Lynne A (Lynne Allison), <1967->
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Wayward women : sexuality and agency in a New Guinea society / / Holly Wardlow |
Autore | Wardlow Holly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.409956/1 |
Soggetto topico |
Women, Huli - Sexual behavior - Papua New Guinea - Tari District
Women, Huli - Papua New Guinea - Tari District - Social conditions Women, Huli - Papua New Guinea - Tari District - Economic conditions Bride price - Papua New Guinea - Tari District Courtship - Papua New Guinea - Tari District |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologists
bridewealth capitalist economy contemporary papua new guinea court cases ethnography female agency gender issues gender studies gendered violence huli women marriage modern world new guinea society nonfiction papua new guinea passenger women personal experiences prostitution rape sex workers sexuality social institutions socioeconomic factors transactional sex village law women and families women womens roles |
ISBN |
9786612771903
1-4237-5552-9 1-282-77190-6 0-520-93897-6 1-59875-943-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Tari is a jelas place": The Fieldwork Setting -- 2. "To finish my anger": Body and Agency among Huli Women -- 3. "I am not the daughter of a pig!": The Changing Dynamics of Bridewealth -- 4. "You, I don't even count you": Becoming a Pasinja Meri -- 5. "Eating her own vagina": Passenger Women and Sexuality -- 6. "When the pig and the bamboo knife are ready": The Huli Dawe Anda -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783668203321 |
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