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 |
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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-9910821977303321 |
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Beyond the metropolis [[electronic resource] ] : second cities and modern life in interwar Japan / / Louise Young |
Autore | Young Louise <1960-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.760952 |
Collana | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University |
Soggetto topico | Urbanization - Japan - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
1930s
20th century asia asian history culture east asia economic changes history ideological structures individual cities interwar period japan japan social history japan japanese history kanazawa modernization national development niigata okayama political transformation political transformations prefectural capitals regional interest sapporo social problems social transformation sociology urban areas urban culture urban development urban history urbanism |
ISBN | 0-520-95538-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. URBANISM AND JAPANESE MODERN -- ONE. World War One and the City Idea -- TWO. The Ideology of the Metropolis -- THREE. Colonizing the Country -- FOUR. The Past in the Present -- FIVE. The Cult of the New -- Epilogue. URBANISM AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY JAPAN -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786228303321 |
Young Louise <1960->
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Communist parties revisited : sociocultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 / / edited by Rüdiger Bergien and Jens Gieseke |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, graphs |
Disciplina | 335.430947 |
Soggetto topico | Communism - Soviet Union - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
civic
communist parties eastern bloc countries engaging european history everyday life history ideology inner workings marx monolithic government opaque institutions political parties political process political science political politics postwar europe revolutionaries russia russian history social issues social problems socialism communism socialism society sociocultural approach soviet bloc transnational contexts unprecedented power |
ISBN | 1-78920-845-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Communist parties revisited: cultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 / Rüdiger Bergien and Jens Gieseke -- The paradox of party discipline in the Khrushchev-era Communist Party / Edward Cohn -- "It Is not possible to allow past mistakes to come again": recruitment policy in the CPCS in the 1970s and 1980s / Michel Christian -- Behind closed doors: the erosion of SED party life in the 1980s / Sabine Pannen -- The successive dissolution of the "uncivil society": tracking SED party members in opinion polls and secret police reports, 1969-1989 / Jens Gieseke -- On the way to party pluralism?: the PZPR and the reform of the socialist party system in 1988-1989 / Frédéric Zalewski -- Communist Party apparatuses as steering organizations: paths of development in East Central Europe / Christoph Boyer -- The Central Committee Department of Party Organs under Khrushchev / Alexander Titov -- True believers becoming funded experts?: personnel profile and political power in the SED Central Committee's Sectoral Apparatus, 1946-89 / Rüdiger Bergien -- Paternalism in local practice: the logic of repression, ideological hegemony and the everyday management of society in an SED local secretariat / Andrea Bahr -- The SED Bezirk secretaries as brokers of territorial interests in the GDR / Jay Rowell -- The idea of social unity and its influence on the mechanisms of a totalitarian regime in the years 1956-1980 / Krzysztof Dąbek -- Foreign policymaking and party-state relations in the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev era / Mark Kramer -- Erich Honecker, the "leading representative": a generational perspective / Martin Sabrow -- Inside the system: the CPSU Central Committee, Mikhail Gorbachev's Komanda, and the end of Communist rule in Russia / Jan C. Behrends -- The ironies of membership: the ruling Communist Party in comparative perspective / Padraic Kenney. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796605203321 |
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Communist parties revisited : sociocultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 / / edited by Rüdiger Bergien and Jens Gieseke |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, graphs |
Disciplina | 335.430947 |
Soggetto topico | Communism - Soviet Union - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
civic
communist parties eastern bloc countries engaging european history everyday life history ideology inner workings marx monolithic government opaque institutions political parties political process political science political politics postwar europe revolutionaries russia russian history social issues social problems socialism communism socialism society sociocultural approach soviet bloc transnational contexts unprecedented power |
ISBN | 1-78920-845-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Communist parties revisited: cultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 / Rüdiger Bergien and Jens Gieseke -- The paradox of party discipline in the Khrushchev-era Communist Party / Edward Cohn -- "It Is not possible to allow past mistakes to come again": recruitment policy in the CPCS in the 1970s and 1980s / Michel Christian -- Behind closed doors: the erosion of SED party life in the 1980s / Sabine Pannen -- The successive dissolution of the "uncivil society": tracking SED party members in opinion polls and secret police reports, 1969-1989 / Jens Gieseke -- On the way to party pluralism?: the PZPR and the reform of the socialist party system in 1988-1989 / Frédéric Zalewski -- Communist Party apparatuses as steering organizations: paths of development in East Central Europe / Christoph Boyer -- The Central Committee Department of Party Organs under Khrushchev / Alexander Titov -- True believers becoming funded experts?: personnel profile and political power in the SED Central Committee's Sectoral Apparatus, 1946-89 / Rüdiger Bergien -- Paternalism in local practice: the logic of repression, ideological hegemony and the everyday management of society in an SED local secretariat / Andrea Bahr -- The SED Bezirk secretaries as brokers of territorial interests in the GDR / Jay Rowell -- The idea of social unity and its influence on the mechanisms of a totalitarian regime in the years 1956-1980 / Krzysztof Dąbek -- Foreign policymaking and party-state relations in the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev era / Mark Kramer -- Erich Honecker, the "leading representative": a generational perspective / Martin Sabrow -- Inside the system: the CPSU Central Committee, Mikhail Gorbachev's Komanda, and the end of Communist rule in Russia / Jan C. Behrends -- The ironies of membership: the ruling Communist Party in comparative perspective / Padraic Kenney. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819818803321 |
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Contemplating historical consciousness : notes from the field / / edited by Anna Clark and Carla L. Peck |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 pages) |
Disciplina | 909 |
Collana | Making sense of history |
Soggetto topico |
Collective memory
Historiography - Social aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
career collective account diplomacy economic studies economics empirical research engaging ethnographic studies ethnography european history government and governing historical consciousness historical studies historiography history life lessons lively making sense of history series multidisciplinary research new ideas page turner politics promising voices social issues social problems technology thought-provoking valuable perspectives |
ISBN | 1-78533-930-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Schools, students, and community history in Northern Ireland / Alan W. McCully and Keith C. Barton -- "Orientation to the past": some reflections on historical consciousness research in England / Arthur Chapman -- History educational research into historical consciousness in Flanders / Karel van Nieuwenhuyse and Kaat Wils -- Historical consciousness: a learning and teaching perspective from the Netherlands / Carla van Boxtel -- Historical consciousness and representations of national territories: what the Trump and Berlin Walls have in common / Mario Carretero -- Mothers' darlings of the South Pacific / Angela Wanhalla -- Looking back at Canadians and their pasts / Peter Seixas -- Private lives, public history: navigating Australian historical consciousness / Anna Clark -- "Chinese and the pasts": exploring historical consciousness of ordinary Chinese initial findings from Chongqing / Na Li -- "They fought for our language": historical narratives and national identification among young French Canadians / Stephane Levesque and Jocelyn Letourneau -- Historical consciousness and cultural identity -- What is black historical consciousness? -- Lagarrett J. King -- 'There are current lessons from the Holocaust': making meaning from Jewish histories of the holocaust / Jordana Silverstein -- The "realness" of place in the spiral of time: reflections on indigenous historical consciousness from the Coast Salish Territory / Michael Marker -- Intergenerational family memory and historical consciousness / Anna Green -- Researching identity and historical consciousness -- Carla L. Peck. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793250903321 |
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Contemplating historical consciousness : notes from the field / / edited by Anna Clark and Carla L. Peck |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 pages) |
Disciplina | 909 |
Collana | Making sense of history |
Soggetto topico |
Collective memory
Historiography - Social aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
career collective account diplomacy economic studies economics empirical research engaging ethnographic studies ethnography european history government and governing historical consciousness historical studies historiography history life lessons lively making sense of history series multidisciplinary research new ideas page turner politics promising voices social issues social problems technology thought-provoking valuable perspectives |
ISBN | 1-78533-930-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Schools, students, and community history in Northern Ireland / Alan W. McCully and Keith C. Barton -- "Orientation to the past": some reflections on historical consciousness research in England / Arthur Chapman -- History educational research into historical consciousness in Flanders / Karel van Nieuwenhuyse and Kaat Wils -- Historical consciousness: a learning and teaching perspective from the Netherlands / Carla van Boxtel -- Historical consciousness and representations of national territories: what the Trump and Berlin Walls have in common / Mario Carretero -- Mothers' darlings of the South Pacific / Angela Wanhalla -- Looking back at Canadians and their pasts / Peter Seixas -- Private lives, public history: navigating Australian historical consciousness / Anna Clark -- "Chinese and the pasts": exploring historical consciousness of ordinary Chinese initial findings from Chongqing / Na Li -- "They fought for our language": historical narratives and national identification among young French Canadians / Stephane Levesque and Jocelyn Letourneau -- Historical consciousness and cultural identity -- What is black historical consciousness? -- Lagarrett J. King -- 'There are current lessons from the Holocaust': making meaning from Jewish histories of the holocaust / Jordana Silverstein -- The "realness" of place in the spiral of time: reflections on indigenous historical consciousness from the Coast Salish Territory / Michael Marker -- Intergenerational family memory and historical consciousness / Anna Green -- Researching identity and historical consciousness -- Carla L. Peck. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807930703321 |
New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2019 | ||
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Doing the best I can [[electronic resource] ] : fatherhood in the inner city / / Kathryn Edin andTimothy J. Nelson |
Autore | Edin Kathryn <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.82/940973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | NelsonTimothy Jon |
Soggetto topico |
Fatherhood - United States
Poor children - United States Single fathers - United States Unmarried fathers - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
blended families career character children class cultural changes deadbeat dads engaging familial process family fatherhood gender and sex gender studies human rights incarceration inner city men morals poverty prison race and culture race relationships romantic relationships social issues social problems social science social work socioeconomic studies sociology of urban areas sociology understanding men and boys unmarried fathers unwed fatherhood urban issues urban poor virtue |
ISBN | 0-520-95513-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- ONE. One Thing Leads to Another -- TWO. Thank You, Jesus -- THREE. The Stupid Shit -- FOUR. Ward Cleaver -- FIVE. Sesame Street Mornings -- SIX. Fight or Flight -- SEVEN. Try, Try Again -- EIGHT. The New Package Deal -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786228703321 |
Edin Kathryn <1962->
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Doing the best I can [[electronic resource] ] : fatherhood in the inner city / / Kathryn Edin andTimothy J. Nelson |
Autore | Edin Kathryn <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.82/940973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | NelsonTimothy Jon |
Soggetto topico |
Fatherhood - United States
Poor children - United States Single fathers - United States Unmarried fathers - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
blended families career character children class cultural changes deadbeat dads engaging familial process family fatherhood gender and sex gender studies human rights incarceration inner city men morals poverty prison race and culture race relationships romantic relationships social issues social problems social science social work socioeconomic studies sociology of urban areas sociology understanding men and boys unmarried fathers unwed fatherhood urban issues urban poor virtue |
ISBN | 0-520-95513-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- ONE. One Thing Leads to Another -- TWO. Thank You, Jesus -- THREE. The Stupid Shit -- FOUR. Ward Cleaver -- FIVE. Sesame Street Mornings -- SIX. Fight or Flight -- SEVEN. Try, Try Again -- EIGHT. The New Package Deal -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811189903321 |
Edin Kathryn <1962->
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The global age-friendly community movement : a critical appraisal / / edited by Philip B. Stafford |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 pages) |
Disciplina | 362.6/30973 |
Collana | Life course, culture and aging: global transformations |
Soggetto topico |
Older people - Services for - United States
Older people - Housing - United States Community development - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
age friendly
aging populations aging anthropology civic community movement community current affairs death engaging family generational gerontology government and governing health care health history international case studies medical model of aging politics public policy social conditions social issues social problems social science social services sociology welfare well being who |
ISBN | 1-78533-668-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : theorizing and practicing age-friendly development / Philip B. Stafford -- Creating age-friendly communities in urban environments : research issues and policy recommendations / Tine Buffel and Chris Phillipson -- Training advocates to undertake livable community initiatives : a pilot program / Sharon A. Baggett -- Public places, community, and the physical and mental health of children and elders / Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard -- The intersection between sustainable and age-friendly development / Alan DeLaTorre -- Accessibility, participation, networking : the impact of a local network on the environment and the life relationship of older people / Birgit Wolter -- Assessing the aging-friendliness of two New York City neighborhoods : a case study / Mia R. Oberlink and Barbara S. Davis -- Communities for all ages : reinforcing and re-imagining the social compact / Corita Brown and Nancy Henkin -- Ibasho Cafe : giving elders a role to play in making communities more resilient / Emi Kiyota -- Youth and older persons as agents for change : creating an inclusive and age-friendly society for all / Kristin Bodiford, Arthur Namara, and Luke Nchichupa -- Retrofitting small towns : how aging-in-place could transform rural America / Zachary Benedict -- Creating an age-friendly community in a depopulated town in Japan : a search for resilient ways to cherish new commons as local cultural resources -- Nanami suzuki -- Relational well-being and age-friendly cities / Marian Barnes. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793123803321 |
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