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  • Changing Patterns of European Family Life

    A Comparative Analysis of 14 Countries

    Edited by Katja Boh, Maren Bak, Cristine Clason, Maja Pankratova, Jens Qvortrup, Giovanni B. Sgritta, Kari Waerness ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Family
    Originally published in 1989, this cross-national study investigates the role and pattern of family life in fourteen countries in contemporary Europe. Providing a wealth of information on European families, it is a key source for anyone wishing to understand the changes in the family at that time.The contributors argue that, far from withering away, the family remained a very important social unit ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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    Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history of ideas, and the methodology of the social sciences. Bruce Caldwell—editor of The Collected ... Read more

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  • Adaptation of Western Economics by Russian Universities

    Intercultural Travel of an Academic Field

    by Tatiana Suspitsyna ...
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    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    Sociology, the study of human behavior in social groups, is a relatively recent discipline within the social sciences, which examine human behavior, culture, and society using scientific methodology in both research and analysis. This resource explains the rise of the social sciences, in particular sociology, charting the history of the discipline and its founders. The key principles and ... Read more

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  • The Finnish Education Mystery

    Historical and sociological essays on schooling in Finland

    by Hannu Simola ...
    Finnish education has been a focus of global interest since its first PISA success in 2001. After years of superficial celebration, astonishment and educational tourism, the focus has recently shifted to what is possibly the most interesting element of this Finnish success story: that Finnish schools have been effectively applying methods that go against the flow of global education policy with no ... Read more

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  • Dynamics in Education Politics

    Understanding and explaining the Finnish case

    by Hannu Simola, Jaakko Kauko, Janne Varjo, Mira Kalalahti, Fritjof Sahlstrom ...
    Dynamics in Education Politics: Understanding and Explaining the Finnish Case introduces a new theoretical framework characterised as Comparative Analytics of Dynamics in Education Politics (CADEP). Albeit the topicality of comparative research is obvious in the current era of global large-scale assessment, with its concomitant media visibility and political effects, comparative education is still ... Read more

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  • Class, Ideologies and Educational Futures

    by D Livingstone ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book provides a systematic and detailed analysis of class relations in advanced capitalist societies as a basis for understanding both class differences in educational practices and the relative effects of class and other social background factors on public attitudes toward education. Secondly, the book offers an empirically-grounded summary of the contending educational ideologies in ... Read more

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  • Theories of International Relations

    Edited by Siegfried Schieder, Manuela Spindler ...
    This book is a comprehensive guide to theories of International Relations (IR). Given the limitations of a paradigm-based approach, it sheds light on eighteen theories and new theoretical perspectives in IR by examining the work of key reference theorists. The chapters are all written to a common template. The introductory section provides readers with a basic understanding of the theory’s genesis ... Read more

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  • A Sociology of Modernity

    Liberty and Discipline

    by Peter Wagner ...
    First Published in 2004. Confusion reigns in sociological accounts of the curent condition of modernity. The story-lines from the 'end of the subject' to 'a new individualism', from the 'dissolution of society' to the re-emergence of 'civil society', from the 'end of modernity' to an 'other modernoity' to 'neo-modernization'. This book offers a sociology of modernity in terms of a historical ... Read more

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  • The Capitalist Personality

    Face-to-Face Sociality and Economic Change in the Post-Communist World

    by Christopher S. Swader ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Modern capitalism favors values that undermine our face-to-face bonds with friends and family members. Focusing on the post-communist world, and comparing it to more "developed" societies, this book reveals the mixed effects of capitalist culture on interpersonal relationships. While most observers blame the egoism and asocial behavior found in new free-market societies on their communist pasts, ... Read more

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  • How Leaders Mobilize Workers

    Social Democracy, Revolution, and Moderate Syndicalism

    by Konstantin Vössing ...
    This book explains why leaders choose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and why it matters. In some countries, leaders have responded effectively to their political environment, while others have made ill-fitting choices. Vössing explains not only why leaders make certain choices, but also how their choices affect the success of interest mobilization and ... Read more

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  • Information Technology and Socialist Construction

    The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism

    by Daniel E. Saros ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    The failure of command central planning in the twentieth century has led to a general disillusionment within the socialist movement worldwide. Some alternatives to capitalism have been proposed since the end of the Cold War, but none has offered an alternative form of economic calculation. This book explains how modern information technology may be used to implement a new method of economic ... Read more

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