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Geschlechtstypische Identitätsbildungsprozesse in der professionellen Sozialen Arbeit: Eine geschlechtsvergleichende Untersuchung (Forschung Erziehungswissenschaft #100)

Das Buch liefert Ergebnisse zur Problematik von beruflichem Alltag und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung von SozialarbeiterInnen. Trotz der Folgen der gesellschaftlichen Ausdifferenzierung, Professionalisierungsdruck und Geschlechterdiskussion wird anhand zahlreicher Interviewaussagen dokumentiert, dass bei den PraktikerInnen Sozialer Arbeit die Identitätsentwicklung eher über professionelle denn über geschlechtsrollentypische Kompetenzausbildung vollzogen wird.

Narrating Violence in Post-9/11 Action Cinema: Terrorist Narratives, Cinematic Narration, and Referentiality

Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain (Warwick Series in the Humanities)

Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain presents a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the current research on pain from a variety of scholarly angles within Literature, Film and Media, Game Studies, Art History, Hispanic Studies, Memory Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, and Law. Through the combination of these perspectives, this volume goes beyond the existing structures within and across these disciplines framing new concepts of pain in attitude, practice, language, and ethics of response to pain. Comprised of fourteen unique essays, Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain maintains a common thread of analysis using a historical and cultural lens to explore the rhetoric of pain. Considering various methodologies, this volume questions the ethical, social and political demands pain makes upon those who feel, watch or speak it. Arranged to move from historical cases and relevance of pain in history towards the contemporary movement, topics include pain as a social figure, rhetorical tool, artistic metaphor, and political representation in jurisprudence.

Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy

Social scientist and mother Courtney Jung explores the ever-expanding world of breastfeeding advocacy, shining a new light on the diverse communities who compose it, the dubious science behind it, and the pernicious public policies to which it has given riseIs breast really best? Breastfeeding is widely assumed to be the healthiest choice, yet growing evidence suggests that its benefits have been greatly exaggerated. New moms are pressured by doctors, health officials, and friends to avoid the bottle at all costs-often at the expense of their jobs, their pocketbooks, and their well-being.In Lactivism, political scientist Courtney Jung offers the most deeply researched and far-reaching critique of breastfeeding advocacy to date. Drawing on her own experience as a devoted mother who breastfed her two children and her expertise as a social scientist, Jung investigates the benefits of breastfeeding and asks why so many people across the political spectrum are passionately invested in promoting it, even as its health benefits have been persuasively challenged. What emerges is an eye-opening story about class and race in America, the big business of breastfeeding, and the fraught politics of contemporary motherhood.

Muslim History and Social Theory: A Global Sociology of Modernity

This book combines contemporary discussions on modernity with the history of the Muslim world. From a heuristic perspective, it is sketching out a framework for a global sociology of modernity. This framework attempts to accommodate a core assumption of classical modernization theory – the global nature of modernity – with the pluralistic perspective of the rise of a multiplicity of historically concrete forms of modernities. It tries to reconcile a universalistic concept of modernity with the fact of modernity’s multiple historical realizations. At the same time, this discussion of contemporary social theory puts forward a critique of the still so conveniently applied equation of modernization with Westernization. In empirical terms, the book substantiates this critique in drawing its exemplary illustrations from the historical experience of Muslim peoples. Bringing Muslim history and discussions in social theory together, this book represents a synthesis of research efforts in sociology and Islamic studies.

Muslim History and Social Theory: A Global Sociology of Modernity

This book combines contemporary discussions on modernity with the history of the Muslim world. From a heuristic perspective, it is sketching out a framework for a global sociology of modernity. This framework attempts to accommodate a core assumption of classical modernization theory – the global nature of modernity – with the pluralistic perspective of the rise of a multiplicity of historically concrete forms of modernities. It tries to reconcile a universalistic concept of modernity with the fact of modernity’s multiple historical realizations. At the same time, this discussion of contemporary social theory puts forward a critique of the still so conveniently applied equation of modernization with Westernization. In empirical terms, the book substantiates this critique in drawing its exemplary illustrations from the historical experience of Muslim peoples. Bringing Muslim history and discussions in social theory together, this book represents a synthesis of research efforts in sociology and Islamic studies.

Kriege in der Weltgesellschaft: Strukturgeschichtliche Erklärung kriegerischer Gewalt (1945–2002)

Das Ende des Ost-West-Konfliktes und die Ereignisse nach dem 11. September 2001 haben zu einer Flut von Literatur über "neue" oder "postmoderne" Kriege geführt. Die Autoren dieses Bandes sehen dagegen keinen radikalen Wandel im weltweiten Kriegsgeschehen. Nicht die Kriege und ihre Ursachen, sondern deren Interpretation ist neu. Die sich wandelnden Erscheinungsformen der Kriege folgen vielmehr langfristigen Entwicklungstendenzen. Sie sind Ausdruck der widersprüchlichen Entwicklungen der kapitalistischen Moderne. Ziel der Autoren ist es, die weit über 200 Kriege des Zeitraums zwischen 1945 und 2002 sowohl in ihrem globalen Zusammenhang zu erklären als auch die Besonderheiten regionaler Kriegsentwicklungen in Afrika, Asien, Lateinamerika, dem Nahem Osten und Europa herauszuarbeiten. Ihre kenntnisreiche Darstellung des Kriegsgeschehens ist eingebettet in einen umfassenden gesellschaftstheoretischen Erklärungsrahmen, der den Formwandel der Gewalt aus der historischen Entwicklung der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft zur Weltgesellschaft erklärt. Damit leistet der Band eine theoretisch geleitete, historisch fundierte und empirisch gehaltvolle Darstellung des Kriegsgeschehens seit 1945, wie sie in der deutschsprachigen Literatur so bisher nicht vorlag.

K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television

From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean television has emerged onto the global pop culture scene as compelling television—but what exactly makes these shows so irresistibly bingeable? And what can we learn about our societies and ourselves from watching them? From stand-up comedian and media studies PhD Grace Jung comes a rollicking deep dive into the cultural significance of Korean television. K-Drama School analyzes everything from common tropes like amnesia and slapping to conspicuous product placements of Subway sandwiches and coffee; to representations of disability, race and gender; to what Korea's war-torn history says about South Korea&’s media output and the stories being told on screen. With chapters organized by "lessons," each one inquiring into a different theme of Korean television, K-Drama School offers a groundbreaking exploration into this singular form of entertainment, from an author who writes with humor and heart about shows that spur tears and laughter, keeping us glued to the TV while making fans of us all. Shows discussed include: Squid Game, SKY Castle, Crash Course in Romance, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, My Mister, Something in the Rain, One Spring Night, DP, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, Autumn in My Heart, Winter Sonata, Our Blues, and more.

Schreiben und Selbstreflexion: Eine literaturpsychologische Untersuchung literarischer Produktivität

Building Noah’s Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)

Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives and positioning themselves in hostile environments.

Migration and Religion in East Asia: North Korean Migrants’ Evangelical Encounters (Global Diversities)

This book sheds light on North Korean migrants' Christian encounters and conversions throughout the process of migration and settlement. Focusing on churches as primary contact zones, it highlights the ways in which the migrants and their evangelical counterparts both draw on and contest each others' envisioning of a reunified Christianized Korea.

Practicing Feminism in South Korea: The women’s movement against sexual violence (ASAA Women in Asia Series)

The Korean women’s movement, which is seen in both Western and non-Western countries as being exemplary in terms of women’s activism, experienced a dramatic change in its direction and strategy in the early 1990s. At the heart of the new approach was an increasing focus on sexual violence, which has had a huge impact on bringing women’s issues onto the public agenda in Korea. This book examines feminist practice in Korea by analyzing the experiences of the country’s first sexual assault center, the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center. Based on extensive original research, including interviews with activists and extensive participant observation, it explores why feminist activists in South Korea chose to organize around the issue of sexual violence, the strategies it used to do so, what impact the movement has made and what challenges it still faces to achieve its objectives.

Practicing Feminism in South Korea: The women’s movement against sexual violence (ASAA Women in Asia Series)

The Korean women’s movement, which is seen in both Western and non-Western countries as being exemplary in terms of women’s activism, experienced a dramatic change in its direction and strategy in the early 1990s. At the heart of the new approach was an increasing focus on sexual violence, which has had a huge impact on bringing women’s issues onto the public agenda in Korea. This book examines feminist practice in Korea by analyzing the experiences of the country’s first sexual assault center, the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center. Based on extensive original research, including interviews with activists and extensive participant observation, it explores why feminist activists in South Korea chose to organize around the issue of sexual violence, the strategies it used to do so, what impact the movement has made and what challenges it still faces to achieve its objectives.

Öffentlichkeit und Sprachwandel: Zur Geschichte des Diskurses über die Atomenergie

Die Darstellung der Kontroverse um die Atomenergie als sprachlicher und zugleich gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungsprozeß zeigt die Diskrepanz zwischen Sprachbewußtsein und dem tatsächlichen Sprachwandel, der sich als das unbeabsichtigte Ergebnis vielfältiger Einflüsse und Intentionen erweist. Der Autor skizziert ein facettenreiches und spannendes Bild der politischen Sprachkultur der Bundesrepublik - insbesondere geht er auf die Rolle der Fachsprachen im öffentlichen Meinungsstreit ein -, und er deckt zahlreiche Irrtümer der wissenschaftlichen Sprachkritik auf. "(...) Das Buch ist Linguisten und allen Wissenschaftlern, Politikern, Journalisten und sprachbewußten und sprachkritischen Laien, ja allen politisch mitdenkenden Bürgern zur Lektüre zu empfehlen - uneingeschränkt und dringend." Sociolinguistica 10/96

Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation

How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these workers, Coolies and Cane advances an interpretation of emancipation that moves beyond U.S. borders and the black-white racial dynamic. Tracing American ideas of Asian labor to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Moon-Ho Jung argues that the racial formation of "coolies" in American culture and law played a pivotal role in reconstructing concepts of race, nation, and citizenship in the United States.Jung examines how coolies appeared in major U.S. political debates on race, labor, and immigration between the 1830s and 1880s. He finds that racial notions of coolies were articulated in many, often contradictory, ways. They could mark the progress of freedom; they could also symbolize the barbarism of slavery. Welcomed and rejected as neither black nor white, coolies emerged recurrently as both the salvation of the fracturing and reuniting nation and the scourge of American civilization.Based on extensive archival research, this study makes sense of these contradictions to reveal how American impulses to recruit and exclude coolies enabled and justified a series of historical transitions: from slave-trade laws to racially coded immigration laws, from a slaveholding nation to a "nation of immigrants," and from a continental empire of manifest destiny to a liberating empire across the seas.Combining political, cultural, and social history, Coolies and Cane is a compelling study of race, Reconstruction, and Asian American history.

Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity #15)

Racism has never been simple. It wasn't more obvious in the past, and it isn't less potent now. From the birth of the United States to the contemporary police shooting death of an unarmed Black youth, Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy investigates ingrained practices of racism, as well as unquestioned assumptions in the study of racism, to upend and deepen our understanding. In Moon-Kie Jung's unsettling book, Dred Scott v. Sandford, the notorious 1857 Supreme Court case, casts a shadow over current immigration debates and the "war on terror." The story of a 1924 massacre of Filipino sugar workers in Hawai'i pairs with statistical relentlessness of Black economic suffering to shed light on hidden dimensions of mass ignorance and indifference. The histories of Asians, Blacks, Latina/os, and Natives relate in knotty ways. State violence and colonialism come to the fore in taking measure of the United States, past and present, while the undue importance of assimilation and colorblindness recedes. Ultimately, Jung challenges the dominant racial common sense and develops new concepts and theory for radically rethinking and resisting racisms.

Grundgesetz und Volksentscheid: Gründe und Reichweite der Entscheidungen des Parlamentarischen Rats gegen Formen direkter Demokratie

Warum sieht das Grundgesetz keine Sachentscheidungen des Volkes vor? Dem liegen keineswegs die angeblich schlechten "Weimarer Erfahrungen" mit Volksbegehren und Volksentscheid zugrunde. Vielmehr lehnte der Parlamentarische Rat 1948/49 alle Formen direkter Demokratie deshalb ab, weil er im Kalten Krieg der KPD bzw. SED keine Chance geben wollte, sich dieser Instrumente zu bedienen. Über die junge Bundesrepublik wurde gewissermaßen eine "plebiszitäre Quarantäne" verhängt. Mit dem Ende dieser Kampfposition ist auch die Räson für jene antiplebiszitären Entscheidungen entfallen.

Kindertageseinrichtungen zwischen pädagogischer Ordnung und den Ordnungen der Kinder: Eine ethnografische Studie zur pädagogischen Reorganisation der Kindheit

Die Logik direkter Demokratie

In diesem Buch wird erstmals eine ausgearbeitete Theorie über den Zusammenhang von Demokratietypen und den verschiedenen direktdemokratischen Verfahren vorgelegt. Die Autorin beantwortet die Frage: Welche direktdemokratischen Verfahren sind mit welchen Typen der Demokratie kompatibel? Dafür legt sie nicht nur eine selbst entwickelte Demokratietypologie vor, sie kann auch eine theoretisch fundierte Lösung zur Debatte über direkte Demokratie in der Bundesrepublik vorweisen.

Debattenkulturen im Wandel: Zum Politischen im Feuilleton der Gegenwart (DebattenKulturen #1)

Debattenkulturen sind ein zentrales Merkmal moderner Gesellschaften, die im Kontext eines erstarkenden Rechtspopulismus eine neue Dimension annehmen. Simone Jung analysiert entlang von empirischen Gegenwartsanalysen und in Auseinandersetzung mit politischer Theorie sowie kultur- und mediensoziologischen Perspektiven die spezifische Form von Konflikten und Praktiken der Kritik im deutschen Zeitungsfeuilleton. Die untersuchten Debatten im Kontext von Migration und Theater in den 2010er Jahren zeigen Kämpfe um die Ordnung der Kultur im Spannungsverhältnis von kulturellem Essenzialismus und liberalem Pluralismus auf und stellen die Frage neu: In welcher Gesellschaft wollen wir leben? Wer gehört dazu und wer nicht?

Sustainable Development Goals in the Republic of Korea (Routledge Studies on Asia in the World)

This book explores the attempts of South Korea in its to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. It addresses 6 of the 17 goals – clean water, affordable and clean energy, decent work and economic growth, sustainable cities and communities, climate action, and partnership – and defines specific national strategies. For each strategy, the contributors define the research indicators they selected, then analyze and examine the extent to which South Korea has met the SDG concerned. They draw these conclusions from national and international reports, government documents and policy papers on SDGs. South Korea’s experience in sustainable development and green programs will contribute to the planning of long-term development strategies for developing countries.

Sustainable Development Goals in the Republic of Korea (Routledge Studies on Asia in the World)

This book explores the attempts of South Korea in its to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. It addresses 6 of the 17 goals – clean water, affordable and clean energy, decent work and economic growth, sustainable cities and communities, climate action, and partnership – and defines specific national strategies. For each strategy, the contributors define the research indicators they selected, then analyze and examine the extent to which South Korea has met the SDG concerned. They draw these conclusions from national and international reports, government documents and policy papers on SDGs. South Korea’s experience in sustainable development and green programs will contribute to the planning of long-term development strategies for developing countries.

XR Case Studies: Using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Technology in Business (Management for Professionals)

This book presents a comprehensive collection of case studies on augmented reality and virtual realty (AR/VR) applications in various industries. Augmented reality and virtual reality are changing the business landscape, providing opportunities for businesses to offer unique services and experiences to their customers. The case studies provided in this volume explore business uses of the technology across multiple industries such as healthcare, tourism, hospitality, events, fashion, entertainment, retail, education and video gaming. The book includes solutions of different maturities as well as those from startups to large enterprises thereby providing a thorough view of how augmented reality and virtual reality can be used in business.

XR-Metaverse Cases: Business Application of AR, VR, XR and Metaverse (Business Guides on the Go)

This book presents a collection of latest case studies on augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), extended reality (XR) and metaverse applications in various industries. AR, VR, XR and Metaverse are changing the business landscape, providing opportunities for businesses to offer unique services and experiences to their customers. The case studies explore business uses of the technology across multiple industries such as healthcare, tourism, hospitality, events, fashion, entertainment, retail, education and video gaming. The volume includes solutions of different maturities as well as those from startups to large enterprises thereby providing a thorough view of how AR, VR, XR and Metaverse can be used in business.

The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting)

Philanthropy – the use of private resources for public purposes – is undergoing a transformation, both in practice and as an emerging field of study. Expectations of what philanthropy can achieve have risen significantly in recent years, reflecting a substantial, but uneven, increase in global wealth and the rolling back of state services in anticipation that philanthropy will fill the void. In addition to this, experiments with entrepreneurial and venture philanthropy are producing novel intersections of the public, non-profit and private spheres, accompanied by new kinds of partnerships and hybrid organisational forms. The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy examines these changes and other challenges that philanthropists and philanthropic organisations face. With contributions from an international team of leading contemporary thinkers on philanthropy, this Companion provides an introduction to, and critical exploration of, philanthropy; discussing current theories, research and the diverse professional practices within the field from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy is a rich and valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners and policymakers working in or interested in philanthropy.