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The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The era of team science has long since dawned. However, in order for the individual members of a team to work well, research organizations need to provide a productive and naturally non-discriminatory working environment. Bringing together and integrating researchers and their diverse backgrounds in effective teams does not happen on its own. To harness the positive effects of diversity, it must be understood and managed proactively. The edited collection Diversity and Discrimination in Research Organizations provides researchers with empirical studies on the question of whether and to what extent the social identity of the academic workforce affects their individual integration in research organizations. Practitioners receive guidance and suggestions on possible starting points and requirements for programmes to improve equal opportunities and work climate in their research organizations. The articles can be roughly divided into two categories according to the guiding questions of this edited collection: macro studies surveying the extent of discrimination and harassment in research organizations and micro studies exploring the influence of the specific cultural contextual conditions of the academic workplace on experiences of discrimination and harassment related to the diversity of the workforce.

This volume contains an Open Access Chapter.i Authenticity has become a buzzword for our times. Much of the travel industry is built around the provision of 'authentic' experiences, global brands fight to be seen as 'authentic' and social media platforms are awash with arguments about the authenticity of this post or that vlogger. But what do we mean by authenticity? And why have these debates grown so dramatically in the last two decades?This collection explores the complex and at times controversial idea of authenticity. Addressing the concept from an interdisciplinary perspective and offering a diverse range of topical cases, the authors bring together the latest empirical and conceptual scholarship addressing authenticity and its centrality to debates about contemporary culture, media and society. In this way, the authors are able to pinpoint the growing significance of the concept of authenticity, the various ways in which different disciplines approach the topic, and possible ways of advancing the field across disciplines.With sections covering travel and tourism, branding and marketing, popular culture, social media and political communication this exciting and innovative collection will make fascinating and crucial reading for scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities, and helps to define what these different disciplines mean by authenticity.

The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein explores many of the topics central to Wallerstein's understanding of the modern world-system and offers a comprehensive guide to the full range of his work.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Allgemein, Note: 1,0, Hochschule Koblenz (ehem. FH Koblenz), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Welche Faktoren haben Einfluss darauf, wie ein Mensch sozialisiert wird, wie wird er sozial handlungsfähig und wo findet soziales Lernen statt? Werden Mädchen und Jungen unterschiedlich sozialisiert? All diesen Fragen soll in dieser Hausarbeit nachgegangen werden.Zu Beginn wird der Sozialisationsbegriff diskutiert, eingegrenzt und für diese Arbeit definiert. Im Folgenden wird die Bedeutung der Sozialisation zunächst aus soziologischer Perspektive anhand der Einteilung in Sozialisationsinstanzen und -phasen herausgearbeitet. Im weiteren Verlauf rücken die Erziehung und die Bedeutung der Sozialisation aus pädagogischer Perspektive in den Vordergrund, welche vor allem anhand der Sozialisationsinstanz Familie analysiert wird. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf Erziehungszielen und -stilen, wobei insbesondere die Erkenntnisse von Prof. Dr. Klaus Hurrelmann Berücksichtigung finden.Anschließend soll die geschlechtsspezifische Sozialisation thematisiert werden, denn Sozialisation läuft je nach Geschlecht auf eine spezifische Art und Weise ab. Aber wann setzt geschlechtsspezifische Sozialisation ein und wodurch wird einem Kind bewusst, dass es Mädchen oder Junge ist und was verbindet es damit? Um diese Fragen wird es im zweiten Teil der vorliegenden Arbeit gehen. Dabei wird besonders auf die Begriffe Sex, Gender und Doing Gender eingegangen. Aufgrund der Ausrichtung des Studiengangs auf den frühkindlichen Bereich werden im darauffolgenden Punkt Konzepte und Ideen speziell für den Kindergarten als wichtige Sozialisationsinstanz erörtert, die möglicherweise zu einer geschlechtersensiblen Erziehung und somit zu einer vielfältigeren geschlechtsspezifischen Sozialisation beitragen können.

Far from being the work of a madman, Anders Breivik's murderous rampage in Norway was the action of an extreme narcissist. As the dead lay around him, he held up a finger asking for a Band-Aid. Written with the pace of a psychological thriller, The Life of I is a compelling account of the rise of narcissism in individuals and society. Manne examines the Lance Armstrong doping scandal and the alarming rise of sexual assaults in sport and the military, as well as the vengeful killings of Elliot Rodger in California. She looks at narcissism in the pursuit of fame and our obsession with 'making it'. She goes beyond the usual suspects of social media and celebrity culture to the deeper root of the issue: how a new narcissistic character-type is being fuelled by a cult of the self and the pursuit of wealth in a hypercompetitive consumer society. The Life of I also offers insights from the latest work in psychology, looking at how narcissism develops. But Manne also shows that there is an alternative: how to transcend narcissism, to be fully alive to the presence of others; how to create a world where love and care are no longer turned inward."

Der Band befasst sich mit der ganzen Bandbreite an fachlich diversen Themen und gibt einen Überblick über den empirischen Forschungsstand aus der Perspektive der verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen. Das Bestreben hierbei ist es, zum einen eine möglichst breite (wissenschaftliche) Öffentlichkeit zu erreichen und das Bewusstsein für ein Thema zu erhöhen, welches im Alltag große Wirkungsmacht entfalten kann. Dabei handelt es sich bei physischer Attraktivität um einen häufig unterschätzen Faktor des Sozialen. Das Buch schließt die wissenschaftliche Lücke bezüglich der systematischen Aufarbeitung der quantitativ empirischen Forschung zur Wirkung physischer Attraktivität, damit es einen ¿ für die wissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeit zugänglichen ¿ ¿Grundkanon¿ der bestehenden Forschung gibt, der Andere zur Replikation und zum kritischen Diskurs anhalten soll.

The book brings together authoritative chapters by leading experts in the sociology of Elias. It charts Elias's ambition to create an integrative sociological framework across a wide range of studies and assesses its continuing relevance for addressing significant issues facing sociology today.

Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives is a landmark volume providing students, university lecturers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and structured guide to the major topics and trends of research on counter-narratives.

This book features new perspectives on the ethics and politics of free speech. Contributors draw on insights from philosophy, psychology, political theory, journalism, literature, and history to respond to pressing problems involving free speech in liberal societies.Recent years have seen an explosion of academic interest in these topics. However, most recent work has focused on constitutional protections for free speech and on issues related to academic freedom and campus politics. The chapters in this volume set their sights more broadly on the non-state problems that we collectively face in attempting to realize a healthy environment for free discourse. The volume's contributors share the assumption that threats to free speech do not come exclusively from state sources or bad actors, but from ordinary strategic situations in which all may be acting in good faith. Contributors take seriously the idea that our current cultural moment provides plenty of reason to be concerned about our intellectual climate and offer new insights for how to make things better.¿New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech will be of interest to researchers and students working in ethics, political philosophy, social theory, and law.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice system, utilising a mix of contemporary social theory and a wealth of empirical material. It suggests ways to neutralise the effects of class on youth justice interventions in structurally unequal societies and argues for reform based on conceptions of negotiated justice, relational agency, and autonomy in dependence.The author develops a theoretical framework to explore how class is negotiated within youth justice, taking as its starting point the work of Bourdieu on habitus, Boltanski and Thévenot on the sociology of lay normativity, and Sayer's work on moral understandings of class. This is combined with a detailed reading of empirical material gathered through focus groups, interviews with practitioners, parents and children, and participant observation of parenting courses. The result is an innovative revisiting of the part that social class plays in determining who is diverted into and away from youth justice and a sustained theoretical and empirical argument for the continued importance of class in criminological research.This book offers an original contribution to the fields of criminology, youth justice, and crime and the family. It provides an important source of knowledge for academics and practitioners interested in discussions on social class and indirect discrimination.

This book examines our understanding of technology and suggests that machines are counterfeit organisms that seem to replace human bodies but are ultimately means of displacing workloads and environmental loads beyond our horizon.

This volume aims to remedy this deficit by introducing Peträycki¿s life and work specifically to an English-speaking audience.