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Cultural Studies

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The Impracticality of Practical Research

A History of Contemporary Sciences of Change That Conserve

By Thomas Stanley Popkewitz
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Education, Sociology

Examines the politics of practical knowledge and the paradoxes of exclusion in contemporary social and psychological sciences

The Impracticality of Practical Research

A History of Contemporary Sciences of Change that Conserve

By Thomas Stanley Popkewitz
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Education, Sociology

Examines the politics of practical knowledge and the paradoxes of exclusion in contemporary social and psychological sciences

Star Worlds

Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds

By William Sims Bainbridge
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies, Sociology

A ground-breaking look at the paradox of technology to both liberate and enslave our current culture by noted scholar William Sims Bainbridge

From Property to Family

American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion

By Andrei S. Markovits & Katherine Crosby
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology

A detailed look into the cultural history and cultural impact of dog rescue in the United States

My Life as a Night Elf Priest

An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft

By Bonnie Nardi
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life

An anthropologist's analysis of one of the world's most popular online world games

The Future of Class in History

What's Left of the Social?

By Geoff Eley & Keith Nield
Subjects: History, Historical Methods and Theory, American Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Political History, Class Studies

In the struggle between "social" and "cultural" thinking, the refusal to choose sides can be a radical and vital move

Exclusionary Violence

Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History

Edited by Christhard Hoffmann, Werner Bergmann, and Helmut Walser Smith
Subjects: German Studies, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A comprehensive examination of pre-Nazi violence against Jews in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany

The Construction of Minorities

Cases for Comparison Across Time and Around the World

Edited by Andre Burguiere & Raymond Grew
Subjects: History, Sociology, Religion, Cultural Studies
Series: The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series

A cross-cultural volume that investigates the question of how social minorities are formed

Prostitution, Power and Freedom

By Julia O’Connell Davidson
Subjects: Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Economics

Uncovers the economic and political inequalities that underlie the phenomenon of prostitution

Body Thoughts

By Andrew Strathern
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine

Jews, Germans, Memory

Reconstructions of Jewish Life in Germany

Edited by Y. Michal Bodemann
Subjects: German Studies, Sociology, History, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Assesses the past, present, and future of German-Jewish relations in light of recent political charges and the opening up of historical resources

Envisioning Eastern Europe

Postcommunist Cultural Studies

Edited by Michael D. Kennedy
Subjects: European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Sociology

Explorations of cultural change in the former Soviet bloc

Flowers in the Dustbin

Culture, Anarchy, and Postwar England

By Neil Nehring
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Sociology

Explores the connection between high literary culture and popular culture and argues for cultural anarchism as a form of creative resistance.

Dignity

Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Buss has compiled the stories of 10 lower-income women, told in their own words

Gold Diggers and Silver Miners

Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lode

By Marion S. Goldman
Subjects: Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies
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