Contemporary society

Ebook "A history of fair trade in contemporary Britain: From civil society campaigns to corporate compliance" offers an original contribution to the empirical knowledge of the development of Fair Trade that goes beyond the anecdotal accounts to challenge and analyse the trading practices that shaped the Fair Trade model. Fair Trade represented a new approach to global trade, corporate social responsibility and consumer politics.

240p giangmacvien 22-06-2024 9 1   Download

This new edition of John Hannigan's well-known and respected text has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent conceptual and empirical advances in environmental sociology. The book offers a distinctive and even-handed treatment of environmental issues and debates, integrating European theoretical contributions such as risk society and ecological modernization with North American empirical insights and findings.

209p vimeyers 29-05-2024 2 2   Download

The applied methodology makes use of a political-philosophical approach, based on the hypothetical-deductive method through bibliographical research. The aim of the article is to show how the sociological and political categories of charism and authority are still pregnant in contemporary Western societies and the possibility of moderating the power of charismatic personalism through democratic institutions.

13p viohoyo 25-04-2024 2 1   Download

Italian State has always lived above its means, with a constant imbalance between income and expenditure and at the same time expanding its distance with respect to society (but the debt was paid by social groups that took advantage of it), a process that triggered off a perennial crisis of representation and strengthened the instability of relations between political institutions and society The article investigates the impact of the ‘political use’ of public debt by italian governments on the relationship between the State and society.

12p viohoyo 25-04-2024 8 1   Download

Ebook "Global tourism (Third edition)" offers a comprehensive exploration of the key issues in tourism. Authors draw on their individual insights to assess and critique contemporary tourism and take a view of the future. Global Tourism draws on the insight of thirty-nine contributors to chronicle and foresee the effects of tourism on contemporary society. Contributors provide interdisciplinary, international perspectives on the critical questions, problems, and opportunities facing the tourism industry.

574p nguyetthuongvophong1010 04-03-2024 5 1   Download

Ebook "Appearance and identity: Fashioning the body in postmodernity" casts a critical look at the dominant position that fashion has come to occupy in contemporary society. It addresses various aspects of fashion in postmodern culture including makeup, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, ornament in dress and the blurring of gender boundaries.

201p manmanthanhla0201 27-02-2024 4 3   Download

Ebook "The Palgrave handbook of biology and society" brings together a multitude of scholars to create a truly interdisciplinary conversation between biology and society; argues that the historic divide between the biological and the social sciences is no longer valid; provides a balanced account of the debate by actively avoiding both uncritical celebrations of contemporary biological insights and blind scepticism about their potentials;...

926p lucchinguyen 28-12-2023 8 2   Download

Ebook "The anthropology of the fetus: Biology, culture, and society" as a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology.

316p lucchinguyen 28-12-2023 5 2   Download

The main focus of this study was the perceived benefits of exercise among pregnant mothers in University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Cross River State. In order to successfully carry out the study, objectives and research questions with corresponding hypothesis'were formulated to guide the study.

20p vikissinger 21-12-2023 5 2   Download

Ebook "A journey into accounting thought" explores the role of accountants in business and society. The final work of Louis Goldberg, Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, it aims to raise awareness of the existence and importance of fundamental issues that are often ignored or by-passed in contemporary discussion of accounting. The sixteen chapters assess exactly what accountants do in carrying out their work.

349p tuongnhuoclan 28-11-2023 6 3   Download

Ebook "Accounting, the social and the political: Classics, contemporary and beyond" contains 35 carefully selected and abridged versions of scholarly financial and managerial research articles by world-class researchers ranging across a wide spectrum of the social, political and philosophical sides of financial and managerial accounting information and practices to focus on accounting's wider role and impact on organizations and society at large.

417p tuongnhuoclan 28-11-2023 4 3   Download

The Catholic parish in Ho Chi Minh City is a multilinked community. It expresses the common characteristics of Catholicism in Vietnam, as well as, a distinct mark in the process of development. The Catholic parish community shows specific cultural features in comparison with the other urban communities. This study raises a question about urban communities in contemporary society.

29p visystrom 22-11-2023 3 2   Download

Traditional festivals are typical ritual practices in the system of beliefs of Vietnamese people (Kinh) in particular and ethnic groups in Vietnam in general. Since the Renovation (Đổi mới) in 1986, along with the restoration of ancient culture, religious relics have been restored, embellished, or rebuilt throughout the country.

21p visystrom 22-11-2023 8 3   Download

The terms ‘spirituality’ and ‘spiritual tourism’ have recently appeared in Vietnamese society to refer to activities related to religion-beliefs and economy-tourism. To understand their meanings, this study firstly explains the etymology, then examines the context of the birth and existence of these terms in contemporary Vietnamese society.

17p visystrom 22-11-2023 3 3   Download

Ebook "America at work: Choices and challenges" contains original articles and groundbreaking research, on workplace issues in America today from leading scholars in the fields of business, management and human resources. A companion to The New American Workplace , which is co-published with the Society for Human Resource Management and the Centre for Effective Organizations.

351p loivantrinh 29-10-2023 3 3   Download

Part 1 of ebook "Handbook of contemporary sociological theory" provides readers with contents including: classical questions contemporalized; rethinking the macro-micro link; integrating and disintegrating dynamics in human societies; power in organizational society; action in society; cultural theory; the macro and meso basis of the micro social order; social networks and relational sociology; varieties of sociological field theory;...

216p dangsovu 20-10-2023 9 5   Download

Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Understanding the hospitality consumer" provides readers with content including: understanding the hospitality consumer in contemporary society and beyond; postmodern consumers of hospitality services; researching contemporary hospitality behaviour; researching contemporary hospitality behaviour; hospitality implications of the revolution in consumption;...

118p lytamnguyet 04-08-2023 3 3   Download

This thesis explores contemporary experiences of entrepreneurial knowledge work in emerging and rapidly changing areas of economy and society through a detailed ethnographic analysis of the motivations, social practices and changing experiences of a pioneering Coworking community in Melbourne, Australia. Coworking is a complex social phenomenon.

481p runthenight04 02-02-2023 5 2   Download

Infectious illnesses are on the rise in today’s world, with serious consequences for animals, plants, and humans. Several infections, including the human immunodeficiency virus, affect a large number of individuals in various countries, particularly in the poorer portions of contemporary society, and continue to cause a variety of health problems. Viruses are tiny parasitic organisms. They are infectious agents that can only reproduce within a live cell of an organism.

15p lyhuyenthu 31-01-2023 6 1   Download

This brief note discusses the search for spirituality in post-modern societies, mainly with reference to the Japanese context. It will become clear that the study of contemporary dynamics needs to take the religious/spiritual aspect into account, by recognizing what is happening on the border between the material and the spiritual world and what needs are being met by the various new spirituality movements.

4p mudbound 06-12-2021 4 1   Download