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The Construction of Social Reality
Free Press 2010; US$ 16.95This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a 'five-pound note' with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch. more...
Is There a Culture War?
Brookings Institution Press 2006; US$ 18.95Red and Blue states . . . the ''Religious Right'' and the ''Liberal Media'' . . . NASCAR dads and soccer moms . . . Is America clearly and bitterly divided? Are today's social and political differences truly worrisome, or the unavoidable products of a diverse democracy? In Is There a Culture War? two leading authorities on political culture lead a... more...
Knowledge Commercialization and Valorization in Regional Economic Development
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00The commercialization of academic knowledge is increasingly seen as a potential economic development model, particularly for improving the capabilities and economic performance of regions. This insightful volume investigates the emerging factors in knowledge commercialization from an international perspective and highlights the research agenda and... more...
Die Kultur und ihre Narrative: Eine Einführung (German Edition)
Springer 2007; US$ 47.99Der Autor bietet eine Gesamtansicht eines großen Themas und zugleich einer analytischen Methode zur Erfassung von Kulturen: Erzählung und Erzählen. Im Gefolge der kulturellen Wende in Human- und Sozialwissenschaften kommt den Theorien des Narrativen eine ganz neue und maßgebliche Bedeutung zu, die im Werk ausführlich erläutert werden. Im angewandten... more...
Conceptualizing Culture
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00Culture study is increasingly becoming a leading theory in international marketing research, this special issue examines the role of culture within marketing theory and practice. Debates such as whether consumer cultures are globalizing, glocalizing or localizing; and the validity of different operationalizations of cultural and institutional distance... more...
Culture in Minds and Societies
SAGE India 2007; US$ 75.00Culture in Minds and Societies makes a decisive break from the post-modernist. theoretical framework that considers knowledge as local and situation-specific. and restores the goal of construction of general knowledge to the social sciences. While recognizing the uniqueness of all human personal experience from birth to. death, it emphasizes the universality... more...
Bridging Worlds Conference, Singapore, October 2008
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 199.00Contains a selection of papers based on presentations made at the Bridging Worlds conference organised by the National Library of Singapore in October 2008. The Bridging Worlds conference was aimed at information/knowledge/culture professionals and educators, and according to its website (http://www.bridgingworlds.sg/) it focused on how the information,... more...
Körpermitte
Campus Verlag 2008; US$ 33.05Hauptbeschreibung Das komische Gefühl im Bauch, der »Nabel« der Welt oder der Waschbrettbauch - unsere Bilder vom Bauch sind in höchstem Maße kulturell geprägt und damit zugleich Ausdruck von Normen, Werten und Weltbildern. Tina Ebbing schildert Körperbilder und -praktiken seit der Frühen Neuzeit, wie sie in Alltags- und Populärkultur präsent waren... more...
Grenzen der Homogenisierung
Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 47.38Hauptbeschreibung »The world is flat!« - So lautet eine Gegenwartsdiagnose, die transnationale Konzerne als Wegbereiter globaler Homogenisierung feiert. Nicole Mayer-Ahuja zeigt, dass dieser Homogenisierung Grenzen gesetzt sind. Die Analyse der Softwareprogrammierungsbranche in Deutschland und Indien verdeutlicht, wie markant sich Unternehmensstrategien... more...
Staatliche Initiativen zur Förderung der Informationsgesellschaft
Springer Fachmedien 2007; US$ 54.99









