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  • The Construction of Social Realityby John R. Searle

    Free Press 2010; US$ 16.95

    This 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? by James Davison Hunter; Alan Wolfe

    Brookings Institution Press 2006; US$ 18.95

    Red 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 Developmentby Tuzin Baycan

    Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00

    The 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)by Wolfgang Mller-Funk

    Springer 2007; US$ 47.99

    Der 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 Cultureby David Griffith

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00

    Culture 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 Societiesby Jaan Valsiner

    SAGE India 2007; US$ 75.00

    Culture 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 2008by Lucy Tedd

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 199.00

    Contains 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...

  • Körpermitteby Tina Ebbing

    Campus Verlag 2008; US$ 33.05

    Hauptbeschreibung 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 Homogenisierungby Nicole Mayer-Ahuja

    Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 47.38

    Hauptbeschreibung »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...