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Die Produktion der Konsumgesellschaft : Eine kulturökonomische Grundlegung der feinen Unterschiede

Die Produktion der Konsumgesellschaft : Eine kulturökonomische Grundlegung der feinen Unterschiede

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Abstract: Mit einer grundlegend neuen Qualitätstheorie des Konsums zeigt Ernst Mohr: Distanz und Nähe werden im Sozialen konsumierend kommuniziert und durch Kommunikation produziert. Er positioniert Stile postmoderner Gruppen - wie bspw. Hip-Hop, Punk, Skinhead,...

Barriers to Play and Recreation for Children and Young People with Disabilities : Exploring Environmental Factors

Barriers to Play and Recreation for Children and Young People with Disabilities : Exploring Environmental Factors

Publication Type: eBook

Abstract: This report reviews international research into the barriers to play for children with disabilities. The authors come from different disciplinary backgrounds, in Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Occupational Health and Education and bring differ...

Social Media and Popularity of Prospective Candidates in the 2019 General Election

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Aristo, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp 371-388 (2023)

Abstract: Technology has helped make it easier for people to connect without meeting in person. Social media makes it easier for humans to interact without the need to meet in person. Information that is spread via social media can also apply quickly. This study...

Memory in Motion : Archives, Technology, and the Social

Memory in Motion : Archives, Technology, and the Social

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Abstract: How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was ...

General Management Considerations for Placenta Accreta Spectrum.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): American Journal of Perinatology. Jul2023, Vol. 40 Issue 9, p1026-1032. 7p.

Abstract: The ideal management of a patient with placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) includes close antepartum management culminating in a planned and coordinated delivery by an experienced multidisciplinary PAS team. Coordinated team management has been shown to op...

Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society

Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society

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Abstract: SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do we Europeans age? How will we do economically, socially and healthwise? How are these domains interrelated? The authors of t...

Teaching Political Science to Undergraduates : Active Pedagogy for the Microchip Mind

Teaching Political Science to Undergraduates : Active Pedagogy for the Microchip Mind

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Abstract: By 2020, half of the world's population and most university students will have a supercomputer in their pockets. This revolution will affect the way students respond to higher education. The university classroom must henceforth engage students, and the...

Imagined Economies - Real Fictions : New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain

Imagined Economies - Real Fictions : New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain

Publication Type: eBook

Abstract: The way we conceptualise the economy and ourselves as homo economicus has profound consequences for our lives. The contributions to this anthology take debates about the financial crisis, about recent austerity measures or about the Brexit referendum a...

Plume Geometry and Rheology: General Patterns in Probabilistic Gravity Models.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Journal of Volcanology & Seismology. Aug2023, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p320-337. 18p.

Abstract: This study examines and compares 3D distributions of crustal and upper mantle density contrast with a set of geological and geophysical data for the heads of six plumes (Yellowstone, Emeishan, Cathaysia, Sea-of-Okhotsk, Maya–Selemdzha, and Indigirka–Ko...

Der Stamm der Experten : Rhetorik und Praxis des Interkulturellen Managements in der deutschen staatlichen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Der Stamm der Experten : Rhetorik und Praxis des Interkulturellen Managements in der deutschen staatlichen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

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Abstract: Die Arbeit von Entwicklungsexperten beinhaltet die Moderation gesellschaftspolitischer und ökonomischer Transformationsprozesse - ohne echtes Mandat, Rückversicherung und Erzwingungsinstanzen. In Umkehrung der traditionellen Entwicklungsperspektive wer...

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