American Sociology: From Pre-Disciplinary to Post-Normal by S. Turner

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the single publication of its kind--a concise, accomplished, and functional advisor for college students, lecturers, designers, and students drawn to utilizing ethnographic the right way to examine on-line digital worlds, together with either video game and nongame environments. Written by way of major ethnographers of digital worlds, and targeting the major approach to player statement, the booklet offers useful suggestion, counsel, instructions, and ideas to help researchers via each level of a undertaking, from identifying an internet fieldsite to writing and publishing the consequences.

Religionsgemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie: Handlungsräume religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz (Politik und Religion) (German Edition)

Melanie Zurlinden untersucht die Rolle religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz. Anhand von Gruppendiskussionen und publizierten Texten analysiert sie, wie sich freikirchliche, jüdische und muslimische Gemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie an Kampagnen zu Volksabstimmungen beteiligen. Die Studie fokussiert auf die Diskussionen über Bioethik, Ausländer- und Asylfragen sowie das Religion-Staat-Verhältnis.

Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis

The various projects and exercises that form our day-by-day lifestyles can appear mundane, even invisible—and but they play a very strong position in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring daily life casts mild on those so-called minutiae, serving as either a consultant to the invisible global of the typical and an guide for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This booklet deals scholars a finished, theoretical, and sensible advisor to verbal exchange conception. Croucher defines many of the views on verbal exchange theory—the social medical, interpretive, and demanding approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with subject matters together with interpersonal verbal exchange, organizational conversation, intercultural verbal exchange, persuasion, severe and rhetorical conception and different key recommendations.