Dialectics in Social Thought: The Present Crisis by Geoffrey R Skoll

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the one ebook of its kind--a concise, accomplished, and functional consultant for college students, academics, designers, and students attracted to utilizing ethnographic easy methods to research on-line digital worlds, together with either video game and nongame environments. Written via top ethnographers of digital worlds, and targeting the major approach to player statement, the booklet presents beneficial suggestion, assistance, directions, and rules to help researchers via each degree of a venture, from deciding upon an internet fieldsite to writing and publishing the implications.

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

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This e-book deals scholars a finished, theoretical, and sensible advisor to conversation thought. Croucher defines a number of the views on verbal exchange theory—the social clinical, interpretive, and demanding approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with subject matters together with interpersonal communique, organizational communique, intercultural communique, persuasion, severe and rhetorical conception and different key thoughts.