The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West" by Eric H Mielants

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the single e-book of its kind--a concise, entire, and sensible consultant for college students, academics, designers, and students attracted to utilizing ethnographic ways to examine on-line digital worlds, together with either video game and nongame environments. Written by means of major ethnographers of digital worlds, and targeting the main approach to player statement, the booklet offers valuable recommendation, assistance, directions, and ideas to help researchers via each level of a undertaking, from making a choice on a web 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 varied projects and exercises that form our day-by-day lifestyles can appear mundane, even invisible—and but they play a very robust position in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring way of life casts mild on those so-called minutiae, serving as either a consultant to the invisible international of the typical and an handbook for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This ebook deals scholars a entire, theoretical, and sensible consultant to communique thought. Croucher defines a number 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 communique, intercultural verbal exchange, persuasion, serious and rhetorical conception and different key recommendations.