Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination: The Wilds of by Shawn Chandler Bingham

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the single ebook of its kind--a concise, entire, and functional advisor for college kids, lecturers, designers, and students drawn to utilizing ethnographic how you can research on-line digital worlds, together with either online game and nongame environments. Written via best ethnographers of digital worlds, and concentrating on the foremost approach to player statement, the ebook offers worthwhile recommendation, counsel, guidance, and ideas to assist researchers via each level of a venture, from identifying 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 initiatives and workouts that form our day-by-day life can appear mundane, even invisible—and but they play a really robust position in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring daily life casts gentle on those so-called minutiae, serving as either a advisor to the invisible global of the typical and an handbook for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This publication bargains scholars a accomplished, theoretical, and useful advisor to conversation thought. Croucher defines many of the views on verbal exchange theory—the social clinical, interpretive, and demanding approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with issues together with interpersonal communique, organizational conversation, intercultural conversation, persuasion, serious and rhetorical idea and different key suggestions.