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  • Transitions and Transformations

    Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

    Edited by Caitrin Lynch, Jason Danely ...
    Series Book 1 - Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
    Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Transitions and Transformations

    Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

    Edited by Jason Danely, Caitrin Lynch ...
    Series Book 1 - Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
    Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $21.99 USD

  • Retirement on the Line

    Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory

    by Caitrin Lynch ...
    In an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts, provides inspiration and important lessons about the value of older workers. Vita Needle is a family-owned factory that was founded in 1932 and makes needles, stainless steel tubing and pipes, and custom fabricated parts. As part of its unusual ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Juki Girls, Good Girls

    Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry

    by Caitrin Lynch ...
    When a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught between the pressures of a globalizing economy and societal expectations that villages are sanctuaries of tradition. These women learned quickly to resist the characterization of "Juki girls"—female garment workers already established in the urban sector—as vulgar and deracinated, instead ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    This study guide contains fundamental sociological definitions and principles which are specifically designed to aid students. Topics covered include: social structure & culture, formal organizations, socialization & deviance, basic concepts of demography, population changes, social inequality & stratification, social classes, race, gender & inequality, economy, politics & education, family, ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • Hospicing Modernity

    Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

    by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira ...
    A thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity—for fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against PurityThis book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

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  • Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies

    Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World

    Edited by Django Paris, H. Samy Alim ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    “An essential read that asks educators to see young people as ‘whole versus broken’ when they enter our classrooms.”—Teaching Tolerance"This essential compilation will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners seeking understanding and examples of transformative classrooms."—Language and EducationCulturally Sustaining Pedagogies raises fundamental que... ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Light in Their Eyes

    Creating Multicultural Learning Communities: Tenth Anniversary Edition

    by Sonia Nieto ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. With a new Introductory Chapter and a new Epilogue, Nieto addresses some of the changes we have experienced during the past decade that help explain the current sociopolitical environment—our ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Oppression and the Body

    Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

    Edited by Christine Caldwell, Lucia Bennett Leighton ...
    A timely anthology that explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized bodiesAsserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization. In a culture where bodies of people who are brown, black, female, ... Read more

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  • Schooling the Symbolic Animal

    Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education

    by Bradley A. U. Levinson, Margaret Eisenhart, Keith Basso, Gregory Bateson, Caroline Bledsoe, Yehudi Cohen0, R. W. Connel et al1, Emile Durkheim2, Donna Eder3, Julianna Flinn4, Signithia Fordham5, Clifford Geertz6, Jules Henry7, Dorothy Holland8, Margaret Mead9, Hugh Mehan0, Jan Nespor1, John Ogbu2, Sherry Ortner3, Deborah Reed-Danahay4, Laura Rival5, Margaret Sutton6, Carlos Velez-Ibáñez7, James B.Greenberg8, Howard S. Becker9, Dr. Shirley Brice Heath0, Raymond Williams1 ...
    This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies of our present and future. The reprinted selections are contextualized in new interpretive ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Intersectional Approach

    Transforming the Academy through Race, Class, and Gender

    Edited by Michele Tracy Berger, Kathleen Guidroz ...
    Intersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of women’s studies that now broadly extends across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Taking stock of this transformative paradigm, The Intersectional Approach guides new and established researchers to engage in a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Masculinity and Femininity

    The Taboo Dimension of National Cultures

    Edited by Geert Hofstede ...
    Series series Cross Cultural Psychology
    In 1980, Geert Hofstede published his monumental work CultureÆs Consequences, which laid out four dimensions on which the differences among national cultures could be understood: individualism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity. Since then much research has been conducted and presented on individualism/collectivism but until now, no single volume has focused on the masculinity ... Read more

    $116.99 USD