Title:Ruchy Spoleczne. Wprowadzenie
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; DIANI, MarioDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This is the Polish translation of Social Movements: An Introduction (Oxford, Blackwell, 2006). The volume addresses some main themes in social movement studies, analyzing the social basis and political opportunities for ...
Title:Science and the Media: Alternative routes in scientific communication
Author(s):BUCCHI, MassimianoDate:1998Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In the days of global warming and BSE, science is increasingly a public issue. This book provides a theoretical framework which allows us to understand why and how scientists address the general public. The author develops ...
Title:Scienza Politica
Author(s):COTTA, Maurizio; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; MORLINO, LeonardoDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il volume, qui presentato in una nuova edizione aggiornata, offre una panoramica completa delle tematiche costitutive della scienza politica. I primi capitoli propongono una definizione della disciplina, delineandone ...
Title:Scottish Social Democracy
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Scotland is a country of strong progressive traditions and could be a model
for a renewed social democracy. Devolution has given it a chance to show
what a small self-governing nation, within a wide British and ...
Title:Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences: A guide to qualitative comparative analysis
Author(s):SCHNEIDER, Carsten Q.; WAGEMANN, ClaudiusDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and other set-theoretic methods distinguish themselves from other approaches to the study of social phenomena by using sets and the search for set relations. In virtually all social ...
Title:Simone Weil: Die Politik der Askese
Author(s):MOULAKIS, AthanasiosDate:1981Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Simone Weil (1909-1943) ist bislang vor allem als religiöse Denkerin bekannt. Ihr politisches Denken wurde, soweit man sich überhaupt systematisch damit beschäftigte, entweder in der polemischen Absicht untersucht, sie als ...
Title:The Social Construction of an Industry: A world of chemical fibres
Author(s):KENIS, PatrickDate:1992Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The systematic study of collective action by business is an "enfant industry" in the scholarly enterprise. Compared to the thousands of volumes devoted to describing, explaining, and (often) extolling the action of trade ...
Title:Social Movements and Europeanization
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; CAIANI, ManuelaDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Are social movement organizations euroskeptical? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU? This book ...
Title:Social Movements in a Globalizing world (second expanded edition)
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; KRIESI, Hanspeter; RUCHT, DieterDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The growing interdependence on a global scale constitutes a challenge for both the mobilization of social movements and social movement theory. This volume, now available in paperback, attempts to adjust the perspective ...
Title:A Social Psychology of Party Behaviour
Author(s):TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, AnnaDate:1997Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book offers a new approach for the analysis of party campaigning. The author reviews critically social-psychological theories regarding social influence and inter-group relations in order to construct new analytical ...