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  • The Synchronization of National Policies
    Pertti Alasuutari
    The Synchronization of National Policies makes a contribution to current understanding on how national policies are synchronized with each other. Unlike mainstream research that treats international organizations as the creators of such global governance, this book underlines the role of local actors. The book shows how actors in nation ...
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    84,16 €

  • Epistemic Governance
    Ali Qadir / Pertti Alasuutari
    This book argues that modern governance is performed by actors who seek social change epistemically, by drawing on widespread, public views of reality. Agents of change such as parliamentarians or social movement activists will assess and affect what they believe to be people’s conceptions of what is possible, rational, and desirable. This often means that these key authority f...
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    85,28 €

  • Social Theory and Human Reality
    Pertti Alasuutari
    This book gets to the heart of what the social sciences really know about the elusive and contradictory object of research: human reality. ...
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    142,12 €

  • Researching Culture
    Pertti Alasuutari
    The growth of interdisciplinary cultural studies poses new challenges for the process of doing research. This textbook introduces the range of approaches and methodological tools available for undertaking critical research, and shows how cultural studies transcend traditional divisions between qualitative and quantitative methods and between social sciences and humanities. ...
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    160,40 €

  • Rethinking the Media Audience
    Pertti Alasuutari
    Pertti Alasuutari provides a state-of-the-art summary of the field of audience research. With contributions from Ann Gray, Joke Hermes, John Tulloch and David Morley, a case is presented for a new agenda to account for the role of the media in everyday life. Only this new agenda, they suggest, can adequately account for our ubiquitous, highly reflexive, participation in modern ...
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    153,46 €

  • Desire and Craving
    Pertti Alasuutari
    This book is an ethnographic analysis of alcoholism, focusing on the importance of cultural explanations of heavy drinking in modern society. As a starting point, Alasuutari uses a cognitive concept of frames in order to study the social and cultural boundedness of alcohol related problems. The ethnographic narratives concentrate on specific cases, but stress the theoretical le...
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    47,36 €