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Thousand’s Years of Vicissitudes About Dunhuang
Dunhuang is a county-level city at the western end of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province of China. It reaches Northern Mountain (Mazong Mountain) to the...
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The Daughters of Bengal: A History of “Western Eyes” on the Girl Victim
With the rise of the ready-made garments industry in Bangladesh, the young girl in the factory has become a powerful symbol of Western economic...
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Introduction
The introduction traces the various ways ‘age’ can be defined and understood, to arrive at the context for my inquiry into the construction of old...
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Theories of Social Change
Here, I take a closer look at the work of Michael Mann and Dingxin Zhao, who both have recent and important theories of social change. I first...
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The Formation of Shimenkan Christian Cultural Area
As the name of a place, Shimenkan refers to a small natural village with a radius of a few kilometers under Ronghe village, Shimen township, Weining...
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Core Concepts in Chinese Sociology
Chinese sociology, founded by Xunzi, features a unique conceptual system, the essential, core concepts in which are qun (community), lun (human...
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Canonicity and Sociology
Far from being reducible to a peripheral phenomenon of disciplinary development, canonicity lies at the core of most institutionalized fields of...
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Neoliberal Governmentality and Ethico-politics of Power
This chapter provides a detailed discussion and literature review of theoretical concepts and common themes covered in the book. The concepts of...
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Fostering in a Carefare Regime
This chapter is about foster parents and their work. Recent changes in the regulation of foster care illustrate the formation and operation of a...
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Regulation of the Family
The family is the foundation of governance of the state and the achievement of illustrious virtue in all under Heaven, and qijia (regulation of the...
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Water and Governance
“Water and Governance” is an expansive topic that includes how communities and states have sought to manage access to water supplies. This topic...
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Gender Perspectives in Peace and Conflict
This chapter examines various perspectives on how violence occurs in society. It defines concepts associated with gender equality, including...
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The Scale, Governance, and Sustainability of Central Places in Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica
Examinations of the variation and relative successes or failures of past large-scale societies have long involved attempts to reconcile efforts at...
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Conclusion
With the concept of Children in Streets Situations as a heuristic device to illuminate a particular object, we started to search for an object. We...
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The Contested State vs. Contentious Workers: The Symbolic Labor Politics in Transitional China
How does the Chinese state maintain its legitimacy and manage labor conflicts during its transition to market economy? Through detailed analysis of a...
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The Conditions Enabling Individual Choice and the Limitation of Power
This chapter attempts to identify the conditions that make individual freedom of choice possible or impossible. Equality before the law is a product...
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Human Ecology
Human bio-cultural evolution is affected by ecological processes, whether on scales of individual decision-makers or population-level phenomena....
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The Eighteenth Brumaire in historical context: reconsidering class and state in France and Syria
This article seeks to reinterpret the process of state and class formation in “peripheral” societies—notably Syria—through a contextualized reading...
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An Analytic Model of Culture and Power
In this chapter, ‘culture’ is defined, its place in the social division of labor specified, and also distinguished from the pursuit of power and the...
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The End of Capitalism: Eugene V. Debs and the Argument for Socialism in America
We are in the midst in the United States, the world’s foremost capitalist country, of a surge of interest in Socialism. Many Americans contend, or at...
