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Giant Resonances
by P.F. Bortigan A. Bracco R.A. BrogilaThe series of volumes, Contemporary Concepts in Physics, is addressed to the professional physicist and to the serious graduate student of physics. The subject of many-body systems constitutes a central chapter in the study of quantum mechanics, with applications ranging from elementary particle and condensed matter physics to the behaviour of compact stellar objects. Quantal size effects is one of the most fascinating facets of many-body physics; this is testified to by the developments taking place in the study of metallic clusters, fullerenes, nanophase materials, and atomic nuclei. This book is divided into two main parts: the study of giant resonances based on the atomic nucleus ground state (zero temperature), and the study of the y-decay of giant resonances from compound (finite temperature) nuclei.
Gibt es ein Recht auf Gemeinwohl?: Öffentliche Interessen im Blickwinkel von Rechts- und Politikwissenschaft (essentials)
by Christoph StrünckPolitikwissenschaftliche Pluralismustheorien betrachten Gemeinwohl als Resultat politischer Kompromisse. Solche prozeduralen Konzepte finden sich auch in der Rechtswissenschaft, wenn es darum geht, allgemeinen und schwachen Interessengruppen besondere Klagerechte einzuräumen. Allerdings müssen Gerichte in ihren Urteilen inhaltlich begründen, inwiefern mit solchen Klagen öffentliche Interessen gewahrt werden. Am Beispiel des Verbraucherschutzes erläutert der Autor, warum moderne Pluralismuskonzepte auch solche inhaltlichen Gemeinwohlbestimmungen in die Analyse der Interessenvermittlung einbeziehen sollten.
Giddens' Theory of Structuration: A Critical Appreciation (Routledge Revivals)
by David Jary Christopher G.A. BryantAnthony Giddens is one of the most respected and influential social theorists at work today. This wide-ranging and stimulating volume, first published in 1991, provides an authoratative and penetrating critical assessment of social theory. It will be of use to all students of sociology and social theory.
Gift-Giving, Gift-Taking und Gift-Exchange zur Gewinnung von Freiwilligen: Theoretische Modelle und ein Feldexperiment (BestMasters)
by Maximilian Alex KuntzeIn diesem Buch wird die Wirkung eines bedingungslos angebotenen Geschenks (Geschenkaustausch, Gift-Exchange) sowie einer kleinen vorangegangenen Bitte (Fuß-in-der-Tür-Technik, Foot-in-the-door-technique) auf die Bereitschaft, Freiwilligenarbeit zu leisten, untersucht.Es werden Mechanismen und Erklärungsansätze des Geschenkaustauschs diskutiert, theoretische und experimental-methodische Ansätze vorgeschlagen sowie der Einsatz und die Wirkung von Geschenken und einer kleinen Bitte im Feld erprobt. Hierzu werden stark rezipierte formal-mathematische theoretische Modelle adaptiert und weiterentwickelt, ein großangelegtes natürliches Feldexperiment durchgeführt sowie Literatur zu experimenteller und theoretischer Evidenz diskutiert.Thematisiert werden schwerpunktmäßig• Aversion gegenüber vorteilhafter Ungleichheit• Präferenzen für reziprokes Erwidern• Wahrgenommene Selbstwahrnehmung des eigenen Verhaltens mit direkten Auswirkungen auf eigene Präferenzen• Vermeidung kognitiver Dissonanz bedingt durch inkonsistentes Verhalten
Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology #46)
by Gary Alan FineLearning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with teammates, competitors, coaches, and parents as well as classmates outside the debating circuit. In Gifted Tongues, Gary Alan Fine offers a rich description of this world as a testing ground for both intellectual and emotional development, while seeking to understand adolescents as social actors. Considering the benefits and drawbacks of the debating experience, he also recommends ways of reshaping programs so that more high schools can use them to boost academic performance and foster specific skills in citizenship. Fine analyzes the training of debaters in rapid-fire speech, rules of logical argumentation, and the strategic use of evidence, and how this training instills the core values of such American institutions as law and politics. Debates, however, sometimes veer quickly from fine displays of logic to acts of immaturity--a reflection of the tensions experienced by young people learning to think as adults. Fine contributes to our understanding of teenage years by encouraging us not to view them as a distinct stage of development but rather a time in which young people draw from a toolkit of both childlike and adult behaviors. A well-designed debate program, he concludes, nurtures the intellect while providing a setting in which teens learn to make better behavioral choices, ones that will shape relationships in their personal, professional, and civic lives.
Giftedness and Talent
by Nadine Ballam Roger MoltzenThis book brings together recent postgraduate research in the broad area of giftedness, talent development and gifted education conducted across New Zealand and Australia. It addresses the significant demand for research in the field undertaken outside the United States and offers valuable practical insights. Divided into 14 chapters, the book explores giftedness and talent in a diverse range of socioeconomic cohorts and contexts, including examinations of gender, race and ethnicity. Though primarily intended for practitioners, it will also benefit undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and educators in New Zealand, Australia and beyond.
Gifts and Nations: The Obligation to Give, Receive and Repay
by Wilton S. DillonWhat can men in industrial nations learn from their "primitive" contemporaries, and the habits of earlier civilizations? This book by acclaimed cultural anthropologist Wilton S. Dillon suggests that modern political, religious, and scientific communities--and alliances--would be enhanced greatly if we understood how gift exchange and reciprocity helped to balance earlier institutions and societies.Using the example of the gift behavior of France and the United States during the Marshall Plan period, Gifts and Nations examines the troubles that arise between donors and recipients when a generous donor remains innocent of the recipient's desire to give back things or ideas to which both attach value. Such innocence may produce what the author calls "the Gaullist effect"--a quest for self-esteem, autonomy, and initiative by a person, or a nation, who feels burdened and controlled by undischarged obligations.Gifts and Nations is very much an historical footnote to the rise of PaxAmericana--the American empire having been launched in 1898, enlarged in the aftermath of World War II and the Cold War, and now the subject of global debate. This volume emphasizes that building coalitions and keeping alliances strong require multi-lateralism based on reciprocity.
Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China
by Mayfair Mei-Hui YangAn elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's close scrutiny of this phenomenon serves as a window to view facets of a much broader and more complex cultural, historical, and political formation. Using rich and varied ethnographic examples of guanxi stemming from her fieldwork in China in the 1980s and 1990s, the author shows how this "gift economy" operates in the larger context of the socialist state redistributive economy.
Gifts, Romance, and Consumer Culture (Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research)
by Russell W. Belk Yuko MinowaHow do people communicate their romantic feelings? Gift giving is one way. Giving and receiving of gifts is a characteristic of intimate relationships. Gifts are a message, a form of communication with a tangible material object, about love, affection, or concern for the recipient. The "romantic gift" evokes a multitude of intertwined meanings: passion, intimacy, affection, persuasion, care, celebration, altruism, and nostalgia. They can also connote the negative images of obligation and reciprocity. Romantic gift giving may be practiced at rituals, during rites of passage, or for casual occasions, to affirm the continued importance of the romantic relationship. We may even romanticize the giving of gifts to the self, to nonhuman companions, and to others we do not know personally. If loving and giving are a practice, then romantic gift giving is a practice of loving with intimate—or would-be intimate—others. This book addresses gift giving among consumers attempting to express and construct romantic love. It lies at the intersection of consumption, markets, and culture. In societies shaped by the globalizing neo-liberal economic order, increasing wealth disparity, and a partially digitized social environment that they help to co-construct, it may be time to rethink romantic love. Gift giving is a key arena to do so, as gifts make love tangible and act as carriers of meaning as well as cultural symbols. In gift giving the meanings of romance are renewed, renegotiated, and reconstructed. Gifts, Romance, And Consumer Culture demonstrates a wide variety of scholarly work bearing on romantic gift giving using an interpretive consumer research perspective. The book introduces critical studies by scholars in this unfolding and new interdisciplinary field.
Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
by John Bowe Marisa Bowe"Amazing . . . a gem of a book that uses only the strength of the human voice to tell an American story -- sometimes dark, always fascinating."-- USA Today"The accounts are wonderfully revealing, with gritty and almost shockingly honest detail. For all their variety, they weave a cohesive, passion-filled story of what people bring to their work. It's an addictive read."-- Harvard Business Review's Best Business Books of 2000"Keen, disturbing, and deeply felt . . . the stories in Gig deliver a more rousing political wallop than those in Working . . . remarkable and strangely moving." -- Susan Faludi, The Village Voice"I love this book! It's surprising and entertaining and makes the world seem like a bigger and more interesting place. Gig manages to document everyday life and give pure narrative pleasure at the same time. One feels proud to live in the same country as the people in this book." -- Ira Glass, host of This American Life"A fascinating compilation of what the American workforce has to say about itself." -- George Plimpton"Eye-opening . . . more revealing than any theories a sociologist could concoct." -- The Industry Standard"Entertaining, sobering, validating . . . Ordinary people discuss their jobs with extraordinary candor." -- US Weekly"In the age of advanced spin, this book accomplishes a very rare thing. It actually lets workers speak for themselves. . . . The result makes for a fascinating read." -- Andrew Ross, director, American Studies Program at New York University"Emotional and eye-opening, each compelling description offers insight about the job itself and, more important, an intimate view of a single human life." -- Austin Chronicle"An engaging, humorous, revealing, and refreshingly human look at the bizarre, life-threatening, and delightfully humdrum exploits of everyone from sports heroes to sex workers." -- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Coercion, Ecstasy Club, and Media VirusFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
Gilles Paquet: Homo hereticus (Governance Series)
by Andrew, Caroline; Hubbard, Ruth; Roy, JeffreyThis volume explores and contextualizes the contributions of Gilles Paquet as a social scientist. A quintessential public intellectual, Gilles Paquet's long and multifaceted career has shown him to be a thinker of significant power and creativity. This self-described "homo hereticus"--always critical and sometimes controversial--has influenced scholars and policy makers in Canada and around the globe. The contributors reveal how his assessments of economics, politics, public administration, and education have stirred their minds and helped them make sense of the world around them. The volume also provides comments on Paquet's vision of governance, touching on concepts of which he has made extensive use: meso-analysis, social learning, and moral contracts.
Gino Germani
by Ana GermaniDesde el joven que abandonó su Italia natal huyendo de la persecución fascista hasta el profesional internacionalmente reconocido que emprende otra vez el camino del exilio -esta vez al mundo académico estadounidense-, la vida de Gino Germani puede concebirse como la de un auténtico liberal en lucha permanente contra toda forma de totalitarismo. Es que el fundador de la Sociología científica en la Argentina estaba convencido de que una sociedad democrática era condición sine qua non para el pleno desarrollo de la ciencia. Y Germani era un científico cabal, que bregó sin descanso por una Sociología basada en fundamentos empíricos y alejada de cualquier forma de retórica. Vivió y llevó a cabo su actividad profesional en la Argentina durante uno de los períodos más fecundos en el desarrollo de las ciencias sociales locales y fue protagonista indiscutido de ese proceso, generador de debates vitales que siguen siendo punto de referencia entre quienes se dedican a esas disciplinas. Ana Germani ha escrito una minuciosa biografía intelectual que reconstruye el clima de esa época convulsionada y prolífica. Numerosos documentos inéditos y testimonios de los intelectuales que protagonizaron el movimiento cultural de los años cuarenta, cincuenta y sesenta contribuyen a iluminar la figura y la obra de un científico que ha dejado huellas indelebles en el campo de estudio de la sociedad argentina.
Gino Germani. Del antifascismo a la sociología: Gino Germani 1911-1979
by Ana Alejandra GermaniDocumentos inéditos y testimonios de los intelectuales que protagonizaron el movimiento cultural de los años cuarenta, cincuenta y sesenta contribuyen a iluminar la figura y la obra de Gino Germani que ha dejado huellas indelebles en el campo de estudio de la sociedad argentina. Documentos inéditos y testimonios de los intelectuales que protagonizaron el movimiento cultural de los años cuarenta, cincuenta y sesenta contribuyen a iluminar la figura y la obra de este científico, Gino Germani, que ha dejado huellas indelebles en el campo de estudio de la sociedad argentina. Desde el joven que abandonó su Italia natal huyendo de la persecución fascista hasta el profesional internacionalmente reconocido que emprende otra vez el camino del exilio -esta vez al mundo académico estadounidense-, la vida de Gino Germani puede concebirse como la de un auténtico liberal en lucha permanente contra toda forma de totalitarismo. El fundador de la Sociología científica en la Argentina estaba convencido de que una sociedad democrática era condición sine qua non para el pleno desarrollo de la ciencia. Y Germani era un científico cabal, que bregó sin descanso por una Sociología basada en fundamentos empíricos y alejada de cualquier forma de retórica. Vivió y llevó a cabo su actividad profesional en la Argentina durante uno de los períodos más fecundos en el desarrollo de las ciencias sociales locales y fue protagonista indiscutido de ese proceso, generador de debates vitales que siguen siendo punto de referencia entre quienes se dedican a esas disciplinas. Ana Germani ha escrito una minuciosa biografía intelectual que reconstruye el clima de esa época convulsionada y prolífica.
Giorgio Agamben: Education Without Ends (SpringerBriefs in Education)
by Igor JasinskiItalian critical theorist Giorgio Agamben may be best known for his political writings concerning the curtailing of privacy rights in the wake of 9/11 and the status of prisoners of war and refugees. Yet, casting him primarily as a political theorist is misleading given his significant contributions to the fields of linguistics, literary theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and religious studies. This book provides the first ever comprehensive introduction to Agamben’s work as it pertains to the field of education. Written in a clear and accessible style, Giorgio Agamben: Education without Ends is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in thinking education beyond its current standardized forms.The first part of the book creates a context by highlighting formative experiences in Agamben’s biography that reflect a particular idea of education on the threshold between life and work. The second part introduces the notions of infancy, study, community, and happiness, and discusses their relevance with regard to key issues in educational theory and practice. The third part shows how conceptual constellations based on Agamben’s work can inspire studious practices within the spatial, temporal, and curricular infrastructure of educational institutions as they exist today.
Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence
by Gene BruckerAccount of a 1456 court case in which a woman complains her husband has just married another woman, which shows many customs and laws of love and marriage at that time.
Girl Alone
by Cathy GlassAged nine Joss came home from school to discover her father's suicide. She's never got over it. This is the true story of Joss, 13 who is angry and out of control. At the age of nine, Joss finds her father s dead body. He has committed suicide. Then more recently her mother remarries and Joss bitterly resents her step-father who abuses her mentally and physically. Cathy takes Joss under her wing but will she ever be able to get through to the warm-hearted girl she sees glimpses off underneath the vehement outbreaks of anger that dominate the house and will Cathy be able to build up Joss ' trust so she can learn the full truth of the terrible situation.
Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada
by Joan SangsterRarely a week goes by when juvenile delinquency or the Young Offenders Act are not discussed in the dominant media. Are we witnessing a moral panic over youth crime or a spate of “child-blaming” driven by the politics of law and order? Sangster traces the history of young women and crime and in so doing punctures dozens of myths surrounding these issues. Girl Trouble uncovers the voices of girls and their families who are caught up in the juvenile justice system, and provides a critical look at the definitions of, and solutions to, female delinquency. The book fills a significant gap in Canadian social and legal history.
Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia (Volume 2, J-Z)
by Miriam Forman-BrunellThis reference in two volumes explores what it means to be a girl in America. Over 100 contributions from Forman-Brunell (U. of Missouri, Kansas City) and other academics discuss such topics as spending money, birth control, cosmetics, diaries, prom, eating disorders, Girl Scouts, menstruation, lesbians, substance abuse, and "riot grrrls." Coverage includes topics relating to the experiences of girls of different ages, races, classes, sexual orientations, religions, ethnicities, and abilities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Girlhood, Schools, and Media: Popular Discourses of the Achieving Girl (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
by Michele PauleThis book explores the circulation and reception of popular discourses of achieving girlhood, and the ways in which girls themselves participate in such circulation. It examines the figure of the achieving girl within wider discourses of neoliberal self-management and post-feminist possibility, considering the tensions involved in being both successful and successfully feminine and the strategies and negotiations girls undertake to manage these tensions.The work is grounded in an understanding of media, educational, and peer contexts for the production of the successful girl. It traces narratives across school, television and online in texts produced for and by girls, drawing on interviews with girls in schools, online forum participation (within the purpose-built site www.smartgirls.tv), and girls’ discussions of a range of teen dramas.
Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change
by Bonnie BurtonWritten for all teen girls, this insightful book discusses different types of girl-on-girl cruelty, why it happens, and how to deal with it.
Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change
by Bonnie BurtonGirls Against Girls is a must-read for today's strong, smart, and capable generation of young women. Now, more than ever, young women need to stand together and not tear each other down, and this book provides guidance on how to break the cycle. This informative read includes real scientific theories about why girls are cruel to each other, girls' war tactics, steps to take when things get out of hand, and positive advice for girls on how to unite and become more empowered. There's also advice from female artists and athletes, inspiring movie quotes, and an excellent resource section of empowering organizations to discover.
Girls Negotiating Porn in South Africa: Power, Play and Sexuality (Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa)
by Deevia BhanaThe book investigates how teenage girls in South Africa encounter and consume pornography, situating their experiences within wider sociocultural and affective relations of power. It focuses on girls’ online playful and pleasurable pursuits as they explore and expand upon their sexual curiosities. In this digital moment, the book directs us to the multi-layered meanings around porn, as an everyday normative experience. The book takes on an interdisciplinary approach drawing from and inspired by new feminist materialism and assemblage theorising. For teenage girls porn is freely available to see in billboards, magazines, books, on television, music videos, games, online streaming and social media sites. Girls do not have to view hardcore porn to see porn: it is everywhere. It argues that girls’ online playful adventures are a critical site for learning, developing, and negotiating gender and sexuality. These meanings are constitutive of pleasure and the pursuit of learning sexually, but they also provide a launchpad for girls to contest race, gender, and heterosexual domination while opening up online porn to broader interrogation and critique. The book will be of interest to researchers across African studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, youth, gender and sexuality studies, porn studies, and childhood studies.
Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution
by KaeLyn Rich Giulia SagramolaAn activism handbook for teen girls ready to fight for change, social justice, and equality.Take on the world and make some serious change with this handbook to everything activism, social justice, and resistance. With in-depth guides to everything from picking a cause, planning a protest, and raising money to running dispute-free meetings, promoting awareness on social media, and being an effective ally, Girls Resist! will show you how to go from “mad as heck about the way the world is going” to “effective leader who gets stuff done.” Veteran feminist organizer KaeLyn Rich shares tons of expertise that’ll inspire you as much as it teaches you the ropes. Plus, quotes and tips from fellow teen girl activists show how they stood up for change in their communities. Grab this handbook to crush inequality, start a revolution, and resist!
Girls of Color, Sexuality, and Sex Education
by Sharon Lamb Tangela Roberts Aleksandra PlochaThis book takes a close look at how girls of color think, talk, and learn about sex and sexual ethics, how they navigate their developing sexuality through cultural stereotypes about sex and body image, and how they negotiate their sexual learning within a co-ed sex education classroom. While girls of color are often pictured as at risk or engaged in risky behavior, the analyses of focus groups and classroom discussions, show not only girls’ vulnerabilities but their strengths as they work with integrating diverse identities, media messages, school policy and history into their understanding of the sexual world they are exposed to and a part of.
Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism (Framing 21st Century Social Issues)
by France Winddance TwineA nuanced understanding of state violence and gender (in)equalities must consider the varied and contradictory experiences of armed civilian women, female soldiers, and opponents of gun possession. How is ‘feminism’ and ‘femininity’ negotiated in the early 21st century by civilian and military women in a nation that fetishizes guns? This book addresses this social problem by offering a comparative analysis of the particular dilemmas that gender inequality, class inequality, race/racism and U.S. nationalism generate for women of diverse backgrounds who are struggling to balance conventional gender roles, femininity and gendered violence in the United States.