Die Freiwilligen Feuerwehren in Österreich und Deutschland: by Friedhelm Wolter

By Friedhelm Wolter

Die Freiwilligen Feuerwehren sind in Österreich mit etwa 250.000 aktiven Mitgliedern sowie in Deutschland mit mehr als 1.000.000 Angehörigen die mit Abstand größten und wirkungsvollsten Organisationen der so genannten nichtpolizeilichen Gefahrenabwehr. In Anbetracht gesamtgesellschaftlicher Veränderungen drohen diese bewährten Strukturen indes ihre Fähigkeiten der schnellen, bürgernahen und qualifizierten Hilfeleistung einzubüßen. Es bedarf ganzheitlicher Anstrengungen und organisatorischer Veränderungen, soll das process in seiner Breite erhalten bleiben.
Das Buch ist die erste vollumfängliche Untersuchung der Freiwilligen Feuerwehren in beiden Ländern. Neben einer Darstellung konkreter finanzieller Dimensionen beinhalten die Ausführungen zudem praxisorientierte Hinweise auf notwendige Restrukturierungsprozesse. Darüber hinaus wurden die ehrenamtlichen Feuerwehrangehörigen in beiden Ländern zur Mitgliedssituation mit dem Ziel befragt, daraus resultierend eine Anreizstruktur etablieren zu können.

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Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial by Melvin Oliver, Thomas Shapiro

By Melvin Oliver, Thomas Shapiro

The award-winning Black Wealth / White Wealth offers a strong portrait of racial inequality in accordance with an research of non-public wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro's groundbreaking study analyzes wealth - overall resources and bills instead of source of revenue by myself - to discover deep and chronic racial inequality in the USA, they usually exhibit how public regulations have did not redress the problem.

First released in 1995, Black Wealth / White Wealth is taken into account a vintage exploration of race and inequality. It supplied, for the 1st time, systematic empirical proof that defined the racial inequality hole among blacks and whites. The 10th Anniversary version includes completely new and sizeable chapters. those chapters examine the ongoing problems with wealth and inequality in the USA and the recent guidelines which were introduced long ago ten years. a few were innovative whereas others in basic terms recreate inequality - for instance the inspiration to cast off the property tax.

Compelling and in addition informative, Black Wealth / White Wealth isn't just pioneering examine. it's also a robust counterpoint to arguments opposed to affirmative motion and a right away problem to present social welfare regulations which are tilted in the direction of the wealthy.

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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and by Mary Douglas

By Mary Douglas

In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the fear for purity as a key subject on the middle of each society. In energetic and lucid prose she explains its relevance for each reader by way of revealing its wide-ranging effect on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and information. The publication has been highly influential in lots of parts of dialogue - from faith to social idea. yet possibly its most vital function is to provide each one reader a brand new clarification of why humans behave within the manner they do. With a especially commissioned advent via the writer which assesses the ongoing importance of the paintings thirty-five years on, this Routledge Classics variation will make sure that Purity and Danger maintains to problem and query good into the recent millennium.

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The Dilemma of Qualitative Method: Herbert Blumer and the by Martyn Hammersley

By Martyn Hammersley

The dispute over the worth of qualitative as opposed to quantitative methods to social study originated in nineteenth and early 20th-century debates in regards to the courting among the equipment of background and usual technology. inside sociology, this dispute first arose within the usa through the Twenties and Nineteen Thirties, among adherents of "case research" and statistical equipment. one of many major advocates of case research used to be the Chicago sociologist, Herbert Blumer. His influential writings on method supply a hyperlink among this prior controversy and the debates of later many years. despite the fact that, Blumer's arguments for qualitative or "naturalistic" tools, preserve a critical ambivalence - does that procedure proportion an identical good judgment as common technological know-how, or does it symbolize a special kind of enquiry attribute of heritage and the arts? That factor maintains to underlie discussions of qualitative procedure, and provokes basic questions about the methods hired via qualitative researchers. "The hindrance of Qualitative technique" is a advisor to this key region of social examine method. the writer sketches the ancient content material of the dispute and offers an in depth account and systematic research of Blumer's methodological writings, together with his doctoral thesis. The ideas for qualitative examine recommended through Blumer and others in the Chicago culture are reviewed and assessed.

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Actual Energy Consumption in Dwellings: The Effect of Energy by O. Guerra Santin

By O. Guerra Santin

Residential structures have always superior in power potency, in part by reason of the creation of strength rules in lots of international locations. even though greater thermal homes and structures potency have diminished strength intake for house heating in contemporary many years, giant transformations in strength intake in comparable dwellings are nonetheless being saw. those ameliorations in intake are considered brought on by alterations in occupancy styles, by way of caliber of building and through rebound results. This learn addresses the influence of power functionality laws and occupant habit on strength intake for house and water heating in dwellings outfitted after the advent of the power functionality laws within the Netherlands. the result of this examine express that bettering the power potency of constructions by myself isn't really adequate to diminish that power intake. the big alterations present in using dwellings point out that, in particular in strength effective homes, occupant habit offers a chance for extra mark downs within the power intake for house heating which can strengthen the efforts to preserve strength all over the world. IOS Press is a world technological know-how, technical and scientific writer of fine quality books for teachers, scientists, and pros in all fields. a number of the parts we submit in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and data platforms -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All facets of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The wisdom economic climate -Urban reviews -Arms regulate -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences

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Knowledge, Ideology and Discourse: A Sociological by Tim Dant

By Tim Dant

This pupil textbook, initially released in 1991, tackles the normal difficulties of the sociology of data from a brand new point of view. Drawing on contemporary advancements in social idea, Tim Dant explores the most important questions similar to the jobs of strength and data, the prestige of rational wisdom, and the empirical research of information. He argues that, from a sociological standpoint, wisdom, ideology and discourse are assorted facets of an identical phenomenon, and reasserts the principal thesis of the sociology - that wisdom is socially decided.

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“Between Two Worlds” Hans Gerth: Eine Biografie 1908–1978 by Nobuko Gerth

By Nobuko Gerth

Dieses Jahrbuch veröffentlicht erstmalig - in englischer Sprache- die zusammenhängende Biografie des Sozialwissenschaftlers Hans Gerth. Es ist das intellektuelle Porträt eines der letzten Mannheim-Schüler und namhaften sozialwissenschaftlichen Emigrées und zugleich angesichts des verarbeiteten bisher unbekannten Korrespondenzmaterials ein Zeitdokument ersten Ranges.

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Research in Action: Theories and Practices for Innovation by Conny Almekinders, Leni Beukema, Coyan Tromp

By Conny Almekinders, Leni Beukema, Coyan Tromp

Learn in motion engages with the demanding situations a researcher faces whilst eager to dwell as much as meet the demanding situations of latest technological know-how and give a contribution to innovation and social switch. This ambition to give a contribution to alter increases many questions. how to find the focus team of the examine? What function does this workforce play within the learn? Which equipment of information assortment are appropriate? who're the commissioners of the examine and do their pursuits fit with these of the leading objective workforce? tips to care for strength relationships in learn occasions? What do those concerns suggest for the relation of researcher with the folks within the researched state of affairs? And, final yet now not least, what does all of it indicate for the researcher him- or herself?These questions must be handled in events within which the layout and association of the study continues to be open but in addition in events the place those have already been preformatted in the course of the study inspiration or previous advancements. as a minimum, they need to be framed within the theoretical issues of what's technology. This booklet goals to aid students and practitioners who would wish to accommodate this type of examine and questions. The e-book doesn't supply recipes, nor fastened eventualities. It offers a chain of sensible learn circumstances and theoretical insights through skilled researchers who themselves fight with what's the most significant questions of technological know-how today.The useful examples of analysis in motion are from various disciplines and comprise issues from health and wellbeing care, coverage learn, agricultural expertise and schooling, in Northern and Southern context. 4 major topics of study in motion are brought within the first bankruptcy. within the final bankruptcy the editors go back to the dilemmas study in motion and take a look at to elucidate the choices and responses which are attainable in several events

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Celebrity philanthropy by Elaine Jeffreys

By Elaine Jeffreys

There’s no doubt that celebrities nowadays are essentially the most in demand faces of philanthropic activity—yet their participation increases questions about efficacy, motivations, and activism total. This publication offers case reports of superstar philanthropy from round the globe—including such figures as Shakira, Arundhati Roy, Zhang Ziyi, Bono, and Madonna—looking on the tensions among superstar activism and ground-level paintings and the connection among big name philanthropy and cultural citizenship.

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Origines de l'esprit bourgeois en France by Bernard Groethuysen

By Bernard Groethuysen

"Il s'agit ici de creuser plus loin que les idées, de faire paraître, parler, cet être prudent, effacé, qu'était le bourgeois d'autrefois. On n'y parviendra pas sans ruse. [...] Le détour imaginé par M. Bernard Groethuysen est celui-ci : ne pouvant écouter les bourgeois, il a écouté les curés, et, à travers leurs propos, il a deviné maintes choses. [...] ce n'est pas Voltaire, ni Rousseau, dont Bernard Groethuysen est curieux, c'est du Français moyen, et pour se rapprocher de lui, il s'assied au prêche avec lui. Soupçonnait-on qu'après tant de travaux une resource considérable pour l. a. connaissance du XVIIIe siècle restait négligée ?"

Daniel Halévy

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