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Exhibitions of the Stereotype in Kara Walker’s A Subtlety 卡拉·沃克《微妙》中刻板印象的展示

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change Pub Date : 2018-12-22 DOI: 10.20897/JCASC/3989

L. V. D. Bergh

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Metaphysical Sociology: On the Work of John Carroll 形而上学社会学:论约翰·卡罗尔的著作

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change Pub Date : 2018-12-22 DOI: 10.20897/JCASC/3995

Kieran J Flanagan

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Mediating Identities: Community Arts, Media, and Collective Identity in the Frontline Resistance to Fracking 中介身份:社区艺术，媒体和集体身份在前线抵制水力压裂

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change Pub Date : 2018-12-22 DOI: 10.20897/JCASC/3992

P. Serafini

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引用次数: 3

Disentangling Individualism: Toward a Heuristic Tool for Cultural Analyses of Evaluations of Self and Society 解开个人主义:对自我和社会评价的文化分析的启发式工具

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change Pub Date : 2018-12-22 DOI: 10.20897/JCASC/3993

Kobe De Keere

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Son Preference among the Educated Urban Middle-class in North India 印度北部受过教育的城市中产阶级对儿子的偏好

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change Pub Date : 2018-08-09 DOI: 10.20897/JCASC/3116

A. Kohli

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引用次数: 2

Editorial: Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change 社论:《文化分析与社会变迁》

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change Pub Date : 2018-08-09 DOI: 10.20897/JCASC/3118

S. Stewart

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Lenin’s Lens: The Occupy Movement, an Infantile Disorder? 列宁的镜头:占领运动，一种幼稚的混乱?

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change Pub Date : 2018-08-09 DOI: 10.20897/JCASC/3117

J. Ibrahim, J. Roberts

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引用次数: 4

Stay in Your Own Part of the Bookshop! Legitimation in the Literary Field and the Limited Exchange Value of Celebrity Capital 呆在书店你自己的地方!文学领域的合法性与名人资本的有限交换价值

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change Pub Date : 2018-07-30 DOI: 10.20897/JCASC/3114

D. Giles

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Between Belonging and Longing: Why do Young Rural-urban Migrants Leave Their Places of Birth, What Do They Leave Behind, and Do They Consider Moving Back? 在归属与渴望之间:为什么年轻的城乡流动人口离开他们的出生地，他们留下了什么，他们是否考虑回去?

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change Pub Date : 2018-07-30 DOI: 10.20897/JCASC/2671

G. Svendsen

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引用次数: 5

On the Hijab-Gift: Gift-Theoretical Considerations on the Ambiguities and Ambivalences of Islamic Veiling in a Diasporic Context 论头巾-礼物:对流散背景下伊斯兰面纱的模糊性和矛盾性的礼物-理论思考

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change Pub Date : 2018-07-20 DOI: 10.20897/JCASC/2672

Anna-Mari Almila, D. Inglis

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