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      National Parliaments as a Global Institution

      Pertti Alasuutari

      This book considers national parliaments as a global institution to explore how legislatures symbolize, sanctify, and naturalize the nation-state as the component part of world society.

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      Desire and Craving: A Cultural Theory of Alcoholism

      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…

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      Social Theory and Human Reality

      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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      Rethinking the Media Audience: The New Agenda

      A summary of the field of audience research. It presents a case for a fresh agenda to account for the role of the media in everyday life.

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      Rethinking the Media Audience: The New Agenda

      A summary of the field of audience research. It presents a case for a fresh agenda to account for the role of the media in everyday life.

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      Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies

      Pertti Alasuutari

      Introducing a range of approaches and methodological tools for undertaking research, this textbook argues that cultural studies transcend the traditional divisions between qualitative and quantitative method, and between the social…

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      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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      The Synchronization of National Policies: Ethnography of the Global Tribe of Moderns

      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…

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      The Synchronization of National Policies: Ethnography of the Global Tribe of Moderns

      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…

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      Desire and Craving: A Cultural Theory of Alcoholism

      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…

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      National Policy-Making: Domestication of Global Trends

      National Policy-Making investigates the way in which social change takes place at a global scale. The volume brings together well-researched case studies of policy-making from across the world in a…

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      National Policy-Making: Domestication of Global Trends

      National Policy-Making investigates the way in which social change takes place at a global scale. The volume brings together well-researched case studies of policy-making from across the world in a…

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      Epistemic Governance: Social Change in the Modern World

      Pertti Alasuutari,Ali Qadir

      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…

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      The Sage Handbook of Social Research Methods

      The Handbook for Social Research Methods is a must for every social-science researcher. It charts the new and evolving terrain of social research methodology, covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods…

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      The Sage Handbook of Social Research Methods

      Describes various directions in social research, debating crucial subjects such as qualitative versus quantitative paradigms, how to judge the credibility of types of research, and the topical issue of research…

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