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Author : Willard Sloshberg
Publisher : West Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780314814760
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book S.G. Contemporary American Society written by Willard Sloshberg and published by West Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sloshberg
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780314711267
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Contemporary American Society written by Sloshberg and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983-02-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David E. Nye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788750030980
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Contemporary american society written by David E. Nye and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mathews Mathew
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811267545
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Immigrant Integration In Contemporary Singapore: Solutioning Amidst Challenges written by Mathews Mathew and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singapore's success as a global city is in no small part attributable to its stance on foreign labour and immigrants, illustrated by a largely welcoming but discerning immigration regime to fulfil vital socio-economic needs. However, this fairly liberal policy on immigration has been met with substantial disquiet over the last decade. Xenophobic tendencies have surfaced periodically and have been compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic.This edited volume spotlights these contemporary issues on immigrant integration in Singapore, and adopts a functional approach by explicitly bridging academic and practitioner perspectives. The chapters are organised into three sections. The first section on Challenges discusses various dominant trends — obstacles to immigrant integration based on ethnicity, culture and religion, and the fear and associated emotions that characterise reactions to immigration. The second section focuses on Communities, their perspectives and lived experiences in Singapore society. The latter differ substantially depending on migrant statuses and are contingent on social capital defined in relation to locals in the city-state. The last section seeks to illustrate the various Solutioning endeavours in tandem with the contentious nature of immigration. These concrete efforts range from ground-up initiatives, community-based collaborative approaches and government programming; all seeking to advance immigrant integration in Singapore.
Author : David Nye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Contemporary American society written by David Nye and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Peterson
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819564726
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Theatre and the Politics of Culture in Contemporary Singapore written by William Peterson and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the vibrant relationships between theatre, cultural politics and social attitudes in a country whose history has many lessons for Western scholars.
Author : June Yap
Publisher : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
ISBN 13 : 6297575053
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Retrospective written by June Yap and published by Strategic Information and Research Development Centre. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed as an exploratory study of artworks by artists of Singapore and Malaysia, Retrospective attempts to account for contemporary artworks that engage with history. These are artworks that reference past events or narratives, of the nation and its art. Through the examination of a selection of artworks produced between 1990 and 2012, Retrospective is both an attribution and an analysis of a historiographical aesthetic within contemporary art practice. It considers that, by their method and in their assembly, these artworks perform more than a representation of a historical past. Instead, they confront history and its production, laying bare the nature and designs of the historical project via their aesthetic project. Positing an interdisciplinary approach as necessary for understanding the historiographical as aesthetic, Retrospective considers not only historical and aesthetic perspectives, but also the philosophical, by way of ontology, in order to broaden its exposition beyond the convention of historical and contextual interpretation of art. Yet, in associating these artworks with a historiographical aesthetic, this exposition may be regarded as a historiographical exercise in itself, affirming the significance of these artworks for the history of Singapore and Malaysia. In short, which history rarely is, Retrospective is about the art of historicisation and the historicisation of art.
Author : Peggy Teo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134188544
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Ageing in Singapore written by Peggy Teo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Older persons are often portrayed as social and financial burdens because pensions, health and social care have to withstand increasing old age dependency ratios. Due to a lack of access to representation or a lack of social and economic power, older people have found few opportunities to have their voices heard, making age an immensely political issue. Written by an impressive team of authors, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the experience of ageing in Singapore examining key issues such as health, work, housing, family ties and care giving. It looks at how social categorization enters into everyday life to elucidate the multiple meanings of age and identity encountered in a rapidly changing economy and society. Providing original critical discourse from Asian writers recording Asian voices, Ageing in Singapore will appeal to a wide readership and is an invaluable resource for policy makers, service practitioners and scholars working on Asian gerontology.
Author : Stephan Gramley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134420463
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book A Survey of Modern English written by Stephan Gramley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this authoritative guide is a comprehensive, scholarly and systematic review of modern English. In one volume the book presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day English and its geographical, social, gender, and ethnic variations. Covering new developments such as the impact of email on language and corpus-based grammars, this accessible text has been extensively rewritten and brings the survey of modern English right up to date. It also offers new examples and suggestions for further reading.
Author : Kenneth Paul Tan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004166432
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Cinema and Television in Singapore written by Kenneth Paul Tan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close readings of contemporary made-in-Singapore films (by Jack Neo, Eric Khoo, and Royston Tan) and television programs (Singapore Idol, sitcoms, and dramas), this book explores the possibilities and limitations of resistance within an advanced capitalist-industrial society whose authoritarian government skillfully negotiates the risks and opportunities of balancing its on-going nation-building project and its a oeglobal citya aspirations. This book adopts a framework inspired by Antonio Gramsci that identifies ideological struggles in art and popular culture, but maintains the importance of Herbert Marcusea (TM)s one-dimensional society analysis as theoretical limits to recognize the power of authoritarian capitalism to subsume works of art and popular culture even as they attempt consciouslya "even at times successfullya "to negate and oppose dominant hegemonic formations.
Author : Jesse O. McKee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742500341
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Ethnicity in Contemporary America written by Jesse O. McKee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and updated in this second edition, this clear and thoughtful text offers a geographical analysis of the history of U.S. immigration patterns and the development of selected ethnic minority groups. The book focuses especially on their origin, diffusion, socioeconomic characteristics, and settlement patterns within the United States. The book sets the context with opening chapters that discuss migration theory and the history of U.S. migration from 1607 to the present, including major U.S. immigration legislation, and provide a background for the time of entry, volume, and spatial distribution of various groups. Case-study chapters then analyze each of those groups, including Native Americans and those of African, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Cuban, Jewish, Japanese, Chinese, and Indochinese origin. The final section of the book explores rural and urban ethnic enclaves, focusing especially on immigrant groups of European heritage and their impacts on the cultural landscape of the United States.
Author : George Elmer Outland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Contemporary American Society ... written by George Elmer Outland and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780536746115
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Contemporary American Society written by and published by . This book was released on 200? with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C.J.W.-L. Wee
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622098596
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Asian Modern written by C.J.W.-L. Wee and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context? With this opening question, the author proceeds to give an account of how the modernization processes for postcolonial societies in Asia, such as those of India, Malaysia, and Singapore, are fraught with collaborations and conflicts between different socio-political, historical, economic, and cultural agents. Such ambivalent dynamics contribute to what Wee argues as a 'revealing distortion' of the extant models of Western modernity, which is nonetheless rooted in the politics of worldwide capitalism. Wee's narrative refuses to accept the uncritical interpretation of the modernizing processes in Asia as liberation from the hegemony of Euro-American capitalism. But neither is Wee prepared to concede that all cultural initiatives in the postcolonial societies are, therefore, denied all power to devise alternative forms of expression in the face of this haunting presence. It is the persistent effort to see the many faces of modernization in Asia in their full complexity that sets this study apart. Readers will discover that what seems to be the modernization of a single geopolitical entity is inevitably linked to the dynamics of various agents in other locations at different times, which makes us reflect on the existence of the many 'distortions' in our societies.
Author : Jeffrey Say
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811268649
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Histories, Practices, Interventions: A Reader In Singapore Contemporary Art written by Jeffrey Say and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories, Practices, Interventions: A Reader in Singapore Contemporary Art brings together key writings about ideas, practices, issues and art institutions that shape the understanding of contemporary art in Singapore. This reader is conceived as an essential resource for advancing critical debates on post-independence Singapore art and culture. It comprises a total of thirty-three texts by art historians, art theorists, art critics, artists and curators. In addition, there is an introduction by the co-editors, Jeffrey Say and Seng Yu Jin,as well as three section introductions contributed by Seng Yu Jin; artist, curator and writer Susie Wong; and art educator and writer Lim Kok Boon.Bundle set: A Reader in Singapore Modern and Contemporary Art
Author : David J. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Understanding Violent Criminals written by David J. Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What causes people to commit violent crimes? The case studies in this book enable readers to evaluate the motivations behind crimes ranging from arson to rape to gang violence. Violent crime remains a major problem in America: in 2011, there were more than 1.2 million violent crimes committed in the United States. To better grasp the complex reasons behind this disturbing statistic, author David J. Thomas—a police officer and forensic psychologist—conducted an in-depth examination of violent crime to pinpoint why some individuals intentionally inflict pain and suffering upon others. In this book, readers are given access to excerpts from police interviews for each spotlighted crime in the case studies, offering a unique inside look at the true motivations of the criminal. The case studies include examples of arson, crimes against children, gang violence, human trafficking, murder, rape, and robbery. The work also explores the psychology associated with each crime, addresses evidence of corresponding personality types, and delves into victimology.
Author : Edward Ashbee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book American Society Today written by Edward Ashbee and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American society today provides a balanced introduction to the defining features of contemporary American society. Includes the ways in which the US can be considered 'exceptional' - the character of the 'American dream', the role of ethnicity and race, and the differences between the regions. Considers in depth a number of contemporary debates including the claim that the US economy has lost its capacity to generate wealth and stimulate mobility, that there has been a process of civic disengagement as voluntary organisations have lost members, and that the traditional family is in decline. Includes a thorough investigation of the effects of the terrorist attacks of September 11 and their aftermath. Looks at the arguments put forward by those who assert that a common American identity has given way to a multitude of conflicting identities structured around factors such as race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality.
