Böcker av Alf H. Walle

Drawing on the thought of Hoffer and Durkheim, this volume analyses the responses of populations in Western societies who feel that changes in the racial, religious, and ethnic make-up of society threaten their way of life, employing the concepts of 'anomie' and 'the true believer' to understand the fractious nature of contemporary society.

Deals with the various key issues involving the increased participation of the private sector within cultural tourism. This book focuses on marketing thought and its implications in regard to cultural tourism. It seeks to help host communities and their advocates to become familiar with and comfortable within a private sector context.

This group of essays is written to provide a series of suggestions to Native people who seek to deal with alcoholism from the perspective of their unique heritages and with an understanding that the pressures to which Native traditions and societies have been subjected may trigger dysfunctional behavior, such as excessive drinking.

Deals with the fact that people often lose the ability to cope when their cultures are under attack; the resulting pain can lead to substance abusers. This book features Handsome Lake, a Native leader to show how his inspirational example can help Native people who seek recovery from substance abuse.

Biblical scholarship, like many other disciplines, has become increasingly isolated. As a result, the field has not borrowed as much from other areas of scholarship as it could have and has exerted a smaller impact upon the larger intellectual community. This book deals with how the New Testament can be read as a rebuttal of Pagan rivals.

Elements of popular culture (such as literature and films) are major industries. This work shows how the methods of popular culture scholarship can be merged with those of marketing and consumer research.

This study surveys the qualitative social sciences and humanities for instances where by design or accident they have had important things to say on the theory and practice of marketing and consumer research, exploring them as alternatives to the scientific and quantitative methods.

Relating both conflict theory and poststructural analysis to the actual needs of marketing consumer researchers, Exotic Visions in Marketing Theory and Practice provides unique, practical insights for those who teach market research as well as practitioners who pursue it for a living.

Although competitive intelligence and contemporary marketing research evolved from different intellectual traditions, both are indebted to qualitative methods of research and analysis.