This book offers a diagnosis of the current epoch marked by globalization, de-globalization and re-globalization. The author shows how Constructivist ideas reveal four new conceptualisations of global trends: upgrading the rationality of organizat...Daugiau...
Magic, Science and Society investigates the way the rationality debate has developed over the last century, from E.E. Evans-Pritchards study of Azande magic, through Peter Winchs argument that there can be no such thing as a social sc...Daugiau...
This book considers the global response on governance after the pandemic while sociologically addressing the effects of COVID-19 in life and work experience. This book considers the global response on governance after the pandemic w...Daugiau...
Chattoraj and contributors explore the concept of privileged migration in the context of globalization, shedding light on the experiences of a demographic often overshadowed in migration discourse. The book delves into the rising mobility of various...Daugiau...
This book continues the Class Structure of Capitalist Societies series by exploring the place of class among a confluence of factors in shaping peoples lives, loves and lifestyles across three nations.Previous volumes in the series...Daugiau...
This book analyses the processes of commodification and decommodification which have wrought changes in Polish society since 1945. Examining the case of Poland, this book also explores comparisons to other countries in the Eastern European region....Daugiau...
This book has two interlocking ambitions. The first is to steer what we purposefully call the idioms of critical philosophy towards a more ecologically informed paradigm. The second is to recognise that what has rightly come to be called The Anthr...Daugiau...
Drawing on data collected in Londons precarious labour market during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book explores how precarious work is pragmatically engaged with towards the production of simultaneous security and insecurity.The analysis sp...Daugiau...
Guo provides a comprehensive outlook of how digital media is transforming the daily lives of senior citizens in China. A valuable book for scholars and researchers in Sociology, digital media, active aging population, gerontology and China Studies...Daugiau...
Invisible Seasides positions the seaside as a lens for understanding lived utopia, pinned in a certain place, an immovable feature in a landscape where our hopes and fears continue to unfold. Wide-ranging in theme, it brings a double perspe...Daugiau...
This book examines both the productive and counterproductive dimensions of the increasing orientation towards digital figures. Building on findings of the transdisciplinary research project The Measured Life, it explores the social, cultural and...Daugiau...
This book is an ethnographic inquiry into the complex socio-ecological relationalities in an inclusive, intercultural community garden in Germany, originally created as a refugees welcome project in 2015. It explores this quie...Daugiau...
This book examines the increasing body of research dedicated to the lasting differences between the former separate states of the Federal German Republic (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wal...Daugiau...
Placing the UK in a global context, this book engages with the emerging international debate on the future of education in the twenty-first century. It examines the post-pandemic paradigm shift in educational practice in countries around the world a...Daugiau...
While research evidence shows the negative impact of ability grouping on children, this book suggests that the reasonbehind this is the values of empire that governments, schools and many parents still uphold, promoting competition and hierarchies o...Daugiau...
This book explores the sociology of hope. It presents an overview of the state of the art of hope in sociology and proposes a new basic theory of hope linked to the classical theoretical traditions of sociology, to the perspective of its foundin...Daugiau...
This book presents an overview of the state of the art of hope in sociology and proposes a new basic theory of hope linked to the classical theoretical traditions of sociology, to the perspective of its founding women and to the reconstruction o...Daugiau...
This book explores interdisciplinary university teaching in both theory and practice, drawing on the experience and expertise of educators from across the social sciences and humanities. Based around pedagogical theory and concrete practical example...Daugiau...
This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post-World War II period and continuing up through the present. Neoliberalism the dominant political economic perspective that elevates competition abov...Daugiau...
This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post-World War II period and continuing up through the present. Neoliberalism the dominant political economic perspective that elevates competition abov...Daugiau...
