Sociology category: 22581 books
Social Class and Transnational Human Capital
How Middle and Upper Class Parents Prepare Their Children for Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become important for societies and people’s social positions. Previous research on social inequality, however, has dominantly focused on the reproduction of class...
Social Class in Europe
An introduction to the European Socio-economic Classification
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research. Social Class in Europe aims to introduce researchers to the new classification and its research potential....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2008
Some relationships are within the family -- such as between parents and children, grandparents and children and between siblings -- while others are between friends. In some cases, these distinctions are blurred (Are short-term partners family members? Are family members seen as such when relations...
Economic Lives
How Culture Shapes the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development...
Money Talks
Explaining How Money Really Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies, and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how do we make sense of it? Money Talks is the first book to offer a wide range of alternative and unexpected...
Gender, Culture and Organizational Change
Putting Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
An engaging contribution to the increasing body of knowledge about gender and organizations, Gender, Culture and Organizational Change examines gender-based inequality in organizations and considers how sexual and social relations between women and men based on sexuality, power and control determine...
The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics
The Platform of Community, Humanity, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book confronts the failings of current global economics to deliver the equity, sustainability and community empowerment which humanity now needs to handle a troubled future. The volume proposes an economy built from our society, not the other way around.
The Kyoto Manifesto was built,...
Understanding Research in Personal Relationships
A Text With Readings
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2005
`The main strengths of the book are its uniqueness… its mix of emphasis on methods, statistics, and ideas, its commentaries by the authors, and the well-chosen journal articles' - John Harvey, University of Iowa
Understanding Research in Personal Relationships is a comprehensive introduction...
by David Knoke
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Social relations are crucial for understanding diverse economic actions and a network perspective is central to that explanation. Simple exchanges involving money, labor, and commodities combine into complexly connected systems. Economic networks span many levels of analysis, from persons (consumers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
This book presents the most recent theoretical insights and practical intervention methods to (re)build trust between management and organized employees in organizations. Offering a multidisciplinary perspective on trust and conflict management in organizations, the book draws from diverse fields...
Broke
How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse—with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth, and falling house values destabilizing the American...
by Lizhong Xie
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
De-politicizing issues of ethnicity is a new theoretical approach to study ethnic questions actively propounded and elaborated by Professor Ma Rong of Sociology Department of Peking University in the past ten years. In the recent years, this theoretical approach has aroused biggish responses from...
Nouveau-riche Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Korea
A media narrative analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The unprecedented economic success of South Korea since the 1990s has led in turn to a large increase in the number of immigrants and foreign workers in Korean industries. This book describes and explains the experiences of discrimination and racism that foreigners and ‘new’ Koreans have faced...
Japan after the Economic Miracle
In Search of New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As Japan comes to grips with a decade of economic malaise after its spectacular post-war growth record, how will Japanese society react? Contributors to this volume examine the challenges ahead for Japan in the fields of politics, economics, sociology, environment and business. This multidisciplinary...