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“hanja maksim”

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  • Mobilities and Inequality

    by Hanja Maksim, Manfred Max Bergman ...
    This book opens up the debate on the interrelations between space and mobilities with regard to different dimensions of social inequality. Based on the premise that the dynamics caused by modernization, globalization, migration and social change affect the structuring of the social fabric, the focus of the book is to illuminate these processes of social and spatial re-structurings. A leading team ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

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  • Community as Urban Practice

    by Talja Blokland ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme.Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Culture in Economics

    History, Methodological Reflections and Contemporary Applications

    by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Robbert Maseland ...
    Many economists now accept that informal institutions and culture play a crucial role in economic outcomes. Driven by the work of economists like Nobel laureates Douglass North and Gary Becker, there is an important body of work that invokes cultural and institutional factors to build a more comprehensive and realistic theory of economic behavior. This book provides a comprehensive overview of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The End of Illusions

    Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity

    by Andreas Reckwitz ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis ...
    We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another and the idea that humanity is on a progressive path to a better future seems like an illusion ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities

    An Evolutionary Economics without Homo economicus

    by Geoffrey M. Hodgson ...
    Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are the evolved codes and principles guiding appropriate behavior, or morality. The complex interaction of morality and self-interest is at the heart of ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Remaking Participation

    Science, Environment and Emergent Publics

    Edited by Jason Chilvers, Matthew Kearnes ...
    Changing relations between science and democracy – and controversies over issues such as climate change, energy transitions, genetically modified organisms and smart technologies – have led to a rapid rise in new forms of public participation and citizen engagement. While most existing approaches adopt fixed meanings of ‘participation’ and are consumed by questions of method or critiquing the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Transnational Identities

    Becoming European in the EU

    by Glynis M. Breakwell, Michael Brute, Emanuele Castano, Jack Citrin, Brigid Laffan, Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Jean Monnet, Amélie Mummendey, Sven Waldzus, Ruth Wodak, Eugenia Siapera, John Sides ...
    Series series Governance in Europe Series
    This original work explores the increasingly important phenomenon of the formation of transnational identity. Considering the ongoing relevance of the European Union, the contributors ask a series of intriguing questions: Is a European identity possible? How are the various types of European identity formed and maintained? How are these identities linked to the process of European integration? ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Beyond the Market

    The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency

    by Jens Beckert ...
    Translated by Barbara Harshav ...
    Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Gendered Mobilities

    by Tim Cresswell ...
    Being socially and geographically mobile is generally seen as one of the central aspects of women's wellbeing. Alongside health, education and political participation, mobility is indispensable in order for women to reach goals such as agency and freedom. Building on new philosophical underpinnings of 'mobility', whereby society is seen to be framed by the convergence of various mobilities, this ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Culture and Politics in Economic Development

    by Volker Bornschier ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    In this important book, pre-eminent economic sociologist Volker Bornschier analyzes growth and development in the Old and New Worlds - the so-called 'developed' countries. He shows how sociological and political factors have a massive impact on economic change in those countries.The book is a significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on social capital, trust and democracy and will be ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood

    New perspectives in Childhood Studies

    Edited by Florian Esser, Meike S. Baader, Tanja Betz, Beatrice Hungerland ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research on children’s agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines. This has made agency one of the key concepts of Childhood Studies, with articles on the subject featured in handbooks and encyclopaedias.Reconceptualising Agency and Childhoodis the first collection devoted to ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD

  • Bringing Sociology to International Relations

    World Politics as Differentiation Theory

    Edited by Mathias Albert, Barry Buzan, Michael Zürn ...
    Functional differentiation has long been at the heart of sociological thought, and as such has become a defining feature in the evolution of modern society; one which distinguishes it from pre-modern societies which have instead typically differentiated by means of segmentation, or stratified social systems such as class. Drawing on the latest developments on differentiation theory in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD