Population and demography Books
de Gruyter Das System Der Wissenschaften Von Der Bevölkerung
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£134.09
de Gruyter Die Demographie Und Ihre Methode
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de Gruyter Demoökonomische Probleme Der Entwicklungsländer
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de Gruyter Die Weltbevölkerung in Zahlen
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de Gruyter Die Arbeiterklasse in Asien Und Afrika
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de Gruyter Rechtliche Und Soziale Gleichheit Im Klassenkampf
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de Gruyter Bevölkerungsdynamik Und Gesellschaft
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de Gruyter Kind Und Gesellschaft
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de Gruyter Überbevölkerung in Den Entwicklungsländern
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de Gruyter Probleme Der Demographischen Entwicklung
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de Gruyter Fertility and Reproduction
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de Gruyter Bäuerliche Arbeit Und Wirtschaft
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de Gruyter Die Entwicklung Der Sorbischen Bevölkerung Von
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de Gruyter Menschenrechte Und Klassenrechte
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de Gruyter Bevölkerungswachstum Und Arbeitskräfteressourcen
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BÃhlau Verlag Wien Bevolkerungsgeschichte Eines Mitteleuropaischen
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Springer International Publishing AG The Economics of Talent: Human Capital, Precarity and the Creative Economy
Book SynopsisTo date, research into urban economics, regional science and economic geography has predominantly focused on the firm and industry as the key units of analysis in order to understand economic development; however, the past few decades have seen a growing interest in the role played by talent in the knowledge economy. This book provides an essential overview of the skills revolution. It presents key milestones of the changes in economic development in the past few decades and explains the motivation behind the rise of talent, as well as its importance for cities and economies. It also offers advice on how to attract and manage talent – a major determinant of competitiveness for countries and regions around the world. In closing, the book explains the underlying theories and provides practical examples for students, researchers and practitioners alike. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Defining talent: Between human capital and the creative economy.- Positioning Talent: history, cities and the growing importance of talent.- Challenging talent: Cities and the cycle of rising disparities.- Raising talent: higher education and uneven career outcomes.- Exposing talent: Precarity and moments of crisis.- Empowering talent: Campaigning and activism for work and cities.- Conclusions
£52.24
tredition Kippenrauch
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tredition Kippenrauch
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£18.74
Brill U Schoningh Armenians in Old Poland and Austrian Galicia: A
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£117.80
Brill U Schoningh The Wallachian Gold-Washers: Unlocking the Golden
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£59.25
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Pension Systems, Demographic Change, and the
Book SynopsisDue to the accelerating demographic change of the population the reform of the existing pension systems constitutes one of the greatest political challenges in most European countries. A theoretical discussion of different pension reforms must incorporate not only the demographic aspect but also the role of financial market risk and the impact on production and employment. These notes develop a dynamic macroeconomic model which incorporates these aspects within a flexible theoretical framework. The proposed approach provides a large scale population model and features a sound description of the production side as well as of the financial side of the economy and their interactions with the pension system. Within this framework various adjustment policies of the pension system are studied under different population scenarios. The consequences for the economy and the welfare of consumers are analyzed and compared.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "The book … studies the implications of the looming demographic transition on pension systems, the stock market and individual welfare. … Readers with an interest in the economic consequences of the looming demographic transition for pension systems and the stock market will find this book very interesting even if they are not doing active research in this area. … The book is a worthy contribution to the literature on pensions and demographic transitions." (Marc-André Letendre, Canadian Studies in Population, Vol. 36 (1-2), Spring/Summer, 2009)Table of ContentsThe Model.- The General Model.- The Parameterized Model.- The Simulation Study.- Pension Systems in the Presence of a Stationary Population.- Pension Systems in the Presence of Demographic Change.- Conclusions and Outlook.
£42.74
Peter Lang AG Tourismus Dritte Welt- Brennpunkt Suedostasien:
Book SynopsisCoca-Kolonisierung. Soziale Korrosion. Bastardisierung der Gesellschaft. Tourismuskritik ist modern geworden - und berechtigt. Reisen in die Dritte Welt sind längst fixer Bestandteil der westlichen Freizeitgesellschaft, so etabliert wie umstritten, wirtschaftlicher Fixpunkt und soziokulturelle Reibungsfläche. Alternativtourismus als Alternative? Die Studie beleuchtet das Wesen dieser idealisierten Reiseform in Südostasien, Wiege des Rucksacktourismus der 70er Jahre und Boomregion der Gegenwart schlechthin. Sechs Monate Feldforschung auf den Trampelpfaden der Travellerszene zerstören die Illusion eines ''besseren'' Reisens: Der Alternativtourismus der 90er Jahre ist mittlerweile selbst eine massentouristische Erscheinung und Speerspitze des Pauschaltourismus.
£50.90
Peter Lang AG Handbuch Zur Tsiganologie
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Peter Lang GmbH The Environmental Challenges for Japan and
Book SynopsisJapan and Germany as the number two and three of the economic powers base their success more than others on their industries. These have created in the past heavy environmental hazards (Minamata disease and Waldsterben'), which again led to the fact that they have become leaders in environmental technologies and protection. This volume presents the most outstanding contributions of a conference organised at the Musashi Institute of Technology, Yokohama, in October 2002, by the German-Japanese Society of Social Sciences, which assembles some of the most prominent specialists in the field of both countries.
£62.73
Peter Lang AG Die Klassengesellschaft im Schmelztiegel: Mit
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Peter Lang AG Familienstruktur Und Bildungsniveau Der Kinder in
Book SynopsisZentrales Thema dieser Studie ist der Zusammenhang zwischen Familienstruktur und Bildungsniveau der Kinder in Kolumbien im Zeitraum von 1976 bis 2000. Wie stellt sich dieser Zusammenhang in den unterschiedlichen Regionen dar? Welche Unterschiede zeigen sich zwischen städtischen und ländlichen Gebieten? Welche Entwicklung hat dieser Zusammenhang in den letzten 25 Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts erfahren? Wesentliches Anliegen dieser Arbeit ist es, die Bedeutung der familiären Verhältnisse für den Entwicklungsprozess des Individuums und damit für die kolumbianische Gesellschaft zu untersuchen. Anhand der statistischen Analyse der National Fecundity Survey 1976 und der National Demographic and Health Survey 2000 analysiert die Autorin die Dynamik und die soziale und politische Implikation insbesondere an drei Faktoren, die eine relevante Auswirkung auf das Bildungsniveau der Kinder zeigen: die Anzahl der Kinder in der Familie, der Familienstand der Mutter und das Alter der Mutter bei der ersten Geburt.
£42.48
Peter Lang AG Tuerkische Migranten in Oesterreich: Eine
Book SynopsisDie Forschungsgruppe Migration erhob in den Jahren 2004 bis 2005 in drei Untersuchungsgebieten in Österreich anhand von Fragebögen eine umfassende Datenbasis über Familie, Bildung, ökonomische Situation bis hin zu Einstellungen von türkischen Migranten. Anstatt der Analyse von Migration an sich legten die Autoren den Schwerpunkt auf die soziale, ökonomische und politische Situation dieser Migranten in ihrer zeitlichen Entwicklung und als Folgeerscheinung von Migration. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich die Migrantengemeinschaft durch eine andauernde Migration aus der Türkei kulturell auf dem neuesten Stand halten konnte und dass soziale Netzwerke hierbei eine große Rolle spielen. Durch diese Faktoren entwickelten die türkischen Migranten eine Migrantenidentität und weisen parallele Lebensverläufe zu Österreichern auf, d.h. ihre Lebenslinien kreuzen die der Österreicher nur wenig.
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Peter Lang AG Quality of Life and Working Life in Comparison
Book SynopsisThe topic on the quality of life and working life in a comparative perspective between Japan and Germany is of high relevance for the sustainability of our societies. The interdisciplinary approaches from the diverse fields of social sciences, i.e. sociology, psychology, economics, political science, architecture and environmental studies cover the diverse issue as well from a theoretical, empirical and historical perspective. The volume assembles the 26 best contributions to the 10th meeting of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences, which took place in August 2008 in Osnabrück.Table of ContentsContents: György Széll/Ute Széll: Preface – György Széll: Quality of Life and Working Life in Comparison – Peter Hennicke: Increasing Resource Productivity: A Win-Win Strategy to Protect Resources, Climate and Jobs? – Carmen Schmidt: The Changing Institutional Framework for Local Democracy in Japan – Takashi Namba: Problems with the Municipal Mergers in the Kiso (Nagano) Area – Eiichi Kido: Militarization in Japan and Germany – Yasuko Ishikawa: The Global Conference on Article 9 to Abolish War in Japan – Tetsuji Senoo: Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) – Carola Hommerich: What is Important in a Job? Work Values amongst Entrants to the Labour Market in Germany and Japan since the 1980s – Carolina Paulsen: Institutional and Cultural Influences on Employment Behaviour of Elderly People in Germany and Japan – Yoshinori Nishijima: Concepts of Labour-Related Words in German and Japanese: Comparing Lexical Semantics – Detlev Ehrig/Uwe Staroske: Are Services a Remedy for Labour Market Problems? Empirical Trends of the Service Sectors in Germany and Japan – Raimund Bleischwitz/Bettina Bahn-Walkowiak: Japan and Europe at the Resource-Efficiency Frontier – Takanori Hayashi: The Role of Carbon-contained Materials in a Sustainable Society – Shuji Yamada: Challenges for a Sustainable Society on the Municipal Level – Thomas Hackenfort: Beyond Ethnocentric Beliefs: Distinctions and Similarities between Japanese and German Concepts of Architectural Quality – Mototaka Mori: Imagining and Imagineering Tokyo: Asking with and to the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2016 – Yuichiro Minami: Comparison of the Agents in the City Formation in East and West: A Supplement to Max Weber’s Typology of Cities – Helmut Gross: Revisited: Toynbee on China and Japan versus the West (1600-1995) – Helmut Loiskandl: ‘Quality of Life’ and Christianity in Japan: Notes on some Aspects of Cultural Globalization – Paul G. Schmitz: Concepts of Love and Life Satisfaction: Comparing Students from Japan and Germany – David Georgi: Quality of Life and Family Planning – Stefan Hochstadt: ‘Peripheralisation’, ‘Dualisation’ and ‘Demographisation’ as Evidence of a Paradigm Shift – Dennis Köhler: Artificially Enlightened Urban Spaces at Night: A Matter of Special Importance for Liveable Cities – Naoko Eizawa: Creative Challenges against Depopulation: Basic Requirements for Sustainability in a Community where its Existence is Threatened – David Chiavacci: Immigration and ‘Gap Society’ in Japan: Are Foreign Workers a New Underclass? – Gisela Trommsdorff: Indicators for Quality of Life and Working Life in Germany and Japan: A Culture-psychological Perspective – Hans-Joachim Kornadt: Quality of Life and Happiness: Transculturally Comparable?
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Peter Lang AG The Ambivalent Character of Participation: New
Book SynopsisParticipation is a social process, which is basically part of an exchange relationship. Thus, it is principally pluralist and ambiguous in its meaning. As a consequence, the reconciliation of voices needs innovative approaches to support balanced participation experiences. The ambivalent character of participation intends to provide a look at new initiatives in the various fields of workplace participation. Leading international scholars examine the role of institutional contexts for participation, the development of new forms of interest organisation as well as the relationship between organisational performance, participation practices and quality of working life. The contributions are not limited to taking stock of new experiences in the field of workplace participation, but also contribute to designing a new research agenda.Table of ContentsContents: Francesco Garibaldo: Introduction – Erik Poutsma/Ulke Veersma: Direct and indirect participation: reconcilable voices? Report from Stream I – Szilvia Borbély: The role of the institutional context for participation and interest representation in Hungary and beyond – Maria Matey-Tyrowicz: Informing and consulting employees in Poland - Problems of implementation of Directive 2002/14/EC – Ekaterina Ribarova: The institutional context of workers participation in Bulgaria - which way after joining the EU – Nick Kratzer/Wolfgang Dunkel/Wolfgang Menz: Employee participation in new forms of organization and control opportunity for company health policies or potential for new burdens? – Sonia McKay: The role of trade union representatives in the conduct of workplace relations – Volker Telljohann: Work organisation, workers’ participation and the role of EU legislation in Italy – Jochen Tholen: Managers and management: The impact of Western Foreign Direct Investment in the new EU Member States – María C. Gonzalez: The role of Industrial Relations and HRM in direct participation practice in Spain – Mirella Baglioni: New forms of interest organisation: the state of the art – Guglielmo Meardi: Lights and shadows of employee participation in the new EU member states – Anna Pollert: The non-unionised worker and workplace problems: Forms of individual and collective voice at work – Salvo Leonardi: Union organisation of employees in atypical and precarious work in Italy – Alan Tuckman/Michael Whittall: Giving employees a voice? Lessons from the new employee forums in the UK – Paul Oehlke: Strategies of improving organizational performance through workplace participation - Report from Stream II – Elise Ramstad: Role of workplace practices and supporting development process and institutional condition in the promotion of performance and quality of working life – Jan Kees Looise/Nicole Torka/Jan Ekke Wigboldus: Participation and organizational performance – Norbert Kluge/Sigurt Vitols/Peter Wilke: Good corporate governance and the function of obligatory employees’ involvement: the concept of a sustainable company – Patricia Nieto Rojas: Employee financial participation in Spain – Wilfried Kruse: Workplace quality as a «contested ground»: comments on the ambivalence of workplace participation today – Davide Antonioli/Massimiliano Mazzanti/Paolo Pini: Innovation, industrial relations and working conditions - evidence from two Italian local production systems – Loris Lugli/Stefano Tugnoli/Ires Emilia-Romagna: Innovation and work quality. A field research – Karina Becker/Ulrich Brinkmann/Thomas Engel: «Hybrid Participation» - the missing link? The role of expert employees and support groups for the works councils in Germany – Ralf Niemann: Direct participation as a way to safeguard a plant? The example of a German steel company – Tuomo Alasoini: Workplace innovation and development in Finland: Examining the workplace development programme TYKES – Paul Berckmans: «Quality of Working Life» on the agenda of Flemish regional policy – Romain Chevallet: Employee participation in ninety-five investment projects - Experience and action priorities for public policies based on observations of SME practices – Friedhelm Keuken: Improvement of the performance of SMEs and their employees by participation of employees in the Region North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Basic ideas, project examples, support structures and results – Ulrich Klotz: Making better use of potential to innovate! - some food for thought in the «Year of Innovation» – Valeria Pulignano: Employee participation in Europe: Propositions for designing a new
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Peter Lang AG Urban Public Space: Facing the Challenges of
Book SynopsisUrban public space continues to be the focus of debate regarding its conceptualization and how it is designed, (re)produced and managed. Nowadays public spaces are facing new challenges conceptually and practically. This book focuses on two of them: mobility and aestheticization. Mobility and flows are considered to be key characteristics of the post-modern era. While for some scholars it means the «end of place», others are trying to re-conceptualize it by bringing together notions of space, place, mobility and identity. Still surprisingly few authors address the concept of public space in this respect. Principles of aesthetic and diverse forms of aestheticization seem to have affected urban space and culture throughout Modernity, forming a dimension where power and conflict around urban space are performed. In this book nine authors with social science and arts backgrounds from six countries discuss how these processes shape the life of modern cities, and where the social sciences should move for a better understanding of them.Table of ContentsContents: Oleg Pachenkov/Lilia Voronkova: Urban Public Space in the Age of Mobility and Aestheticization, and the Necessity of an Interdisciplinary Approach – Giulio Mattioli: Sharing Space with Strangers in Moving Public Places: Social Mixing and Secessionism in Mobility – Tobias Scheidegger: Architectural Visualizations as Promoters of Urban Aestheticization. A Visual Culture Approach – Clara Fohrbeck: Public Art Spaces: The Dilemma of Economic Growth and Social Inclusion in an Aesthetised Urban Context. A Case Study of Initiative «Intermediae», Matadero Madrid, Spain – Laura Panait: Tracing Art in Urban Public Space: the Resistive Aesthetics of Cultural Actors in Post-Communist Romania – Celia Ghyka: Contemporary Art: Between Action and Work. The Cases of Krzysztof Wodiczcko and Jenny Holzer – Jekaterina Lavrinec/Oksana Zaporozhets: Shaping Spaces of Shared Experience: Creative Practices and Temporal Communities.
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Peter Lang AG Who goes? Who stays? Who returns?: Migration
Book SynopsisThe subject of this book are migration journeys of highly skilled workers. By focusing on migration as a journey, the research considers all stages of migration (remigration in particular) and complements the approach to the phenomenon with a life-long perspective. In this sense, the prism of migration journeys allows to look at migration motives in a novel manner. The book discloses motive as a complex phenomenon, which may also change over time. The chosen perspective helps to explain why under similar conditions some workers migrate while others do not, and in the same manner, why some remigrate, while others stay put in destination countries. The empirical basis for the case of highly skilled (re)migration from Russia to Germany has been constituted by unstructured interviews with narrative parts, which were conducted by the author in various cities of Germany and Russia.Table of ContentsContents: Highly Skilled Migration – Russia – Germany – Migration Motives – Remigration – Family Networks – Economic Theories of Migration – Complexity of Motive Structure – Qualitative Content Analysis – Discourse Analysis.
£25.76
Peter Lang AG Home: International Perspectives on Culture,
Book SynopsisThis book presents fourteen original contributions by authors examining the importance of dwellings and local communities in people’s everyday lives. Through qualitative research conducted in North America and Europe, the volume explores the ways in which home is created both ideally and practically, at levels ranging from individual housing units to neighborhoods and public spaces. Even when the circumstances of making one’s home deviate from cultural ideals – for instance, in crowded, institutional, or stigmatized housing contexts, in disadvantaged or transient neighborhoods, or when one has no permanent dwelling at all – the authors illuminate how experiences and practices of home are central to what it means to be human.Table of ContentsContents: Margarethe Kusenbach/Krista E. Paulsen: Home: An Introduction – Krista E. Paulsen: Modeling Home: Ideals of Residential Life in Builders’ Show Houses – Elizabeth Strom/Susan Greenbaum: Still the «American Dream»? Views of Home Ownership in the Wake of the Foreclosure Crisis – Kurt Borchard: Homelessness and Conceptions of Home – Bia Gayotto: Somewhere In Between Chicago – David Wästerfors: Fragments of Home in Youth Care Institutions – Carol A. B. Warren/Kristine N. Williams: Displaced: Old People in Assisted Living – Jane Zawisca: A Home Not One’s Own: Hoe Young Russians Living with Extended Family Negotiate Space – Nathanael Lauster: «Kinda Just a Home I Guess»: Toward Theorizing the Making of Home in Vancouver – Margarethe Kusenbach: Place Feelings and Life Stories in Florida Mobile Home Communities – Paul Watt: Community and Belonging in a London Suburb: A Study of Incomers – Debbie Humphry: Inside Out: A Visual Investigation of Belonging in a London Neighborhood – Gabriela B. Christmann: Belonging and Home: The Perspective of Urban Pioneers in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods – Saskia Binken/Talja Blokland: Everyday Encounters and Belonging in Public Spaces: Findings from Rotterdam and Utrecht.
£46.17
Peter Lang AG Germany’s Creative Sector and its Impact on
Book SynopsisThe creative sector is considered to impact on employment and creative sector’s employment growth. Using a fixed effects model with time-lags, evidence is found that the creative sector fosters the growth rate of employment in German regions. Large shares of creative professionals lead to an increase in employment, but also reduce the growth rate of the creative sector. However, the growth rates are unequally distributed between the regions. Initially large shares of creative professionals further push the regional concentration of those professions in highly agglomerated regions. Driving forces for the concentration are specific characteristics, i.e. knowledge spillovers and cultural amenities. Moreover, for the evolution of the creative sector current policy strategies for the promotion of creative cities are presented.Table of ContentsContents: Regional Employment Growth – Creative Sector – Human Capital – Creative Professionals‘ and Ethnic-Cultural Diversity – Self-Reinforcing Process – Knowledge Spillovers and Cultural Amenities – Hamburg‘s Creative Sector.
£31.82
Peter Lang AG Demographie von Migranten in Deutschland
Book SynopsisDie Arbeit wurde mit dem Hauptpreis in der Kategorie Doktorarbeit im Rahmen des Allianz Nachwuchspreises für Demographie ausgezeichnet. Deutschland ist ein Zuwanderungsland. Der Anteil von Personen mit Migrationshintergrund wird bis zum Jahr 2030 auf mindestens 25 Prozent steigen, wie erstmals vorgelegte Schätzungen zeigen. Im Buch werden Erkenntnislücken zum demographischen Verhalten von Migranten in Deutschland geschlossen und dahinterstehende Zusammenhänge erhellt. Dabei erfolgt eine gemeinsame Analyse der Sterblichkeit und des generativen Verhaltens anhand verschiedener Datengrundlagen. Die Erkenntnisse der Arbeit liefern eine wichtige Planungsgrundlage für effektive Gesundheits- und Integrationspolitiken. Dies ist vor allem wichtig, weil die Integration der nach Deutschland zugewanderten Migrantinnen und Migranten eine der bedeutenden aktuellen und zukünftigen gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen darstellt.
£48.56
Peter Lang AG Sterbeorte in Deutschland: Eine soziologische
Book SynopsisSterben ist ein sozialer Prozess, der in Abhängigkeit vom Sterbeort sehr unterschiedlich verläuft. Das Buch will anhand einer umfassenden Darstellung des soziologischen Forschungsstands die Wissenslücken um die Sterbeorte aufdecken und schließen. Um zu verstehen, wie unterschiedlich Sterben an verschiedenen Orten determiniert ist, wurden qualitative Interviews mit Angehörigen durchgeführt, die Sterbende begleitet hatten. Welche Vorstellungen, welches Wissen und welche Einstellungen gegenüber den verschiedenen Sterbeorten liegen in der Gesellschaft vor? Die Ergebnisse der Studie verdeutlichen die Komplexität der sozialen Abläufe im Sterbeprozess, welche sich aus Kommunikation, Emotionalität, Wünschen und Zielen ergeben.
£31.95
Peter Lang AG Postmigrant Club Cultures in Urban Europe
Book SynopsisHow do young people with migration backgrounds take part in and shape urban leisure socialities in European cities? Presenting results of a long-term ethnographic research project carried out in ethnic club scenes in Paris, London and Berlin, this book challenges assumptions about migrant community dynamics and ethnic segregation. Examining both heteronormative and «queer» scenes, the contributors to this volume give insights into how clubbing socialities are related to the wider life contexts of different postmigrant groups and the challenges they face in metropolitan centres. Far from simply celebrating ethnic community, British Asian, German Turkish and French Caribbean club scenes respond to intersecting dynamics of racism, gentrification, sexism, homophobia and class stratification.Table of ContentsContents: Kira Kosnick: Introduction: New (Post-)Migrant Socialities - Ethnic Club Cultures in Urban Europe – Harpreet Kaur Cholia: «Moving on up?» Navigating Through Urban Nightlife as a «Racialised» Body: The Case of the Young British Asian in London – Sabina Rossignoli: Appropriating the banlieue through Leisure. The Social and Spatial Dimensions of French Caribbean Clubbing in Paris – Vanessa Thompson: On the Move! The Rise of a Black LGBT*Q Clubbing Scene in Paris and Negotiations within the Coloniality of the City – Heidi Hoefinger: «It’s All Ours»: Race, Space and Place in the LGBTQ British-«Asian» Dance Club Scene in London.
£31.36
Peter Lang AG Mahalla – Traditional Institution in Tajikistan
Book SynopsisThe guiding theme of the book is a traditional institution of Tajik culture: mahalla – neighborhood. For centuries it has sustained the existence of Tajik culture, and in times of the greatest religious persecution in the USSR it has helped Islam to survive. In this book the author does not limit himself to the description of mahalla and the explanation of its social functions; a significant part of the book is constituted by a comparison of mahalla with the concept of civil society existing in contemporary Western culture. For this reason, the book examines differences between Eastern and Western cultures, in which the specificity of the first is collectivism, and the second individualism. The author’s considerations are based on two pillars: firstly, he has great knowledge on theoretical literature and field studies while secondly an important role has been played by the fact that he has spent a large part of his life as a resident of mahalla in Tajikistan before beginning his studies in the West. This very fact has allowed him to meet Western civil society as an observer. Precisely, the experience of living in these different societies permits the author to formulate his own opinions and conclusions, sometimes surprising to the reader.Table of ContentsContents: East – West – Individualism – Collectivism – Tajik Culture – Islam – Civil Society – Mahalla – Traditional Institutions – Social Capital – Trust – Soviet Union – Avlod – Qawm – Jamoat – Equality – Hierarchy.
£36.04
Peter Lang AG The Polish Middle Class
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the viability of «importing» the middle class to Poland. The 1990s were a step forward in the formation of the Polish middle class and, systematically yet barely discernible in daily life, the process was triggered by an increase in consumption and affluence. However, the changes of attitudes, life goals and value systems distinct for the Western middle class are ambiguous and rather slow in Poland. They ensue mainly from the changes in new social structures and the behavioral rationality of consumers. It appears that the middle class in Poland will not emerge as an exact copy of the original middle class – rather, it will be its contextually modified variant, affected by Polish cultural traditions.Table of ContentsContents: The heartening myth – Consumption, affluence, new style and new structures – 1984-1998: Inclination toward self-reliance – Aspirations and value systems – The old intelligentsia and the new middle class – The upper class – Prospects for the middle class society in Poland.
£24.46
Peter Lang AG Prestige
Book SynopsisPrestige examines whether social prestige is still an important axis of the stratification hierarchy. It appears that prestige has lost some of the close connection with social position it had in estates societies. Prestige distribution patterns have changed and individualized gradations emerged, while agreement in the occupational prestige in Poland is lower than in the West and still declining. However, low consensus in occupational prestige rankings does not entail a disintegration of respect norms as such: personal prestige is still a relevant factor in designing life strategies and people do care about respect. This volume presents empirical evidence that all social classes recognize the motivational, integrative and satisfying functions of prestige.Table of ContentsContents: What is Prestige – Exchange and Synthesis – Prestige: Sources and Varieties – Personal, Positional, Situational and Institutional Prestige – Status Societies and Contract Societies – Prestige Norms in Poland – How do Poles Define Prestige? – Subjective Relevance of Prestige – Functions of Prestige.
£31.36
Peter Lang AG Hopes and Anxieties in Europe: Six Waves of the
Book SynopsisThe present collection of articles is based on data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and analyses the changes in European societies. The first part of the volume is devoted to relations between legitimization, subjective well-being, voting patterns, and the role of social cohesion in determination of political culture. The second part addresses methodological questions designed to quantify the reliability and validity of certain measures in interviews, coverage errors, measurement errors, and non-response, as well as the understanding of questions in multi-country surveys in the context of the comparability between countries.Table of ContentsContents: Andrzej Rychard: Old and new hypotheses about legitimacy and trust – Tomasz Panek: Subjective personal and social well-being in European countries – Henryk Domański/Artur Pokropek/Tomasz Żółtak: Empirical test of political dealignment in European countries – Zbigniew Sawiński/Kazimierz M. Słomczyński/Irina Tomescu-Dubrow: Legitimacy and Trust in European Countries: Macro-structural Explanation of Changes, 2002-2012 – Jaak Billiet/Bart Meuleman/Eldad Davidov: Some methodological challenges of cross-national social research: conceptual and measurement validity – Dorothée Behr/Michael Braun: Satisfaction with the way democracy works: How respondents across countries understand the question – Hideko Matsuo/Jaak Billiet: The use of paradata for non-response bias adjustment: A case study on reluctant respondents and fieldwork implementation – Paweł B. Sztabiński: Is it worthwhile reducing the nonresponse rate by multiplied contact attempts? The example of ESS round 5 and 6 in Poland – Denisa Fedáková/Michal Kentoš/Jozef Výrost: Baking the ESS: A Slovak recipe with a 10-year perspective.
£41.76
Peter Lang AG Politicizing Consumer Choice: Ethical Dimensions
Book SynopsisThis book investigates various forms of political and ethical consumerism in the United States and delivers a comprehensive conceptualization of the consumer’s role in the marketplace. Both aspects, the potential impact of market-based activism on corporations in America and the socio-structural dynamics that may prevent the possibility of far-reaching social change through forms of alternative consumerism, are equally important in this regard. The historical ties between politics and consumption in America, and the diminishing role of the government as a regulatory force in the market since the end of Fordism, has spawned a unique form of consumer politics directed at the corporate world. The underlying question to be answered is whether the consumer is truly a force to be reckoned with.Table of ContentsContents: Interdisciplinary approach to political consumerism – The consumer as social actor – Distinction, cultural capital and alternative consumption – Politicizing the consumer in America – Lifestyles and consumption – Alternative consumption in the age of the superbrand – Consumption as civic participation – Consumption and postmodernism.
£25.84
Peter Lang AG Gender Structuring of Contemporary Slovenia
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a new view on gender structuring in contemporary Slovenia and the persistence of the gender order – produced and reproduced through gender regimes in education, work, family life and politics. With a focus on the low presence of women in politics, the study analyses empirical data, mapping structural changes, delays of changes and the persistence of existing social structures over several decades. It appears that the choices individuals make in their lives are made in a specific social context of structural opportunities and obstacles. As such, gender difference is first socially produced and later universally used for justification of that stratification.Table of ContentsContents: Milica Antić Gaber: The Structuring of Slovenian Society and Gender as the Structured and the Structuring Structure – Slavko Gaber: Contemporary Slovenian Society and its Rationalities – Veronika Tašner/Sara Rožman: The Influence of Changes in the Field of Education on the Position of Women in Slovenian Society and Politics – Pavel Zgaga: The Influence of the Dynamics of Higher Education on the Gender Structure – Iztok Šori/Živa Humer: Institutions and Mechanisms of the Reproduction of Gender Order in the Fields of the Family and Politics – Jasna Podreka/Milica Antić Gaber: Paid Work, Prestige Professions and Politics – Irena Selišnik/Milica Antić Gaber: Women, Politics and the Value Orientations of Contemporary Slovenian Society.
£41.76
Peter Lang AG Movers and Stayers: Social Mobility, Migration
Book SynopsisThe author examines social mobility in the enlarged EU by analysing the work sequences of 1865 movers and stayers in Poland. Using indicators of upward and downward social mobility, she explores the role of migration in careers. Her research shows that migration adds dynamism to work paths and contributes to the improvement of people’s working lives. It also suggests that agency and reflexivity guide the acquisition of tacit skills during migration, resulting in various patterns of social mobility.Table of ContentsContents: Making the way through the world on the move – Opportunity structure and multi-component agency – Spatial mobility and social mobility – Stable and changeable work sequences of migrants and stayers – Agency, reflexivity and social mobility of migrants – Social mobility, migration and skills.
£45.36
Peter Lang AG Die Reproduktion sozialer Ungleichheiten in der
Book SynopsisPaul Rameder widmet sich der Frage, in welcher Form und in welchen Bereichen die Freiwilligenarbeit einen Beitrag zur Genese und Reproduktion sozialer Ungleichheiten leistet. Durch die Aura der Freiwilligkeit und Uneigennützigkeit entziehen sich die sozial nachteiligen Effekte der Freiwilligenarbeit der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung und expliziten Kritik. Die multivariaten Analysen von Mikrozensusdaten aus Österreich zeigen, dass der Zugang zur Freiwilligenarbeit in hohem Maße durch die Ressourcenausstattung der Individuen geprägt ist. Auch die Funktionsverteilung innerhalb der Freiwilligenarbeit reproduziert die ungleichen sozialen Machtverhältnisse. So tragen die Mechanismen der sozialen Schließung und Hierarchisierung auch in den Feldern der Freiwilligenarbeit zu einer Verfestigung gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheiten bei.
£47.66
Peter Lang AG Childbearing and Parental Decisions of Intra EU
Book SynopsisThe book explores intra-EU mobility of Polish families as seen by the migrants themselves. The author analyses in what way mobility has influenced their choices regarding if, when and where to have and raise their children. She evaluates how the family dynamics have affected their decisions regarding long-term settlement. The analysis is based on narrative biographic interviews with Polish migrants in Great Britain and Italy. A recurring experience of migrants in the UK was that work and welfare conditions improved their families’ quality of life, allowed them to fulfil desired fertility, and offered better prospects for the future. The opinions on welfare conditions in Italy were more critical, however it also offered long-term stability to the ones who had been struggling to survive in Poland.Table of ContentsPost-accession migration from Poland to Italy and the UK in the demographic, family and welfare policies contexts – Managing childbearing in a new country – Providing care for small children – Educational choices of Polish parents abroad – Intra-EU migration trajectories in autobiographical narratives
£43.47
Peter Lang AG Tying Micro and Macro: What Fills up the
Book SynopsisThis study critically discusses the thesis on the sociological vacuum formulated by Stefan Nowak. The author’s aim is to refute the claim that the sociological vacuum is relevant for major social processes occurring in Poland. He presents the sociological vacuum in the context of the debate on micro and macro levels and discusses how the theory of fields and social network analysis is useful to reconcile the micro-macro divide. The book considers the uses of the sociological vacuum in explaining such phenomena as the Solidarność social movement, civil society, social capital, and democracy. In the empirical part, the author confronts the data on identifications with the data on relations and claims that the vacuum is not in the society but it in sociology.Table of ContentsAgency – Civil society – Democracy – Individual – Society – Micro-macro debate – Social action – Social capital – Social movement – Social network analysis – Social structure – Sociological theory – Sociological vacuum – Solidarność – Stefan Nowak – Strength of weak ties – Theory of fields
£43.47
Peter Lang AG Social Spaces and Social Relations: Introduction
Book SynopsisThe human world is an area of countless places and spaces. This book focuses on the variety of places, on their genuine features, and on their specific form of creating social relations. It discusses spaces inside or outside ourselves and the social relations we are able to find and create there. «The authors of the book attempt to describe and analyze different spaces and social relations created within them. They look at the social relations and their types, observe the functioning of neighborly relations, relationships on social networks, at home or in museums. Each of these places is different and forms and creates social relations differently. The book offers an interesting study of selected cases over spaces of our everyday lives that help or hinder us build social relationships.» (From the introduction by Anthony Giddens)Table of ContentsContents: Anthony Giddens: Preface – Piotr Sztompka: Shapes of society-material containers of social relations – Apostolis Papakostas: Cadastral maps, the simplification of space and social tensions. A contrast of Sweden and Greece – Marcjanna Nóżka: Territorial behaviours as the regulators of interpersonal space – Małgorzata Bogunia-Borowska: The Museum as a Space of Social Relations. Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory Museum in Cracow and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw – Barbora Vacková/Lucie Galčanová: Cold feet and empty fridges? The meanings of home and home-making practices of solo-living people in the Czech Republic – Tracy Xavia Karner: The Facebook Gaze: Disciplining Action in Online Interpersonal Space.
£31.82
