Social theory Books
Peter Lang AG The Belarusian Maidan in 2006: A New Social
Book SynopsisThe book offers an analysis of the «Belarusian Maidan» protest movement that emerged in Minsk at the October Square as a result of the falsification of the presidential elections in March 2006. In particular, the author analyses the virtual dimension of the movement and its creativity by applying the New Social Movement approach elaborated by Melucci. He also presents an in-depth analysis through the use of Deleuzian concepts. The «Belarusian Maidan» is inscribed into the historical context of Belarusian social activism of 1990–2006, amid the increasing influence of new ICTs and the Internet.Table of ContentsContents: New Social Movement Approach to the analysis of protest events in post-communist countries and Belarus in particular – Social activism in Belarus before 2006 – Context and crucial cvents – Types of actions – The tent camp as social and political laboratory for the application of Deleuzian concepts.
£45.36
Peter Lang AG Trust, Morality, and Markets: Rethinking Economy
Book SynopsisThe spread of contemporary globalized capitalism wrought by the new patterns of industrialization, marketization, and consumerization shapes Russia’s recent historical path and developmental possibilities. This book discusses Russia’s transformation into a market economy and the role of trust in the creation of new institutions and ways of life. It focuses on the relations between society and economy in a period of turbulent social change and the extraordinary transformation of social practices.Table of ContentsContents: Rethinking Economy and Society: the Moral Focus – Economy and Morality as Embedded and Disembedded – The Rise of Market Worlds: Changing Social Structures – Understanding Trust in Market Societies – Misunderstanding Trust in the Soviet Economy and Society – Transformation: Trust as Displaced by Force – New Dimensions of Trust.
£28.21
Peter Lang AG Armenians around the World: Migration and
Book SynopsisThis volume explores Armenian migration around the world, including the interrelation between domestic communities in Armenia and Armenian communities elsewhere. It takes a close look at the motivation to migrate and the specifics of Armenian communities in different EU countries and the United States. Authors from Armenia, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, and the US use various approaches to the subject such as case-study, in-depth interviews, surveys, comparative and network analysis, as well as migration and transnationalism theories. The collection offers new insights into local Armenian community structure, lifestyle, communication and adaptation, social, economic and gender aspects of migration.Table of ContentsContents: Artur Mkrtichyan: Towards the New Armenian Networks: Theoretical Considerations – Maria I. Zaslavskaya: Armenian Transnationalism: On Some Features of Ethnic Identity Transformation in Transnational Migration Networks – Arthur Atanesyan/Arem Mkrtchyan/Gagik Tumanyan: Some Aspects of Functioning of the Armenian Migratory Networks (On the Study of Local Communities in Armenian Regions) – Harutyun Vermishyan: Local Manifestation of Transnationality in Current Armenian (RA) Village Communities – Aghasi Tadevosyan: Everyday Life and Practices of Armenian Migrants in the Host Countries – Astghik Chaloyan: Studying Transnational Lifestyles: Transnational Social Fields of Second Generation Armenians in Germany – Ulrike Lingen- Ali: Narrations of «Here» and «There» - Contradictions and Continuities in Identity Constructions of An Armenian-Yezidi Refugee in Germany. An Intersectional Case Analysis – Bruce M. Stave: Armenians in Connecticut: Oral History, The Long Shadow of Genocide, and The Building of Community – Maria Immacolata Macioti: Armenian Emigration to Italy – Arsen Arzumanyan: The Social And Cultural Relations Between The Armenian Community of Romania and The Republic of Armenia in the Early 2000s – Victor Agadjanian/Cecilia Menjívar/Arusyak Sevoyan: The Impact of Male Labour Migration on Women and Households in Rural Armenia – Ashot Aleksanyan: Armenian Labour Migration as a Phenomenon of Social Integration – Zofia Bałdyga/Heghine Manasyan: Circular Migration: Normative and Positive View on Labour Migrants Returning to Armenia – Haykanush Chobanyan: Return Migration to Armenia: Lessons Learnt, Priorities and Contemporary Challenges – Harutyun Marzpanyan/Armen Tshughuryan: Migration Risks Influence on Human Capital Reproduction in Armenia – Hasmik Gevorgyan: Gender Aspects of Migration Processes in Armenia: an Integrative Approach.
£52.34
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 Contextual Approaches in Sociology
Book SynopsisContextual Approaches in Sociology is a collection of essays on a wide range of sociological issues written by researchers from several different institutions. The volume presents applications of grounded theory, social capital, education, social rituals and gender issues. It will appeal to a wide range of academic leadership, including educators, researchers, social students and teachers, who wish to develop personally and professionally. It will also be useful to all those who interact with students and teachers in a sociological context.Table of ContentsContents: Zafer Koylu/Sadet Altay: Health Propaganda During The Ataturk Period – Ayça Demir Gürdal: Reflecting upon the testimonies of child sexual abuse victims – Çiğdem Yel: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Turkey: A Grounded Theory approach – Aytul Kasapoglu: Applications of Grounded Theory in Sociology: Some Methodological considerations – Alev Akbal/Aytul Kasapoglu: A Grounded Theory Approach To The Study of Caring Interaction in Turkey – A. Çiğdem Kirel/Seda Topgül: Analysis of the Relationship Between Social Capital, Motivation, and Performance Management in the Banking Sector – Denİz Aşkin: Social Exclusion and Cultural Closeness Among the First Generation Kurdish Immigrants – Elif Merve Alpak/Doruk Gorkem/Ozkan Ali Ozbilen: Determination of the Relationship between Performance and User Preference On Campus Open Spaces through Post Occupancy Evaluation – Engin Üngüren/Mehmet Bayirli: Foreign inhabitants’ perceptions of Turkey: The Alanya Case – E. Esen Kaleli/G. Cankiz Elibol: Housing Practices for Disabled People in Turkey – Fatime Yalinkiliç/Pelin Budak: The Sociology of Sociology as a Reflective Analysis of the Changes in Sociological Doctoral Theses – Fatumatu Zehra Ercan/Aysel Tekgöz: The Social and Spatial Impact of Resettlement: The Case of Yeşİlyurt District in Malatya – Feray Artar: A Grounded Theory Essay: City Councils in Turkey and The Uniqueness of Participation – Gülhan Demİrİz/Tuğba Sari: Women’s Experiences of Assisted Reproductive Technology Treatment: Reflections on the Professionals’ Attitudes and Their Relations with Women – Özlem Duva: Feminist Epistemology and the Problem of Masculinity – Giuseppe Luca De Luca Picione: Making Knowledge Work in a Learning Community. A New Role for University and Local Government – Guliz Mugan Akinci: Participation of Youth in the Decision-Making Process for the Design and Planning of Urban Public Spaces: The Case of a Street and a Shopping Mall – Hülya Orkİ: High School Student’s Perceptions of Crime and Violence: Eskişehir Sample – İlbey Dölek: A Sociological Analysis of Social Discrimination Against Widowed and Divorcee Women: Kahramanmaraş Case – Kübra Küçükşen/Ayhan Uludağ/M. Metin Şener: Being a Woman in the Grip of War and Migration – Maide Gök: Impact of Gender on Production of Social Capital in Working Life and the Role of Social Capital on the Reduction of Gender Inequalities – Meryem Küçük: Social Sciences as a Department Which Legitimises Globalisation – Nazar Bal/Aytul Kasapoglu: Involuntary Childlessness: A Grounded Theory Approach For Developing a Model of Reproductive Health – Ozge Celik/Ozhan Ertekin: Barrier Free or Social Free – Pınar Kaya Özçelik/Mirace Karaca: The Case of Social Exclusion in the Context of the Crisis and the Restructuring of the Welfare State – Pinar Yazgan/Sevim Atila Demir: Turkish Ethnic Minority and Social Capital: The Case of Denmark – Mehmet Kayhan Mutlu/Gaye Barış: Perceptions of Female Prisoners of Violence Against Women – Secil Ozdemir Metlioglu: Rural Poverty: The Mugla Gunluce Village Example – Seda Ozlu/Sinem Dedeoglu/Dilek Beyazli: Understanding/Interpreting Social Structure Of Rural Settlements Using Participatory Techniques – Serap Fiso: Social Factors Associated With Suicide Among War Veterans in Bosnia-Herzegovina – Serdar Ünal: Foreign Immigrants/Immigration and Refugee Issue in Turkey: If the Guests
£62.78
Peter Lang AG Congestion: Rationalising Automobility in the
Book SynopsisThe book investigates the negotiation of governmental rationalities of car-dependent life in the face of climate change. It appears that current forms of governing are bound up with a specific utilisation of the freedom of the governed. Accordingly, the book demonstrates how the governing of automobility unfolds as people account for and, hence, conduct their transportation practices. In this way, it unravels how villagers in a small Danish village negotiate a municipal strategy and conduct their transportation practices in ways that merely sustain the villagers’ already maintained car-dependent life forms.Table of ContentsContents: Negotiation of governmental rationalities – Car-dependent life – Climate change – Denmark – Municipal strategy.
£41.76
Peter Lang AG On Property and Ownership Relations: A Return to
Book SynopsisThis book comprises a systematic analysis of Karl Marx’s reasoning on ownership. Marx as the author of an original theory of ownership is yet to be discovered. The creator of a theory which was to interpret social reality is quite a different thinker from the creator of a doctrine which was to alter the world. In designing communist society, Marx ignored the threats which social property bears, despite having skillfully identified them in investigations of diverse pre-capitalistic forms of common ownership. The author seeks to break through one-sided interpretations which discern in Marx a decisive critique of private property and an apologia of common ownership. It becomes apparent that Marx treated both the processes of socialization and privatization of ownership with equal consideration.Table of ContentsCommon ownership – Pre-capitalistic forms of ownership – Individual private property – Capitalistic private property – Exploitation – Privatization and socialization of property – Communism – Dis-Alienation – Class for itself – Owners of conditions of labor – Owners of labor power – Owners of means of subsistence
£35.46
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
Peter Lang AG From Multitude to Crowds: Collective Action and
Book SynopsisFrom Multitude to Crowds: Collective Action and the Media presents a study of collective action in the 21st century. Experts from Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Political Communication and Media Studies offer a multidisciplinary approach to social formations in contemporary collective action. The various contributions discuss the relevance of media and communications in social movements and how social mobilization has changed in mediatized societies.Table of ContentsContents: Todd Gitlin: Crowds, Assemblies, Demonstrations, and Clusters – João Carlos Correia: Mass, Publics and Multitudes: Digital Activism and some of its Paradoxes – Christian Borch: The Politics of the Senses: Crowd Formation through Sensory Manipulation – Samuel Mateus: Publics and Multitudes: The (Un)Expected Relation – Erik Neveu: French Literature around the Construction and Transformations of May 68’s Memory – Eduardo Cintra Torres: An Early Example of Media, Social Movements and Crowd Interaction: The Oporto General Strike of 1903 – Júlio Cesar Lemes de Castro: Freudian Mass Psychology in the Age of Networks – Jérôme Bourdon/Cécile Méadel: Release the Numbers! Multitudes, Crowds, Publics… and Audiences – Gustavo Cardoso: Social Mobilization and Social Media: People Are the Message – Steve Jankowski: No Consensus on Consensus: A Paradox within Wikipedian Governance and Collective Action – Ece Baykal Fide: Effects of the Gezi Resistance on the Interaction of Different Social Movements and Their Media Strategies – Balázs Kiss/Gabriella Szabó: Crowding and Feeling Political Communities: Successful and Failed Mass Demonstrations in Hungary 2013 – Márcio Simeone Henriques: June 2013, Brazil: Protests as Empowerment Factors and Promotion of Political Opportunities.
£47.66
Peter Lang AG A Mirror on the High Road: Chapters from the
Book SynopsisThe book is a collection of articles and essays devoted to important studies conducted by Polish sociologists in the course of more than a hundred years. It displays not only the discipline’s scholarship but also the society studied, with its questions and problems, from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century, from partition times through the interwar period to the Great Depression, and then from real socialism to the fall of communism and the systemic transformation toward democracy. In this sense, sociological research is Stendhal’s "mirror carried along a high road", where Polish society parades. The findings have been important sources for the social history of Poland. Table of ContentsStudies on history of the social research in Poland since the end of 19th century – Emigration from Polish lands to America – The Great Depression and unemployment – Empirical social research after Stalinism – Studies on real socialism – Solidarity – The decline of communism and democratic transformation – Social roles of sociologists
£50.04
Peter Lang AG Sociology of the Invisible Hand
Book SynopsisThis book illustrates the applicability of the seminal and controversial metaphor of the «invisible hand» in modern sociological theory. It shows that sociologists have long been part of a field mainly associated with economists and political philosophers. Though unlike the framing that builds directly on Adam Smith, sociological theory focuses on undesirable and perverse outcomes. Furthermore, the sociological angle favors the explanation of invisible hand-like mechanisms as contingent upon social structures and broader processes. Thus, it goes beyond its classical formulation in terms of interdependence, interaction and aggregation of individual actions. This book gathers contributions of remarkable authors who are linked directly either with the invisible hand metaphor, with the spontaneous order phenomenon or with the unintended consequences issue and aims to describe the traditional and contemporary applicability of the sociological framing of the invisible hand for social sciences.Table of ContentsInvisible hand – Spontaneous order – Unintended consequences –Social structure, long-term processes – Interaction, interdependence – Modern sociological theory
£52.60
Peter Lang AG Living Beyond the Nation: European Transnational
Book SynopsisThe book provides key insights in experiencing lives and attitudes of the increasing number of people who reside beyond national boundaries and strategically create their life-paths. It is a brief but comprehensive introduction to the latest theoretical developments combining issues of reflexivity and habitus resulting in unique empirical and practical implications. Intended for the readers who are looking for a combination of scholarly insights and everyday life stories of the people living beyond the national constraints, no matter whether they are interested in contemporary social trends and their impact to individuals, ethnographic research, globalization trends or the future visions of the European Union.Table of ContentsContents: Transnational social fields – The EU – European identifications – Intentional deliberations – Social embeddednes – Habitus – Reflexivity – Instrumental identifications – Semantics – European civil servants – Linking ethnographic insights with contemporary social theory combining reflexivity and habitus – Addressing the instrumental nature of identifications resulting from the participation in the transnational social sphere – Reflecting transformed structural semantics and the tremendous changes of the individuals’ positions within the social context.
£19.52
Peter Lang AG The Anthropological Paradox: The Sociology of
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to analyse the categorial structure of sociological theory. The analysis is based on three assumptions: first, sociological theory is in a state of structural crisis; second, one of the symptoms of the crisis is the existence of many theoretical dichotomies which hinder the unification of sociological knowledge; and third, sociology of knowledge may analyse the causes of sociological theory’s structural crisis. Drawing on Foucault’s work, the author defines the source of theoretical crisis as an anthropological paradox: the involvement of man in a dialectic of being created and defined by what is objective while, at the same time, transcending this condition into the subjective. This study argues that insights found in works by Luhmann, Latour, Collins, Shapin, and others provide a chance for a formulation of a theoretical language for sociology that escapes the anthropological paradox.Table of ContentsSociology – Social theory – Sociological theory – Sociology of knowledge – Sociology of science – Science and technology studies – Philosophy of science – Mary Douglas – Stephan Fuchs – Michel Foucault – Bruno Latour – Harry M. Collins
£43.47
Peter Lang AG Vietnamese in Poland: From Socialist Fraternity
Book SynopsisThe world order that emerged after the Second World War resulted in the formation of rather unexpected connections between Poland and Vietnam, two middle-sized countries located on opposite sides of the globe. The mobility induced by "socialist fraternity" student exchange programs resulted in the emergence of the largest non-European migrant community in Poland already after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Basing on multi-sited anthropological fieldwork conducted in Poland, Vietnam, and the Internet, the author provides nuanced picture of Vietnamese migrant community, focusing on evolution of resources transferred by the migrants during particular periods of history. The main question posed in the book is the durability of Cold War era patterns of human mobility in the current era of "global capitalism". Table of ContentsWorld order after World War II – Cold War Era – Connections between Poland and Vietnam – "Socialist fraternity" – Student exchange programs – Non-European migrant community in Poland – Collapse of the Soviet Bloc – Vietnamese migrant community – Patterns of human mobility – Era of "global capitalism"
£50.04
Peter Lang AG Entkoppelte Gesellschaft - Ostdeutschland seit
Book SynopsisSeit das Ende des Kommunismus auf 1990 festgeschrieben und der Unrechtsstaat DDR der Justiz übergeben wurde, inszenieren neue Institutionen, Stiftungen und Behörden auf Bundesebene den ökonomischen, kulturellen und moralischen Erfolg des Rechtsstaats. Dabei wird die Mehrheit der Neubürger mit Schockereignissen des krassen sozialen Wandels und der gesellschaftlichen Stigmatisierung konfrontiert. Konzepte wie Transformation, Modernisierung, Demokratisierung treten als Euphemismen auf, die über eine neoliberale Annexion der Neuländer hinwegtäuschen. Das Investmentprojekt Aufschwung Ost ist ein Laborfall der Globalisierung. Über eine Aufarbeitung der DDR im Totalitarismus- und Diktaturenvergleich hinaus ist eine politische Soziologie der Landnahme, des Gesellschaftsumbaus und des strukturellen Kolonialismus in Ostdeutschland längst überfällig. Das Forschungsprogramm Entkoppelte Gesellschaft. Liberalisierung und Widerstand in Ostdeutschland seit 1989/90. Ein soziologisches Laboratorium will im dreißigsten Jahr der Einheit diesem Thema mit einer mehrbändigen Publikation Rechnung tragen.Der Band Anschluss widerlegt den Mythos von der friedlichen Revolution und von der Wiedervereinigung dessen, was zusammengehört und geht der These nach, dass Liberalisierung die Fortsetzung des Krieges mit anderen Mitteln ist. Der Band belegt die zeithistorischen Zusammenhänge für den koordinierten Staatsanschluss der DDR an die BRD und zeigt auf, warum die basisdemokratische Reformbewegung 1990 scheitern musste.
£43.47
Peter Lang AG Internal Migrations in Poland
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to highlight the issue of internal migrations and emphasise the need to conduct research on their course and consequences, including those stemming from historical processes. The complexity of this topic is illustrated by the fact that the chapters contained in the book have been written by representatives of different disciplines: sociology, psychology, geography and economics, which may suggest the need for interdisciplinary research to be conducted in the future.Table of ContentsInternal migration – Forced migration – Migration in Poland – Warsaw – Poznań – Depopulation – Formation of neighbourhood – Social memory – Collective memory – Educational migration
£33.75
Peter Lang AG Between Construction and Deconstruction of the
Book SynopsisAmong young people, symptoms of social change emerge in a multiple manner. This observation by Karl Mannheim inspired the concept of the survey of social and religious attitudes conducted by the integrated research team of employees of the Department of Sociology of Religion in the Institute of Sociology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and Institute for Catholic Church Statistics SAC. The title of the book is an intentional reference to the concept of social constructionism. This idea manifests itself in the subjective function of participants of an interaction who reconstruct social contexts in the course of the interaction on the basis of symbolic meanings. The conducted survey is a diachronic measurement with statistical time series of the years 1988 – 1998 – 2005 – 2017. The survey uses the research tool in which dimensions were primarily established by Charles Glock and Rodney Stark and a community component by Ohio Fukuyama. The term ‘global profession of faith’ was introduced by French sociologists Louis Dingemans and Jean Rémy to describe motivation and dynamics of changes of one’s individual religiousness and identification of individuals with religious group of reference. In this survey of social and religious attitudes of young university students, religiousness dimensions adopted by forms of activity on the Internet were added to the research tool.Table of ContentsTopoi of the decalogue – Universes of purpose – The new morality – Post-sacral – Religious escapism – The metaphysics of hope – Group identity – Public trust – Passion – Religion – Academic youth – E-religion – Values – Morality – Family – Research – Survey – Poland – Catholic Church
£41.36
Peter Lang AG From Medicine to Sociology. Health and Illness in
Book Synopsis This monograph is the first book in medical sociology that comprehensively describes the research conceptions of the co-founder of the European medical sociology, Professor Magdalena Sokołowska (1922–1989). The study characterizes the stages of formation of the scientific foundations of medical sociology in Europe: the evolution of approach to the phenomena of health and illness from the medical to sociological perspective, the development of feminist studies in medical sociology, the emergence of scientific identity of the subdiscipline, models of interdisciplinary studies on health, and research into complementary and alternative medicine.Table of ContentsI Sturm Und Drang Periode: Social Medicine, Epidemiology and the Organization of a Socialist Health Care Service II “The Woman Question”: From a Biogenic to Sociological Approach III The Formation of the Scientific Identity of Medical Sociology: Magdalena Sokołowska’s Contribution IV Values of Practical Usefulness Studies in the Sociology of Disability and Rehabilitation V “Building Bridges”: Medical Sociology and Other Sociological Subdisciplines (Sociology of the Family, Urban Sociology) VI The Sociology of the Medical Professions: The Doctor in the Health Care System and in Society
£49.18
Peter Lang AG The Relational Theory Of Society: Archerian
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the question of relationality. Despite the numerous motifs introduced to the discourse pertaining to Margaret S. Archer’s concept, we notice that some often reappear. What frequently appears is the concept of agency, closely related to the matter of the subject’s reflexivity. We also include papers that refer to methodological dilemmas. However, all collected texts directly consider the essence of the concept of the human person and society in reaction to the ontology of the person proposed by Archer. The common thread and horizon of these elaborations is Archer’s concept and Pierpaolo Donati’s relational sociology. Thus, this publication seeks to gain broader public and open new research perspectives in sociology.Table of ContentsPreface Margaret S. Archer The Morphogenesis of Personal Identity: Who We Are Is What We Care About Pierpaolo Donati The Relational Constitution of Society and the Human Person: an Introduction to Relational Sociology Fr. Artur Wysocki The Transcendence of the Person in Forgiveness: The Perspective of Relational Sociology Krzysztof Wielecki Concerns, Horror and Instrumental Rationality Arkadiusz Jabłoński The Category of Time in Morphogenetic Interpretation of Social and Cultural Change Klaudia Śledzińska The Barriers Impeding the Processes toward Conscious Citizenship: A Deficit in Power Relations within Public Space Silvia Cataldi On a Giant’s Shoulders: Three Merits of Archer’s Contribution Marek Rembierz Hope—Humanity—Society: Questions Concerning Hope and the Inspirations of Critical Realism Marcin Zarzecki Methodological and Theoretical Implications of Margaret S. Archer’s Critical Realism for the Concept of Social Constructionism in Interpretive Sociology Joanna Leszczyńska Electric Current Sociology Proposal Inspired by the Thought of Margaret S. Archer: An Overview Monika Bukowska The Scientific Experience of Margaret S. Archer Authors
£41.72
Peter Lang AG Relational Reason, Morals and Sociality
Book SynopsisRelational sociology draws attention to non-utilitarian aspects of sociality that reach beyond instrumental rationality, and presents the problem of relational reason. Shaping a civil society under cultural plurality requires reflection upon relational rationality. This book focuses on relational goods as an emergent effect of social relations, focusing on the issue of good life and the Good Society. The relational approach involves viewing social relations neither as an expression of the system nor as an individual action, but as a human reality in its own right, based on reciprocity. The authors explore the moral dimensions of sociality in various areas of social life. The aim is to enrich the understanding of relationality and of the significance of the relational theory of society.Table of ContentsRelational Sociology for Good Society – Relational Goods – Moral Dimension of the Relational Paradigm – Relational Care and Altruism – Social Bonds and Relational Embeddedness – Social Relations and Good Life – Nation and the Relational Subjects – Relational Approach and Social Networks Theory
£40.18
Peter Lang AG The Post-communist Cleavage.: Social Bases of
Book SynopsisThe book begins with a discussion of Lipset-Rokkan's theory of cleavages and its continuations. The author's interpretation of this theory is applied to a historical context: the communist system that divided society into communist and anti-communist sides. They survived the fall of communism, resulting in the post-communist cleavage. This cleavage manifested itself in social identities, electoral behavior, the shape of the party system and the attitudes of party elites. The problem of generalizing Lipset-Rokkan's theory is considered – its scope and applicability to the various post-communist countries. The problem of persistence is also discussed – the post-communist cleavage was sustained by various factors, but also weakened by the actions and choices made by the party elites.Table of ContentsLipset-Rokkan's theory of cleavages. The communist system in Central Europe. The post-communist cleavage in Poland after 1989. Its manifestation in electoral behavior, the party system and the attitudes of party elites. The question whether the post-communist cleavage will prove to be durable.
£46.08
Peter Lang AG Politics of Symbolization Across Central and
Book SynopsisPolitics of symbolization affects the semantics of identities and power relations between various subjects, and encompasses the changing meanings of social spaces, times, historical narratives, as well as modalities of collective memory. The volume focuses on politics of symbolization across Central and Eastern Europe understood as complex spaces of semiosis that are rife with similarities and differences. Politics of symbolization consists of various strategies of referring to past collective experiences from the perspective of projected visions and representations of the future. The European Union and its politics of symbolization is relevant in this respect. The volume facilitates understanding of the problems associated with politics of symbolization in Central and Eastern Europe.Table of ContentsEuropean Space, Semiosis and Politics of Symbolization Across Central and Eastern Europe Time and Semiosis of History: Symbolic Conflicts over Remembering and Forgetting Symbolic Construction of Communities: New Beginnings and New Divides Symbolic Politics of European (Dis)Unification
£39.02
Peter Lang AG A MediaEgo in the MediaPolis. Towards a New
Book SynopsisThe monograph is focused on three essential research problems identified by the key terms used in its title. The analysis covers concepts that previously were not subject to in-depth research projects: the MediaPolis, a MediaEgo and evolution of the political communication paradigm, observed and analysed on the political scene in Poland. Evolution of the public sphere and the media requires consideration of the causes of ongoing changes and of forecast transformations initiated by those changes. Hence, the research project focused on the sphere that emerged in an intersection of known discourse areas – public, political, meta-political and media discourses. The monograph summarizes years of research into the proposed concepts of a MediaEgo politician and the MediaPolis public sphere.Table of ContentsAn innovative, media-studies analysis of qualitative changes in communication between political leaders and their audiences – An outline of evolution of the political communication paradigm in Poland (2015-2019) – Marking a new age of political communication with distinct domination of discourse aimed at image creation.
£38.07
Peter Lang AG Economic Populism in British and American
Book SynopsisThis book presents the economic populism in British and American political discourse providing a current insight into the way Boris Johnson and Donald Trump communicate with the general public by raising fears over national security, immigration and technological advances. It shows how politicians asked for populism despite its poor economic record by using the same narrative of Conservatism. Unlike other books in the field which broadly discuss different aspects of populism, this book is the first in-depth analysis of economic populism containing political discourse studies. The recent populist discussion has started dominating the political arena in many countries. Hence, it seems that there is a need for a book that will explain the economic populism by showing its true nature.Table of Contentseconomic populism – political discourse – Conservatism – Boris Johnson – Donald Trump – national security – immigration – technological advances – globalization
£29.45
Peter Lang AG Contested Legacies of 1989: Geopolitics, Memories
Book SynopsisStrongly affected by modern history and facing dilemmas of modernity, Central and Eastern Europe has been healing fresh wounds for the past 30 years. The present volume analyzes the contemporary challenges related to the heritage of 1989. The peaceful revolution brought substantial socio-cultural, institutional and strategic transformations, setting a long-term course for Central and Eastern European policymaking. Recently, however, these legacies, namely the geopolitical aspects of the transformation, the policies of collective memory, and even intrasocietal issues, have been questioned more than ever. It seems the region is approaching the end of a revolutionary cycle of transition. This volume tries to investigate this phenomenon as it unfolds.
£31.82
Peter Lang AG Creative Society
Book SynopsisThe monograph analyses the concept of creative society. The main themes are as follows: culture industry and creative industries, management of creativity, creative ecology, regions of creativity, political aspects of creativity, technologies in the creative society, the problems of an empirical approach towards creativity, and creative phenomenology.Table of ContentsCreativity and culture; culture industry; creative industries; managing creativity; creative ecology; creative regionalism; policy of creativity; sociability of creativity; technologies of creativity; empiricism of creativity; creative phenomenology.
£54.90
Peter Lang AG The Democratization Process of Poland and Taiwan:
Book SynopsisPoland and Taiwan: two parts of the world distant from each other, differing culturally and socially, and yet facing kind of similar challenges in the late 1980s and early 1990s – characterised by the transition from an authoritarian political system to liberal democracy. This book seeks to present the process of democratisation of Poland and Taiwan from the point of view of shared perspectives. Invoking the classical literature of transitology, it is possible to explore similarities and differences between the democratisation of Poland and Taiwan among socioeconomic factors, fragmentation in society, political culture, meso- structures (e.g. political groups, social movements), political institutions, historical and national- identity aspects, and international influences. Table of ContentsThe process of democratization of Taiwan and Poland Historical and identity – related perspectives Social and economic perspectives Elites of power and opposition The role of student movements The geopolitics of democratization Changes in the political system Challenges of the political transition
£34.20
Peter Lang AG Being Human in a Virtual Society
Book SynopsisThe book addresses the theme of the advent of a Matrix Land' as a pervasive environment of digital (virtual) reality in which humanity is destined to live increasingly distant from its original natural condition. The challenge posed by the Matrix Land is that of a future society in which lifeworlds and social relations lose the classic notions of time and space. Time and space become illusions and come to depend on algorithms. Virtual reality will prevail over human nature, so much so that human beings will think that what previously appeared real to them was instead pure imagination if not an illusion. Digital logic will replace analog thinking. What will remain of the human? According to the Author, the underlying sociological problem is not whether or not it will be possible to build AI and robots capable of emulating the human mind in whole or in large part. The sociological question is how new technologies change human life to the extent that, by modifying knowledge and communication, they modify people's relational life, social forms and therefore the entire society. The technologies that lead humanity towards the post/transhuman must be analyzed and evaluated based on the criteria of which human relationships they assume and which they produce. We need to see whether they support solutions that increase the ethical and empathetic sense of social relationships or, vice versa, fuel relationships devoid of human meaning.
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Peter Lang AG Money in Modern Social Encyclicals
Book SynopsisThe oft-used phrase Money makes the world go round' not only highlights the purely economic nature of money but also underscores its significant implications for politics, society, and humanity. It is, therefore, unsurprising that the subject of money is also addressed in religious doctrines. This book aims to present the Catholic Church's official stance on money, as articulated in the papal social encyclicals. The popes are less concerned with monetary theories or abstract considerations about money, but rather with its use and the resulting consequences for both the community and the individual. Social encyclicals serve as a critical lens to analyze the role of money in contemporary society. Money, in itself, is neither inherently good nor bad; it must assume the status of a means and cannot function as an end in itself.
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Lit Verlag Social Development: Ways of Understanding Society
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Soziale Innovationen für nachhaltigen Konsum:
Book SynopsisIm vorliegenden Sammelband wird untersucht, wie die Potenziale innovativer Formen nachhaltigen Konsums – wie kollaborativer Konsums und Gemeingüter-Ökonomie, Prosuming und Produsing, Upcycling und ReUse – zur Förderung einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung entfaltet werden können. Neben Vorschlägen zur Systematisierung der Vielzahl relevanter Phänomene finden sich empirische Einblicke in die Entwicklung und Verbreitung verschiedener Typen von Innovationen sowie ihrer sozial-ökologischen Wirkungen. Multiplikatoren und Förderer aus Politik, Zivilgesellschaft und Finanzwesen sowie die Akteure selbst kommen zu Wort und geben einen Einblick in die gelebte Praxis ganz unterschiedlicher innovativer Ansätze für nachhaltigen Konsum.Trade Review“... Das Buch kann uneingeschränkt allen empfohlen werden, die an einem Überblick inaktuelle Entwicklungen für nachhaltigen Konsum interssiert sind.” (Contraste, Juli-August 2017)Table of ContentsPerspektiven von Förderern und Multiplikatoren.- Gelebte Praxis sozialer Innovationen nachhaltigen Konsums.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Die Wiederkehr des autoritären Charakters:
Book SynopsisWer sich in den letzten Jahren mit dem autoritären Charakter beschäftigt, begibt sich stets in die etwas paradoxe Gefahr, von einer noch älteren Version dieser Figur überholt zu werden. Was in den anti-autoritären 1970er Jahren durch unhaltbar gewordene Prämissen auf theoretischer Ebene abgebaut, in komplexer gelagerte Machtdiskurse überführt und durch Reformen in den pädagogischen, medialen und politischen Institutionen auf praktischer Ebene überwunden oder zumindest gezähmt zu sein schien, taucht Mitte der 2010er Jahre überraschend ‚originalgetreu‘ wieder auf und scheint sich seitdem in permanenter Annäherung an seinen Ursprung zu aktualisieren. Wie verfährt man also mit dem autoritären Charakter? Der vorliegende Sammelband versucht, diese Frage auf zwei Wegen anzugehen. Zum einen nimmt er die Gefahr in Kauf, in seinen Bestandsaufnahmen von aktuellen Entwicklungen überholt zu werden. Zum anderen begibt er sich selbst an den Ursprung zurück und versucht in den ersten Überlegungen der Frankfurter Schule und den Versuchen, den autoritären Charakter zu erforschen, bisher unbeachtete Stellen zu beleuchten. Allerdings ist auch bei einer solchen Rückkehr klar, dass sie nicht am Ursprung stehen bleiben kann. Es sind dann wiederum diese geschärften bzw. revidierenden Betrachtungen, mit denen etliche AutorInnen die Frage für die Gegenwart erneut stellen. Table of ContentsDer Begriff, sein Projekt und das Umfeld.- Manifestationen und Transformationen.- Wiederauflagen und Entgegnungen.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Organisiertes Misstrauen und ausdifferenzierte
Book SynopsisMartin Weißmann legt in diesem Open-Access-Buch theoretische Synthesen zu zentralen Themen der interdisziplinären Polizeiforschung vor und leistet damit einen Beitrag zur Integration dieser ansonsten oft empiristischen Forschung in die stärker theorieorientierte Soziologie. Er schlägt vor, (Kriminal-)Polizeien als Fall misstrauischer Sozialsysteme zu analysieren. Wie beispielsweise auch Geheimdienste oder der Investigativjournalismus sind sie auf die Gewinnung von Informationen über eine Umwelt spezialisiert, welche dies durch Prozesse des Verbergens und Täuschens erschwert.Empirisch behandelt das Buch zunächst die (Vor-)Geschichte polizeilicher Ermittlungsarbeit in Europa als Fall der Ausdifferenzierung, Professionalisierung und Organisationswerdung sozialer Kontrolle (untersucht an den Fällen Englands im 18. Jahrhundert sowie der Kriminalpolizeien in Paris um 1820 und Berlin um 1920). Die anschließenden Kapitel widmen sich der Arbeit von Polizisten mit Informanten und an Beschuldigten (in der Vernehmung) als Fall des Kontakts einer organisationalen Grenzrolle mit formal nicht zur Kooperation verpflichteten Nichtmitgliedern der Organisation. Und schließlich analysiert der Autor den polizeilichen Korpsgeist als Fall einer kollegialen Versicherungsgemeinschaft gegen die individuelle Verantwortlichkeit für Fehler bei der Arbeit.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Ausgangspunkte und Perspektiven. Die (Kriminal-)Polizei als misstrauisches Sozialsystem und Polizeiarbeit als Arbeit an den Grenzen des Rechts.- Zur Soziologie der Polizei.- Schluss.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Zur Theorie sozialer Systeme: Herausgegeben,
Book SynopsisDieser Band vereinigt grundlegende Texte von Talcott Parsons zur Theorie sozialer Systeme. Sie bilden den Ausgangspunkt der systemtheoretisch orientierten Soziologie und sind nach wie vor „eine bleibende Herausforderung für alle weitere Arbeit an soziologischer Theorie“ (Niklas Luhmann).Table of ContentsVorbemerkung.- Handlungstheorie.- Interaktion und der Aufbau der Sozialsysteme.- Anmerkungen.- Der Begriff „Sozialsystem“ als theoretisches Instrument.- Der kognitive Wegweiser des Analytikers.- Wissenschaftliche Mythologisierung.- System, Interpénétration und Funktion.- Das Sozialsystem.- Schluß.- Anmerkungen.- Empfohlene Literatur.- Zur allgemeinen Theorie in der Soziologie.- Die Organisationsebenen der Sozialstruktur.- Der Sozialprozess als Input/Output-Austausch.- Der Sozialisationsprozess und seine Bezugsgruppenstruktur.- Schlußbemerkung.- Anmerkungen.- Der Begriff der Gesellschaft: Seine Elemente und ihre Verknüpfungen.- Handeln - das allgemeine Begriffsschema.- Der Begriff des „Sozialsystems“.- Der Begriff der „Gesellschaft“.- Das gesellschaftliche Gemeinwesen und seine Umwelt.- Das Kultursystem als Umwelt der Gesellschaft.- Persönlichkeit als Umwelt der Gesellschaft.- Organismus und physische Bedingungen als Umwelt der Gesellschaft.- Gesellschaftliche Gemeinwesen und Autarkie.- Die strukturellen Komponenten von Gesellschaften.- Prozess und Wandel.- Ein Paradigma evolutionären Wandels.- Die Differenzierung von Subsystemen der Gesellschaft.- Stufen in der Evolution von Gesellschaften.- Anmerkungen.- Grundzüge des Sozialsystems.- Zusammenfassung.- Nachbemerkung.- Anmerkungen.- Sozialsysteme.- Sozialsysteme und das Handlungssystem.- Das Sozialsystem und seine Umwelten.- Gesellschaft und gesellschaftliches Gemeinwesen.- Kulturelles System und politisches System.- Solidarität und die Wirtschaft.- Generalisierte Austauschmedien.- Gesellschaften und ihre Umwelten.- Noch einmal: die Austauschmedien.- Anmerkungen des Herausgebers.- Literatur.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Soziologisch denken mit Jacques Derrida
Book SynopsisDas Buch geht systematisch der Frage nach, wie das Denken Jacques Derridas für die soziologische Theoriebildung und Gesellschaftskritik fruchtbar gemacht werden kann. Dabei versucht es ersichtlich zu machen, wie Identitäten und Normen auf ihr ausgeschlossenes Anderes hin geöffnet werden können. Es richtet sich an interessierte Leser*innen der Soziologie, indem einerseits Derridas philosophische Denkbewegungen zur Sprache gebracht und andererseits ein soziologischer Übersetzungsprozess vollführt wird. Auf welch vielfältige Weise lässt sich innerhalb der Soziologie und auch der politischen Theorie an die Dekonstruktion anschließen? Eine Hierarchiekritik und eine Offenlegung geschlechtlich markierter Machtverhältnisse werden dabei ebenso eine Rolle spielen, wie eine dekonstruktive Befragung sozialer Gründungsszenen und eine soziologische Perspektivierung von Erfindung, Gabe und Gastfreundschaft. Soziologisch denken mit Jacques Derrida umfasst nicht den Entwurf einer wasserdichten Theorie, sondern eine Sensibilisierung für die Instabilität und Spannungen der sozialen Welt.Table of ContentsWie lässt sich die soziale Welt mit der Dekonstruktion erschließen?- Die Denkbewegungen der Dekonstruktion.- Die dekonstruktive Kritik an Begründungsfiguren und Hierarchien.- Die (Un-)Möglichkeit sozialer Handlungsweisen.- Zur Werkbiographie Jacques Derridas entlang einiger Textmarken.
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Diffraction Normative, Comportements Caches Et
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Max Weber, Die Okologie Und Der Katholizismus
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG La Phenomenologie Semiopragmatique En Recherche
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Une Autre Introduction Aux Sciences Sociales
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Transcript Verlag Complicity: New Perspectives on Collectivity
Book SynopsisOccupy, Commons and other social experiments show: New collectivities are invented and tested. Gesa Ziemer enriches this debate through the insight that in the process, the reinterpretation of old forms of joint action can play an essential role. By looking at complicities in art, science and economy, ongoing collectivization is exposed. Complicity means the committing of an act together, so the definition of criminal law. But for a long time now the concept has also been targeted at legal collective actions - mainly in innovative environments. Individuals act jointly in an intensely affective way - albeit only temporarily, bindingly in common - but still individually, inventively - and at the same time in a goal-oriented manner.
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Transcript Verlag Competition in World Politics – Knowledge,
Book SynopsisThe "return of great power competition" between (among others) the US, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. But why do we think of world politics in terms of "competition"? Which information and which rules enable states and other actors in world politics to "compete" with one another? Which competitive strategies do they pursue in the complex environment of modern world politics? This cutting-edge edited collection discusses these questions from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. It offers a fresh account of competition in world politics, looking beyond its military dimensions to questions of economics, technology and prestige.
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Transcript Verlag Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying
Book SynopsisImmanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors address the possibilities to reread Wallerstein's theoretical thoughts and ideas that are related to different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The presented interdisciplinary approach of this anthology thereby intends to highlight the broader value of Wallerstein's ideas, even almost five decades after the famous sociologist and economic historian first expressed them.
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Transcript Verlag Sound Formations: Towards a Sociological
Book SynopsisIs it possible to work with sound in sociology rather than being about sound? Can there be a "sonic sociology"? Rémy Bocquillon reflects on the process-oriented character of sociology as an experimental science by including aesthetic practices of sounding and listening as constitutive for the making of sociological theory. Following new materialist and speculative philosophies, this study is thus a combination of sociological theory, philosophical thought and aesthetic practices, not understood as discrete fields of inquiry, but co-constituting each other. It also features an audio chapter, "feeding-back" the sonic experimentations at the core of the research in new and engaging ways.
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Transcript Publishing The Construction of Social Health Systems
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The Sarcophagus of Identity: Tribalism,
Book SynopsisGiven the increasing centrality of identity to contemporary politics, James Skellys book provides a critical and useful analysis of the dominant and problematic conceptual bases for self and identity. Inspired in part by his lawsuit against the US Secretary of Defense while serving as an active duty military officer, Skelly argues that our use of language in the construction of identities is unwitting, unreflective, and has engendered horrific consequences for tens of millions of humans. In contrast, he demonstrates our need to overcome sectarian modes of thinking and to engage in much deeper forms of solidarity with others by foregrounding a species identity. This book offers not only an academic reflection on the concept of identity but one that delves into the nature of the self and identity by drawing on Skelly's concrete experience of attempting to present a self-identity opposed to war in the face of the political, psychological, religious, and legal arguments put forth in a year-long legal battle with the United States government. One consequence is that Skelly argues that to create a new and more pacific human sensibility we must help ourselves and others to gain sovereignty over our social worlds and the definition of 'who we are', by arming individuals with the tools necessary to overcome the definitions and categorisations we are subjected to in the construction of traditional notions of 'identity'.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Demodernization – A Future in the Past
Book SynopsisMedical doctors driving taxis, architects selling beer on street corners, scientific institutes closed down amid rusting carcasses of industrial plantsthese images became common at the turn of the 21st century in many once modern civilized countries. In quite a few of them, long-time neighbours came to kill each other, apparently motivated by the newly discovered differences of religion, language, or origin. Civil nationalism gave way to tribal, ethnic, and confessional conflict. Rational arguments of geopolitical nature have been replaced by claims of self-righteousness and moral superiority. These snapshots are not random. They are manifestations of a phenomenon called demodernization that can be observed from the banks of the Neva to the banks of the Euphrates, from the deserts of Central Asia to the English countryside and all the way to the city of Detroit. Demodernization is a growing trend today, but it also has a history. Seventeen scholars, including historians, philosophers, sociologists, and archaeologists, offer their well substantiated views of demodernization. The book is divided into three parts dedicated to conceptual debates as well as historical and contemporary cases. It book provides a wealth of empirical materials and conceptual insights that provide a multi-faceted approach to demodernization.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich The City: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to
Book SynopsisIn diesem Buch wird der aktuelle Stand der Stadtforschung in den relevanten Disziplinen verständlich dargestellt. Der Autor bietet Einblicke in die Sichtweisen der wichtigsten Disziplinen, die sich mit Stadt-Thematiken beschäftigen, wie Soziologie, Geographie, Raum- und Stadtplanung, Geschichte, Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft. Dabei berücksichtigt er auch die Sprachphilosophie und zeigt die unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen von stadtbezogenen Begriffen in einem Dutzend Wortsprachen auf. Ein Überblick über die zentralen Ansätze und Theorien sowie deren praktische Anwendung ermöglicht es den Lesern und Leserinnen, ein vertrautes Thema aus neuen Perspektiven zu betrachten.Trade ReviewNicht nur ist das Buch von Uwe Prell empfehlenswert, aus meiner Sicht ist es ein sehr aktuelles Standardwerk zu den Thematiken der Stadt, vor allem dank des interdisziplinären Ansatzes für mich ein „Augenöffner“. Günther Bachmann, Stadtforschung und Statistik 1/2023Table of ContentsTHE CITY IS THE ANSWER. BUT WHAT WAS THE QUESTION? NOTE ON THE ENGLISH EDITION I. THE DIFFICULTIES OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY II. ON THE BENEFITS OF A TOOL III. THEORY A. The science of the city 1. The big picture (urbanism) 2. City as society (sociology and urban sociology) 3. City as market (economics and urban economics) 4. City as natural environment ((urban) geography, urban environmental management, and climate research) 5. City as design space (spatial planning, urban planning, architecture, and urban morphology) 6. City as policy (law) 7. City as memory space (history) 8. City as hope and disappointment (philosophy) 9. Ways out of no man’s land (political science) 10. The city: a puzzle B. The grand narratives 1. The good city (Aristotle) 2. The multifunctional city (Werner Sombart) 3. Politics, the market, and city types (Max Weber) 4. The blasé city dweller (Georg Simmel) 5. The dense city (Lewis Wirth and the Chicago School) 6. No city (Jürgen Friedrichs) 7. The global city (Saskia Sassen) 8. The ordinary city (Ash Amin and Stephen Graham) 9. The open city (Richard Sennett) 10. The experts’ insights C. The wisdom of languages: the city is… 1. The city is dense infrastructure (Egyptian) 2. The city is citizenship (Greek) 3. The city is power politics (Latin) 4. The city is structured densification (Spanish) 5. The city is lifestyle (French) 6. The city is relevance (English) 7. The city is rights (German) 8. The city is the centre (Russian) 9. The city is civilization (Arabic) 10. The city is prosperity (Hindi) 11. The city is the economy (Chinese) 12. The city is a hub (Japanese) 13. The genes of the city IV. PRACTICE A. Zooming in B. Terms, concepts, and city types 1. Megacity 2. Global city 3. Capital city 4. Arrival city 5. Smart city 6. Neoliberal city 7. Virus city 8. Shrinking city and lost city 9. Terms, concepts, and city types: valuable patterns? C. Urban issues 1. Immigration and emigration 2. Housing and living 3. Society and the economy 4. Movement and standstill 5. Analogue and digital 6. City and countryside 7. City and world 8. City and environment 9. Diversity and reciprocities V. OUR FUTURE WILL BE DECIDED IN AND WITH THE CITY Literature Index
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Verlag Barbara Budrich The Concept of the New: Framing Production and
Book SynopsisIn this book the author takes the concept of the New as a starting point to open the way to a broader reflection on ar t production within neoliberal capitalism. Piazza explores the notions of innovation and New respectively in the Social Sciences and in the Humanities, tracing the differences from the conceptual and temporal perspective in relation to the most recent debates on creativity and postmodernism. The book investigates the field of theatre and dance, focusing on the essential aspects that link the New with the contemporary condition and its discourse. Combining theory and practice, this book calls for an art production able to slip out of the framework of innovation and builds the ground to rethink the New and its political value in the arts.Table of ContentsChapter I * On the New in Social Sciences1.1 The new as unknown: the recognition of novelty in the Social Sciences 1.2 The production of innovation and its temporal dimension 1.2. 1 The production of innovation, its purpose and its critique 1.2.2 Critical innovation studies 1.3 Perspectives from Sociology of Art: the collective aspect and the impossibility of NoveltyChapter II * On the New in Humanities 2.1 On difference, memory and obscurity: the recognition of novelty in Humanities 2.2. Difference, space and time: the production of the new 2.2.1 The time of the new 2.2.2 The spaces of the New2.3 Duration and value2.3. 1 The problem of valueChapter III * On the New in the Present 3.1 Some notes on the Avantgarde 3.2 Postmodernism and the future 3.3 The affirmation of creativity and its critique 3.3.1 The critique to creativity: partial answers to the problem Chapter IV * On the traces of the New in the Theatre of the Present 4.1 Today's theatre across reality and fiction 4.2 The institutional critique yet to come 4.3 Open conclusions on theory and practice: where to start Chapter V * Empirical Research on the New: methodology 5.1 Balancing theory and empirical research: abduction and qualitative methods 5.2 Objectives and research questions 5.3 Sampling and data collection 5.4 Data analysis Chapter VI * The New in the Theatre of the Present 6.1 The Notion of New and its relevance in the field 6.1.1 The Difference of the New in the Field 6.1.2 The New as Incomplete 6.1.3 The Ephemeral New and its Eternity 6.2 From the Concept of New to its Production: escaping directionality 6.2.1 The Production of the New: a Co-Existence of Differences 6.2.2 Envisioning Production: suspension and self-betrayal 6.3 On the system and its value(s) 6.3.1 Perspectives on the System and Ways out of its Reproduction 6.4 On Art and Politics: values and roles Chapter VII * Rethinking Production as a Step towards the Incomplete 7.1 On paradigms and politics: institutions as frames 7.2 The collective cultivation of difference: autonomy and conflict 7.3 On clarity, obscurity and indeterminacy 7.4 On roles and rules: impossible possibilia 7.5 On products and failure7.6 On progress and time: the reconceptualization of production
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