Author: Manuel Castells
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520056176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Author: J.R. Mellor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135682275
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Focusing on urban sociology as practised in Britain, the author argues that it is a key element in the response of the 'intellectual proletariat' to urbanization and the calls on it by the State to control the ensuing way of life. The themes of urban sociology have been the concerns of the Welfare State and, despite radical inputs, the discipline has remained tied up with the assumptions and methodological precepts of liberalism. The author's contention is that urbanization should be analysed in the framework of the political economy of regional development. This book was first published in 1977.

Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415017794
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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A companion to the International Bibliography of The Social Sciences the Thematic list of descriptors will be a valuable tool for all those contributing to the development of information systems in the social sciences

Author: C.G. Pickvance
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135673241
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available. This book was first published in 1976.

Author: Liliane Voyé
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789061869672
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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What are the relations between sociology and the different religions--Christianity with its various branches, Judaism, Islam, Oriental religions, sects and New Religious Movements? That is the question which this work, conceived on the occasion of the XXVth Conference of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion/Société Internationale de Sociologie des Religions (SISR), wishes to clarify.The book retraces the varied and troubled history of these relations and also reveals how in opening up its research to other religions besides the Christian, sociology is forced to redefine the very object of its field of study. What is the religious? This question, which until recently was considered impertinent, informs this book throughout.If confronts the necessity of rethinking theories and methodological approaches which, constructed in the context of 19th and early 20th century Western Europe, prove to be rather inadequate for encompassing contemporary religious phenomena and religious manifestations in other contexts. To these new theoretical and methodological demands is added, for the sociologist, a deontological imperative, which takes on all the more importance today as the religious provokes passionate social debate.

Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264162992
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Presents a common vocabulary to facilitate the indexing, retrieval and exchange of development-related information.

Author: Alberta Andreotti
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526122421
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation. Is this process of transition now accelerating or reaching an end point? This book is a critical exploration of capitalism in transition, bringing together cutting edge, world renowned scholars who reflect from different disciplinary points of view. This collection engages with the primarily Western themes of welfare capitalism and social fragmentation. Structured over three parts, the book analyses; the transformations of welfare societies and capitalism with a focus on South European welfare states and their (in)capacity to tackle poverty; the transformation of work and migration with a special attention to informality and the question of social rights; and the transformation of cities.

Author: Jeanne Haffner
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262018799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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The role of aerial photography in the evolution of the concept of social space"and its impact on French urban planning in the mid-twentieth century. In mid-twentieth century France, the term "social space" ( l'espace social)--the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked--emerged in a variety of social science disciplines. Taken up by the French New Left, it also came to inform the practice of urban planning. In The View from Above, Jeanne Haffner traces the evolution of the science of social space from the interwar period to the 1970s, illuminating in particular the role of aerial photography in this new way of conceptualizing socio-spatial relations. As early as the 1930s, the view from above served for Marcel Griaule and other anthropologists as a means of connecting the social and the spatial. Just a few decades later, the Marxist urban sociologist Henri Lefebvre called the perspective enabled by aerial photography--a technique closely associated with the French colonial state and military--"the space of state control." Lefebvre and others nevertheless used the notion of social space to recast the problem of massive modernist housing projects (grands ensembles) to encompass the modern suburb (banlieue) itself--a critique that has contemporary resonance in light of the banlieue riots of 2005 and 2007. Haffner shows how such "views" permitted new ways of conceptualizing the old problem of housing to emerge. She also points to broader issues, including the influence of the colonies on the metropole, the application of sociological expertise to the study of the built environment, and the development of a spatially oriented critique of capitalism.

Author: Chiranji Singh Yadav
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Urban economics
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Author: Complied by the British Library of Political and Social Science
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415221078
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, this series provides the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. Arranged by topic and indexed by author, subject and place-name, each bibliography lists and annotates the most important works published in its field during the year of 1997, including hard-to-locate journal articles. Each volume also includes a complete list of the periodicals consulted.