Author: Pekka Sulkunen
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 0761959416
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
How can policy makers justify public intervention into private life? And why does this interference often translate into contradictory or non-reflexive politics on lifestyles? This engaging title discusses the social, cultural and policy consequences of these conditions as well as showing the effect of agency and choice upon regulation. The book critically examines: - Neo-Liberal ideology and the free market - The Sociology of Modernity - The New Consumer Society - Citizenship in Mass Society - The power of Autonomy - The interaction of Regulation and Agency It provides a developed 'genealogical' account of society, is enriched by original case-studies, and engages with a broad range of traditional approaches and sources - including the work of Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Adam Smith and Pierre Bourdieu. This well researched and thought-provoking work will be of interest to students of social policy and sociology as well as policy-makers and field workers.
The Saturated Society
Author: Pekka Sulkunen
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 0761959416
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
How can policy makers justify public intervention into private life? And why does this interference often translate into contradictory or non-reflexive politics on lifestyles? This engaging title discusses the social, cultural and policy consequences of these conditions as well as showing the effect of agency and choice upon regulation. The book critically examines: - Neo-Liberal ideology and the free market - The Sociology of Modernity - The New Consumer Society - Citizenship in Mass Society - The power of Autonomy - The interaction of Regulation and Agency It provides a developed 'genealogical' account of society, is enriched by original case-studies, and engages with a broad range of traditional approaches and sources - including the work of Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Adam Smith and Pierre Bourdieu. This well researched and thought-provoking work will be of interest to students of social policy and sociology as well as policy-makers and field workers.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 0761959416
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
How can policy makers justify public intervention into private life? And why does this interference often translate into contradictory or non-reflexive politics on lifestyles? This engaging title discusses the social, cultural and policy consequences of these conditions as well as showing the effect of agency and choice upon regulation. The book critically examines: - Neo-Liberal ideology and the free market - The Sociology of Modernity - The New Consumer Society - Citizenship in Mass Society - The power of Autonomy - The interaction of Regulation and Agency It provides a developed 'genealogical' account of society, is enriched by original case-studies, and engages with a broad range of traditional approaches and sources - including the work of Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Adam Smith and Pierre Bourdieu. This well researched and thought-provoking work will be of interest to students of social policy and sociology as well as policy-makers and field workers.
The Saturated Society
Author: Pekka Sulkunen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781446218358
Category : Health behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Detailed and thought-provoking discussion of lifestyle regulation and how preventive lifestyle policies need to be shaped with the 'saturated society' - a society of self-controlled, fully autonomous individuals - in mind.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781446218358
Category : Health behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Detailed and thought-provoking discussion of lifestyle regulation and how preventive lifestyle policies need to be shaped with the 'saturated society' - a society of self-controlled, fully autonomous individuals - in mind.
Children and Families in the Digital Age
Author: Elisabeth Gee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315297159
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Children and Families in the Digital Age offers a fresh, nuanced, and empirically-based perspective on how families are using digital media to enhance learning, routines, and relationships. This powerful edited collection contributes to a growing body of work suggesting the importance of understanding how the consequences of digital media use are shaped by family culture, values, practices, and the larger social and economic contexts of families’ lives. Chapters offer case studies, real-life examples, and analyses of large-scale national survey data, and provide insights into previously unexplored topics such as the role of siblings in shaping the home media ecology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315297159
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Children and Families in the Digital Age offers a fresh, nuanced, and empirically-based perspective on how families are using digital media to enhance learning, routines, and relationships. This powerful edited collection contributes to a growing body of work suggesting the importance of understanding how the consequences of digital media use are shaped by family culture, values, practices, and the larger social and economic contexts of families’ lives. Chapters offer case studies, real-life examples, and analyses of large-scale national survey data, and provide insights into previously unexplored topics such as the role of siblings in shaping the home media ecology.
Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York
Author: Medical Society of the State of New York (1807- )
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry
Author: Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Includes list of members, 1882-1902 and proceedings of the annual meetings and various supplements.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Includes list of members, 1882-1902 and proceedings of the annual meetings and various supplements.
The Saturated World
Author: Beverly Gordon
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335424
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Explores the way middle-class American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries added meaning to their lives through their "domestic amusements"--leisure pursuits that took place in and were largely focused on the home. Women elaborated on their everyday tasks and responsibilities with these amusements thus cultivating a heightened, aesthetically charged "saturated" state and created self-contained enchanted worlds.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335424
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Explores the way middle-class American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries added meaning to their lives through their "domestic amusements"--leisure pursuits that took place in and were largely focused on the home. Women elaborated on their everyday tasks and responsibilities with these amusements thus cultivating a heightened, aesthetically charged "saturated" state and created self-contained enchanted worlds.
Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society
Author: Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microscopes
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microscopes
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society
Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Author: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Publishes refereed research papers in all aspects of the biological sciences. As a fast track journal, it specialises in the rapid delivery of the latest research to the scientific community.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Publishes refereed research papers in all aspects of the biological sciences. As a fast track journal, it specialises in the rapid delivery of the latest research to the scientific community.