The Sociological Review Monographs 66 2

Author : Penny Travlou,Luigina Ciolfi
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781914481253

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Ethnographies of Collaborative Economies across Europe by Penny Travlou,Luigina Ciolfi Pdf

“Sharing economy” and “collaborative economy” refer to a proliferation of initiatives, business models, digital platforms and forms of work that characterise contemporary life: from community-led initiatives and activist campaigns, to the impact of global sharing platforms in contexts such as network hospitality, transportation, etc. Sharing the common lens of ethnographic methods, this book presents in-depth examinations of collaborative economy phenomena. The book combines qualitative research and ethnographic methodology with a range of different collaborative economy case studies and topics across Europe. It uniquely offers a truly interdisciplinary approach. It emerges from a unique, long-term, multinational, cross-European collaboration between researchers from various disciplines (e.g., sociology, anthropology, geography, business studies, law, computing, information systems), career stages, and epistemological backgrounds, brought together by a shared research interest in the collaborative economy. This book is a further contribution to the in-depth qualitative understanding of the complexities of the collaborative economy phenomenon. These rich accounts contribute to the painting of a complex landscape that spans several countries and regions, and diverse political, cultural, and organisational backdrops. This book also offers important reflections on the role of ethnographic researchers, and on their stance and outlook, that are of paramount interest across the disciplines involved in collaborative economy research.

Author : SOM
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1529735173

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The Sociological Review Monographs 68/2 by SOM Pdf

Author : Juliet Schor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520385672

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After the Gig by Juliet Schor Pdf

When the "sharing economy" launched a decade ago, proponents claimed that it would transform the experience of work -- giving earners flexibliitiy, autonomy, and a decent income. But this novel form of work soon sprouted a dark side: exploited Uber drivers, neighborhoods ruined by Airbnb, racial discrimination, and rising carbon emissions. Several of the most prominent platforms are now faced with existential crises as they prioritize growth over fairness and long-term viability. Based on nearly a decade of pioneering research, After the Gig dives into what went wrong with this contemporary reimagining of labor. The book examines multiple types of data from thirteen cases to identify the unique features and potential of sharing platforms that prior research has failed to pinipoint

Author : Arve Hansen,Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031110696

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Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life by Arve Hansen,Kenneth Bo Nielsen Pdf

This open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet. The chapters cover both the stubbornness of unsustainable consumption patterns in affluent societies and the drivers of rapidly increasing consumption in emerging economies. They focus on consumption patterns with the largest environmental footprints, including energy, housing, and mobility and engage in sophisticated ways with the theoretical frontiers of the field of consumption research, in particular on the ‘practice turn’ that has come to dominate the field in recent decades. This book maps out what we know about consumption, questions what we take for granted, and points us in new directions for better understanding—and changing—unsustainable consumption patterns.

Author : Bradley R Agle,David W Hart,Jeffery Thompson,Hilary M Hendricks
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782547471

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Research Companion to Ethical Behavior in Organizations by Bradley R Agle,David W Hart,Jeffery Thompson,Hilary M Hendricks Pdf

Compiling empirical work from management and social science disciplines, the Research Companion to Ethical Behavior in Organizations provides an entry point for academic researchers and compliance officers interested in measuring the moral dimensions o

Author : Paul Halmos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1429313015

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Sociological review monograph No 4 :. by Paul Halmos Pdf

Author : Amy Erdman Farrell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000891850

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The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies by Amy Erdman Farrell Pdf

The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is a key reference work in contemporary scholarship situated at the intersection between Gender and Fat Studies, charting the connections and tensions between these two fields. Comprising over 20 chapters from a range of diverse and international contributors, the Reader is structured around the following key themes: theorizing gender and fat; narrating gender and fat; historicizing gender and fat; institutions and public policy; health and medicine; popular culture and media; and resistance. It is an intersectional collection, highlighting the ways that "gender" and "fat" always exist in connection with multiple other structures, forms of oppression, and identities, including race, ethnicity, sexualities, age, nationalities, disabilities, religion, and class. The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is essential reading for scholars and advanced students in Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, Sociology, Body Studies, Cultural Studies, Psychology, and Health. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Author : Julian L. Garritzmann,Silja Häusermann,Bruno Palier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197601471

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The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II by Julian L. Garritzmann,Silja Häusermann,Bruno Palier Pdf

Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to modernize welfare states by focusing on future-oriented social investment policies that focus on creating, mobilizing, and preserving human skills and capabilities. Yet, there is massive variance in the development of social investment strategies. The World Politics of Social Investment: Political Dynamics of Reform is the second of two volumes of the World Politics of Social Investment (WOPSI) project, which systematically maps and explains different welfare reform strategies in democratic countries around the world. This volume traces the development of social investment reforms across the regions of Nordic, Continental, and Southern Europe, as well as Central and Eastern Europe, North and Latin America, and North East Asia. The chapters in this volume study the impact of different structural drivers for social investment (e.g., demographic, poverty, demand for skill, or lack of an available workforce), the salience of social investment in the public debates, and the different political coalitions that led to or prevented the adoption of social investment strategies. The chapters are written by leading social policy scholars from different world regions. They all apply a joint theoretical framework (developed in the first of the two volumes) to explain the politics of social investment in a range of contexts and policy fields. Jointly with the first volume, the WOPSI project offers the first worldwide analysis of social investment reforms around the globe.

Author : Michael Ochsner,Sven E. Hug,Hans-Dieter Daniel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319290164

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Research Assessment in the Humanities by Michael Ochsner,Sven E. Hug,Hans-Dieter Daniel Pdf

This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research is delicate. While citation-based research performance indicators are widely used in the natural and life sciences, quantitative measures for research performance meet strong opposition in the humanities. This volume combines the presentation of state-of-the-art projects on research assessments in the humanities by humanities scholars themselves with a description of the evaluation of humanities research in practice presented by research funders. Bibliometric issues concerning humanities research complete the exhaustive analysis of humanities research assessment. The selection of authors is well-balanced between humanities scholars, research funders, and researchers on higher education. Hence, the edited volume succeeds in painting a comprehensive picture of research evaluation in the humanities. This book is valuable to university and science policy makers, university administrators, research evaluators, bibliometricians as well as humanities scholars who seek expert knowledge in research evaluation in the humanities.

Author : Nena Močnik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000164848

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Trauma Transmission and Sexual Violence by Nena Močnik Pdf

This book grapples with the potential impacts of collective trauma in war-rape survivors’ families. Drawing on inter-ethnic and inter-generational participatory action research on reconciliation processes in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina, the author examines the risk that female survivors of war-related sexual crimes, now-mothers, will breed hatred and further division in the post-conflict context. Showing how the historical trauma of sexual abuse among survivors affects the ideas, perceptions, behavioural patterns and understandings of the ethnic and religious ‘Other’ or perpetrator, the book also considers the influence of such trauma on other attitudes rarely addressed in peacebuilding programmes, such as notions of naturalised gender-based violence, cultural scripts of sexuality and support for dangerous or violent aspects of the patriarchal social order. It thus seeks to sketch proposals for a curriculum of peacebuilding that takes account of the legacy of war rape in survivors’ families and the impact of trauma transmission. As such, Trauma Transmission and Sexual Violence will appeal to scholars of politics, sociology and gender studies with interests in peace and reconciliation processes and war-related sexual violence.

Author : Janet Boddy
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529214734

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Thinking Through Family by Janet Boddy Pdf

Understanding what ‘family’ means – and how best to support families – depends on challenging politicized assumptions that frame ‘ordinary’ families in comparison to an imagined problematic ‘other’. Learning from the perspectives of people who were in care in childhood, this innovative book helps redefine the concept of family. Linking two longitudinal studies involving young adults in England, it reveals important new insights into the diverse and dynamic complexity of family lives, identities and practices in time – through childhood and beyond. Paving the way for future policy and practice, this book makes an important contribution to the theorization of family in the 21st century.

Author : Katie Beswick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474285209

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Social Housing in Performance by Katie Beswick Pdf

This book explores the ways that council estates have been represented in England across a range of performance forms. Drawing on examples from mainstream, site-specific and resident-led performance works, it considers the political potential of contemporary performance practices concerned with the council estate. Depictions of the council estate are brought into dialogue with global representations of what Chris Richardson and Hans Skott-Myhre call the 'hood', to tease out the specific features of the British context and situate the work globally. Katie Beswick's study provides a timely contribution to the ongoing national and global interest in social housing. As the housing market grows ever more insecure, and estates are charged with political rhetoric, theatre and socially engaged art set or taking place on estates takes on a new potency. Mainstream theatre works examined include Rita, Sue and Bob Too and A State Affair at the Soho Theatre, Port at the National Theatre, and DenMarked at the Battersea Arts Centre. The book also explores the National Youth Theatre's Slick and Roger Hiorns' Seizure, as well as community-based and resident led performances by Fourthland, Jordan McKenzie, Fugitive Images and Jane English.

Author : Sampson Lee Blair,Josip Obradović
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787691117

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The Work-Family Interface by Sampson Lee Blair,Josip Obradović Pdf

This volume focuses upon the complex nature of the work-family interface, and how families around the globe deal with the inherent dilemmas therein. Chapters examine how work affects families in both overt and discrete manners, as well as how family life, in turn, affects paid employment.

Author : Antony Bryant,Adele E. Clarke
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781804553749

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Festschrift in Honour of Kathy Charmaz by Antony Bryant,Adele E. Clarke Pdf

This Festschrift to honour Kathy Charmaz’s scholarship features fourteen chapters plus an editors’ introduction, exploring CGT extensively, examining topics including “Indigenization” of the method, its approaches to decolonizing research, uses of CGT in social justice research, and the legacies of Kathy Charmaz’s remarkable mentorship.

Author : Panayiota Tsatsou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030941222

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Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion by Panayiota Tsatsou Pdf

This edited collection explores the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people. With interdisciplinary contributors from six continents, working in diverse fields such as digital media studies, social computing, community informatics and cultural studies, the collection brings together theoretical and applied research evidence on three vulnerable population categories: ethnic minorities, older people and people with disabilities. Each section is accompanied by a critical commentary on the research insights presented, from third sector community and policy experts. The collection explores whether vulnerable populations face similar experiences and challenges in relation to their digital inclusion status, stressing the central presence of intersectionality, and arguing for the inclusion of the age, ethnicity/immigration status and disability aspects of one’s identity. At the same time, it argues for multi-directional action that tackles intersectional discrimination in the digital realm on behalf of more than one single population category or group. Challenging popular discourse on the overcoming of digital inequalities in the West, this essential book contends that accounts of non-western contexts do not focus on the parameter of vulnerability or on particular population groups. Chapter 'Enhancing Older Adults’ Digital Inclusion Through Social Support: A Qualitative Interview Study.” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.