towards urban sociology, but who also found him appointments abroad when his radical politics—'the May ‘68 movement was an extraordinary experience, one of the most beautiful of my life’ (p. 13)—got him into trouble with the French government and forced him into renewed exile. And it w...
‘deserving’ working class, labouring to achieve independent self-reliance, from a class of ‘undeserving’ and ‘dependent’ paupers. A key moment in this transition was the abolishment of the so-called ‘Speenhamland’ system of poor relief, in which many local parishes had subsidised the...
(Schumpeter 1918: 101, in Makovicky & Smith 2020: 4). More recently, and in the face of a growing global gap between the 1% and the 99% (the wealthy few and the majority rest), fiscal sociology has focused on how tax policies may structure race, class, and gender inequalities, as ...
The women in this study also highlighted several barriers to responding to IPSV at the service provider and system levels, such as cultural assumptions that consent does not apply in a relationship. Further research is needed to understand what support service providers may need to provide the tai...
Social class, race, gender, and sexuality are central nodes for challenging cultural and political exclusions but also are sites where inequalities are created anew within the framework of national states. (Kim-Puri 2005, 153) Additionally, they are a reminder of the elusiveness and elasticity of...
The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL (1973) Google Scholar Murray and O’Mahony, 2007 F. Murray, S. O’Mahony Exploring the foundations of cumulative innovation: implications for organization science Organization Science, 18 (6) ...
Educational technology: A definition with commentary Sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), this book presents a definition of the field of study and practice known as educational technology or instructional technology. It reflects the collaborat... A Januszewski...
These new technological “sites” of human interaction are fascinating to many ethnographers and have expanded the definition of fieldwork. Problem-oriented Research In the early years, ethnographers were interested in exploring the entirety of a culture. Taking an inductive approach, they generally ...
Natashe Lemos Dekker is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. Her research focuses on death, dying, and end-of-life care, and dynamics of time and future-making in The Netherlands and Brazil. She was awarded her PhD ...
Chapter 1, ‘Myth in the Modern World’, starts with a series of definitions. Myths are described as ‘stories about events, past or present … which may or may not be true … but which represent an underlying psychological truth’. He provides a dictionary definition as ‘a belief or a...