Die soziologische Erforschung der Wirtschaft muss sich an Sozial- und Gesellschaftstheorien orientieren, aber sie erfordert auch die Auseinandersetzung ...

This volume sets out current debates about Puerto Rico. The title simultaneously refers to the results of a non-binding 1998 plebiscite held in San Juan ...

Demand for owner-occupied housing has expanded dramatically across modern-industrialized societies in recent years leading to volatile increases in residential ...

Throughout history authoritarian governments have outnumbered democratic ones to an overwhelming degree. Even today, true democracies are an exception. ...

This volume investigates how much governmental control is needed to reign in corporate and business greed and to make business "socially responsible" ...

Eine kompakte und funktional durchmischte Stadt wird als urbanes Modell wieder angestrebt und das Leitbild „Stadt der kurzen Wege" ist ein Ausdruck ...

This book provides an appreciative, sociological engagement with accounts of the embodied practice of self-injury. It shows that in order to understand ...

This book examines how socio-political surroundings have affected the evolution of Yārsāni religious thought and why the Yārsāni ...

This book explores the role that boundary making plays in creating a societal understanding of current migration dynamics and, by extension, in legitimising ...

Introduction.- Section 1: From biology to society.- Ch 1: Lane, Maxfield, Read and van der Leeuw, From population to organization thinking.- Ch 2: Read ...