Sociology and Sociological Theory
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Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State
Gunnar L.H. Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen
Denmark exemplifies the puzzle of socio-economic success in Scandinavia. Populations are thriving despite the world’s highest levels of tax and generous social benefits. Denmark would appear to be a land of paradise for free-riders and t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Leadership Imagination
Donald R. LaMagdeleine
In the interest of reimagining leadership as a highly contextual activity with moral overtones, LaMagdeleine argues for blending sociology and history of religions scholarship in leadership analysis of black swan leadership dilemmas. His...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Putting Sustainability into Practice
Edited by Emily H. Kennedy, Maurie J. Cohen, Naomi Krogman
Putting Sustainability into Practice offers a robust and interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary consumption routines that challenges conventional approaches to social change premised on behavioral economics and social psychology...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Chinese Migration
Edited by Robyn R. Iredale, Fei Guo
The recent unprecedented scale of Chinese migration has had far-reaching consequences. Within China, many villages have been drained of their young and most able workers, cities have been swamped by the ‘floating population’, and many ru...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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The New Consumer Online
Edward F. McQuarrie
It’s a new world online, where consumers can publish their writing and gain a public presence, even a mass audience. This book links together blogging, writing reviews for Yelp, and creating pinboards for Pinterest, all of which provide ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Concerned Markets
Edited by Susi Geiger, Debbie Harrison, Hans Kjellberg, Alexandre Mallard
When political, social, technological and economic interests, values, and perspectives interact, market order and performance become contentious issues of debate. Such ‘hot’ situations are becoming increasingly common and make for rich s...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Migration and Religion
Edited by James A. Beckford
The complex and changing relations between religion and migration are central to many urgent questions about diversity, inequality and pluralism. This wide-ranging collection of articles explores these questions in different periods of h... -
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Gender, Education and Employment
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi, Sandra Buchholz
For much of the twentieth century, women lagged considerably behind men in their educational attainment. However, in recent decades, young women have become an important source of human capital for labor markets in modern societies, as w...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Towards a Cultural Political Economy
Ngai-Ling Sum, Bob Jessop
This fascinating volume offers a critique of recent institutional and cultural turns in heterodox economics and political economy. Using seven case studies as examples, the authors explore how research on sense- and meaning-making can de...eBook:Find out more$67.96
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Simulating Innovation
Christopher Watts, Nigel Gilbert
Christopher Watts and Nigel Gilbert explore the generation, diffusion and impact of innovations, which can now be studied using computer simulations.eBook:Find out more$43.96
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The Financialization of the Firm
Alexander Styhre
The term ‘financialization’ denotes the general tendency in the advanced Western economies to allow a substantial proportion of taxable profits to accumulate in the finance industry. Alexander Styhre discusses the financialization of th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Leadership in Spaces and Places
Edited by Arja Ropo, Perttu Salovaara, Erika Sauer, Donatella De Paoli
By combining new research on leadership and workspaces, Leadership in Spaces and Places argues for a radical reconceptualization of leadership. They argue leadership is not only about leaders themselves, but is also affected by the built...eBook:Find out more$40.00
