Die Ursachen Von Armut Und Ihrer R Umlichen Konzentration
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The Moralization Of The Markets
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Author : Nico Stehr
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2011-12-31
The Moralization Of The Markets written by Nico Stehr and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-31 with Political Science categories.
Nothing affects the modern economy (and society) more than decisions made in the market place, especially, but not only, decisions made by consumers. Although it is not startling to suggest that decisions made in production are affected by choices consumers make, consumers have long been viewed, not only by academic economists, as individual, isolated rational actors that make or refrain from purchases purely on the basis of narrow financial considerations. Markets are not and never were morally neutral. Market relations have always had an often taken-for-granted moral underpinning. The moralization of the markets refers to the dissolution and replacement of the conventional moral underpinnings of market conduct, for example, in the music market, financial markets, and corporate governance. It further implies not only the heightened importance of new ethical precepts, but the significant change in the role of moral ideals in market behavior. These profound transformations of economic conduct are accompanied and co-determined by societal conflicts. The moralization of markets represents thus a new stage in the social evolution of markets. The book is divided into four parts, in which the twelve chapters, written by contributors from different social science disciplines, deal with the context of the moralization of the markets; the major social institutions; and present case studies that examine European and American attitudes and behavior towards tobacco and GMO; expansion of the private and ethics in business; and how workers respond to the new corporate norms. This volume will be of interest to sociologists, economists, social scientists, and the general consumer alike.
International Handbook Of Violence Research
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Author : Wilhelm Heitmeyer
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2005-08-12
International Handbook Of Violence Research written by Wilhelm Heitmeyer and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-12 with Social Science categories.
An international manual is like a world cruise: a once-in-a-lifetime experience. All the more reason to consider carefully whether it is necessary. This can hardly be the case if previous research in the selected field has already been the subject of an earlier review-or even several competing surveys. On the other hand, more thorough study is necessary if the intensity and scope of research are increasing without comprehensive assessments. That was the situation in Western societies when work began on this project in the summer of 1998. It was then, too, that the challenges emerged: any manual, espe cially an international one, is a very special type of text, which is anything but routine. It calls for a special effort: the "state of the art" has to be documented for selected subject areas, and its presentation made as compelling as possible. The editors were delighted, therefore, by the cooperation and commitment shown by the eighty-one contributors from ten countries who were recruited to write on the sixty-two different topics, by the con structive way in which any requests for changes were dealt with, and by the patient re sponse to our many queries. This volume is the result of a long process. It began with the first drafts outlining the structure of the work, which were submitted to various distinguished colleagues. Friedheim Neidhardt of Berlin, Gertrud Nunner-Winkler of Munich, and Roland Eckert of Trier, to name only a few, supplied valuable comments at this stage.
Complex Surveys
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Author : Thomas Lumley
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2011-09-20
Complex Surveys written by Thomas Lumley and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-20 with Mathematics categories.
A complete guide to carrying out complex survey analysis using R As survey analysis continues to serve as a core component of sociological research, researchers are increasingly relying upon data gathered from complex surveys to carry out traditional analyses. Complex Surveys is a practical guide to the analysis of this kind of data using R, the freely available and downloadable statistical programming language. As creator of the specific survey package for R, the author provides the ultimate presentation of how to successfully use the software for analyzing data from complex surveys while also utilizing the most current data from health and social sciences studies to demonstrate the application of survey research methods in these fields. The book begins with coverage of basic tools and topics within survey analysis such as simple and stratified sampling, cluster sampling, linear regression, and categorical data regression. Subsequent chapters delve into more technical aspects of complex survey analysis, including post-stratification, two-phase sampling, missing data, and causal inference. Throughout the book, an emphasis is placed on graphics, regression modeling, and two-phase designs. In addition, the author supplies a unique discussion of epidemiological two-phase designs as well as probability-weighting for causal inference. All of the book's examples and figures are generated using R, and a related Web site provides the R code that allows readers to reproduce the presented content. Each chapter concludes with exercises that vary in level of complexity, and detailed appendices outline additional mathematical and computational descriptions to assist readers with comparing results from various software systems. Complex Surveys is an excellent book for courses on sampling and complex surveys at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a practical reference guide for applied statisticians and practitioners in the social and health sciences who use statistics in their everyday work.
Africa Misunderstood
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Author : Vali Jamal
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-01-14
Africa Misunderstood written by Vali Jamal and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with Business & Economics categories.
'...this is an excellent report and will make a major contribution to the debate (on adjustment issues). It will be of the same importance as the earlier ILO contribution, in a different context, of the employment missions some 15-20 years ago, in Kenya and Zambia.' Hans Singer, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex 'Arguments in this volume often figured in important UN conferences on problems of structural adjustment in Africa. They will continue to define the parameters of the debate on the African crisis for a long time to come.' A.Adedeji, African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies, Nigeria 'This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the economies of Africa and calls into question much of the received wisdom on the nature and causes of the economic crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. In consequence, it forces serious academics and policy makers to re-examine orthodox policy prescriptions and their distributional impact. The book provides refreshingly original insights and careful examination of available data. The policy implications of the work are vitally important for the people of Africa.' J.Loxley, Professor and Head, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba 'This is an iconoclastic book, most welcome as it brings out fresh evidence and new facts about the urbanization of policy and informalization of the urban economy in Africa. It is an important contribution to the debate on the direction of adjustment, reform and development policies in Africa, which would certainly be read with great eagerness'. S.Rasheed, Director, Public Administration, Human Resources and Social Development Division, UNECA, Addis Ababa 'Africa Misunderstood is an important book because it refutes a substantial body of incorrect, out of date and/or wrongly generalised conventional (un)wisdom. Exploration of changes over time, of the rise of urban absolute poverty, of the diversity and complexity of sSA economies and of how weak generalisations assumed in much programme design work are (both empirically and logically) occupy the main portion of this volume and constitute its major strength. Given its relatively accessible structure and style, it is to be hoped policy makers and advisers will read it as well as academic researchers, university faculty and their students.' R.H.Green, Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex In the past (and sometimes even now) African economies were depicted as suffering from 'urban bias', which strangled the agricultural sector and caused eventually the 'African Crisis'. Based on ten detailed case studies this book questions that stereotype and shows the dramatic turnaround in the relative position of farmers and wage earners in the recent past. The implications for standard adjustment programmes and urban survival strategies are discussed.
Shadow Cities
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Author : Robert Neuwirth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06
Shadow Cities written by Robert Neuwirth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with Social Science categories.
In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new social structures, Neuwirth argues, squatters are at the forefront of the worldwide movement to develop new visions of what constitutes property and community. Visit Robert Neuwirth's blog at: http://squatterci ty.blogspot.com
Grounding Global Climate Change
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Author : Heike Greschke
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-25
Grounding Global Climate Change written by Heike Greschke and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with Science categories.
This book traces the evolution of climate change research, which, long dominated by the natural sciences, now sees greater involvement with disciplines studying the socio-cultural implications of change. In their introduction, the editors chart the changing role of the social and cultural sciences, delineating three strands of research: socio-critical approaches which connect climate change to a call for cultural or systemic change; a mitigation and adaption strand which takes the physical reality of climate change as a starting point, and focuses on the concerns of climate change-affected communities and their participation in political action; and finally, culture-sensitive research which places emphasis on indigenous peoples, who contribute the least to the causes of climate change, who are affected most by its consequences, and who have the least leverage to influence a solution. Part I of the book explores interdisciplinarity, climate research and the role of the social sciences, including the concept of ecological novelty, an assessment of progress since the first Rio climate conference, and a 'global village' case study from Portugal. Part II surveys ethnographic perspectives in the search for social facts of global climate change, including climate and mobility in the West African Sahel, and human-non human interactions and climate change in the Canadian Subarctic. Part III shows how collaborative and comparative ethnographies can spin “global webs of local knowledge,” describing case studies of changing seasonality in Labrador and of rising water levels in the Chesapeake Bay. These perspectives are subjected to often-amusing, always incisive analysis in a concluding chapter entitled "You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet: a death-defying look at the future of the climate debate." The contributors engage critically with the research subject of ‘climate change’ itself, reflecting on their own practices of knowledge production and epistemological presuppositions. Finely detailed and sympathetic to a broad range of viewpoints, the book sets out a profile for the social sciences and humanities in the climate change field by systematically exploring methodological and theoretical challenges and approaches.
Bertolt Brecht S Me Ti
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Author : Bertolt Brecht
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-07-14
Bertolt Brecht S Me Ti written by Bertolt Brecht and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-14 with Fiction categories.
Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against 'constructing too complete images of the world'. For this work of fragments and episodes, Brecht accumulated anecdotes, poems, personal stories and assessments of contemporary politics. Given its controversial nature, he sought a disguise, using the name of a Chinese contemporary of Socrates, known today as Mozi. Stimulated by his humorous aphoristic style and social focus, as well as an engrained Chinese awareness of the flow of things, Brecht developed a practical, philosophical, anti-systematic ethics, discussing Marxist dialectics, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, the Moscow trials, and the theories behind current events, while warning how ideology makes people the 'servants of priests'. Me-ti is central to an understanding of Brecht's critical reflections on Marxist dialectics and his commitment to change and the non-eternal, the philosophy which informs much of his writing and his most famous plays, such as The Good Person of Szechwan. Readers will find themselves both fascinated and beguiled by the reflections and wisdom it offers. First published in German in 1965 and now translated and edited by Antony Tatlow, Brecht's Me-ti: Book of Interventions in the Flow of Things provides readers with a much-anticipated accessible edition of this important work. It features a substantial introduction to the concerns of the work, its genesis and context - both within Brecht's own writing and within the wider social and political history, and provides an original selection and organisation of texts. Extensive notes illuminate the work and provide commentary on related works from Brecht's oeuvre.
Just In Time Etc
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Author : Thomas HURLSTONE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1800
Just In Time Etc written by Thomas HURLSTONE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1800 with categories.
The Securitisation Of Climate Change
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Author : Thomas Diez
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-28
The Securitisation Of Climate Change written by Thomas Diez and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Political Science categories.
This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses. It analyses the securitisation of climate change in four different countries: USA, Germany, Turkey, and Mexico. The empirical analysis traces how specific climate-security discourses have become dominant, which actors have driven this process, what political consequences this has had and what role the broader context has played in enabling these specific securitisations. In doing so, the book outlines a new and systematic theoretical framework that distinguishes between different referent objects of securitisation (territorial, individual and planetary) and between a security and risk dimension. It thereby clarifies the ever-increasing literature on different forms of securitisation and the relationship between security, risk and politics. Whereas securitisation studies have traditionally focused on either a single country case study or a global overview, consequently failing to reconstruct detailed securitisation dynamics, this is the first book to provide a systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses in four countries and thus closes an empirical gap in the present literature. In addition, this comparative framework allows the drawing of conclusions about the conditions for and consequences of successful securitisation based on empirical and comparative analysis rather than theoretical debate only. This book will of interest to students of climate change, environmental studies, critical security, global governance, and IR in general.
Searching For The Just City
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Author : Peter Marcuse
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-05-29
Searching For The Just City written by Peter Marcuse and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-29 with Architecture categories.
If today’s cities are full of injustices, what would a 'Just City' look like? Contributors to this volume including David Harvey, Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein define the concept, examining it from multiple angles in addition to questioning it and suggesting alternatives.