Forty city planners, economists, journalists, and parking professionals celebrate Donald Shoups contributions to parking research, practice, and education, and demonstrate how his ideas about parking reform can support affordable housing development...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the logic of value extraction that characterises infrastructures capitalism as the most advanced phase of a modernity and the ruin that it has piled up, and argues instead for a logic of reproduction based on a real politics of ca...Lasīt vairāk
Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity provides a new interpretation of the work of Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), reframing it as being above all a metaphilosophy of modernity....Lasīt vairāk
Re-Reading Pareto on Elite Power and Societal Bipolarisation utilises key ideas common to Paretos elite theory, general sociology and theory of demagogic plutocracy, and fleshes out a unique perspective for making sense of contemporary societal bipo...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on data collected in Londons precarious labour market during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book explores how precarious work is pragmatically engaged with towards the production of simultaneous security and insecurity....Lasīt vairāk
Adventures in Marxist Theory provides an Introduction and overview of Marxian theory to demonstrate its contemporary relevance to social and political theory and a range of disciplines from philosophy to economics in both the humanities and the soci...Lasīt vairāk
Fundamentally concerning the relationship and dynamics between education, professionalism and ethical awareness, this interdisciplinary, edited volume showcases novel research perspectives on professional ethics in education, practice, and the work...Lasīt vairāk
Although questions of how a social groups shared experiences growing up in particular historical and social contexts shapes their identities, including their political identities, have engaged sociologists of family, youth, citizenship, culture, and...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines both the productive and counterproductive dimensions of the increasing orientation towards digital figures. Building on findings of the transdisciplinary research project The Measured Life, it explores the social, cultural and psy...Lasīt vairāk
Invisible Seasides positions the seaside as a lens for understanding lived utopia, pinned in a certain place, an immovable feature in a landscape where our hopes and fears continue to unfold. Wide-ranging in theme, it brings a double perspective, pa...Lasīt vairāk
Silence and Society addresses the reality that social sciences have ignored the importance of silence in human communication. Without communication, there is no community and thus no society. Yet, as classic communication theory explains, communicat...Lasīt vairāk
Using key concepts from systems thinking, complexity sciences, life sciences, cognitive sciences, and social sciences, the book frames a systemic spatial design approach aimed at enhancing the potential of different spatial design disciplines to nav...Lasīt vairāk
Offering a fresh perspective, this book seeks to strengthen a better reflection on the history of sociology and social sciences in Latin America, through a reconstruction of the content and context of Gino Germanis enormous production and its legac...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents an overview of the state of the art of hope in sociology and proposes a new basic theory of hope linked to the classical theoretical traditions of sociology, to the perspective of its founding women and to the reconstruction of th...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the French revolution from an anthropological perspective, eschewing an analysis in terms of good and bad actors, or progressive and non-progressive forces, and adopting instead the frame of liminality....Lasīt vairāk
This edited collection addresses the important study of the conditions that support positive intergroup contact that leads to intergroup friendships and prejudice reduction through a multidisciplinary lens by employing Intergroup Contact Theory and...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents an innovative framework for conceptualising families as complex systems and for understanding and supporting positive change, adaptation and resilience. The development of this framework was based on a qualitative and abductive re...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1981, this title is not a how-to guide on the construction of social indicators, but rather a critical and optimistic view of central issues, as embodied in the literature and in practice at the time. It contrasts some basic probl...Lasīt vairāk
This book proposes a reconceptualization of diplomacy as a social world, which has implications for the study of diplomatic memoirs as speech acts and forms of communication in relation to role images of diplomats....Lasīt vairāk
