"Putnam's work shows how social bonds are the most powerful predictor of life satisfaction. For example, he reports that getting married is the equivalent of quadrupling your income and attending a club meeting regularly is the equivalent of doubling your income. The loss of soc…
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Drawing on interviews with dismissed IBM executives in Westchester, New York, bakers in a high-tech Boston bakery, a barmaid turned advertising executive, and many others, Sennett explores the disorienting effects of the new capitalism. He reveals the vivid and illuminating cont…
Compilation of social research studies of the role of caste in the social structure of South India, Sri Lanka and North West Pakistan - covers village structure, community relations and intercaste relations, the identification of caste (social status), with a position in the occ…
Participation: the new tyranny?
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In many countries around the world, in NGOs, private concerns and other organisations, participation is a buzz-word that fails to live up to expectations. These essays explore how participatory schemes fail and how to rectify the situation.