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Draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labour, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labour, and the consequences of globalization. Compares women's econ…
Publisher's description: In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning--that learning is fundamentally a social process and not solely in the learner's head. The authors mai…
A reader for a sociology course, reprinting 23 articles from professional journals. They cover work as social interaction, socialization and identity, experiencing work, work cultures and social structure, and deviance at work.
"Why did VHS, an inferior video recorder technology, succeed in the marketplace, driving the superior Betamax out of business? Why do big-budget, acclaimed movies sometimes flop at the box office, while low-budget, idiosyncratic films become huge hits? The answers to these quest…
"N'était-il pas raisonnable d'espérer qu'avec la libre circulation de l'information et l'augmentation du niveau d'étude, les sociétés démocratiques tendraient vers une forme de sagesse collective? Cet essai vivifiant propose, en convoquant de nombreux exemples, [de voir] comment…
Case study of the lancashire handloom textile workers during a period of major technological change affecting the cotton textile industry in the UK - covers working conditions, standard of living, trade union and strike action, public opinion, social reform, etc., and includes s…
Cet ouvrage s'inscrit dans le foisonnement de la sociologie du genre et des études gaies et lesbiennes. Il propose une synthèse des recherches en sciences sociales sur l'homosexualité en France et dans le monde. Nourri des apports de la réflexion théorique et de la critique hist…
This is a study of the relationship between performance and power. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings and examines the elements of social performance.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Présente de façon exhaustive les théories de la sociologie et de la science politique. Analyse notamment les effets des mouvements sociaux sur les politiques gouvernementales et le rôle des médias.