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…
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"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…
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…
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.
This is a collection of key essays by Beck, analyzing the structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature of risk and the future of global policies.
"Le capitalisme prospère ; la société se dégrade. La croissance du profit s'accompagne de celle de l'exclusion. La véritable crise n'est pas celle du capitalisme, mais celle de la critique du capitalisme. Trop souvent attachée à d'anciens schémas d'analyse, la critique conduit n…
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Provides a comprehensive introduction to the tourism industry. Discusses, inter alia, supply and demand, economic, social and environmental implications, planning issues, and the role of government.
An in-depth sociological, historical, and personal analysis of the concept and reality of organized crime in the UK. With interviews from thieves, dealers, and criminal entrepreneurs the book explores the flexible nature of the criminal market the constructed nature of the notio…
Monograph on forced labour, expropriation of indigenous landowners and the evolution of the African worker in colonial French-speaking Africa. Covers historical and sociological aspects of colonialism and capitalism in Central Africa, economic and social implications of the Cong…
Clinical legal education is playing an increasingly important role in educating lawyers worldwide. Here, the contributors describe the central concepts, goals, and methods of clinical legal education from a global perspective, with a particular emphasis on its social justice mis…
"Providing an accessible introduction to sociological thinking in terms of the healthcare world, Mark Walsh demonstrates how this thinking can be used constructively to explain clinical practice. This lively approach encourages readers to make connections between health and illn…