This book presents fourteen original contributions by authors examining the importance of dwellings and local communities in people's everyday lives. Through qualitative research conducted in North America and Europe, the volume explores the ways in which home is created both id…
This volume focuses on the question of why people of one social group oppress and discriminate against people from other groups. It also considers why this is so difficult to eliminate, using the conceptual framework of social dominance theory.
This volume focuses on the question of why people of one social group oppress and discriminate against people from other groups. It also considers why this is so difficult to eliminate, using the conceptual framework of social dominance theory.
This book shows how the social constructions of time, space, race, gender and class intersect with each other to produce particular social phenomena that are enduring and significant for our society. Leading the reader through examples drawn from around the world, the author sho…
How is social life lived today? What social relations and responsibilities do we recognize? Is there any sense in which contemporary social life can be described as 'ethical'? In this exciting book Maffesoli argues that the conventional approaches to understanding society and so…
Michel Maffesoli argues that the conventional approaches to understanding solidarity and society are deeply flawed. He contends that mass culture has disintegrated and that today social existence is conducted through fragmented tribal groupings, organized around the catchwords, …
