"From Rashomon (1950) to Ran (1985), Kurosawa set new boundaries for world cinema. His career spanned on of Japan's most dramatic centuries and produced a string of masterpieces ... In the first major documentary to be made since his death in 1998, Kurosawa's family and colleagu…
The cultural study of work
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.
Dresse l'état actuel des connaissances sur le chômage et fait le point des recherches sociologiques sur ce phénomène social sensible au travers d'interrogations variées concernant les organisations et la bureaucratie, les politiques publiques et l'action administrative, etc.
En este nuevo ensayo, Richard Sennett estudia la evolución de las instituciones, las competencias del individuo y las formas de consumo en relación con las aspiraciones libertarias de los años sesenta. Tras el estallido de las burocracias y de las constricciones, aflora ahora la…
Informed by in-depth case studies focusing on a wide spectrum of micro and macro post-socialist realities, this book demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of informality and suggests that it is a widely diffused phenomenon, used at all levels of a society and by both winners and…