The accidental monocrop -- Killer soy -- The absent state -- A living barrier -- The plant health service -- A vast tofu conspiracy -- Capturing the Civil Service -- Citizen participation -- Regulation by denunciation -- Citation, sample, and parallel states -- Tactical sovereig…
Long description: Dient die Kunst dem Vergnügen von Eliten? Oder besitzt sie subversive Kraft? Worum geht es im Spiel der Kunst? Valerie Moser untersucht das Berliner Kunstgeschehen als soziales Feld. Ihre empirische Studie bricht sowohl mit essentialistischen Sichtweisen auf di…
Dient die Kunst dem Vergnügen von Eliten? Oder besitzt sie subversive Kraft? Worum geht es im Spiel der Kunst? Valerie Moser untersucht das Berliner Kunstgeschehen als soziales Feld. Ihre empirische Studie bricht sowohl mit essentialistischen Sichtweisen auf die Kunst als auch m…
Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social thinkers of the past half-century, known for both his theoretical and methodological contributions and his wide-ranging empirical investigations into colonial power in Algeria, the educational system in France, the forms of …
Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most distinctive traits, the one thing that all cultures and societies, across time, share in common. It has defined not only the ways in which individuals relate to each other, but also how colle…
In the late 1980s Wacquant, a white, French-born, French and American sociology graduate student, entered the Woodlawn gym on 63rd Street in Chicago and began training as a boxer. This text invites us to follow Wacquant's immersion into the everyday world of Chicago's boxers.
In the late 1980s Wacquant, a white, French-born, French and American sociology graduate student, entered the Woodlawn gym on 63rd Street in Chicago and began training as a boxer. This text invites us to follow Wacquant's immersion into the everyday world of Chicago's boxers.
In recent years there has been an outpouring of work at the intersection of social movement theory, organizational theory economic, and political sociology. The problems at the core of these areas, Fligstein and McAdam argue, have a similar analytic and theoretical structure.
