"This work provides a new, comprehensive, and empirically grounded study of household incomes in China that critically examines the long-term rise and recent apparent decline in inequality. It covers incomes and inequality nationwide as well as separately in the urban and rural …
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"This work provides a new, comprehensive, and empirically grounded study of household incomes in China that critically examines the long-term rise and recent apparent decline in inequality. It covers incomes and inequality nationwide as well as separately in the urban and rural …
Political equality as the foundation of democracy -- Opening political doors -- For richer or poorer, politically speaking -- Civil society mobilizing action -- Age, generations, and participation -- What's a good citizen to do? -- The special case of online activism -- Contextu…
More than half of the global and around 80 per cent of the Western population grow up in cities. This text provides a vivid picture of children and youth in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions. Considering the causes and …
"The globalization gap reveals how globalization is spreading poverty, disease, and the disintegration of traditional cultures. A few "winners" are using their wealth to buffer themselves against these radical transformations. But, in most places, the new wealth generated by glo…
Das Thema soziale Ungleichheit steht nach wie vor im Zentrum der Soziologie. Die mehrdimensionale Analyse sozialer Ungleichheit stellt unter dem Begriff der "Intersektionalität" in den letzten Jahren die wohl größte Innovation in diesem Feld dar und gewinnt auch in der Lehre zun…
Dieses Buch befasst sich mit drei Themenbereichen, die in der Geschichte der Soziologie und Sozialphilosophie eine durchgängige Rolle gespielt haben und weiterhin spielen: Individuum und Gesellschaft - Soziale Ungleichheit - Modernisierung (Aufklärung). Grundbegriffe und Thesen …
"Based on courses taught by the authors over many years, this text is a lively analysis of people at work and the problems they have to confront. The student is introduced to a range of key themes in management such as - power and identity, hierarchy, and the negotiation of mean…
The authors consider the meaning of work, power and identity consumption and bureaucracy and rational choice and meaning as these qualities affect individuals in management positions.
