The use of social sanctions against behaviour which contradicts a set of informal rules is often an important element in the functioning of informal institutions in traditional societies. In the social sciences, sanctioning behaviour has often been explained in terms of the internalisation of...

The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy over the past decade and the...

Was hält die Gesellschaft zusammen? Was ist der sprichwörtliche Kitt, der die Menschen miteinander verbindet? Dieser Sammelband beleuchtet die unterschiedlichen Facetten von gesellschaftlichem Zusammenhalt in Deutschland. Die Autorinnen und Autoren verstehen diese soziale Kohäsion als ein...