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Mollinga, Peter P. - 2008

"political sociology of water resources management". The framing draws theoretical insights from sociology, development studies …, 1984; Archer, 1995) and the notion of public sociology (Burawoy, 2005a); development studies' understanding of the … studies in this particular way comes from. The section situates the field in relation to development sociology as the …

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Technology and work : new sociological approaches?

Moniz, Antonio; Krings, Bettina-Johanna; Frey, Philipp - 2018

From 15–21 July 2018, the World Congress of Sociology, organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA …

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Die Rolle des Internets als Informationsbeschaffungsmedium in Banken

Roßbach, Peter - 2009

Subject of the study presented in this paper is the analysis of the relevance of the Internet as an information source in German banks. The results show, that today the Internet is indeed the most important information source for many types of information used in the business processes of banks....

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A Review on Energy Consumption from a Socio-Economic Perspective: Reduction through Energy Efficiency and Beyond

Schmidt, Stephan; Weigt, Hannes - 2013

Reducing energy demand and increasing energy efficiency are seen as major elements of the ongoing transformation of energy systems in multiple national and international programs like the EU 20-20-20 targets. Despite the predominately socio-economic nature of energy demand such interdisciplinary...

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For a political sociology of water resources management

Mollinga, Peter P. - 2008

'political sociology of water resources management'. The framing draws theoretical insights from sociology, development studies …, 1984; Archer, 1995) and the notion of public sociology (Burawoy, 2005a); development studies' understanding of the … studies in this particular way comes from. The section situates the field in relation to development sociology as the …

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A Note on Social Norms and Transfers

Sundén, David; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 1997

This note elaborates an extension of the paper 'Social Norms, the Welfare State, and Voting' by Lindbeck, Nyberg, and Weibull [1]. That paper studies the effects of a social norm against living off others work. In the welfare-state context of their model, this means that individuals who live on...

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The Crisis in Economic Theory: A Review Essay

Hoover, Kevin D. - 2015

The Great Recession and the financial crisis of 2007-09 prompted ca lls for fundamental reforms of economic theory. The role of theory in economics and in recent economic events is considered in light of two recen t books: the sociologist Richard Swedberg's The Art of Social Theory and the...

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