Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Questioning Fluidity -- 2. Insights from Empirical Research -- 3. Re-thinking Spatial Mobility -- 4. Mobile, therefore Free? -- 5. The Use of Speed Potentials -- 6. What Inequalities? -- 7....

For centuries, communities have been founded or shaped based upon their access to natural resources and today, in our globalizing world, major natural resource developments are spreading to more remote areas. Mining operations are a good example: they have a profound impact on local communities...

Ronald Burt describes the social structural theory of competition that has developed through the last two decades. The contrast between perfect competition and monopoly is replaced with a network model of competition. The basic element in this account is the structural hole: a gap between two...

Contains the author's latest reflections on the uses and misuses of metatheory. According to Ritzer, sociology is a multi paradigm science. This book seeks to find a way out of the confusion by sketching out the lineaments of a new integrated sociological paradigm

The papers included in this e-book cover a broad range of contemporary issues in Chinese corporate financial management and therefore provide our readers with important insights into Chinese financial markets and the social and economic consequences of firm behavior in the Chinese context

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Youth in Transition -- Chapter 2 Surrogate Employment, Surrogate Labour Markets and the Development of Training Policies in the Eighties -- Chapter 3 From New Vocationalism to the Culture of Enterprise --...

How can postcolonial thought be most fruitfully translated and incorporated into sociology? This special volume brings together leading sociologists to offer some answers and examples. The chapters offer new postcolonial readings of canonical thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: The Participatory Turn in Museums -- 2 The Problem of Engagement -- Part II: The Institutional Life of Community Engagement...