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Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Czech sociological review written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Hanns Reill
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155053030
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Cores, Peripheries, and Globalization written by Peter Hanns Reill and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the intersection of issues associated with globalization and the dynamics of core-periphery relations. It places these debates in a large and vital context asking what the relations between cores and peripheries have in forming our vision of what constitutes globalization and what were and are its possible effects. In this sense the debate on globalization is framed as part of a larger and more crucial discourse that tries to account for the essential dynamics—economic, social, political and cultural—between metropolitan areas and their peripheries.
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Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Czech Sociological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sociologický časopis written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pat Lyons
Publisher : Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
ISBN 13 : 8073302969
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Political Knowledge in the Czech Republic written by Pat Lyons and published by Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the origins, nature, and impact of different facets of political knowledge in the Czech Republic between 1967 and 2014. The central argument presented in this book is that evaluating citizens on the basis of objective, or factual, knowledge alone makes little sense. What citizens know about politics comes from a variety of sources that are complementary. This is the first detailed study of how much Czechs know about politics, and why it matters. Here are some of the key findings of this book. There are many forms of political knowledge.Citizens make decisions using different forms of political knowledge.Czechs knowledge of politics has remained constant over time.How people answer knowledge questions in surveys matters.Political knowledge is shaped by personality traits.Factual knowledge is linked with forecasting social change, but is not always linked with making correct voting.Experts with high levels of knowledge do not agree on what is a correct answer.
Author : Marek Skovajsa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137450274
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Sociology in the Czech Republic written by Marek Skovajsa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive overview in English of the history of sociology in what is today the Czech Republic. Divided into six chapters, it traces the institutional development of the discipline from the late 19th century until the present, with an emphasis on the periods most favorable for sociology’s institutionalization: the interwar years, the 1960s and the post-1989 era. The narrative places the institutions, persons and ideas that have been central to the discipline into the broader social and political context. Marek Skovajsa and Jan Balon show that sociology in the Czech Republic has been wedded to the dominant political projects of each successive historical period: nation- and state-building until after WWII, the communist experiment in 1948-1989, liberal democratic reconstruction after 1989, and internationalization after 2000. This work will appeal to social scientists and to a general readership interested in Czech culture and society.
Author : Pieter Vanhuysse
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Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Czech Sociological Review Winter 2008, 44(6), Reviews Section, Vanhuysse Pieter (Ed), 12 Reviews by Herbert Gintis, Zygmunt Bauman, and Others, on Books by Claus Offe (2005), Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler (2008), George Loewenstein (2007), Joseph Henrich Et Al. (2004), Herbert Gintis et al. (2005), Frances Rosenbluth (2007), Jenny Billings and Kai Leichsenring (2005), Tarki (2008), Nina Bandelj (2007), and Others written by Pieter Vanhuysse and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve contemporary books on behavioral economics, sociology, anthropology, public policy, and the environment, reviewed by Zygmunt Bauman, Herb Gintis, Sandy Ross, Clara Sabbagh, Jan Sauermann, Anna Skarpelis, Orsolya Lelkes, Jan Drahokoupil, Piotr Jaworski, Sharon Shiovits-Ezra, Hana Librova, and Michala Chatrna.
Author : Vic Satzewich
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774830271
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Points of Entry written by Vic Satzewich and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, over 1.3 million people apply to visit, work, or settle in Canada. It falls to visa officers to determine who gets in – and who stays out. In the face of this enormous responsibility, how do these gatekeepers use their discretionary authority to assess eligibility, credibility, and risk? Seeking answers to this question, Vic Satzewich conducted interviews with 128 visa officers, locally engaged staff, and immigration program managers at eleven overseas offices. He reveals how the organizational context within which they work shapes their decision making. When something in an application does not “add up” – somber photographs from a supposed wedding celebration, for example – an officer conducts follow-up interviews with the applicant. In a world where no two visa applications are the same, and in the context of complex and shifting population movements and pressures, this is a fascinating look at how visa officers do their work.
Author : Jerry Z. Muller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191263
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Tyranny of Metrics written by Jerry Z. Muller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government—and the quality of our lives Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we've gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself—and this tyranny of metrics now threatens the quality of our organizations and lives. In this brief, accessible, and powerful book, Jerry Muller uncovers the damage metrics are causing and shows how we can begin to fix the problem. Filled with examples from business, medicine, education, government, and other fields, the book explains why paying for measured performance doesn't work, why surgical scorecards may increase deaths, and much more. But Muller also shows that, when used as a complement to judgment based on personal experience, metrics can be beneficial, and he includes an invaluable checklist of when and how to use them. The result is an essential corrective to a harmful trend that increasingly affects us all.
Author : Helena Flam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317630467
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Methods of Exploring Emotions written by Helena Flam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering scholars from different disciplines, this book is the first on how to study emotions using sociological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, psychological, cultural, and mixed approaches. Bringing together the emerging lines of inquiry, it lays foundations for an overdue methodological debate. The volume offers entrancing short essays, richly illustrated with examples and anecdotes, that provide basic knowledge about how to pursue emotions in texts, interviews, observations, spoken language, visuals, historical documents, and surveys. The contributors are respectful of those being researched and are mindful of the effects of their own feelings on the conclusions. The book thus touches upon the ethics of research in vivid first person accounts. Methods are notoriously difficult to teach—this collection fills the gap between dry methods books and students’ need to know more about the actual research practice.
Author : Władysław Adamski
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Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Structural Change and Modernization in Post-socialist Societies written by Władysław Adamski and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9789834454722
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Socialist Perspectives written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kogan, Irena
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781847420640
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Europe Enlarged written by Kogan, Irena and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2008-07-16 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expansion of the European Union (EU) has put an end to the East-West division of Europe. At the same time it has increased the cultural heterogeneity, social disparities and economic imbalances within the EU, exemplified in the lower living standards and higher unemployment rates in some of the new member states. This important new reference work describes the education systems, labour markets and welfare production regimes in the 10 new Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries. In three comparative chapters, discussing each of these domains in turn, the editors provide a set of theory-driven, comprehensive and informative indicators that allow comparisons and rankings within the new EU member states. Ten country-specific chapters follow, each written by experts from those countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. These chapters provide detailed information on each country's education and training systems, labour market structure and regulations, and its provision of formal and informal welfare support. An important component of each country chapter is the explanation of the historical background and the specific national conditions for the institutional choices in the transitional years. The handbook provides policy makers with the tools to assess the institutional changes in CEE countries, and scholars with ways to apply the proposed indicators to their analytic research. It will be a vital resource that no major research library should be without.
Author : Isaac Ariail Reed
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226706729
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Interpretation and Social Knowledge written by Isaac Ariail Reed and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. Interpretation and Social Knowledge suggests a different route, offering a way forward for an antinaturalist sociology that overcomes the opposition between interpretation and explanation and uses theory to build concrete, historically specific causal explanations of social phenomena.
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Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Polish Sociological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Lemke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131725953X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique written by Thomas Lemke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault is one of the most cited authors in social science. This book discusses one of his most influential concepts: governmentality. Reconstructing its emergence in Foucault's analytics of power, the book explores the theoretical strengths the concept of governmentality offers for political analysis and critique. It highlights the intimate link between neoliberal rationalities and the problem of biopolitics including issues around genetic and reproductive technologies. This book is a useful introduction to Foucault's work on power and governmentality suitable for experts and students alike
Author : Miroslav Vanek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199342733
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Velvet Revolutions written by Miroslav Vanek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 brought about the collapse of the authoritarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia, marking the beginning of the country's journey towards democracy. Though members of the elite have spoken about the transition to democracy, the experiences of ordinary people have largely gone untold. In Velvet Revolutions, Miroslav Vanek and Pavel Mücke examine the values of everyday citizens who lived under so-called real socialism, as well as how their values changed after the 1989 collapse. Based on 300 interviews, Vanek and Mücke give voice to everyone from farmers to managers, service workers to marketing personnel, manual laborers to members of the armed forces. Compelling and diverse, the oral histories touch upon the experience - and absence - of freedom, the value of family and friends, the experience of free time, and perceptions of foreign nations. Data from opinion polls conducted between 1970 and 2013 factor into the book's analysis, creating a well-rounded view of the ways in which popular thoughts, trends, and attitudes changed as Czech society transitioned from communism to democracy. From this rich foundation, Velvet Revolutions builds a multi-layered view of Czech history before 1989 and during the subsequent period of democratic transformation.
