Re-Imagining Economic Sociology
The purpose of this book is to explore new developments in the field of economic sociology. It contains cutting-edge theoretical discussions by some of the world's leading economic sociologists, with chapters on topics such as the economic convent...
Markets
Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. They are not only at the heart of capitalistic economies all over the world, but also central in public debates. This insightful book brings together existing knowledge on markets from sociolog...
Markets in Fashion
Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this book presents an interdisciplinary appro...
Markets in Fashion
Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this book presents an interdisciplinary appro...
Markets
Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. They are not only at the heart of capitalistic economies all over the world, but also central in public debates. This insightful book brings together existing knowledge on markets from sociolog...
Etnografiska Metoder
Etnografiska metoder behandlar avancerad forskning med betoning på metoder som intervju och deltagande observation. Ett genomgående tema är att metoder och analys presenteras i relation till teori, förklaring och vetenskapsteoretiska överväganden. Boken tar upp konkreta problem vid förstudie, teorival, analys och kodning, samt arbete i olika kulturer. Den andra upplagan har genomgått en generell uppdatering och kompletterats med nya avsnitt, framför allt om kodning, om skrivprocessen och om vad kvalitativ forskning är. Boken vänder sig till verksamma inom företagsekonomi, socialt arbete, socialantropologi, sociologi och statsvetenskap samt andra som vill fördjupa sina kunskaper inom kvalitativt arbete. Om författarenPatrik Aspers är professor i sociologi, verksam vid sociologiska institutionen och SCORE vid Stockholms universitet, samt vid Textilhögskolan i Borås. Han har publicerat en rad böcker och artiklar om teori och genomfört flera empiriska studier med etnografi ska metoder.
Orderly Fashion
For any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to information. Without these components, there would be chaos. Orderly Fashion examines how order is maintai...
Orderly Fashion
For any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to information. Without these components, there would be chaos. Orderly Fashion examines how order is maintai...
Social Life of Money
Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money...
Social Theory and Modernity
This major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme.
Social Life of Money
Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money...
The Sociology of Speed
There is a widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be. We hear constant laments that we live too fast, that time is scarce, and that the pace of everyday life is spiraling out of our control. The iconic image that abounds is that...
Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Children with Speech Disorder
Paediatric speech and language therapists are challenged by diminished resources and increasingly complex caseloads. The new edition addresses their concerns. Norms for speech development are given, differentiating between the emergence of the abi...
The Worth of Goods
How do we place value on goods - and, importantly, why? Valuation and pricing are core issues in the market economy, but understanding of these concepts and their interrelation is weak. In response, The Worth of Goods takes a sociological approach...
The Worth of Goods
How do we place value on goods - and, importantly, why? Valuation and pricing are core issues in the market economy, but understanding of these concepts and their interrelation is weak. In response, The Worth of Goods takes a sociological approach...
Spatial Practices
This book explores 'spatial practices', a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban. Acting upon and engaging with the public realm, the...
Together
A heart-melting animal story from Emma Dodd. This little sea otter loves spending time with his mummy - learning new things, playing together, or even just holding hands. In fact, every day this little sea otter spends with his mummy is special, j...
Uncertainty
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In Uncertainty, Patrik Aspers provides detailed analysis of publicly available means of uncertainty reduction. Drawing on phenomenology, social constructionism, and the sociology of knowledge, Aspers considers the meaningful differences between uncertainty and risk, the different ways people cope and have coped with uncertainty through history, the importance of knowledge and science to reducing uncertainty, and the trade-offs involved in reducing forms of uncertainty while leaving open opportunities for others. People may have access to unique and private knowledge that reduces their uncertainty when making decisions. Publicly available knowledge is central for building a society that enables communication based on shared ideas and understanding, instead of
Hairy Maclary's Hat Tricks
Hairy Maclary's Hat Tricks is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley Dodd. It's a blusterous, gusterous, dusterous day and Hairy Maclary is ready to play. So he trots down to the park where, while enjoying a game of catch, he comes across a windblown...
Sex-Positive Social Work
Social workers engage with sex and sexuality in all kinds of practice settings and with a variety of client populations. However, conversations about healthy sexuality and sexual well-being are all but absent from social work literature, education...
Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CMI MANAGEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD The essential guide to turning tough questions into positive opportunities Difficult questions can be thrown at you from your first job interview through to challenges you get when you've m...
Sometimes...
Illustrated in her appealing iconic style, in Sometimes... a mother elephant assures her child that no matter what he does and who he is, she loves him unconditionally.
Vichy France and Everyday Life
This wide-ranging volume brings together a blend of experienced and emerging scholars to examine the texture of everyday life for different parts of the wartime French population. It explores systems of coping, means of helping one another, confrontations with people or events and the challenges posed to and by Vichy’s National Revolution during this difficult period in French and European history. The book focuses on human interactions at the micro level, highlighting lived experience within the complex social networks of this era, as French civilians negotiated the violence of war, the restrictions of Occupation, the shortages of daily necessities and the fear of persecution in their everyday lives. Using approaches drawn mostly from history, but also including oral history, film, gender studies and sociology, the text peers into the lives of ordinary men, women and children and opens new perspectives on questions of resistance, collaboration, war and memory; it tells some of the
Hairy Maclary Five Lynley Dodd Stories
Inlcudes five Hairy Maclary stories from the first, Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy to Hairy Maclary's Rumpus at the Vet.
Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness
"In Riverside Hall on Cabbage Tree Row, the Cat Club were having their Annual Show . . ." When Hairy Maclary bounces and pounces his way into the cat show, his flustering and blustering bring a very unexpected result . . . Another rollic...
Stourhead
'Brings both house and garden vividly to life... A magnificent achievement' Gardens Illustrated 'A finely crafted work... it is an important record of the history of one of the country's most splendid estates' The English Garden The Palladian hous...
Backyard Antennas
Backyard Antennas
Heresies of Jan Patocka
A nuanced reflection on the meaning and resonance of Pato?ka's philosophy Foregrounding the turbulent political and intellectual scene in Czechoslovakia following the Prague Spring in 1968, James Dodd explores the unity of philosophy, history, and...
Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology
Bringing together a wide array of modern scientific techniques and interdisciplinary approaches, this book provides an accessible guide to the methods that form the current bedrock of research into Roman, and more broadly ancient, wine. Chapters are arranged into thematic sections, covering biomolecular archaeology and chemical analysis, archaeobotany and palynology, vineyard and landscape archaeology and computational and experimental archaeology. These include discussions of some of the most recent techniques, such as ancient DNA and organic residue analyses, geophysical prospection, multispectral imaging and spatial and climatic modelling. While most of the content is of direct relevance to the Roman Mediterranean, the assortment of detailed case studies, methodological outlines and broader ‘state of the field’ reflections is of equal use to researchers working across disparate disciplines, geographies, and chronologies. The study of ancient Roman wine has been dominated until
Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology
Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology
Love
A heartwarming animal story with the 'ahh' factor from Emma Dodd Join little rabbit and his mummy as they spend a glorious sunny day together in the meadow. Little rabbit finds love everywhere, but knows that a mummy's love is always the best love...
