Sociological landscape
Subtitle: theories, realities and trends
By: edited by Dennis Erasga
Publisher: InTech
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rijeka, Croatia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9789535104605
Subjects: Sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Theories. Biopolitics : biodiversity as discourse of claims / Dennis S. Erasga; title: Analysing social structures / Charles Crothers; title: The nature-society controversy in France : epistemological and political implications / Florence Rudolf and Claire Grino; title: Contingency theoretical functionalsim and the problem of functional differentiation / Risto Kangas; title: Economic sociology : bringing back social factors / Andrea Maurer; title: What is economic sociology? / João Carlos Grac̦a; title: A meta-analysis framework and its application for exploring the driving causes to social vulnerability / Le-Le Zou; title: Can sociology help us to live a better life? : a phenomenological approach to clinical sociology / Massimo Corsale; title: Sociology's neglect of ecological context / William R. Catton Jr.; title: Zoological collections and the effects of scientific territorialism / Luana Poliseli and Martin Lindsey Christoffersen; title: Realities. The American dream and corporate executive fraud / Freddie Choo and Kim Tam; title: Education and the reproduction of inequalities / Arnos̆t Veselý; title: Small-scale entrepreneurship in modern Italy : an ethnographic analysis of social embeddedness in the access to capital and credit / Simone Ghezzi; title: Labour relations and social movements in the 21st century / Elísio Estanque and Hermes Augusto Costa; title: Exploring the sociology of agriculture : family farmers in Norway : future or past food producers? / Hilde Bjørkhaug; title: Climate change and shifting technoscientific agendas / Fabricio Neves and João Vicente Costa Lima; title: Religious participation and educational attainment : an empirical investigation / Shishu Zhang; title: Trends. Symbiosis and exploitation in sports-media interrelations : the Israeli case of Maccabi Tel-Aviv Basketball Club and the Public Channel / Eran Shor; title: Fulfilling the promise of sociology : some steps for generating reflexivity in organizations / Marinus Ossewaarde; title: Food policy beyond neo-liberalism / Valeria Sodano; title: History and sociology : what is historical sociology? / Jiri Subrt.