Sociology & Social Policy

Examining the arrival of Web 2.0 in accessible language as a multidimensional socio-technological process, this book provides and introduction to everything you ever wanted to know about Web 2.0 and the surrounding social impacts arising from our regular use of the Internet...

Weber & Marxist World V 6..

Weber and Durkheim: A Methodological Comparison is a systematic, comparative analysis of the methodologies of Max Weber and Émile Durkheim. Jensen shows how Weber and Durkheim analyse Protestants and Catholics in practice in ‘The Protestant Ethic’ and ‘Suicide’ respectively. The very different ways ..

Weber and Durkheim: A Methodological Comparison is a systematic, comparative analysis of the methodologies of Max Weber and Émile Durkheim. Jensen shows how Weber and Durkheim analyse Protestants and Catholics in practice in ‘The Protestant Ethic’ and ‘Suicide’ respectively. The very different ways ..

Weber and Toennies..

This book provides the groundwork for a general theory of modern capitalism by reinterpreting Max Weber’s work on the origins and institutional underpinnings of modern capitalism, and Joseph Schumpeter’s thought on the mechanisms and functioning of the capitalist economy. Focusing on the lesser know..

Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon have cared for more than 100 children in a foster care career spanning more than three decades...

Welfare Medicine in America..

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Originally published in 1976, Welfare State and Welfare Society distinguishes the welfare state from the welfare society, and shows that there is often a yawning gulf between public policy and how people feel, think and behave...

In a global context of changing economic circumstances and contending political responses, macroeconomic policy and welfare state reform become order of the day. By featuring the ways that states adjust to new pressures, this book’s arguments will in handy to those trying to make sense of the crisis..

This work applies the controversial theory of 'Ethnic Nepotism' to the modern welfare state, exposing profound inconsistencies within ideologies of both left and right regarding ethnicity...