Springer, 2015. — 143 p. — ISBN: 9788132221654, EISBN: 9788132221661 The major concern of my two earlier Springer books Ethical Social Index Numbers and Inequality, Polarization and Poverty: Advances in Distributional Analysis was measurement of inequality, poverty and well-being. Only one chapter of the second monograph was devoted to an analysis of income polarization....
London: Routledge, 2001. — 93 p. I. Introductory Level II. Conflict and Group Boundaries Proposition 1: Group-Binding Functions of Conflict Level III. Hostility and Tensions in Conflict Relationships Proposition 2: Group-Preserving Functions of Conflict and the Significance of Safety-Valve Institutions Proposition 3: Realistic and Nonrealistic Conflict Proposition 4: Conflict...
Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate 2011. - 183 p. Introduction: The Myth of Individualization and the Dream of Individualism Agony of Choice?: The Social Embeddedness of Consumer Decisions Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket: Why New Age Spirituality is Less Privatized Than They Say It Is 'Be Who You Want to Be'?: Commodified Agency in Online Computer Games 'Stormfront is like a...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Social institutions are prevalent wherever individuals attempt to live and work together. To be a member of a community or society is to live within a set of social institutions. Many of our fundamental questions about social life entail an examination of the role played by these institutions. Why do we have so many? Why do they take...
Routledge, 2017. — 170 p. — (Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution). This book analyses how certain types of social systems generate violent conflict and discusses how these systems can be transformed in order to create the conditions for positive peace. Resolving Structural Conflicts addresses a key issue in the field of conflict studies: what to do about violent...
Routledge, 2011. — 295 p. This exciting and innovative new textbook takes a multi-perspective approach to the study of conflict management in divided societies. Offering a wide range of perspectives from the leading experts in the field, the work explains conflict management from the viewpoint of the political scientist, the constitutional architect, the activist, and the NGO....
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