The Rationality of Consumer Decisions to Adopt and Utilize Product-Attribute Enhancements: Why Are We Lured by Product Features We Never Use? -- A Behavioral Accounting Study of Strategic Interaction in a Tax Compliance Game -- Information Distribution and Attitudes Toward Risk in an Experimental Market of Risky Assets -- Effects of Idiosyncratic Investments in Collaborative Networks: An Experi…
Durable Goods Lease Contracts and Used-Goods Market Behavior: An Experimental Study -- Towards a Hybrid Model of Microeconomic and Financial Price Adjustment Processes: The Case of a Market with Continuously Refreshed Supply and Demand -- Choosing a Model out of Many Possible Alternatives: Emissions Trading as an Example -- Internet Congestion: A Laboratory Experiment -- Experimental Evidence o…
Age-Structural Transitions, Population Waves and “Political Arithmetick” -- Issues and Patterns -- Age-Structural Transitions and Policy: Frameworks -- Human Capital Aspects of Economic Development: A Comparative Perspective in Asia -- A Comparative History of Age-Structure and Social Transitions Among Asian Youth -- Policy Analysis, Models and Methods -- A Formal Model of Age-Structural Tr…
Tracing the evolution of French sociology from the early twentieth century to the present day, this insightful book brings to the fore the renowned origins but relatively slow development of the discipline in France. Divided into four chronological sections it focuses on the social changes and institutional transformations that have impacted on the history of sociology in France as it relates t…
Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change -- Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change -- Population Structure -- Age and Sex -- Population Distribution and Suburbanization -- Marriage and Family -- Demography of Gender -- Demography of Aging -- Demography of Race and Ethnicity -- Labor Force -- Population Processes -- Fertility -- Infant Mortality …
Theory of the Life-World and Contemporary Social Theory -- The Problem of Subjectivity in Schutz and Parsons -- Reflexivity, Reality, and Relationality. The Inadequacy of Bourdieu’s Critique of the Phenomenological Tradition in Sociology -- Introduction: Alfred Schutz and Contemporary Social Theory and Social Research -- On Methodology and Theory of Social Science -- The Appeal of Alfred Schu…
From the contents Part I: Diaspora Overviews -- Part II: Topics. Arts in Diasporas. Diaspora Politics and Identity. Global Cities. Types of Diaspora -- Part III: Diaspora Communities.Immigration is a topic that is as important among anthropologists as it is the general public. Almost every culture has experienced adaptation and assimilation when immigrating to a new country and culture; usually…
Black Participatory Research explores research partnerships that disrupt inequality, create change, and empower racially marginalized communities. Through presenting a series of co-reflections from professional and community researchers in different locations, this book explores the conflicts and tensions that emerge when professional interests, class and socio-economic statuses, age, geography…
Chapter 1 Overview and Perspective -- Chapter 2 The Intervention Research Framework: Background and Overview -- Chapter 3 The Formative Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Theories -- Chapter 4 The Formative Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Literature and Expert Review -- Chapter 5 The Formative Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Target Group Input -- Chapter 6…
Chapter 1. CREA and our path towards socially relevant social sciences -- Chapter 2. Dialogic relations and interactions as an alternative to power -- Chapter 3. The dialogic self: preventive socialization -- Chapter 4. Successful Actions: democratic sociology for democratic societies.This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence …