Thinking about Joint Venture Agreements as the Result of a Decision-Making Process -- The Relevance of Dunning’s Ownership, Location and Internalisation Advantages for Explaining Why International Oil Companies Engage in Joint Venture Agreements in the Qatari gas industry -- Why Do International Oil Companies Engage in Joint Venture Agreements in the Qatari gas industry? – Dunning’s Owner…
Chapter I Introduction to Relationship between Central and Local Governments -- Chapter II Financial Contract System -- Chapter III Tax Distribution System -- Chapter IV Land Finance -- Chapter V Land Index -- Chapter VI Local Practice -- Chapter VII Relationship between Central and Local Governments and Townization -- References.This book examines the connection between central-local governmen…
1. Defining and Theorizing about Household Mobility -- 2. Historical and Recent Trends in American Mobility -- 3. Characteristics of the Mobile Population -- 4. Household Mobility Decisions and Location Choice -- 5. Individual- and Family-Level Mobility Effects -- 6. Mobility Effects and Cumulative Mobility Contexts -- 7. Spatial and Community Consequences -- 8. Policy Initiatives, Programs, an…
1. Introduction: Assembling Neoliberalism -- 2. Neoliberalism and Rule by Experts -- 3. Assuming Everything Except Responsibility: Can We Blame Economists for Neoliberalism? -- 4. Assembling Climate Expertise: Carbon Markets, Neoliberalism and Science -- 5. The Politics of Expertise: Neoliberalism, Governance, and the Practice of Politics -- 6. Assembling Citizenship in Austere Times -- 7. (Re)…
Introduction: Instigators of Interactionism – A Short Introduction to Interactionism in Sociology; Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Chapter 1: Georg Simmel – Interactionist Before Symbolic Interactionism?; Greg Smith -- Chapter 2: Robert E. Park – A Precursor to Interactionism; Suzie Guth -- Chapter 3: George Herbert Mead – The Evolution of Mind, Self and Society through Interaction; Antony J.…
1: Introduction -- 2: Ibn Khaldun -- 3: Karl Marx -- 4: Harriet Martineau -- 5: Max Weber -- 6: Jose Rizal -- 7: Emile Durkheim -- 8: Said Nursi -- 9: Pandita Ramabai Saraswati -- 10: Florence Nightingale -- 11: Benoy Kumar Sarkar -- 12: Epilogue.-.This book expands the sociological canon by introducing non-Western and female voices, and subjects the existing canon itself to critique. Including…
Introduction -- The Obstruction of Individual Creativity -- Re-evaluating Creativity: A Basic Map to Individual Qualities -- Re-evaluating Creativity: Ascending Further in the Process of Self-review -- Re-evaluating Creativity: A Higher State of Conscience -- Creativity in Education: A Transpersonal Approach (Part I) -- Creativity in Education: A Transpersonal Approach (part II) -- Auto-ethnogr…
Section 1. Desistance Pathways for Specific Offender-Groups -- Chapter 1. Narratives of Punishment and Frustrated Desistance in the Lives of Repeatedly Criminalised Women; Serena Wright -- Chapter 2. ‘I Want to Be a Dad to Him, I Don’t Just Want to be Someone He Comes and Sees in Prison’; Emily Turner -- Chapter 3. The Desistance Process of Offenders Who Misuse Drugs; Charlotte Colman and…
Where does theory come from in educational research and how is it operationalized in diverse, interdisciplinary contexts and professional settings? This volume examines the places and spaces of theory in doctoral work across a wide range of interdisciplinary themes and fields of inquiry on a global scale.
1. The Secular Landscape -- 2. Religion Explained -- 3. Religious America -- 4. Shades of the Secular -- 5. American Nones -- 6. The Future of Religion.This book proposes a comprehensive theory of the loss of religion in human societies, with a specific and substantive focus on the contemporary United States. Kevin McCaffree draws on a range of disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthr…