polity press apr 2004 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is time How has our relationship to time changed through history and how does time structure our social lives In this lively introduction, Barbara Adam explores the changing ways in which time has been understood and how this knowledge is embedded in cultural practices. She takes the reader on a journey of discovery that extends from ancient mythology and classical philosophy to the contemporary social world of high-speed computer networks and globalized social relations.The book poses key questions about the nature of time, how it is conceptualized, what it means in practice and how the parameters set by nature have been transcended across the ages by the human quest for time know-how and control. It provides the reader with a good basis for understanding the role of time in contemporary social life.This book assumes no previous knowledge. Through its broad perspective and transdisciplinary approach it provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction for students and teachers across the social sciences.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the 'social relation' of money.Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough knowledge of theories of money in the social sciencesAn original development of the neglected heterodox theories of moneyNew histories of the origins and development of forms of money and their social relations of production in different monetary systemsA radical interpretation of capitalism as a particular type of monetary system and the first sociological outline of the institutional structure of the social production of capitalist moneyA radical critique of recent writing on global e-money, the so-called 'end of money', and new monetary spaces such as the euro.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This new textbook provides a concise but comprehensive guide to quantitative research methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students in all of the social sciences, as well as established researchers. Presented in an interesting and original way, it offers all you need to know about social survey methodology - from planning the research and developing the hypotheses to carrying out the fieldwork and analysing the findings.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is time How has our relationship to time changed through history and how does time structure our social lives.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This new textbook provides a concise but comprehensive guide to quantitative research methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students in all of the social sciences, as well as established researchers. Presented in an interesting and original way, it offers all you need to know about social survey methodology - from planning the research and developing the hypotheses to carrying out the fieldwork and analysing the findings.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Nature of Money draws on neglected intelectual traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the social relation of money. Geoffrey Ingham argues that mainstream economics and sociology fail to grasp the specific nature of money. It is seen either as a 'neutral veil' over the operation of the 'real' economy or its existence is simply taken for granted.