Author : N. Osbaldiston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113700763X
In recent times, there has been a substantial push by people to escape the metropolis for lifestyles in small coastal, country, or mountainside locales. This book explores the narratives emerging from amenity-left migration using methods developed within the 'strong' cultural sociology.
Author : N. Osbaldiston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113700763X
In recent times, there has been a substantial push by people to escape the metropolis for lifestyles in small coastal, country, or mountainside locales. This book explores the narratives emerging from amenity-left migration using methods developed within the 'strong' cultural sociology.
Author : J. Patrick Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351956655
Across sociology and cultural studies in particular, the concept of authenticity has begun to occupy a central role, yet in spite of its popularity as an ideal and philosophical value authenticity notably suffers from a certain vagueness, with work in this area tending to borrow ideas from outside of sociology, whilst failing to present empirical studies which centre on the concept itself. Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society addresses the problems surrounding this concept, offering a sociological analysis of it for the first time in order to provide readers in the social and cultural sciences with a clear conceptualization of authenticity and with a survey of original empirical studies focused on its experience, negotiation, and social relevance at the levels of self, culture and specific social settings.
Author : Charles Lindholm
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Authenticity is taken for granted as an absolute value in contemporary life. We speak of authentic art, music, food, dance, and people. Authenticity, in its many guises, offers seekers a sense of belonging, connection and solidity. This work argues that the pervasive desire for authenticity is a consequence of a modern loss of faith and meaning.
Author : Michaela Benson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137511583
Leading scholars in the sociology of migration, Michaela Benson and Karen O’Reilly, re-theorise lifestyle migration through a sustained focus on postcolonialism at its intersections with neoliberalism. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the interplay of colonial traces and neoliberal presents, the relationship between residential tourism and economic development, and the governance and regulation of lifestyle migration. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken by the authors among lifestyle migrants in Malaysia and Panama, they reveal the structural and material conditions that support migration and how these are embodied by migrant subjects, while also highlighting their agency within this process. This rigorous work marks an important contribution to emerging debates surrounding privileged migration and mobility. It will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, human and cultural geographers, economists, social psychologists, demographers, social anthropologists, tourism and migration studies specialists.
Author : M. Benson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137328673
This book draws on social theories to understand lifestyle migration as a social phenomenon. The chapters engage theoretically with themes and debates relevant to contemporary social science such as place and space, social stratification and power relations, production and consumption, individualism, dwelling and imagination.
Author : T. Olesen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113748117X
Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements examines our collective moral and political maps, dotted with symbols shaped by political dynamics beyond their local or national origin and offers the first systematic sociological treatment of this important phenomenon.
Author : S. Baker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137379138
A social tragedy is a collective representation of injustice. Baker demonstrates how social tragedies facilitate moral action and discusses a series of contemporary case studies – the death of Princess Diana, Zinédine Zidane's 2006 World Cup scandal, KONY 2012 – to examine their social and political effects.
Author : Julia Twigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136221034
Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social welfare, they are now studied within a wider cultural framework that encompasses new experiences and new modes of being. Drawing on influences from the arts and humanities, and deploying diverse methodologies – visual, literary, spatial – and theoretical perspectives Cultural Gerontology has brought new aspects of later life into view. This major new publication draws together these currents including: Theory and Methods; Embodiment; Identities and Social Relationships; Consumption and Leisure; and Time and Space. Based on specially commissioned chapters by leading international authors, the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology will provide concise authoritative reviews of the key debates and themes shaping this exciting new field.
Author : Alistair Harkness
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1800436440
Using the notion of ‘crossroads’ to provide a unique lens through which to examine the realities of rural crime, Crossroads of Rural Crime provides an understanding of the nature of rural life and ways in which transgression manifests itself in the context of a presumed rural-urban divide.
