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How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles? This book explores how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinary lives

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Environmentalism, Environmental Policy, Capitalism, and Communism / Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and J. R. McNeill; PART I. Communist and Capitalist Systems Revisited: A Comparison of Their Environmental Politics; 1. Building a Soviet Eco-Power while Looking at the Capitalist World: The Rise of Technocratic Environmentalism in Russian Water Controversies, 1957-1989 / Laurent Coumel; 2. Water Pollution and Protection in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic / Anolda Cetkauskaite and Simo Laakkonen

This pioneering work explores how in our digital age of connectivity, temporal acceleration and real-time simultaneity impact personal and institutional experience. Bringing memory and future studies into a unique dialogue, the book offers an intervention to the current 'temporal crisis' of social life and sociological debates.

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I - Role of Science (Theoretical) -- 1 - The Role of Science in Modern Society -- 2 - Robert Merton's Formulations in Sociology of Science -- PART II - Scientific Community -- 3 - The Emergence of the Indian Scientific Community -- 4 - A Large Community but Few Peers: A Study of the Scientific Community in India -- PART III - Scientific Productivity -- 5 - Scientific Productivity: Sociological Explorations in Indian Academic Science -- 6 - Scientific Goods andT heir Markets -- 7 - Scientific Knowledge in India: From Public Resource to Intellectual Property -- PART IV - Science, Technology and Social Change -- 8 - Science and Social Change: Emergence of a Dual Society in India -- 9 - Is Kerala Becoming a Knowledge Society?-Evidence from the Scientific Community -- 10 - Green RevolutionTechnologies and Dryland Agriculture -- 11 - Traditional Potters and Technological Change in a North Indian Town -- 12 - People's Science: A Perspective from the Voluntary Sector -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources.

Social Policy Review 16 is an excellent source of information and opinion about core aspects of contemporary social policy for students and academics alike. It will also appeal to all those with an interest in 'welfare' in the widest sense of the term

Social Policy Review 16 is an excellent source of information and opinion about core aspects of contemporary social policy for students and academics alike. It will also appeal to all those with an interest in 'welfare' in the widest sense of the term.

Jon Huer is professor of sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He has written over a dozen books of social criticism, including The Wages of Sin, Tenure for Socrates, Call from the Cave, and The Dead End, which TIME Magazine's Lance Morrow called "an important and often brilliant book."

Argues that different elements in Eucken′s work have had insufficient
attention in post‐war Germany, in science as well as in political
practice. In Eucken′s thinking, order (especially order in the economic
and political field and the interconnection between them) is the central
concept. In politics, insufficient attention was paid to the
interdependence between the different orders, and the balance of freedom
and power. Politics was characterized by pragmatism. A principal
decision in favour of the Wettbewerbsordnung (an economic order based on
competition), advocated by Eucken, was never made. This was expressed in
insufficient fighting against the formation of economic power
(competition policy) and in a neglect of the environment. Compares the
social philosophies of Eucken and Hayek.

Applying asymmetry coeffi cients to investigate the "decent work" component in an index model of regional human development is proposed. Th e author presents the methodology for measuring asymmetry for aspects of human development and calculates asymmetry coeffi cients for the "decent work" aspect. Th e article analyzes the manifestations of asymmetry in leading regions and in regions with low subindex rate and gives the graphical representation of asymmetry concerning to the perfectly symmetric situation and the division of regions into groups according to the level of their asymmetry coeffi cients. Th e main characteristics that provoke asymmetry in the regions are identifi ed and the nature of their impact on human development is determined. Th e Matrix form presents the results of the division of regions by the level of decent work development and the degree of asymmetry of the component "decent work". Th is analysis shows that there is a signifi cant positive relationship between the asymmetry index and the subindex rates of the decent work aspect. At the same time, it is revealed that a low asymmetry is not always accompanied by positive achievements. Th e problems of regional peculiarities are actualized today in the context of human development studies. Th ere is a special interest in establishing the sub-index aspects of human development, in particular the decent work. From now on, there is a need for more detailed methodological approaches, as well as a better analysis of the situation, process and to fi nd out the disproportions in the labor markets of Ukrainian regions. Th e purpose of the article is to present results of measuring the asymmetry of decent work components in an index model of regional human development. Th e methods of research are the following: logical analysis, generalization and analogy, statistical data analysis, graphical method, economic and mathematical modeling. Th e methodological basis of the presented research is the modern studies of human development. Th e novelty of the paper is the implementation of the new research idea of using asymmetry coeffi cients to investigate the decent work component within an index model of regional human development.

This book explores how people interact online through anonymous communication in encrypted, hidden, or otherwise obscured online spaces. The authors take into account technical, moral, ethical, and pragmatic responses to ourselves and communities seeking to be/belong in/of/ the dark

The main idea of the article is to show the importance of education as a factor in identifying the middle class. This means that people with middle class status are involved in various structures of society and they have reached prestigious positions respectively which, in turn, affect the extent of their inclusion in society. Middle-class representatives have complete and successful career realization, and they are signifiantly more inflential from a social point of view in comparison to other individuals which are less integrated and less successful following the public indicators of personal success: education, income, prestige and political power. The paper is primarily based on results obtained through the European Social Survey (ESS) under the 2006, 2009 and 2013 waves. Findings of the present paper are that quality education is not only a function of effort, ambition and persistence, but also of parental involvement, culture capital and family background. Educational achievements are a stimulus for middle-class expansion because they present investment in social contacts and competition on the labour market.