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Preliminary Material /J. Braun -- Introduction /J. Braun -- Chapter 1. Values From A Pragmatic Perspective /J. Braun -- Chapter 2. Alienation: The Short Version /J. Braun -- Chapter 3. Prospects For Democracy: Individualism/Collectivism As Sources Of Association/Community /J. Braun -- Chapter 4. Character And Civil Society /J. Braun -- Chapter 5. Ethics For An Impersonal Age /J. Braun -- Chapter 6. The Place Of Optimism In American Life /J. Braun -- Chapter 7. The Rationality Of Psychological Fulfillment In Adolescents' Lives: The Production Of Personal Relationships And Self-Identity /J. Braun -- Chapter 8. Nihilism: East And West /J. Braun -- Chapter 9. Making Friends In The Non-Western World /J. Braun -- Chapter 10. Aspects Of Hysteria In America, Brazil, Germany, And Africa /J. Braun -- Chapter 11. Figurehead Politicians And Democracy /J. Braun -- Chapter 12. Social Engineering And Public Relations Stunts /J. Braun -- Chapter 13. Liberalism At The Crossroads /J. Braun -- Chapter 14. What Does The Working Class Really Want? /J. Braun -- Chapter 15. Foolish Ritualism And Democracy /J. Braun -- Chapter 16. The Place Of Law In A Democracy /J. Braun -- Chapter 17. The "Star" System In America /J. Braun -- Chapter 18. What Is Happiness? The Loss Of Human Nature In Psychiatry /J. Braun -- Chapter 19. The Lowering Of Professional Standards In America /J. Braun -- Chapter 20. Liberal And Authoritarian Versions Of Democracy /J. Braun -- Chapter 21. Culture And Civil Society /J. Braun -- Chapter 22. Democracy And Civil Society /J. Braun -- Chapter 23. The Ecological Society /J. Braun -- Chapter 24. Plutocracy And The Labor Movement /J. Braun -- Chapter 25. Industrial Democracy For The 21st Century /J. Braun -- Chapter 26. The Great Weakness Of American Government /J. Braun -- Chapter 27. Modern And Postmodern Views Of Democracy /J. Braun -- Chapter 28. Nation-Building And Social Solidarity /J. Braun -- Chapter 29. Reason And Morality In Community: Some Conclusions /J. Braun -- Bibliography /J. Braun -- Index /J. Braun.

AbstractThis article calls for greater attention to immigration attitudes of members of national parliaments (MPs) who absent harmonized immigration policy at the EU level remain the chief decision-makers and are thus responsible for swift government reaction to large influx of immigrants as witnessed in summer 2015 and spring 2020. Against this background, attitudes of MPs toward non-EU immigrants can be highly informative for understanding the foundation and direction of future immigration policy reforms. Although knowledge of MPs immigration attitudes is seemingly important, studies interested in this topic remain scarce. To test the relative importance of identity and economic aspects of MPs' immigration attitudes, this study adopts few well-established theoretical approaches from citizen-level research. Our data come from an MP survey that was administered in 11 Western and Eastern European countries in late 2014 as part of theEuropean National Elites and the Crisisproject. Our results suggest that social identity (religiosity) along with political ideology rather than economic concerns drive MPs' immigration attitudes. In addition, we find that in Eastern Europe immigration is only a light force behind political competition unlike in Western Europe, while economic left in Eastern Europe is more anti-immigrant than in Western Europe.

Poorer people live shorter lives and are more often ill than the rich. This disparity has drawn attention to the remarkable sensitivity of health to the social environment. This publication examines this social gradient in health, and explains how psychological and social influences affect physical health and longevity. It then looks at what is known about the most important social determinants of health today, and the role that public policy can play in shaping a social environment that is more conducive to better health. This second edition relies on the most up-to-date sources in its select

As part of a larger research project on the relationship of family functioning to neighborhood and ethnic factors, the present study examined effects of a series of environmental variables on the sexual functioning of family heads. The study group was comprised of randomly selected samples of young and mid-career families in two neighborhoods in Melbourne, Australia. The present research revealed that only the most proximate influences, the family's social functioning and egalitarian ethic—but not its ethnic or social class background—had an effect on spouses' pattern of sexual communication. The implications for intervention are briefly considered.

Consumption, everyday life and sustainability -- Natural resources and consumer choices -- Cycles of consumption and escalators of demand -- Trajectories and transitions -- Reconfiguring practice -- Method and approach -- The science of comfort: constructing normality -- Defining comfort: a state of mind, an attribute or an achievement? -- Playing God with the indoor climate -- Quantifying comfort -- Qualifying comfort -- Constructing comfort -- The co-evolution of comfort: interdependence and innovation -- Dimensions and dynamics -- Difference and coherence: acquiring and using air-conditioning -- Diffusion, diversity and lighting -- Comfort as collective practice: the siesta -- Reconfiguring comfort -- Regimes of comfort: systems in transition -- Levels, layers and landscapes -- Convergence, abstraction and reversal -- Escalating and standardizing concepts of comfort -- Introducing cleanliness: morality, technology and practice -- Questions of cleanliness -- Morality, technology and practice -- Humours, miasmas and germs -- Dirt and discrimination -- Commodifying cleanliness -- Qualifying cleanliness -- Behind the bathroom door: revolving rationales -- Bathroom consumption -- Reasons and rationales -- Understanding bathing and showering -- Bathtime stories -- Power showering in theory and practice -- Laundering: a system of systems -- Laundering as work -- Escalating standards or redefining service? -- Why wash? -- What is washed? -- When is the laundry done? -- What does 'doing the laundry' involve? -- The laundry as a system of systems -- Laundry habits: integrating practices -- Classifications and categories -- Innovation and tradition -- Millers of meaning and practice -- System and service -- Reconsidering cleanliness -- Reconfiguring routine -- Redefining service -- Convenience, co-ordination and convention -- Convenience and the pace of life -- Co-ordination and fragmentation -- Convenience devices -- Rush and calm -- Convenience and convention -- Ratchets, pinwheels, cogs and spirals -- Regimes, services and the reorganization of normality -- Models and mechanisms.