Suchergebnisse

Making sense of one another while crossing borders: social cognition and migration politics /Ilka Vari-Lavoisier and Susan T. Fiske --Migration decision-making and its key dimensions /Mathias Czaika, Jakub Bijak, and Toby Prike --Conspicuous mobility: the status dimensions of the global passport hierarchy /Yossi Harpaz --Does increasing immigration affect ethnic minority groups? /Danying Li, Miguel R. Ramos, Matthew R. Bennett, Douglas S. Massey, and Miles Hewstone --Many rivers to cross: social identity, cognition, and labor mobility in rural India /Sébastien Michiels, Christophe Jalil Nordman, and Suneha Seetahul --The anxiety of political uncertainty: insights from the Brexit vote /Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva --Forecasting under uncertainty: how network composition shapes future-oriented cognition /Ilka Vari-Lavoisier --Immigration and the future of the welfare state in Europe /Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss, and Hillel Rapoport --North American attitudes toward immigrants and immigration in the time of COVID-19: the role of national attachment and threat /Victoria M. Esses, Alina Sutter, Joanie Bouchard, Kate H. Choi, and Patrick Denice -- Intervening in anti-immigrant sentiments: the causal effects of factual information on attitudes toward immigration /Maria Abascal, Tiffany J. Huang, and Van C. Tran --Urban space and social cognition: the effect of urban space on intergroup perceptions /Kim Knipprath, Maurice Crul, Ismintha Waldring, and Xuechunzi Bai --How an interdisciplinary approach to narrative can support policymaking on migration and integration at the city level /Jacqueline Broadhead --"What Is Truth?" Negotiating Christian convert asylum seekers' credibility /Lena Rose and Zoe Given-Wilson.

The 36th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (IIS) was a true milestone in the history of IIS, for it heralded many firsts: the first World Congress to be held on the Asian Continent, the first to be held in China, and the largest attendance by far of any of the organization's World Congresses. This book is a compendium of 18 papers presented by plenary speakers from 10 different nations. It addresses sweeping issues related to the age of globalization and social change, including cultural diversities, migration and equality, social transformation, and national identity. Notable is an extraordinary diversity of viewpoints, approaches and opinions. "Social Change in the Age of Globalization" should be especially useful for those interested in learning more about social change in the context of globalization, especially in nations whose sociological communities are emerging, such as China and many other Asian nations.

In this reissued classic, Richard Titmuss compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is safer and more economically efficient.