Sociology and anthropology

The current crisis has rocked the financial system worldwide and has cast doubt on the effectiveness of the existing regulatory regime.

Here at last is the fourth edition of the textbook that is required reading for economics students as well as those practising applied economics.

After World War II, states transformed into 'collective fortresses' in order to protect competing ideological systems.

In January 2006, the Dutch Association of Industry-wide Pension Funds (VB) told us about their plan to prepare a book on solidarity in collective pension systems.

Just as one might be inclined to thinkthat every thing about demographic change has been already said and heard, a new dimension opens up.

This thoughtful exploration examines the complex and multifaceted transition of retirement from academia, addressing fundamental questions of when and how to retire, and what retirement looks like.

Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Care, Community, Change documents and amplifies lessons from practitioners and scholars who use performance to create models of transformation, collective learning, and liberation.

This book offers an anthropological exploration of the lullaby, a type of music found in nearly all human societies.

This book examines some of the social dimensions of Indian society and the challenges therein.

When systems fail people from birth to death, democracy itself is at risk.

This book provides the first systematic, quali-quantitative examination of how perception, orientation, and anticipation of the future are produced and reproduced in disruptive times.

This book offers an anthropological exploration of the lullaby, a type of music found in nearly all human societies.

This book provides the first systematic, quali-quantitative examination of how perception, orientation, and anticipation of the future are produced and reproduced in disruptive times.

This book seeks to broaden the conversation in migration studies by incorporating a collective perspective, as illustrated by the case study of Hadiya migration from Southern Ethiopia to South Africa.

Italy is more than a backdrop—it is a base, a crossroads, and a living classroom.

Learn the satanic power of cucumbers.

This book, written by two well-known scientists, represents an excellent ad- dition to the Springer Series in Synergetics in several ways.

This volume presents a comprehensive exploration of how innovation ecosystems, driven by business entrepreneurship and digital transformation, can reshape institutions and industries toward sustainability and resilience.

This volume presents a comprehensive exploration of how innovation ecosystems, driven by business entrepreneurship and digital transformation, can reshape institutions and industries toward sustainability and resilience.

What Is Freemasonry?

As the interconnectivity between humans through technical devices is becoming ubiquitous, the next step is already in the making: ambient intelligence, i.

One common characteristics of a complex system is its ability to withstand major disturbances and the capacity to rebuild itself.

By now, most academics have heard something about the new science of complexity.

Step into the legendary world of the Vikings—fierce warriors, skilled sailors, and explorers who reshaped the history of medieval Europe.

Why did Ludwig van Beethoven go deaf?

The Spanish Flu of 1918 was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, claiming an estimated 50 million lives worldwide and forever changing the way societies respond to infectious diseases.

What do climate change, political violence, gender inequality, corruption, science, and historical memory have in common?

Social systems are among the most complex known.

Cities first came into existence more than five thousand years ago.

This book, edited and authored by a closely collaborating network of social scientists and psychologists, recasts typical research topics in these fields into the language of nonlinear, dynamic and complex systems.

Die Gründungsurkunde der Stadtsoziologie – endlich als kommentierte und zitierfähige Einzelausgabe bei ReclamSimmels 1903 erschienener Aufsatz legte die Grundlagen für die Stadtsoziologie: Städter sind anders als Landmenschen, werden von Informationen überschwemmt, müssen z.

This book is a bold prophetic examination of the shifting balance of world power and the spiritual forces operating behind global events.

The concept of temporal networks is an extension of complex networks as a modeling framework to include information on when interactions between nodes happen.

This book develops a logic of world-views: belief-systems that shape how we know, interpret, and act in the world.

This book develops a logic of world-views: belief-systems that shape how we know, interpret, and act in the world.

Models of Science Dynamics aims to capture the structure and evolution of science, the emerging arena in which scholars, science and the communication of science become themselves the basic objects of research.