Книга посвящена анализу специфики и динамики доходной стратификации российского общества и ориентирована как на научных работников, так и на преподавателей вузов. В ней представлен развернутый обзор использующихся в российской и зарубежной практике подходов к доходной стратификации и обоснована оптимальная для российских условий методология выделения доходных групп при построении структуры общества по доходам. В центре внимания авторов также динамика модели доходной стратификации в России за...
Отнюдь не короткая история феминизма в Китае состоит из нескольких очень неравномерных по времени и интенсивности этапов развития. Зарождение здесь «женского вопроса» прежде всего связано с деятельностью христианских миссионеров, а в начале прошлого века эмансипация женщин стимулировалась китайскими революционерами в качестве важной компоненты эмансипации нации. Закреплённое в Конституции КНР равноправие полов, увы, не привело, по большому счету, к серьёзному развитию женского самосознания....
Аналитический доклад подготовлен в феврале 2021 г. к годовщине объявления Всемирной организацией здравоохранения пандемии новой коронавирусной инфекции COVID-19. В нем рассматривается влияние пандемии на социальную сферу, экономику и систему государственного управления в Российской Федерации. Представлены результаты двух масштабных социологических исследований, отражающих динамику отношения населения к пандемии и изменения социального самочувствия, оценку последствий пандемии для отрасли...
Through seven London case studies of communities opposing social housing demolition and/or proposing community-led plans, Community-Led Regeneration offers a toolkit of planning mechanisms and other strategies that residents and planners working with communities can use to resist demolition and propose community-led schemes. The case studies are Walterton and Elgins Community Homes, West Ken and Gibbs Green Community Homes, Cressingham Gardens Community, Greater Carpenters...
Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions written from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement. The volume combines critical reflections on the complexities of conceptualizing processes and experiences of (forced) migration, with detailed analyses of these experiences in contemporary and historical settings around the world. Through interdisciplinary...
Updated for Christmas 2013!James King is tired of ‘Step Into Christmas’. He’s tired of ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’. He’s tired – if it’s possible – of ‘Fairytale of New York’. It’s time for a new Christmas Classic.‘It’s Chriiiistmaaaas’ is a festive journey through the decades via the most cherished seasonal songs of the last century – from ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ to ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas?’. But beneath the nostalgia, are serious questions: is it always ‘Last Christmas’...
An illustrated guide to chocolate that every self-respecting chocoholic should read.Do you remember when a Snickers was a Marathon? And when you could burst in to a sweet shop and ask for ‘an Oliver Twist, two Tiffins and a Big Wig, please!’ and keep a straight face? Those were the good days: when a Dairy Milk bar was 22p and you’d never seen anything as big as a Wagon Wheel.Revisit some of your forgotten favourites and current addictions, as Steve Berry and Phil Norman take you on a tour of...
One of the most influential works of its era on the subject of population growth Thomas Malthus's «An Essay on the Principle of Population» was first published anonymously in 1798. In it Malthus describes his «Iron Law of Population» which asserts that growing populations ultimately lead to a rising supply of labor that would inevitably lower wages and create an increasing rate of poverty. More specifically Malthus argues «The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to...
John Dewey (1859-1952) is an American philosopher and psychologist most notably remembered for his theories on progressive education. He grew up in the rapidly industrializing town of Burlington, Vermont, where he was able to witness increasing social and economic division of the classes. Although he displayed little vivacity or imagination as a child, he was immensely analytical and spent years teaching and writing on a wide range of philosophical ideas. Of his twenty-one books and countless...