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The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The objectives of this study first published in 1982 are to elaborate a micro-economic model which adequately explains the interrelationships among economic forces determining the distribution of income in a peasant economy in the early stages of transition to industrialization. It also examines the development of the ‘dual economy’ an economy composed of a large peasant agricultural sector with its ancillary handicraft sector both traditional in techniques and institutions and a small but growing modern industrial sector. | The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

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Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c. 1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America through a micro-geographical approach to unravel urban practices experiences and representations at three different scales: the dwelling the street and the neighbourhood. Part I explores the changing spatiality of housing examining the complex and contingent relationship between public and private and commercial and domestic as well as the relationship between representations and lived experiences. Part II delves into the street as a thoroughfare connecting the city but also as a site of contestation over the control and character of urban spaces. Part III draws attention to the neighbourhood as a residential grouping and as a series of spaces connecting flows of people integrating the urban space. Drawing on a range of methodologies from space syntax and axial analysis to detailed descriptions of individual buildings this book blends spatial theory and ideas of place with micro-history. With its fresh perspectives on the Western city created through the built environment and the everyday actions of city dwellers the book will interest historical geographers urban historians and architects involved in planning of cities across Europe and North America. | Micro-geographies of the Western City c. 1750–1900

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Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Visitors to Thailand’s urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products. A high percentage of these vendors are members of the highland ethnic minority group of Akha who have become micro-entrepreneurs or self-employed street vendors. The work and everyday life experiences of these ethnic minority migrants are situated at the intersections of tourism migration and the informal sector. This book investigates the social economic and political embeddedness of street vendors in urban tourist contexts in Thailand. Based on extensive field research it presents a detailed analysis of urban-directed mobility patterns and revealing strategies and dilemmas in the urban souvenir business. Focusing on the development of urban ethnic minority souvenir stalls run mostly by people belonging to the highland group of Akha the author explains the spatial expansion of ethnic businesses and assesses the economic and political obstacles micro-entrepreneurs are confronted with. The book offers an understanding of the everyday practices and social relations of and between unequally powerful actors related to ethnic minority tourism in urban contexts and systematically integrates individual and collective action into socio-economic and politico-institutional contexts. A significant contribution to migration and ethnic minority studies in the Thai and Asian urban tourism context the book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Southeast Asian studies tourism migration and ethnic minority studies. | Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

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Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Screenwriting for micro-budget films can present its own challenges and this book takes the reader through all the considerations that need to be made to write an effective screenplay for a low-budget film. Drawing on his own experience case studies from films such as Primer Coherence and Reservoir Dogs as well as the perspectives of working screenwriters such as Joe Swanberg and Alex Ross-Perry Greenberg explores common pitfalls screenwriters face and suggests practical solutions. This book lays the groundworks of the realities of low-budget filmmaking and also talks through the practical aspects such as story structure and genre considerations. Greenberg makes the process of writing a screenplay for a low-budget film accessible and creative allowing student and independent filmmakers to tailor their writing for their films. This book is ideal for aspiring screenwriters independent filmmakers and students of screenwriting. | Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

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Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects of Collins’ thought and of microsociology more generally. The introductory essay by Elliot B. Weininger and Omar Lizardo provides a lucid overview of the key premises this perspective. Ethnographic papers by Randol Contreras using data from New York and Philippe Bourgois and Laurie Kain Hart using data from Philadelphia examine the social logic of violence in street-level narcotics markets. Both draw on heavily on Collins’ microsociological account of the features of social situations that tend to engender violence. In the second section of the book a study by Paul DiMaggio Clark Bernier Charles Heckscher and David Mimno tackles the question of whether electronically mediated interaction exhibits the ritualization which according to Collins is a common feature of face-to-face encounters. Their results suggest that at least under certain circumstances digitally mediated interaction may foster social solidarity in a manner similar to face-to-face interaction. A chapter by Simone Polillo picks up from Collins’ work in the sociology of knowledge examining multiple ways in which social network structures can engender intellectual creativity. The third section of the book contains papers that critically but sympathetically assess key tenets of microsociology. Jonathan H. Turner argues that the radically microsociological perspective developed by Collins will better serve the social scientific project if it is embedded in a more comprehensive paradigm one that acknowledges the macro- and meso-levels of social and cultural life. A chapter by David Gibson presents empirical analyses of decisions by state leaders concerning whether or not to use force to deal with internal or external foes suggesting that Collins’ model of interaction ritual can only partially illuminate the dynamics of these highly consequential political moments. Work by Erika Summers-Effler and Justin Van Ness seeks to systematize and broaden the scope of Collins’ theory of interaction by including in it encounters that depart from the ritual model in important ways. In a final reflective chapter Randall Collins himself highlights the promise and future of microsociology. Clearly written these pieces offer cutting-edge thinking on some of the crucial theoretical and empirical issues in sociology today. | Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

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Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

This book explores the nature of regions and how they function particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgence in debates around the roles which regions can play in development the focus has tended to be on 'macro' regional institutions such as the EU ASEAN ECOWAS or MERCOSUR. In contrast this book offers a nuanced analysis of the important field of sub-regionalism and sub-national cross-border cooperation. Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation takes a fresh look at both theoretical and empirical approaches to ‘region-making’ through cooperation activities at the micro-level across national borders in Europe Southeast Asia Latin America Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to explore the role that institutional dynamics play at the micro-level in shaping local and global ties investigate what the formal and informal integration factors are that bolster regionalism and regionalization processes and to clarify to what extent and under what conditions cooperation at the micro-level can be instrumental to solving common problems. Scholars and students within politics sociology geography and economics would find this book an important guide to regionalism at a micro-local level perspective. | Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

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Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

Published in 1999. This book provides an analytical framework of the way culture influences entrepreneurial ethics and trust in a semi-industrial society. Culture provides rules and norms that govern societal behaviour. Yet it differs greatly in the way it influences economic performance across societies. The book which embodies both general and micro-institutional perspective on economic behaviour addresses the core question how does culture influence entrepreneurial ethics and trust in a developing society? | Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

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The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

This title was first published in 2001. A classic ethnographic study of the interactions between paediatricians and parents of children thought to be neurologically handicapped. Strong used this work to systematize the often chaotic ideas of Erving Goffman to explore the connections between micro and macro analysis in sociology and to reflect on the nature of medical practice in modern liberal societies. The book stands as a testament to Strong’s pursuit of methodological rigour in qualitative sociology. | The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

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The Transformation of Rural Africa

The Transformation of Rural Africa

Contemporary discussions of Africa’s recent growth have largely interpreted such growth in terms of structural transformation based mainly on national- and sectoral-level data. However the micro-level processes driving this transformation are still unclear and remain the subject of debate. This collection provides a micro economic foundation for understanding the particular growth processes at work within the region’s rural areas and in so doing provides important insights for policy action. The book provides valuable household- and farm-level evidence about the drivers of rural labour productivity improvements in access to markets investment in food value chains and indeed the role of rural economic growth in Africa’s ongoing rural transformation processes. Some of the features of Africa’s ongoing rural transformation are similar to those of agricultural transformation as experienced in Asia and elsewhere. However other features of Africa’s rural transformation are unique and pose important challenges for development policy and planning. Together the studies compiled in this volume provide an updated evidence-based and policy-relevant understanding of where African countries are in their developmental trajectories and the region’s prospects for achieving inclusive forms of development over the next several decades. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies. | The Transformation of Rural Africa

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Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

This volume explores how educational policy is changing as a result of neoliberal restructuring and how these issues affect educators’ practice. Evidence-based chapters present a sharp analysis of neoliberal education policy while also offering suggestions and recommendations for future action to bring about change consistent with more robust understandings of democracy. Covering issues relating to historical context philosophical assumptions policy implementation accountability teacher professionalism and standardization Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times critically engages the ways micro- and macro- neoliberal politics shapes the purposes and implementation of schooling. | Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

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Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

This title was first published in 2003. Covering a diverse range of countries such as Bulgaria the Czech Republic Hungary Poland Slovakia Slovenia and Russia as well as referring to the characteristics of the region as a whole this book examines the inflow and outflow of foreign direct investment from both home and host company and country perspectives. By analyzing foreign direct investment in terms of process content and context the book provides a holist approach towards direct foreign investment in the transitional context of Central and Eastern Europe embracing both macro- and micro-economic perspectives of the process. | Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

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An Introduction to Quantitative Economics

An Introduction to Quantitative Economics

Originally published in 1978. This book is designed to enable students on main courses in economics to comprehend literature which employs econometric techniques as a method of analysis to use econometric techniques themselves to test hypotheses about economic relationships and to understand some of the difficulties involved in interpreting results. While the book is mainly aimed at second-year undergraduates undertaking courses in applied economics its scope is sufficiently wide to take in students at postgraduate level who have no background in econometrics - it integrates fully the mathematical and statistical techniques used in econometrics with micro- and macroeconomic case studies. | An Introduction to Quantitative Economics

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Disability Normalcy and the Everyday

Disability Normalcy and the Everyday

Many critical analyses of disability address important ‘macro’ concerns but are often far removed from an interactional and micro-level focus. Written by leading scholars in the field and containing a range of theoretical and empirical contributions from around the world this book focuses on the taken-for-granted mundane human activities at the heart of how social life is reproduced and how this impacts on the lives of those with a disability family members and other allies. It departs from earlier accounts by making sense of how disability is lived mobilised and enacted in everyday lives. Although broad in focus and navigating diverse social contexts chapters are united by a concern with foregrounding micro mundane moments for making sense of powerful discourses practices affects relations and world-making for disabled people and their allies. Using different examples – including learning disabilities cerebral palsy dementia polio and Parkinson’s disease – contributions move beyond a simplified narrow classification of disability which creates rigid categories of existence and denies bodily variation. Disability Normalcy and the Everyday should be considered essential reading for disability studies students and academics as well as professionals involved in health and social care. With contributions located within new and familiar debates around embodiment stigma gender identity inequality care ethics choice materiality youth and representation this book will be of interest to academics from different disciplinary backgrounds including sociology anthropology humanities public health allied health professions science and technology studies social work and social policy.

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Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education Teacher Discourse and Otherness

Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education Teacher Discourse and Otherness

Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education examines the lived classroom experiences of six social studies teachers and the relevance of their discourse in framing the knowledge students receive about populations in the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on the socialization processes of schooling this book deconstructs the classroom experience and investigates the ways in which a macro-societal phenomenon—otherness—is reified in micro-societal interactions. Through the methodological lens of Critical Discourse Analysis this work illuminates the importance of teachers’ language in challenging and reinforcing portrayals that cast the diverse populations of the Middle East and Africa in the role of the other. | Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education Teacher Discourse and Otherness

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The Impact of World War I on Marriages Divorces and Gender Relations in Europe

The Impact of World War I on Marriages Divorces and Gender Relations in Europe

How did WWI affect the love lives of ordinary citizens and their interactions as couples? This book focuses on how dramatic changes in living conditions affected key parts of the life course of ordinary citizens: marriage and divorce. Innovative in bringing together demographic and gender perspectives contributions in this comparative volume draw on newly available micro-level data as well as qualitative sources such as war diaries. In a first exploration intended to incite further research it asks how patterns of marriage and divorce were affected by the war across Europe and what the role of enduring change - or lack thereof - in gender relations was in shaping these patterns. | The Impact of World War I on Marriages Divorces and Gender Relations in Europe

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Technological Capability and Learning in Firms Vietnamese Industries in Transition

Technological Capability and Learning in Firms Vietnamese Industries in Transition

First published in 1999 this volume examines technology in developing countries with a focus on Vietnam. One of the world’s poorest countries Vietnam has begun rehabilitation following the Vietnam War. Tran Ngoc Ca had four aims for this study. First exploration of the development of TC in Vietnamese industrial companies and looks at how the learning process is related to the accumulation of TC. Second to detail links between macro environment factors and micro internal actions of firms and their impact on TC. Third addressing specific issues in comparison with other developing countries and transitional economies. Fourth and finally to provide a background for the implementation of policy concerned with enhancing TC acquisition. | Technological Capability and Learning in Firms Vietnamese Industries in Transition

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International Education and Development Culture Context and Narrative

International Education and Development Culture Context and Narrative

Drawing on a wide range of international contexts International Education and Development provides an innovative and comprehensive critique of developments to improve schooling in the global South. Offering both a theoretical critique of the field and a series of case studies drawn from recent research illustrating the usefulness of a narrative approach it generates a greater understanding of the meta-narratives that shape development and international education. Focusing on three periods of extensive field work in South Africa Bangladesh and Mauritius this book reflects upon the combination of narrative and biographical approaches in different national settings. Context is provided in three levels meta meso and micro through a clear and critical examination of the macro ‘stories’ of development and international education over the past fifty years and an examination of the role that narrative can play at local and micro levels looking at the stories of individual decision makers – from children in the classroom to education officers at the district education office – and the opportunities and challenges of using these accounts for research teaching and policy-making purposes. International Education and Development adds a global perspective to an area dominated by a concern with the Northern industrialised world making it an essential text for students following courses in the social sciences and individuals working the field of international education. It addresses a fundamental concern of development theory in a unique and engaging manner. A highly original contribution to a growing field this book synthesises developments both in this field and in the growing topic of narrative research. | International Education and Development Culture Context and Narrative

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Helping Skills for Counselors and Health Professionals Building Culturally Competent Relationships

Helping Skills for Counselors and Health Professionals Building Culturally Competent Relationships

Helping Skills for Counselors and Health Professionals provides a model of foundational helping skills that is grounded in a multicultural framework. Chapters explicitly examine implicit bias and the role of culture and systems of oppression and marginalization within the lives of both individuals and communities. The text also uses ecological systems theory to assist readers in conceptualizing the ways in which culture influences communication styles perceptions of professional helpers and individual needs. Readers will be introduced to concepts that increase awareness of micro and macro-level influences on helping skills communication and the patient’s life. Within the book’s multicultural framework readers will also find tools for increasing self-awareness for improving the communication skills and cultural humility. | Helping Skills for Counselors and Health Professionals Building Culturally Competent Relationships

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Corporate Sustainability Leadership

Corporate Sustainability Leadership

Corporate sustainability now regarded as a vitally important topic on the agenda for businesses has in recent years not only become embedded in postgraduate study but is now also widely taught at the undergraduate level in business schools. Corporate Sustainability Leadership reflects the growing need for an accessible text at all levels of study. The book brings the topic of corporate sustainability fully up to date by incorporating new directions in the areas of corporate responsibility and sustainability. Written by the authors of the highly successful Understanding Business Ethics this book provides a primary resource for any undergraduate or graduate corporate sustainability class. Unlike other textbooks in corporate sustainability which are often edited collections from multiple authors this book develops themes throughout each chapter using a consistent voice to ensure an integrative learning experience for both students and instructors. With ten chapters and ten cases all of which are supplemented with online test banks instructor guides and PowerPoint slides this textbook provides enough content for a complete class on corporate sustainability. Using stakeholder theory as a foundation Corporate Sustainability Leadership allows readers to develop a better understanding of how organizations can effectively satisfy the needs of their critical stakeholders. It addresses the issues of corporate sustainability from both a micro and macro perspective. Micro issues related to corporate sustainability include leadership organizational change management decision making human resource organizational strategies organizational ethics organizational culture corporate sustainability reporting corporate sustainability performance and corporate compliance. The macro issues addressed include suppliers corporate sustainability communications consumers the natural environment governments NGOs and the developing world. In addition there are ten unique company cases from organizations that are household names such as Bayer Shell Volkswagen and Dow Chemical.

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Shaping Ageing Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings

Shaping Ageing Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings

This volume examines the manifold often contradictory aspects of ageing considering the ways in which contemporary social transformations affect the experience conception interpretation and representation of ageing. Thematically arranged it brings together the latest scholarly work from around the world to consider theories and narratives of ageing and the effects of space and place on identity and the experience of old age. Combining micro and macro perspectives as well as theoretical and applied research this interdisciplinary volume offers cross-cultural and comparative studies that resist overgeneralization and reductivism in an effort to shed fresh light on our experience understanding and response to ageing in the modern world. As such it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences particularly sociology gerontology demography social policy and cultural studies with interests in ageing and later life. | Shaping Ageing Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings

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A History of Early Film V2 An Established Industry (1907-14)

A History of Early Film V2 An Established Industry (1907-14)

Volume 2 of A History of Early Film examines filmmaking and presentation during the latter part of the early cinema period. Technology did not stand still during these years and despite problems with editing synchronization and amplification many auditoria were fitted with sound-film equipment during the early cinema periods. Much of the discussion in the trade magazines revolved around economic and commercial subjects including expenses incurred in complying with new laws and the damage caused by irresponsible promoters. Among the material included is a complete reprint of the 1913 edition of Colin Bennett's The Handbook of Kinematography. Technical production is covered with a section on micro-kinematography tele-kinematography and general natural history filming. Film exhibition is also discussed and a final chapter covers coyright and censorship. | A History of Early Film V2 An Established Industry (1907-14)

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Criminal Courts

Criminal Courts

The social organization of criminal courts is the theme of this collection of articles. The volume provides contributions to three levels of social organization in criminal courts: (1) the macro-level involving external economic political and social forces (Joachim J. Savelsberg; Raymond Michalowski; Mary E. Vogel; John Hagan and Ron Levi); (2) the meso-level consisting of formal structures informal cultural norms and supporting agencies in an interlocking organizational network (Malcolm M. Feeley; Lawrence Mohr; Jo Dixon; Jeffrey T. Ulmer and John H. Kramer) and (3) the micro-level consisting of interactional orders that emerge from the social discourses and categorizations in multiple layers of bargaining and negotiation processes (Lisa Frohmann; Aaron Kupchik; Michael McConville and Chester Mirsky; Bankole A. Cole). An editorial introduction ties these levels together relating them to a Weberian sociology of law.

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Order and Disorder in the International System

Order and Disorder in the International System

This volume examines the complex international system of the twenty first century from a variety of perspectives. Proceeding from critical theoretical perspectives and incorporating case studies the chapters focus on broad trends as well as micro-realities of a Post-Westphalian international system. The process of transformation and change of the international system has been an ongoing cumulative process. Many forces including conflict technological innovation and communication have contributed to the creation of a transnational world with political economic and social implications for all societies. Transnationalism functions both as an integrative factor and one which exposes the existing and the newly emerging divisions between societies and cultures and between nations and states. The chapters in this volume demonstrate that re-thinking fundamental assumptions as well as theoretical and methodological premises is central to understanding the dynamics of interdependence. | Order and Disorder in the International System

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Restructuring Schools Reconstructing Teachers Responding to Change in the Primary School

Restructuring Schools Reconstructing Teachers Responding to Change in the Primary School

Drawing on wide ranging research this book originally published in 1997 explores how the policy changes of previous years were affecting primary teachers and their work at the time. Within the context of worldwide restructuring the thoughts feelings and activities of teachers in their daily work are examined. The core argument is that what used to be a complex but fulfilling job distinguished by professional dilemmas which are amenable to professional skill had become increasingly marked by tension and constraint which frustrates teacher creativity. While some teachers found new opportunities in the ‘new’ primary school many used strategical and micro-political activity in order to cope while others fell victim to stress and burnout. The authors argue that teachers’ own active involvement in policy change is required if their creative potential is to be realized. The book will still be of interest to teachers in primary schools researchers and policy makers. | Restructuring Schools Reconstructing Teachers Responding to Change in the Primary School

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