1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780671403321

Autore

Vernon Richard <1945->

Titolo

Friends, citizens, strangers : essays on where we belong / / Richard Vernon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-281-99193-7

9786611991937

1-4426-7506-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

Alexander Lectures

Disciplina

302/.14

Soggetti

Social participation

Political participation

Citizenship - Social aspects

Citizenship - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Neighbourhood and conscience in Locke -- Why is Rousseau difficult? -- Mary Wollstonecraft: stoic, republican, feminist -- Auguste Comte's cosmopolis of care -- 'In rooms adjoining': George Eliot and the proximate other -- 'Proudhonism': or, citizenship without a city -- J.S. Mill's religion of humanity -- Henri Bergson and the moral possibility of nationalism -- What is crime against humanity? -- On special ties (1): Jesus or Polemarchus? -- On special ties (2): what do we owe? -- Conclusion: on associative duties.

Sommario/riassunto

Friends, Citizen, Strangers proposes a solution: a moderate form of cosmopolitanism that finds a place for multiple levels of attachment and association.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969916103321

Titolo

Class and stratification analysis / / edited by Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, : Emerald, 2013

ISBN

9781781905388

178190538X

9781299050419

1299050417

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

Comparative social research, , 0195-6310 ; ; v. 30

Altri autori (Persone)

BirkelundGunn Elisabeth

Disciplina

305.5

Soggetti

Social Science - Research

Social Science - General

Social classes

Social research & statistics

Social classes - Research

Social stratification - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund -- Class, occupation, wages, and skills : the iron law of labor market inequality / Carl le Grand, Michael Tåhlin -- Educational choices and social interactions : a formal model and a computational test / Gianluca Manzo -- Occupational standing and occupational stratification by cognitive ability / Min-Hsiung Huang -- Analysing intergenerational transmissions : from social mobility to social reproduction / Steffen Hillmert -- Inching up : the labour market position of the second-generation immigrants in Britain and the United States (1990-2000) / Yaojun Li -- Lifestyles and social stratification : an explorative study of France and Norway / Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, Yannick Lemel -- From abstract to concrete : the practical relevance of parents' economic and cultural capital for persistence in higher education / Liza Reisel -- Completion of upper secondary education : what mechanisms are at stake? / Martin D. Munk -- Identifying and explaining hidden disadvantage within the non-



manual group in higher education access / Delma Byrne, Selina McCoy -- Measuring social inequality in educational attainment / Ottar Hellevik -- Reproduction of economic inequalities : are the figures for the United States and United Kingdom too high? / Gary N. Marks -- The international standard classification of education 2011 / Silke L. Schneider.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume of Comparative Social Research emphasizes unsolved issues and new developments within class and stratification analysis, discussing both theoretical and methodological innovations and revisions.