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Author: Sophie Watson
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis survey is the first comprehensive account of English markets as a social space. It investigates markets throughout the country and comes to some surprising conclusions about the role they play in the world of modern Britain. A free pdf version of this report is available online at www.jrf.org.uk
Author: Paul D. Holeva
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 63
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the 1950's each generation of American citizen has engaged in less social interaction than the generation before, leading to a decline in social capital that has been, and continues to be, a contributing factor in the decline of the American City. In an effort to combat these declines this project utilized primary survey, informal interview, and participant observation methodologies to explore the potential development of urban public farmers' markets as an institutional space designed to encourage diverse social interaction, and therefore social capital, at the local level. While survey and interview results showed that market patrons are more apt to engage new individuals within the market space rather than nonfunctional public spaces, demographic and interview data suggests that social pressures and local government regulations limit the diversity of the public, restrict political action, and limit the spatial extent of social capital networks developed within the market space. While these constraints currently prevent the market from reaching its full potential as a social capital development tool, the data also suggests that the market space does serve a major role in the development of local community support networks and that the restructuring of market policies could allow for a more inclusive public to benefit from the market's social networking capability.
Author: Pieter Tordoir
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Published: 1987
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Grodner
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 160198488X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial Interactions in the Labor Market addresses the following questions: How do theoretical economic models and their associated econometric representations change when there are social interactions among households? How do policy implications change as the result of estimated households' social interactions? The authors present a unified theoretical and empirical representation of social interactions as they pertain to labor supply and demand and demonstrate the cases where current policy prescriptions are greatly altered by the presence of social interactions. Section 2 examines theoretically the effect of household interdependencies on how a researcher estimates and interprets labor supply and earnings equations. Having examined labor supply issues, Section 3 and give theoretical attention to labor demand. As a further demonstration how the presence of social interactions complicates thinking about economic policy the authors consider overall labor market outcomes and related economic policy further in Section 4 by examining theoretically the socially optimal wealth distribution. Section 5 measures local economic conditions by the county unemployment rate and neighborhood spillover effects by the racial makeup and poverty rate of the county. Lastly, Section 6 examines the econometric details of implementing an empirical model with possible social interactions in labor supply.
Author: Sara González
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-12
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1315440342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarkets are at the origin of urban life as places for social, cultural and economic encounter evolving over centuries. Today, they have a particular value as mostly independent, non-corporate and often informal work spaces serving millions of the most vulnerable communities across the world. At the same time, markets have become fashionable destinations for ‘foodies’ and middle class consumers and tourists looking for authenticity and heritage. The confluence of these potentially contradictory actors and their interests turns markets into "contested spaces". Contested Markets, Contested Cities provides an analytical and multidisciplinary framework within which specific markets from Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Quito, Sofia, Madrid, London and Leeds (UK) are explored. This pioneering and highly original work examines public markets from a perspective of contestation looking at their role in processes of gentrification but also in political mobilisation and urban justice.
Author: Karl L. Hutterer
Publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH EAST ASIAN STUDI
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0891480137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEconomic behavior is governed by two major sets of boundary conditions: environmental and technological factors on the one hand, and conditions of social organization on the other hand. Indeed, social scientists are often particularly interested in the framework of exchange relationships: exchange of goods, services, personnel, and information. Economic exchanges lend concrete manifestations to social relations that themselves may transcend the economic realm and that otherwise are often difficult to trace. Yet in social science research in Southeast Asia, the area of economic studies has lagged behind, despite the great study potential represented by the tremendous diversity of its physical and human environment. Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia attempts to take advantage of that opportunity. As a number of the contributions to this volume show, many if not most of the systems organized on very different levels of integration interact with each other. Taken as a whole, they provide evidence of the incredible diversity of economic and social systems that may be investigated in Southeast Asia.
Author: Mosashy Martin
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gitte Rasmussen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-09-29
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1000934276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together social semiotic, ethnographic, and conversation analytic approaches to multimodality in global studies of shopping, drawing on the rich diversity of the latest multimodal methods to critically reflect on shopping as a cornerstone of contemporary social life. The volume explores shopping as an area of study in its own right, with the buying and selling of goods and services a fundamental part of the social and cultural life of human communities for centuries. The book looks at both online and offline shopping, examining it as both everyday multi-sensorial practice and its translation into the interactive text and imagery that comprise the online shopping experience, from London street markets to Japanese grocery shops to Danish supermarkets to worldwide online shopping sites. Highlighting the diversity of modern multimodal approaches through contributions from established scholars, the book critically surveys both the challenges and opportunities in the embodied interactions between buyers and sellers and how these points of connection have been translated and will continue to transform in the age of algorithms and emergent technologies. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in multimodality, multimodal conversation analysis, social semiotics, social interaction, and retail studies.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kiran Lakkaraju
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1108558984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWithin the rapidly-growing arena of 'virtual worlds', such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs), individuals behave in particular ways, influence one another, and develop complex relationships. This setting can be a useful tool for modeling complex social systems, cognitive factors, and interactions between groups and within organizations. To study these worlds effectively requires a cross-disciplinary approach that integrates social science theories with big data analytics. This broad-based book offers a comprehensive and holistic perspective on the field. It brings together research findings from an international team of experts in computer science (artificial intelligence, game design, and social computing), psychology, and the social sciences to help researchers and practitioners better understand the fundamental processes underpinning social behavior in virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft, Rift, Eve Online, and Travian.
