This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenon or "social hieroglyphic", arguing that the crisis is not fundamentally economic, but instead a symptom of a long-standing, multifaceted, and endemic crisis of capitalism which has effectively become permanent.
This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenon or "social hieroglyphic", arguing that the crisis is not fundamental...
Revisiting the emergence and transformation of higher education since 1800 using a novel processual approach, this book offers a new interpretation of the role of universities in contemporary society, thus re-orienting our understanding of the importance of higher education in the past and future development of modern societies.
Revisiting the emergence and transformation of higher education since 1800 using a novel processual approach, this book offers a new interpretation of...
In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of narrowly focused, policy-oriented research, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias’s preeminent figurational-process sociology, with its aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon.
In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of narrowly focused, policy-oriented research, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that i...
