Housing, Inequality and Sociology: A Comment on Pragmatic Socioeconomics [PDF]
Housing, Theory and Society, 2022 In this brief article, we reflect on the contribution of Martin Lux and Petr Sunega to the role of sociology in the domain of housing economics. Applauding the attempt at injecting a more sociologically informed housing economics, we draw attention to the continuous need to guard against over-abstraction and to ensure that housing’s role as a major ...
Rowland Atkinson, Keith Jacobs
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Sociology, Housing, and Gender
Annual Review of SociologyThe sociology of housing has clear implications for and overlaps with sociological studies of inequality. However, gender is still overlooked and undertheorized in housing research. Drawing on gender scholars, we caution against the tendency to treat gender as a synonym for women, as a variable that compares outcomes to those of men, and/or as ...
Robin Bartram, Japonica Brown-Saracino
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Sociología de la residencia y residencia móvil: logros teóricos y límites prácticos
EMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 2014 Housing sociology has articulated an integrative approach derived from J. Kemeny’s work and his conception of residence as “a household in a dwelling”.
Julio Del Pino Artacho
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Approaches to assessing and increasing housing affordability in Russia
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2023 Improving the quality of life is one of the priority tasks of Russia’s social-economic development, which requires solving the housing problem, since housing is one of the basic human needs.
Zh. G. Golodova, P. A. Smirnov
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Governing animal–human relations in farming practices: a study of group housing of sows in the EU [PDF]
, 2015 EU pig welfare legislation required European pig farmers to shift from individual to group housing of pregnant sows by 1 January 2013. This requirement was principally designed to meet the sows’ needs for locomotion and interaction with conspecifics ...
De Krom, Michiel
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"Ordinary, the same as anywhere else": notes on the management of spoiled identity in 'marginal' middle class neighbourhoods [PDF]
, 2007 Urban sociologists are becoming increasingly interested in neighbourhood as a source of middle-class identity. Particular emphasis is currently being given to two types of middle-class neighbourhood; gentrified urban neighbourhoods of ‘distinction’ and ...
Bauman, Z. +37 more
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Meeting basic needs? Forced migrants and welfare [PDF]
, 2005 As the number of forced migrants entering Britain has risen, increasingly restrictive immigration and asylum policy has been introduced. Simultaneously, successive governments have sought to limit the welfare entitlements of forced migrants. Drawing on
Brown, D, Dwyer, PJ
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The Economic Resource Receipt of New Mothers [PDF]
, 2006 U.S. federal policies do not provide a universal social safety net of economic support for women during pregnancy or the immediate postpartum period but assume that employment and/or marriage will protect families from poverty.
Angrist, J. +37 more
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Experts’ Opinion on the Validation of Socio-Environmental Design Factors (SEDeF) Model as a Residential Neighbourhood Crime Prevention Technique in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2017 This article centres on validating a proposed model, socio-environmental design factors (SEDeF) meant to complement the penal system in the area of combating residential neighbourhood crime within the Nigerian residential estates.
Lizam, Mohd, Olajide, Sunday Emmanuel
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The Social Capital of Cohousing Communities [PDF]
, 2016 This article aims to discuss the possibility that cohousing communities might combine both civil engagement and governance systems in order to simultaneously generate three forms of social capital: bonding, bridging, and linking social capitals ...
Ruiu, Maria
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