Розвиток концепцій інформаційного суспільства: від формування теорії постіндустріалізму до сучасності [PDF]
У статті проаналізовано розвиток концепцій інформаційного суспільства, починаючи від процесу становлення теорії постіндустріалізму та завершуючи сучасним теоретичним осягненням проблеми. Репрезентовані думки видатних дослідників інформаційного
Білоусов, Олександр Сергійович
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Popular Conceptions of Nationhood in Old and New European Member States: Partial Support for the Ethnic-Civic Framework [PDF]
One of the most influential theories in the study of nationalism has been the ethnic-East/civic-West framework developed by Hans Kohn. Using the 2002 Eurobarometer survey on national identity and building on earlier survey studies, this article examines ...
Brubaker Rogers +18 more
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Cities: Continuity, transformation and emergence [PDF]
Book synopsis: This book applies ideas and methods from the complexity perspective to key concerns in the social sciences, exploring co-evolutionary processes that have not yet been addressed in the technical or popular literature on complexity.
Barros, J, Batty, M, Júnior, SA
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Southward expansion: The myth of the West in the promotion of Florida, 1876–1900 [PDF]
This article examines the ways in which promoters and developers of Florida, in the decades after Reconstruction, engaged with a popular myth of the West as a means of recasting and selling their state to prospective settlers in the North and Midwest ...
Anon +14 more
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What is Product-Service Systems (PSS)? A Review on PSS Researches and Relevant Policies [PDF]
In order to achieve sustainable society, it is necessary to transform industrial structure to the one that does not reduce the Earth's resources. Under this circumstance, a business model of "not selling goods, but selling services" has been expected as ...
Yasuhide Nakagami, Yasuhiro Kanda
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Down-to-earth economy: the discursive contribution of sustainable consumption and production debate [PDF]
Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) is a topical concept as national SCP programmes have been drafted by several countries around Europe. This discourse analysis, based on interviews with Finnish SCP committee members, suggests that sustainable ...
Berg, Annukka
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Theoretical considerations in cross-national employment research [PDF]
This article critically reviews a range of theoretical approaches to cross-national employment research. It classifies these studies in terms of universal and culturalist perspectives.
O'Reilly, Jacqueline
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Welfare State Regress in Western Europe: Politics, Institutions, Globalization and Europeanization [PDF]
In interdisciplinary research on welfare state regress in Western Europe, interest has focused on the causes and extent of retrenchment. Causal debates have concerned the role of globalization, post-industrialism, European integration, and partisan ...
Korpi, Walter
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Review of A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers [PDF]
Review of A Hologram for the King by Dave ...
Sciolino, Martina
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Technological parables and iconic illustrations: American technocracy and the rhetoric of the technological fix [PDF]
This paper traces the role of American technocrats in popularizing the notion later dubbed the “technological fix”. Channeled by their long-term “chief”, Howard Scott, their claim was that technology always provides the most effective solution to modern ...
Johnston, Sean F.
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