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Sociology --- Art --- maatschappijkritiek --- sociale ongelijkheid

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This book investigates the interface of ethnicity with occupation, empirically observed in luxury international hotels in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It employs the two main disciplines of anthropology and sociology in order to understand the root causes and meaning of ethnicity at work within the hospitality industry sector. More specifically, it observes social change in a multi-ethnic and non-secular society through an ethnographic study located in a micro organisation: the Grand Hotel. At the individual level, this research shows how identity shifts and transformation can be mediated through the consumption and manipulation of food at the workplace. In addition, it combines an ambitious theoretical discussion on the concept of ethnicity together with empirical data that highlights how ethnicity is lived on an everyday basis at a workplace manifesting the dynamics of cultural, religious and ethnic diversity. The book presents the quantitative and qualitative findings of two complementary surveys and pursues an interdisciplinary approach, as it integrates methodologies from the sociology of organisations with classic fieldwork methods borrowed from ethnology, while combining French and Anglo-Saxon schools of thoughts on questions of identity and ethnicity. The results of the cultural contact occurring in a westernised pocket of the global labour market – in which social practices derive from the headquarters located in a society where ethnicity is self-ascribed – with Malaysian social actors to whom ethnicity is assigned will be of particular interest for social scientists and general readers alike.

Social stratification --- Sociology --- sociologie --- sociale ongelijkheid

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The book offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on various aspects of precariousness in contemporary culture and society, concentrating on the topographical aspects of sources and causes of uncertainty and anxiety. Precariousness and precarity are themselves provisional and uncertain categories, though ones inviting to rethinking the scopes of precarity and precariousness from the perspective of locality and of places involved in their otherwise global range. The recent years have shown some ways in which precarity has changed its status and has become a strongly debated area not only in economic and political disputes, but also in philosophical debates and various fields of research related to cultural studies. The articles included in the volume address the spatial scope of anxieties and uncertainties involving numerous men and women affected by the several decades of the neoliberal insistence on various kinds of flexibility which, in turn, has put in motion numerous new mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization. Apart from this, a historical view on the making of precarious places is also offered in the pages of the book. Content With contributions by Ronald C. Arnett, António M. Duarte, Franz Schultheis, Fernando Marhuenda-Fluixá, Ángeles Molpeceres-Pastor, Tadeusz Rachwał, Piotr Sałustowicz, Piotr Skurowski, Jan Sowa, David Kergel, Rolf Hepp and Loïc Wacquant. Target Groups Researchers and students in the fields of Social Sciences, Sociology and Cultural Studies Editors Dr. Tadeusz Rachwał is Professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Rolf Hepp is professor for Sociology at the FU Berlin, Germany. Dr. David Kergel is Lector at the University Siegen, Germany.

Social stratification --- Sociology --- sociologie --- steden --- sociale ongelijkheid

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in 1961 bij Van Loghum Slaterus onder de titel 'Sociale aanpassing, niet-aanpassing, onmaatschappelijkheid'

sociale ongelijkheid --- Social problems --- maatschappijleer --- Sociology --- sociologie --- Samenleving --- Aanpassingsproblemen --- Aanpassingsprobleem

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Individu versus samenleving, solidariteit versus strijd, gelijkheid versus ongelijkheid. Het zijn centrale dilemma’s in onze samenleving, die een belangrijke rol spelen bij de impact van maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen zoals de coronapandemie. Die crisis maakte duidelijk dat ‘niemand een eiland’ is. Door een sociologische bril kan je zulke dilemma’s beter zien en begrijpen. Dit boek vertrekt van het sociaal handelen en bouwt van daaruit een raamwerk op van centrale concepten uit de sociologie. Je leert over cruciale sociale structuren en processen (zoals netwerken, socialisatie, cultuurpatronen, organisaties, sociale klassen) en over voorbije en huidige maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen. Je krijgt inzicht in hoe die je eigen sociale positie en je handelen beïnvloeden. Illustraties, korte samenvattingen, biografieën van belangrijke sociologen en voorbeelden uit het dagelijkse leven maken dit boek heel toegankelijk. Daarnaast zetten reflectievragen je als lezer regelmatig aan tot nadenken. Tot slot is er digitaal studiemateriaal beschikbaar op het online leerplatform Sofia.

Sociology --- sociologie --- Sociologie --- sociale klassen --- 316.1 --- ongelijkheid --- Nationalisme --- Samenleving