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Engaging with the key debates and issues in a continuously evolving
field, Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi bring together
contributions from leading social scientists to debate the enduring
relevance of public sociology in light of ongoing changes in the
social world. This incisive Research Handbook explores the critical
authors, texts, and research perspectives foundational to the
discipline of public sociology. Multidisciplinary in approach, it
advances dialogues between diverse scientific and environmental
perspectives and considers how best to design and conduct research
in different scientific fields. Chapters discuss current teaching
and critical thought within the discipline, identify promising
analytical approaches through which to research key aspects of
social transformation, and investigate the relationship between
sociology and its various publics. Rather than reproducing an
already-fixed analytical programme, the Research Handbook explores
the potential of public sociology to collaborate and hybridise with
novel research paths. Pushing the frontiers of public sociology,
this insightful Research Handbook will prove an engaging and
invaluable resource for social scientists and sociological
communities, as well as for students in the social sciences. Its
exploration of the applications of public sociology in empirical
research and teaching will further benefit professionals working
within public organisations.
The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social
inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries
between formal and informal work. This interdisciplinary volume
explores the role of informal work in today’s global economy,
presenting economic, legal, sociological, historical,
anthropological, political and cultural perspectives on the topic.
Workers and the Global Informal Economy explores varying
definitions of informality in the backdrop of neo-liberal market
logic, exploring how it manifests itself in different regions
around the world, and its relationship with formal work. This
volume demonstrates how neo-liberalism has been instrumental in
accelerating informality and has resulted in the increasingly
precarious position of the informal worker. Using different
methodological approaches and regional focuses, this book considers
key questions such as whether workers exercise choice over their
work; how constrained such choices are; how social norms shape such
choices; how work affects their well-being and agency; and what
role culture plays in the determination of informality. This
interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to policy-makers
and researchers engaging with informality from different
disciplinary and regional perspectives.
The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social
inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries
between formal and informal work. This interdisciplinary volume
explores the role of informal work in today's global economy,
presenting economic, legal, sociological, historical,
anthropological, political and cultural perspectives on the topic.
Workers and the Global Informal Economy explores varying
definitions of informality in the backdrop of neo-liberal market
logic, exploring how it manifests itself in different regions
around the world, and its relationship with formal work. This
volume demonstrates how neo-liberalism has been instrumental in
accelerating informality and has resulted in the increasingly
precarious position of the informal worker. Using different
methodological approaches and regional focuses, this book considers
key questions such as whether workers exercise choice over their
work; how constrained such choices are; how social norms shape such
choices; how work affects their well-being and agency; and what
role culture plays in the determination of informality. This
interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to policy-makers
and researchers engaging with informality from different
disciplinary and regional perspectives.
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