Social networks and social trust in the transformation countries

Social networks and social trust in the transformation countries

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  • Author: Klaus Roth
  • Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
  • ISBN: 9783825802479
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : de
  • Pages : 340

Einige zentrale Probleme der EU-Integration der post-sozialistischen Lander grunden im geringen institutionellen Vertrauen. Da - als Folge des Sozialismus - gegenuber dem Staat und seinen Institutionen eine "Kultur des offentlichen Misstrauens" herrscht, wird Vertrauen weiterhin primar in informelle soziale Netzwerke investiert: In allen Lebensbereichen kommt der Familie und dem Kreis vertrauenswurdiger Freunde, Mitschuler, Kollegen und Nachbarn eine uberragende Bedeutung zu. 18 Volkskundler, Ethnologen, Soziologen und Historiker prasentieren hier ihre empirischen Studien in Bulgarien, Estland, Polen, Rumanien, Russland, Serbien, Tschechien und der Slowakei. Sie zeigen den graduellen Wandel der Netzwerke wie auch nationale Unterschiede im Ausmass an offentlichem und privatem Vertrauen auf.


Social networks and social trust in the transformation countries

Social networks and social trust in the transformation countries

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  • ISBN: 9783037351536
  • Category : Families
  • Languages : de
  • Pages : 332


Cultures of Crisis in Southeast Europe

Cultures of Crisis in Southeast Europe

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  • Author: Klaus Roth
  • Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
  • ISBN: 364390763X
  • Category : Balkan Peninsula
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 411

Southeast Europe's history of the last two centuries is marked by deep transformations and upheavals: the emergence and disappearance of states; ethnic conflicts and wars; changes of political systems; economic crises; migration movements; and natural disasters. Most of these upheavals have been experienced as deep crises forcing people to adapt to often radically new situations. This can cause crisis management to become a permanent way of life. The book focuses on the cultures of crisis. It analyzes the reactions of societies or individuals to them, their impact on everyday life, on peoples' strategies of coping, on the processes of adaptation, and on peoples' attitudes. Focus is placed on crises relating to migration and post-socialist transformation, to politics and religion, and to labour relations. (Series: Ethnologia Balkanica, Vol. 18) [Subject: Sociology, Southeast European Studies, Politics]Ã?Â?Ã?Â?


De Palerme À Penang

De Palerme À Penang

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  • Author: François Ruegg
  • Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
  • ISBN: 3643800622
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 401

The articles collected here trace the intellectual journey of Christian Giordano, head of the Social Anthropology Institute at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. The reader will be transported to places Giordano has explored, loved, or merely visited, from Sicily to Malaysia, from Switzerland to Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Each article illustrates a facet of his work. The journey starts with biographical sketches and continues through different fields of Political Anthropology (Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, Rural Studies, Trust, Postcolonial Studies, Honour). It ends with reflections on the use and abuse of Anthropology.


Social Networks and Trust

Social Networks and Trust

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  • Author: Vincent Buskens
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 0306476452
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 269

Social Networks and Trust discusses two possible explanations for the emergence of trust via social networks. If network members can sanction untrustworthiness of actors, these actors may refrain from acting in an untrustworthy manner. Moreover, if actors are informed regularly about trustworthy behavior of others, trust will grow among these actors. A unique combination of formal model building and empirical methodology is used to derive and test hypotheses about the effects of networks on trust. The models combine elements from game theory, which is mainly used in economics, and social network analysis, which is mainly used in sociology. The hypotheses are tested (1) by analyzing contracts in information technology transactions from a survey on small and medium-sized enterprises and (2) by studying judgments of subjects in a vignette experiment related to hypothetical transactions with a used-car dealer.


Grenzüberschreitungen

Grenzüberschreitungen

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  • Author: Gabriella Schubert
  • Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
  • ISBN: 9783447057929
  • Category : Balkan Peninsula
  • Languages : de
  • Pages : 714

Grenzuberschreitungen" - das Uberwinden von Grenzen in ethnischer, kultureller und fachlicher Perspektive pragen das Werk von Gabriella Schubert, die qua Beruf und Berufung zum Dialog der Volker und Kulturen einladt. Mit der Festschrift Grenzuberschreitungen wird eine Wissenschaftlerin geehrt, die sich in ihrer langjahrigen Lehr- und Forschungstatigkeit zur Kultursemiotik, zu Selbst- und Fremdbild, Sprache und Identitat sowie zu den Volksliteraturen in Sudosteuropa grosse Anerkennung im In- und Ausland (u.a. Mitglied der Serbischen und der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften sowie des Prasidiums der Sudosteuropa- Gesellschaft) erworben hat. Zahlreiche Symposien und Buchveroffentlichungen zeugen davon, dass ihr besonders die deutsch-sudslawischen Beziehungen am Herzen liegen - eben die Uberwindung von Grenzen. "Grenzuberschreitungen" spiegeln sich ebenfalls in den Beitragen der Festschrift fur Gabriella Schubert wider, die 57 Kollegen, Weggefahrten, Schuler und Freunde der Jubilarin zum Geburtstag widmen. In dem Band vereinen sich Beitrage aus Balkanologie, Sudslawistik, Sudosteuropastudien, Rumanischer Philologie, Byzantinistik, Religionswissenschaft, Soziologie und sudosteuropaischer Geschichte, die sich alle thematisch mit den Traditionen und Identitaten in Sudosteuropa auseinandersetzen.


Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies

Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies

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  • Author: Colin C. Williams
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317535146
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 703

The Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies is a landmark volume that offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of entrepreneurship in developing countries. Addressing the multi-faceted nature of entrepreneurship, chapters explore a vast range of subject areas including education, economic policy, gender and the prevalence and nature of informal sector entrepreneurship. In order to understand the process of new venture creation in developing economies, what it means to be engaged in entrepreneurship in a developing world context must be addressed. This handbook does so by exploring the difficulties, risks and rewards associated with being an entrepreneur, and evaluates the impacts of the environment, relationships, performance and policy dynamics on small and entrepreneurial firms in developing economies. The handbook brings together a unique collection of over forty international researchers who are all actively engaged in studying entrepreneurship in a developing world context. The chapters offer concise but detailed perspectives and explanations on key aspects of the subject across a diverse array of developing economies, spanning Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. In doing so, the chapters highlight the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship in developed economies, and contribute to the on-going policy discourses for managing and promoting entrepreneurial growth in the developing world. The book will be of great interest to scholars, students and policymakers in the areas of development economics, business and management, public policy and development studies.


East European Faces of Law and Society: Values and Practices

East European Faces of Law and Society: Values and Practices

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  • Author: William B. Simons
  • Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
  • ISBN: 9004285229
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 380

This volume offers readers a multi-layer analysis of issues of law and society in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Ukraine. This collection of thought-provoking essays deals with a wide range of subject matter including constitutional, administrative, civil, and criminal law, as well as aspects of legal culture, corruption, corporate social responsibility, and informal practices of judiciaries. Throughout the volume, readers are given not only a comparative perspective of current practices but are also offered a historical glimpse of law and philosophy in the region. The conclusions and analysis offered by these authors - from the ''East' as well as from the ''West'' - are supported by survey data, literature, legislation, and court practice in the region and abroad."


State Legitimacy in a Fragile Context

State Legitimacy in a Fragile Context

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  • Author: Marc De Santis
  • Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
  • ISBN: 3643803044
  • Category : Colombia
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 472

During the course of the last decades, the state experienced a revival on the scene of international development as there has been a growing acknowledgment amongst the international development community that the state plays a key role in enabling development in a specific society. Therefore, the role of the state and especially the concept of state-building have occupied a central place in the development discourse. In that respect, a growing interest has manifested itself in the discussion and analysis around so-called "fragile states". The author discussed the development discourse around that state-building paradigm in general and focuses through its field research in Colombia specifically on the question of the state legitimacy in so-called fragile contexts.


Remigration to Post-Socialist Europe

Remigration to Post-Socialist Europe

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  • Author: Caroline Hornstein Tomic
  • Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
  • ISBN: 3643910258
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 467

Returning migrants have been involved in post-socialist transformation processes all across Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Engaged in politics, the economy, science and education, arts and civil society, return migrants have often exerted crucial influence on state and nation-building processes and on social and cultural transformations. However, remigration not only comprises stories of achievements, but equally those of failed integration, marginalization, non-participation and lost potential - these are mostly stories untold. The contributions to this volume shed light on processes of return migration to various Eastern and Southeastern European countries from multidisciplinary perspectives. Particular attention is paid to anthropological approaches that aim to understand the complexities of return migration from individual perspectives.