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Sheller and Urry (2006, 215) place mobilities in the sociological tradition by defining the primordial theorist of mobilities as Georg Simmel (1858–1918). Simmel's essays, "Bridge and Door" (Simmel, 1909 / 1994) and "The Metropolis and Mental Life" (Simmel, 1903 / 2001) identify a uniquely human will to connection, as well as the urban demands of tempo and precision that are satisfied with ...
Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to social mobility and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.
Ralph Herbert Turner (December 15, 1919–April 5, 2014) was an American sociologist who researched collective behavior and social movements.He served as president of the American Sociological Association and editor of Sociometry and the Annual Review of Sociology.
The Italian statistician Corrado Gini developed the Gini coefficient and published it in his 1912 paper Variabilità e mutabilità (English: variability and mutability). [16] [17] Building on the work of American economist Max Lorenz, Gini proposed using the difference between the hypothetical straight line depicting perfect equality and the actual line depicting people's incomes as a measure ...
Das erfolgreiche Vorstellungsgespräch 7 Das Vorstellungsgespräch als Auswahlinstruient bei der erutierung neuer itarbeiter Zudem ist er natürlich neugierig darauf, den Menschen kennen zu lernen.
Phil Collins feels like 'I've used up my air miles' Collins' last original works came in 2002's "Testify." "Going Back," released in 2010, saw him covering the Motown and soul music that ...
Sergey Kiriyenko (left) became Putin's point man in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. [23]The preparation of referendums and the formation of a new image of Russia after the annexation of Ukrainian territories were entrusted to the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergey Kiriyenko.