Rowland Atkinson, Keith Jacobs

House, Home and Society (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Issues around houses and homes reflect and inform our social, cultural and political worlds, from the subprime market and the financial crisis to social mobility and gender roles. Critically exploring key theories and cutting-edge debates, this text examines home in a global context for students across sociology, human geography and urban studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137294043
• Artikelnr.: 44875396

Autorenporträt

Rowland Atkinson is Research Chair in Inclusive Societies at the University of Sheffield UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. House, Home and Society
2. Theoretical Perspectives on Housing
3. The Meaning of Home
4. The Household, Gender, and Sexuality
5. The Loss of Home
6. Domestic Criminology: Crime, Harm and Victimisation in the Home
7. Home Economics
8. Housing, State and Market
9. Housing, Class and Spatial Divisions
10. Space, Place and Design
11. The Home in a Global Context
12. Conclusion: Houses, Homes and Societies.