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This edited collection explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet-Himalaya region, showing how new infrastructures simultaneously create fresh connections and reinforce existing inequalities. Bringing together ethnographic studies on the social politics of road development and new mobilities in 21st-century Asia, it demonstrates that while new roads generate new forms of hierarchy, older forms of hierarchy are remade and re-established in creative and surprising new ways. Focused on South Asia but speaking to more global phenomena, the chapters collectively reveal how road planning, construction and usage routinely yield a simultaneous reinforcement and disruption of social, political, and economic relations.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure. --- Roads --- Social aspects. --- Highways --- Roadways --- Thoroughfares --- Transportation --- Highway engineering --- Pavements --- Roads, Infrastructure, Mobility, Hierarchy, Social Relations.

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How does a new intranet shape an ongoing merger integration process? Katja Schönian analyses internal communication and branding strategies in connection with the implementation of a new company intranet. Based on qualitative data, the study contrasts managerial expectations and everyday usage of the intranet in distinct work settings. Relying on social practice theories and research in Science & Technology Studies, Katja Schönian unpacks the different logics the intranet brings together and, furthermore, interrogates the characteristics that make an (un-)workable technology. This book provides readers with new insights into the dynamics of a merger integration process and the increasing digitalization of contemporary knowledge work.

Sociology. --- Branding. --- Culture. --- Digital Media. --- Digitalization. --- Ethnographic Methodologies. --- Information Technology. --- Internet. --- Organisational Identity. --- Practice. --- Social Relations. --- Sociology of Media. --- Sociology of Organizations. --- Sociology of Work and Industry. --- Work.

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Aufgrund der Dominanz eines ökonomistisch verengten Rationalitätsideals wird Vertrauen zunehmend als Reputationskalkül oder quasi-vertragliche Kreditbeziehung definiert. Michaela I. Abdelhamid zeigt: Was hier als »Vertrauen« bezeichnet wird, soll vielmehr der Wertschöpfung sowie der Legitimation strategischer Entscheidungen, Sanktionen und Abhängigkeitsverhältnisse dienen. Mit verständlichen Analysen und Begriffsschärfungen bietet sie die Grundlage, um die Probleme solcher Inszenierungen erkennen oder auch die Gegenstände sogenannter Vertrauenskrisen reflektieren zu können. »Wichtiges Buch, in dem klar wird, dass auch lebenswichtige Erfahrungen und emotionale Bewertungen längst vom Marktdenken vereinnahmt wurden. Ohne dass wir es merken hat sich die Definition des Humanen verwandelt. Wir sind alle egoistische Nutzenmaximierer geworden.« Andreas Weber, www.amazon.de, 25.01.2019 »All jenen [...], die das Bedürfnis an einem Nachdenken über die unreflektierten (und scheinbar unreflektierbaren) Bedingungen ihres ärztlichen Ethos haben, sei diese bahnbrechende Arbeit einer jungen Philosophin empfohlen.« Wolfgang Kuhl, Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 35-36 (2018)

Vertrauen; Instrumentelle Rationalität; Zuversicht; Reputation; Entscheidung; Kommerzialisierung; Ökonomisierung; Sozialität; Wirtschaft; Sozialphilosophie; Wirtschaftsethik; Philosophie; Trust; Instrumental Rationality; Confidence; Decision; Commercialization; Economization; Social Relations; Economy; Social Philosophy; Business Ethics; Philosophy --- Business Ethics. --- Commercialization. --- Confidence. --- Decision. --- Economization. --- Economy. --- Instrumental Rationality. --- Philosophy. --- Reputation. --- Social Philosophy. --- Social Relations.

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Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore the ways in which finance inserts itself into relationships of class and kinship, how it adapts to non-Western religious traditions, and how it reconfigures legal and ecological dimensions of social organization, and urban social relations in general. Central themes include the indebtedness of individuals and households, the impact of digital technologies, the struggle for housing, financial education, and political contestation.

Financialization. --- africa. --- anthropology. --- asia. --- bankers. --- banking systems. --- banks. --- business. --- capital. --- class. --- debt. --- digital technologies. --- ecological dimensions. --- economics. --- education. --- engaging. --- ethnographic case studies. --- europe. --- finance. --- finances. --- financial education. --- financialization. --- fortune. --- government and governing. --- history. --- housing. --- human condition. --- human history. --- kinship. --- money and banking. --- money. --- politics. --- power and wealth. --- religion. --- religious traditions. --- social history. --- social organization. --- social relations. --- technology. --- urban social relations.

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Sozialer Wandel hat seine eigene Theoretisierung eingeholt: Die modernisierungstheoretische Vorstellung eines linearen, rationalen, universalgesetzlichen Fortschritts stößt an die Grenzen ihrer Erklärungskraft. Julia Elven schlägt daher eine praxistheoretische Wandelforschung vor, die gesellschaftliche Transformationen auf Basis ihres konkreten praktischen Geschehens analysierbar macht. Sozialer Wandel kommt dann als dezentraler, multidirektionaler, kontingenter Prozess in den Blick, der unterschiedlichen Logiken zugleich folgt. Denn nicht in der Suche nach dem allgemeinen rationalen Prinzip hinter sozialen Dynamiken, sondern in der Rekonstruktion der Interferenzen divergierender Rationalitäten liegt der Schlüssel zum Verständnis sozialen Wandels.

Sozialer Wandel; Praxistheorie; Gegenwartsdiagnose; Moderne; Lebensentwurf; Transformation; Modernisierungstheorie; Sozialität; Kultur; Gesellschaft; Kultursoziologie; Soziologische Theorie; Lebensstil; Qualitative Sozialforschung; Soziologie; Social Change; Practice Theory; Diagnosis of the Presence; Modernity; Social Relations; Culture; Society; Sociology of Culture; Sociological Theory; Lifestyle; Qualitative Social Research; Sociology; --- Culture. --- Diagnosis of the Presence. --- Lifestyle. --- Modernity. --- Practice Theory. --- Qualitative Social Research. --- Social Relations. --- Society. --- Sociological Theory. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Sociology. --- Transformation.