Year: 2015
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“The European City in Transformation: Urban politics and urban planning in a postsocialist city”
Abstract This book analyses postsocialist urban policy. The focus lies on the question of how certain it is that postsocialist Eastern European Cities are approaching the Model of the classic “European City“. The city of Warsaw was chosen as case study. Based on the neo-weberian approach developed by Le Galès, the author defines the characteristics…
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Human health and wellbeing in an uncertain environment
Yesterday I attended at UFZ Leipzig a lectured led by Professor Michael Depledge DSc, FRSB, FRSA, FRCP from European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School entitled “Human health and wellbeing in an uncertain environment”. See bellow the abstract: Throughout human evolutionary history we have lived in intimate contact with our…
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“An individual’s level of personal well-being is strongly related to the level of wealth of the household in which they live”
“Relationship between Wealth, Income and Personal Well-being, July 2011 to June 2012” Summary This article uses data from the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) for July 2011 to June 2012 which, for the first time, included measures of personal well-being. It describes the results of regression analysis considering the relationships between the total wealth or…
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Combustión de carbón para la generación eléctrica en España
Para completar el panorama, la combustión de carbón para la generación eléctrica se mantiene como una de las fuentes a las que más se recurre. Según elobservatorio de la electricidad de la organización WWF-Adena, en junio pasado esta fuente lideró el llamado mix eléctrico, superando a la nuclear, con un 26,8% de la generación española.…
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Historicism = our thoughts are “socially located”
Historicism especially as expressed in the work of Wilhelm Dilthey, immediately preceded the sociology of knowledge. The dominant theme here was an overwhelming sense of the relativity of all perspectives on human events, that is, of the inevitable historicity of human thought. The historicist insistence that no historical situation could be understood except in its…
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The importance of marxist “sub/superstructure” scheme within sociology of knowledge
The sociology of knowledge has been particularly fascinated by Marx´s twin concepts of “substructure/superstructure” (Unterbau/Ueberbau). It is here particularly that controversy has raged about the correct interpretation of Marx´s own thought. Later Marxism has tended to identify the “substructure” with economic structure tout court, of which the “superstructure” was then supposed to be a direct…
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The sociology of knowledge of Berger and Luckmann
The sociology of knowledge must concern itself with whatever passes for “knowledge” in a society, regardless of the ultimate validity or invalidity (by whatever criteria) of such “knowledge”. And in so far as all human “knowledge” is developed, transmitted and maintained in social situations, the sociology of knowledge must seek to understand the process by…