Tag: identity

• May 13, 2026

  Daniel Bell and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

  Capitalism is often understood as an economic system based on markets, private property, competition, productivity, and growth. However, for the sociologist Daniel Bell, capitalism was not only an economic structure. It was also a cultural system, and this cultural dimension created one of its deepest contradictions. In his influential book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism,…

• January 22, 2019

  Urban sprawl and identity. The case of post war Madrid (In Spanish)

  This article,  see Original source, reflect on the urban spraw of Madrid in teh context after the civil war in Spain, and how neighbor municipalities were adhered to the capital and lost their identity due to political and belic reasons. Indeed, today Madrid center consists of only one municipality, compared to, for instance, Copenhagen, where the city centre counts with different ones, so called kommune.…

• March 17, 2016

  Regretting Motherhood: A Sociopolitical Analysis

  Based on in-depth interviews with twenty-three Israeli mothers, this article seeks to contribute to an ongoing inquiry into women’s subjective experiences of mothering by addressing an understudied maternal emotive and cognitive stance: regretting motherhood. The literature teaches us that within a pronatal monopoly, threatening women that they will inevitably regret not having children acts as…