Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17450100500489189

Editorial: Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings

Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process.

Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but these dramatic changes have largely gone unnoticed. This intriguing book brings together the sociology of consumption and technology to investigate the evolution of these changes, as well the social meaning of the practices themselves. Homes, offices, domestic appliances and clothes play a crucial role in our lives, but not many of us question exactly how and why we perform so many daily rituals associated with them. Showers, heating, air-conditioning and clothes washing are simply accepted as part of our normal, everyday lives, but clearly this was not always the case. When did the daily shower become de rigueur? What effect has air conditioning had on the siesta at one time an integral part of Mediterranean life and culture? This book interrogates the meaning and supposed normality of these practices and draws disturbing conclusions. There is clear evidence supporting the view that routine consumption is controlled by conceptions of normality and profoundly shaped by cultural and economic forces. Shove maintains that habits are not just changing, but are changing in ways that imply escalating and standardizing patterns of consumption. This shrewd and engrossing analysis shows just how far the social meanings and practices of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have eluded us.

Comfort, cleanliness and conveniencethe social organization ofnormality

Understanding the small business sector

The internationalisation of tourism has resulted in the mediation of spatially-stretched commodity chains which often transcend international frontiers and which in businesses from different cultures come into contact with one other. This paper examines the social relations in bilateral business co-operations between Moroccan and German enter-prises. As a central concept in the social sciences, there are multiple contested theorizations of power and in this paper we adopt a Lukesian starting point. A more precise naming and locating of power is vital to enhancing our understanding of the way in which the tourism product is commodified.

Inter-cultural communications and power relations in international tourism commodity chains

Out of sight and out of mind

This article stresses the need to develop a more systematic approach to data sources in a context of greater European comparative study. The work and initial findings of the European Directories Project to provide a resource guide of one universal European data source, the town directory, are outlined here. Pathways and mechanisms of directory evolution are considered with special reference to Germany. This is succeeded by a discussion of the problems associated with the compilation of a pan-European directory database and the potential difficulties associated with directory use in urban historical research.

European directories: a universal source for urban historians

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Mountain Resort Planning and Development in an Era of Globalization Thomas Clark , Alison Gill , Rudi Hartmann . Mountain Resort Planning and Development in an Era of Globalization. Elmsford, New York. Cognizant Communication Corporation. 2006. 348 US$ 74. ISBN: 1-8823445-47-9.

Tim Coles

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Inter-cultural communications and power relations in international tourism commodity chains

Out of sight and out of mind

European directories: a universal source for urban historians

Mountain Resort Planning and Development in an Era of Globalization Thomas Clark , Alison Gill , Rudi Hartmann . Mountain Resort Planning and Development in an Era of Globalization. Elmsford, New York. Cognizant Communication Corporation. 2006. 348 US$ 74. ISBN: 1-8823445-47-9.

What makes a resort complex? Reflections on the production of tourism space in a Caribbean resort complex.