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Prophecy and Progress. The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial Society
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This article is published in Journal of the Operational Research Society.The article was published on 1979-05-01. It has received 71 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Post-industrial society.read more
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What information society
TL;DR: Commentators are strikingly vague about the criteria used to define either information or information societies, and most definitions are concerned with quantitative measures, which fail to consider important qualitative dimensions of the criteria.
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The nostalgia for permanence at work? The end of work and its commentators
TL;DR: The authors examined a contemporary trend in the sociology of work that is labelled here the "end of work" debate after Jeremy Rifkin's book of the same name, and suggested that marked similarities exist between a range of authors in Europe and North America who propose that work regimes and the meaning derived from them are changing fundamentally.
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Between responsibility and rhetoric: some consequences of CSR practice in Nigeria's oil province
TL;DR: In this article, a three-year study of upstream petroleum operations in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil exporter, examines the corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices of transnational petroleum-producing companies, focusing on the immediate and long-term ethnographic and social consequences of such practices on the local communities where oil extraction takes place.
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Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science: Marxism Lite and Its Blind Spot for Culture
TL;DR: Houtman argues that neither authoritarianism nor libertarianism can be explained by class or economic background, but rather by position in the cultural domain, what he calls cultural capital.
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What information society
TL;DR: Commentators are strikingly vague about the criteria used to define either information or information societies, and most definitions are concerned with quantitative measures, which fail to consider important qualitative dimensions of the criteria.
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The nostalgia for permanence at work? The end of work and its commentators
TL;DR: The authors examined a contemporary trend in the sociology of work that is labelled here the "end of work" debate after Jeremy Rifkin's book of the same name, and suggested that marked similarities exist between a range of authors in Europe and North America who propose that work regimes and the meaning derived from them are changing fundamentally.
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Between responsibility and rhetoric: some consequences of CSR practice in Nigeria's oil province
TL;DR: In this article, a three-year study of upstream petroleum operations in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil exporter, examines the corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices of transnational petroleum-producing companies, focusing on the immediate and long-term ethnographic and social consequences of such practices on the local communities where oil extraction takes place.
Book
Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science: Marxism Lite and Its Blind Spot for Culture
TL;DR: Houtman argues that neither authoritarianism nor libertarianism can be explained by class or economic background, but rather by position in the cultural domain, what he calls cultural capital.