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The constitution of the home: Towards a research agenda
Peter Saunders,Peter Williams +1 more
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The authors explored the role of the home in contemporary British society, focusing on class and social relations, the sociology of consumption, and the home as a locale, and showed that the home has been a neglected research area in housing studies.Abstract:
The home has been a neglected research area in housing studies. This paper represents one preliminary attempt to explore the role of the home in contemporary British society. Key concerns include class and social relations, the sociology of consumption and the home as a locale.read more
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Understanding Home: A Critical Review of the Literature:
TL;DR: Home is variously described in the literature as conflated with or related to house, family, haven, self, gender, and journeying, and many authors also consider notions of being-at-home, creating or making home and the ideal home as discussed by the authors.
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Home, Home Ownership and the Search for Ontological Security:
Ann Dupuis,David C. Thorns +1 more
TL;DR: The notion that the home can provide a locale in which people can work at attaining a sense of ontological security in a world that at times is experienced as threatening and uncontrollable is explored in this article.
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A place called home
TL;DR: The authors reviewed literature on the concept of "place" and discussed its relevance to housing research and provided a working definition of place before embarking upon an examination of the connections between place and identity.
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Place and Health: Towards a Reformed Medical Geography∗
TL;DR: This reformed medical geography will analyze issues such as the consequences of illness and health service provision for both personal well-being and the collective experience of place by communities.
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The politics of home: belonging and nostalgia in Western Europe and the United States
TL;DR: Men and women feel more at home at work when they feel at home in the community and in the country, according to the Dutch National Archives as discussed by the authors, and men and women tend to feel more comfortable at work than at home.
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
TL;DR: For instance, in the case of an individual in the presence of others, it can be seen as a form of involuntary expressive behavior as discussed by the authors, where the individual will have to act so that he intentionally or unintentionally expresses himself, and the others will in turn have to be impressed in some way by him.
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Social limits to growth
TL;DR: Scitovsky as discussed by the authors discusses a duality in the growth potential of the United States economy and discusses the role of commercialization bias in economic output, and the importance of moral re-entry.
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A contemporary critique of historical materialism
TL;DR: The second edition of the Second edition of The Time-Space Constitution of Social Systems as mentioned in this paper was published in 2001. But it was published only in the UK and was not available in the US.
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The socio-spatial dialectic
TL;DR: In this article, a socio-spatial dialectic is introduced as a means of reopening the debate and calling for the explicit incorporation of the social production of space in Marxist analysis as something more than an epiphenomenon.