Although support for Britain’s withdrawal in the 2016 Referendum emanated from all sections of society, it was much stronger and prevalent among specific socio-economic demographic cohorts, namely older citizens, people who had received a minimal formal education their youth, those on low incomes. These were citizens benefited least, whose communities suffered most, four decades deindustrialisa...

This article considers Alain Ehrenberg's extensive analysis of individualism in contemporary France. It shows how he has traced the emergence autonomy as a key social value, and it goes on to analyse distinctive features sociological approach. Unlike many his contemporaries, Ehrenberg does not regard growth France tragic process anomie isolation. In fact, is critical what sees pervasive French ...

We study the coevolution of culture and cooperation by combining the Axelrod model of cultural dissemination with a spatial public goods game, incorporating both noise and social influence. Both participation and cooperation in public goods games are conditional on cultural similarity. We find that a larger "scope of cultural possibilities" in the model leads to the survival of cooperation, whe...

The concepts of complexity, endogeneity and circular causation (Myrdal’s (1957) term was circular causation) are shown to be interrelated ones in configuring economic modeling in the framework of systemic embedding and its empirical application. The ensuing framework of economic modeling with complexity provides a controllable and predictable overarching worldview. Anomie in the economic univer...

The article presents the philosophical and methodological model of the anthropological crisis caused by social and cultural transformation of the modern civilization. It analyses the essence and cause of the anomie and social orienting cultural regulatory mechanisms in the social system. The authors consider existential characteristics of the individual in the new “innovative” social space and ...