Social category: 205239 books
by Jaron Lanier
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer.
You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we’re better off without them. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment. It surveys the emergence, diffusion, limits, merits, and politics of social...
Global Social Policy
Themes, Issues and Actors
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Social policy is a subject that helps develop our understanding of the meaning of human wellbeing, and of the systems by which wellbeing must be promoted. As a discipline, social policy has traditionally been blunted by a focus on the nation state; however, in this age of globalisation the most pressing...
THE DEATH OF HOMO SAPIENS
THE ACTION IRRATIONAL AS SOCIAL VALUE
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Segundo Karl Marx[1], “para que o homem possa ser capaz de transformar (a sociedade ou a sua condição sócio-existencial) é preciso, antes, que ele seja capaz de transformar-se”.
Nesse sentido, para poder transformar-se é preciso também poder pensar: libertar-se das...
Using Books in Clinical Social Work Practice
A Guide to Bibliotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Using Books in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Guide to Bibliotherapy introduces clinical social workers and other helping professionals to bibliotherapy, an innovative approach to helping individuals deal with psychological, social, and developmental problems. Literally meaning “treatment through...
Morality and the Regulation of Social Behavior
Groups as Moral Anchors
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Morality indicates what is the ‘right’ and what is the ‘wrong’ way to behave. It is one of the most popular areas of research in contemporary social psychology, driven in part by recent political-economic crises and the behavioral patterns they exposed. In the past, work on morality tended...
The Social Contract
or, Principles of Political Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights (French: Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face...
Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest
Between Control and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Commercial social media platforms have become integral to contemporary forms of protests. They are intensely used by advocacy groups, non-governmental organisations, social movements and other political actors who increasingly integrate social media platforms into broader practices of organizing and...
Anthropology and Social Theory
Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive...
by Anthony Elliott, Charles Lemert
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert examine the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to globalization and beyond. When first published, the book’s wide range set new standards for introductory...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The Routledge Companion to Social Theory provides an authoritative, comprehensive and provocative introduction to the key traditions of thought in social theory today. This ground-breaking reference work brings together major contributors, both established and emergent new voices, to reflect on the...
Social Theory
A guide to central thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1992
'An alluvial goldfield of social theorists - nuggets lying around all over the place.'
Bob Connell
Who's who in the social theory zoo? This book introduces some of the leading social theorists in short, lively entries by leading Australian scholars. Social Theory covers thinkers from...
Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level
Groups, Communities, and Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
A timely revision in this global age, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level develops a sophisticated and original view of the cultural, global, spiritual, and natural worlds that people inhabit, and the impact of these worlds on human behavior. Its major new theme, sustainability,...
The Social Life of DNA
Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in America
We know DNA is a master key that unlocks medical and forensic secrets, but its genealogical life is both revelatory and endlessly fascinating. Tracing genealogy is now the second-most popular hobby amongst Americans, as...