Social Aspects category: 6049 books
The Classroom as Privileged Space
Psychoanalytic Paradigms for Social Justice in Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The Classroom as Privileged Space: Psychoanalytic Paradigms for Social Justice in Pedagogy examines the psychic and emotional effects of the dehumanization of children based on social discrimination and difference within schooling. Used as a tool to critique the current state of social justice within...
7 retos para la educación social
Reinventarse como profesional de lo social, nuevos desafíos para la empleabilidad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2013
7 retos de la educación social pretende analizar la realidad profesional y educativa de los expertos en Educación Social. En la actualidad, el impulso de las competencias profesionales de los futuros titulados del Grado Educación Social es uno de los grandes retos de las universidades españolas....
Education Governance and Social Theory
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The study of 'education governance' is a significant area of research in the twenty-first century concerned with the changing organisation of education systems, relations and processes against the background of wider political and economic developments occurring nationally and globally. In Education...
Development as Freedom in a Digital Age
Experiences from the Rural Poor in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? The study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Amartya Sen’s capability approach to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in order to place people’s well-being,...
by Glenn Mehta
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Infinite Ripple is an essential read for anyone wishing to utilise the power of social media in their personal, academic and professional lives. With a strong focus on Irish examples, the book contextualises the key concepts of the growing global phenomenon with a focus on advice to harness this opportunity...
Poverty, Class, and Schooling
Global Perspectives on Economic Justice and Educational Equity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that primarily focus on empowering students (children, adolescents, and young adults) from diverse current circumstances and historic beliefs and traditions...
Growing Up Absurd
Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. It investigates how video surveillance as technologically mediated social control is affected by national characteristics, with a specific concern for recent political history....
by K. Brad Wray
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been enduringly influential in philosophy of science, challenging many common presuppositions about the nature of science and the growth of scientific knowledge. However, philosophers have misunderstood Kuhn's view, treating him as a relativist...
The The Social Construction of Technological Systems
New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry--social construction of technology, or SCOT--that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape...
by John T. Cacioppo, William Patrick
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for loneliness and what to do about it.
John T. Cacioppo’s groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry. By employing brain scans, monitoring blood pressure,...
American by Paper
How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
American by Paper reveals how two groups of immigrants who share a primary language nevertheless have very different experiences of literacy in the United States. It describes the social realities facing documented and undocumented immigrants who use everyday acts of writing to negotiate papers—the...
Knowledge Development and Social Change through Technology
Emerging Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Sociotechnical theory, which focuses on the interplay between social and technical behaviors in a society or organization, encourages critical discussion of the relationship between individuals and technology. Knowledge Development and Social Change through Technology: Emerging Studies reviews practices...
An Anthropology of Robots and AI
Annihilation Anxiety and Machines
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engages with debates in anthropological...