Social Aspects category: 6049 books
International Exploration of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide
Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
The digital divide is an global phenomenon that negatively affects groups around the world. International Exploration of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide: Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives explores and presents research that centers on the historical, political, sociological, and economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Democratizing educational access and building capacity in developing countries and amongst indigenous peoples in developed countries may be elusive but are hopeful goals. Many developing countries are striving to reengineer their incoherent education systems at a time when they are most vulnerable,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
The behaviour and safety of children and young people in and around schools is a topic of world-wide concern. From school shootings and deaths on school premises to the everyday behaviour of young people in school, this book explores what is happening in schools in Britain and links it with evidence from elsewhere in the world.
Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies
Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues. Although the medical practices that enable the transfer of parts from one body to another most certainly relieve suffering and extend lives, they...
by Lindsay Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Liberal education used to command wide political support. Radicals disagreed with conservatives on whether the best culture could be appreciated by everyone, and they disagreed, too, on whether the barriers to understanding it were mainly social and economic, but there was no dispute that any worthwhile...
Antisocial Media
Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The debate surrounding the transformation of work at the hands of digital technology and the anxieties brought forth by automation, the sharing economy, and the exploitation of leisure
We have been told that digital technology is now threatening the workplace as we know it, that advances in...
by Robert J Starratt
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Starratt’s highly original book offers fresh insights into the nature of teaching, learning, schooling as a multi-cultural, social enterprise, and the importance of vision for that leadership—by using the analogy of drama. Schooling is a preparation to participate in the social drama, both as...
Philosophy, History and Social Action
Essays in Honor of Lewis Feuer with an autobiographic essay by Lewis Feuer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Two articles by Lewis Feuer caught my attention in the '40s when 1 was wondering, asa student physicist, about the relations of physics to philosophy and to the world in turmoil. One was his essay on 'The Development of Logical Empiricism' (1941), and the other his critical review of Philipp Frank's...
by Lars-Göran Johansson
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
This textbook offers an introduction to the philosophy of science. It helps undergraduate students from the natural, the human and social sciences to gain an understanding of what science is, how it has developed, what its core traits are, how to distinguish between science and pseudo-science and...
by P. Zilsel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Here, for the first time, is a single volume in English that contains all the important historical essays Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) published during WWII on the emergence of modern science. It also contains one previously unpublished essay and an extended version of an essay published earlier. This...
by Thomas Abrams
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
This book presents the early existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger as a way to reformulate academic disability studies and activist disability politics. It redresses the almost categorical neglect of human difference in the philosophy of Heidegger. It proceeds by applying a revised version...
Worlds of ScienceCraft
New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress, assumptions about the categories we use to talk about...
Paranoid Pedagogies
Education, Culture, and Paranoia
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This edited book explores the under-analyzed significance and function of paranoia as a psychological habitus of the contemporary educational and social moment. The editors and contributors argue that the desire for epistemological truth beyond uncertainty characteristic of paranoia continues to profoundly...
Elite Schooling and Social Inequality
Privilege and Power in Ireland's Top Private Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book is the first significant sociological study of Ireland’s elite private schools. It takes the reader behind the gates of these secretive institutions, and offers a compelling analysis of their role in the reproduction of social inequality in Ireland. From the selection process to past pupils’...