Social Aspects category: 6049 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters. It explores today’s populations rarely noticed, such as undocumented students, first generation college students, and LGBTQs; and emphasizing the intersectionality of gender, race,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
The authors in this book use the metaphors of invisibility and visibility to explore the social and school lives of many children and young people in North America whose complexity, strengths, and vulnerabilities are largely unseen in the society and its schools. These “invisible children” are...
Imperfect Oracle
The Epistemic and Moral Authority of Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Science and its offshoot, technology, enter into the very fabric of our society in so many ways that we cannot imagine life without them. We are surrounded by crises and debates over climate change, stem-cell research, AIDS, evolutionary theory and “intelligent design,” the use of DNA in solving...
Education and the Family
Passing Success Across the Generations
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Why it is that success, deprivation or disadvantage are so often passed down intergenerationally? What part does education play?
The educational achievement of parents is often reflected in that of their children and there are many underlying causes for such a relationship. Education and the...
by John Alcock
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2001
In The Triumph of Sociobiology, John Alcock reviews the controversy that has surrounded evolutionary studies of human social behavior following the 1975 publication of E.O. Wilson's classic, Sociobiology, The New Synthesis. Denounced vehemently as an "ideology" that has justified social evils and...
by Nicholas Agar
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.
In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently,...
CAPITALISMO, APOLOGIA DA “VITA ACTIVA” E DANO EXISTENCIAL
Dissertação de Mestrado - Coleção "Filósofos do nosso tempo"
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 9, 2017
(a5, 114 páginas)
“A vida sem o exercício do pensar é não somente pobreza de espírito, uma vez que espírito em filosofia significa ideia, mas também escravidão...".
Sócrates dizia que "o ser que somente trabalha, come, bebe, faz sexo e dorme não é um homem, mas um escravo...
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 18, 2014
(A5, 158 P.) - Max Weber acreditava que, nos processos de mudança, o novo deveria conviver com o velho; Karl Marx, por outro lado, acreditava na mudança como sendo um processo de ruptura, onde o novo e o velho deveriam, bruscamente, serem postos, cada um, em seus devidos lugares.
Todavia, o dinamismo...
PROFESSORES OU PROSTITUTOS INTELECTUAIS?
A FUNÇÃO SOCIAL ANÁRQUICA DO PROFESSOR
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 22, 2014
(A5, 125 P.)
Pedagogos, educadores, mestres e/ou professores são o que:
1- Homo intelectos ou Homo Faber?
2- Pensadores ou proletários?
3- Seres sociais transformadores ou meros proletários?
4- Criadores e socializadores de saberes ou meros seres adestrados, adestradores...
Inequality, Poverty, Education
A Political Economy of School Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
This book challenges the practice of exclusion by uncovering its roots in 19th century social and educational policy targeting poor children. Revealing a hidden history of exclusion, this analysis exposes the connections between the state, the education system and social policy, and opens a space for radical alternatives.
Disability and Difference in Global Contexts
Enabling a Transformative Body Politic
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship.
Postgenomics
Perspectives on Biology after the Genome
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Ten years after the Human Genome Project’s completion the life sciences stand in a moment of uncertainty, transition, and contestation. The postgenomic era has seen rapid shifts in research methodology, funding, scientific labor, and disciplinary structures. Postgenomics is transforming our understanding...
Understanding School Refusal
A Handbook for Professionals in Education, Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
` Combining educational and clinical perspectives, and with extensive use of case studies, the authors present recent research into the mental health problems associated with school refusal, such as anxiety and panic attacks, as well as the role that parental support plays in their children's school...
Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton
On the Genesis of the Mechanistic World View
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this stimulating investigation, Gideon Freudenthal has linked social history with the history of science by formulating an interesting proposal: that the supposed influence of social theory may be seen as actual through its co herence with the process of formation of physical concepts. The reinterpre...