Social Aspects category: 6049 books
The Parent Track
Timing, Balance, and Choice in Academia
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The Parent Track provides an in-depth understanding of parenting in academia, from diverse perspectives—gender, age, race/ethnicity, marital status, sexual orientation—and at different phases of a parent’s academic career. This collection not only arrives at a comprehensive understanding of...
National Identity
Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
National identity has been the subject of much controversy and debate. Some have even suggested dropping the concept entirely. One group, Essentialists, argue that national identity is fixed, cultural, based on birth and ancestry. Another viewpoint is posited by Postmodernists who argue that national...
Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy
How Society Shapes Brains, Gods, Maths, and Logics
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book offers a unique analysis of how ideas about science and technology in the public and scientific imaginations (in particular about maths, logic, the gene, the brain, god, and robots) perpetuate the false reality that values and politics are separate from scientific knowledge and its applications....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
It is surprising to think that in today’s rapidly evolving world of technology, over half of the globe still does not have access to high speed internet. Creating community wireless networks has in the past been a way to provide remote communities with internet and network access. Social and Economic...
by Finn Collin
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
This book approaches its subject matter in a way that combines a strong analytical and critical perspective with a historical and sociological framework for the understanding of the emergence of Science Studies. This is a novelty, since extant literature on this topic tends either to narrate the history...
The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism
A Revolution for Science and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2019
This book gives an account of work that I have done over a period of decades that sets out to solve two fundamental problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem and the problem of induction. Remarkably, these revolutionary contributions to philosophy turn out to have dramatic implications for a...
by Susann Wagenknecht
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
This book investigates how collaborative scientific practice yields scientific knowledge. At a time when most of today’s scientific knowledge is created in research groups, the author reconsiders the social character of science to address the question of whether collaboratively created knowledge...
Science and Technology Education Promoting Wellbeing for Individuals, Societies and Environments
STEPWISE
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
This edited volume provides theoretical and practical resources relating to the ‘STEPWISE’ curricular and instructional framework. ‘STEPWISE’ is the acronym for Science & Technology Education Promoting Wellbeing for Individuals, Societies & Environments. It is a framework for organizing...
A Song from the Heart
The Pedagogical Philosophy of Lorna Lutz Heyge, Phd
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
A Song from the Heart describes the development of Lorna Lutz Heyges teaching philosophythe philosophy that brought the original Kindermusik (1974-1994) from its beginnings as a German neighborhood music school program to its early days in Greensboro, North Carolina. Through a series of sound, intellectual,...
Philosophy of Education (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 14)
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This volume provides an introduction to the philosophy of education, which will enable students meeting the subject for the first time to find their way among the many specialized volumes. It deals in a non-technical way with the more important issues raised in a philosophical approach to education,...
Power and Education
Contexts of Oppression and Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Education is a crucial influence early in life and is therefore inextricably linked with power. This book examines how education can limit opportunities and create social inequality as well as being an empowering force for good. Theoretical approaches on the relationship of power and education are discussed as are questions on power and knowledge.
Beyond Technocracy
Science, Politics and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
"Will the ordinary man become a scientist?...Bucchi exposes the inadequacy of the ‘technochratic model’ but also the weaknesses of contemporary bioethics when facing the increasing dilemmas posed by science and technology to contemporary society."
-Il Corriere della Sera [Italian...
Sociology in South Africa
Colonial, Apartheid and Democratic Forms
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
This book is the first comprehensive account of the history and current state of South African sociology. Providing a holistic picture of the subject both as it is taught in universities and as a field of research, it reveals the trajectories of a discipline in a challenging socio-political context....
The Hostile Environment
Students Who Bully in School
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
The Hostile Environment examines the latest psychological and educational research providing evidence that anti-bullying programs and school-based interventions lack intensity and a strong behavioral focus. This book includes information on characteristics and risk factors of bully perpetrators and...