Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Le quotidien du chercheur
Une chasse aux fantômes ?
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2013
« Un jour, mes enfants ont déclaré que j’étais chercheur et que je “ cherchais des fantômes ”. Après tout, peut-être notre quête de chercheur est-elle vaine ? »
Ainsi l’auteur introduit-il son ouvrage. Car ce sont bien des hantises d’un « chercheur ordinaire » dont nous...
Made to Hear
Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter’s school is plummeting: “The majority of parents want their kids to talk.” Some parents, however, feel very differently, because “curing” deafness with cochlear implants...
The Touchstone of Life
Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1999
No one can escape a sense of wonder when looking at an organism from within. From the humblest amoeba to man, from the smallest cell organelle to the amazing human brain, life presents us with example after example of highly ordered cellular matter, precisely organized and shaped to perform coordinated...
Gender and Social Equity in Primary Education
Hierarchies of Access
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
This book highlights the complexities of gender and social equity in primary education in India. It makes an assessment of the District Primary Education Programme and supplements this with six qualitative micro-studies from different states for a more extensive analysis.
Why Trust a Theory?
Epistemology of Fundamental Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Do we need to reconsider scientific methodology in light of modern physics? Has the traditional scientific method become outdated, does it need to be defended against dangerous incursions, or has it always been different from what the canonical view suggests? To what extent should we accept non-empirical...
Career Guidance for Emancipation
Reclaiming Justice for the Multitude
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
This edited collection explores ways in which social justice can be integrated into career guidance practice. Chapter authors propose models and practices which can contribute to struggles for social justice and consider how career guidance can play a role in these struggles. They explore policy and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
This volume offers a meta-philosophical reflection on feminist philosophies of science. It emphasizes and discusses both the connections and differences between "traditional" philosophies of science and feminist philosophies of science. The collection systematically analyses feminist contributions...
From Labouring to Learning
Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Highly Commended in the Society of Educational Studies Book Prize
This book explores how economic changes and the growing importance of educational qualifications in a shrinking labour market, particularly effects marginalized young men. It follows a group of young working-class men in a de-industrial...
Studies on the structure of time
From Physics to Psycho(patho)logy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Every human being is aware of the flow of time. This fact is embodied in the existence of such notions as the past and the future, the two domains being separated from each other by the single moment of the present. While the past is regarded as fixed and definite, the future is viewed as unknown,...
Illdisciplined Gender
Engaging Questions of Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This volume offers some of the outputs, challenges and opportunities created in an interdisciplinary programme that was set up to engage multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on issues at the intersections of nature and culture, sex and gender. When working with mass spectrometers, microscopes,...
by Richard P. McKeon, David B. Owen
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Well before the current age of discourse, deconstruction, and multiculturalism, Richard McKeon propounded a philosophy of pluralism showing how "facts" and "values" are dependent on diverse ways of reading texts. This book is a transcription of an entire course, including both...
by Havi Carel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The experience of illness is a universal and substantial part of human existence. Like death, illness raises important philosophical issues. But unlike death, illness, and in particular the experience of being ill, has received little philosophical attention. This may be because illness is often understood...
Tecnologismi
Posologia e precauzioni per l'uso dei social network
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 18, 2013
I social network sono ormai il nuovo ansiolitico nazionale. Con ironia e una scrittura brillante, Massimo Sideri spiega come preservare il proprio io di fronte al conformismo della rivoluzione digitale. Twitter, Facebook e Google+ hanno conquistato un ruolo importante nelle nostre vite e grazie a...
by María Fernanda Mosquera García
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 31, 2017
"Este trabajo explora las formas en que la desigualdad social se proyecta en las intimidades del servicio doméstico, y analiza las experiencias y trayectorias de vida de tres mujeres que trabajan como empleadas domésticas en Bogotá, en torno a las tensiones que implican las diferencias sociales...