Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Donna J. Haraway, Cary Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges—of human and machine but also of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location—are...
The Geography of Thought
How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a function of culture.
Everyone knows that while different cultures think about the world differently,...
The Social Evolution of Human Nature
From Biology to Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current studies of this problem misguidedly try to solve it by using variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind, and shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin's theory provides us...
by J.B.S. Haldane
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Haldane advanced genetics, population biology and evolutionary theory. This volume emphasizes important developments in natural sciences in the early-20th century. It describes Haldane's views on society, art, religion and economy as seen through the eyes of a politically alert major scientist.
TIME Artificial Intelligence
The Future of Humankind
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The future of humankind
Artificial intelligence has moved beyond science fiction and into reality, changing history and touching our lives in so many ways-from how astronomers explore the edges of our universe to whether your music system understands the difference between John Legend and John...
Dispositions as Habits of Mind
Making Professional Conduct More Intelligent
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Dispositions as Habits of Mind provides opportunities for candidates in teacher education programs, which focus on nurturing and assessing dispositions, to see the habits of mind for making professional conduct more intelligent, practice them, and receive feedback about their performance. Some scholars...
by R. Hasmath
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
When examining ethnic minorities' educational attainments in urban China and Canada, they outperform or are on par with the non-minority population. However, when analyzing high-wage, education-intensive occupations, this cohort are not as prevalent as the non-minority population. What accounts for...
Educational Upward Mobility
Practices of Social Changes
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
What enables the few working-class people who enter higher education to achieve against the odds? This book offers answers by comparing social contexts, educational institutions and policies in Austria and England to demonstrate a surprising number of similarities behind those who succeed using Bourdieu's concept of habitus.
Educating Elites
Class Privilege and Educational Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
What are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this topic. The contributors draw from welfare economics, moral philosophy, and psychology...
Bringing Knowledge Back In
From Social Constructivism to Social Realism in the Sociology of Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
'This book tackles some of the most important educational questions of the day... It is rare to find a book on education which is theoretically sophisticated and practically relevant: this book is.' From the Foreword by Hugh Lauder
What is it in the twenty-first century that we want young...
Beyond Broadband Access
Developing Data-Based Information Policy Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
After broadband access, what next? What role do metrics play in understanding “information societies”? And, more important, in shaping their policies? Beyond counting people with broadband access, how can economic and social metrics inform broadband policies, help evaluate their outcomes, and...
American Education in Popular Media
From the Blackboard to the Silver Screen
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Terzian and Ryan examine prevalent portrayals of students and professional educators while addressing contested purposes of schooling in American society.
The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology
A Study of Theoretical Reason
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them, as well as of laws relating this mechanism to its inherent capacities. While contemporary philosophy of science deals only with the former, the author...