Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Education and the Culture of Consumption
Personalisation and the Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
For nearly 200 years the organisational form of the school has changed little. Bureaucracy has been its enduring form. The school has prepared the worker for the factory of mass production. It has created the 'mass consumer' to be content with accepting what is on offer, not what is wanted. However,...
Rethinking Race, Class, Language, and Gender
A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky and Other Leading Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Oftentimes, critical examinations of oppression solely focus on one type and neglect others. In this single volume, Pierre Orelus examines the way various forms of oppression, such as racism, classism, capitalism, sexism, and linguicism (linguistic discrimination) operate and limit the life chances...
Into the Extreme
U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight
What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the...
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1913 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Social Environment and Moral Progress' is a work that looks at various civilisations and cultural environments and analyses their social morality. Alfred...
The Future of Social Epistemology
A Collective Vision
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision sets an agenda for exploring the future of what we – human beings reimagining our selves and our society – want, need and ought to know. The book examines, concretely, practically and speculatively, key ideas such as the public conduct of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social welfare. How can we conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technology on human well-being?...
Lively Capital
Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship...
by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
The first book of its kind internationally, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools explores the experiences of bisexual students, mixed sexual orientation families, and polyamorous families in schools. For the first time, a book foregrounds the voices and experiences of these students and...
The Source of the River
The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
African Americans and Latinos earn lower grades and drop out of college more often than whites or Asians. Yet thirty years after deliberate minority recruitment efforts began, we still don't know why. In The Shape of the River, William Bowen and Derek Bok documented the benefits of affirmative action...
Genes and the Bioimaginary
Science, Spectacle, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Genes and the Bioimaginary examines the dramatic rise and contemporary cultural apotheosis of 'the gene'. The book traces not only the genetification of modern life but is also a journey through the complex relationship between science and culture. At the heart of this book are three interlinked questions....
Connected
Or What It Means To Live In The Network Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2003
In the twenty-first century, a network society is emerging. Fragmented, visually saturated, characterized by rapid technological change and constant social upheavals, it is dizzying, excessive, and sometimes surreal. In this breathtaking work, Steven Shaviro investigates popular culture, new technologies,...
Schools Of To-morrow & The Schools of Utopia (Illustrated Edition)
A Case for Inclusive Education from the Renowned Philosopher, Psychologist & Educational Reformer of 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: "Schools Of To-morrow & The Schools of Utopia (Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Schools Of To-morrow and The Schools of Utopia argue that education and learning are social and interactive...
Education Policy and Social Reproduction
Class Inscription & Symbolic Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
This book takes a theoretically informed look at British education policy over the last sixty years when secondary schooling for all children became an established fact for the first time. Comprehensive schools largely replaced a system based on academic selection. Now, under choice and competition...
by Michael Le Page
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Once upon a time, a student of molecular biology became curious about why his ideas should be the way they are. The ideas lived happily ever after. This text started as a collection of thoughts and ideas aimed at achieving personal clarity. It developed into something more ambitious: What if someone...