Picking up where The Tipping Point leaves off, respected journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz’s Strange Contagion is a provocative look at both the science and lived experience of social contagion.
Examining children's rights from a global perspective, Mary John considers how children experience power, being powerful and the transformation of power relationships.
An innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind at the turn of the twenty-first century via the texts of philosopher and psychologist William James.
In a book the San Francisco Chronicle called "e;unclassifiably wise"e; and a "e;masterpiece,"e; noted Harper's essayist Garret Keizer explores the paradox that we are human only by helping others– and all too human when we try to help.
This is one of the first systematic discussions of the nature of trust as a means of social cohesion, discussing the works of leading social theorists on the issue of social solidarity.
Love seems like the most personal experience, one that touches each of us in a unique way that is more personal than social, and hence it is not surprising that it has been largely neglected by sociologists and social theorists.
In The Network Society, Darin Barney provides a compelling examination of the social, political and economic implications of network technologies and their application across a wide range of practices and institutions.
In this important book, Niklas Luhmann uses his powers as an analyst of the social system to examine two of the most important concepts which hold that system together and allow it to evolve: trust and power.
In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Val ry wrote of a crisis of spirit , brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit.
In this important book Niklas Luhmann - one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century - analyses the emergence of love' as the basis of personal relationships in modern societies.
Gottlob Frege (1894) a observé que l'identité est indéfinissable : « Puisque toute définition est une identité, l'identité elle-même ne saurait être définie.
In our individualized society we are all artists of life whether we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of society if not by our own choice.
