Demands for freedom, justice, and dignity have animated protests and revolutions across the Middle East in recent years, from the Iranian Green Movement and the Arab Spring uprisings to Turkey's March for Justice and the ongoing struggle in Palestine.
The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller's argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera'By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and reasserted.
Winner: Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize for innovative writing on critical realismThis new textbook offers a succinct yet broad introduction to critical realism, an increasingly popular approach to the philosophy of science that provides a holistic alternative to both positivism and postmodernism.
From hospitals and prisons to schools and corporations: no matter how large or seemingly abstract, all institutions are ultimately the result of the actions and interactions of people.
Interpreting Masonic Ritual endeavors to addresses the depth of the ritualistic experience through a discussion of what ritual means to man as well as what man means to ritual.
The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller's argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it.
Demands for freedom, justice, and dignity have animated protests and revolutions across the Middle East in recent years, from the Iranian Green Movement and the Arab Spring uprisings to Turkey's March for Justice and the ongoing struggle in Palestine.
One of our most admired and loved psychologists turns her attention to the essence of the good relationship, and why we need enemies as well as friends.
For the quality of its research and the clarity of its synthesis, The Rise of Respectable Society will gain a reputation as an outstanding reinterpretation of the Victorian period.
Based on exciting discoveries in mathematics, genetics, psychology and sociology, 'Connected' is an innovative and fascinating exploration of how social networks operate.
artWork: Art, Labour and Activism brings together a variety of perspectives on contemporary cultural production and activism in order to interrogate how the concepts of art, labour and activism intersect in practices for social change.
artWork: Art, Labour and Activism brings together a variety of perspectives on contemporary cultural production and activism in order to interrogate how the concepts of art, labour and activism intersect in practices for social change.
Los trabajos etnograficos con ninos, ninas y jovenes (NNJ) constituyen un campo de reciente evolucion que desafia las formas tradicionales de investigacion social.
Argentina te necesita es una invitación a reflexionar, tanto individual como colectivamente, sobre el pasado, el presente y, sobre todo, el futuro de la Argentina.
Los artículos recogidos en Etnohistorias de América Latina y el Caribe, presentan resultados de investigación, reflexiones críticas, teóricas, metodológicas y técnicas de investigación utilizadas en los estudios etnohistóricos del área.
En un mundo donde la felicidad es un producto mas y los dioses son sustituidos por algoritmos, este libro desmonta muchos de los mitos que nos han vendido, como la farsa de que el trabajo nos hara libres, la ilusion de que consumir sube nuestra autoestima o la mentira de que un like es un refugio contra la soledad.
Libro sobre las principales tendencias y cambios ocurridos en la fisonomía del trabajo y las dinámicas de los actores laborales en el contexto de la pandemia en Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Perú y Chile.
Topografías de la investigación social con incidencia territorial trata de la experiencia de dos colectivos de investigación, la CESYCME y el SICUNA, que se fundaron en la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y que han tenido impacto social fuera de ella.
Una característica clave de quienes trabajan para el Estado y le dan forma es que afirman sacrificar sus intereses personales y ejercer su función de modo desinteresado, por el bien común.
Este libro acoge una polifonia de voces sobre el oficio sociologico en Colombia desde los anos sesenta hasta el presente, a partir de los relatos biograficos de 53 sociologos y sociologas.
Este libro explora las experiencias de participacion de los grupos y kuagros juveniles de San Basilio de Palenque, Bolivar (Colombia), una comunidad reconocida por su riqueza cultural y sus singulares formas de ver el mundo.
Este libro reune una serie de escrituras que abordan el cruce entre feminismos, giro afectivo y pensamiento situado para interrogar, en clave critica, la formacion, la investigacion y la intervencion en Trabajo Social.
Automatismen sind Techniken, Routinen und Praktiken, die sich einer bewussten und zentralen Steuerung entziehen und doch in medialen, kulturellen und sozialen Prozessen zur Entstehung und Verfestigung von Strukturen beitragen.