Everett Dean Martin presented in this book what he saw as the dilemma of the modern age: a technological information revolution that made it possible, in the absence of an adequate educational system, to influence ignorant men and women with propaganda and half-truths.
Originally published in 1914, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a timeless story of socialism, political awakenings and class struggle, told with a volatile mix of heartfelt rage and sly humour.
Weber wrote that capitalism in northern Europe evolved when the Protestant (particularly Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment.
In What's Wrong With The World Chesterton rightly points out that what people see as "e;wrong with the world"e; are only the symptoms of a deeper problem.
Weber wrote that capitalism in northern Europe evolved when the Protestant (particularly Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment.
Unablässig fordert Greta Thunberg hinsichtlich der dramatischen Klimaveränderungen, die der Weltgemeinschaft bevorstehen, dass es Zeit sei, sich angesichts von faktenbasierten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen zusammenzuschließen und "das Richtige zu tun", to unite behind the science, wie sie es nennt.
Este libro ofrece un análisis integrado de la sociología española como disciplina científica y profesional organizada para la producción de saber sobre la sociedad.
The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world.
Die hier vorgelegten "Versuche über die soziale Kunst" sind Stillers Beitrag zur Fortführung der Diskussion um den erweiterten Kunstbegriff von Joseph Beuys.
Max Koch, Professor für Sozialpolitik in Schweden, sieht das Problem kommen: Wenn dem Klimawandel mit einem ambitionierten Politikwandel entgegengetreten wird, wirkt sich das desintegrativ auf unser gesellschaftliches Gefüge sowie die Sozialstaaten der Weltgemeinschaft aus.
- PROSA- Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß- Das verzauberte Haus- Vereinigungen (Die Vollendung der Liebe, Die Versuchung der stillen Veronika)- Drei Frauen (Grigia, Die Portugiesin, Tonka)- Nachlass zu Lebzeiten- Aus dem Nachlass- STÜCKE- Vorspiel zu dem Melodrama Der Tierkreis- Die Schwärmer- Vinzenz und die Freundin bedeutender Männer- Aus dem Nachlass- FEUILLETON- Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenartikel- Glossen aus dem Nachlass- ESSAYS- Essays- Aus dem Nachlass- REDEN- Reden- Aus dem Nachlass- WISSENSCHAFT- Dissertation- Wissenschaftliche Beiträge- Wissenschaftliches Feuilleton- Kulturchroniken- KRITIK- Buchrezensionen- Theaterkritiken- Kunstkritiken- Kulturberichte- Theaterglossen- Antworten auf Umfragen- Aus dem Nachlass- HEFTE- Tagebücher und Notizhefte- BRIEFE- Briefe 1901-1942- ETC.
Die hier vogelegten "Versuche über den sozialen Organismus" sind Stillers Beitrag zur aktuellen Diskussion um die soziale Dreigleiderung von Rudolf Steiner.
Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century, especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have receded.
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it.
PARADOX AND CONTRADICTION "e;WAR IS THE HEALTH OF THE STATE"e; RANDOLPH BOURNE WAR AND THE THREAT OF WAR HAVE CARRIED US TO UNDREAMED OF HEIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENT IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE.
It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds.
Como prolongación de los estudios binacionales que integran la serie Araucanía Norpatagonia, este volumen emerge a partir de la interpelación de la coyuntura provocada por las movilizaciones de octubre de 2019 en Chile, con el objetivo de ampliar las miradas sobre las construcciones sociales y simbólicas en una temporalidad más extensa.
Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors.
The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines.
Since the beginning of the modern age, studies of ongoing transformations of social life, human sociality, and social relations and institutions have been at the forefront of social theory, alongside changes in politics, culture, and economy - and links between all of the above.
Since the beginning of the modern age, studies of ongoing transformations of social life, human sociality, and social relations and institutions have been at the forefront of social theory, alongside changes in politics, culture, and economy - and links between all of the above.
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.
Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward.
All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questioned by many and rejected by those who have lost faith in them.
A tension between the desire to be respected as an equal and the desire to distinguish oneself as a unique person lies at the heart of the modern social order.
Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings could at last take control of their lives and tame the uncontrolled forces of the social and natural worlds.
This book by one of Latin America s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture.
In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts.
This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, liquid modern times the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest.
Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.
This comprehensive introduction to the study of war and genocide presents a disturbing case that the potential for slaughter is deeply rooted in the political, economic, social and ideological relations of the modern world.
