Singapore's well-documented economic progress since independence owes a big debt to the initial investment that the nation made in raising the nutrition, hygiene, health and education standards of its children.
This book discusses the connotation and function of social governance and elaborates on social governance thought in classical Marxism, Mao Zedong's social governance thought, and social governance thought in socialism with Chinese characteristics, especially in Xi Jinping's New Era.
Ethnologe und Soziologe vom Beruf war Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) Philosoph, Philologe, Spezialist von alten Gesellschaften und der Neffe von Emile Durkheim, dem Gründervater der akademischen französischen Soziologie.
This book covers key issues related to comprehensive reform in China in a broad range of areas, such as the economy, politics, culture, social management, the environment and CPC Party building.
This book addresses the persistence of meat consumption and the use of animals as food in spite of significant challenges to their environmental and ethical legitimacy.
In this timely book about the current state of research and practice of emergency management in China, the authors take as their basic premises that we now live in a risk society and that our collective ability to deal with disasters and their aftermath is more important than ever.
Critically exploring the presuppositions of contemporary social theory, this collection argues for a trans-civilizational dialogue and a deepening of the universe of intellectual discourse in order to transform sociology into a truly planetary conversation on the human condition.
Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber's celebrated sociology of China.
This book examines the connection between central-local government relations and the transition of contemporary China, the urbanization process and social development.
This book outlines a critical theory of citizenship, with an emphasis on how citizenship institutes power relations and organises the rights and obligations of those who become its subjects.
Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis.
El presente libro contiene una serie de comentarios críticos sobre diferentes temas de actualidad: la tecnología, el medioambiente, la política local e internacional… Un acercamiento inconformista, crítico del presente y desconfiado del futuro, caracteriza este ensayo repleto de referencias y reflexiones.
Axel Honneth reconstruye en su último libro la idea de "reconocimiento" a partir de los diversos significados que, desde los albores de la modernidad, ha adoptado esta noción en Europa.
La teoría de Sistemas Complejos, de Rolando García, pone en evidencia la necesaria articulación entre una sólida fundamentación epistemológica y un marco teórico-conceptual capaz de orientar el estudio de cualquier problemática concebida como un sistema complejo.
This edition brings to you Le Bon's two most celebrated works, "e;The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind"e; and "e;The Psychology of Revolution"e;, which made a breakthrough in what is now known as crowd psychology.
Este ambicioso volumen narra y analiza, desde un punto de vista crítico, la globalización, los cambios sociales, económicos y políticos generalizados que atraviesan América Latina desde los años setenta del siglo pasado hasta el presente.
"El crimen perfecto de Pedrito Mendrugo" narra las dolorosas experiencias de un grupo de niños cubanos, obligados por sus padres a salir de la isla, solos, para ponerlos a salvo del comunismo.
EINER DER WICHTIGSTEN BEITRÄGE ZUR PROGRAMMDEBATTE DER CDU IN DEN LETZTEN JAHREN"Christen in der Politik sind dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet, nicht den Lobbyinteressen.
Andi Schoons Essay befasst sich mit der Schwierigkeit, im symbolischen Kapitalismus subversiv zu handeln und schlägt als Alternative zur gängigen Hoffnung auf Kollektivität eine spezifische Form der Vereinzelung vor: das sujet imaginaire.
This book brings together the work of the late Anders Petersen, presenting his exciting and innovative transdisciplinary paradigm that offers insights into anxiety, depression and grief, and the connection between these conditions and the failings of contemporary civilization that give rise to them.
This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society, and from the top down, from state interventions responding to such pressure.
Mit der Neuauflage meines Buches "Zwischen Utopie und Tyrannei: Faszination und Schrecken des Kommunismus" biete ich Ihnen eine tiefgehende Analyse des Phänomens "Kommunismus, die Sie in die Geschichte und die Ideologien hinter einem der einflussreichsten politischen Bewegungen des 20.
Public Sociology highlights the relevance of sociological perspectives to Australian social life and encourages students to apply a sociological gaze to their own lives and the communities in which they live.
Public Sociology highlights the relevance of sociological perspectives to Australian social life and encourages students to apply a sociological gaze to their own lives and the communities in which they live.
Dieses Buch wird alle interessieren, die nach einem umfassenden Verständnis des psychologischen Zusammenhangs zwischen individueller psychischer Dynamik, gesellschaftlicher Struktur und den unbewussten kollektiven Paradigmen suchen.
Dieses Lehrbuch beschreibt, wie sich Menschen entscheiden, und erklärt, warum Menschen manchmal zu Beurteilungen und Entscheidungen kommen, die aus der Perspektive rationaler Entscheidungen nicht optimal sind.
