Социология

Questo libro è il mio primo manuale sull’essere contemporaneo, e diario personale scritto da me. La calma del benessere, delle invenzioni. Gli aspetti tridimensionali degli oggetti concreti e umani, per una ricerca nel pensiero individuale. Un’opera che libera da impegni stilistici, gli errori sono di tutti, il presente deve essere rappresentato ma, senza la paura di aver realizzato un errore più grande del silenzio prima accettato. Scegliendo un discorso che promette una soluzione giornaliera,...

Questo libro è il mio primo manuale sull’essere contemporaneo, e diario personale scritto da me. La calma del benessere, delle invenzioni. Gli aspetti tridimensionali degli oggetti concreti e umani, per una ricerca nel pensiero individuale. Un’opera che libera da impegni stilistici, gli errori sono di tutti, il presente deve essere rappresentato ma, senza la paura di aver realizzato un errore più grande del silenzio prima accettato. Scegliendo un discorso che promette una soluzione giornaliera,...

American author, critic, newspaper man, and iconoclast, H. L. Mencken maintained that women are smarter than men and cited numerous examples of the female's overwhelming skill and cunning to support his position. Originally published in 1922, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to today's readers, including monogamy and polygamy, prostitution, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining birth and marriage rates. Written in Mencken's characteristic...

American author, critic, newspaper man, and iconoclast, H. L. Mencken maintained that women are smarter than men and cited numerous examples of the female's overwhelming skill and cunning to support his position. Originally published in 1922, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to today's readers, including monogamy and polygamy, prostitution, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining birth and marriage rates. Written in Mencken's characteristic...

Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of linguistic anthropology. A highly accessible introduction to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world Combines classic studies on language and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship and assumes no prior knowledge in linguistics or anthropology...

Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of linguistic anthropology. A highly accessible introduction to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world Combines classic studies on language and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship and assumes no prior knowledge in linguistics or anthropology...

Mapping The Social Landscape is one of the most established and widely-used readers for Introductory Sociology. The organization follows that of a typical introductory sociology course and provides coverage of key concepts including culture, socialization, deviance, social structure, social inequality, social institutions, and social change. Susan J. Ferguson selects, edits, and introduces 58 readings representing a plurality of voices and views within sociology. The selections include classic...

Mapping The Social Landscape is one of the most established and widely-used readers for Introductory Sociology. The organization follows that of a typical introductory sociology course and provides coverage of key concepts including culture, socialization, deviance, social structure, social inequality, social institutions, and social change. Susan J. Ferguson selects, edits, and introduces 58 readings representing a plurality of voices and views within sociology. The selections include classic...

As a member of the Chinese government's Historiographical Bureau in Peking, as well as a former barrister and British consul in Foochow, E.T.C. Werner published «Myths and Legends of China» in 1922 to elucidate the ideas and beliefs that governed the daily lives of the Chinese people prior to the 20th century. These provocative and fantastical tales of Chinese history, myth and legend draw from many ancient texts and offer a glimpse into a world dominated by tradition and superstition....

В книге выдающегося русского ученого, мыслителя А.А. Зиновьева (1922–2006) дано систематизированное изложение методологических и логических основ его социологической теории. В работе формулируются категории и принципы разработанной им методологии, обеспечивающей научную достоверность и логическую строгость социологических исследований, вводятся базовые понятия его социологии, выявляются законы функционирования и развития социальных объектов и социальных систем. На этой основе строятся теории...

This volume embraces the critical turn of new materialism in order to address how creative and social practices allow for the definition of alternative subject positions and to examine how power relations operate at an embodied, relatable level: it proposes to think global but act local. The contributions by scholars and artists offer new ways of engaging and understanding Ireland’s contemporary political, activist and artistic landscape. They open up onto epistemological ways of considering not...