Социология
5875 кн.
Éste es un libro para la academia. Éste es un libro para la política. Éste es un libro para el periodismo y para la Ciudadanía interesada. Pero es, básicamente, un libro para quienes hacen consultoría política, porque la fragilidad de los argumentos sólo produce diagnósticos apenas verosímiles y serios efectos políticos.
| Автор | Mario Riorda |
El objetivo de esta obra es entender cómo el ingreso y la permanencia de los inmigrantes se han vuelto un asunto de seguridad nacional en diferentes contextos culturales y geográficos. De este modo, se ofrecen herramientas a quienes se propongan formular políticas públicas que no deshumanicen al migrante ni promuevan medidas represivas y violentas en su contra.
| Автор | Alejo Vargas Velásquez |
One day in 2002, three friends – a Somali immigrant, a Pakistan–born U.S. citizen, and a hometown African American – met in a Columbus, Ohio coffee shop and vented over civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan. Their conversation triggered an investigation that would become one of the most unusual and far–reaching government probes into terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Over several years, prosecutors charged each man with unrelated terrorist activities in cases that embodied the Bush...
| Автор | Andrew Welsh-Huggins |
At a time when the traditional sheltered workshop model has fallen under rightful criticism, and a new paradigm for disability programming is not yet in place, Upcycling Sheltered Workshops offers a revolutionary alternative. As many push to dismantle sheltered workshops, Susan Dlouhy and Patty Mitchell present the Creative Abundance Model, a proven method that redirects sheltered workshops from routine to creativity, putting participants in the driver’s seat. The Creative Abundance Model does...
| Автор | Susan Dlouhy |
Gillian Rose was one of the most important social philosophers of the twentieth century. This is the first book to present her social philosophy as a systematic whole. Based on new archive research and examining the full range of Rose's sources, it explains her theory of modern society, her unique version of ideology critique, and her views on law and mutual recognition. Brower Latz relates Rose's work to numerous debates in sociology and philosophy, such as the relation of theory to...
| Автор | Andrew Brower Latz |
Unique in its use of a sustainability framework, Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future by Katherine S. van Wormer and Rosemary J. Link goes beyond U.S. borders to examine U.S. government policies—including child welfare, social services, health care, and criminal justice—within a global context. Guided by the belief that forces from the global market and globalization affect all social workers in their practice, the book addresses a wide range of relevant topics,...
| Автор | Katherine S. van Wormer |
The Edda is a thoroughly researched study on the Norse mythology through the analysis of an Old Norse work of literature written in Iceland during the early 13th century. Edda is considered the fullest and most detailed source for modern knowledge of Norse mythology. Scholarly approach and conducted research have allowed the author to determine the age of the different versions of various myths.
| Автор | L. Winifred Faraday |
No es lo mismo ser candidato que presidente. Así lo ha comprobado Andrés Manuel López Obrador, quien tras llegar al poder se encontró con la realidad compleja de un país con graves problemas.
| Автор | Juan Carlos Núñez Bustillos |
Der bekannte Zeithistoriker und Antisemitismusforscher Wolfgang Benz erklärt Phänomene des Alltagsrassismus. Das Buch ist lexikalisch aufgebaut, so dass man, je nach Bedarf, einen kurzen Überblick zu einem konkreten Stichwort findet oder sich das Themengebiet systematisch erschließen kann. Der Autor liefert fundiertes Überblickswissen in gut verständlicher Sprache.
| Автор | Wolfgang Benz |
En este libro urgente y profundo, Noam Chomsky, uno de los grandes intelectuales de nuestra época y una poderosa voz moral a nivel mundial, junto al prestigioso economista Robert Pollin, estudioso de las causas del calentamiento global, analizan la economía política del cambio climático y su imbricación con el modelo neoliberal de producción y la globalización financiera.
| Автор | Noam Chomsky |
Wake up your introductory sociology classes! <strong>Sociology in Action</strong> helps your students <em>learn </em>sociology by <em>doing</em> sociology.<br /> <br /> <strong>Sociology in Action</strong> by Kathleen Odell Korgen and Maxine P. Atkinson will inspire your students to <em>do </em>sociology through real-world activities designed to increase learning, retention, and engagement with course material. Packed with...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Now with SAGE Publishing! Cutting edge and student-friendly, Choices in Relationships takes readers through the lifespan of relationships, marriages, and families, and utilizes research to help them make deliberate, informed choices in their interpersonal relationships. Authors David Knox, Caroline Schacht, and new co-author I. Joyce Chang draw on extensive research to challenge readers to think critically about the choice-making process, consider the consequences involved with choices, view...
| Автор | David Knox |
Written by sought-after speaker, designer, and researcher Stephanie D. H. Evergreen, Effective Data Visualization shows readers how to create Excel charts and graphs that best communicate data findings. This comprehensive how-to guide functions as a set of blueprints—supported by research and the author’s extensive experience with clients in industries all over the world—for conveying data in an impactful way. Delivered in Evergreen’s humorous and...
| Автор | Stephanie D. H. Evergreen |
More than just a high school drama, “Veronica Mars” is a smart and savvy teen detective show that offers complex mysteries and rapier wit, engaging social commentary, and noir sensibilities—with the occasional murder thrown in for good measure. This collection, edited by the creator and executive producer of the show, offers supreme insight into the class struggles and love stories of the series. Essays by top writers intelligently address a multitude of questions...
| Автор | Rob Thomas |
Grounded in principles and values of fairness and equality, anti-oppressive practice (AOP) lies at the heart of social work and social work education. This book will equip your students with the tools and knowledge to address the concepts of diversity, oppression, power and powerless, and practice in ethically appropriate ways for contemporary social work practice.<br />
| Автор | Prospera Tedam |
En este libro vibrante y profundo, el reconocido filósofo y escritor Alain Badiou sostiene que para enfrentar a Trump es necesario enfrentar el consenso generado en torno al capitalismo liberal que posibilitó su llegada al poder, y que el único camino es oponerle una opción que no puede llevar otro nombre que comunismo.
| Автор | Alain Badiou |
Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and history, each of the chapters describes a particular shelter and uses this to open up theoretical...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Studying the im/mobility trajectories of West Africans in the EU, this book presents a new approach to West African migrants in Europe. It argues that a migration lens is not necessarily the best starting point to understand these dynamic im/mobility processes. Rather than seeing migrancy as the primary marker of their lives, this book positions these trajectories in a wider social script of mobility and discusses how African migrants are confronted with rigid mobility regimes, but also how they...
| Автор | Joris Schapendonk |
From Reviews: "…In this book the clinical psychologist Natius Oelofsen describes the processes of learning and the three-step reflective cycle, explaining how keeping a reflective journal offers insights into self and behaviour, and using critical analysis to reflect on even ordinary, everyday incidents. He shows how the insights of understanding help our interactions with patients and colleagues. Reflection helps us work together, offer support and see where we are able to fit in as team...
| Автор | Natius Oelofsen |
This is the first book-length English-language study of a group of five artists closely linked with the Spanish avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s, now known as the ‘Other’ Generation of 27. In the same way that their contemporaries of the celebrated Generation of 27 (which included Federico Garcia Lorca) attempted a revolution of the arts through poetry inspired by European modernism, the ‘Other’ Generation of 27 attempted to renovate Spanish humour, first in prose, and then in the theatre and...
| Автор | Stuart Nishan Green |
