Социология
5875 кн.
The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and ethnicity shape one another? <br /> <br />In this fully revised and expanded second edition of their popular text, Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge provide a much-needed introduction to the field of...
| Автор | Patricia Hill Collins |
Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned, a thinker who never shied away from addressing the great issues of our time and always strove to interrogate received wisdom and common sense, to make the familiar unfamiliar. <br /><br />As in Bauman’s work more generally,...
| Автор | Zygmunt Bauman |
Our contemporary societies place more and more emphasis on the singular and the unique. The industrial societies of the early 20th century produced standardized products, cities, subjects and organizations which tended to look the same, but in our late-modern societies, we value the exceptional – unique objects, experiences, places, individuals, events and communities which are beyond the ordinary and which claim a certain authenticity. Industrial society’s logic of the general has been replaced...
| Автор | Andreas Reckwitz |
When Americans think about race, “white” is often the furthest thing from their minds. Yet whiteness colors so much of social life in the United States, from the organization and maintenance of social structures to an individual’s sense of self. <br /> <br /> White has long been the invisible default category against which other racial and ethnic groups are silently compared and marked out as “different.” At the same time, whiteness is itself an active marker that many bitterly fight...
| Автор | Monica McDermott |
As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj iek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the profundity of its consequences?<br /> <br /> We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from the object of your affection. When governments renowned for ruthless cuts in public spending can suddenly conjure up trillions. When toilet paper becomes a...
| Автор | Slavoj iek |
Latin America has experienced a profound transformation in the first two decades of the 21st century: it has been fully incorporated into the global economy, while excluding regions and populations devalued by the logic of capitalism. Technological modernization has gone hand-in-hand with the reshaping of old identities and the emergence of new ones. <br /><br />The transformation of Latin America has been shaped by social movements and political conflicts. The neoliberal model that...
| Автор | Manuel Castells |
Tribalization is a global megatrend in today’s world. The election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, populist movements like Catalan separatism – together with democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe – are all examples of tribalization. Fuelled by anti-globalism and identity politics, tribalization is drawing up the drawbridge to the world. It is putting cultural differences before dialogue, collaboration and universal liberal values.<br /> <br /> But tribalism is a...
| Автор | Marlene Wind |
Cryptocurrencies are often associated with right-wing political movements, or even with the alt-right. They are the preserve of libertarians and fans of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. With their promotion of anonymity and individualism, there’s no doubt that they seamlessly slot into the prevailing anti-State ideology. But in this book Mark Alizart argues that the significance of cryptocurrencies goes well beyond cryptoanarchism. In so far as they allow us ‘to appropriate collectively the means...
| Автор | Mark Alizart |
'Why are you making this about race?' This question is repeated daily in public and in the media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting white supremacy seems to be a worse insult than racism itself. In our supposedly post-racial society, surely it’s time to stop talking about race?<br /> <br />This powerful refutation is a call to notice not just when and how race still matters but when, how and why it is said not to matter. Race critical scholar Alana Lentin...
| Автор | Alana Lentin |
This new, updated edition provides a lively, lucid and compelling introduction to contemporary controversies over the self and self-identity in the social sciences and humanities. In an accessible and concise format, the book ranges from classical intellectual traditions of symbolic interactionism, psychoanalysis and Foucauldian theory, through feminism and postfeminism, to postmodernism and the mobilities paradigm.<br /><br />With characteristic verve and clarity, Anthony Elliott...
| Автор | Anthony Elliott |
This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has recently undergone a fundamental transformation characterized by de-industrialization, on the one hand, and, on the other, by the increased exploitation of certain resources that, while not entirely new, have taken on unprecedented importance. It is this new form of exploitation that has given rise to what they call...
| Автор | Luc Boltanski |
How do people think about their identities? How do they express themselves individually and as part of collective groups, social movements, organizations, neighborhoods, or nations? <br /><br />Identity has important consequences for how we organize our lives, wield social power, and produce and reproduce privilege and marginality. In this lively and engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus explores the sociology of identity and its social consequences through three conceptual themes:...
| Автор | Wayne H. Brekhus |
The pursuit of wealth has captivated people’s attention for centuries. Yet, as a topic of social research, the way in which wealth is accumulated and unequally distributed has largely been neglected, remaining hidden beneath data on income inequality. Wealth aims to address this blind spot in the academic discourse. In accessible prose, Yuval Elmelech explains how personal wealth differs fundamentally from other conventional measures of socioeconomic status and why it has become increasingly...
| Автор | Yuval Elmelech |
The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly slow to engage with colonial histories in making sense of migratory phenomena today. This book starts from the premise that colonial histories should be central to migration studies and explores what it would mean to really take that seriously....
| Автор | Lucy Mayblin |
Tradução de mitos e lendas relacionados com as deusas e matriarcas da China. Nas remotas tradições das minorias étnicas da China, abundam histórias que destacam o papel criador e civilizador desempenhado pelas deusas ou divindades femininas. Entrando no mistério que envolve o papel principal da mulher na origem e desenvolvimento social da humanidade, lendas da deusa mãe apresenta pela primeira vez ao leitor ocidental o coração da mitologia feminina dos povos da China, através de quarenta dos...
| Автор | Pedro Ceinos Arcones |
250 Millionen Frauen weltweit wurden vor ihrem 15. Lebensjahr verheiratet, 700 Millionen vor dem Erreichen ihrer Volljährigkeit. Sie werden als Objekte an Erwachsene verkauft, die in der Regel viel älter sind als sie, oft sogar an Greise. Viele von ihnen bekommen schon Kinder, obwohl sie selbst noch Kinder sind. Diese Mädchen erleiden schwersten Missbrauch, sie sind Opfer von Pädophilie. Die psychischen und physischen Auswirkungen für die Mädchen sind verheerend: schwere Krankheiten wie HIV und...
| Автор | Wanda Montanelli |
We live in the age of fitness. Hundreds of thousands of people run marathons and millions go jogging in local parks, work out in gyms, cycle, swim, or practice yoga. The vast majority are not engaged in competitive sport and are not trying to win any medals. They just want to get fit. Why this modern preoccupation with fitness? In this new book, Jürgen Martschukat traces the roots of our modern preoccupation with fitness back to the birth of modern societies in the eighteenth century, showing...
| Автор | Jürgen Martschukat |
100 Questions (and Answers) About Research Ethics by Emily E Anderson and Amy Corneli is an essential guide for graduate students and researchers in the social and behavioral sciences. It identifies ethical issues that individuals must consider when planning research studies as well as provides guidance on how to address ethical issues that might arise during research implementation. Questions such as assessing risks, to protecting privacy and vulnerable populations, obtaining informed...
| Автор | Emily E. Anderson |
Britain has become a country defined by economic, geographical, and political divides. Its low social mobility is an increasingly pressing issue and the failure to do something now will mean greater problems for future generations, but what can be done to reverse this trend.<br /> <br /> Through the use of cutting-edge data this book summarises what we know about social mobility in Britain, documenting the history of mobility trends since the Second World War; detailing the recent...
| Автор | Lee Elliot Major |
Vast amounts of digital data are now generated daily by people as they go about their lives, yet social researchers are struggling to exploit it. At the same time, the challenges faced by society in the 21st century are growing ever more complex, and demands research that is bigger in scale, more collaborative and multi-disciplinary than ever before. This cutting-edge volume provides an accessible introduction to innovative digital social research tools and methods that...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This bold agenda-setting title continues to spearhead interdisciplinary, multisensory research into experience, knowledge and practice. Drawing on an explosion of new, cutting edge research Sarah Pink uses real world examples to bring this innovative area of study to life. She encourages us to challenge, revise and rethink core components of ethnography including interviews, participant observation and doing research in a digital world. The book provides an important framework for thinking...
| Автор | Sarah Pink |
La posición central que ocupan la política y el discurso político en la discusión teórica moderna ha sido sintetizada así: Virtualmente, toda la teoría jurídica contemporánea descansa sobre una distinción entre el razonamiento jurídico y la política. El análisis y razonamiento jurídico, en un lado, y el argumento político o la filosofía, en otro, son pensados como prácticas discursivas reconociblemente distintas. Sin embargo, la ausencia o la presencia de cualquier conexión general entre...
| Автор | Mauro Zamboni |
En medio de un marcado proceso de crisis económica en el que la ideología neoliberal se ha empoderado de la política han surgido movimientos sociales que buscan rescatar la acción política de las elites. Su presencia cuestiona el poder omnímodo de los mercados al tiempo que desvela la incompatibilidad entre el capitalismo y la democracia. Al hacerlo, reivindican la política como acción ética frente al poder, descubriendo que ni la libertad, ni la igualdad ni la justicia social prevalecen bajo...
| Автор | Marcos Roitman Rosenmann |
Die Aufstände sind gekommen – das Unsichtbare Komitee ist zurück, mit einem Bericht über eine Welt in Bewegung und einer Anleitung zur Revolution. Der kommende Aufstand entfachte eine breite und kontroverse internationale Debatte. Seitdem haben die Mitglieder und Freunde des Unsichtbaren Komitees weiter gekämpft, sich organisiert, sind in alle Ecken der Welt gereist – dorthin, wo sie Feuer fing – und haben mit Freunden aus vielen Ländern diskutiert: in Tunesien, Griechenland, der Türkei,...
| Автор | Unsichtbares Komitee |