Социология
5875 кн.
Most American college campuses are home to a vibrant drinking scene where students frequently get wasted, train-wrecked, obliterated, hammered, destroyed, and decimated. The terms that university students most commonly use to describe severe alcohol intoxication share a common theme: destruction, and even after repeated embarrassing, physically unpleasant, and even violent drinking episodes, students continue to go out drinking together. In Getting Wasted, Thomas Vander Ven provides a unique...
| Автор | Thomas Vander Ven |
For over a century, America's nutrition authorities have heralded milk as «nature's perfect food,» as «indispensable» and «the most complete food.» These milk «boosters» have ranged from consumer activists, to government nutritionists, to the American Dairy Council and its ubiquitous milk moustache ads. The image of milk as wholesome and body-building has a long history, but is it accurate? Recently, within the newest social movements around food, milk has lost favor. Vegan anti-milk...
| Автор | E. Melanie Dupuis |
Language is integral to oursocial being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?The mentally disabled, “wild” children, people with autism and otherneurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificialintelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders.In the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the‘disarticulate’—those at the edges of language—have,...
| Автор | James Berger |
Throughout Brazil, Afro-Brazilians face widespread racial prejudice. Many turn to religion, with Afro-Brazilians disproportionately represented among Protestants, the fastest-growing religious group in the country. Officially, Brazilian Protestants do not involve themselves in racial politics. Behind the scenes, however, the community is deeply involved in the formation of different kinds of blackness—and its engagement in racial politics is rooted in the major new cultural movement of...
| Автор | John Burdick |
Presenta la metodología de análisis de redes sociales (ARS) desde una perspectiva investigativa mediante una serie de construcciones de diferentes autores y algunas consideraciones producto del trabajo investigativo y reflexivo de varios años.
| Автор | Edinson Gabriel Brand Monsalve |
From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial and compelling role in the life of modern India. Bombay Hustle presents an ambitious history of Indian cinema as a history of material practice, bringing new insights to studies of media, modernity, and the late colonial city.Drawing on original archival research and an innovative transdisciplinary...
| Автор | Debashree Mukherjee |
How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used them? Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how specific trends in popular culture—such as portrayals of European...
| Автор | Jeffrey Melnick |
In one of the twentieth century's landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown v. Board of Education , social scientists such as Kenneth Clark helped to convince the Supreme Court Justices of the debilitating psychological effects of racism and segregation. John P. Jackson, Jr., examines the well-known studies used in support of Brown , such as Clark’s famous “doll tests,” as well as decades of research on race which lead up to the case. Jackson reveals the struggles...
| Автор | John P. Jackson Jr. |
Tot ha de canviar! reuneix destacats comentaristes de tot el món per presentar una anàlisi rica i matisada de possibilitats progressives arran de la pandèmia Covid-19. En aquestes pàgines hi trobareu veus influents, que van des de Roger Waters a Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Žižek a Saskia Sassen. Gael García Bernal, Brian Eno i Larry Charles examinen les conseqüències més culturals i artístiques de la pandèmia, tocant temes d'amor, joc, comèdia i temps. Les seves paraules se situen al costat...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Was ist Gesellschaft? Sie ist unser Raum und unsere Zeit, ihr gehören wir untrennbar an und stehen doch auch immer außerhalb von ihr. Ihre hierarchische Ordnung und ihr Gedächtnis spiegeln sich in den unvermeidbaren Konflikten, die in Wirtschaft und Politik besonders weitreichend sind. Unverzichtbar für ihre Lösung ist es dabei, sich über sozialethische Maßstäbe wie Gerechtigkeit zu verständigen. Zwei Brennpunkte dieser Debatte sind die Fragen nach der Gestaltung der Globalisierung und der...
| Автор | Michael Reder |
"La migración de adolescentes y jóvenes no acompañados/das en Europa empieza a ser detectada a mediados de la década de los noventa. El número de llegadas anuales ha experimentado un crecimiento constante, convirtiéndose en un fenómeno estructural que demanda ajustes y respuestas en los sistemas de protección regionales y estatales para proteger el interés superior del menor, como interpela la CDN de 1989. No obstante, esta realidad pone en evidencia algunas contradicciones de la Europa...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
"Del socialismo utópico al socialismo científico consta de tres capítulos que Engels extrajo de su Anti-Dühring, con el fin de ofrecer a los obreros una exposición popular de la doctrina marxista como concepción íntegra. En él, Engels consigue explicar de una forma sencilla la génesis del materialismo dialéctico y cómo de las condiciones materiales del sistema capitalista surge la posibilidad de construir una sociedad sin clases, es decir, el socialismo, que evolucionó desde los...
| Автор | Friedrich Engels |
W.E.B Du Bois is widely considered one of the most accomplished and controversial African American intellectuals in U.S. history. A pioneering historian, sociologist, political economist, and civil rights activist, his masterpiece The Souls of Black Folk remains one of the most widely read books in the history of American literature. In this new book, Reiland Rabaka critically explores Du Bois’s multidimensional legacy, lucidly introducing his main contributions in areas ranging from American...
| Автор | Reiland Rabaka |
W.E.B Du Bois is widely considered one of the most accomplished and controversial African American intellectuals in U.S. history. A pioneering historian, sociologist, political economist, and civil rights activist, his masterpiece The Souls of Black Folk remains one of the most widely read books in the history of American literature. In this new book, Reiland Rabaka critically explores Du Bois’s multidimensional legacy, lucidly introducing his main contributions in areas ranging from American...
| Автор | Reiland Rabaka |
