Социология
5875 кн.
La sociedad invernadero es un intento por pensar sin dogmatismos ni interpretaciones lineales la trama profunda de nuestra contemporaneidad, sus lógicas y estrategias de dominación; las fisuras y las crisis del sistema; los peligros y las oportunidades que se abren a nuestro alrededor; las herencias y las tradiciones que nos constituyen, los conflictos que nos atraviesan y la historicidad que nos define. Una polifonía de autores y textos que, desde diversas perspectivas analíticas, han buscado...
| Автор | Ricardo Forster |
El ensayo gira en torno a cómo y para qué se estudia el derecho. Originalmente fue un discurso que Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. dictó en la Escuela de Derecho del Boston College, y luego se publicó en la Harvard Law Review. El autor destaca que el objeto central de estudio es la predicción, el pronóstico de la incidencia de la fuerza pública por medio de los tribunales. Éste es el hilo conductor de la obra. Un argumento fundamental señala que la razón por la cual el derecho es una profesión...
| Автор | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
Vivimos en un tiempo de pasiones tristes. Emociones como la ira, la indignación y el resentimiento atraviesan las redes sociales y la opinión de los panelistas televisivos. Ese enojo toma la forma de la denuncia o la catarsis por un orden que se siente injusto, y suele encarnizarse con los que reciben asistencia del Estado (¡todos inútiles!) pero también con los políticos y las élites (¡todos corruptos!).Acá y allá, un lenguaje paranoico acusa a los pobres, los inmigrantes y los desempleados por...
| Автор | François Dubet |
En este libro se presenta una investigación sobre la modernización de la universidad colombiana en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, asumida como el andamiaje estratégico mediante el cual gobernantes, organizadores y diseñadores de políticas, confluyen en un proyecto modernizador, entendido como una manera de pensar en clave de gobierno de la población y de los procesos productivos del país. Aquí se consolida con la adopción sistemática de ciertas apropiaciones del modelo norteamericano de...
| Автор | Óscar Pulido Cortés |
There are a number of anthologies on violence, but none exist as presented in this conversational interview format, which provides a meaningful and sophisticated introduction into the most cutting-edge thinking on the problem of violence in the contemporary world. The market for this book includes readers of the New York Times , as half of these conversations were first published in their online philosophy column «The Stone.» The other half come from the Los Angeles Review of Books . The...
| Автор | Brad Evans |
Adoption is not for the faint of heart. Labours of Love chronicles the journeys of Canadians who have overcome heartbreaking obstacles to become parents. Their stories are as diverse as our country, and span the borders of our world. While each account is unique in its own way, the stories are connected by the overwhelmingly commonality of the power of human connection.
| Автор | Deborah A. Brennan |
A revealing look at the pleasure we get from hating figures like politicians, celebrities, and TV characters, showcased in approaches that explore snark, hate-watching, and trolling The work of a fan takes many forms: following a favorite celebrity on Instagram, writing steamy fan fiction fantasies, attending meet-and-greets, and creating fan art as homages to adored characters. While fandom that manifests as feelings of like and love are commonly understood, examined less frequently are the...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Winner, 2020 American Book Award, given by the Before Columbus Foundation How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes As Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities, mapping the virtual onto lived realities, so too has gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding of race and racial formation in the United States. From the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese American internment to the model...
| Автор | Tara Fickle |
Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies, Association for Asian American Studies[/b] Puro Arte explores the emergence of Filipino American theater and performance from the early 20th century to the present. It stresses the Filipino performing body's location as it conjoins colonial histories of the Philippines with U.S. race relations and discourses of globalization. Puro arte, translated from Spanish into English, simply means “pure art.” In...
| Автор | Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns |
"Johnson astutely reveals that franchises are not Borg-like assimilation machines, but, rather, complicated ecosystems within which creative workers strive to create compelling 'shared worlds.' This finely researched, breakthrough book is a must-read for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of the contemporary media industry." —Heather Hendershot, author of What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest While immediately...
| Автор | Derek Johnson |
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 |