Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Ontological Politics in a Disposable World
The New Mastery of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropriate, ’enhance’ and destroy material reality have developed, so new social scientific accounts of nature and our relationship with it have emerged,...
Social Pedagogy and Working with Children and Young People
Where Care and Education Meet
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Social pedagogy is an innovative discipline that supports children's upbringing and overall development by focusing on the child as a whole person. It has been described as where education and care meet or as 'education in its broadest sense'.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of...
Social Media and Social Movements
The Transformation of Communication Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
This book examines the increased utilization of social media in daily life and its impact on social movements. The contributors analyze “social media revolutions” such as the Arab Spring, the 15-M movement in Spain, the Occupy Nigeria movement, and the Occupy Gezi movement in Turkey. The contributors...
Explaining Social Behavior
More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
In this new edition of his critically acclaimed book, Jon Elster examines the nature of social behavior, proposing choice as the central concept of the social sciences. Extensively revised throughout, the book offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms, drawing on many case studies and experiments...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors. So powerful was their identification with c1assification that ancient ideas were taken as keys to the design of...
Inheriting Possibility
Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
How has the dominant social scientific paradigm limited our understanding of the impact of inherited economic resources, social privilege, and sociocultural practices on multigenerational inequality? In what ways might multiple forces of social difference haunt quantitative measurements of ability such...
Constructivism and the New Social Studies
A Collection of Classic Inquiry Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The New Social Studies refers to a flurry of academic and commercial activity during the 1960s and 1970s that resulted in the mass development and dissemination of revolutionary classroom materials and teacher resources. In science as well as social studies, a spirit of “inquiry-based teaching”...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the changing political economy of a global world system as they apply to the emerging field of nanotechnologies. The basic premise, developed throughout the...
Social E-Enterprise
Value Creation through ICT
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
As the importance of the social sector has increased in recent years, utilizing social enterprise aids in the development of knowledge, research, and practices in order to achieve an organizations’ goals. Therefore, an understanding of ICT implementation in regards to social enterprise is crucial...
by Jonny Stryder
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Bitcoin arrived in 2009. From nothing, cryptocurrency exploded to almost a trillion dollars market value in nine short years. Now Initial Coin Offerings clamor for attention and support. Demand for computer processors and electricity to run them soars. New Crypto millionaires reshape the economy. ...
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 15, 2014
(FORMATO A5, 320 PÁGINAS)
(...)[1] “Para que o homem possa ser capaz de transformar (a sociedade ou a sua condição sócio-existencial) é preciso, antes, que ele seja capaz de transformar-se”.
Nesse sentido, para poder transformar-se é preciso também poder pensar e, sendo...
SABER É PODER
O BÁSICO QUE VOCÊ PRECISA SABER PARA NÃO SER UM ALIENADO
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 13, 2015
(A5, 215 PÁGINAS) - Não resta-nos dúvidas de que “Saber é Poder”, frase esta proferida por Francis Bacon (1561-1626), um dos fundadores do chamado método indutivo de investigação científica. No mundo em que se vive, todavia, marcado este pela exclusão social, pela ideologia, pelo individualismo,...
Social Solutions for Climate Change
How to inspire action through social media
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Do you have an important message to communicate with the world, but don’t know how? Are you a researcher, scientist, or environmentalist who has real solutions to affect global change and potentially turn things around? Have you developed an online forum to share that knowledge? Publishing your...
International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education
Understanding Cultural and Social Differences in Processes of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Migrants and minorities are always at risk of being caught in essentialized cultural definitions and being denied the right to express their cultural preferences because they are perceived as threats to social cohesion. Migrants and minorities respond to these difficulties in multiple ways — as...