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Book SynopsisThis book is full of ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago. Radical social work is an approach to social work that has, at its heart, the departure from solely behavioural, moral or psychological understanding of service users' problems. Social work had originally been concerned with the moral character of people in trouble (usually poor people), making a clear division between those who were deserving' of help and those who were undeserving'. The rise of science and the psy' disciplines then led to psychological explanations for the difficulties people found themselves in.Both explanations for social problems moral and psychological with their narrow focus on the individual have been enjoying a renaissance in recent times with the neoliberal self-sufficiency narrative (moral) and the more recent focus on trauma (psychological). Radical social work chalTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Trapped in discourse? Obstacles to meaningful social work education, research, and practice within the neoliberal university 3. Theoretical frameworks in social work education: a scoping review 4. Resisting neoliberalism in social work education: learning, teaching, and performing human rights and social justice in England and Spain 5. Promoting youth-directed social change: engaging transformational critical practice 6. Educating for critical social work practice in mental health 7. Strengthened by challenges: the path of the social work education in Ethiopia 8. Using creative modalities to resist discourses of individualization and blame in social work education 9. Resident participation as learning and action – a participatory action learning project in social work education 10. Transforming social work’s potential in the field: a radical framework

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Book SynopsisLibertarianism: The Basics is an up to date and accessible introduction to libertarianism, that breaks down abstract philosophical ideas in a fresh way.Flanigan and Freiman interweave a wide-ranging survey of different libertarian philosophical traditions, with a discussion of libertarian perspectives on various applied topics of contemporary interest. Chapters introduce readers to the major theoretical debates in libertarianism, illustrating these debates through real world policy case studies that draw on contemporary issues concerning criminal justice reform, immigration policy, national security, and the environment, and more.Ideal for teaching and appropriate for students at all levels, including high school, Libertarianism: The Basics will be the go-to text for anyone who is interested in learning more about political philosophy, applied ethics, philosophy, politics, and economics, and public policy. The authors present arguments and ideas through a series of historical and contemporary cases, making the book suitable for all readers who want to learn about cutting-edge libertarian views on matters in both political philosophy and public policy.

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Book SynopsisCool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool Britannia and the discourse which often encases the period by repositioning this phenomenon through an ethnic minority perspective.In March 1997, the front page of the magazine Vanity Fair announced London Swings! Again!' This headline was a direct reference to the swinging London of the 1960s the English capital which became the era-defining epicentre of the world for its burgeoning rock and pop music scene, with its daring new youth culture, and the boutique fashion houses of Carnaby Street captured most indelibly by the Mods, Rockers, and psychedelic hippies of the time. In the 1990s this renewed interest in the swinging 60s seemed to reinvigorate popular culture, after a global period in the 1980s which would see the collapse of traditional communism and the ending of Cold War, while ushering in the beginnings of a new technologiTrade Review"Arday’s Cool Britannia is both a brave cultural history and a deeply personal odyssey. Retrieving the 1990s from retro sentimentality, Arday reminds us that the decade of Brit pop and girl power was also an era of discriminatory policing, hostile immigration policy and the murder of Stephen Lawrence. A necessary corrective to the Brit nostalgia and historical amnesia that mark our present day."Prof. Paul Warmington, University of Warwick "A must-read for anybody seeking the truth of Britain’s uncomfortable relationship with race, as well as for those who are yet to wake up. Offering an unfiltered – and at times deeply confronting – reflection on British culture, Jason Arday’s Cool Britannia is a brave and powerful antidote to our collective amnesia."Rt. Hon David Lammy MP, Member of Parliament for Tottenham"Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova provides a striking and powerful counter-argument to the romanticised view of the '90s, currently imagined so fondly as the past we have lost to Brexit nationalism. As Arday shows, ‘diversity’ was cynically used as a slogan to distract from the reality of racism, oppression and broken-promises."Prof. David Gillborn, Centre for Research in Race & Education (CRRE), University of Birmingham "In this timely and engaging book, Jason Arday writes with the passion and purpose. He brings the perspectives of people of colour from margin to centre in order to offer an important counter-narrative to the melancholic historicization of ‘The Cool Britannia Years’. Touching on key historical moments in the popular imaginary, and weaving through his own personal experiences, Jason Arday encourages us to see the institutional racisms that society is too quick to forget."Dr. Remi Joseph-Salisbury, University of Manchester"The vivid soundtrack of Arday’s stylish youth comes alive in these pages. While you feel the beat of bands like Oasis and New Order signalling the euphoria and optimism of the Post-Thatcher New Labour era, Arday deftly reveals the ‘Other’ story of the underbelly of racial violence, fear and discrimination that marked the life of so many young black men, culminating in the death of Stephen Lawrence. If you grew up or lived through the 1990s you will not fail to be moved by this eloquent unwritten song of the myth of multicultural Britain." Emeritus Prof. Heidi Safia Mirza, University of London"In this insightful book, Jason Arday reflects upon a period in which he came of age. While the 1990s represented a welcome rupture from the torpor of the previous decade, the cheer leaders of 'Cool Britannia' overstated, it is argued, the inclusivity of the new era. Forensically examining the period through a minority lens, Jason convincingly demonstrates the prevalence of institutional racism and how minority ethnic groups continued to be marginalised." Prof. Andrew Pilkington, University of Northampton Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Love Spreads: The Impact of The Cool Britannia Years on Multi-Ethnic Britain; 2. Don’t Look Back in Anger: Bringing Institutional Racism into Public Focus during the Cool Britannia Years; 3. Bitter Sweet Symphony: Reflecting and Drawing Conclusions on the Cool Britannia years on Multi-Ethnic Britain.

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Book SynopsisMatt Dawson and Dmitri N. Shalin discuss Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination on the New Books NetworkErving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffmanâs scholarship but no extant biography of Erving Goffman. The chief reason is that a man who looked behind the facades people erect to protect their private selves, zealously guarded his own backstage. This book is the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, an intellectual of Russian-Jewish descent, who turned the âœPotemkin villageâ trope into a powerful research program. The present study shows how key turns in Goffmanâs career reflected dramatic events in his family and personal history. It is based on the materials gathered in the Erving Goffman Archives, a repository curated by the author who has been collecting documents and conducting interviews with Goffmanâs relatives, colleagues, and friends. The archival work turned up documents which improve our understanding of Goffman the scholar, the teacher, and the man. The approach adopted in this investigation sheds new light on Goffmanâs scholarship which has had an enormous and continuous impact across the social sciences and humanities.

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Book SynopsisThrough stories, conversations, and essays, this book pursues interwoven critical and philosophical inquiries into the nature of the contemporary in the North Atlantic, asking how are we to live as intellectuals, individually and in community? Social Thought From the Ruins: Quixoteâs Dinner Party is the product of informal discussion and academic work done over the last two decades among an international group of social scientists. An extended critique of academic life today and the context of our own thinking, this book interrogates aspects of our modernity, with its pervasive sense of crisis and uncertainty, and the difficulty of thinking clearly about things like the state and power, data and violence. Reflecting that the US, indeed the North Atlantic countries, seem to have entered autumn, David A. Westbrook asks what spring might be. Will the critical social sciences have anything to offer the exercise of power, or are we doomed to incessant and ineffectual critique? Can bureaucracy be made at least more accountable, if not democratic? Conversely, can we feel less alienated from the structures of power that rule us, or that fail to govern at all? Can we feel at home?

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Revitalizing Criminological Theory is a substantial revision and expansion of the first edition. Ultra-realism is a unique school of criminological thought currently establishing itself in the discipline despite resistance from traditional schools. The second edition still provides the undergraduate and postgraduate student reader with an invaluable guide to existing schools of thought and their roots in politics and philosophy, but with updated commentary on their intellectual flaws.In the first edition, Hall and Winlow introduced a number of important new concepts that laid the foundations for an alternative theoretical framework and research programme in criminology. In three additional chapters written specially for this edition they introduce further concepts and substantive revisions to the theoretical framework. They also outline and discuss in detail the growing body of award-winning criminological projects conducted by a new generation of

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Book SynopsisIn June 2016, more than 17 million people voted for Britain to leave the European Union. The fallout of this momentous referendum has been tumultuous and unpredictable. Now, from the authors of the highly-acclaimed Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union (Cambridge University Press, 2017), comes the definitive guide to the transformation of British politics in the years following the Brexit vote. By charting the impact of Brexit on three major elections ? the 2017 and 2019 general elections as well as the 2019 European Parliament elections ? this book reveals the deeper currents reshaping modern Britain. The authors draw upon many years of unique and unprecedented data from their own surveys, giving key insights into how and why Brexit has changed British electoral politics. The book is written in a clear and accessible style, appealing to students, scholars and anyone interested in the impact of Brexit on Britain today.Table of ContentsPart I. The Short Term: 1. Welcome to Brexit Britain; 2. Getting Brexit done; 3. Political paralysis – The 2017 general election; 4. The collapsing party system – The 2019 European elections; 5. The Johnson break through – The 2019 general election; Part II. The Long Term: 6. Time and the fragmenting party system; 7. Space and the fragmenting party system; 8. Who is responsible? The dynamics of accountability; Part III. The Future: 9. A disaster or a damp squib? The economic effects of Brexit; 10. Brexit Britain, Covid Britain – The political fallout.

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Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1987, sets out to examine and extend our understanding of Australian popular culture, and to counter the long-established, traditional criticism bewailing its lack. The authors argue that the ''knocker''s'' view started from an elitist viewpoint, yearning for Australia to aspire to a European culture in art, music, literature and other traditional cultural fields. They argue however that there are other definitions of culture that are more populist, more comprehensive, and which represent a vitality and dynamism which is a true reflection of the lives and aspirations of Australians. Myths of Oz offers no comprehensive definition of Australian culture, but rather a way of interpreting its various aspects. The barbeque or the pub, an expedition to the shops or a day at the beach, the home, the workplace or the job queue; all these intrinsic parts of Australian life are examined and conclusions drawn as to how they shape or are shaped by what we calTable of Contents1. The Pub 1.1. Revolution at Surfers Paradise 1.2. A Home Away From Home 1.3. Dionysus Down Under 1.4. Youth, Rock 'n' Roll and the Pub 2. Homes and Gardens 2.1. Suburban Homes as Goods to Think With 2.2. Visiting a Display Home 2.3. The Ideal Home 2.4. Outdoor Living 2.5. The Old Backyard 3. The Beach 3.1. The Meanings of the Beach 3.2. Lifesavers, Surfers and Anomalous Categories 4. Out of Work 4.1. At the CES 4.2. Time on Their Hands: the Case of the Video Parlour 4.3. TV and the World of School 5. Shopping 5.1. Buying, Leisure and Work 5.2. The Pleasure of Looking 5.3. The Appeal of the New 5.4. Shopping for Class 5.5. Shifting Centres 6. Tourism 6.1. The Short Trip 6.2. Travel, Identity and the Look 6.3. Ayers Rock and the Tourist 6.4. The Ugly Australian 7. Monuments 7.1. In Praise of the Past 7.2. Art Galleries 7.3. The Sydney Opera House 8. The Australian Accent 8.1. Hawkespeak: the Politics of Accent 8.2. Flat Brown Speech: the Meaning of the Australian Accent 8.3. Cricket, Thongs and Vegemite: an Australian Cultural Accent 8.4. Work as Accent: the Myth of the Lucky Country

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Book SynopsisIntroduction: Young People, Risk and Leisure: An Overview; W.Mitchell , R.Bunton & E.Green PART ONE: DANGER, UNCERTAINTY AND PLEASURE: THE MANAGEMENT OF EVERYDAY RISKS Pleasure, Aggression and Fear: The Driving Experiences of Young Sydneysiders; D.Lupton Living in my Street: Young People's Perceptions of Health and Social Risk; K.Gillen , A.Guy & M.Banim Risky Identities: Young Women, Street Prostitution and 'Doing Motherhood'; E.Green The Labour Market Inclusion and Exclusion of Young People in Scottish Rural Labour Markets; F.Cartmel PART TWO: SPACE, PLACE AND LEISURE From Policy to Place: Theoretical Explorations of Gender-Leisure Relations in Everyday Life; C.Aitchison Youth, Leisure, Travel and Fear of Crime: An Australian Study; J.Tulloch Streetwise or Safe: Girls Negotiating Time and Space; T.Seabrook & E.Green Sites of Contention: Young People, Community and Leisure Space; A.Foreman PART THREE: LEISURE PURSUITS AND GENDERED IDENTITY Risk, Gender and Youthful Bodies; R.Bunton , Table of ContentsIntroduction: Young People, Risk and Leisure: An Overview; W.Mitchell , R.Bunton & E.Green PART ONE: DANGER, UNCERTAINTY AND PLEASURE: THE MANAGEMENT OF EVERYDAY RISKS Pleasure, Aggression and Fear: The Driving Experiences of Young Sydneysiders; D.Lupton Living in my Street: Young People's Perceptions of Health and Social Risk; K.Gillen , A.Guy & M.Banim Risky Identities: Young Women, Street Prostitution and 'Doing Motherhood'; E.Green The Labour Market Inclusion and Exclusion of Young People in Scottish Rural Labour Markets; F.Cartmel PART TWO: SPACE, PLACE AND LEISURE From Policy to Place: Theoretical Explorations of Gender-Leisure Relations in Everyday Life; C.Aitchison Youth, Leisure, Travel and Fear of Crime: An Australian Study; J.Tulloch Streetwise or Safe: Girls Negotiating Time and Space; T.Seabrook & E.Green Sites of Contention: Young People, Community and Leisure Space; A.Foreman PART THREE: LEISURE PURSUITS AND GENDERED IDENTITY Risk, Gender and Youthful Bodies; R.Bunton , P.Crawshaw & E.Green Risk, Motherhood and Children's Play Spaces: The Importance of Young Mothers' Experiences and Risk Management Strategies; W.Mitchell Risking It? Young Mothers' Experiences of Motherhood and Leisure; R.Watson The 'Logic of Practice' in the Risky Community: The Potential of the Work of Pierre Bourdieu for Theorising Young Men's Risk Taking; P.Crawshaw Every Good Boy Deserves Football; S.Pratt & E.Burn

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Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive engagement with the work of Hans-Herbert Kögler, this is the first volume to expand upon and critique his distinctive approach to critical theory: critical hermeneutics. In the current climate of crisis, the relevance and fruitfulness of Kögler's work has never been greater, as he fuses the philosophies of Michel Foucault, Hans Georg Gadamer, and his mentor, Jürgen Habermas, to respond to critical international issues surrounding politics, agency, and society. Working towards a truly non-ethno-centric and global conception of intercultural dialogue, an essential aspect of Kögler's critical hermeneutics is his account of selfhood as reflexive: socially situated, embodied, and linguistically articulated, permeated by power, but yet critical and creative. Leading international scholars, representing a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, build upon Kögler's approach in this volume and explore the methodological, theoretical, and applicative scope of critiTrade ReviewLeading philosophers, social researchers and cultural theorists are contributing to this great book on Hans-Herbert Kögler’s much noticed Critical Hermeneutics. Kögler has invented Critical Hermeneutics as an outstanding progression of the Frankfurt school’s critical theory that is fruitful for research programs and challenging for political praxis. The volume impressively documents the international scale, impact and critique of this promising and singular mix of social philosophy, social research and social criticism. A must-read. * Hauke Brunkhorst, Senior Professor, European University Flensburg, Germany *For decades now, Hans-Herbert Kögler's work has enriched and expanded our understanding of Critical Theory. Reopening the dialogue with the hermeneutical tradition, integrating the insights of Michel Foucault and taking cosmopolitanism seriously as a political and philosophical commitment were decisive moments in a theoretical development that has given us a sense how a critical social theory of the present might look like. In this fine volume, a group of prominent commentators and interlocutors offer readings, dialogues and, of course, critique to which Kögler responds generously. This is a welcome occasion to witness critical thinking in action. * Martin Saar, professor of social philosophy, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany *The best measure of a body of thought is often given by the work to which it gives rise. This is especially true of the thought of Hans-Herbert Kögler and is well-demonstrated by Kurt Mertel and Lubomír Dunaj’s excellent collection of essays on Kögler’s Critical Hermeneutics. The volume not only makes a valuable contribution to the critical and hermeneutic literature, and to the discussion of a range of important and challenging issues, but it is also a testament to the contemporary significance of Kögler’s work and its synthesizing and innovative character. * Jeff Malpas, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Australia *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction, L'ubomír Dunaj & Kurt C. M. Mertel Part I: Critical Hermeneutics as Social Theory 1. The Case for a Critical Hermeneutics: From the Understanding of Power to the Power of Understanding, Simon Susen (City University of London, UK) 2. Power, the Body and Reflexivity: Hans-Herbert Kögler’s Hermeneutics in the Con-text of Critical Sociology, Rainer Winter (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) 3. Naturalizing Kögler, Stephen Turner (University of South Florida, USA) Part II: Recognition, Cosmopolitanism, Religion 4. The Moral Stance, Our Moralizing Nature, and the Hermeneutic and Empathic Dimension of Human Relations, Karsten Stueber (College of the Holy Cross, USA) 5. Dialogue, Cosmopolitanism and Language Education, Werner Delanoy(Alpen-Adria, University, Klagenfurt, Austria) 6. Secularity, Religion, and Dialogue: Rethinking the Conditions of the Possibility for Genuine Complementary Learning, Paul Healy (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) 7. The Limits of Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Need for Alternative Understanding, John Maraldo (University of North Florida, USA) Part III: Towards a Critical Hermeneutics of the Present 8. Sociology, the Studies, and the Ontology of the Present, Frédéric Vandenberghe (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) 9. Cherche pas à Comprendre: Cosmopolitan Hermeneutics in Difficult Times, William Outhwaite (Newcastle University, UK) 10. Playing more seriously: an enactivist critique of Kögler's critically reflexive dialogue, Lauren Barthold (Endicott College, USA) 11. Dialogue in a polarized world – is there a way out?, Randi Gressgård (University of Bergen, Norway) Conclusion and Response Social Ontology, Dialogic Recognition, and Contemporary Challenges: A Reply, Hans-Herbert Kögler (University of North Florida, USA) List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDesign Studies: A Reader is the ideal entry point for any student who wants to understand the many complex roles of design - as process, product, function, symbol, and use. Reflecting the diverse range of perspectives on design, the reader brings together over seventy key texts. The essays are presented in themed sections covering history, methods, theory, visuality, identity, consumption, labor, industrialization, new technology, sustainability, and globalization. Each section is separately introduced and each concludes with a guide to further reading. In addition, a final section of specially commissioned essays analyzes ten seminal designs of the twentieth century, from Helvetica to the cell phone. Bringing together the best classic and contemporary writing, Design Studies: A Reader will be invaluable to all students of Design as well as to students of Architecture, Art, Material Culture, and Sociology. Authors include: Theodor Adorno, Arjun Appadurai, Reyner Banham, JTrade ReviewIncredibly inclusive, this is essential reading for students and teachers of Design Studies in any context. A superlative collection of authoritative contributions from many of the most influential writers on design, past and present. * Paul Atkinson, Sheffield Hallam University, UK *A book that works for students or anyone else with the slightest interest in design. * New York Daily News *A critical snapshot of what's vital now in global comparative critical thinking on Design. The clearly structured and framed sets of key essays disclose the full reach and power of the myriad acts of designing that create our realities and, increasingly, narrow our future options. * Lisa Norton, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA *The Reader combines new interpretations with influential texts that have shaped Design thinking over the last thirty years. It shows how Design is becoming more complex and how the emerging discipline of Design Studies has risen to this challenge. It will be an essential resource for students. * Suzette Worden, Curtin University of Technology, Australia *The Reader will become a standard reference for the subject. It establishes the field for all those interested in Design and its impact on the contemporary world. The Reader offers an informed overview of ways of engaging with the central themes of Design such as ethics, globalization, identity and gender. * Jeremy Aynsley, Royal College of Art, UK *An extraordinarily valuable resource for students in all areas of Design. It opens up endless fields of inquiry and also affirms 'Design Studies' as the only theoretical framework which encompasses all the richness and multiplicity of Design both conceptually and globally. * Eduardo Corte-Real, IADE Design School, Portugal *A wonderful and richly engaging book that would be invaluable to any student both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels of study to draw upon as a one-stop companion and reliable point of reference. * The Design Journal *As a design educator, I've been waiting for a smart compilation of design essays for my graduate 3D design students. Until now, I've used my own mix of 'greatest hits' essays to inform our reading seminars. This year I began using this compilation with my graduate students. I like the way the book is structured by contemporary topics. The content is smart, contemporary and concise - excerpting the most relevant reading from each essay. I'd recommend this book to any student with an interest in the intellectual-big-picture of design. * Amazon.com - Scott Klinker (Cranbook Academy of Art, USA) *If you're looking to do a little self-education this fall, this just might be the book for you. * Amy Azzarito, Apartment Therapy Blog *Provides a great deal of food for thought for beginning design students from numerous subdisciplines and is also a good refresher for more advanced scholars. * Design Issues *In totality [Design Studies is] more than just a teaching or study resource. As [it] advocate[s] that the production, consumption and mediation of designed objects and images affect everyone, [it] will be of interest to both informed and general readerships... [A great strength of Design Studies is] the effective demonstration that design analysis and history is not an elitist, purely academic pursuit, but essential to consideration of society and its cultural expressions in the very broadest sense. -- Linda King, The Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland * Artefact - Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians *Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction, Hazel Clark and David Brody SECTION I: HISTORY OF DESIGN Section Introduction I.1: DESIGN HISTORIES Part Introduction 1. Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Design 2. Adrian Forty, Design, Designers and the Literature of Design 3. Matthew Turner, Early Modern Design in Hong Kong 4. Lucila Fernández Uriate, Modernity and Postmodernity from Cuba I.2: DESIGN HISTORY AS A DISCIPLINE Part Introduction 5. Victor Margolin, Design History and Design Studies 6. John Walker, Defining the Object of Study 7. Judy Attfield, FORM/female FOLLOWS FUNCTION/male 8. Denise Whitehouse, The State of Design History as a Discipline Annotated Guide to Further Reading SECTION II: DESIGN THINKING Section Introduction II.1: DESIGN PHILOSOPHIES AND THEORIES Part Introduction 9. Buckminster Fuller, Speculative Prehistory of Humanity 10. John Chris Jones, What is Designing? 11. Louis Bucciarelli, Designing Engineers 12. Henry Petroski, Success and Failure in Design 13. Richard Buchanan, Wicked Problems in Design Thinking II.2: DESIGN RESEARCH Part Introduction 14. Herbert Simon, Understanding the Natural and Artificial Worlds 15. Donald Schön, Designing; Rules, Types and Worlds 16. Susan Squires, Discovery Research II: 3 DESIGN COMMUNICATIONS Part Introduction 17. Eric van Schaak, The Division of Pictorial Publicity in World War I 18. D.J Huppatz, Globalizing Corporate Identity in Hong Kong 19. Shirley Teresa Wajda, Kmartha Annotated Guide to Further Reading SECTION III: THEORIZING DESIGN AND VISUALITY Section Introduction III.1: AESTHETICS Part Introduction 20. Arthur C. Danto, Aesthetics and the Work of Art 21. Jean Baudrillard, Design and Environment 22. Reyner Banham, Taking it with You III.2: ETHICS Part Introduction 23. Zygmunt Bauman, In the Beginning was Design 24. Susan Szenasy, Ethical Design Education 25. AIGA/Rick Poyner, First Things First 2000 26. Clive Dilnot, Ethics in Design: 10 Questions III.3: POLITICS Part Introduction 27. Karl Marx, The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof 28. Pierre Bourdieu, The Aesthetic Sense and the Sense of Distinction 29. Naomi Klein, No Logo 30. Dick Hebdige, Subculture and Style 31. John Stones, Incendiary Devices 32. Gui Bonsiepe, Design and Democracy III.4 MATERIAL CULTURE AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS Part Introduction 33. Jules Prown , Mind in Matter 34. Daniel Miller , The Artefact as Manufactured Object 35. Michel Foucault, Panopticism 36. Michel de Certeau, Walking in the City 37. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Annotated Guide to Further Reading SECTION IV: IDENTITY AND CONSUMPTION Section Introduction IV.1: VIRTUAL IDENTITY AND DESIGN Part Introduction 38. Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto 39. Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman, Introducing Cybernetic Systems 40. Justin Clark, Get a Life 41. Gavin O'Malley, American Apparel IV.2: GENDER AND DESIGN Part Introduction 42. Cheryl Buckley, Made in Patriarchy 43. Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes, Life on the Global Assembly Line 44. Hazel Clark The Difference of Female Design IV.3: CONSUMPTION Part Introduction 45. Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood, Technology and Consumption 46. Daniel Harris, Quaintness 47. Sarah Lichtman, Do-It-Yourself Security 48. W.F. Haug, Critique of Commodity Aesthetics 49. Heike Jenß, Fashioning Uniqueness: Mass-Customization and Commodization of Identity Annotated Guide to Further Reading SECTION V: LABOR, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY Section Introduction V.1: LABOR AND THE PRODUCTION OF DESIGN Part Introduction 50. John Styles, Manufacturing Consumption and Design 51. Paul du Gay, et al, The Sony Walkman 52. Stuart Walker, Integration of Scale V.2: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND POST INDUSTRIALIZATION Part Introduction 53. David Brett, Drawing and the Ideology of Industrialization 54. Margaret Crawford, The 'New' Company Town 55. Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management 56. Abraham Moles, Design and Immateriality V.3: NEW DESIGN AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES Part Introduction 57. Bradley Quinn, Hussein Chalayan, Fashion and Technology 58. Donald Norman, What's Wrong with the PC? 59. Vicente Rafael, The Cell Phone and the Crowd 60. Theodor Adorno, Do Not Knock Annotated Guide to Further Reading SECTION VI: DESIGN AND GLOBAL ISSUES Section Introduction VI.1: GLOBALIZATION Part Introduction 61. Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large 62. Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Globalism, Nationalism, and Design 63. Guy Julier, Responses to Globalisation VI.2: EQUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Part Introduction 64. Kate Stohr, Self-Help and Sites-and Services Programs 65. John Hockenberry, The Re-Education of Michael Graves 66. Ezio Manzini, A Cosmopolitan Localism 67. Earl Tai, Design Justice VI.3: SUSTAINABILITY Part Introduction 68. William McDonough and Michael Braungart, A Question of Design 69. Victor Papanek, Designing for a Safe Future 70. Trish Lorenz, British Designers Accused of Creating Throw-Away Culture Annotated Guide to Further Reading SECTION VII: DESIGN THINGS Section Introduction 71. Wava Carpenter, The Eames Lounge: The Difference between a Design Icon and Mere Furniture 72. Dipti Bhagat, The Tube Map (The London Underground Map) 73. Susan Yelavich, Swatch 74. Catherine Walsh, Architecture and Cultural Identity: The Case of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur 75. R. Roger Remington, Helvetica: Love it or Leave it 76. Shirley Teresa Wajda, The Architect and the Teakettle 77. Greg Votolato, Bullets and Beyond (The Shinkanzen) 78. Alison Gill, Sneakers 79. Bess Williamson, The Bicycle: Considering Design in Use 80. Gerard Goggin, Cell Phone Annotated Guide to Further Reading Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis second edition of Cultural Theory provides a concise introduction to cultural theory, placing major figures, traditional concepts, and contemporary themes within a sharp conceptual framework. Provides a student-friendly introduction to what can often be a complex field of study Updates the first edition in response to reader feedback and to the changing nature of the field Includes additional coverage of theorists from the classical period to include Nietzsche and DuBois Introduces entirely new chapters on race and gender theory, and the body Considers themes that have become more important in theoretical activity in recent years such as computers and virtual reality, cosmopolitanism, and performance theory Draws on theories and theorists from continental Europe as well as the English-speaking world Trade Review"Highly recommended to anyone interested in acquiring a theoretical basis on which to systematize their knowledge of cultural theory. Indeed, the authors manage to make the complex simple enough to understand without oversimplifying." (Discourse Studies, 2010) "Presenting such a wide-ranging and multifarious set of ideas in a coherent manner constitutes a very considerable achievement. The book offers anyone interested in cultural theory a broad conspectus—provided of course it is read as a whole." (Metapsychology Online Reviews, February 2009)Table of ContentsPreface to the First Edition: About this Book vi Preface to the Second Edition ix Acknowledgments x Introduction: What is Culture? What is Cultural Theory? 1 1 Culture in Classical Social Theory 6 2 Culture and Social Integration in the Work of Talcott Parsons 26 3 Culture as Ideology in Western Marxism 34 4 Culture as Action in Symbolic Interactionism, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology 54 5 The Durkheimians: Ritual, Classification, and the Sacred 69 6 Structuralism and the Semiotic Analysis of Culture 92 7 The Poststructural Turn 111 8 Culture, Structure, and Agency: Three Attempts at Synthesis 128 9 British Cultural Studies 144 10 The Production and Reception of Culture 158 11 Culture as Text: Narrative and Hermeneutics 176 12 Psychoanalytic Approaches to Culture and the Self 195 13 The Cultural Analysis of Postmodernism and Postmodernity 207 14 Postmodern and Poststructural Critical Theory 228 15 Cultural Theories of Race and Gender 241 16 The Body in Cultural Theory 262 References 280 Index 296

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Book SynopsisThis book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising and working. It is an invaluable resource for students and contains features such as Reflection Boxes and Talk Boxes to encourage classroom and workplace discussions.Trade Review"In this revised and expanded edition Garrett offers a rich and insightful exploration of essential social theory for social work which will be a vital resource for social work educators and students." Liz Beddoe, Associate Professor, University of Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand"Paul Michael Garrett’s excellent book has already become a social work classic. His work not only skilfully navigates complex theoretical debates but it also bridges the persistent and pervasive gap between social work theory and practice." Vasilios Ioakimidis, Professor of Social Work, University of Essex, England“The second edition of Garrett’s insightful text provides a solid conceptual foundation for the development of critical social work at a time when it is more necessary than ever.” Michael Reisch, Daniel Thursz Distinguished Professor of Social Justice, School of Social Work, University of Maryland, US“A necessary and important book that explains with passion, wit and insight the links between social theory and social work practice; it will be invaluable to students and practitioners alike.” Gary Walker, Principal Lecturer, Childhood and Early Years, Leeds Beckett University"Paul Michael Garrett is one of the most respected and prolific social work scholars writing on neoliberalism, the welfare state and social work… Social work scholars who recognize the importance of critical social theory and want to engage their students in 'bigger picture' debates should foreground this book in their reading lists as it is an absolutely vital teaching aid prompting debate on an complex array of issues impacting on social work and, more broadly, social policy. Scholarly and passionate, Social Work and Social Theory is an excellent book which will strengthen critical and radical social work thought and nurture stimulating debates in, and beyond, the profession." Critical Social PolicyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part One: Debating modernity; `How to be modern’: Theorising modernity `Solid’ Modernity & `Liquid’ Modernity; Modernity and Capitalism; Modernity, neoliberalism, crisis; Part Two: Theorists; Thinking with Antonio Gramsci; Thinking with Pierre Bourdieu; Thinking with Jürgen Habermas; Thinking with Michel Foucault; Thinking with Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser; Alternative Directions? Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri and Italian Autonomist Marxism, Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello; Conclusion: Looking for the `blue’.

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Book SynopsisThis key text offers the first overview of the strengths-based approach in social work from the UK perspective. Covering the five main models of strengths-based practice, with case studies and practical guidance on theory into practice, the text enables students and practitioners to apply the benefits in their own social work practice.Table of Contents1. An Introduction to Strengths-Based Approaches: Inclusive and Respectful Practice – Deanna Edwards and Kate Parkinson 2. Theoretical Context for the Strengths-Based Approach – Kate Parkinson and Deanna Edwards 3. Solution-Focused Practice – Guy Shennan 4. Family Group Conferences – Kate Parkinson, Deanna Edwards and Will Golden 5. Signs of Safety – Lauren Bailey and Steve Myers 6. Multisystemic Therapy – Simone Fox, Mhairi Fleming and Anne Edmondson 7. A Narrative Approach to Social Work – Michaela Rogers and Jennifer Cooper 8. Strengths-Based Approaches in Adult Social Care – Sarah Pollock and Alex Withers 9. Strengths-Based Approaches in Mental Health Services – Emily Weygang 10. People With Lived Experience of Strengths-Based Approaches – Deanna Edwards, Kate Parkinson and People With Lived Experience 11. Conclusion – Deanna Edwards and Kate Parkinson

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Book SynopsisThis book explores tax and social policy and how they interact with each other. It covers key interactions, debates and challenges of tax and social policy and examines how analyses might be combined and policy options developed for effective delivery in both areas.Table of Contents1. Introduction – Andy Lymer, Margaret May and Adrian Sinfield 2. Fiscal and Social Policy: Two Sides of the Same Coin – Chris Pond 3. Tax and the Social Policy Landscape – Andy Lymer 4. Fiscal Welfare and Tax Expenditures – Adrian Sinfield 5. Employment, Self-Employment and Taxation – Kevin Caraher and Enrico Reuter 6. Pensions and Taxation – Micheál Collins and Andy Lymer 7. Tax, Benefits and Household Income – SD McKay 8. Taxation, Health and Social Care – Sally Ruane 9. Homes, Housing and Taxation – James Gregory, Andy Lymer and Carlene Wynter 10. Wealth Taxation: The Case for Reform – Karen Rowlingson 11. Gender and Taxation – Susan Himmelweit 12. Taxation and Local Taxes – Michael Orton 13. Corporate Tax and Corporate Welfare – Kevin Farnsworth 14. The Climate Crisis and Taxation – Paul D. Bridgen and Milena Büchs 15. Conclusions – Andy Lymer, Margaret May and Adrian Sinfield

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together findings and insights on innovation in the practice, research and education of social work, with a particular focus on the role of participation, collaboration and co-creation as key drivers of social innovation in these fields.

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Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about sex and the body, and the relations between economic exchange and death. Most significantly, the book represents Baudrillard′s fullest elaboration of the concept of the three orders of the simulacra, defining the historical passage from production to reproduction to simulation. A classic in its field, Symbolic Exchange and Death is a key source for the redefinition of contemporary social thought. Baudrillard′s critical gaze appraises social theories as diverse as cybernetics, ethnography, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, communications theory and semiotics. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.

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Book SynopsisHow did rescue dogs become status symbols? Why are luxury brands losing their cachet? What’s made F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous observations obsolete? The answers are part of a new revolution that’s radically reorganizing the way we view ourselves and others, that “will be hard for pop-culture readers to put down” (Booklist).Status was once easy to identify—fast cars, fancy shoes, sprawling estates, elite brands. But in place of Louboutins and Lamborghinis, the relevance of the rich, famous, and gauche is waning and a riveting revolution is underfoot. Chuck Thompson—dubbed “savagely funny” by The New York Times and “wickedly entertaining” by the San Francisco Chronicle—sets out to determine what “status” means today and learns that what was once considered the low life has become the high life. In The Status Revolution, Thompson tours the new world of status from a small community in British Columbia where an indigenous artist uses wood carving to restore communal status; to a Washington, DC, meeting of the “Patriotic Millionaires,” a club of high-earners who are begging the government to tax them; to a luxury auto factory in the south of Italy where making beautiful cars is as much about bringing dignity to a low-earning region than it is about flash and indulgence; to a London lab where the neural secrets of status are being unlocked. “Chock-full of fascinating revelations” (In Touch Weekly) and with his signature wit and irreverence, Thompson explains why everything we know about status is changing, upends centuries of conventional wisdom, and shows how the new status revolution reflects our place in contemporary society.

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Book SynopsisThe days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and experience but are instead reduced to the echo chambers and illusory encounters offered by social media. In extreme cases, this feeling of disorientation and senselessness is compensated through self-harm, or even harming others through acts of terrorism. Byung-Chul Han argues that our times are characterized not by external repression but by an internal depression, whereby the destructive pressure comes not from the Other but from the self. It is only by returning to a society of listeners and lovers, by acknowledging and desiring the Other, that we can seek to overcome the isolation and suffering caused by this crushing process of total assimilation.Trade Review"No other philosophical author today has gone further than Byung-Chul Han in the analysis of our global everyday existence under the challenges of electronically induced hyper-communication. His latest - and again eminently readable - book concentrates on the "Terror of Sameness", that is on a life without events and individual otherness, as an environment to which we react with depression. What makes the intellectual difference in this analysis of sameness is the mastery with which Han brings into play the classics of our philosophical tradition and, through them, historical worlds that provide us with horizons of existential otherness."Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Stanford University"The new star of German philosophy."El País"The Expulsion of the Other has the classic Byung-Chul Han 'sound,' an evocative tone which powerfully draws the reader in. ... With imperturbable serenity he brings together instances from everyday life and great catastrophes."Süddeutsche Zeitung"Han's congenial mastery of thought opens up areas we had long believed to be lost."Die Tagespost“Accessible and stimulating analysis”MetapsychologyTable of ContentsThe Terror of the Same The Violence of the Global and Terrorism The Terror of Authenticity Anxiety Thresholds Alienation Counter-body Gaze Voice The Language of the Other The Thinking of the Other Listening Notes

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Book SynopsisShortly 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. As in Bauman’s work more generally, the personal and the political are interwoven in this book. Bauman’s life, which followed the same trajectory as the social and political upheavals of the 20th century, left its trace on his thought. Bauman describes his upbringing in Poland, military service in the Red Army, working for the Polish Secret Service after the war and expulsion from Poland in 1968, providing personal accounts of the historical events on which he brings his social and political insights to bear. His reflections on history, identity, Jewishness, morality, happiness and love are rooted in his own personal journey through the turbulent events of the 20th century to which he bore witness. These last conversations shed new light on one of the greatest social thinkers of our time, offering a more personal perspective on a man who changed our way of thinking about the modern world.Trade Review"Making the Familiar Unfamiliar could have been the opening episodes of one of the world’s greatest podcasts—if Bauman had lived long enough to continue his conversation with Swiss journalist Peter Haffner."Shepherd Express

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Book SynopsisThis book dissects the complex social, cultural and political factors which led the UK to take its decision to leave the EU and examines the far-reaching consequences of that decision. Developing the conceptual framework of securitization, Ryder innovatively uses primary sources and a focus on rhetoric to examine the ways that political elites engineered a politics of fear, insecurity and Brexit nationalism before and after the Brexit vote. He situates Brexit within a wider shift in international political ideas, traces the resurgence in popularity of far-right politics and explores how Britain and Europe now face a choice between further neoliberal reform or radical democratic and social renewal.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Paradigm shift, reflexivity and securitisation Brexit Nationalism: History, Crisis and Identity The Road to Brexit Politics in Focus: The Conservatives Politics in Focus: Labour The Nationalists: Exclusionary and Civic Brexit: Views from Europe Boris Johnson: Getting Brexit done? Antidotes to Brexit

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, and meanings of religion. Scholars from the US, South Asia and Europe explore religious phenomena using ethnographic, comparative historical, psychosocial, and critical theoretical approaches. Each chapter addresses foundational themes in the study of religion – from identity, discourse and power to ritual, emotion, and embodiment. Authors examine dynamic intersections of race, gender, history, and the present within the religious traditions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism, as well as among the non-religious. Cutting boldly across religious traditions and paradigms, the book investigates areas of harmony and contradiction across different interpretive lenses to achieve a richer understanding of the meanings of religion.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Interpretive Approaches in the Study of Religion ~ Erin F. Johnston 1. Making Sense of Queer Christian Lives ~ Jodi O'Brien 2. Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Religion, Spirituality and Ritual among Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors ~ Janet Jacobs 3. Doing It: Ethnography, Embodiment, and the Interpretation of Religion ~ Daniel Winchester 4. Mind the Gap: What Ethnographic Silences Can Teach Us ~ Rebecca Kneale Gould 5. The Public Sphere and Presentations of the Collective Self: Being Shia in Modern India ~ Aseem Hasnain 6. Meaning and Power: Toward a Critical Discursive Sociology of Religion ~ Titus Hjelm 7. The Religion of White Male Ethnonationalism in a Multicultural Reality ~ George Lundskow 8. Totalitarianism as Religion ~ Yong Wang 9. The Heritage Spectrum: A More Inclusive Typology for the Age of Global Buddhism ~ Jessica Marie Falcone 10. Interpreting Nonreligion ~ Evan Stewart Afterword: Approaching Religions – Some Refl ections on Meaning, Identity, and Power ~ Vikash Singh

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Book SynopsisErich Fromm was one of the most influential and creative public intellectuals of the twentieth century. He was a mentor to David Riesman and an inspiration for the New Left. As the rise of global right-wing populism and Trumpism creates new interest in the kind of psycho-social writing and popular sociology that Fromm pioneered in the 1930s, this timely book tells the story of the rise, fall and contemporary revival of Fromm’s theories. Drawing from empirical work, this is an invaluable contribution to popular debates about current politics, the sociology of ideas and the prospect of a truly global public sociology.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Erich Fromm’s Global Public Sociology 1 Sociology in a World at War: Escape from Freedom 2 How Optimal Marginality Created a Public Sociologist 3 The Cold War, Conformity, and the 1960s 4 How Fromm Became a Forgotten Public Sociologist 5 Fromm’s Political Activism in the 1960s 6 Studying Social Character and Theorizing Violence Conclusion: The Revival of a Global Public Sociologist

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Book SynopsisMarx argued that capitalist society acts against the core capacities, skills and talents of human beings, and that it also limits their realisation or channels them into activities related to profit rather than need. Bringing Marx’s theory of alienation forward to the present day, this book uniquely links it to health and well-being. Using case studies and vignettes of workers across different industries, it reveals their lived experiences, offering crucial insights into the insidious ways in which capitalism continues to damage human well-being. This is a resounding call for how society can change for the better.Table of ContentsPreface 1. What is Alienation? 2. Responding to Criticisms of Alienation Theory 3. Alienation and Wellbeing 4. Case Study: Social workers, the Compassionate Self, and Disappointed Jugglers 5. Is Alienation Theory Still Relevant? 6. Beyond Alienation?

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Book SynopsisThe idea of public sociology, as introduced by Michael Burawoy, was inspired by the sociological practice in South Africa known as ‘critical engagement’. This volume explores the evolution of critical engagement before and after Burawoy’s visit to South Africa in the 1990s and offers a Southern critique of his model of public sociology. Involving four generations of researchers from the Global South, the authors provide a multifaceted exploration of the formation of new knowledge through research practices of co-production. Tracing the historical development of ‘critical engagement’ from a Global South perspective, the book deftly weaves a bridge between the debates on public sociology and decolonial frameworks.Table of Contents1. Critical Engagement in South Africa and the Global South: An Introduction - Andries Bezuidenhout, Sonwabile Mnwana and Karl von Holdt 2. Critical Engagement and SWOP’s Changing Research Tradition - Andries Bezuidenhout and Karl von Holdt 3. Choosing Sides: The Promise and Pitfalls of a Critically Engaged Sociology in Apartheid South Africa - Edward Webster 4. The Decline of Labour Studies and the Democratic Transition - Sakhela Buhlungu 5. From ‘Critical Engagement’ to ‘Public Sociology’ and Back: A Critique from the South - Karl von Holdt 6. The Antinomies and Opportunities of Critical Engagement in South Africa’s Rural Mining Frontier - Sonwabile Mnwana 7. Sociological Engagement with the Struggle for a Just Transition in South Africa - Jacklyn Cock 8. Feminist Participatory Action Research in African Sex Work Studies - Ntokozo Yingwana 9. Participatory Action Research for Food Justice in Johannesburg: Seeking a More Immediate Impact for Engaged Research - Brittany Kesselman 10. Dilemmas and Issues Confronting Socially Engaged Research within Universities - Aninka Claassens and Nokwanda Sihlali 11. Experiences of Meetings and Cooperation between Academics and Unions: The Work Studies Group from the South (GETSUR) - Dasten Julián Vejar 12. Critically Engaging Public Sociology in Turkey and 'Sociology across the South' - Ercüment Çelik 13. Reflections on Critical Engagement - Michael Burawoy 14 Conclusion: Towards a Southern Sociology - Karl von Holdt

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Book Synopsis The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Classical Sociological Theory, Eighth Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought from the Enlightenment roots of theory through the early 20th century. The integration of key theories with biographical sketches of theorists and the requisite historical and intellectual context helps students to better understand the original works of classical authors as well as to compare and contrast classical theories.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments About the Authors Part I: Introduction to Classical Sociological Theory Chapter 1: A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years Introduction Premodern Sociological Theory Social Forces in the Development of Sociological Theory Intellectual Forces and the Rise of Sociological Theory The Development of French Sociology The Development of German Sociology The Origins of British Sociology The Key Figure in Early Italian Sociology Non-European Classical Theory The Contemporary Relevance of Classical Sociological Theory Summary Chapter 2: A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years Early American Sociological Theory Sociological Theory to Midcentury Sociological Theory from Midcentury Late Twentieth-Century Integrative Theory Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century Summary Part II: Classical Sociological Theory Chapter 3: Alexis de Tocqueville Comparative Study American Politics The Sociology in Tocqueville’s Work The Key Sociological Problem(s) Freedom, Democracy, and Socialism Colonialism Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 4: Auguste Comte Comte’s Profound Ambitions Comte’s Sociology Theory and Practice Criticisms and Contributions Summary Chapter 5: Herbert Spencer Spencer and Comte General Theoretical Principles Sociology The Evolution of Society Ethics and Politics Criticisms and Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 6: Karl Marx Introduction The Dialectic Dialectical Method Human Potential The Structures of Capitalist Society Materialist Conception of History Cultural Aspects of Capitalist Society Marx’s Economics: A Case Study Communism Criticisms Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 7: Emile Durkheim Introduction Social Facts The Division of Labor in Society Suicide The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Moral Education and Social Reform Criticisms Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 8: Max Weber Methodology Substantive Sociology Criticisms Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 9: Georg Simmel Primary Concerns Individual Consciousness and Individuality Social Interaction (“Association”) Social Structures and Worlds Objective Culture The Philosophy of Money Secrecy: A Case Study in Simmel’s Sociology Criticisms Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 10: Early Women Sociologists and Classical Sociological Theory: 1830–1930 Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) Jane Addams (1860–1935) and the Chicago Women’s School Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964) and Ida Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) Marianne Schnitger Weber (1870–1954) Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943) Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 11: W. E. B. Du Bois Intellectual Influences Studying Race Scientifically: The Philadelphia Negro Theoretical Contributions Economics Karl Marx, Socialism, and Communism Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 12: Thorstein Veblen Intellectual Influences Basic Premises Substantive Issues Criticisms and Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 13: Joseph Schumpeter Creative Destruction Schumpeter’s Broader Economic Theory Toward a More Dynamic Theory of the Economy Schumpeter’s Sociology The Future Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 14: Karl Mannheim The Sociology of Knowledge Ideology and Utopia Rationality and the Irrationality of the Times Criticisms and Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 15: George Herbert Mead Intellectual Roots The Priority of the Social The Act Mental Processes and the Mind Self Society Criticisms and Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 16: Alfred Schutz The Ideas of Edmund Husserl Science and the Social World Typifications and Recipes The Life-World Intersubjectivity Realms of the Social World Consciousness, Meanings, and Motives Criticisms and Contemporary Applications Summary Chapter 17: Talcott Parsons Parsons’s Integrative Efforts General Principles The Action System Change and Dynamism in Parsonsian Theory Criticisms and Contemporary Applications Summary References Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisImagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistanhas been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion—the era that propelledAfghanistan into the center of global media visibility. Through an analysis offiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates thatwriting and screening "Afghanistan" has become a conduit for understanding ourshared post-9/11 condition. "Afghanistan" serves as a lens through whichcontemporary cultural producers contend with the moral ambiguities of twenty-first-centuryhumanitarianism, interpret the legacy of the Cold War, debate the role of theU.S. in the rise of transnational terror, and grapple with the long-term impactof war on both human and nonhuman ecologies.Post-9/11 global Afghanistan literary productionremains largely NATO-centric insofar as it is marked by an uncriticalinvestment in humanitarianism as an approach to Third World suffering and inanti-communism as an unquestioned premise. The book's first half exposes how persistinganti-socialist biases—including anti-statist bias—not only shaped recent literaryand visual texts on Afghanistan, resulting in a distorted portrayal of itstragic history, but also informed these texts' reception by critics. In thebook's second half, the author examines cultural texts that challenge thislimited horizon and forge alternative ways of representing traumatic histories.Captured by the author through the concepts of deep time, nonhuman witness, andwar as a multispecies ecology, these new aesthetics bring readers asophisticated portrait of Afghanistan as a rich multispecies habitat affectedin dramatic ways by decades of war but not annihilated.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Global Afghanistan 1. Humanitarian Sublime and the Politics of Pity: Writing and Screening "Afghanistan" Circa 2001 2. Imagining the Soviets: The Faustian Bargain of Khaled Hosseini's Kabul "Trilogy" 3. Humanitarian Jihad: Unearthing the Contemporary in the Narratives of the Long 1979 4. Witness: Modes of Writing the Disaster 5. The Deep Time of War: Nadeem Aslam and the Aesthetics of the Geologic Turn 6. The Kabubble: The Humanitarian Community Under Scrutiny Conclusion: The End of an Era Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today’s intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatization, precarity is the fate for growing numbers of the world’s population. Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender influence aging.The book’s entries offer a bibliographic compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social, behavioral, policy, and gene–environment sciences) that currently advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of marginalized populations.Trade Review"A central purpose of Aging A-Z is to demonstrate the pervasiveness and (often unacknowledged) impact of theory, and the need to deliberately re-engage theory with practice….The book is infused with a clear mandate for theoretically informed action, in service of social justice and emancipation. The novelty of A-Z lies in the format and features which guide readers on a path to exploring sources and implications of concepts and theories they use while understanding consequences for practice."Examples of how A-Z concepts can be aggregated and targeted for greatest relevance are demonstrated for two practice disciplines (nursing and social work) and several specific areas of study." Barbara Bowers in The GerontologistMonumental in scope, painstaking in detail, penetrating in depth and really accessible in style, this is the book to refer to for anyone interested in what aging means for society, and how much more it could mean if radically new policies were introduced by governments. Written with an enthralling vibrancy and heartfelt dedication to critical analysis, Estes and DiCarlo have performed a near miraculous feat in crafting the essential source for both newcomers to the ageing field and more experienced hands. Congratulations to them both. I could not recommend this book more strongly. Alan Walker, Professor of Social Policy & Social Gerontology, University of Sheffield (UK)The authors provide an unusual and welcomed project to infuse critical sociology and political economy to the study of gerontology. The encyclopedic entries are well written (and fun) to read. Highly creative, refreshing, and compelling. Teresa Ghilarducci, New School for Social Research, and coauthor of Rescuing Retirement: A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All AmericansWhatever depth of knowledge and expertise one already possesses, and whatever perspective one brings to the study and understanding of aging, it can be guaranteed that every reader will find much that is new and provocative in Aging A-Z. For scholars, policymakers and others interested in the future possibilities of age and aging, this book’s breadth and the extensive range of concepts is both challenging and inspiring.Dale Dannefer, Selah Chamberlain Professor of Sociology, Case Western Reserve UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. I. Opening. II. Why Aging A-Z now? III. Critical Concepts. IV. Closing. V. Appendix (Only only)

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Book SynopsisA lively, thoughtful history of America's Jews, exploring their complex relationships with national culture, identity, and politics-and each other. You can be called a Bad Jew-by the community or even yourself-if you don't keep kosher, don't send your children to Hebrew school, or enjoy Christmas music; if your partner isn't Jewish, or you don't call your mother enough. But today, amid fears of rising antisemitism, what makes a Good or Bad Jew is a particularly fraught question. There is no answer, argues Emily Tamkin. Several million now identify as American Jews; but they don't all identify with one another. American Jewish history, like all Jewish history, has been about transformation-and full of discussions, debates and hand-wringing over who is Jewish, how to be Jewish, and what it means to be Jewish. Bad Jews is a rich, absorbing reflection on 100 years of American Jewish identities and arguments. Tamkin's fascinating, diverse interviews explore the complex story of American Jewishness, and its evolving, conflicting positions, from assimilation, race, and social justice; to politics, Zionism, and Israel. She pinpoints the one truth about Jewish identity: It's always changing.Trade Review'Journalist Tamkin illuminates in this vibrant study the multifaceted nature of the Jewish experience in America...Heartfelt, nuanced, and empathetic, this revelatory ethnography is a must-read.' * Publishers Weekly, starred review * 'Engaging...reflects the author's experience as a skilled journalist and storyteller.' * Kirkus Reviews * 'Emily Tamkin's Bad Jews is a fascinating and compelling exploration of Jewish American history, and the fault lines that have divided every generation of American Jews along lines of class, ethnicity, theology and ideology. Thoughtful and moving, Tamkin's own personal journey anchors the reader through complexities that few others are willing to contemplate. And as Tamkin shows, to answer the question "who are the bad Jews?" is, more than a description of others, to define oneself and what it means to be Jewish.' -- Adam Serwer, author of The Cruelty Is the Point 'Anything Emily Tamkin writes will be thoughtful, well-researched, and engaging. Her new book is no exception. It grabs you from page one and every time I put it down, it was with reluctance. This book is so smart, timely, and relevant, that you forget Tamkin is sounding a clarion bell about the very real dangers of our time.' -- Celeste Headlee, author of Speaking of Race 'With compelling narrative and piercing historical analysis, Emily Tamkin grapples with the big questions of group identity and authenticity and their relationship to inclusion in a diverse nation. She invites readers on a journey of the Jewish experience in the United States and explores the ways culture, intolerance, and perseverance have shaped it. An essential commentary on identity and belonging in America, Tamkin's Bad Jews is necessary reading for a changing country struggling to live its creed.' -- Theodore Johnson, author of When the Stars Began to Fall 'Like the host of the world's greatest Passover seder, Emily Tamkin invites everyone in-the idealists, the skeptics, and the dreamers-and gets them talking about all the thorniest issues. With curiosity, chutzpah, and a lot of heart, Bad Jews welcomes us all into the conversation American Jews need to have right now.' -- Josh Lambert, Sophia Moses Robison Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English, Wellesley College, author of The Literary Mafia and co-editor of How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish 'The world may think that Jews are a homogeneous group. They are anything but. Tamkin's compelling narrative illuminates as it entertains, distilling Jewish in-fighting to the bone in the process. An essential read.' -- Keren McGinity, author of Still Jewish 'To take stock of one's own people as a journalist and historian is no simple task, but Emily Tamkin rises to the occasion with aplomb. In Bad Jews, Tamkin has pieced together a vital, sober, and - most importantly - empathic accounting of the American Jewish story. The volume of Tamkin's research was clearly astounding, and it pays off in the form of a book that is both eminently readable and appropriately provocative. Whether you're Jew or Gentile, radical or conservative, kosher or lobster-loving, Bad Jews is sure to enthral and educate you.' -- Abe Riesman, author of True Believer

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Book SynopsisIn this incisive account, leading scholar of Islamophobia Deepa Kumar traces the history of anti-Muslim racism from the early modern era to the "War on Terror." Importantly, Kumar contends that Islamophobia is best understood as racism rather than as religious intolerance. An innovative analysis of anti-Muslim racism and empire, Islamophobia argues that empire creates the conditions for anti-Muslim racism, which in turn sustains empire.This book, now updated to include the end of the Trump's presidency, offers a clear and succinct explanation of how Islamophobia functions in the United States both as a set of coercive policies and as a body of ideas that take various forms: liberal, conservative, and rightwing. The matrix of anti-Muslim racism charts how various institutions-the media, think tanks, the foreign policy establishment, the university, the national security apparatus, and the legal sphere-produce and circulate this particular form of bigotry. Anti-Muslim racism not only has horrific consequences for people in Muslim-majority countries who become the targets of an endless War on Terror, but for Muslims and those who "look Muslim" in the West as well.Trade ReviewIn this deftly argued book, Kumar unearths a genealogy of colonial construction that goes back to the earliest contacts between Muslims and Europeans. But the real power of her argument is when she grabs the politics of ideological domination by the throat and, with an astonishing moral and intellectual force, sets the record straight as to who and what the players are in turning a pathological fear of Muslims into a cornerstone of imperial hegemony. This is a must read on both sides of the Atlantic, where from mass murderers in Europe to military professors at the US military academies are in the business of manufacturing fictive enemies out of their fanciful delusions. Deepa Kumar has performed a vital public service. -- Hamid Dabashi * Columbia University, and author of The Arab Spring *In this remarkable primer Deepa Kumar expertly shows how racism is central to contemporary US imperial politics. An antiracist and antiwar activist, as well as a model scholar-teacher, Kumar has written a comprehensive and most readable guide to exposing and opposing the hatred of Islam. -- Gilbert Achcar * University of London and author, The Arabs and the Holocaust *This is a timely and crucial book. From historical roots to ideological causes, Islamophobia is studied in a holistic, profound and serious way. The reader will understand why we need to stop being both naive and blind. There will be no peaceful and just future in our democratic societies if we do not fight this new type of dangerous racism. -- Tariq Ramadan * Oxford University *Indispensable to anyone wanting to understand one of the most persistent forms of racism in the US and Europe. Kumar demonstrates that Islamophobic myths did not arise spontaneously after the end of the Cold War but are rooted in centuries of conquest and colonialism, from the Crusades to the 'War on Terror'. Kumar's text will be a crucial corrective to those who fail to see that the origins of the 'Islam problem' lie in empire not sharia -- Arun Kudnani * author of The Muslims Are coming! *[Kumar's] innovative understanding of Islamophobia raises important and wide-ranging questions about empire, the 'war on terror' and its inherent contradictions. -- Mariana Vieira * International Affairs *Table of ContentsTOC:Foreword, by Nadine NaberPreface to the Revised Second EditionIntroduction: Islamophobia Is Anti-Muslim Racism 1. Empire, Race, Orientalism: The Case of Spain, Britain, and France 2. The United States, Orientalism, and Modernization3. The Ideology of Islamophobia4. “Good” and “Bad” Muslims: The Foreign Policy Establishment and the “Islamic Threat” 5. Empire’s Changing Clothes: Bush, Obama, Trump6. Terrorizing Muslims: Domestic Security and the Racialized Threat 7. The New McCarthyites: The Right-wing Islamophobia Network and Their Liberal EnablersConclusion: Empire and the Matrix of Anti-Muslim RacismAcknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisNationally and internationally, we are being driven to reflect on how to respond to a changing world. Globally, the UN has presented its Sustainable Development Goals that include a commitment to the importance of learning (Goal 4). Considering what this means for the way we think about learning and how we see ourselves as learners, Learning Allowed builds a foundation for strengthening learner ‘connectivity’ whoever and wherever we are. Through an analysis of the existing discourses that have framed our approaches to education, Learning Allowed highlights a system that has lost touch with the individual and a desire to maximise learner potential, with implications for any lifelong motivations and ambitions for learning. In response to the myriad of technological, social, environmental and health changes, Learning Allowed presents a case for investing explicitly in a learner’s sense of value, voice and vision in the context of a lifelong learning journey. Drawing on thinking from Childhood Studies and looking at its broader application in light of research from education studies, Frankel and Whalley focus on learner voice and participation, raising awareness about what learning is and how this is connected with emotional wellbeing, and the processes of learning. Learning Allowed acts as a catalyst to schools, homes and spaces beyond to reconsider notions of learning and the learner and look to re-present them.Table of ContentsForeword; Hugh Greenway Chapter 1. We need to talk about...allowing learning! Chapter 2. An approach - to allowing learning The Connected Learner in Theory Chapter 3. Who is a learner? Chapter 4. What is learning for? Chapter 5. How we can allow learning: Impact of self and ‘other’ on our learning identities The Connected Learning in Practice Introducing the Connected Learner in Practice Chapter 6. Power up your thinking Chapter 7. ‘L’ - nurture a ‘Learn to be’ culture Chapter 8. U Unify your language Chapter 9. Grow meaningful opportunities Chapter 10. INspire lead learners Chapter 11. The Individual as a Connected Learner Chapter 12. Enduring connections - learning allowed

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Book SynopsisThe Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Different political and economic conditions transform the way in which the Unconscious emerges within the "psychosphere" of society. In the early 20th century, Freud characterized the Unconscious as the dark side of the well-order framework of Progress and Reason. At the end of the past century, Deleuze and Guattari described it as a laboratory: the magmatic force ceaselessly bringing to the fore new possibilities of imagination. Today, at a time of viral pandemics and in the midst of the catastrophic collapse of capitalism, the Unconscious has begun to emerge in yet another form. In this book, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi vividly portraits the form in which the Unconscious will make itself manifest for decades to come, and the challenges that it will pose to our possibilities of political action, poetic imagination, and therapy.Trade ReviewAs a diagnostician, Berardi is among the sharpest. * Slate *Bifo is a master of global activism in the age of depression. His mission is to understand real existing capitalism. Sense the despair of the revolt, enjoy this brilliant 'labour of the negative'! * Geert Lovink, Founding Director of the Institute of Network Cultures *

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Book SynopsisOne is not born a worker or a boss, one becomes one from father to son... or almost. Social reproduction is not an iron law; it admits of exceptions that must be accounted for in order to measure its scope. This book aims to understand the passage from one social class to another and to forge a method of approaching these particular cases which remain a blind spot in the theory of social reproduction. It analyzes the political, economic, social, familial and singular causes that contribute to non-reproduction, and their effects on the constitution of individuals transiting from one class to another.At the crossroads of collective history and intimate history, Chantal Jaquet identifies class locations, the interplay of affects and encounters, and the role of sexual and racial differences. She invites us to break out of disciplinary isolation in order to grasp singularity at the crossroads of philosophy, sociology, psychology and literature. This requires deconstruction of the concepts of social and personal identity, in favour of a concepts like complexion and the criss-crossing determinations. Through the figure of the transclass, it is thus the whole human condition that is illuminated in a new light.Trade ReviewTransclasses sets out to fill a lacuna created by the impoverished vocabulary of class by theorizing the class identities of "exceptional" subjects who defy the predictions of social determinism and leave their formative social status behind. Terms of stigma - parvenu, careerist, déclassé, class defector - are used to socially shame such subjects, but as Jaquet demonstrates, to hew to these caricatural typologies is to miss out on the power of class transitioning at the microscales of lived experience and in an intersectional frame. If we have been used to thinking, with Althusser, in terms of the reproduction of capitalism, Jaquet goes one further, producing a model of non-reproductive modes of existence that, far from superseding class or ignoring the reproductive drive of capital, expand their conceptual parameters. An experiment in concept-work that draws on self-narration in literature and auto-ethnography (from Stendhal to Richard Wright, Pierre Bourdieu, Annie Ernaux and Didier Eribon), Transclasses will be essential reading for interdisciplinary fieldworkers committed to new lexicons of identity, class struggle and social change. -- Emily Apter, New York University, author of Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse and the Impolitic (Verso, 2018)For more than a half-century sociologists, political theorists and scholars in the humanities have addressed the question of how a social order reproduces itself, above all, the relations of exploitation and domination that characterize it. Chantal Jaquet, whose studies of Spinoza have helped transform our understanding of that difficult philosopher, asks us instead to examine the phenomenon of non-reproduction, that is, the production of those who fail to fulfil or who resist the roles and functions to them. Her path-breaking work should be read by all those interested in understanding social transformation. -- Warren Montag

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Book SynopsisWhat does political agency mean for those who don't know what to do or can't be bothered to do it? This book develops a novel account of collective emancipation in which freedom is achieved not through knowledge and action but via doubt and inertia. In essays that range from ancient Greece to the end of the Anthropocene, Bull addresses questions central to contemporary political theory in novel readings of texts by Aristotle, Machiavelli, Marx, and Arendt, and shows how classic philosophical problems have a bearing on issues like political protest and climate change. The result is an entirely original account of political agency for the twenty-first century in which uncertainty and idleness are limned with utopian promise.Trade ReviewIn On Mercy, Malcolm Bull conducts a clever thought experiment on the question of whether mercy might not only be reconciled with justice but could displace it at the centre of our political life -- David A. Skeel * Wall Street Journal *Charmingly erudite and an important work of political philosophy -- Joe Humphreys * Irish Times (for On Mercy) *Highly compelling. Bull is to be congratulated on presenting such a thought-provoking study -- Alexander Marr * Apollo (for Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth) *Stimulating and delightful, subtle and deep -- Taylor Carman * Times Literary Supplement (on Anti-Nietzsche) *All of Bull's studies are utopian, in an oblique, offbeat way. In the spirit of Marx, you must see the future as in a glass darkly so as not to make a fetish of it. He combines a keenly analytical mind with a visionary impulse. It is a style for our times. -- Terry Eagleton * London Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisPostmodern Geographies stands as the cardinal broadcast and defence of theory's "spatial turn." From the suppression of space in modern social science and the disciplinary aloofness of geography to the spatial returns of Foucault and Lefebvre and the construction of Marxist geographies alert to urbanization and global development, renowned geographer Edward W. Soja details the trajectory of this turn and lays out its key debates. An expanded critique of historicism and a refined grasp of materialist dialectics bolster Soja's attempt to introduce geography to postmodernity, animating a series of engagements with Heidegger, Giddens, Castells, and others. Two exploratory essays on the postfordist landscapes of Los Angeles complete the book, offering a glimpse of Soja's new geography carried into its highest register.Trade ReviewA significant theoretical contribution both to the social science in general and to human geography in particular . This literary achievement establishes Soja as one of the foremost thinkers in this difficult interdisciplinary field. * Choice *One of the most challenging and stimulating books ever written on the thorny issue of how and why societies use space for social purposes in the ways they do. -- David Harvey

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Book SynopsisCivil Society has become a major power in the world. The stunning defeat of the controversial and secretive Multilateral Agreement on Investments, the massive worldwide WTO protests and the yearly meetings of the World Social Forum are testimony to its coming of age. From these significant victories, civil society continued to catch world attention with the Arab Spring, the grassroots movement that helped elect former US President Barack Obama and the significant gains of the anti-fracking campaign. With tens of millions of citizens and over a trillion dollars involved in advancing its agenda, civil society now joins the state and the market as the third key institution shaping globalization. However, it cannot fully mobilize its resources and power as it currently lacks clear understanding of its identity. Shaping Globalization argues that global civil society is a cultural institution wielding cultural power, and shows how - through the use of this distinct power - it can advance its agenda in the political and economic realms of society without compromising its identity. Nicanor Perlas outlines the strategic implications for civil society, both locally and globally, and explains that civil society's key task is to inaugurate `threefolding': the forging of strategic partnerships between civil society, government and business. Such authentic tri-sector partnerships are essential for advancing new ways for nations to develop, and for charting a different, sustainable type of globalization. Using the model of the Philippine Agenda 21, we are shown how civil society and progressive individuals and agencies in government and business are demonstrating the effectiveness of this new understanding to ensure that globalization benefits the environment, the poor and society as a whole. This reprinted edition includes a new Afterword.Trade Review`Nicanor Perlas has written a brilliant exposition of a new viewpoint in social theory and practice, one that applies to all of us in our everyday lives.' - Paul H. Ray, author of The Cultural Creatives; `Nicanor Perlas lays out a framework that integrates the social, the ecological, and the spiritual in a simple and yet profound view of 21st century society.' - C. Otto Scharmer, author of Theory UTable of ContentsForeword by Paul H. Ray - Message by Dr Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker - Threefolding, the language of the new tri-polar world - Whose word? Surveying the terrain of contention - The Battle of Seattle - The threats and opportunities of globalization - Elite globalization and the world power structure behind it - Civil society as a global countervailing force - Identity crisis - Co-optation, the ironic fruit of the Battle of Seattle? - the cultural nature of civil society - Testing the framework - Cultural power - Cultural creatives and the cultural revolution of the 21st century - Civil society and the threefolding of national and global social space - Example of Philippine Agenda 21 - Tri-sector partnerships at the United Nations, boon or bane? - The juggernaut of tri-sector partnerships - Civil Society and the beginning of history - Notes - Bibliography - About the author - About Cadi - About Globalnet3 - Afterword to the 2019 edition

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Book SynopsisIn diesem Buch wird der aktuelle Stand der Stadtforschung in den relevanten Disziplinen verständlich dargestellt. Der Autor bietet Einblicke in die Sichtweisen der wichtigsten Disziplinen, die sich mit Stadt-Thematiken beschäftigen, wie Soziologie, Geographie, Raum- und Stadtplanung, Geschichte, Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft. Dabei berücksichtigt er auch die Sprachphilosophie und zeigt die unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen von stadtbezogenen Begriffen in einem Dutzend Wortsprachen auf. Ein Überblick über die zentralen Ansätze und Theorien sowie deren praktische Anwendung ermöglicht es den Lesern und Leserinnen, ein vertrautes Thema aus neuen Perspektiven zu betrachten.Trade ReviewNicht nur ist das Buch von Uwe Prell empfehlenswert, aus meiner Sicht ist es ein sehr aktuelles Standardwerk zu den Thematiken der Stadt, vor allem dank des interdisziplinären Ansatzes für mich ein „Augenöffner“. Günther Bachmann, Stadtforschung und Statistik 1/2023Table of ContentsTHE CITY IS THE ANSWER. BUT WHAT WAS THE QUESTION? NOTE ON THE ENGLISH EDITION I. THE DIFFICULTIES OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY II. ON THE BENEFITS OF A TOOL III. THEORY A. The science of the city 1. The big picture (urbanism) 2. City as society (sociology and urban sociology) 3. City as market (economics and urban economics) 4. City as natural environment ((urban) geography, urban environmental management, and climate research) 5. City as design space (spatial planning, urban planning, architecture, and urban morphology) 6. City as policy (law) 7. City as memory space (history) 8. City as hope and disappointment (philosophy) 9. Ways out of no man’s land (political science) 10. The city: a puzzle B. The grand narratives 1. The good city (Aristotle) 2. The multifunctional city (Werner Sombart) 3. Politics, the market, and city types (Max Weber) 4. The blasé city dweller (Georg Simmel) 5. The dense city (Lewis Wirth and the Chicago School) 6. No city (Jürgen Friedrichs) 7. The global city (Saskia Sassen) 8. The ordinary city (Ash Amin and Stephen Graham) 9. The open city (Richard Sennett) 10. The experts’ insights C. The wisdom of languages: the city is… 1. The city is dense infrastructure (Egyptian) 2. The city is citizenship (Greek) 3. The city is power politics (Latin) 4. The city is structured densification (Spanish) 5. The city is lifestyle (French) 6. The city is relevance (English) 7. The city is rights (German) 8. The city is the centre (Russian) 9. The city is civilization (Arabic) 10. The city is prosperity (Hindi) 11. The city is the economy (Chinese) 12. The city is a hub (Japanese) 13. The genes of the city IV. PRACTICE A. Zooming in B. Terms, concepts, and city types 1. Megacity 2. Global city 3. Capital city 4. Arrival city 5. Smart city 6. Neoliberal city 7. Virus city 8. Shrinking city and lost city 9. Terms, concepts, and city types: valuable patterns? C. Urban issues 1. Immigration and emigration 2. Housing and living 3. Society and the economy 4. Movement and standstill 5. Analogue and digital 6. City and countryside 7. City and world 8. City and environment 9. Diversity and reciprocities V. OUR FUTURE WILL BE DECIDED IN AND WITH THE CITY Literature Index

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Book Synopsis The numerous and far-reaching socio-political transformations that have taken place on the European continent since the mid-20th century have stipulated the emergence of new approaches and research fields in the social sciences. One of these is the development of a Sociology of Europeanization. This textbook provides an overview of its major topics, concepts, and research approaches. Each of the 14 chapters of this textbook introduces one particular topic of the Sociology of Europeanization – ranging from major conceptual considerations to an exploration of the numerous spatial, cultural, economic, political, judicial, and socio-structural implications of Europeanization. Hence, this book is very suitable as a fundamental introductory reading and for teaching in European studies and related study programs. It is also recommended to everyone who is interested in more recent European history and current sociological studies of transnationalization. Events around the bookLink to a De Gruyter Online Event in which renowned scholars and experts discuss what is necessary for the teaching of European Studies today and what future directions European Studies should take in light of current challenges and crises. The event was moderated by Sebastian Büttner and Susann Worschech, two co-editors of this textbook:https://youtu.be/Deh13FJ1ctE During the annual colloqium of the European General Studies Programme of the College of Europe (Bruges), Sebastian Büttner discussed and presented his co-edited book:https://youtu.be/GLheIHQOEv4

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Book SynopsisHow do we justify our political convictions? Libertarians appeal to a love of freedom, liberals to a dedication to fairness. Niko Kolodny, however, argues that neither value actually makes sense of our avowed convictions. Instead, what drives much of our politics is an opposition to social hierarchy.Trade ReviewThe Pecking Order provides a powerful articulation and defense of its master idea of noninferiority. That idea is already percolating through political philosophy, but nobody has done anything like the systematic development of it that Kolodny achieves. This book stands out for its ability to animate so many different debates in political philosophy through a single idea, deploying it to address a wider range and variety of moral and political phenomena. Carefully argued, clearly written, and remarkable for both the depth of its analysis and the scope of its engagement, Kolodny’s book is one that everyone working in political philosophy and many in democratic theory will want to read. -- Arthur Ripstein, author of Force and FreedomIn this far-reaching study, Niko Kolodny illuminates everyone’s fundamental interest in being an equal. The claim against hierarchy—against being socially subordinate to others—is offered as a key to more stuck doors in political philosophy than other time-honored projects around freedom and equality, liberalism, and democracy. Relentless in method and vivid in style, the book will be widely studied, and rightly so. -- David Estlund, author of UtopophobiaThis book is smart, provocative, timely, and deeply informed. It engages and carries to a new level of clarity and sophistication a set of themes associated with social egalitarianism. It also offers as comprehensive a critical view of central themes in recent democratic theory as I can imagine. Reading The Pecking Order is a rare and bracing experience. -- Charles R. Beitz, author of The Idea of Human RightsSocial and political discourse is full of claims about what we owe each other and why. In this compelling book, a perceptive philosopher argues that much of that talk is grounded in our shared aversion to subordination. In his hands, the principle of ‘noninferiority’ provides a powerful touchstone for assessing contentious issues ranging from the limits of authority in the workplace to the reach of the welfare state and the role of money in politics. -- Larry M. Bartels, author of Unequal Democracy and Democracy for Realists

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Book SynopsisWhy do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to help close genealogical kin. In A Cooperative SpecieTrade Review"The achievement of Bowles and Gintis is to have put together from the many disparate sources of evidence a story as plausible as any we're likely to get in the present state of behavioural sciences of how human beings came to be as co-operative as they are."--W.G. Runciman, London Review of Books "In A Cooperative Species, economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis update their ideas on the evolutionary origins of altruism. Containing new data and analysis, their book is a sustained and detailed argument for how genes and culture have together shaped our ability to cooperate... By presenting clear models that are tied tightly to empirically derived parameters, Bowles and Gintis encourage much-needed debate on the origins of human cooperation."--Peter Richerson, Nature "An outstanding book that presents an important contribution and quite simply raises the scientific standard associated with the difficult and contentious problem of how human altruism evolved."--Charles Efferson, Economic Journal "A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution states a clearly articulated gene-culture coevolution explanation for why we are a cooperative species. It is a read that will stretch readers' minds a bit, and I think it is an eminently valuable read... I await with eagerness the next time Bowles and Gintis are out cooperating again."--Jonathan D. Springer, PsycCRITIQUES "[T]he authors' systematic and mathematical approach will appeal to any reader seriously interested in learning about alternative theories of adaptive altruism, and their treatment of cultural inheritance using population-genetic models is first-rate. Although this book will by no means settle the debate surrounding the evolutionary origin of altruism, it is a worthy addition and is well worth reading."--P. William Hughes, Journal of Economic Issues "Bowles and Gintis are clearly not short of ideas. The attention they draw to the role of conflict and coordinated punishment in the evolution of our cooperative and reciprocal species makes the book very much worth reading. Their focus on the evolution of human nature also paints a much richer picture of our behavior than traditional economics tends to do."--Journal of Economic Literature "Bowles and Gintis are not the first to claim that competition, conflict, and war between human groups is the foundation of cooperation and of society. However, their integration of this insight into evolutionary game theory stands to increase the accessibility of this powerful idea to a large number of scholars working in a dominant theoretical perspective that spans the social and biological sciences. This is one reason why I recommend their new book A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution."--Noah Mark, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation "This book makes a strong case for returning as a discipline to this vexed theme. I can only hope we do so with the analytical ingenuity and empirical humility that Bowles and Gintis display."--Jacob G. Foster, American Journal of Sociology "Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution should be of interest to individuals across multiple disciplines. The book provides a compelling argument supported by multiple kinds of theoretical and empirical evidence. Although the book does use some technical language and examples in places, the explanation is sufficiently clear to make the main ideas and arguments of the book accessible to individuals who were not previously familiar with these technicalities."--Christopher M. Caldwell, Metapsychology Online "[This book] makes important contributions to our understanding of the nature and function of emotions in politics, including the evolution of emotion and cognition and their linkages to democratic governance... [It] should become [an] important resource for students of politics who have the requisite background in the behavioral sciences and wish to develop an integrated, life science perspective in their own work."--Michael S. Latner, Politics and the Life SciencesTable of ContentsPreface xi Chapter 1: A Cooperative Species 1 Chapter 2: The Evolution of Altruism in Humans 8 2.1 Preferences, Beliefs, and Constraints 9 2.2 Social Preferences and Social Dilemmas 10 2.3 Genes, Culture, Groups, and Institutions 13 2.4 Preview 18 Chapter 3: Social Preferences 19 3.1 Strong Reciprocity Is Common 20 3.2 Free-Riders Undermine Cooperation 22 3.3 Altruistic Punishment Sustains Cooperation 24 3.4 Effective Punishment Depends on Legitimacy 26 3.5 Purely Symbolic Punishment Is Effective 29 3.6 People Punish Those Who Hurt Others 31 3.7 Social Preferences Are Not Irrational 32 3.8 Culture and InstitutionsMatter 33 3.9 Behavior Is Conditioned on Group Membership 35 3.10 People Enjoy Cooperating and Punishing Free-Riders 38 3.11 Social Preferences in Laboratory and Natural Settings 39 3.12 Competing Explanations 42 Chapter 4: The Sociobiology of Human Cooperation 46 4.1 Inclusive Fitness and Human Cooperation 48 4.2 Modeling Multi-level Selection 52 4.3 EquilibriumSelection 57 4.4 Reciprocal Altruism 59 4.5 Reciprocal Altruism in Large Groups 63 4.6 Reputation: Indirect Reciprocity 68 4.7 Altruism as a Signal of Quality 71 4.8 Positive Assortment 72 4.9 Mechanisms and Motives 75 Chapter 5: Cooperative Homo economicus 79 5.1 Folk Theorems and Evolutionary Dynamics 80 5.2 The Folk Theorem with Imperfect Public Information 83 5.3 The Folk Theorem with Private Information 86 5.4 Evolutionarily Irrelevant Equilibria 87 5.5 Social Norms and Correlated Equilibria 89 5.6 The Missing Choreographer 90 Chapter 6: Ancestral Human Society 93 6.1 Cosmopolitan Ancestors 95 6.2 Genetic Evidence 99 6.3 PrehistoricWarfare 102 6.4 The Foundations of Social Order 106 6.5 The Crucible of Cooperation 110 Chapter 7: The Coevolution of Institutions and Behaviors 111 7.1 Selective Extinction 115 7.2 Reproductive Leveling 117 7.3 Genetic Differentiation between Groups 120 7.4 Deme Extinction and the Evolution of Altruism 121 7.5 The Australian Laboratory 123 7.6 The Coevolution of Institutions and Altruism 124 7.7 Simulating Gene-Culture Coevolution 126 7.8 Levelers and Warriors 130 Chapter 8: Parochialism, Altruism, andWar 133 8.1 Parochial Altruism and War 135 8.2 The Emergence of Parochial Altruism and War 138 8.3 Simulated and Experimental Parochial Altruism 142 8.4 The Legacy of a Past "Red in Tooth and Claw" 146 Chapter 9: The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity 148 9.1 Coordinated Punishment 150 9.2 Altruistic Punishment in a Realistic Demography 156 9.3 The Emergence of Strong Reciprocity 159 9.4 Why Coordinated Punishment Succeeds 163 9.5 A Decentralized Social Order 164 Chapter 10: Socialization 167 10.1 Cultural Transmission 168 10.2 Socialization and the Survival of Fitness-Reducing Norms 171 10.3 Genes, Culture, and the Internalization of Norms 173 10.4 The Internalized Norm as Hitchhiker 176 10.5 The Gene-Culture Coevolution of a Fitness-Reducing Norm 179 10.6 How Can Internalized Norms Be Altruistic? 180 10.7 The Programmable Brain 183 11Social Emotions 186 11.1 Reciprocity, Shame, and Punishment 188 11.2 The Evolution of Social Emotions 191 11.3 The "Great Captains of Our Lives" 192 12Conclusion: Human Cooperation and Its Evolution 195 12.1 The Origins of Human Cooperation 196 12.2 The Future of Cooperation 199 Appendix 201 A1 Altruism Defined 201 A2 Agent-Based Models 202 A3 Game Theory 207 A4 Dynamical Systems 209 A5 The Replicator Dynamic 212 A6 Continuation Probability and Time Discount Factor 213 A7 Alternatives to the Standing Model 214 A8 The Prisoner's Dilemma with Public and Private Signals 215 A9 Student and Nonstudent Experimental Subjects 217 A10 The Price Equation 218 A11 Weak Multi-level Selection 222 A12 Cooperation and Punishment with Quorum Sensing 223 References 225 Subject Index 251 Author Index 255

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