Социология
Различные книги в жанре СоциологияConversación y convivencia
Conversación y convivencia hacen gala de un entrelazamiento constante y vivificador. Conversar y convivir, por lo tanto, como expresión filo y ontogenética de la humanidad, crean y recrean contextos y espacios vivificadores en donde el sentido de la formación tiene una mayor posibilidad de ayudar a construir un mundo mejor cargado de significaciones humanas y plagado de convergencias en donde las alteridades se busquen y se abracen en un perenne contubernio de experiencias comunes y de posibilidades fraternas en la generación de vivencias para las relaciones fecundas. De esta manera, el libro resultado de investigación Conversación y Convivencia. Compromisos enprocesos deformación, da cuenta de la participación de diversos actores con el propósito de indagar sobre comprensiones en relación con reservorios de conversación y convivencia en la escuela, particularmente en programas de formación complementaria de educadores, en Escuelas Normales Superiores. Se reconocen huellas, vestigios, así como reservorios consolidados fruto de la acción del conversar.En los procesos conversacionales los participantes construyeron espacios en donde sus intervenciones estuvieron orientadas a dar sentido al intercambio de argumentaciones y de demandas de explicaciones para irse potenciando. Ese proceso de potenciación conllevó a reflexionar con el otro en búsqueda de emergencias de lazos de proximidades, de tejer mundos posibles y de acompañar el crecimiento en conjunto. En esos rituales conversacionales, a su vez, se hicieron evidentes despliegues colectivos de voces, de problemáticas y de perspectivas interculturales, entre las comunidades que integran las Escuelas Normales Superiores de Villavicencio y Santiago de Tunja.
Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice
Grounded in principles and values of fairness and equality, anti-oppressive practice (AOP) lies at the heart of social work and social work education. This book will equip your students with the tools and knowledge to address the concepts of diversity, oppression, power and powerless, and practice in ethically appropriate ways for contemporary social work practice.<br />
Understanding the Depressions
We all share identical properties that mark us out as human beings. Even so, every person is unique: we are not clones. It's the same with depression – or perhaps more properly the depressions (plural) – because they manifest in so many different ways and under different circumstances yet in essence remain the same. This is a simple enough observation, yet there appears to be little understanding of the condition – or conditions – among the general public, who tend to lump together all states of 'feeling miserable' into something to be snapped out of, a disease category to be treated medically, or a feebleness of personality to be disapproved of and dismissed. In this new title from Wyn Bramley, many different views on causation and treatment are explored. The emphasis is on real people's experiences from all aspects of the depressions – sufferers, helpers, family and friends – not a self-help work but an all-encompassing aid to understanding this common condition.
Wild Music
<P>What are the uses of musical exoticism? In Wild Music, Maria Sonevytsky tracks vernacular Ukrainian discourses of «wildness» as they manifested in popular music during a volatile decade of Ukrainian political history bracketed by two revolutions. From the Eurovision Song Contest to reality TV, from Indigenous radio to the revolution stage, Sonevytsky assesses how these practices exhibit and re-imagine Ukrainian tradition and culture. As the rise of global populism forces us to confront the category of state sovereignty anew, Sonevytsky proposes innovative paradigms for thinking through the creative practices that constitute sovereignty, citizenship, and nationalism.</P>
Playing It Dangerously
<P>Playing It Dangerously questions what happens when feelings attached to popular music conflict with expressions of the dominant socio-cultural order, and how this tension enters into the politics of popular culture at various levels of human interaction. Tambura is a genre-crossing performance practice centered on an eponymous stringed instrument, part of the mandolin family, that Roma, Croats, and Serbs adopted from Ottoman forces. The acclamation that one «plays dangerously» connotes exceptional virtuosic improvisation and rapid finger technique and is the highest praise that a (typically male) musician can receive from his peers. The book considers tambura music as a site of both contestation and reconciliation since its propagation as Croatia's national instrument during the 1990s Yugoslav wars. New sensibilities of 'danger' and of race (for instance, 'Gypsiness') arose as Croatian bands reterritorialized musical milieus through the new state, reestablishing transnational performance networks with Croats abroad, and reclaiming demilitarized zones and churches as sites of patriotic performance after years of 'Yugoslavian control.' The study combines ethnographic fieldwork with archival research and music analysis to expound affective block: a theory of the dialectical dynamics between affective and discursive responses to differences in playing styles. A corrective to the scholarly stress on music scenes saturated with feeling, the book argues for affect's social regulation, showing how the blocking of dangerous intensities ultimately privileges constructions of tambura players as heroic male Croats, even as the music engenders diverse racial and gendered becomings.</P>
Tell Our Story
Focusing on three South African communities the authors dismiss the idea that some groups are voiceless, arguing that they are being deliberately ignored by dominant news media The dominant news media are often accused of reflecting an ‘elite bias’, privileging and foregrounding the interests of a small segment of society while ignoring the narratives of the majority. The authors of Tell Our Story investigate this problem and offer a hands-on demonstration of listening journalism and research in practice. In the process they dismiss the idea that some groups are voiceless, arguing that what is often described in such terms is mostly a matter of those groups being deliberately ignored. Focusing their attention on three very different South African communities they delve into the life and struggle narratives of each, exposing the divide between the stories told by the people who actually live in the communities and the way in which those stories have been understood and shaped by the media. The three communities are those living in the Glebelands hostel complex in Durban where over 100 residents have been killed in politically motivated violence in the past few years; the Xolobeni community on the Wild Coast, which has been resisting the building of a new toll road and a dune mining venture; and Thembelihle, a settlement south-west of Johannesburg that has been resisting removal for many years. The book concludes with a set of practical guidelines for journalists on the practice of listening journalism.
The Social Causes of Health and Disease
This stimulating book has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. This extensively revised and updated third edition offers the most compelling case yet that stress, poverty, unhealthy lifestyles, and unpleasant living and working conditions can all be directly associated with illness. The book continues to build on the paradigm shift that has been emerging in twenty-first-century medical sociology, which looks beyond individual explanations for health and disease. As the field has headed toward a fundamentally different orientation, William Cockerham’s work has been at the forefront of these changes, and he here marshals evidence and theory for those seeking a clear and authoritative guide to the realities of the social determinants of health. Of particular note in the latest edition is new material on the relationship between gender and health, implications of the life course for health behavior, the health effects of social capital, and the emergence of COVID-19. This engaging introduction to social epidemiology will be indispensable reading for all students and scholars of medical sociology, especially those with the courage to confront the possibility that society really does make people sick.
Diplomacy Cause and Effect
Diplomacy: The Art of Communication is a personal insight into the human experience—the mechanisms that guide us, the interactions, emotional reactions, confrontations, celebrations, thoughts that shape us, the words that define us, the actions that represent us, and the universe that reflects us.
This book explores the basic elements of diplomacy, communication, human traits we all possess and how they apply to the world and our interactions with each other.
Various scenarios and exercises, as well as real life stories, offer a simple unbiased alternative approach to understanding communication (life’s basic mechanism) and how we are all a part of that mechanism in what we say and do.
This book also includes a collection of some personal thoughts, philosophies, and words of inspiration entitled
“Gordonisms.”
The theories and opinions in this book are based on personal and professional experience in the areas of communication, conflict resolution, education, program directing, motivational-developmental workshop programs, and international creative and performing arts programs and events.
The opinions and theories in this book are not to influence or validate facts, as well as define a right and wrong approach, but only to see another perspective of our existence.
Maybe something might inspire you or make you think of something in your own life or maybe even touch your heart and make the world and ourselves clearer to understand.
Zeitenwende 2020
Spätestens Ende April 2020 muss jedem klar gewesen sein, dass wir in einer außerordentlichen Krise stecken. Covid-19 diente dabei als Brandbeschleuniger für die Wirtschaft, und hat eine weltweite wirtschaftliche Brandrodung, die schon Jahre zuvor loderte, in Gang gebracht. Was vielleicht nur wenige in 2020 sehen können, ist das Ausmaß dieser Krise.Was ist eine Zeitenwende?Eine Zeitenwende stellt einen Umbruch im historischen Geschehen dar. Um kollektive Veränderungen besser zu verstehen und damit umzugehen, hat der Mensch schon seit jeher verschiedene Methoden der Prognostik benutzt.Prognostik bedeutet, dass wir uns Mittel und Instrumente bedienen, welche zeitlich wiederkehrende Zusammenhänge aufzeigen und verdeutlichen. Wir können uns damit auf kommende Veränderungen besser einstellen und Fehlverhalten vermeiden.Welche Veränderungen kommen?In diesem Buch werden Sie aufschlussreiche Einblicke in den Bereich der Prognostik erfahren. Sie werden dadurch weitaus besser verstehen, weshalb bis ins Jahr 2025 massive globale Veränderungen auf uns zukommen werden. Diese Neugestaltung wird soziale, wirtschaftliche und auch die politische Ebene betreffen.
Social Rights and Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies
"Social Rights and Duties" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by the English historian and humanist Leslie Stephen. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpt: "We are told often enough that we are living in a period of important intellectual and social revolutions. In one way we are perhaps inclined even to state the fact a little too strongly. We suffer at times from the common illusion that the problems of to-day are entirely new: we fancy that nobody ever thought of them before, and that when we have solved them, nobody will ever need to look for another solution. To ardent reformers in all ages it seems as if the millennium must begin with their triumph, and that their triumph will be established by a single victory. And while some of us are thus sanguine, there are many who see in the struggles of to-day the approach of a deluge which is to sweep away all that once ennobled life. The believer in the old creeds, who fears that faith is decaying, and the supernatural life fading from the world, denounces the modern spirit as materializing and degrading. The conscience of mankind, he thinks, has become drugged and lethargic; our minds are fixed upon sensual pleasures, and our conduct regulated by a blind struggle for the maximum of luxurious enjoyment. The period in his eyes is a period of growing corruption; modern society suffers under a complication of mortal diseases, so widely spread and deeply seated that at present there is no hope of regeneration. The best hope is that its decay may provide the soil in which seed may be sown of a far-distant growth of happier augury." Volume 1: The Aims of Ethical Societies Science and Politics The Sphere of Political Economy The Morality of Competition Social Equality Ethics and the Struggle for Existence Volume 2: Heredity Punishment Luxury The Duties of Authors The Vanity of Philosophizing Forgotten Benefactors