Социология
Различные книги в жанре СоциологияAs Lendas Da Deusa Mãe
Tradução de mitos e lendas relacionados com as deusas e matriarcas da China. Nas remotas tradições das minorias étnicas da China, abundam histórias que destacam o papel criador e civilizador desempenhado pelas deusas ou divindades femininas. Entrando no mistério que envolve o papel principal da mulher na origem e desenvolvimento social da humanidade, lendas da deusa mãe apresenta pela primeira vez ao leitor ocidental o coração da mitologia feminina dos povos da China, através de quarenta dos mitos mais representativos, a maioria dos quais nunca se havia traduzido a nenhum idioma europeu. A coleção é de uma riqueza incomparável, e seu estudo traz à luz as principais características das sociedades matriarcais da China, bem como as razões pelas quais elas desapareceram. As histórias que compõem esse livro, compiladas através do imenso território chinês, pertencentes a povos que vivem em ambientes muito diferentes e que falam uma grande variedade de línguas pertencentes a diferentes famílias, mostram a deusa como peça fundamental na criação das primeiras sociedades humanas e no nascimento da cultura primitiva que começou a diferenciar o ser humano dos animais.
Il Bene E Il Male, Memorie
Questo libro è il mio primo manuale sull’essere contemporaneo, e diario personale scritto da me. La calma del benessere, delle invenzioni. Gli aspetti tridimensionali degli oggetti concreti e umani, per una ricerca nel pensiero individuale. Un’opera che libera da impegni stilistici, gli errori sono di tutti, il presente deve essere rappresentato ma, senza la paura di aver realizzato un errore più grande del silenzio prima accettato. Scegliendo un discorso che promette una soluzione giornaliera, definitiva all’arte retorica-storica. Descrive le mie esperienze, fantasiosamente le memorie di un bene nella terra dei mali. Diario scritto in modo semplice, una forma testuale a colmare anche un’assenza d’informazioni complete sul diritto al bene, che caratterizza un’insensibilità nelle pubblicazioni pubbliche e giornalistiche. Un fenotipo comprensivo di oggettività moderne materiali, cristiane e arabe. Vuole rappresentare una porta verso il futuro, un partito nuovo. Il periodo delle diciotto lettere contenute raggiunge d’agosto 2005 a marzo 2007. Buona lettura, Gerardo D’Orrico
Состояние и перспективы развития системы социальной защиты в России
В настоящей работе дана общая характеристика современного состояния системы социальной защиты в Российской Федерации на основе анализа федерального и регионального законодательства и статистики. Выявлены основные особенности отечественной системы социальной защиты в сравнении с развитыми европейскими странами. Предложены некоторые направления совершенствования системы социальной защиты в Российской Федерации.
Социальная поддержка уязвимых групп населения
В исследовании предпринята попытка сравнить опыт стран ОЭСР и России по таким направлениям социальной поддержки уязвимых групп населения, как вовлечение неработающих трудоспособных граждан в занятость и социальная помощь. Ключевым выводом работы стал тезис о том, что для эффективной реализации программы вовлечения неработающих трудоспособных в занятость в России необходимы адекватное финансирование рограммы, наличие необходимого числа вакансий, индивидуальное сопровождение процесса вовлечения безработного в занятость и использование аутсорсинга и оплаты по результатам при оказании услуг неработающим трудоспособным гражданам.
Migration Studies and Colonialism
The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly slow to engage with colonial histories in making sense of migratory phenomena today. This book starts from the premise that colonial histories should be central to migration studies and explores what it would mean to really take that seriously. To engage with this task, Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner argue that scholars need not forge new theories but must learn from and be inspired by the wealth of literature that already exists across the world. Providing a range of inspiring and challenging perspectives on migration, the authors’ aim is to demonstrate what paying attention to colonialism, through using the tools offered by postcolonial, decolonial and related scholarship, can offer those studying international migration today. Offering a vital intervention in the field, this important book asks scholars and students of migration to explore the histories and continuities of colonialism in order to better understand the present.
Wealth
The pursuit of wealth has captivated people’s attention for centuries. Yet, as a topic of social research, the way in which wealth is accumulated and unequally distributed has largely been neglected, remaining hidden beneath data on income inequality. Wealth aims to address this blind spot in the academic discourse. In accessible prose, Yuval Elmelech explains how personal wealth differs fundamentally from other conventional measures of socioeconomic status and why it has become increasingly important to our understanding of social mobility and stratification. Crucially, Elmelech presents a dynamic sociological framework of wealth attainment that illuminates the effects of cumulative advantages and disadvantages over the course of an individual’s life, and across generations. He describes how these advantages and disadvantages are in turn shaped by a complex interplay of multiple markets, changing demographic landscapes, and persistent inter-group wealth disparities. Blending theoretical approaches with empirical evidence and macro-level contexts with micro-level processes, this book is an astute guide for thinking about wealth as a key determinant of social and economic wellbeing and for interrogating the role of wealth accumulation in social inequality.
Making the Familiar Unfamiliar
Shortly 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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.
Commodification and Its Discontents
Should human organs be bought and sold? Is it right that richer people should be able to pay poorer people to wait in a queue for them? Should objects in museums ever be sold? The assumption underlying such questions is that there are things that should not be bought and sold because it would give them a financial value that would replace some other, and dearly held, human value. Those who ask questions of this kind often fear that the replacement of human by money values – a process of commodification – is sweeping all before it. <br /><br />However, as Nicholas Abercrombie argues, commodification can be, and has been, resisted by the development of a moral climate that defines certain things as outside a market. That resistance, however, is never complete because the two regimes of value – human and money – are both necessary for the sustainability of society. His analysis of these processes offers a thought-provoking read that will appeal to students and scholars interested in market capitalism and culture.
The Sociology of Identity
How do people think about their identities? How do they express themselves individually and as part of collective groups, social movements, organizations, neighborhoods, or nations? <br /><br />Identity has important consequences for how we organize our lives, wield social power, and produce and reproduce privilege and marginality. In this lively and engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus explores the sociology of identity and its social consequences through three conceptual themes: authenticity, multidimensionality, and mobility. Drawing on vivid examples from ethnography, current events, and everyday life, he offers an approach to identity that goes beyond the individual and demonstrates how social groups privilege, flag, and shape identities. <br /><br />Offering an insightful overview of the sociological approaches to understanding social identity in a multicultural, globalized world, <i>The Sociology of Identity</i> will be a welcome resource for students and scholars of identity, and anyone interested in the social and cultural character of the self.