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Total Pages : 203 pages
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Download or read book Contemporary and Future Societies: Prediction and Social Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Seventh World Congress of Sociology: Contemporary and future societies, predictions and social planning. Problems of sociology and development in the countries of the third world written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Urry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745696570
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book What is the Future? written by John Urry and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking about the future is essential for almost all organizations and societies. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what exactly is the future? It remains a mystery – perhaps the greatest mystery, especially because futures are unpredictable and often unknowable, the outcome of many factors, known and unknown. The future is rarely a simple extrapolation from the present. In this important book, John Urry seeks to capture the many efforts that have been made to anticipate, visualize and elaborate the future. This includes examining the methods used to model the future, from those of the RAND Corporation to imagined future worlds in philosophy, literature, art, film, TV and computer games. He shows that futures are often contested and saturated with different interests, especially in relation to future generations. He also shows how analyses of social institutions, practices and lives should be central to examining potential futures, and issues such as who owns the future. The future seems to be characterized by 'wicked problems'. There are multiple 'causes' and 'solutions', long-term lock-ins and complex interdependencies, and different social groups have radically different frames for understanding what is at stake. Urry explores these issues through case-studies of 3D printing and the future of manufacturing, mobilities in the city, and the futures of energy and climate change.
Author : Andreas Reckwitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509545719
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The End of Illusions written by Andreas Reckwitz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another and the idea that humanity is on a progressive path to a better future seems like an illusion. It is only now that we can see clearly the real scope and structure of the profound shifts that Western societies have undergone over the last 30 years. Classical industrial society has been transformed into a late-modern society that is molded by polarization and paradoxes. The pervasive singularization of the social, the orientation toward the unique and exceptional, generates systematic asymmetries and disparities, and hence progress and unease go hand in hand. Reckwitz examines this dual structure of singularization and polarization as it plays itself out in the different sectors of our societies and, in so doing, he outlines the central structural features of the present: the new class society, the characteristics of a postindustrial economy, the conflict about culture and identity, the exhaustion of the self resulting from the imperative to seek authentic fulfillment, and the political crisis of liberalism. Building on his path-breaking work The Society of Singularities, this new book will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, politics, and the social sciences generally, and to anyone concerned with the great social and political issues of our time.
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Total Pages : 203 pages
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Download or read book Contemporary and Future Societies written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book Transactions of the Seventh World Congress of Sociology written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 203 pages
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Download or read book Seventh World Congress Os Sociology written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vishrut Abhinna
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1644294230
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)
Download or read book The Future Society written by Vishrut Abhinna and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents an alternative society which would emerge sometime in the distant future. It first attempts a theory of how societies come into existence. The Future Society then goes on to explain how through higher values of love, compassion and enlightenment there are infinite possibilities for the society to rise to higher and higher existential planes, and at the same time, how degradations in values can degenerate the societies to abysmal levels. The Future Society is conceptualized as a love and meditation based society which has transcended all parochialisms and risen to amazingly high levels of peace, prosperity and enlightenment. Its ways of living, doing and thinking are so dramatically different than those of ours that it will drive anyone into amazement and delightful wonderment!
Author : Seymour Bernard Sarason
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ISBN 13 : 9780914797494
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (974 download)
Download or read book The Creation of Settings and the Future Societies written by Seymour Bernard Sarason and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald N. Michael
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412824316
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Future Society written by Donald N. Michael and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351787551
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of Modernity written by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The portrait of the modern society or modernity offered by philosophers and social scientists from Hobbes to Parsons is no longer understood as a description of the final and highest stage in the social evolution of mankind. Modern society is not the end of history but simply another more or less contingent social and cultural formation on planet earth. This new perspective on modernity and its transformation, which has emerged from the modernist-postmodernist debate, is the subject matter of this book. It is addressed in a multidisciplinary and international way, both theoretically and empirically, and is explored not only in general and historical terms, but also through specific topics such as sexuality, identity, democracy, globalization, knowledge and leadership. Offering an important collaborative contribution to contemporary discourse in sociology, social psychology, politics and philosophy, this book represents a unique effort to come to grips with our obscure and elusive social position at the start of the 21st century.
Author : Qiwen Lu
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Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Challenges for the future: structural changes and transformations in contemporary societies written by Qiwen Lu and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Outhwaite
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405153105
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Future of Society written by William Outhwaite and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important Manifesto argues that we still need a concept ofsociety in order to make sense of the forces which structure ourlives. Written by leading social theorist William Outhwaite Asks if the notion of society is relevant in the twenty-firstcentury Goes to the heart of contemporary social and politicaldebate Examines critiques of the concept of society from neoliberals,postmodernists, and globalization theorists
Author : Mitch R. Murray
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387481
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book William Gibson and the Future of Contemporary Culture written by Mitch R. Murray and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Gibson is frequently described as one of the most influential writers of the past few decades, yet his body of work has only been studied partially and without full recognition of its implications for literature and culture beyond science fiction. It is high time for a book that explores the significance and wide-ranging impact of Gibson’s fiction. In the 1970s and 80s, Gibson, the “Godfather of Cyberpunk,” rejuvenated science fiction. In groundbreaking works such as Neuromancer, which changed science fiction as we knew it, Gibson provided us with a language and imaginary through which it became possible to make sense of the newly emerging world of globalization and the digital and media age. Ever since, Gibson’s reformulation of science fiction has provided us not just with radically innovative visions of the future but indeed with trenchant analyses of our historical present and of the emergence and exhaustion of possible futures. Contributors: Maria Alberto, Andrew M. Butler, Amy J. Elias, Christian Haines, Kylie Korsnack, Mathias Nilges, Malka Older, Aron Pease, Lisa Swanstrom, Takayuki Tatsumi, Sherryl Vint, Phillip E. Wegner, Roger Whitson, Charles Yu
Author : Carl Wickum
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Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Total State written by Carl Wickum and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hamilton
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1604532912
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Future Societies written by John Hamilton and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces young readers to the world of science fiction.
Author : Thomas Lombardo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467805955
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Futurist Thought written by Thomas Lombardo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Futurist Thought describes recent thinking about the future, dealing with both the hopes and the fears expressed in modern times concerning what potentially lies ahead. There are many such hopes and fears perhaps an overpowering number, competing with each other and swirling about in the collective mind of humanity. Psychologist and futurist Tom Lombardo describes this mental universe of inspiring dreams and threatening premonitions regarding the future. The book begins with an in-depth examination of the highly influential literary genre of science fiction, which Dr. Lombardo identifies as the mythology of the future. He next describes the modern academic discipline of future studies which attempts to apply scientific methods and principles to an understanding of the future. Social and technological trends in the twentieth century are then reviewed, setting the stage for an analysis of the great contemporary transformation occurring in our present world. Given the powerful and pervasive changes taking place across the globe and throughout all aspects of human life, the questions arise: Where are we potentially heading and, perhaps more importantly, where should we be heading? The final chapter provides an extensive review of different answers to these questions. Describing theories and approaches that highlight science, technology, culture, human psychology, and religion, among other areas of focus, as well as integrative views which attempt to provide big pictures of all aspects of human life, the book provides a rich and broad overview of contemporary ideas and visions about the future. In the conclusion, Dr. Lombardo assesses and synthesizes these myriad perspectives, proposing a set of key ideas central to understanding the future. This book completes the study of future consciousness begun in its companion volume, The Evolution of Future Consciousness. These two volumes, rich in historical detail and concise observations on the interrelatedness of a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, are a significant contribution to the field of future studies and a valuable resource for educators, consultants, and anyone wishing to explore the significance of thinking about the future.
