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Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts

Author : Roland Leander Williams
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143848948X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts written by Roland Leander Williams and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a cultural study of writings about slavery in the United States, Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts uncovers a mode of behavior adopted by African Americans for relief from the brutality of black bondage. Roland Leander Williams grants that African Americans have been beaten, but he guarantees that they have not been broken. While he acknowledges that they have been demeaned, he assures that they have not been diminished. Williams confesses that African Americans have been done harm, but he confirms that they have not become disheartened. Close readings of classic slave narratives, along with some neo-slave narratives—including The Conjure Woman (1899), Kindred (1979), Dessa Rose (1986), and The Good Lord Bird (2013)—furnish proof that African Americans have preserved their dignity and elevated their status through ingenious applications of improvisation. Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts establishes as well that a dim view of African Americans, propagated by black bondage, bears a resemblance to sexual discrimination, which prompts female targets of its gaze to practice dissembling.

Hannah Arendt

Author : Lewis P. Hinchman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438406746
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Hannah Arendt written by Lewis P. Hinchman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents both the range of Arendt's political thought and the patterns of controversy it has elicited. The essays are arranged in six parts around important themes in Arendt's work: totalitarianism and evil; narrative and history; the public world and personal identity; action and power; justice, equality, and democracy; and thinking and judging. Despite such thematic diversity, virtually all the contributors have made an effort to build bridges between interest-driven politics and Arendt's Hellenic/existential politics. Although some are quite critical of the way Arendt develops her theory, most sympathize with her project of rescuing politics from both the foreshortening glance of the philosopher and its assimilation to social and biological processes. This volume treats Arendt's work as an imperfect, somewhat time-bound but still invaluable resource for challenging some of our most tenacious prejudices about what politics is and how to study it. The following eminent Arendt scholars have contributed chapters to this book: Ronald Beiner, Margaret Canovan, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Seyla Benhabib, Jürgen Habermas, Hanna Pitkin, and Sheldon Wolin.

Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2007

Author : Stella Vosniadou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317705564
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2007 written by Stella Vosniadou and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the invited lectures, invited symposia, symposia, papers and posters presented at the 2nd European Cognitive Science Conference held in Greece in May 2007. The papers presented in this volume range from empirical psychological studies and computational models to philosophical arguments, meta-analyses and even to neuroscientific experimentation. The quality of the work shows that the Cognitive Science Society in Europe is an exciting and vibrant one. There are 210 contributions by cognitive scientists from 27 different countries, including USA, France, UK, Germany, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Spain, the Netherlands, and Australia. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with current research in Cognitive Science.

Social Science Quotations

Author : Robert Merton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135130626X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Social Science Quotations written by Robert Merton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Science Quotations has been prepared to meet an evident, unmet need in the literature of the social sciences. Writings on the lives and theories of individual social scientists abound, but there has been no fully documented collection of memorable quotations from the social sciences as a whole. The frequent use of quotations in scientific as well as literary writings that are mere summaries or paraphrases typically fail to capture the full force of formulations that have made quotations memorable. This book of quotations invites the further reading or rereading of the original texts, beyond the quotations themselves. Sills and Merton draw extensively upon the writings that constitute the historical core of the social sciences and social thought; those works with staying power often described as the "classical texts." Many quotations have been drawn from these classical texts because the quotations contain memorable ideas memorably expressed. Both consequential and memorable, these words have been quoted over the generations, entering into the collective memory of social scientists everywhere and at times diffusing into popular thought and into the vernacular as well. This book is useful to social scientists, anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists and statisticians, and for all who want to learn or verify memorable formulations and phrases concerning social thought and social theories. It is particularly useful for graduate students taking courses that examine the history of their discipline.

Body - Language - Communication. Volume 1

Author : Cornelia Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110261316
Total Pages : 1148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Body - Language - Communication. Volume 1 written by Cornelia Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of the handbook presents contemporary, multidisciplinary, historical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of how body movements relate to language. It documents how leading scholars from differenct disciplinary backgrounds conceptualize and analyze this complex relationship. Five chapters and a total of 72 articles, present current and past approaches, including multidisciplinary methods of analysis. The chapters cover: I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter, II. Perspectives from different disciplines, III. Historical dimensions, IV. Contemporary approaches, V. Methods. Authors include: Michael Arbib, Janet Bavelas, Marino Bonaiuto, Paul Bouissac, Judee Burgoon, Martha Davis, Susan Duncan, Konrad Ehlich, Nick Enfield, Pierre Feyereisen, Raymond W. Gibbs, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Uri Hadar, Adam Kendon, Antja Kennedy, David McNeill, Lorenza Mondada, Fernando Poyatos, Klaus Scherer, Margret Selting, Jürgen Streeck, Sherman Wilcox, Jeffrey Wollock, Jordan Zlatev.

Primate Behavior

Author : Leonard A. Rosenblum
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483271838
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Primate Behavior written by Leonard A. Rosenblum and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primate Behavior: Developments in Field and Laboratory Research, Volume 4 examines developments in field and laboratory research on primate behavior. Topics range from facial expressions in nonhuman primates to the behavior and malnutrition in the rhesus monkey. The population structure and dynamics of the Borneo orang-utan in relation to its ecology and reproductive strategy are also discussed, along with the social organization of Macaca fascicularis. Comprised of six chapters, this volume begins by discussing a field study that uses sound analysis to investigate the link between vocal pattern and social situation in the Japanese monkey (Macaca fuscata). The next chapter focuses on one particular and very important means of visual communication in nonhuman primates: facial expressions. The behavior of marmoset monkeys (Callithricidae) is then considered, with emphasis on their social structure and social organization as well as patterns of social and sexual communication. The remaining chapters explore feeding behavior and malnutrition in the rhesus monkey; the population structure and dynamics of the Borneo orang-utan in relation to its ecology and reproductive strategy; and the social organization and intergroup behavior of Macaca fascicularis. This book should be of interest to biologists and primatologists.

Organizational Behaviour (WBUT)

Author : J.S. Chandan
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 932597164X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Organizational Behaviour (WBUT) written by J.S. Chandan and published by Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been painstakingly and thoroughly prepared to cover extensively various facets of organizational behaviourboth micro as well as macro. Its coverage is broad, up to date and balanced in terms of concept and application. The book is especially intended for the Organizational Behaviour paper of WBUT. It will also be useful for students of management, human resources management, organizational behaviour and behavioural sciences, as well as management practitioners who want to understand and enrich their understanding of human behaviour to manage their workforce more effectively. Key Features Comprehensive coverage of the syllabus Covers the latest developments in the field of organizational behaviour Case study at the end of each chapter Interesting and student-friendly presentation

The Oxford Handbook of Prosocial Behavior

Author : David A. Schroeder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195399811
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Prosocial Behavior written by David A. Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Prosocial Behavior provides a comprehensive review of the current literature on when and why people act to benefit others. It provides a comprehensive overview of the field to give both the casual reader and the neophyte to the field some perspective about fundamental questions (what, why, when, and who) relative to prosocial behavior. Taking a multi-level approach, the chapters represent the broad spectrum of this multi-faceted domain. Topics range from micro-level analyses involving evolutionary and comparative psychological factors to macro-level applications, such as reducing intergroup conflicts and ethnic genocide. Between these extremes, the contributors--all internationally recognized in their field--offer their perspectives on developmental processes that may predispose individuals to empathize with and respond to the needs of others, individual differences that seem to interact with situational demands to promote helping, and the underlying motivations of those helping others. They explain volunteerism, intragroup cooperation, and intergroup cooperation to move the analysis from the individual to group-level phenomena. They extend the consideration of this topic to include support of pro-environmental actions, means to encourage participation in medical clinical trials, and the promotion of world peace. The ways that gender, interpersonal relationships, race, and religion might affect decisions to give aid and support to others are also addressed. The final chapter offers a unique view of prosocial behavior that encourages researchers and readers to take an even broader consideration of the field to search for a prosocial consilience.

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

Author : Tim Delaney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317349466
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Classical and Contemporary Social Theory written by Tim Delaney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: Investigation and Application, 1/e, is the most comprehensive, informative social theory book on the market. The title covers multiple schools of thought and applies their ideas to society today. Readers will learn the origins of social theory and understand the role of myriad social revolutions that shaped the course of societies around the world.

Gamer Trouble

Author : Amanda Phillips
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147988152X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Gamer Trouble written by Amanda Phillips and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games Gamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our popular understanding of “gamer” shifts beyond its historical construction as a white, straight, adolescent, cisgender male, the troubles that emerge both confirm and challenge our understanding of identity politics. In Gamer Trouble, Amanda Phillips excavates the turbulent relationships between surface and depth in contemporary gaming culture, taking readers under the hood of the mechanisms of video games in order to understand the ways that difference gets baked into its technological, ludic, ideological, and social systems. By centering the insights of queer and women of color feminisms in readings of online harassment campaigns, industry animation practices, and popular video games like Portal and Mass Effect, Phillips adds essential analytical tools to our conversations about video games. She embraces the trouble that attends disciplinary crossroads, linking the violent hate speech of trolls and the representational practices marginalizing people of color, women, and queers in entertainment media to the dehumanizing logic undergirding computation and the optimization strategies of gameplay. From the microcosmic level of electricity and flicks of a thumb to the grand stages of identity politics and global capitalism, wherever gamers find themselves, gamer trouble follows. As reinvigorated forms of racism, sexism, and homophobia thrive in games and gaming communities, Phillips follows the lead of those who have been making good trouble all along, agitating for a better world.

Installation Theory

Author : Saadi Lahlou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108548539
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Installation Theory written by Saadi Lahlou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Installation Theory: The Societal Construction and Regulation of Behaviour provides researchers and practitioners with a simple and powerful framework to analyse and change behaviour. Informed by a wide range of empirical evidence, it includes an accessible synthesis of former theories (ecological psychology, activity theory, situated action, distributed cognition, social constructionism, actor-network theory and social representations). 'Installations' are the familiar, socially constructed, apparatuses which elicit, enable, scaffold and control - and make predictable most of our 'normal' behaviour; from shower-cabins or airport check-ins to family dinners, classes or hospitals. The book describes their threefold structure with a new model enabling systematic and practical analysis of their components. It details the mechanisms of their construction, resilience and evolution, illustrated with dozens of examples, from restaurants to nuclear plant operation. The book also provides a detailed analysis of the processes of creation and selection of innovations, proposing a model for the maintenance and evolution of social systems.

Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Author : John M Levine
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452261504
Total Pages : 1049 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations written by John M Levine and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 1049 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 75 years there has been a tremendous amount of theoretical and empirical research on group processes and intergroup relations by scholars in various disciplines. The Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations is a reflection of the growing integration of what were formerly two distinct approaches. With approximately 300 entries, the two volumes of this encyclopedia cover concepts ranging from conformity to diversity and from small group interaction to intergroup relations on a global scale. Key Features Examines the major criteria used by researchers to define groups Conveys what behavioral scientists know and theorize about how people think, feel, and act when responding to ingroup and outgroup members Discusses perspectives on what happens within groups and between groups Key Themes Cognitions and Feelings Conflict and Cooperation Within Groups Group Decision Making Group Performance and Problem Solving Group Structure Identity and Self Influence and Persuasion Intergroup Relations in Society Methodology Organizations Theory Types of Groups and Subgroups

Organizational Behavior Exam Review

Author : Cybellium
Publisher : Cybellium
ISBN 13 : 1836793448
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Organizational Behavior Exam Review written by Cybellium and published by Cybellium. This book was released on with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the forefront of knowledge with Cybellium, your trusted partner in mastering the cuttign-edge fields of IT, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Business, Economics and Science. Designed for professionals, students, and enthusiasts alike, our comprehensive books empower you to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital world. * Expert Insights: Our books provide deep, actionable insights that bridge the gap between theory and practical application. * Up-to-Date Content: Stay current with the latest advancements, trends, and best practices in IT, Al, Cybersecurity, Business, Economics and Science. Each guide is regularly updated to reflect the newest developments and challenges. * Comprehensive Coverage: Whether you're a beginner or an advanced learner, Cybellium books cover a wide range of topics, from foundational principles to specialized knowledge, tailored to your level of expertise. Become part of a global network of learners and professionals who trust Cybellium to guide their educational journey. www.cybellium.com

Labor Fact-finding Boards Act

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor Fact-finding Boards Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fundamentals of Research on Culture and Psychology

Author : Valery Chirkov
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317666100
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Research on Culture and Psychology written by Valery Chirkov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique text covers the core research methods and the philosophical assumptions that underlie various strategies, designs, and methodologies used when researching cultural issues. It teaches readers why and for what purpose one conducts research on cultural issues so as to give them a better sense of the thinking that should happen before they go out and collect data. More than a "methods text", it is about all the steps that go into doing cross-cultural research. It discusses how to select the most appropriate methods for data analysis and which approach to use, and details quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods for experimental lab studies and ethnographic field work.

Capabilities and Social Justice

Author : John M. Alexander
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754661870
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Capabilities and Social Justice written by John M. Alexander and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capability approach to social justice construes a person's well-being in terms of the substantive freedoms people value. John Alexander engages with the rapidly growing body of literature on the capability approach in economics, inequality, poverty measurement and development studies. Critically assessing Sen and Nussbaum's work in normative economics, social ethics and political philosophy, Alexander develops a unified vision of the capability approach embodying the ideal of creating the greatest possible condition for the realization of basic capabilities for all. He then assesses this vision as a political theory arguing that capabilities are necessary but not sufficient for overcoming conditions of domination. The book calls for a more intimate relationship between individual liberty and the freedom of the political community as a whole

The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot

Author : John Xiros Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113945790X
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot written by John Xiros Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to understand the course of modern literature. This book provides the perfect introduction to key aspects of Eliot's life and work, as well as to the wider contexts of modernism in which he wrote. John Xiros Cooper explains how Eliot was influenced by the intellectual climate of both twentieth-century Britain and America, and how he became a key cultural figure on both sides of the Atlantic. The continuing controversies surrounding his writing and his thought are also addressed. With a useful guide to further reading, this is the most informative and accessible introduction to T. S. Eliot.