Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of linguistic anthropology. A highly accessible introduction to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world Combines classic studies on language and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship and assumes ...
Engagingly and clearly written by a highly respected theologian, God, Sex, and Gender is the first comprehensive introduction to a theology of both sexuality and gender available in a single volume. Makes a theological contribution to understanding the unprecedented changes in sexual and gender relationships of the last fifty years Discusses many topics including: sexual difference; sexual equality; gender and power; the nature of desire; the fu ...
Jackson traces the lively skirmishes between Madagascar’s political cartoonists and politicians whose cartooning and public oratory reveal an ever-shifting barometer of democracy in the island nation. The first anthropological study of the role of language and rhetoric in reshaping democracy Maps the dynamic relationship between formalized oratory, satire, and political change in Madagascar A fascinating analysis of the extraordinary Ciceronian ...
The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations that can be found in the discipline today: the critical sociology that w ...
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world. ...
What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In this new book, Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across gender equality struggles, family change, class and education, intellectual workers, and the global dimension of social science, to contemporary theorists of knowledge and global power, and the pol ...
The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence, Peter Bellwood traces the journeys of the earliest hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist migrants as critical elements in the evolution of human lifeways. The first volume to chart global human migration and population dispersal throughout the whole of hum ...
Автор: Ян Вильям Сиверц ван Рейзема (А. И. Аргутинский-Долгорукий)
Книга посвящена теоретическим вопросам социальной прогностики, экологическим, социальным, духовным последствиям для земнопланетарной цивилизации инновационного, массово-информационного ускорения, вызванного современным развитием. Особенность книги – в ее происхождении. Это – рабочая рукопись, развернутый проект докторской диссертации, представленной автором для обсуждения в Институте конкретных социальных исследований (ИКСИ АН СССР) еще в 1972 ...
Издание посвящено анализу заданий Олимпиады школьников СПбГУ «Социология» по комплексу предметов обществознание и история. В нём отражены их характеристики и рекомендации по выполнению, даются варианты ответов, а также рассматриваются типичные ошибки, представление о которых будет способствовать качественной подготовке к олимпиаде школьников СПбГУ. Издание подготовлено членами Методической комиссии Олимпиады школьников Санкт-Петербургского госуд ...
