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Book Social and Cultural Dynamics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pitirim Aleksandrovič Sorokin
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1412834236
  • Pages : 752 pages

Download or read book Social and Cultural Dynamics written by Pitirim Aleksandrovič Sorokin and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sociocultural Psychology and Regulatory Processes in Learning Activity

Download or read book Sociocultural Psychology and Regulatory Processes in Learning Activity written by Lynda D. Stone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the use of new analytical tools, this book presents a dynamic, sociocultural view of behavioural regulation in learning contexts.

Book Linguistic Processes in Sociocultural Practice

Download or read book Linguistic Processes in Sociocultural Practice written by Gunther R. Kress and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the point of view that language is essentially a social phenomenon, this book explores the interconnectedness of linguistic and social matters in a wide vareity of texts ranging from casual conversations to extracts from coursebooks. Kress demonstrates that, rather than being powerless in the face of a monolithic language system, the individual language user is constantly engaged in the processes of linguistic reconstitution and change.

Book Sociocultural processes and kind of time

Download or read book Sociocultural processes and kind of time written by Joel Martin Halpern and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sociocultural Processes and Kinds of Time

Download or read book Sociocultural Processes and Kinds of Time written by Joel Martin Halpern and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sociological Theory  Values  and Sociocultural Change

Download or read book Sociological Theory Values and Sociocultural Change written by Edward A. Tiryakian and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together some of the biggest names in the field of sociology to celebrate the work of Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor and founder of the department of sociology at Harvard University. Sorokin, a past president of the American Sociological Association, was a pioneer in many fields of research, including sociological theory, social philosophy, methodology, and sociology of science, law, art, and knowledge. Edward A. Tiryakian’s updated introduction examines major factors, inside and outside sociology, that have led to new appreciation of Sorokin’s contributions and scholarship, and demonstrates their continued relevance. This new edition also includes an updated bibliography of works by and about Sorokin. The volume includes Arthur K. Davis, who describes Sorokin’s importance as a teacher in the Socratic tradition. Talcott Parsons examines internal differentiation in Christianity in its historical Western development. Thomas O’Dea deals with the institutionalization of religious values. Walter Firey examines how actors relate their conception of a distant future to their present behavior. Florence Kluckhohn focuses upon the problem of cultural variations within a social system. Robert K. Merton and Elinor Barber examine the sociological aspect of ambivalence. Bernard Barber considers the American business’s efforts to institutionalize professionalism. Other contributors include Charles P. Loomis, Wilbert E. Moore, Georges Gurvitch, Marion J. Levy, Jr., Nicholas S. Timasheff, Carle Zimmerman, and Logan Wilson. This volume is an essential collection of essays concerning the work of one of the most prominent thinkers in twentieth-century sociology.

Book Social and Cultural Dynamics

Download or read book Social and Cultural Dynamics written by Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Time  Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology

Download or read book Time Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology written by James McGlade and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book to deal with movements developing broadly from chaos theory and applying them to archaeology (eg. non-linear modelling) Draws on a wide range of natural and social sciences: biologists, computer scientists, ecologists, archaeologists and social scientists. Contributors from Europe and US. Include high-profile names eg. Rosen, Huberman and Erwin. Topical: Reflects current preoccupation of European and US archaeologists with new concepts of temporality

Book Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge

Download or read book Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge written by Kirsten Hastrup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology poses an explicit challenge to standard notions of scientific knowledge. It claims to produce genuine insights into the workings of culture in general on the basis of individual social experience in the field. Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge traces the process from the ethnographic experience to the analytical results, showing how fieldwork enables the ethnographer to arrive at an understanding, not only of `culture' and `society', but also of the processes by which cultures and societies are transformed. The contributors challenge the distinction between subjectivity and objectivity, redefine what we should mean by `empirical' and demonstrate the complexity of present-day epistemological problems through concrete examples. By demystifying subjectivity in the ethnographic process and re-emphasizing the vital position of fieldwork, they do much to renew confidence in the anthropological project of comprehending the world.

Book Research in the Service of Mental Health

Download or read book Research in the Service of Mental Health written by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Research Task Force and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Origin of Concepts

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  • Author : Susan Carey
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2009-05-06
  • ISBN : 0199887918
  • Pages : 608 pages

Download or read book The Origin of Concepts written by Susan Carey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only human beings have a rich conceptual repertoire with concepts like tort, entropy, Abelian group, mannerism, icon and deconstruction. How have humans constructed these concepts? And once they have been constructed by adults, how do children acquire them? While primarily focusing on the second question, in The Origin of Concepts , Susan Carey shows that the answers to both overlap substantially. Carey begins by characterizing the innate starting point for conceptual development, namely systems of core cognition. Representations of core cognition are the output of dedicated input analyzers, as with perceptual representations, but these core representations differ from perceptual representations in having more abstract contents and richer functional roles. Carey argues that the key to understanding cognitive development lies in recognizing conceptual discontinuities in which new representational systems emerge that have more expressive power than core cognition and are also incommensurate with core cognition and other earlier representational systems. Finally, Carey fleshes out Quinian bootstrapping, a learning mechanism that has been repeatedly sketched in the literature on the history and philosophy of science. She demonstrates that Quinian bootstrapping is a major mechanism in the construction of new representational resources over the course of childrens cognitive development. Carey shows how developmental cognitive science resolves aspects of long-standing philosophical debates about the existence, nature, content, and format of innate knowledge. She also shows that understanding the processes of conceptual development in children illuminates the historical process by which concepts are constructed, and transforms the way we think about philosophical problems about the nature of concepts and the relations between language and thought.

Book Interest in Mathematics and Science Learning

Download or read book Interest in Mathematics and Science Learning written by Ann Renninger and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in Mathematics and Science Learning, edited by K. Ann Renninger, Martin Nieswandt, and Suzanne Hidi, is the first volume to assemble findings on the role of interest in mathematics and science learning. As the contributors illuminate across the volume's 22 chapters, interest provides a critical bridge between cognition and affect in learning and development. This volume will be useful to educators, researchers, and policy makers, especially those whose focus is mathematics, science, and technology education.

Book Shaping Modern Times in Rural France

Download or read book Shaping Modern Times in Rural France written by Susan Carol Rogers and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the notion that modernization is a homogenizing process, Susan Rogers contends that in the course of large-scale transformations communities often reproduce and strengthen distinctive cultural and social features. To make this argument, she focuses on the French farming community of "Ste Foy" during a period of rapid change (1945-75). Using ethnographic field data and archival material that she collected as a "participant-observer," she finds an intriguing puzzle: an allegedly archaic social form, the ostal, has become increasingly common in the community. The ostal, a type of family farm organized around an extended "stem family" household, is a variant of the stem family systems associated with preindustrial southern Europe. How have Ste Foyans continued to remake this "archaic" mode as their community grew more prosperous and more involved in national and international markets? In showing how the specific identity of a community is reproduced rather than obliterated by modernization, the author reveals dialectical relationships between structure and change, history and culture, and the centralized nation-state and regional diversity. This analysis addresses anthropologists, historians, and scholars interested in local politics and economic development.

Book Social Psychology

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  • Author : Ralph Turner
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-09-29
  • ISBN : 1351489720
  • Pages : 750 pages

Download or read book Social Psychology written by Ralph Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""A valuable compendium: broad In scope, rich In detail: It should be a most useful reference for students and teachers."" This is how Alex Inkeles of Stanford University described this text. It is made more so in this paperback edition aimed to reach a broad student population in sociology and psychology. The new Introduction written by Rosenberg and Turner brings the story of social psychology up to date by a rich and detailed examination of trends and tendencies of the 1980s.Although social psychology is a major area of specialization in sociology and psychology, this text Is the first comprehensive and authoritative work that looks at the subject from a sociological perspective. Edited by two of the foremost social psychologists in the United States, this book presents a synthesis of the major theoretical and empirical contributions of social psychology.They treat both traditional topics such as symbolic interaction, social exchange theory, small groups, social roles, and intergroup relations, and newer approaches such as socialization processes over the life cycle, sociology of the self, talk and social control, and the sociology of sentiments and emotions. The result is an absolutely Indispensable text for students and teachers who need a complete and ready reference to this burgeoning field.

Book The Complexity of Social Norms

Download or read book The Complexity of Social Norms written by Maria Xenitidou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the view that normative behaviour is part of a complex of social mechanisms, processes and narratives that are constantly shifting. From this perspective, norms are not a kind of self-contained social object or fact, but rather an interplay of many things that we label as norms when we ‘take a snapshot’ of them at a particular instant. Further, this book pursues the hypothesis that considering the dynamic aspects of these phenomena sheds new light on them. The sort of issues that this perspective opens to exploration include: Of what is this complex we call a "social norm" composed of? How do new social norms emerge and what kind of circumstances might facilitate such an appearance? How context-specific are the norms and patterns of normative behaviour that arise? How do the cognitive and the social aspects of norms interact over time? How do expectations, beliefs and individual rationality interact with social norm complexes to effect behaviour? How does our social embeddedness relate to social constraint upon behaviour? How might the socio-cognitive complexes that we call norms be usefully researched?

Book Theory and Methods for Sociocultural Research in Science and Engineering Education

Download or read book Theory and Methods for Sociocultural Research in Science and Engineering Education written by Gregory J. Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing original methods for integrating sociocultural and discourse studies into science and engineering education, this book provides a much-needed framework for how to conduct qualitative research in this field. The three dimensions of learning identified in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) create a need for research methods that examine the sociocultural components of science education. With cutting-edge studies and examples consistent with the NGSS, this book offers comprehensive research methods for integrating discourse and sociocultural practices in science and engineering education and provides key tools for applying this framework for students, pre-service teachers, scholars, and researchers.

Book Sociocybernetics

Download or read book Sociocybernetics written by R.F. Geyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: