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Book The Social Sense of the Human Experience

Download or read book The Social Sense of the Human Experience written by Roberta Iannone and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should we wonder about man and the human sense? What are the questions and answers we are seeking? Why should we read the work of Werner Sombart? Or rather, why should we re-read “this” Sombart? This book tracks the human sense in order to rediscover this compass against the current crisis of the humanistic conception of society. This crisis is manifest in a repositioning of society, which is no longer human by definition, in contrast to the past, when the term “human society” was a tautology and redundant. As such, the human element of society must be rediscovered. This book revitalizes the scientific sense of the human, which is almost anesthetized, often frustrated and belittled, sometimes confused and mistaken with something else, frequently misunderstood and made unrecognizable, but, precisely for this reason, which is increasingly essential today.

Book The Human Experience

Download or read book The Human Experience written by John Curra and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and innovative book explores core concepts that make up sociology's fundamental insights, such as social interaction, and the social construction of human experience. Provides a deep exploration of topics such as socialization, relationships in public, the more private world of thoughts, feelings and remembrances, and changing social relationships. For anyone interested in human relations, interpersonal communications and sociology in general.

Book Applied Qualitative Research Design

Download or read book Applied Qualitative Research Design written by Margaret R. Roller and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique text provides a comprehensive framework for creating, managing, and interpreting qualitative research studies that yield valid and useful information. Examples of studies from a wide range of disciplines illustrate the strengths, limitations, and applications of the primary qualitative methods: in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, ethnography, content analysis, and case study and narrative research. Following a consistent format, chapters show students and researchers how to implement each method within a paradigm-neutral and flexible Total Quality Framework (TQF) comprising four interrelated components: Credibility, Analyzability, Transparency, and Usefulness. Unlike other texts that relegate quality issues to one or two chapters, detailed discussions of such crucial topics as construct validity, interresearcher reliability, researcher bias, and verification strategies are featured throughout. The book also addresses applications of the TQF to the writing, review, and evaluation of qualitative research proposals and manuscripts. Pedagogical Features *Summary tables that highlight important content, such as the application of a method to vulnerable or hard-to-reach populations. *Case studies that illustrate TQF standards in practice for each method. *Guidelines for effective documentation (via thick descriptions) of each type of study. *End-of-chapter discussion topics, exercises, and suggested further reading and Web resources. *Chapters open with a preview and close with a bulleted summary of key ideas. *Extensive glossary. 2021 Winner--American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Book Award

Book Sociology and the Human Experience

Download or read book Sociology and the Human Experience written by Donald A. Hobbs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1985 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociology and the Human Experience introduces college students to the study of sociology. It is hoped that in learning sociology students will also acquire a sociological perspective of the human experience - an understanding and appreciation of the fact that, above all, people are social beings. The authors have therefore attempted not only to teach sociology but also to encourage students to use the sociological perspective to examine American society and their personal relation to it.

Book Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism

Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism written by Gary Huafan He and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the problem of stopping in the design processes in history, and the other with the organic legacy of style in the nineteenth century as a preeminent form of aesthetic ideology. The epistemologies of self-generation outlined by enlightenment and critical philosophy provided the model for the discursive formations of modern urban planning and architecture. The form of the organism was thought to calibrate modernism’s infinite extension. The architectural organicism of today does not take on the language of the biological sciences, as they did in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but rather the image of complex systems, be they computational/informational, geo/ecological, or even ontological/aesthetic ‘networks’. What is retained from the modernity of yesterday is the ideology of endless self-generation. Revisiting such a topic feels relevant now, in a time when the idea of endless generation is rendered more suspect than ever, amid an ever increasing speed and complexity of artificial intelligence (AI) networks. The essays collected in this book offer a variety of critiques of the modernist idea of endless growth in the fields of architecture, literature, philosophy, and the history of science. They range in scope from theoretical and speculative to analytic and critical and from studies of the history of modernity to reflections of our contemporary world. Far from advocating a return to the romantic forms of nineteenth-century naturphilosophie, this project focuses on probing organicism for new forms of critique and emergent subjectivities in a contemporary, 'post'-pandemic constellation of neo-naturalism in design, climate change, complex systems, and information networks. This book will be of interest to a broad range of researchers and professionals in architecture and art history, historians of science, visual artists, and scholars in the humanities more generally.

Book Feminist Philosophy of Mind

Download or read book Feminist Philosophy of Mind written by Keya Maitra and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection is the first book to focus on the emerging field of study called feminist philosophy of mind. Each of the twenty chapters of Feminist Philosophy of Mind employs theories and methodologies from feminist philosophy to offer fresh insights and perspectives into issues raised in the contemporary literature in philosophy of mind and/or uses those from the philosophy of mind to advance feminist theory. The book delineates the content and aims of the field and demonstrates the fecundity of its approach, which is centered on the collective consideration of three questions: What is the mind? Whose mind is the model for the theory? To whom is mind attributed? Topics considered with this lens include mental content, artificial intelligence, the first-person perspective, personal identity, other minds, mental attribution, mental illness, perception, memory, attention, desire, trauma, agency, empathy, grief, love, gender, race, sexual orientation, materialism, panpsychism, and enactivism. In addition to engaging analytic and feminist philosophical traditions, essays draw from resources in phenomenology, philosophy of race, decolonial studies, disability studies, embodied cognition theory, comparative philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology"--

Book The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research written by Norman K. Denzin (ed) and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoroughly revised & updated edition, this volume includes new chapters on auto-ethnography, critical race theory, queer theory, & testimonies.

Book The Dialogical Mind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ivana Marková
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2016-09
  • ISBN : 1107002559
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book The Dialogical Mind written by Ivana Marková and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marková offers a dialogical perspective to problems in daily life and professional practices involving communication, care, and therapy.

Book Women  Television and Everyday Life in Korea

Download or read book Women Television and Everyday Life in Korea written by Youna Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fusing audience research and ethnography, the book presents a compelling account of women’s changing lives and identities in relation to the impact of the most popular media culture in everyday life: television. Within the historically-specific social conditions of Korean modernity, Youna Kim analyzes how Korean women of varying age and class group cope with the new environment of changing economical structure and social relations. The book argues that television is an important resource for women, stimulating them to research their own lives and identities. Youna Kim reveals Korean women as creative, energetic and critical audiences in their responses to evolving modernity and the impact of the West. Based on original empirical research, the book explores the hopes, aspirations, frustrations and dilemmas of Korean women as they try to cope with life beyond traditional grounds. Going beyond the traditional Anglo-American view of media and culture, this text will appeal to students and scholars of both Korean area studies and media and communications studies.

Book Revives My Soul Again

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lewis V. Baldwin
  • Publisher : Fortress Press
  • Release : 2018-11-01
  • ISBN : 1506424716
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Revives My Soul Again written by Lewis V. Baldwin and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MLK and the Practice of Spirituality The scholarship on Martin Luther King Jr. is seriously lacking in terms of richly nuanced and revelatory treatments of his spirituality and spiritual life. This book addresses this neglect by focusing on King's life as a paradigm of a deep, vital, engaging, balanced, and contagious spirituality. It shows that the essence of the person King was lies in the quality of his own spiritual journey and how that translated into not only a personal devotional life of prayer, meditation, and fasting but also a public ministry that involved the uplift and empowerment of humanity. Much attention is devoted to King's spiritual leadership, to his sense of the civil rights movement as "a spiritual movement," and to his efforts to rescue humanity from what he termed a perpetual "death of the spirit." Readers encounter a figure who took seriously the personal, interpersonal, and sociopolitical aspects of the Christian faith, thereby figuring prominently in recasting the very definition of spirituality in his time. King's "holistic spirituality" is presented here with a clarity and power fresh for our own generation.

Book Foundations of Disability Studies

Download or read book Foundations of Disability Studies written by M. Wappett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight essays by scholars who have published extensively within the disability studies literature, and who have helped build the field to its current state. Includes contributions from Robert Bogdan, Doug Biklen, Susan Schweik, and more.

Book Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition

Download or read book Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medicine the understanding and interpretation of the complex reality of illness currently refers either to an organismic approach that focuses on the physical or to a 'holistic' approach that takes into account the patient's human sociocultural involvement. Yet as the papers of this collection show, the suffering human person refers ultimately to his/her existential sphere. Hence, praxis is supplemented by still other perspectives for valuation and interpretation: ethical, spiritual, and religious. Can medicine ignore these considerations or push them to the side as being subjective and arbitrary? Phenomenology/philosophy-of-life recognizes all of the above approaches to be essential facets of the Human Condition (Tymieniecka). This approach holds that all the facets of the Human Condition have equal objectivity and legitimacy. It completes the accepted medical outlook and points the way toward a new `medical humanism'.

Book Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry

Download or read book Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry written by Norman K. Denzin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry, Third Edition, the second volume in the paperback version of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd Edition, consists of Part III of the handbook ("Strategies of Inquiry"). Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry, Third Edition presents the major tactics-historically, the research methods-that researchers can utilize in conducting concrete qualitative studies. The chapter topics range from performance ethnography to case studies, issues of ethnographic representation, grounded theory strategies, testimonies, participatory action research, and clinical research. Key Feature of the Third Edition - Contains a new Reader's Guide prepared by the editors that helps students and researchers navigate through the chapters, locating the different methodologies, methods, techniques, issues, and theories relevant to their work. - Presents an abbreviated Glossary of terms that offer students and researchers a ready resource to help decode the language of qualitative research. - Offers recommended Readings that provide readers with additional sources on specific topic areas linked to their research. Intended Audience This text is designed for graduate students taking classes in social research methods and qualitative methods as well as researchers throughout the social sciences and in some fields within the humanities.

Book Situating Social Practices in Community Energy Projects

Download or read book Situating Social Practices in Community Energy Projects written by Angela Pohlmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Pohlmann analyses the social embeddedness of renewable energy production. The author challenges tendencies in the existing literature to homogenize community energy projects. Energy production instead is analyzed as an outcome of complex situations within which dynamic negotiation processes unfold. By combining Theodore Schatzki’s practice-theoretical approach with Adele Clarke’s situational analysis the focus is shifted from practices as stabilized and routinized forms of human behavior onto their dynamic and negotiated character.

Book Enterprising Initiatives in the Experience Economy

Download or read book Enterprising Initiatives in the Experience Economy written by Britta Timm Knudsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, the close relationship between culture and economy - or "the experience economy" – has risen on the agenda. Although there is an established research field for analysing the economic impact of entrepreneurship, there is currently a limited amount of research that analyses the cultural impact and opportunity of entrepreneurship. Linking experience economy with enterprising behavior moves the term away from businesses' competitiveness and consumer behavior towards a more value-focused business in general. This ground-breaking book integrates entrepreneurship and empowerment into one central theme, drawing on research from both the social sciences (innovation, entrepreneurship, empowerment and activism) and the humanities (participatory culture, user-generated designs, creative networks). Enterprising Initiatives expands the definition of entrepreneurship beyond a primarily economic profit-seeking phenomenon to a broader understanding of enterprising behaviour based on an individual-opportunity nexus. Beyond social entrepreneurship, it explores a broad range of individual, collective and cooperative citizen initiatives under the umbrella of enterprising action. This innovative approach will be of great interest to scholars in entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, cultural entrepreneurship, cultural studies, and consumer culture, as well as for policy makers in public and local government, regional development and cultural event management.

Book Common Sense

    Book Details:
  • Author : F. L. van Holthoon
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780819165046
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Common Sense written by F. L. van Holthoon and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1987 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: Series number is not an integer: n/a

Book Family Solutions for Youth at Risk

Download or read book Family Solutions for Youth at Risk written by William H. Quinn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Quinn provides a review on related research and programs and effectiveness. A presentation of the model program provides most of the materials an individual or agency would need to begin to implement the program. A practitioner might take activities from the model program and integrate them into an existing program.