Author: Kate Bezanson
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN: 155130936X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Rethinking Society in the 21st Century is a critical collection of readings that provides students with a foundational knowledge base in sociology. The fourth edition has been thoroughly updated to include significant Canadian content, with a greater focus on indigeneity, gender, and sexuality and a new section dedicated to social movements, social change, and emerging fields. This anthology introduces students to the fundamental elements of sociology with a balance of classical theory—Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Mills—and more contemporary approaches found in the works of Michel Foucault and Dorothy Smith. Building on this theoretical grounding, the text outlines core concepts in sociology as well as major social institutions such as families, the economy and labour, education, health care, and media. Covering a wide breadth of topics, including chapters on animals, the environment, crime, trans issues, class, ethnicity, and race, this new edition explores critical debates in Canadian society with an emphasis on intersectional approaches to social inequalities. This volume is rich with pedagogical features that promote critical understanding, including detailed introductions that speak to the contextual history of the source material and discussion questions for each section. Uniquely designed for introductory courses, Rethinking Society in the 21st Century is the ideal reader for Canadian students of sociology.
Author: International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108502393
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 971
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This is the first of three volumes containing a report from the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). The IPSP is an independent association of top research scholars with the goal of assessing methods for improving the main institutions of modern societies. Written in accessible language by scholars across the social sciences and humanities, these volumes assess the achievements of world societies in past centuries, the current trends, the dangers that we are now facing, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century. It covers the main socio-economic, political, and cultural dimensions of social progress, global as well as regional issues, and the diversity of challenges and their interplay around the world. This particular volume covers topics such as economic inequality and growth, finance and corporations, labor, capitalism, and social justice.
Author: Doctor Amy Eckert
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848137710
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Rethinking the 21st Century brings much needed context and perspective to the security problems we face today. In recent years, the 'Bush Doctrine' - that the security threats we now face are entirely unprecedented - has echoed around the world. Global security and stability is now challenged not only by states and nuclear war, but by insurgency, disease, environmental degradation and military privatisation. Yet this creates a deep sense of disconnect in the way we perceive politics, and can be dangerously stark and ahistorical. The chapters here show that, far from being a clean break, the 'new' problems faced today might actually have 'old' solutions. What can Locke tell us about terrorists? What does Bentham have to say about sanctions? What are the ethics of outsourcing war to private companies? By looking back to decades and even centuries of ethical analysis and political theory, this book provides fascinating insight into all these questions.
Author: International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108502415
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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This is the third of three volumes containing a report from the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). The IPSP is an independent association of top research scholars with the goal of assessing methods for improving the main institutions of modern societies. Written in accessible language by scholars across the social sciences and humanities, these volumes assess the achievements of world societies in past centuries, the current trends, the dangers that we are now facing, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century. It covers the main socio-economic, political, and cultural dimensions of social progress, global as well as regional issues, and the diversity of challenges and their interplay around the world. This particular volume covers topics such as world cultures and religions, families, global health, education, and the contributions of social sciences to institutional change.
Author: Canadian Scholars Press
Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press
ISBN: 9781551302577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Michelle Webber
Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press
ISBN: 9781551302355
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This is a unique collection of thirty-two essays that fill a critical void in introductory sociology. This engaging and profound book weaves together feminist, class-conscious, and anti-racist approaches with the study of introductory sociology for Canadian students. One of the many strengths of this bold collection is theory. Rethinking Society in the 21st Century balances classical theoretical approaches in sociology -- Durkheim, Marx and Mills -- with contemporary approaches, as found in the work of Dorothy Smith and Michel Foucault, among others. Following this exemplary grounding, the book then introduces the foundations of society -- socialisation, social interaction and culture -- as well as the major social institutions of family, the economy, and labour. Crime, moral regulation, and social justice are presented in a progressive light, while population, globalisation, and the new world order complete this well-rounded introduction to Canadian sociology. The second unique feature of this collection is its extensive coverage of inequality, specifically social class, gender, ethnicity, race, age/generation, and sexuality. The third distinguishing aspect is its pronounced emphasis on Canadian content and its incorporation of feminist theory.
Author: Richard B. McKenzie
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761914447
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Exploring the only option for a growing army of children who cannot be placed for adoption or fostering, this text demonstrates from a large-scale survey of orphan alumni that they outpace the general population in most areas of life.
Author: Michelle Webber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781551309378
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages :
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"This is a collection of readings designed for introductory sociology courses in Canada. The book includes sections on classical sociology--with readings by seminal sociologists like Durkheim, Weber, and Mills--along with more contemporary readings on a diverse set of topics and issues."--
Author: Michael Ignatieff
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633862728
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The key values of the Open Society – freedom, justice, tolerance, democracy, and respect for knowledge – are increasingly under threat in today’s world. As an effort to uphold those values, this volume brings together some of the key political, social and economic thinkers of our time to re-examine the Open Society closely in terms of its history, its achievements and failures, and its future prospects. Based on the lecture series Rethinking Open Society, which took place between 2017 and 2018 at the Central European University, the volume is deeply embedded in the history and purpose of CEU, its Open Society mission, and its belief in educating skeptical, but passionate citizens.
Author: International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108436335
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This is the second of three volumes containing a report from the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). The IPSP is an independent association of top research scholars with the goal of assessing methods for improving the main institutions of modern societies. Written in accessible language by scholars across the social sciences and humanities, these volumes assess the achievements of world societies in past centuries, the current trends, the dangers that we are now facing, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century. It covers the main socio-economic, political, and cultural dimensions of social progress, global as well as regional issues, and the diversity of challenges and their interplay around the world. This particular volume covers topics such as democracy and the rule of law, violence and wars, international organizations and global governance, and media and communications.