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Este libro ofrece una selección de textos sobre problemas éticos relacionados con la teoría e investigación en el campo social. Con esta compilación se busca promover un diálogo interdisciplinar entre ética y ciencias sociales animado por lo siguiente. Primero, que los comportamientos humanos en una comunidad se relacionan con valoraciones, juicios éticos y afectos que pueden ser comprendidos de mejor manera si tejemos una relación entre...
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In 2004, the U.S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percent-from more than 80,000 in 2004 to just over 8,000 today. To some, this might suggest a victory for the global anti-trafficking campaign, but Rhacel Parreñas counters that this drastic decline-which stripped thousands...
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Today people more than ever are overwhelmed by worry about current events. Why are some people devoured by hatred and bigotry? Can we avoid the next economic crisis? Can we prevent the next global war? Will computers take over our civilization any time soon? Even though Vertical Progress does not have all answers, it provides readers with plenty of new ideas to open the debate. Vertical Progress offers a hypothesis and rationale that provides not...
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Medical sociology has long been concerned with the role played by specialist forms of expertise in enabling the governance of 'troublesome' social groups – including those who are unwell, 'deviant' and criminally insane. However, only recently has it begun to explore how the state ensures the public is protected from acts of medical malpractice, negligence and criminality. Against the background of a series of high-profile scandals, including the...
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Man is a social, political, and more intelligent animal, and he is a higher specie in the realm of evolution of life on earth. All humans are on and have equal rights for living and to possess basic needs, like food, clothing, shelter, water, and electricity and to elect a leader for governance. Here humans include women. There is no distinction or discrimination of cast, creed, race, region, religion, or regime.
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El libro digital, Shopping en Puerto Rico: Prácticas, significados y subjetividades de consumo (2013), de la autoría de la Dra. Laura L. Ortiz-Negrón, presenta los resultados de una investigación seminal en torno a la cultura del consumo como fenómeno social. Puerto Rico es el estudio de caso, que le permite a la investigadora producir una mirada interdisciplinaria y reflexiva sobre este tema. La autora presenta un análisis comprensivo y meticuloso...
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Central American countries have long defined health as a human right. But in recent years regional trade agreements have ushered in aggressive intellectual property reforms, undermining this conception. Questions of IP and health provisions are pivotal to both human rights advocacy and "free" trade policy, and as this book chronicles, complex political battles have developed across the region. Looking at events in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala,...
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Au cours des dernières décennies, les rites et les symboles se sont particulièrement transformés, s'autonomisant, s'individualisant, bref, se modernisant. Les auteurs dressent un portrait des formes contemporaines d'intervention rituelle autour des grands passages de la vie, de l'enfance à la mort.
50) Sancocho de Mico. Relatos alimentarios de exsecuestrados políticos de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucion
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Este libro realiza un análisis sobre las prácticas alimentarias y la relación entre la cocina y los alimentos con la cotidianidad de algunos exsecuestrados políticos durante el tiempo que estuvieron retenidos en manos del Bloque Oriental de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC-EP), a partir de los insumos teóricos de los estudios de la alimentación. En este sentido, emerge la pertinencia investigativa del presente texto, ya...
51) Sistema Territorial en la Materialidad de la Desaparición Forzada. Departamento de Antioquia-Colombi
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La investigación que aquí se presenta se suscribe en el departamento de Antioquia, espacio que trasciende su formalidad física al develarse su dimensionalidad geográfica desde el análisis de la materialidad que expone la desaparición forzada y su sentido violento en los territorios. De igual manera, se ubica en una temporalidad, que más allá de definirse desde el planteamiento metodológico inicial, fue dictada por los casos de personas desaparecidas...
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Ricardo Gómez Giraldo se propuso aceptar la invitación de algunos historiadores para llenar un vacío a su juicio importante: la falta de estudios que vinculen la historia de las mentalidades con el abordaje de problemas de la sociedad. En este caso, con aquellos que son posiblemente los más significativos de una sociedad moderna: la educación, la ciencia y la tecnología.
Para esto, escudriñó los grandes debates que se dieron sobre esos temas...
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Un discours institutionnalisé sur la maternité prédomine dans notre société et dicte ce qui fait d'une femme une « bonne » mère. Les auteurs de cet ouvrage résistent à ce discours en présentant l'expérience de la maternité sous ses multiples visages, y compris ceux en contexte d'itinérance, de toxicomanie, de violence et de pauvreté.
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En s'intéressant à certaines populations socialement disqualifiées, soit les personnes ayant des problèmes de santé mentale et les résidents en habitation à loyer modique, les auteurs étudient le logement non seulement comme l'un des déterminants de la santé et du bien-être mais également comme un lieu d'intervention majeur dans le domaine des services sociaux.
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The name elBulli is synonymous with creativity and innovation. Located in Catalonia, Spain, the three-star Michelin restaurant led the world to "molecular" or "techno-emotional" cooking and made fantastic creations, such as pine-nut marshmallows, rose-scented mozzarella, liquid olives, and melon caviar, into a sensational reality. People traveled from all over the world - if they could secure a coveted reservation during its six months of operation...
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#1 In 1950, a teenager named Barbara Johns led a strike by her fellow high school students in Prince Edward County to demand a better school. The niece of the Reverend Vernon Johns, the radical minister who later mentored the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Barbara never consulted her Montgomery uncle about the strike.
#2 The seed was planted by Miss Davenport, who...
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Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series.
Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid understanding of Foucault's key terms, which have become...
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The Rewards of Punishment describes a new social theory of norms to provide a compelling explanation why people punish. Identifying mechanisms that link interdependence with norm enforcement, it reveals how social relationships lead individuals to enforce norms, even when doing so makes little sense. This groundbreaking book tells the whole story, from ideas, to experiments, to real-world applications. In addition to addressing longstanding theoretical...
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This 1916 work discusses psychoanalysis by way of Kant and Freud. Bjerre considers the importance of hypnosis, and clarifies the grounds of his divergence from the teachings of Freud. His clear, well-written arguments are unbiased and backed up with facts. Upon publication, the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis called it "refreshing" and "well worth reading."
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Los textos agrupados en este libro ofrecen una lectura crítica en torno a un trecho y un elemento de nuestra historia: el del proceso de transformación social ocurrido en el siglo pasado. Desde diversas miradas y soportados sobre un sólido aparato metodológico, los investigadores convocados realizan un examen de la complejidad y hondura de ese proceso, a partir del análisis de diferentes aspectos que dan cuenta de las "mudanzas ocurridas, pero...
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