Author: Dora Fried Schnitman Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ) ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 416
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Through a series of chapters and dialogues, this volume presents a panorama of some of the paradigmatic changes that took place over the 1980s and 1990s in the field of systemic theory. The authors are researchers who challenge boundaries in the culture-knowledge-practice landscape.
Author: Sadeq Rahimi Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317555511 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 249
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This book explores the relationship between subjective experience and the cultural, political and historical paradigms in which the individual is embedded. Providing a deep analysis of three compelling case studies of schizophrenia in Turkey, the book considers the ways in which private experience is shaped by collective structures, offering insights into issues surrounding religion, national and ethnic identity and tensions, modernity and tradition, madness, gender and individuality. Chapters draw from cultural psychiatry, medical anthropology, and political theory to produce a model for understanding the inseparability of private experience and collective processes. The book offers those studying political theory a way for conceptualizing the subjective within the political; it offers mental health clinicians and researchers a model for including political and historical realities in their psychological assessments and treatments; and it provides anthropologists with a model for theorizing culture in which psychological experience and political facts become understandable and explainable in terms of, rather than despite each other. Meaning, Madness, and Political Subjectivity provides an original interpretative methodology for analysing culture and psychosis, offering compelling evidence that not only "normal" human experiences, but also extremely "abnormal" experiences such as psychosis are anchored in and shaped by local cultural and political realities.
Author: Federica Buongiorno Publisher: Inschibboleth edizioni ISBN: 8855290622 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 176
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What role does subjectivity play in digital culture? While the 19th century was characterized by print culture and the 20th century by broadcasting culture, we are now experiencing a new paradigm shift: digital technology has radically changed the way we produce (and consume) information, goods, values, social relationships, institutional bonds, etc. Subjects living in such a digital environment are ‘digitalizing’ themselves as well: the label ‘digital Self’ can help understand this change by establishing a parallel between subject and culture based on their common feature of being ‘digital’. Nevertheless, significant differences in this ‘being digital’ on both sides are at play, which should not be overlooked if we are to critically understand not only what a ‘digital Self’ and a ‘digital culture’ are, but also their dark sides and most problematic aspects. With this issue, our aim is to provide an interdisciplinary overview of the most problematic features of digital culture and the digital self according to contemporary debate, which might suggest new directions for future research and collaborative work.
Author: Couze Venn Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 9780761954125 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 268
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This important book critically addresses the `becoming West' of Europe and investigates the `becoming Modern' of the world. Drawing on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lyotard, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur, the book proposes that the question of postmodernity is inseparable from that of postcoloniality. The argument fully conveys the sense that modernity is in crisis. It maps out a new genealogy of the birth of the modern and suggests a new way of grounding the idea of an emancipation of being. Postcolonialism has emerged as a central topic in contemporary social science and cultural studies. This book informs readers as to the central strands of the debate and introduces a host of new ideas which will be a rich fund f
Author: Alain Touraine Publisher: Polity ISBN: 0745636721 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 233
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Introduction: A New Paradigm p. 1 Part 1 When We Referred to Ourselves in Social Terms 1 The Break p. 9 9/11 Fear A world in decline Where is meaning to be found? 2 Globalization p. 19 From the post-war states to the globalization of the economy An extreme capitalism The rupturing of societies Alter-globalism From society to war A globalized world 3 Europe: A State without a Nation p. 33 Decline of the national state? Is European unity possible? European Union and United States of America The European state European powerlessness The absence of European consciousness 4 The End of Societies p. 44 The social representation of society The European mode of modernization Society and modernity The crisis of representation The three deaths of European society Irruption of democracy The return of the political Farewell to society The war above us When system and actors separate off The rupturing of the social bond Are we witnessing the end of social movements? Conclusion 5 Revisiting the Self p. 71 What is modernity? The victory of modernity The end of social thought Emancipatory individualism Forms of social determinism From focusing on the world to focusing on the self The awakening of the subject Part 2 Now that We Refer to Ourselves in Cultural Terms 6 The Subject p. 101 The subject and identity The sources of the subject Defence of sociology The individual subject Rights Are we all subjects? The negation of the subject A related note The subject, social movements and the unconscious Proximity The subject and religion The subject and the school The experience of being a subject The anti-subject Between gods and societies 7 Cultural Rights p. 144 Political rights and cultural rights Minorities, multiculturalism, communitarianism Redistribution and recognition The new social movements Modernizations Entry into the post-social world Sexual rights The limits of cultural mixing About the 'veil' Communities and communitarianisms Liberals and communitarians Secularism Intercultural communication Return to new ideas 8 A Society of Women p. 184 An altered situation Equality and difference Sexuality and gender The woman-subject The role of men Post-feminism Argument: By Way of Conclusion p. 208 Bibliography p. 211 Index p. 216.
Author: John Smith Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134327714 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 313
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Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, cognitive science and evolutionary biology, the authors present a new series of interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of complex, self-organizing structures.
Author: Enes Emre Başar Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527573648 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 225
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This collection of essays emphasizes new and emerging research paradigms in the communication world. It provides researchers and practitioners with new paradigms in the form of ideas, concepts, trends, values and practices in the communication realm. In addition, the contributions here examine current, emerging, and cutting-edge approaches to communication in the broadest sense. The focus of this book is to provide an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon of continuous and rapid growth of new communication means, shifting from the traditional unidirectional sharing of information to multidirectional sharing channels. This collection will provide students, scholars and practitioners alike with readable, engaging and innovative ways to think critically about communication.
Author: Marian J. Rubchak Publisher: ISBN: 9781782387640 Category : Feminism Languages : en Pages : 318
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Having been spared the constraints imposed on intellectual discourse by the totalitarian regime of the past, young Ukrainian scholars now engage with many Western ideological theories and practices in an atmosphere of intellectual freedom and uncensored scholarship. Displacing the Soviet legacy of prescribed thought and practices, this volume's female contributors have infused their work with Western elements, although vestiges of Soviet-style ideas, research methodology, and writing linger. The result is the articulation of a "New Imaginaries" -- neither Soviet nor Western -- that offers a unique approach to the study of gender by presenting a portrait of Ukrainian society as seen through the eyes of a new generation of feminist scholars.
Author: Dora Fried Schnitman
Author: Sadeq Rahimi
Author: Federica Buongiorno
Author: Joel H. Spring
Author: Couze Venn
Author: Alain Touraine
Author: John Smith
Author: Enes Emre Başar
Author: Marian J. Rubchak
Author: Catalina Elena Dobre