Author: Globe FearonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780134115702
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Communication Explosion
Author: Globe FearonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780134115702
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Consuming Choices
Author: David T. SchwartzPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442204303
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Do consumers shoulder some culpability for unethical and immoral practices associated with products they purchase? To answer, David T. Schwartz provides the most detailed philosophical exploration to date on consumer ethics. He utilizes historical and fictional examples to illustrate the types of wrongdoing currently implicated by consumer products in this age of globalization, offers a clear description of the relevant moral theories and important ethical concepts, and provides concrete suggestions on how to be a more ethical consumer.
Pursuit of Justices
Author: David Alistair YalofPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226945460
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Yalof takes the reader behind the scenes of what happens before the Senate hearings to show how presidents decide who will sit on the highest court in the land. He draws on the papers of 7 modern presidents and firsthand interviews with key figures.
Choice
Author: Justice for All: Choices in Literature, Silver
Author: Globe FearonPublisher: Globe Fearon
ISBN: 9780134116532
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Carey's Library of Choice Literature
Author: The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopedia of Universal Authorship
Author: Ainsworth Rand SpoffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Challenges and Choices
Author: James A. HolsteinPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780202364650
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The social constructionist perspective has revolutionized the way that social scientists investigate social problems. Constructing Social Problems (Spector and Kitsuse [1977] 2001) offered the guiding statement of the approach, which both transformed and revitalized the sociology of social problems, propelling it into a quarter century of exciting and innovative empirical research. John Kitsuse and Malcolm Spector challenged conventional approaches to the field; they insisted on treating social problems as social constructions--as the products of claims-making and constitutive definitional processes. The purpose of this book is to highlight contemporary challenges to the social constructionist perspective on social problems. In 1993, two collections of essays, Reconsidering Social Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory (Holstein and Miller 1993) and Constructionist Controversies: Issues in Social Problems Theory (Miller and Holstein 1993), brought a wide variety of constructionist challenges into focus. Challenges and Choices attempts to distill these debates, and offers some compelling suggestions for how challenges may be met and where constructionist studies might proceed in the future. While each of the essays in this volume deeply appreciates the constructionist approach, each of them points to issues and choices that social constructionists must confront if the perspective is to continue to be a vital part of ongoing debates on social problems. The essays critique previous constructionist formulations; make suggestions for advancing, expanding, or diversifying the constructionist agenda; and challenge the perspective to move in new directions. They remind us that social constructionism is an ongoing, not a finished, product, and the essays point to some of the choices available to social constructionists in moving their projects into new, even uncharted, territories. James A. Holstein and Gale Miller are professors in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University.
Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship
Author: Ainsworth Rand SpoffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Mechanical Choices
Author: Michael S. MoorePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019086401X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Mechanical Choices details the intimate connection that exists between morality and law: the morality we use to blame others for their misdeeds and the criminal law that punishes them for these misdeeds. This book shows how both law and morality presuppose the accuracy of common sense, a centuries-old psychology that defines people as rational agents who make honorable choices and act for just reasons. It then shows how neuroscience is commonly taken to challenge these fundamental psychological assumptions. Such challenges--four in number--are distinguished from each other by the different neuroscientific facts from which they arise: the fact that human choices are caused by brain events; the fact that those choices don't cause the actions that are their objects but are only epiphenomenal to those choices; the fact that those choices are identical to certain physical events in the brain; and the fact that human subjects are quite fallible in their knowledge of what they are doing and why. The body of this book shows how such challenges are either based on faulty facts or misconceived as to the relevance of such facts to responsibility. The book ends with a detailed examination of the neuroscience of addiction, an examination which illustrates how neuroscience can help rather than challenge both law and morality in their quest to accurately define excuses from responsibility.