Category: Sociology

First released in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Masculinities in modern American Culture deals readers a multidisciplinary, intersectional assessment of masculinity reports that comes with either theoretical and utilized lenses. Keith combines present study with old views to illustrate the contexts during which masculine identities have come advanced. With an emphasis on pop culture -- quite movie, television, games, and tune -- this article invitations scholars to check their gendered sensibilities and talk about the ways that various varieties of media entice poisonous masculinity.

initially released in 1993, this publication opens a brand new and significant line of interpretation, displaying that Georg Simmel is the basic sociologist of the postmodern age. The authors hint the real contributions that Simmel's writings could make to present reviews of highbrow ethics, textual technique, sociological conception, philosophy of background and cultural theory

Pensar em ações culturais que envolvam a arte de nossos dias é pensar em museus de arte, em problemas de mediação entre arte e público, em questões museológicas de acessibilidade, escolhas e narrativas, de apresentação, lazer e educação. É refletir sobre os diferentes sentidos que surgem no espaço de uma exposição, entre as obras e o público. Anos de atividade em museus, especialmente no Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP), além de estudos, pesquisas e reflexões levaram a autora a esenvolver uma pesquisa, em 2001 e 2002, cujos resultados são apresentados neste livro.

Viajando a Sul, ao encontro da realidade das pessoas cegas em Moçambique, o autor analisa as implicações de uma conceção de cegueira intimamente ligada às dinâmicas socioespirituais. O presente livro fala-nos de um quadro cultural em que, no limite, não há cegueira sem feitiço. A partir de uma incursão etnográfica entre as vidas da cegueira, Bruno Sena Martins faz emergir um corpo múltiplo que põe no lugar o feitiço através do qual a modernidade ocidental inventou a noção de deficiência.
Trata-se de um percurso que procura pôr a cegueira no contexto de resistências situadas: corpos e histórias que reclamam por culturas menos certas dos seus sentidos.

Passats ja forty anys en democràcia i autogovern, diversos personatges al voltant de los angeles quarantena reflexionen sobre el second genuine. Gent que ha crescut durant els anys eighty i ninety i que avui crea, dirigeix, gestiona o impulsa projectes destacats en el món de l. a. cultura, de los angeles política, de l'empresa o de los angeles comunicació. Protagonistes de l. a. Catalunya d'avui que fan o reclamen el seu lloc generacional, en plena post-crisi, en plena transició nacional i en plena catarsi worldwide. Idees trencadores consistent with corregir alguns rumbs o bé consistent with a afermar-ne d'altres però, en tot cas, compartint l. a. inspiration que s'imposa un canvi de cultura. Un canvi de xip.

Drugs, Crime, and Justice is an interesting, but complete, research of the interrelationships between drug use/abuse, crime, and justice. the 1st 4 chapters introduce readers to the interrelationships among medicines and crime, whereas the second one later chapters supply readers with an summary of old and modern rules, in addition to a entire evaluation of study on policing drug markets, arresting drug offenders, and prosecution and sentencing of drug offenders in nation and federal courts. Steven Belenko and Cassia Spohn additionally learn and determine the impression of the conflict on medicinal drugs and finish with a dialogue of contemporary coverage adjustments equivalent to drug courts and reform/repeal of necessary minimal sentences and an exam of recent and rising drug regulations within the twenty first Century.

"What makes this publication stand out for me is that, in addition to being theoretically expert and obviously written, its constitution lends itself unmistakeably to teaching... If our goal is to educate actually engaged scholars, it may be our activity to supply really enticing fabrics. this is often what you can find with this actual publication. it is going to aid to notify your disciplinary instructing of social inequality around the social sciences and it'll supply a superior foundation on your seminar paintings with students."

- Helen Jones, better schooling Academy

"Warwick-Booth has supplied a hugely readable introductory textual content that might be obtainable to all people drawn to this region of research, and that i hugely suggest it for these embarking on experiences of social inequality."

- LSE assessment of Books

What is the kingdom of social inequality this day? how will you situate your self within the debates?

This is a vital publication that not just introduces you to the main components, definitions and debates in the box, but in addition offers the chance to mirror upon the roots of inequality and to severely examine strength family members this present day.  With foreign examples and a transparent interdisciplinary procedure all through, the booklet encourages you to examine social inequality as a posh social phenomenon that should be understood in a world context. This book:

• Looks at social divisions throughout societies
• Explores worldwide techniques and alterations which are affecting inequalities
• Discusses social inequality with regards to type, gender and race
• Examines present social coverage techniques to discover how those relate to inequality
• Reflects upon the aptitude recommendations to inequalities

This enticing and obtainable creation to social inequality is a useful source for college students around the social sciences.

Louise Warwick-Booth is Senior Lecturer in future health coverage at Leeds Metropolitan college, UK.

educational Paper from the yr 2014 within the topic Sociology - paintings, occupation, schooling, corporation, grade: 5.0 (A), collage of Ibadan, language: English, summary: Graduate unemployment in Nigeria is a primary reason for many social difficulties equivalent to fraud, armed theft and so forth. one of the numerous purposes social researchers have indexed as contributing components to graduate unemployment, an absence of finished curricula within the greater associations has been pin-pointed to be an important to the malaise of graduate unemployment. Entrepreneurship schooling if imbibed within the curricula of tertiary associations may instill entrepreneurial habit in scholars and graduates, which might extra motivate graduates to turn into self-reliant and employers of work. This examine tested the degrees of entrepreneurship orientation between graduate scholars within the collage of Ibadan. The examine made use of theories of deliberate behaviour and creativity and innovation theories. The pattern used to be made from 270 graduate scholars randomly drawn from six schools of the collage of Ibadan. Qualitative and quantitative info for the research have been accumulated by utilizing questionnaires and in-depth oral interviews. the end result confirmed that majority of the respondents (78%) had by no means been uncovered to entrepreneurship schooling upon the of entirety in their first measure. greater than half the respondents (55.6%) rated their point of entrepreneurial orientation as excessive, 31.4% rated it as average and the remainder 13.0% rated it as low. The paper asserts that graduate scholars are prepared to develop into marketers if uncovered to energetic entrepreneurship schooling - as they're cognizant of the advantages of being self-reliant and autonomous of the hard work market.