Imagine Society
Imagine Society

Author: Jean Mercier

Publisher: apoemaday.ca

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 0973707909

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Poetry / Inspiration / Philosophy / Self-Help The phenomenon with over 1.4 Million followers on Facebook is now a book series Notes for the soul - and for the road - since 2003 (Join or see the page at: https: //www.facebook.com/apoemaday) ..".sometimes, less is more. Jean's poetic mirror is the creative catalyst that can truly change your life One merely has to read and listen. Exquisite, portraits in verse " Dale E. Taylor Former VP, YTV Canada Programming and Production ----- Teachers and Students: The author authorizes the use of this book in your classroom. "Write a few rhymes on any of mine, drop them on my Facebook page, I will likely answer you " - Jean Mercier ----- Ask your library to get it, offer yourself or someone the gift of love, self-help, poetry and positive philosophy all in one with these books 366 original simple short poems in each book that will touch everybody's heart. IMAGINE SOCIETY: A POEM A DAY, Volume 3 (New, 2nd edition, 2013) presents the writings of Canadian Poet Jean Mercier as delivered daily all around the world in its third year through the web series Jean Mercier's A Poem A Day co-created by Junichiro Kuniyoshi and Jean Mercier. This Canadian book is printed locally when needed, for prompt delivery by Create Space, an AMAZON.com company. Published by: apoemaday.TV (Canada) ISBN-13: 978-1482354966 ---- Watercolour on the cover by: Colette Mercier A message from the author: By ordering my books through Create Space (also an AMAZON company, but partner with the publisher) you also help us more as AMAZON pays us a little more for the reference. Want them all? The author gets a little more when you buy it here on CreateSpace. Find the Volume 1 of this series at: https: //www.createspace.com/4203357, Vol. 2 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4203362 Vol. 3 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4158750 Vol 4 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240078 Vol 5 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240080 Vol 6 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240085 Vol 7 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240093 Vol 8 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240095 Vol 9 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240096 Vol 10 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240097 Thank you in advance for your kindness. Please leave us comments or write anytime through my Facebook page or by email. I'd love to hear from you

Imagined Communities
Imagined Communities

Author: Benedict Anderson

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2006-11-17

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 178168359X

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What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.

Imagined Societies
Imagined Societies

Author: Willem Schinkel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-02-16

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1108210694

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In many countries in Western Europe, the demand for immigrant integration has inevitably raised questions about the 'societies' into which immigrants are asked to integrate. Imagined Societies critically intervenes in debates on immigrant integration and multiculturalism in Western Europe. Schinkel argues that the term 'multiculturalism' is not used primarily to describe a type of policy or political philosophy in countries such as the Netherlands, France, Germany or Belgium, but rather as a rhetorical device that promotes demands for 'integration'. He analyses how such demands are ways of imagining the very idea of a 'host society' as 'modern', 'secular' and 'enlightened'. Starting from debates in social theory on social imaginaries, and drawing on public debates on citizenship, secularism and sexuality, and on the social science of measuring immigrant integration, this book presents a highly original study of immigrant integration that challenges our understanding of the concept of society.

Making Up Society
Making Up Society

Author: Philip Fisher

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 082297696X

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Fisher places the work of George Eliot within the great evolution that constitutes the nineteenth-century English novel. He reports not only about her work, but about an evolving complex literary form. Fisher examines Eliot's work as responding to "the loss of society," the breakdown between public life and individua moral history. As trust in the community as a base of moral life weakens, decisive changes occur: the English novel accommodated itself to the disappearance of society and changed from the representation of individuals as members of a social order to the description of the self surrounded by collections of unrelated others.

Media and Society
Media and Society

Author: Nicholas Carah

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2021-05-05

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1529757649

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How do media platforms organise social life? How do media empower or disempower our identities? How do we understand the impact of algorithms? How are media audiences produced and managed? Media & Society introduces the role of the media in social, cultural, political and economic life, unpacking the increasing entanglement of digital media technology with our everyday lives. It explores the relationship between meaning and power in an age of participatory culture, social media and digital platforms. An age where we both create and consume content, and where we both give and gain attention – translating our social lives into huge flows of data. Associate Professor Nicholas Carah shows how a critical approach to power helps us not only to understand the role media play in shaping the social, but also how we can become critically informed media citizens ourselves, able to participate and be heard in meaningful ways. Media & Society expertly introduces all the key concepts and ideas you need to know, and then puts theory into practice by tying them to contemporary case studies. From using Ghostery to track how your personal data is being collected, to exploring misinformation on social media via Youtube, to the reality of internships and freelancing in today’s digital media industry. It is essential reading for students of media, communication and cultural studies.

Collective Dreams
Collective Dreams

Author: Keally D. McBride

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-08-26

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0271032405

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How do we go about imagining different and better worlds for ourselves? Collective Dreams looks at ideals of community, frequently embraced as the basis for reform across the political spectrum, as the predominant form of political imagination in America today. Examining how these ideals circulate without having much real impact on social change provides an opportunity to explore the difficulties of practicing critical theory in a capitalist society. Different chapters investigate how ideals of community intersect with conceptions of self and identity, family, the public sphere and civil society, and the state, situating community at the core of the most contested political and social arenas of our time. Ideals of community also influence how we evaluate, choose, and build the spaces in which we live, as the author’s investigations of Celebration, Florida, and of West Philadelphia show.Following in the tradition of Walter Benjamin, Keally McBride reveals how consumer culture affects our collective experience of community as well as our ability to imagine alternative political and social orders. Taking ideals of community as a case study, Collective Dreams also explores the structure and function of political imagination to answer the following questions: What do these oppositional ideals reveal about our current political and social experiences? How is the way we imagine alternative communities nonetheless influenced by capitalism, liberalism, and individualism? How can these ideals of community be used more effectively to create social change?

The Metaphorical Society
The Metaphorical Society

Author: Daniel Rigney

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2001-03-21

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1461644801

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This book introduces the novice reader to modern social theory through the creative exploration of eight major metaphors that have shaped Western understandings of human society. Rigney vividly yet concisely examines each major theoretical perspective in sociology, including functionalism, conflict theory, rational choice, and symbolic interactionism. He shows how each of these theories is rooted in a particular metaphorical tradition. Over decades and centuries, Rigney argues, social theorists have variously likened societies to organisms and living systems, to machines, battlefields, legal systems, marketplaces, games, theatrical productions, and discourses. Most interestingly, Rigney deftly shows how nearly all Western social theories fit with one or more of the metaphors. He emphasizes a humanistic understanding of society with an emphasis on the creative agency of social actors and communities. The book offers students a rich understanding of social theory, yet it is simultaneously concise and broad ranging, allowing instructors to further pursue detailed exploration of any perspectives they choose.

Sense of the Possible
Sense of the Possible

Author: L. Callid Keefe-Perry

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2023-03-16

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1498280382

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Sense of the Possible is for those interested in learning about the intersection of Christian theology and imagination. Written from the assumption that imagination is deeply connected to the Christian work for liberation and human flourishing, this book is an energizing introduction to the ways in which theologians have thought about the powerful human capacity to envision a future that has not yet come. Containing perspectives from scripture, theology, philosophy, and congregational studies, this text is an excellent way to explore how it is that imagination can be part of a faithful Christian life. Each chapter comes with recommended readings and discussion questions that can be used in churches or classrooms.

The Sociogony
The Sociogony

Author: Mark P. Worrell

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-26

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 9004384022

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The Sociogony re-examines the social ontology of what Durkheim calls ‘social facts’ in the light of critical and progressive hostilities to the facticity of facts and the necessity of moral absolutes in the shift from bourgeois liberalism to a neoliberal global order. The introduction offers a wide-ranging rumination on the concept of the absolute after its apparent downfall; the chapter on facts turns the problem of external authority on its head and the chapter dealing with the sociogony situates facts in a process of generation, rule, and decay. Drawing heavily on the works of Hegel, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, the resulting synthesis is what the author refers to as a Marxheimian Social Theory that offers a new map and a stable ontology for the homeless mind.