Spatial Dimensions of Social Thought

Spatial Dimensions of Social Thought

Author: Thomas W. Schubert

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-10-28

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 311025431X

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Space provides the stage for our social lives - social thought evolved and developed in a constant interaction with space. The volume demonstrates how this has led to an astonishing intertwining of spatial and social thought. For the first time, research on language comprehension, metaphors, priming, spatial perception, face perception, art history and other fields is brought together to provide an integrative view. This overview confirms that often, metaphors reveal a deeper truth about how our mind uses spatial information to represent social concepts. Yet, the evidence also goes beyond this insight, showing for instance how flexible our mind operates with spatial metaphors, how the peculiarities of our bodies determine the way we assign meaning to space, and how the asymmetry of our brain influences spatial and face perception. Finally, it is revealed that also how we write language - from left to right or from right to left - shapes how we perceive, interpret, and produce horizontal movement and order. The evidence ranges from linguistics to social and spatial perception to neuropsychology, seamlessly integrating such diverse findings as speed in word comprehension, children's depictions of abstract concepts, estimates of the steepness of hills, and archival research on how often Homer Simpson is depicted left or right of Marge. The chapters in this book offer a topology of social cognition and explore the pivotal role language plays in creating links between spatial and social thought.


Spatial Social Thought

Spatial Social Thought

Author: Michael Kuhn

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 3838265262

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This volume presents perspectives on spatially construed knowledge systems and their struggle to interrelate. Western social sciences tend to be wrapped up in very specific, exclusionary discourses, and Northern and Southern knowledge systems are sidelined. Spatial Social Thought reimagines the social sciences as a place of encounter between all spatially bound, parochial knowledge systems.


The Production of Space

The Production of Space

Author: Henri Lefebvre

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1992-04-08

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780631181774

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Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields. The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy. This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its author's wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith's sensitive translation precisely captures.


Surveillance

Surveillance

Author: Graham Sewell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-06

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1351180541

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Being watched and watching others is a universal feature of all human societies. How does the phenomenon of surveillance affect, interact with, and change the world of business? This concise book unveils a key idea in the history and future of management. For centuries managers have claimed the right to monitor employees, but in the digital era, this management activity has become enhanced beyond recognition. Drawing on extensive research into organizational surveillance, the author distils and analyses existing thinking on the concept with his own empirical work. Drawing together perspectives from philosophy, cutting-edge social theory, and empirical research on workplace surveillance, Surveillance is the definitive introduction to an intriguing topic that will interest readers across the social sciences and beyond.


Social Theory and Modern Sociology

Social Theory and Modern Sociology

Author: Anthony Giddens

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780804713566

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In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth-century.


Central Problems in Social Theory

Central Problems in Social Theory

Author: Anthony Giddens

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1979-11-29

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780520039759

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"One of the most creative among the younger generation of critical social theorists, Giddens stands alone in his concern for the classical tradition on sociology; but he also makes brilliant use of the latest philosophical and theoretical work of several contemporary schools and disciplines. A very important book for all of social science."—Jeffrey C. Alexander


Encyclopedia of Social Theory

Encyclopedia of Social Theory

Author: Austin Harrington

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 752

ISBN-13: 0415290465

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The Encyclopedia of Social Theory cuts across all relevant disciplines, theories, approaches, and schools to present the latest information and research.


Urban Theory

Urban Theory

Author: John Rennie Short

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-08-24

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 113738266X

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This wide-ranging and state-of-the-art new edition reviews the classic contributions to understanding modern and post-modern cities, and is comprehensively updated to take account of the issues and concepts at stake in 21st century urban theory.


The Social Thought of Erving Goffman

The Social Thought of Erving Goffman

Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1412998034

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This new volume in the Social Thinkers series serves as an introduction to the life, work, and ideas of Erving Goffman.