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Author: Charles Lemert
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1442211628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial Things introduces the sociological imagination through lively, memorable stories and interpretations. This fifth edition celebrates the book's fifteenth anniversary with important updates, an entirely new chapter that addresses the environmental challenges in our global world, and many additions that bring the history of sociology up to date.
Author: Charles C. Lemert
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780742535480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce again, Lemert has revised and updated Social Things, a best seller that is admired by teachers, students, and even their parents for its riveting brilliance. In this edition, he challenges readers to appreciate the surprising story of how globalization requires even the most reluctant to engage with its strange effects. In a new and original chapter, Global Things Queer the Social, Lemert unblushingly explains that globalization became a dominant force in everyday life at the very time when ordinary life was threatened by extraordinary human crises of poverty and disease. The new world order is queer in more ways than one. It forces us to rethink social taboos, including those on talk about sex and sexualities. As in its earlier editions, Social Things excites, disturbs, and instructs readers who wonder what globalization means to them and how their sociological competence can contend with the way it emboldens people to look at the world honestly.
Author: Arjun Appadurai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-01-29
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1107392977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, the essays illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations. By looking at things as if they lead social lives, the authors provide a new way to understand how value is externalized and sought after. Containing contributions from American and British social anthropologists and historians, the volume bridges the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture. It will appeal to anthropologists, social historians, economists, archaeologists, and historians of art.
Author: Craig Clunas
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2004-05-31
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780824828202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes “superfluous things”—the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China—and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.
Author: Jonah Berger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1451686587
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Author: Mel Tregonning
Publisher: Pajama Press Inc.
Published: 2018-03-01
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 1772780421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKn this wordless graphic picture book, a young boy feels alone with his worries. He isn't fitting in well at school. His grades are slipping. He's even lashing out at those who love him. Talented Australian artist Mel Tregonning created Small Things in the final year of her life. In her emotionally rich illustrations, the boy's worries manifest as tiny beings that crowd around him constantly, overwhelming him and even gnawing away at his very self. The striking imagery is all the more powerful when, overcoming his isolation at last, the boy discovers that the tiny demons of worry surround everyone, even those who seem to have it all together. This short but hard-hitting wordless graphic picture book gets to the heart of childhood anxiety and opens the way for dialogue about acceptance, vulnerability, and the universal experience of worry.
Author: Ellen Javernick
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780761456865
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Author: Arjun Appadurai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-01-29
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521357265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree of the papers were presented to the Ethnohistory Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania during 1983-84; the others were presented at a Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture, held May 23-25, 1984, in Philadelphia. Includes bibliographies and index.
Author: Anusha Alamgir
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-11-09
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781986832588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThings To Do Other Than Social Media provides you with various tasks that will help keep you diverted from social media, all the while improving your life, creativity and mental health. Give this book to someone with a social media addiction.
Author: Alessandro Soro
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-07-20
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 3319946595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to stimulate research on the topic of the Social Internet of Things, and explore how Internet of Things architectures, tools, and services can be conceptualized and developed so as to reveal, amplify and inspire the capacities of people, including the socialization or collaborations that happen through or around smart objects and smart environments. From new ways of negotiating privacy, to the consequences of increased automation, the Internet of Things poses new challenges and opens up new questions that often go beyond the technology itself, and rather focus on how the technology will become embedded in our future communities, families, practices, and environment, and how these will change in turn.
