Imagination And Social Perspectives

Author : Michela Summa,Thomas Fuchs,Luca Vanzago
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315411514

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Imagination and Social Perspectives by Michela Summa,Thomas Fuchs,Luca Vanzago Pdf

Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations. The same object can be seen from many different points of view, an event can awaken different emotional reactions in different individuals, and our position-takings can in part be mediated by our belonging to some social or cultural groups. All these phenomena can be described by referring to the metaphor of perspective. Assuming that there are different, and irreducible, perspectives we can take on the experienced world, and on others as experiencing the same world, the phenomenon of mutual understanding can consistently be understood in terms of perspectival flexibility. This edited volume investigates the different processes in which perspectival flexibility occurs in social life and particularly focuses on the constitutive role of imagination in such processes. It includes original works in philosophy and psychopathology showing how perspectival flexibility and social cognition are grounded on the interplay of direct perception and imagination.

Author : John Scott,Ann Nilsen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782540038

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C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination by John Scott,Ann Nilsen Pdf

With renowned international contributors and expert contributions from a range of specialisms, this book will appeal to academics, students and researchers of sociology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9350027631

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The Sociological Imagination by Anonim Pdf

Author : Øivind Fuglerud,Leon Wainwright
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782385677

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Objects and Imagination by Øivind Fuglerud,Leon Wainwright Pdf

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies and influences our idea of the social world.

Author : Randol Contreras
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520273375

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The Stickup Kids by Randol Contreras Pdf

Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insiderÕs look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as ÒStickup Kids,Ó these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robberyÕs violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.

Author : Constance de Saint-Laurent,Sandra Obradović,Kevin R. Carriere
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319760513

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Imagining Collective Futures by Constance de Saint-Laurent,Sandra Obradović,Kevin R. Carriere Pdf

It is a commonly held assumption among cultural, social, and political psychologists that imagining the future of societies we live in has the potential to change how we think and act in the world. However little research has been devoted to whether this effect exists in collective imaginations, of social groups, communities and nations, for instance. This book explores the part that imagination and creativity play in the construction of collective futures, and the diversity of outlets in which these are presented, from fiction and cultural symbols to science and technology. The authors discuss this effect in social phenomena such as in intergroup conflict and social change, and focus on several cases studies to illustrate how the imagination of collective futures can guide social and political action. This book brings together theoretical and empirical contributions from cultural, social, and political psychology to offer insight into our constant (re)imagination of the societies in which we live.

Author : Raya Jones,Austin Clarkson,Sue Congram,Nick Stratton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134082155

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Education and Imagination by Raya Jones,Austin Clarkson,Sue Congram,Nick Stratton Pdf

This edited book explores the application of Jungian perspectives in educational settings.

Author : Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137581846

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The Interactionist Imagination by Michael Hviid Jacobsen Pdf

This book outlines the history and developments of interactionist social thought through a consideration of its key figures. Arranged chronologically, each chapter illustrates the impact that individual sociologists working within an interactionism framework have had on interactionism as perspective and on the discipline of sociology as such. It presents analyses of interactionist theorists from Georg Simmel through to Herbert Bulmer and Erving Goffman and onto the more recent contributions of Arlie R. Hochschild and Gary Alan Fine. Through an engagement with the latest scholarship this work shows that in a discipline often focused on macrosocial developments and large-scale structures, the interactionist perspective which privileges the study of human interaction has continued relevance. The broad scope of this book will make it an invaluable resource for scholars and students of sociology, social theory, cultural studies, media studies, social psychology, criminology and anthropology.

Author : Catherine Corrigall-Brown
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781071917169

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Imagining Society by Catherine Corrigall-Brown Pdf

Imagining Society, Second Edition is an introductory text that presents sociology as a distinctly human enterprise. In every chapter, as they are learning the discipline’s foundational concepts, readers are led on a journey, across time and space, to encounter some of sociology’s key "makers"—the creative individuals whose representations of the social world enable us to make sense of it and change it for the better. At each stop they will be immersed in the actions, ideas, and original thoughts of these diverse and seminal thinkers, whose empirical methods and theoretical insights have inspired other sociologists and form the building blocks of the discipline. Exercises in the text create opportunities for students to activate their own imaginations and to also see familiar contemporary culture and society—TV shows, popular music, advertising, organizations, thought-leaders and authority figures, fads and movements, etc.—through fresh eyes. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your Sage representative to request a demo. Learning Platform / Courseware Sage Vantage is an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support. It′s a learning platform you, and your students, will actually love. Learn more. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available in Sage Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video now. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

Author : DALE. DANNEFER
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367190885

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Age and the Reach of Sociological Imagination by DALE. DANNEFER Pdf

Combining foundational principles of critical social science with recent breakthroughs in research across disciplines ranging from biology to economics, this book offers a scientifically and humanly expanded landscape for apprehending the life course.

Author : Anja Berninger,Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000785784

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Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination by Anja Berninger,Íngrid Vendrell Ferran Pdf

This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states. It is the first book to offer an integrative approach to these two emerging areas of philosophical research. The essays in this volume deal with a variety of forms of imagining and remembering. The contributors come from a range of methodological backgrounds: empirically minded philosophers, analytic philosophers engaging mainly in conceptual analysis, and philosophers informed by the phenomenological tradition. Part 1 consists of novel contributions to ontological issues regarding the nature of memory and imagination and their respective structural features. Part 2 focuses on questions of justification and perspective regarding both states. The chapters in Part 3 discuss issues regarding memory and imagination as skills or abilities. Finally, Part 4 focuses on the relation between memory, imagination, and emotion. Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of memory, philosophy of imagination, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.

Author : Daniel Dor
Publisher : Foundations of Human Interacti
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190256623

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The Instruction of Imagination by Daniel Dor Pdf

"The book presents a new general theory of language as a collectively-constructed communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that is dedicated to a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. The theory re-frames all the major questions in the linguistic sciences, and opens the way towards the re-unification of the field"--

Author : Sikha Nayak
Publisher : Clever Fox Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Foundational sociology: Sociological thinkers, perspectives and imagination by Sikha Nayak Pdf

The book offers a deep dive into the range of societal issues,ranging from government and gender identity to inequalities , globalisation and even the "Disneyfication" of today's world ...The book is an academic type and provides self guide to final year BA students as well as for civil services and other competative examinations . The book covers fundamental aspects, perspectives and outlook to sociology....readers may find it very helpful in understanding the fundamentals of sociology.

Author : Anna Abraham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781108429245

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination by Anna Abraham Pdf

The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why did the capacity for imagination evolve and manifest with undeniably manifold complexity uniquely in human beings? This handbook reflects on such questions by collecting perspectives on imagination from leading experts. It showcases a rich and detailed analysis on how the imagination is understood across several disciplines of study, including anthropology, archaeology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and the arts. An integrated theoretical-empirical-applied picture of the field is presented, which stands to inform researchers, students, and practitioners about the issues of relevance across the board when considering the imagination. With each chapter, the nature of human imagination is examined - what it entails, how it evolved, and why it singularly defines us as a species.

Author : Tania Zittoun,Alex Gillespie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135103200

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Imagination in Human and Cultural Development by Tania Zittoun,Alex Gillespie Pdf

This book positions imagination as a central concept which increases the understanding of daily life, personal life choices, and the way in which culture and society changes. Case studies from micro instances of reverie and daydreaming, to utopian projects, are included and analysed. The theoretical focus is on imagination as a force free from immediate constraints, forming the basis of our individual and collective agency. In each chapter, the authors review and integrate a wide range of classic and contemporary literature culminating in the proposal of a sociocultural model of imagination. The book takes into account the triggers of imagination, the content of imagination, and the outcomes of imagination. At the heart of the model is the interplay between the individual and culture; an exploration of how the imagination, as something very personal and subjective, grows out of our shared culture, and how our shared culture can be transformed by acts of imagination. Imagination in Human and Cultural Development offers new perspectives on the study of psychological learning, change, innovation and creativity throughout the lifespan. The book will appeal to academics and scholars in the fields of psychology and the social sciences, especially those with an interest in development, social change, cultural psychology, imagination and creativity.