Lurching Toward Happiness In America

Author : Claude S. Fischer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262028240

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Lurching Toward Happiness in America by Claude S. Fischer Pdf

Amid confusing and alarmist media claims about our changing culture, Claude Fischer sets the record straight on social trends in America. The promise of America has long been conceived as the promise of happiness. Being American is all about the opportunity to pursue one's own bliss. But what is the good life, and are we getting closer to its attainment? In the cacophony of competing conceptions of the good, technological interventions that claim to help us achieve it, and rancorous debate over government's role in securing it for us, every step toward happiness seems to come with at least one step back. In Lurching toward Happiness in America, acclaimed sociologist Claude Fischer explores the data, the myths, and history to understand how far America has come in delivering on its promise. Are Americans getting lonelier? Is the gender revolution over? Does income shape the way Americans see their life prospects? In the end, Fischer paints a broad picture of what Americans say they want. And, as he considers how close they are to achieving that goal, he also suggests what might finally get them there.

Author : Ralph Schroeder
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787351233

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Social Theory after the Internet by Ralph Schroeder Pdf

The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations. Ralph Schroeder takes a longer-term view, synthesizing perspectives and findings from various social science disciplines in four countries: the United States, Sweden, India and China. His comparison highlights, among other observations, that smartphones are in many respects more important than PC-based internet uses. Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a sophisticated theory of the role of the internet, and how both technological and social forces shape its significance. He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and the social implications of big data.

Author : Beth R. Bernhardt,Leah H. Hinds,Lars Meyer,Katina P. Strauch
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781941269350

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What’s Past is Prologue by Beth R. Bernhardt,Leah H. Hinds,Lars Meyer,Katina P. Strauch Pdf

Over one hundred presentations from the 37th annual Charleston Library Conference (held November 6–10, 2017) are included in this annual proceedings volume. Major themes of the meeting included data visualization, analysis and assessment of collections and library users, demand-driven acquisition, the future of print collections, and open access publishing. While the Charleston meeting remains a core one for acquisitions librarians in dialog with publishers and vendors, the breadth of coverage of this volume reflects the fact that this conference continues to be one of the major venues for leaders in the publishing and library communities to shape strategy and prepare for the future. Almost 2,000 delegates attended the 2017 meeting, ranging from the staff of small public library systems to the CEOs of major corporations. This fully indexed, copyedited volume provides a rich source for the latest evidence-based research and lessons from practice in a range of information science fields. The contributors are leaders in the library, publishing, and vendor communities.

Author : Katie Barclay,Elaine Chalus,Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000839203

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The Routledge History of Loneliness by Katie Barclay,Elaine Chalus,Deborah Simonton Pdf

The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development across cultures from the seventeenth century to the present. Bringing together thirty scholars from various disciplines, including history, anthropology, philosophy, literature and art history, the volume considers how loneliness was represented in art and literature, conceptualised by philosophers and writers and described by people in their personal narratives. It considers loneliness as a feeling so often defined in contrast to sociability and affective connections, particularly attending to loneliness in relation to the family, household and community. Acknowledging that loneliness is a relatively novel term in English, the book explores its precedents in ideas about solitude, melancholy and nostalgia, as well as how it might be considered in cross-cultural perspectives. With wide appeal to students and researchers in a variety of subjects, including the history of emotions, social sciences and literature, this volume brings a critical historical perspective to an emotion with contemporary significance.

Author : Simon D. Perry
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780578181417

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The Declaration of Independence, God, and Evolution by Simon D. Perry Pdf

In this book, Simon Perry has brought together a discussion of politics, philosophy, religion, and science by using the Declaration of Independence as a backdrop. He questions whether Jefferson was motivated by God. Is there a role for religion in our government? Is God real or a fantasy? Is the Good Book really good? Why has man turned to God to achieve eternal life? Does the mythicism of creation prevail over evolution? Is man indoctrinated at an early age to accept God unconditionally? These are but a few of the questions that he deals with. As you read, you will discover others. He spent five years researching this book and it relies heavily on the great scholars of religion, science, and politics. This book lays bare our cognitive distortions of who we are and where we came from.

Author : Rajan Menon,Eugene B. Rumer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262536295

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Conflict in Ukraine by Rajan Menon,Eugene B. Rumer Pdf

One of The New York Times’ “6 Books to Read for Context on Ukraine” “A short and insightful primer” to the crisis in Ukraine and its implications for both the Crimean Peninsula and Russia’s relations with the West (New York Review of Books) The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO's future, and put an end to one of the most ambitious projects of U.S. foreign policy—building a partnership with Russia. It also threatens to undermine U.S. diplomatic efforts on issues ranging from terrorism to nuclear proliferation. And in the absence of direct negotiations, each side is betting that political and economic pressure will force the other to blink first. Caught in this dangerous game of chicken, the West cannot afford to lose sight of the importance of stable relations with Russia. This book puts the conflict in historical perspective by examining the evolution of the crisis and assessing its implications both for the Crimean Peninsula and for Russia’s relations with the West more generally. Experts in the international relations of post-Soviet states, political scientists Rajan Menon and Eugene Rumer clearly show what is at stake in Ukraine, explaining the key economic, political, and security challenges and prospects for overcoming them. They also discuss historical precedents, sketch likely outcomes, and propose policies for safeguarding U.S.-Russia relations in the future. In doing so, they provide a comprehensive and accessible study of a conflict whose consequences will be felt for many years to come.

Author : Miren Gutiérrez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319783192

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Data Activism and Social Change by Miren Gutiérrez Pdf

This book efficiently contributes to our understanding of the interplay between data, technology and communicative practice on the one hand, and democratic participation on the other. It addresses the emergence of proactive data activism, a new sociotechnical phenomenon in the field of action that arises as a reaction to massive datafication, and makes affirmative use of data for advocacy and social change. By blending empirical observation and in-depth qualitative interviews, Gutiérrez brings to the fore a debate about the social uses of the data infrastructure and examines precisely how people employ it, in combination with other technologies, to collaborate and act for social change.

Author : Samuel K. Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780197555842

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The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution by Samuel K. Fisher Pdf

How did an unlikely group of peoples--Irish-speaking Catholics, Scottish Highlanders, and American Indians--play an even unlikelier role in the origins of the American Revolution? Drawing on little-used sources in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution places these typically marginalized peoples in Ireland, Scotland, and North America at the center of a larger drama of imperial reform and revolution. Gaelic and Indian peoples experiencing colonization in the eighteenth-century British empire fought back by building relationships with the king and imperial officials. In doing so, they created a more inclusive empire and triggered conflict between the imperial state and formerly privileged provincial Britons: Irish Protestants, Scottish whigs, and American colonists. The American Revolution was only one aspect of this larger conflict between inclusive empire and the exclusionary patriots within the British empire. In fact, Britons had argued about these questions since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when revolutionaries had dethroned James II as they accused him of plotting to employ savage Gaelic and Indian enemies in a tyrranical plot against liberty. This was the same argument the American revolutionaries--and their sympathizers in England, Scotland, and Ireland--used against George III. Ironically, however, it was Gaelic and Indian peoples, not kings, who had pushed the empire in inclusive directions. In doing so they pushed the American patriots towards revolution. This novel account argues that Americans' racial dilemmas were not new nor distinctively American but instead the awkward legacies of a more complex imperial history. By showcasing how Gaelic and Indian peoples challenged the British empire--and in the process convinced American colonists to leave it--Samuel K. Fisher offers a new way of understanding the American Revolution and its relevance for our own times.

Author : Donna Blagdan,Russ Kesler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : PSU:000019218274

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Ethics of Change by Donna Blagdan,Russ Kesler Pdf

Author : Leonard Bacon,Joseph Parrish Thompson,Richard Salter Storrs,Joshua Leavitt,Henry Ward Beecher,Theodore Tilton,Henry Chandler Bowen,William Hayes Ward,Hamilton Holt,Fabian Franklin,Harold de Wolf Fuller,Christian Archibald Herter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020204716

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The Independent by Leonard Bacon,Joseph Parrish Thompson,Richard Salter Storrs,Joshua Leavitt,Henry Ward Beecher,Theodore Tilton,Henry Chandler Bowen,William Hayes Ward,Hamilton Holt,Fabian Franklin,Harold de Wolf Fuller,Christian Archibald Herter Pdf

Author : Robert H. Bork
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780062030917

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Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert H. Bork Pdf

In this New York Times bestselling book, Robert H. Bork, our country's most distinguished conservative scholar, offers a prophetic and unprecedented view of a culture in decline, a nation in such serious moral trouble that its very foundation is crumbling: a nation that slouches not towards the Bethlehem envisioned by the poet Yeats in 1919, but towards Gomorrah. Slouching Towards Gomorrah is a penetrating, devastatingly insightful exposé of a country in crisis at the end of the millennium, where the rise of modern liberalism, which stresses the dual forces of radical egalitarianism (the equality of outcomes rather than opportunities) and radical individualism (the drastic reduction of limits to personal gratification), has undermined our culture, our intellect, and our morality. In a new Afterword, the author highlights recent disturbing trends in our laws and society, with special attention to matters of sex and censorship, race relations, and the relentless erosion of American moral values. The alarm he sounds is more sobering than ever: we can accept our fate and try to insulate ourselves from the effects of a degenerating culture, or we can choose to halt the beast, to oppose modern liberalism in every arena. The will to resist, he warns, remains our only hope.

Author : Richard Spears
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0071486852

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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs by Richard Spears Pdf

Learn the language of Nebraska . . .and 49 other states With more entries than any other reference of its kind, McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs shows you how American English is spoken today. You will find commonly used phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, proverbial expressions, and clichés. The dictionary contains more than 24,000 entries, each defined and followed by one or two example sentences. It also includes a Phrase-Finder Index with more than 60,000 entries.

Author : Canada. Industry Canada,Canada. Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
Publisher : Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822034410381

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Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages by Canada. Industry Canada,Canada. Human Resources and Skills Development Canada Pdf

While there is a broad consensus that North American economic integration has benefits for Canadians' standard of living, there are also concerns that deeper economic integration may restrict Canada's ability to pursue domestic goals in a number of important areas. To address these issues, Industry Canada and the former Human Resources Development Canada jointly commissioned original research for a Workshop on 'Social and labour Market Aspects of North American Linkage'. This volume contains the research papers, comments and panel proceedings from the Workshop.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : United States
ISBN : UCSC:32106013137929

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The Outlook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002433618

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New Outlook by Anonim Pdf