Making Sense Routledge Revivals

Author : Jerome S. Bruner,Helen Haste
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136823343

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Making Sense (Routledge Revivals) by Jerome S. Bruner,Helen Haste Pdf

The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1987, Making Sense reflected the way in which developmental psychologists had begun to look at these processes in increasingly naturalistic, social situations. Rather than seeing the child as working in isolation, the authors of this collection take the view that 'making sense' involves social interaction and problem-solving. They particularly emphasize the role of language; its study both reveals the child's grasp of the frames of meaning in a particular culture, and demonstrates the subtleties of concept development and role-taking.

Author : Jérôme Seymour Bruner,Helen Haste
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:877963303

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Making Sense by Jérôme Seymour Bruner,Helen Haste Pdf

Author : Paul Rock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134077076

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Making People Pay (Routledge Revivals) by Paul Rock Pdf

First published in 1973, this book offers a fascinating and systematic description of the debt-collection process in 1970s England. Basing his research on the words of creditors, debtors, solicitors and debt-collectors, Paul Rock’s research was conducted when imprisonment for debt was still in existence. The book covers the major stages in a defaulter’s career, from enforcement by his creditors and the work of the debt-collector, through the various processes of the law, often to a period of imprisonment. Particular attention is given to the attempts made by debt-collectors to manage an unusual form of deviance and the consequences of their actions.

Author : Jonathan Boswell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317671275

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Business Policies in the Making (Routledge Revivals) by Jonathan Boswell Pdf

First published in 1983, this study investigates and compares three leading firms in the British iron and steel industry between 1914 and 1939, analysing their strategies, boardroom politics, and their responses to the problems posed by the Great War and by the vicissitudes of the 1920s and ‘30s. Jonathan Boswell illuminates certain issues that are of perennial importance for students of business: rationality and ‘error’ in decision-making, ethics, centralisation versus decentralisation, and the question of cyclical phases. The central theme throughout is the pursuit of three partly conflicting objectives: growth, efficiency and social action. The trade-offs between these three pursuits are used to examine significant contrasts in corporate strategies and behaviour, including towards government and public opinion. Boswell’s rejection of economic determinism; his insistence that managerial influences fall into definable long-run patterns; and his theses on managerial specialisation and long-term policy biases confront fundamental issues for theories of the firm.

Author : John Rignall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317626299

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Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals) by John Rignall Pdf

The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form. In this study, first published in 1992, John Rignall makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive genre. Using the novels of Scott, Balzac, Dickens, George Eliot, Flaubert, James, Ford and Conrad, Rignall argues for an understanding of realism through the recurrent figure of the flâneur. The flâneur is the strolling spectator whose problematic vision both of and in the novel makes him the representative figure of the realist text. A significant contribution to the field, this title will be of particular view to students of realism, literary theory, and comparative literature.

Author : W.W. Sharrock,Bob Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135726799

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The Ethnomethodologists (Routledge Revivals) by W.W. Sharrock,Bob Anderson Pdf

Originally published in 1986, this work examines how key figures such as Garfinkel, Sacks and Cicourel have revolutionised thinking about how sociology's presuppositions about 'being social' are grounded. Yet until the appearance of this book there were no clear and authoritative introductions to the main thinkers in the field or their work. In assessing the critical reception of Ethnomethodology, Sharrock and Anderson argue persuasively that much is wide of the mark - as they say, the real argument has yet to begin.

Author : E. Cashmore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135097530

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United Kingdom? (Routledge Revivals) by E. Cashmore Pdf

First published in 1989, United Kingdom? examines the three main divisions in British society in the post-war period: class, race and gender. During the 1980s there was an increasing concern about deep, and often bitter, divisions in British society. Events such as the miners’ strike of 1984-5, the riots in Handsworth, Tottenham and Brixton, and the women’s peace camp at Greenham Common all demonstrated the opposing views and cultures of the British public. However, the UK at the time was also able to show remarkable and continuing stability in other areas. This book considers to what extent the United Kingdom really was a kingdom united from the post-war period to the late 1980s. It focuses on issues of cohesion and conflict and debates the security of essential social stability.

Author : Roger D. Sell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317565185

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Literary Pragmatics (Routledge Revivals) by Roger D. Sell Pdf

Up until the mid-1980s most pragmatic analysis had been done on spoken language use, considerably less on written use, and very little at all on literary activity. This has now radically changed. ‘Pragmatics’ could be informally defined as the study of relationships between language and its users. This volume, first published in 1991, seeks to reposition literary activity at the centre of that study. The internationally renowned contributors draw together two main streams. On the one hand, there are concerns which are close to the syntax and semantics of mainstream linguistics, and on the other, there are concerns ranging towards anthropological linguistics, socio- and psycholinguistics. Literary Pragmatics represents an antidote to the fragmenting specialization so characteristic of the humanities in the twentieth century. This book will be of lasting value to students of linguistics, literature and society. Roger D. Sell discusses the reissue of Literary Pragmatics here: http://www.routledge.com/articles/roger_d._sell_discusses_the_reissue_of_literary_pragmatics/

Author : Harry W. Smart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317831105

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Criticism and Public Rationality by Harry W. Smart Pdf

Criticism is at the heart of any political discussion, and criticism of old policies is central to the development of new ones. In its analysis of political decision-making, this reissue, first published in 1991, examines the principles which control the process of policy criticism. It identifies two fundamental and related obstacles to this process: the privileged status accorded to 'professional judgement' and the conflicting philosophical ideas that shape political argument. Based on the study of Europe's largest local authority, the book presents a theory of decision-making that can be applied to institutions at all levels.

Author : David Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317816799

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Reading Castaneda (Routledge Revivals) by David Silverman Pdf

Carlos Castaneda’s accounts of his meeting with the Yaqui Indian magician Don Juan are well known to sociologists both in Britain and in America. Using material largely from Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan, David Silverman here seeks to introduce the student of Sociology to some of the central epistemological concerns of social science. First published in 1975, the title assumes no previous knowledge of Castaneda but instead uses his work as a springboard to wider issues, in particular making sense of our reality and understanding each other by using language and communication. This is an interesting reissue, which will be of particular value to students of the sociology of language and communication, as well as Communication Studies more generally.

Author : Alan Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134833931

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J.S. Mill (Routledge Revivals) by Alan Ryan Pdf

First published in 1974. As logician, economist, political theorist, practical politician and active champion of social freedom, John Stuart Mill is a figure of continuing importance. In this book the author does full justice to the range of Mill’s achievements, providing an introductory guide to his most important and best known writings including Autobiography, A System of Logic, Utilitarianism, Liberty, and The Subjugation of Women. In their treatment of his works, the author seeks to emphasise Mill’s approach to those issues — education, the conflict between social order and individual freedom, the unresolved state of the social sciences, rights and duties of citizens in a democratic state — which remain most alive to us today. At the same time Mill is seen as part of his own age, responding to the anxieties that beset his contemporaries. This book will be of interest to students of politics and philosophy.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136955549

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Hermeneutics and Social Science (Routledge Revivals) by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

Originally published in 1978, this important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic tradition as a whole. It is designed to help students of sociology and philosophy place the problems of "understanding social science" in their historical and philosophical context. It does so by presenting the major current in sociological thought as responses to the challenge of hermeneutics. The idea that true knowledge of social life can be attained only if human conduct is seen as meaningful action whose meaning is accordingly grasped has been presented as a discovery of recent sociology. In fact its history is long and its connections plentiful, reaching beyond the boundaries of sociology itself. Yet it is in sociology that the hermeneutic tradition has attracted most interest but most misinterpretation. The debate is in full swing and there is no attempt to offer "correct" solutions - the emphasis instead is upon revealing the strengths and weaknesses of each of the main approaches. However it is Bauman's view that the theory of understanding may achieve valid results only if it treats the problem of understanding as an aspect of the ongoing process of social life.

Author : Iain Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317911395

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Border Dialogues (Routledge Revivals) by Iain Chambers Pdf

First published in 1990, Border Dialogues explores some of the territories of contemporary culture, philosophy and criticism. It touches on arguments surrounding Nietzsche and Italian ‘weak thought’, the mysteries of being ‘British’, and with more immediate concerns such as computers, fashion, gender and ethnicity. The chapters explore how such different strands are joined together, and how this can lead to a reassessment of contemporary cultural criticism. This innovative and interesting reissue will be of particular interest to students of critical theory, cultural studies, radical philosophy and deconstruction.

Author : Hao Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134884339

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From Mathematics to Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) by Hao Wang Pdf

First published in 1974. Despite the tendency of contemporary analytic philosophy to put logic and mathematics at a central position, the author argues it failed to appreciate or account for their rich content. Through discussions of such mathematical concepts as number, the continuum, set, proof and mechanical procedure, the author provides an introduction to the philosophy of mathematics and an internal criticism of the then current academic philosophy. The material presented is also an illustration of a new, more general method of approach called substantial factualism which the author asserts allows for the development of a more comprehensive philosophical position by not trivialising or distorting substantial facts of human knowledge.

Author : Ashok Vohra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317688266

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Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mind (Routledge Revivals) by Ashok Vohra Pdf

Philosophers since Descartes have felt themselves compelled to make a choice between mind and body. Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mind, first published in 1986, argues that there is no genuine epistemological problem of mind, and that the widespread philosophical scepticism with regard to our knowledge of other minds is without foundation. Ashok Vohra applies Wittgenstein’s method to show that the problem has arisen through a tendency to over-philosophise our simple experiences. Vohra presents a positive account of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mind, arguing that to consider his philosophy entirely destructive is misleading. He shows that knowledge of mind is gained through a large complex of intersubjectively identifiable factors such as the linguistic and non-linguistic past, present and future behaviour of the person concerned. He thus justifies the belief, on which psychology and psychoanalysis are based, that mind is not a mystery to which only the owner has privileged access.