Social Oblivion

Author : Thandiwe McCarthy
Publisher : Jelani Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1778080804

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Social Oblivion by Thandiwe McCarthy Pdf

Born in 1987, Thandiwe McCarthy was raised in a big Black family in the small white town of Woodstock, New Brunswick. Always either lost in thought or found screaming and pulling pranks, Thandiwe's family of five aunts, four uncles, and many cousins did their best to nurture and instill the values of community and self-respect. It wasn't until he moved away to the city of Fredericton, where no one knew how to put up with his antics, that Thandiwe was forced to face the world without the safety net of family. Now far away from his family support, he will have to walk the line between accepting the aggressive objectives of public education and defending the family values he was raised with. Or risk falling into Social oblivion.

Author : Oliver Dimbath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3846765732

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Oblivionism by Oliver Dimbath Pdf

The book offers a fundamental view on the problem of forgetting in sociology in general and within sociology of knowledge. Furthermore it focuses - as a case study - on the field of modern science. With recourse to the term 'oblivionism', originally introduced with ironic-critical intent by the german romance scholar Harald Weinrich, it analyzes the fundamental and multifaceted problem of the loss of knowledge in the field of science. A declarative-reflective, an incorporated-practical and an objectified-technical memory motif is at the centre. These form the basis for the development of the three forms of forgetting that are also central to modern science: forgetfulness, wanting to forget and, ultimately, making one forget.

Author : Jessica Romney
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472131853

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Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece by Jessica Romney Pdf

Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one another. The author examines identity rhetoric in sympotic lyric: how Greek poets constructed images of self for their groups, focusing in turn on the construction of identity in martial-themed poetry, the protection of group identities in the face of political exile, and the negotiation between individual and group as seen in political lyric. By conducting a close reading of six poems and then a broad survey of martial lyric, exile poetry, political lyric, and sympotic lyric as a whole, Jessica Romney demonstrates that sympotic lyric focuses on the same basic behaviors and values to construct social identities regardless of the content or subgenre of the poems in question. The volume also argues that the performance of identity depends on the context as well as the material of performance. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that sympotic lyric overwhelmingly prefers to use identity rhetoric that insists on the inherent sameness of group members. All non-English text and quotes are translated, with the original languages given alongside the translation or in the endnotes.

Author : John A. Spaulding,George Simpson,Emile Durkheim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439118264

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Suicide by John A. Spaulding,George Simpson,Emile Durkheim Pdf

A classic book about the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists. Emile Durkheim’s Suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes. Written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists, this classic argues that suicide primarily results from a lack of integration of the individual into society. Suicide provides readers with an understanding of the impetus for suicide and its psychological impact on the victim, family, and society.

Author : Marcus Alexander Hart
Publisher : Permuted Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780976555957

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The Oblivion Society by Marcus Alexander Hart Pdf

After an accidental nuclear war, Vivian Gray joins a comically inept goup of fellow twentysomething survivors. She and her new friends embark on a cross-country road trip seeking sanctuary from the menagerie of deadly atomic mutants unleased by the contaminated atmosphere.

Author : Moraitis Konstantinos,Rassia Stamatina Th
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813141957

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Urban Ethics Under Conditions Of Crisis: Politics, Architecture, Landscape Sustainability And Multidisciplinary Engineering by Moraitis Konstantinos,Rassia Stamatina Th Pdf

Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis investigates the states of urban planning, architectural design, sustainability, landscape architecture, and engineering, and examines their correlation with social attitudes and dispositions that can impact on socio-cultural and political engagement internationally in conditions of crisis. The theme of the book emphasizes the need to acknowledge the controversial character of contemporary social life under critical social conditions, in correlation with urban space. It concerns the evaluation of critical issues such as:

Author : Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HW26YY

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A Rose of a Hundred Leaves by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : American literature
ISBN : CHI:31566895

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Lippincott's Monthly Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric Voegelin,Gilbert Weiss
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Church and state
ISBN : 9780826261939

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The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin: Modernity without restraint by Eric Voegelin,Gilbert Weiss Pdf

Author : Jean E. Howard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202304

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Theater of a City by Jean E. Howard Pdf

Arguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own development, Jean E. Howard posits a particular synergy between the early modern stage and the city in which it flourished. In London comedy, place functions as the material arena in which social relations are regulated, urban problems negotiated, and city space rendered socially intelligible. Rather than simply describing London, the stage participated in interpreting it and giving it social meaning. Each chapter of this book focuses on a particular place within the city—the Royal Exchange, the Counters, London's whorehouses, and its academies of manners—and examines the theater's role in creating distinctive narratives about each. In these stories, specific locations are transformed into venues defined by particular kinds of interactions, whether between citizen and alien, debtor and creditor, prostitute and client, or dancing master and country gentleman. Collectively, they suggest how city space could be used and by whom, and they make place the arena for addressing pressing urban problems: demographic change and the influx of foreigners and strangers into the city; new ways of making money and losing it; changing gender roles within the metropolis; and the rise of a distinctive "town culture" in the West End. Drawing on a wide range of familiar and little-studied plays from four decades of a defining era of theater history, Theater of a City shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London.

Author : Rosemary L. Hopcroft,Martin Fieder,Susanne Huber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040005927

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Not So Weird After All by Rosemary L. Hopcroft,Martin Fieder,Susanne Huber Pdf

This is the first book to fully examine, from an evolutionary point of view, the association of social status and fertility in human societies before, during, and after the demographic transition. In most nonhuman social species, social status or relative rank in a social group is positively associated with the number of offspring, with high-status individuals typically having more offspring than low-status individuals. However, humans appear to be different. As societies have gotten richer, fertility has dipped to unprecedented lows, with some developed societies now at or below replacement fertility. Within rich societies, women in higher-income families often have fewer children than women in lower-income families. Evolutionary theory suggests that the relationship between social status and fertility is likely to be somewhat different for men and women, so it is important to examine this relationship for men and women separately. When this is done, the positive association between individual social status and fertility is often clear in less-developed, pre-transitional societies, particularly for men. Once the demographic transition begins, it is elite families, particularly the women of elite families, who lead the way in fertility decline. Post-transition, the evidence from a variety of developed societies in Europe, North America and East Asia is that high-status men (particularly men with high personal income) do have more children on average than lower-status men. The reverse is often true of women, although there is evidence that this is changing in Nordic countries. The implications of these observations for evolutionary theory are also discussed. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the social sciences with an interest in evolutionary sociology, evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary psychology, demography, and fertility.

Author : Göran Aijmer,Virgil K. Y. Ho
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9622018327

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Cantonese Society in a Time of Change by Göran Aijmer,Virgil K. Y. Ho Pdf

Based on a longitudinal fieldwork study in the Pearl River Delta, which is the heartland of the Cantonese-speaking world, the book explores how the ordinary people and their society evolved in a period of time characterized by drastic change.

Author : Laura Nader
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520285781

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What the Rest Think of the West by Laura Nader Pdf

Over the past few centuries, as Western civilization has enjoyed an expansive and flexible geographic domain, Westerners have observed other cultures with little interest in a return gaze. In turn, these other civilizations have been similarly disinclined when they have held sway. Clearly, though, an external frame of reference outstrips introspection—we cannot see ourselves as others see us. Unprecedented in its scope, What the Rest Think of the West provides a rich historical look through the eyes of outsiders as they survey and scrutinize the politics, science, technology, religion, family practices, and gender roles of civilizations not their own. The book emphasizes the broader figurative meaning of looking west in the scope of history. Focusing on four civilizations—Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, and South Asian—Nader has collected observations made over centuries by scholars, diplomats, missionaries, travelers, merchants, and students reflecting upon their own “Wests.” These writings derive from a range of purposes and perspectives, such as the seventh-century Chinese Buddhist who goes west to India, the missionary from Baghdad who travels up the Volga in the tenth century and meets the Vikings, and the Egyptian imam who in 1826 is sent to Paris to study the French. The accounts variously express critique, adoration, admiration, and fear, and are sometimes humorous, occasionally disturbing, at times controversial, and always enlightening. With informative introductions to each of the selections, Laura Nader initiates conversations about the power of representational practices.

Author : Aetre
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781430305897

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An Oblivion's Indigo by Aetre Pdf

Two colonies set out from Earth. One would travel the solar system and return in fifty years. The other, by design, would never come back. The crew of the returning ship, however, finds that during its absence, it missed a rather crucial planetary event: the Apocalypse. Soon the last remaining humans--those in the second, wandering colony--are about to be thrust into a final battle for souls between the forces of good and evil. Evil is much better prepared for the fight, though. The futures of both mankind and the afterlife depend upon the actions of all the humans caught in the struggles. Even though the forces they are up against are no less powerful than deity, humans with enough willpower can sometimes do amazing things...

Author : John W. Traphagan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791492963

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Taming Oblivion by John W. Traphagan Pdf

Examines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese. Taming Oblivion examines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese. While the biomedical construction of senility-as-pathology has become increasingly the norm in North America, in Japan a folk category of senility exists known as boke. Although symptomatically and conceptually overlapping with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of senile dementia, boke is distinguished from unambiguously pathological conditions. Rather than being viewed as a disease, boke is seen as an illness over which people have some degree of control. John Traphagan’s ethnographic study of older Japanese explores their experiences as they contemplate and attempt to prevent or delay the boke condition. John W. Traphagan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Gerontological Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton.