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Author : Philip E. Steinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521010578
This 2001 book discusses the changing uses, regulations and representation of the sea from 1450 to now.
Author : Kuang-hao Hou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000623024
This book interprets the meanings of the uses, regulations, and representations of the ocean undertaken by the state and other societal power sources in modern Taiwan between 1949 and 2016. Following Michael Mann’s historical sociology and Philip Steinberg’s political geography, the book analyses the construction of the ocean by the society of Taiwan in terms of ideological, political, military and economic sources of power. It also provides a structural foundation for creating a framework of the politics in maritime and ocean affairs through the lens of an interpretive analysis of the modern Taiwanese construction of the ocean. Moreover, it explores the social constructions of the ocean through the written works of intellectuals in natural sciences, social studies and humanities in Taiwan after the 1980s. Succinctly revealing how Taiwanese society has influenced the social construction of the ocean, this book will appeal to scholars and students interested in Taiwanese politics and history, political geography and Asian politics.
Author : Thomas J. Biersteker,Cynthia Weber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052156252X
State sovereignty is an inherently social construct. The modern state system is not based on some timeless principle of sovereignty, but on the production of a normative conception that links authority, territory, population, and recognition in a unique way, and in a particular place (the state). The unique contribution of this book is to describe and illustrate the practices that have produced various sovereign ideals and resistances to them. The contributors analyze how the components of state sovereignty are socially constructed and combined in specific historical contexts.
Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674254275
Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality. Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse—very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the “culture wars” in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much needed measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge.
Author : Jenny Cook-Gumperz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139455619
Literacy - the ability to produce and interpret written text - has long been viewed as the basis of all school achievement; a measure of success that defines both an 'educated' person, and an educable one. In this volume, a team of leading experts raise questions central to the acquisition of literacy. Why do children with similar classroom experiences show different levels of educational achievement? And why do these differences in literacy, and ultimately employability, persist? By looking critically at the western view of a 'literate' person, the authors present a perspective on literary acquisition, viewing it as a socially constructed skill, whereby children must acquire discourse strategies that are socially 'approved'. This extensively-revised second edition contains an updated introduction and bibliography. This volume will continue to have far-reaching implications for educational theory and practice.
Author : Mark Rapley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521005299
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Author : Dave Elder-Vass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107024373
Argues that versions of realist and social constructionist ways of thinking about the social world are compatible with each other.
Author : Stanley L. Witkin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231530309
Social construction addresses the cultural factors and social dynamics that give rise to and maintain values and beliefs. Drawing on postmodern philosophies and critical, social, and literary theories, social construction has become an important and influential framework for practice and research within social work and related fields. Embracing inclusivity and multiplicity, social construction provides a framework for knowledge and practice that is particularly congruent with social work values and aims. In this accessible collection, Stanley L Witkin showcases the innovative ways in which social construction may be understood and expressed in practice. He calls on experienced practitioner-scholars to share their personal accounts of interpreting and applying social constructionist ideas in different settings (such as child welfare agencies, schools, and the courts) and with diverse clientele (such as "resistant" adolescents, disadvantaged families, indigenous populations, teachers, children in protective custody, refugee youth, and adult perpetrators of sexual crimes against children). Eschewing the prescriptive stance of most theoretical frameworks, social construction can seem challenging for students and practitioners. This book responds with rich, illustrative descriptions of how social constructionist thinking has inspired practice approaches, illuminating the diversity and creative potential of practices that draw on social constructionist ideas. Writing in a direct, accessible style, contributors translate complex concepts into the language of daily encounter and care, and through a committed transnational focus they demonstrate the global reach and utility of their work. Chapters are provocative and thoughtful, reveal great suffering and courage, share inspiring stories of strength and renewal, and acknowledge the challenges of an approach that complicates evidence-based evaluations and requirements.
Author : Kimberley Peters,Jon Anderson,Andrew Davies,Philip Steinberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351619660
Invisible as the seas and oceans may be for so many of us, life as we know it is almost always connected to, and constituted by, activities and occurrences that take place in, on and under our oceans. The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space provides a first port of call for scholars engaging in the ‘oceanic turn’ in the social sciences, offering a comprehensive summary of existing trends in making sense of our water worlds, alongside new, agenda-setting insights into the relationships between society and the ‘seas around us’. Accordingly, this ambitious text not only attends to a growing interest in our oceans, past and present; it is also situated in a broader spatial turn across the social sciences that seeks to account for how space and place are imbricated in socio-cultural and political life. Through six clearly structured and wide-ranging sections, The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space examines and interrogates how the oceans are environmental, historical, social, cultural, political, legal and economic spaces, and also zones where national and international security comes into question. With a foreword and introduction authored by some of the leading scholars researching and writing about ocean spaces, alongside 31 further, carefully crafted chapters from established as well as early career academics, this book provides both an accessible guide to the subject and a cutting-edge collection of critical ideas and questions shaping the social sciences today. This handbook brings together the key debates defining the ‘field’ in one volume, appealing to a wide, cross-disciplinary social science and humanities audience. Moreover, drawing on a range of international examples, from a global collective of authors, this book promises to be the benchmark publication for those interested in ocean spaces, past and present. Indeed, as the seas and oceans continue to capture world-wide attention, and the social sciences continue their seaward ‘turn’, The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space will provide an invaluable resource that reveals how our world is a water world.
Author : Dian Marie Hosking,Sheila McNamee
Publisher : Copenhagen Business School Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Corporate culture
ISBN : PSU:000059170983
Why do I write about organizations in poetry? / Caroline Ramsey -- Making your way / Dian Marie Hosking and Sheila McNamee -- Organizational science and the promises of postmodernism / Kenneth J. Gergen and Tojo Thatchenkery -- Organizations, organizing, and related concepts of change / Dian Marie Hosking -- Patterns of engagement / Christopher James Blantern and Murray Anderson-Wallace -- Subject-object relations, knowledge and power / Dian Marie Hosking and Sheila McNamee -- Auditive leadership culture: lessons from symphony orchestras / Niina Koivunen -- Reflections on power in organization / John Lannamann -- Abilities, competencies and selection decision-making / Len Holmes -- The group-in-the-making: from "group dynamics" to "relational practices" / Rene Bouwen and Johan Hovelynck -- Narrative approaches to inquiry / Sheila McNamee and Dian Marie Hosking -- Voicing differences and becoming other: life-stories of immigrants in an organizational context / Lars Nellmann Thisted and Chris Steyeart -- The social side of innovation: a process perspective / Bart Van Looy, Rene Bouwen and Koenraad Debackere -- Learning organizations: the emergence of a relational-interpretive view of organization / Mark Addleson -- Appreciative evaluation in an educational context: inviting conversations of assessment and development / Sheila McNamee -- Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, management and the dialogical / Ann L. Cunliffe and John Shotter -- Consulting: new language, new possibilities? / Klaus G. Deissler --Metaphors / Dian Marie Hosking and Sheila McNamee -- Lev Vygotsky and the New Performative Psychology: some implications for business and organizations / Lois Holzman -- Living in organizations: lessons from jazz improvisation / Frank Barrett -- Dialogue, talk, and debate / Sheila McNamee and Dian Marie Hosking -- Disturbing patterns of engagement / Christopher James Blantern and Murray Anderson-Wallace.
Author : Wiebe E. Bijker,Thomas Parke Hughes,Trevor Pinch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262517607
An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society. This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry—social construction of technology, or SCOT—that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape its STS list and inspired the Inside Technology series. The thirteen essays in the book tell stories about such varied technologies as thirteenth-century galleys, eighteenth-century cooking stoves, and twentieth-century missile systems. Taken together, they affirm the fruitfulness of an approach to the study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions, and they demonstrate the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory. The approaches in this volume—collectively called SCOT (after the volume's title) have since broadened their scope, and twenty-five years after the publication of this book, it is difficult to think of a technology that has not been studied from a SCOT perspective and impossible to think of a technology that cannot be studied that way.
Author : Pamela Etter Mack
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262132591
Viewing the Earth examines the role played by interest groups in shaping the process of technological change, offering valuable insights into how technologies evolve. It traces the history of Landsat from its origins through the launch and use of the first few satellites, showing how a variety of forces shape the form and the eventual reception of any new technology. The Landsat earth resources satellite system was a project of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration that was created to collect data about earth resources from space. The first satellite was launched in 1972 with great fanfare and high expectations. The data proved useful for everything from finding oil to predicting harvests, yet today the successful commercialization of the program is still uncertain. Why? To answer this question, Pamela E. Mack focuses on the negotiating process that went on among different parts of the space agency, other interested government agencies, and various organizations that were potential users of the data. This formal and informal negotiating process, she points out, involved not only choices between alternative technologies and the satellite but also conflicting definitions of what the satellite would do. The story is full of fascinating detail, from the concerns of the intelligence community over civilian satellites looking at the earth to the politics of agricultural survey. Pamela E. Mack is Associate Professor in the History Department at Clemson University.
Author : Helen M Rozwadowski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674266889
“[An] amiable, in-depth examination of the most critical era for the development of modern oceanography” (Publishers Weekly). In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities?in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territory, and scientific interests intersected with those of merchant-industrialists and politicians. Rozwadowski documents the popular crazes that coincided with these interests?from children's sailor suits to the home aquarium and the surge in ocean travel. She describes how, beginning in the 1860s, oceanography moved from yachts onto the decks of oceangoing vessels, and landlubber naturalists found themselves navigating the routines of a working ship's physical and social structures. Fathoming the Ocean offers a rare and engaging look into our fascination with the deep sea and into the origins of oceanography?origins still visible in a science that focuses the efforts of physicists, chemists, geologists, biologists, and engineers on the common enterprise of understanding a vast, three-dimensional, alien space. “Rozwadowski greatly expands our own understanding, all while telling a story that is original, wide-ranging, and illuminating.” —Margaret Deacon, Southampton Oceanography Centre, author of Science and the Sea: The Origins of Oceanography “Required reading for anyone wanting to understand how the oceans have come to play the role that they do in Western knowledge.” —Eric L. Mills, Dalhousie University and author of Biological Oceanography: An Early History, 1870-1960 “Chronicles the birth of deep-sea oceanography, from early observations by Benjamin Franklin to the voyage of HMS Challenger in the 1870s. [Rozwadowski] weaves a rich narrative from the world of renowned as well as lesser-known oceanographers.” —Nature
Author : Ryan Poll
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496233707
The reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological imagination. Poll contends that The New 52 Aquaman should be read as an allegory that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the oceans have become sites of warfare and mass death. The Aquaman series, which works to bridge the terrestrial and watery worlds, can be understood as a form of comics activism by its visualizing and verbalizing how the oceans are beyond the projects of the “human” and “humanism” and, simultaneously, are all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent structures of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The New 52 Aquaman, Poll demonstrates, proves an important form of ocean literacy in particular and ecological literacy more generally.
Author : Jude Browne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521697255
"Gender" is used to classify humans and to explain their behaviour in predominantly social rather than biological terms. But how useful is the concept of gender in social analysis? To what degree does gender relate to sex? How does gender feature in shifts in familial structures and demography? How should gender be conceived in terms of contemporary inequality and injustice, and what is gender's function in the design and pursuit of political objectives? In this volume a collection of international experts from the fields of political philosophy, political theory, sociology, economics, law, psychoanalysis and evolutionary psychology scrutinize the conceptual effectiveness of gender both as a mode of analysis and as a basis for envisioning the transformation of society. Each contributor considers how gender might be conceived in contemporary terms, offering a variety of (often conflicting) interpretations of the concept's usefulness for the future.