Theories Of The Stranger

Theories Of The Stranger Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Theories Of The Stranger book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Theories of the Stranger

Author : Vince P. Marotta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317011019

Get Book

Theories of the Stranger by Vince P. Marotta Pdf

In our global, multicultural world, how we understand and relate to those who are different from us has become central to the politics of immigration in western societies. Who we are and how we perceive ourselves is closely associated with those who are different and strange. This book explores the pivotal role played by ‘the stranger’ in social theory, examining the different conceptualisations of the stranger found in the social sciences and shedding light on the ways in which these discourses can contribute to an analysis of cross-cultural interaction and cultural hybridity. Engaging with the work of Simmel, Park and Bauman and arguing for the need for greater theoretical clarity, Theories of the Stranger connects conceptual questions with debates surrounding identity politics, multiculturalism, online ethnicities and cross-cultural dialogue. As such, this rigorous, conceptual re-examination of the stranger will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory and the theoretical foundations of discourses relating to migration, cosmopolitanism, globalisation and multiculturalism.

Theories of the Stranger

Author : Vince P. Marotta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317011026

Get Book

Theories of the Stranger by Vince P. Marotta Pdf

In our global, multicultural world, how we understand and relate to those who are different from us has become central to the politics of immigration in western societies. Who we are and how we perceive ourselves is closely associated with those who are different and strange. This book explores the pivotal role played by ‘the stranger’ in social theory, examining the different conceptualisations of the stranger found in the social sciences and shedding light on the ways in which these discourses can contribute to an analysis of cross-cultural interaction and cultural hybridity. Engaging with the work of Simmel, Park and Bauman and arguing for the need for greater theoretical clarity, Theories of the Stranger connects conceptual questions with debates surrounding identity politics, multiculturalism, online ethnicities and cross-cultural dialogue. As such, this rigorous, conceptual re-examination of the stranger will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory and the theoretical foundations of discourses relating to migration, cosmopolitanism, globalisation and multiculturalism.

The Stranger's Welcome

Author : Steve Reece
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0472103865

Get Book

The Stranger's Welcome by Steve Reece Pdf

For more than two millennia, Homer's poetry has stirred the imagination of its readers. Originally recited by traveling bards, these poems are exceptionally rich in conventional elements that helped the poets remember works thousands of lines long. As dynamic ingredients of oral poetry, these elements have accrued deep meaning, and for a well-informed audience they call significant associations to mind. In The Stranger's Welcome, Steve Reece treats eighteen "hospitality" scenes in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns and reveals key aspects and standard elements of such scenes. Further, he demonstrates how Homeric listeners might comprehend the new and innovative by relying on their knowledge of the conventional and familiar. This tension between conventional and innovative, between the traditional background and the individual performance, distinguishes the aesthetics of Homeric poetry. Of interest to students and scholars of oral poetry, folklore, Homeric literature, and Greek literature in general, The Stranger's Welcome offers a practical approach whereby a reading audience may understand a hearing one.

The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories

Author : Hans J. Eysenck,Glenn D. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135020262

Get Book

The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories by Hans J. Eysenck,Glenn D. Wilson Pdf

Originally published in 1973 the editors of this book collected together those studies which had been considered at the time to yield the best evidence in support of Freudian theory, and found on close examination that they failed to provide any such proof. Each paper is printed in full and is followed by a critical discussion which raises questions of statistical treatment, sufficiency of controls and alternative interpretations. The particular usefulness of this format is that it allows readers to form their own opinions while providing helpful suggestions and guidelines on how to approach experimental studies with a critical mind.

Strangers, Ambivalence and Social Theory

Author : Bülent Diken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429761898

Get Book

Strangers, Ambivalence and Social Theory by Bülent Diken Pdf

First published in 1998, this volume dwells upon the socio-political problem of "under-representation" at great length within the context of immigration through analysis of Turkish immigrants within the "cosy" country of Denmark on the European Periphery. The main purpose has been to show the fictitious and constructed character of the identities that are normally presupposed and taken for granted. Bülent Diken attempts to "defamiliarize" the familiar notions of the "immigrant" and what is taken for granted in the field of immigration. To counter this, Diken allows the "immigrant" to speak throughout interviews. In addition, the study dwells on local and central state policies and planning. This requires a merger of social theory with research on immigration as well as (social and physical) planning, in this case in a Danish context with an examination on how the application of planning and urban politics are oriented toward immigrants. Together with an interest in political and discursive "strategies", the "tactics" used by immigrants in coping with these strategies are focused on at length.

The Stranger's Voice

Author : Carol L. Schnabl Schweitzer
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Church work with women
ISBN : 1433108844

Get Book

The Stranger's Voice by Carol L. Schnabl Schweitzer Pdf

especially those who have sensed that the denial of the mother's voice has played a critical role in their own self-alienation and its melancholy moods, will discover that this book has much to offer them as well." Donald Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary --Book Jacket.

Seeming and Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory

Author : Robin Reames
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226567013

Get Book

Seeming and Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory by Robin Reames Pdf

The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theory of language conceived by Plato, culminating in The Sophist. In that dialogue Plato introduced the idea of statements as being either true or false, where the distinction between falsity and truth rests on a deeper discrepancy between appearance and reality, or seeming and being. Robin Reames’s Seeming & Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory marks a shift in Plato scholarship. Reames argues that an appropriate understanding of rhetorical theory in Plato’s dialogues illuminates how he developed the technical vocabulary needed to construct the very distinctions between seeming and being that separate true from false speech. By engaging with three key movements of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Plato scholarship—the rise and subsequent marginalization of “orality and literacy theory,” Heidegger’s controversial critique of Platonist metaphysics, and the influence of literary or dramatic readings of the dialogues—Reames demonstrates how the development of Plato’s rhetorical theory across several of his dialogues (Gorgias, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Theaetetus, Cratylus, Republic, and Sophist) has been both neglected and misunderstood.

The Routledge Companion to Social Theory

Author : Anthony Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135188955

Get Book

The Routledge Companion to Social Theory by Anthony Elliott Pdf

A collection of introductory essays by an international range of contributors giving an insightful overview of classical and contemporary social theory.

Modern Theories Of The Unconscious

Author : Northridge, W L
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136325960

Get Book

Modern Theories Of The Unconscious by Northridge, W L Pdf

This is Volume XXIII of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. So much has been written in recent years on the Unconscious that the time seems opportune to compare and contrast the various important theories that have held the field. Originally published in 1924, this present book aims at a general review of this kind. The subject is Modern Theories of the Unconscious, but as a study of current theories cannot well be entered upon without considering early theories, we include the latter in our general survey and devote the first chapter to their consideration. On account of its importance in modem psychology, Freud's theory is kept much in evidence throughout, and frequent references are made to it when dealing with the work of other authors.

The Diversity of Social Theories

Author : Harry F. Dahms
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857248220

Get Book

The Diversity of Social Theories by Harry F. Dahms Pdf

Presents alternative trajectories for how to take steps toward achieving a theoretically informed understanding of the analytical and practical challenges of social theory (in terms of social, sociological, and critical theory), and looks beyond pluralism and fragmentation to the kind of roles social theorists may play.

Strangers to Ourselves

Author : Timothy D. Wilson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674504219

Get Book

Strangers to Ourselves by Timothy D. Wilson Pdf

"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel or what you're like, Wilson advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you. Showing us an unconscious more powerful than Freud's, and even more pervasive in our daily life, Strangers to Ourselves marks a revolution in how we know ourselves.

International Tourism

Author : Yvette Reisinger
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780750678971

Get Book

International Tourism by Yvette Reisinger Pdf

This book provides comprehensive coverage of cross-cultural issues and behavior in tourism, and illustrates how international cultural differences influence travel decision-making --publisher's description.

Hospitality to the Stranger

Author : Thomas W. Ogletree
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664227570

Get Book

Hospitality to the Stranger by Thomas W. Ogletree Pdf

The essays contained in this book offer exploratory studies towards a constructive account of "fundamental ethics," that is, a basic description of the constitutive components of the moral life. Thomas Ogletree sketches out the systematic components of Christian ethics, relating them to symbolic ethics--the mediation of Christian traditions of moral understanding--and practical ethics--the critical appropriation of scientific studies of factors controlling human action.

Strangers in Paradise

Author : David Mittelberg
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1412835186

Get Book

Strangers in Paradise by David Mittelberg Pdf

The literature on the Kibbutz is large and sprawling. This stands in marked contrast to the intimacy and proximity of the individuals who have actually participated in the life of the Kibbutz. In this quite remarkable work, David Mittelberg succeeds in capturing the specific life styles and aspirations of the Kibbutzniks. And he does so by integrating this within the broad and rich traditions of the sociology of culture and religion. Strangers in Paradise provides a massive amount of current data on Jewish and non-Jewish volunteers, division of labor by sex and language of origins, demographic characteristics of Kibbutz hosts and recruits, and a variety of attitude measures far beyond any other work in the literature. But what gives special value to this effort is its unusual utilization of the phenomenological tradition - from Simmel to Schutz, to Berger and Luckmann - along with recent efforts in organization and negotiation theory - from Blau to Goffman - in order to explicate this massive data. A special element in this volume is the central place accorded to voluntarism in an open culture. For Mittelberg, membership in the Kibbutz is at its core a voluntary act of individuals who commit their lives, or a portion thereof, to a collective movement in a strange land. This is a study then in "intentional communities" rather than Utopian organizations. The synthesis of the concrete and the abstract, the empirical and the theoretical, will establish Mittelberg's volume as a new standard in Kibbutz studies.

The Rights of Strangers

Author : Georg Cavallar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351540964

Get Book

The Rights of Strangers by Georg Cavallar Pdf

This study investigates the thinking of European authors from Vitoria to Kant about political justice, the global community, and the rights of strangers as one special form of interaction among individuals of divergent societies, political communities, and cultures. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it covers historical material from a predominantly philosophical perspective, interpreting authors who have tackled problems related to the rights of strangers under the heading of international hospitality. Their analyses of the civitas maxima or the societas humani generis covered the nature of the global commonwealth. Their doctrines of natural law (ius naturae) were supposed to provide what we nowadays call theories of political justice. The focus of the work is on international hospitality as part of the law of nations, on its scope and justification. It follows the political ideas of Francisco de Vitoria and the Second Scholastic in the 16th century, of Alberico Gentili, Hugo Grotius, Samuel Pufendorf, Christian Wolff, Emer de Vattel, Johann Jacob Moser, and Immanuel Kant. It draws attention to the international dimension of political thought in Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Adam Smith, and others. This is predominantly a study in intellectual history which contextualizes ideas, but also emphasizes their systematic relevance.