The contributors to this volume take up the theme of instructed and instructive actions. Studies of instructions and the actions of following them provide empirical content to the classical theoretical issue of how rules, norms, and other normative...Loe edasi...
W. H. R. Rivers, who has been called the founder of the modern study of social organization, exerted an immense influence on his contemporaries and successors....Loe edasi...
The monograph The Paradigm of Social Interaction presents a paradigmatic synthesis in sociology. This is a reaction to the growing paradigmatic divisions in the discipline and an attempt at fostering the cumulative development of sociological knowle...Loe edasi...
Exploring recent configurations of social relations in post-socialist, post-war, post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina this collection of ethnographic research turns an analytical lens on questions of sociality....Loe edasi...
This book discusses common sense as a paradigm of thought and as such, compares it to the other major categories of thoughttradition, faith and enlightened, rational thought. It explains the meaning of common sense from the perspective of brilliant...Loe edasi...
Various emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of the risks and costs of face-to-face human interaction. But can they offer us real friendship? Elder outlines a...Loe edasi...
Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human societies. Travels shaped religions and societies and were a way for people to understand themselves, this world, and the transcendent. This book analyses travelling in its social con...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2019, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781315389929)
This book investigates the Internet as a site of political contestation in the Indian context. It widens the scope of the public sphere to social media, and explores its role in shaping the resistance and protest movements on the ground. It also exp...Loe edasi...
A guide to understanding and meeting the needs of those who have difficulty with social skills. It includes: what we mean by social skills; how social skills develop and why they sometimes do not; how to assess social skills; and, how to measure the...Loe edasi...
This accessible introduction to multiliteracies focuses on the new and continuously changing literacies of the 21st century that are delivered by live, paper or digital technologies. Constantly translating theory into practice, this book is full of...Loe edasi...
The field of nonverbal communication is a strategic site for demonstrating the inextricable interrelationship between nature and culture in human behaviour. This book, originally published in 1997, aims to explode the misconception that biology is...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1975, this title provides an informal introduction to the field of attribution, with the theoretical principles and issues illustrated in everyday examples....Loe edasi...
This volume shows how individuals overcome their biological, neural, and mental finitude to achieve sociality. It reveals how we take each other into account, coordinate our actions, and share our inner states through communication. It will be of in...Loe edasi...
