Category: Social Science

By Jon Elster, Hélène Landemore

ISBN-10: 1107010330

ISBN-13: 9781107010338

James Madison wrote, "Had each Athenian citizen been a Socrates, each Athenian meeting could nonetheless were a mob." The members to this quantity speak about and for the main half problem this declare via contemplating stipulations less than which many minds might be wiser than one. With backgrounds in economics, cognitive technological know-how, political technology, legislations, and background, the authors ponder info markets, the net, jury debates, democratic deliberation, and using range as mechanisms for bettering collective judgements. while, they think about voter irrationality and paradoxes of aggregation as in all probability undermining the knowledge of teams. Implicitly or explicitly, the quantity additionally deals suggestions and warnings to institutional designers.

By Steve Moxon

ISBN-10: 1845404041

ISBN-13: 9781845404048

His first ebook, the nice Immigration Scandal (2004), blew the whistle on abuses in the domestic workplace and resulted in the resignation of the immigration minister, Beverley Hughes. even supposing attacked on the time through the govt and the 'liberal' media for alarmism, Moxon's research has now been followed via many of the significant political events. certainly his perspectives at the hazards of multiculturalism have been even echoed via the Chairman of the fee for Racial Equality, top the night usual to say 'Moxon appears to be like now not loads a racist as a visionary'.But immigration used to be by no means his fundamental curiosity, in truth he joined the house workplace so as to examine its HR coverage, as a part of a decade-long research of men-women. This booklet is the end result. although its provocative name, the girl Racket is a major clinical research into one of many key myths of our age - that ladies are oppressed via the 'patriarchal' traditions of Western societies. Drawing at the newest advancements in evolutionary psychology, Moxon unearths that the other is right - males, or no less than nearly all of low-status men - have continuously been the sufferers of deep-rooted prejudice. because the prejudice is biologically derived, it truly is subconscious and will purely be exposed with the instruments of medical psychology.The booklet finds this prejudice in fields as various as healthcare, employment, relations coverage and politics: in comparison to the lengthy and bloody fight for common male suffrage, girls got the vote 'in an ancient blink of the eye'.

By Daphne Patai

ISBN-10: 0847689875

ISBN-13: 9780847689873

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Publish 12 months note: First released 1998
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What does it suggest to be a feminist this day?

Should girls require specific laws to guard them from sexual harassment? Daphne Patai's arguable examine the nation's present epidemic of sexual harassment fees solutions those questions and illuminates advanced ideological struggles inside of modern feminism. via investigating the continuing makes an attempt to manage sexual behavior, Heterophobia argues that women's pursuit of a "comfortable" setting has created a feminist-induced hostility towards males and heterosexuality.

Patai identifies the origins and evolution of "the sexual harassment industry," and she or he provides circumstances of these women and men whose lives have been ruined by way of fake or frivolous fees of harassment. A scathing feedback of political and sexual "correctness," this thought-provoking and powerfully argued ebook is bound to incite debate between all american citizens excited about the legacy and way forward for women's rights.

By Martin Dodge

ISBN-10: 0203876849

ISBN-13: 9780203876848

Maps are altering. they've got turn into very important and stylish once again. Rethinking Maps brings jointly top researchers to discover how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what those adjustments suggest for operating cartographers, utilized mapping study, and cartographic scholarship. It deals a modern evaluate of the various types that mapping now takes and, drawing upon a few theoretic views and disciplines, offers an insightful observation on new ontological and epistemological pondering with appreciate to cartography.

This e-book provides a various set of methods to a variety of map kinds and actions in what's shortly a speedily altering box. It employs a multi-disciplinary method of very important modern mapping practices, with chapters written by means of major theorists who've a global attractiveness for leading edge considering. a lot of the recent examine round mapping is rising as severe discussion among perform and conception and this ebook has chapters all in favour of intersections with play, race and cinema. different chapters talk about cartographic illustration, sustainable mapping and visible geographies. It additionally considers how replacement versions of map construction and use similar to open-source mappings and map mash-up are being creatively explored via programmers, artists and activists. there's additionally an exam of the paintings of varied ‘everyday mappers’ in various social and cultural contexts.

This combination of conceptual chapters and theoretically directed case experiences offers a very good source fitted to a wide spectrum of researchers, complex undergraduate and postgraduate scholars in human geography, GIScience and cartography, visible anthropology, media experiences, photo layout and special effects. Rethinking Maps is an important and demanding textual content for all these learning or having an curiosity in cartography.

By Peter D. Norton

ISBN-10: 0262141000

ISBN-13: 9780262141000

Prior to the appearance of the car, clients of urban streets have been diversified and incorporated little ones at play and pedestrians at huge. by means of 1930, so much streets have been basically a motor thoroughfares the place little ones didn't belong and the place pedestrians have been condemned as "jaywalkers." In battling Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to house autos, the yankee urban required not just a actual swap but additionally a social one: sooner than the town will be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets needed to be socially reconstructed as locations the place motorists belonged. It used to be now not an evolution, he writes, yet a bloody and infrequently violent revolution.

Norton describes how highway clients struggled to outline and redefine what streets have been for. He examines advancements within the the most important transitional years from the 1910s to the Nineteen Thirties, uncovering a vast anti-automobile crusade that reviled motorists as "road hogs" or "speed demons" and vehicles as "juggernauts" or "death cars." He considers the views of all users--pedestrians, police (who needed to turn into "traffic cops"), highway railways, downtown companies, site visitors engineers (who frequently observed autos because the challenge, now not the solution), and motor vehicle promoters. He reveals that pedestrians and oldsters campaigned in ethical phrases, battling for "justice." towns and downtown companies attempted to manage site visitors within the identify of "efficiency."

Automotive curiosity teams, in the meantime, legitimized their declare to the streets via invoking "freedom"--a rhetorical stance of specific strength within the usa. struggling with site visitors bargains a brand new examine either the origins of the automobile urban in the United States and the way social teams form technological change.

Peter D. Norton is Assistant Professor within the division of technological know-how, expertise, and Society on the collage of Virginia.

By Heather Lehr Wagner

ISBN-10: 0791090000

ISBN-13: 9780791090008

ISBN-10: 1438104405

ISBN-13: 9781438104409

The 1978 Nobel Peace Prize used to be offered to Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt, and Menachem start, top minister of Israel, for his or her contributions to the Camp David Accords. This paintings describes each one laureate's upward push to energy and the demanding situations they confronted at the street to turning into glossy peacemakers.

By Alain Vaillant

ISBN-10: 2271074142

ISBN-13: 9782271074140

À l’aube de notre modernité, le romantisme a transformé l. a. littérature, l. a. musique, les Beaux-Arts. Mais, plus généralement, il a bouleversé notre manière de penser, d’aimer, de percevoir l. a. nature ou l’Histoire – en un mot, de vivre.

Né en terre germanique, il a brillé d’un éclat bold dans l. a. France postrévolutionnaire,

avant d’essaimer dans l’Europe entière et, au-delà, dans les empires coloniaux et en Amérique, où il a toujours accompagné l. a. naissance des États nationaux.

Ce dictionnaire, le preferable à en présenter une imaginative and prescient globale, suggest en 649 articles de tout connaître des poètes, artistes, penseurs ou hommes politiques qui ont fait le romantisme : Byron, Hugo, Beethoven, Novalis, Chopin, Turner, Delacroix, Pouchkine, Garibaldi… Le lecteur y découvrira également les idées, les motifs, les modes qui dessinent les contours de l. a. tradition romantique et permettent d’en saisir les multiples visages à travers le monde.

Un ouvrage exceptionnel qui restitue le mouvement romantique dans toute sa complexité.

By Dejan Lukic

ISBN-10: 1441137734

ISBN-13: 9781441137739

How is hostage space
constructed? In
this age-long method present in conflicts world wide, unusual kinds of
terror and intimacy come up, fairly within the modern Islamic cultures of
Chechnya, Albania, and Bosnia. This publication investigates the modes of hope and
politics present in kidnapping, on the way to display the voices of sufferers and
kidnappers that frequently stay closed up. Dejan Lukic explores
the areas the place hostages and hostage takers come into touch - areas of
accident, sacrifice, wish, and disaster - or, in different phrases, the spaces
that announce utopias sure to fail. during this publication, the figures of the
victim, the terrorist, the sovereign, the resistance fighter and the witness -
among others - emerge with a brand new face; person who will give a contribution to our
understandings of what it capacity to behave politically and ethically at the present time.

ISBN-10: 1457174103

ISBN-13: 9781457174100

Earlier archaeological literature on cooperation idea has emphasised competition's position in cultural evolution. for that reason, bottom-up probabilities for staff cooperation were less than theorized in want of versions stressing top-down management, whereas proof from a variety of disciplines has validated people to successfully maintain cooperative undertakings via a couple of social norms and associations. Cooperation and Collective Action is the 1st quantity to target using archaeological facts to appreciate cooperation and collective action.Disentangling the motivations and associations that foster team cooperation between aggressive participants is still one of many few nice conundrums inside evolutionary idea.

The breadth and fabric concentration of archaeology supply a far wanted supplement to present examine on cooperation and collective motion, which to this point has relied mostly on game-theoretic modeling, surveys of school scholars from prosperous international locations, short ethnographic experiments, and restricted ancient instances. In Cooperation and Collective Action, varied case reports handle the evolution of the emergence of norms, associations, and logos of complicated societies during the final 10,000 years.

This publication is a vital contribution to the literature on cooperation in human societies that might entice archaeologists and different students attracted to cooperation study.

By Craig A Doherty

ISBN-10: 0816059705

ISBN-13: 9780816059706

A part of the 10-volume set local the United States, this name tells the heritage and tradition of Arctic peoples. It starts with a quick set creation that discusses many of the extensive heritage and topics stumbled on all through Arctic peoples' tradition, in addition to explains the concept that of tradition components to scholars.