Sociale Wetenschappen

Veertien Nederlandse wetenschappers geven hun visie op het verschijnsel chaos in de sociale wetenschappen

What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, as captured through their use of the metaphor of the "brick wall." On Being Included offers an explanation of this apparent paradox. It explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity. Commitments to diversity are understood as "non-performatives" that do not bring about what they name. The book provides an account of institutional whiteness and shows how racism can be obscured by the institutionalization of diversity. Diversity is used as evidence that institutions do not have a problem with racism. On Being Included offers a critique of what happens when diversity is offered as a solution. It also shows how diversity workers generate knowledge of institutions in attempting to transform them.

Diepte- en massapsychologische analyse van massavorming en de wil tot macht

'Identity' and 'selfhood' are terms routinely used throughout the human sciences that seek to analyze and describe the character of everyday life and experience. Yet these terms are seldom defined or used with any precision, and scant regard is paid to the historical and cultural context in which they arose, or to which they are applied.

This innovative book provides fresh historical insights in terms of the emergence, development, and interrelationship of specific and varied notions of identity and selfhood, and outlines a new sociological framework for analyzing it.

This is the first historical/sociological framework for discussion of issues which have until now, generally been treated as 'philosophy' or 'psychology', and as such it is essential reading for those undergraduates and postgraduates of sociology, philosophy and history and cultural studies interested in the concepts of identity and self. It covers a broader range of material than is usual in this style of text, and includes a survey of relevant literature and precise analysis of key concepts written in a student-friendly style.

The final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy is devoted to processes of global social change induced by interaction between networks and identity.

This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society Includes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economy Describes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe.

The Power of Identity is the second volume of Manuel Castells' trilogy, The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. It deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy. It analyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identities as sources of meaning for people, and the implications of these identities for social movements. It studies grassroots mobilizations against the unfettered globalization of wealth and power, and considers the formation of alternative projects of social organization, as represented by the environmental movement and the women's movement. It also analyzes the crisis of the nation-state and its transformation into a network state, and the effects on political democracies of the difficulties of international governance and the submission of political representation to the dictates of media politics and the politics of scandal. This substantially expanded second edition updates and elaborates the analysis of these themes, adding new sections on al-Qaeda and global terrorist networks, on the anti-globalization movement, on American unilateralism and the conflicts of global governance, on the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the world, and on the theory of the network state.

Sociologische studie over veranderingen in omgangsvormen en -idealen, met de nadruk op de intimiteit rond seks en dood.

Alhoewel veel bedrijven en organisaties gebruik maken van het systeem van een Denktank, is er volgens de auteur opmerkelijk weinig literatuur over dit onderwerp voorhanden. Zijn boek wil in deze leemte voorzien en is bedoeld als een gereedschapskist voor het creatief en collectief oplossen van problemen. Collectief denken en creativiteit dienen individueel en logisch denken te vervangen wil onze cultuur op termijn overleven.

Een Denktank, als een soort multi-brein organisme, is bij uitstek het middel om organisaties slagvaardiger en wendbaarder te maken. De auteur is als hoogleraar verbonden aan de faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen van het Limburg University Centre en gespecialiseerd in probleemoplossing en collectief creatief denken.

Recently, the National Center for Victims of Crime reported annual figures showing 103,845 children were sexually abused, while in that same year there was a 20% increase in all rape incidents and a 33% increase in sexual assaults. Incarceration and therapy have not reduced the rates, points out this author. The rate of incarceration has increased, but incidence of sex crimes is not waning. Dobbert warns we must all play a vital role to reduce such crimes, by prevention. The seasoned forensic examiner enables us to see life through the sexual predator's eyes, to understand the motives and intentions of people with abnormal and uncontrollable desires. He argues we can create a safer world by removing the opportunity for such people to act on their ideas.

The author clearly explains disorders from exhibitionism to pedophilia, and presents scenes that illustrate precursor behaviors shown by people preparing to act on such disordered thinking. Also illustrated are stalking patterns common to mentally ill people who commit sexual assaults or lust murders, including the activities of Kenneth Bianci, the Hillside Strangler, and Jeffrey Dahmer, whose serial lust homicides horrified the world. Community activists, teachers, principals, police officers, prosecutors, social workers, and students of criminal justice, forensic psychology, and psychopathology will find this volume of interest.

A Global Introduction, with its international outlook and cultural diversity, represents a unique and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. Each chapter addresses a new change in society, and reveals how progress in society often comes at a price. This text has been fully updated to include the latest key debates, topics and data, and also highlights the importance of technology in contemporary social life.

De jongste generatie leeft intens, gefascineerd door uiterlijk, kicks en netwerken; opgevoed in vrijheid en voorspoed. Toch worstelt een deel van de jongeren met problemen die een leger hulpverleners maar niet onder controle krijgt.

Sinds de omarming van het forever young-ideaal rust er een taboe op opvoeden met autoriteit en worden deugden als zelfbeheersing, geduld en onbaatzuchtigheid gebrekkig overgedragen. Jongeren zijn nog niet volwassen en hun ouders gedragen zich soms onvolwassen. De schadelijke gevolgen van deze collectieve onvolwassenheid zien we om ons heen: obesitas, alcoholmisbruik, oplopende schulden en publieke agressie.
De grenzeloze generatie stoelt op het Mentality-waardenonderzoek van Motivaction, waarvoor tussen 1997 en 2009 ruim 20.000 personen diepgaand zijn ondervraagd. Ook komen in dit opiniërende boek prominente opiniemakers en jongeren aan het woord.

Deze uitgave maakt een complex maatschappelijk vraagstuk transparant en is daarmee een must voor ouders, leerkrachten en beleidsmakers die willen weten wat de jeugd bezielt en waar de oplossingen voor de problemen liggen.

In an extensively revised new edition of the successful Anorexia and Bulimia, Richard Gordon includes new information and discussion of the latest ideas in this rapidly growing research field. There is extensive discussion of the clinical aspects of disorders, in particular their relationship to obsessive-compulsive disorder, plus data of recovery and mortality. It also provides accounts of the latest research on the epidemiological status of eating disorders and the subsequent debate that this work has engendered. Further new features include the analysis of the role of sexual abuse in eating disorders; the relationship of obesity to anorexia and bulimia, and consideration of the recent debates surrounding the politics of eating disorders.

Schirrmacher liefert eine kritische Analyse der möglichen Auswirkungen moderner Informationstechnologie auf das Selbstbild und Denken des Menschen.

A study of Hawaiian women's cultural valuation and social position in the first century of Western contact

This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits. Facing the Mirror gives voice to older women, who, in a sexist and ageist society, are frequently devalued and rendered invisible. These older, mostly Jewish women articulate their experiences of bodily self-presentation, femininity, aging, and caring pertaining to their lives within and outside Julie's International Salon. This book explores the socio-moral significance of these experiences which reveals as much about society as about older women themselves. Women's narratives expose structures of power, inequality, and resistance in the ways women perceive reality, make choices and live in their worlds.

The book explores the relationship between gender and development, and provides an introduction to Third World gender policy and planning practice. It describes the conceptual rationale for a new planning tradition based on gender roles and needs, and identifies methological procedures, tools and techniques to integrate gender into planning processes.