The Construction of Social Bonds

The Construction of Social Bonds
Author: Ahrne, Gšran
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789909457

This engaging and timely book demonstrates how a deeper understanding of theories about organizations are necessary for the development of a relational sociology and provides an in-depth explanation of globalization and social change. It also examines how social bonds are constructed through combinations of different forms of communication and investigates the bonds of intimate relationships and partially organized relationships such as street gangs, brotherhoods, and social movements.

Social Construction of the Past

Social Construction of the Past
Author: George C. Bond
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1994
Genre: Culture
ISBN: 9780415090452

"Social Construction of the Past examines labour, race and gender and its relationship to power and class. It includes chapters on a broad range of topics, from the role of intellectuals in restructuring a non-apartheid South Africa, to Haitian working-class women using sexuality to resist domination. It should be essential reading for academics and students from a whole range of different social and intellectual backgrounds, including anthropology, archaeology, history, comparative literature, political science and sociology."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Social Construction of Reality

The Social Construction of Reality
Author: Peter L. Berger
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1453215468

A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.

The Social Bond

The Social Bond
Author: Erik W. Aslaksen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319687417

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This authored monograph analyses the determining factors of societal evolution: the interaction between individuals and the resulting relationship, which the author calls the "Social Bond". The book aims at providing a better understanding of social dynamics and social interaction, and the author develops two models which provide interesting new insights. The target audience primarily comprises academics working in the field of social complexity and related fields, but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students alike.

Key Ideas in Criminology and Criminal Justice

Key Ideas in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Author: Travis C. Pratt
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2010-10-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1412970148

By focusing on key ideas in both criminology and criminal justice, this book brings a new and unique perspective to understanding critical research in criminology and criminal justice -- heretofore, the practice has been to separate criminology and criminal justice. However, given their interconnected nature, this book brings both together cohesively. In going beyond simply identifying and discussing key contributions and their effects by giving students a broader socio-political context for each key idea, this book concretely conceptualizes the key ideas in ways that students will remember and understand.

Constructing Social Research Objects

Constructing Social Research Objects
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-05-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004450025

What are the alternative ways to construct research objects in sociology? This book gives you a variety of examples of what to do, how to think, in order to develop and use theoretical driven methodology in the social sciences.

Social Enterprise in the Construction Industry

Social Enterprise in the Construction Industry
Author: Martin Loosemore
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1317583930

Through the emerging lens of social enterprise, this book examines how the global construction industry can engage more effectively with the communities in which it builds, addressing disadvantage and environmental degradation to leave a positive legacy for future generations. Combining insights from leading research and real-life case studies of social enterprise in the construction sector, the result is a practical framework which will help social enterprises, clients, consultants and construction firms work collectively to build a thriving social enterprise sector. Readers of this timely book will learn to embrace social enterprise and an important new sector in the global construction industry. They will learn to see community involvement as an opportunity rather than a risk, and fully understand the broader role they can play in building a fairer and more sustainable society.

Social Bonds as Freedom

Social Bonds as Freedom
Author: Paul Dumouchel
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1782386947

Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging. The contributors to this volume question the significance of this dichotomy between the universal and the particular, arguing that it reflects how the modern state has instituted the basic rights and obligations of its members and that these institutions are undergoing fundamental transformations under the pressure of globalization. They show that the social bonds uniting groups constitute the means of our freedom, rather than obstacles to achieving the universal.

Discoursal Construction of Academic Identity in Cyberspace

Discoursal Construction of Academic Identity in Cyberspace
Author: Małgorzata Sokół
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2011-10-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443834882

The aim of this volume is to look into how academic identity is discoursally constructed in CMC (computer-mediated communication), using the example of an e-seminar. An e-seminar is an asynchronous type of CMC, where private, public and institutional domains merge, and therefore it provides an interesting context for exploring academic communication phenomena in cyberspace. The linguistic cues of academic identity can be identified on three levels of discourse organisation: the features of lexico-grammar, textual macrostructures and genres. In general, the analysis shows how these three levels of discourse organisation contribute towards how academics negotiate their identities relative to the aims and activities of their discourse communities and relative to their individual goals. The discoursal construction of academic identity in electronic discourse depends also on such factors as the medium’s defining properties and the lack of direct physical contact between interactants. An important finding is the confirmation of the individuating character of the medium: i.e. the authors’ self-presentation in an e-seminar is characterised by their distinctive voice and increased self-disclosure. Communication in this context enhances individuality, which bears important consequences for how academics negotiate their identity in electronic discourse, exploiting the possibilities offered by the new medium. The results of the analysis reveal how important it is for scholars to maintain a legitimate identity in an e-seminar. Virtual academic identity as constructed in this context is as an extension of academic identity constructed in the real world. The new communicative medium seems to have extended the repertoire of effective means of self-promotion, and the presentation of academic achievements and expertise. These aspects have become important for academic interaction in today’s world, which is characterised by such phenomena as the internationalisation and globalisation of scholarship, commodification of science and intensified competition. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of discourse analysis, academic literacy, rhetoric and genre studies, and to all those concerned with the complexities of identity work in the context of computer-mediated communication.

Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality

Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality
Author: Thomas J. Scheff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1997-09-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521585453

This book, first published in 1997, offers an approach to researching human behavior relating details of interaction to social structure.