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.

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.

Conflict and the Social Bond

Conflict and the Social Bond
Author: Michalis Lianos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351581384

Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we are programmed to bond and form communities that demand loyalty in order to let us belong. The analysis in this book cuts through the social sciences in order to show the fundamentals of violent conflict. The book investigates conflict at the level of sociality. It reorganises existing theories of conflict under that perspective and brings them to bear upon the link between violence and togetherness. It introduces the key concept of closure to describe the conditions under which human groups start to perceive their position as similar and their reality as polarised. This is how normality starts breaking down and fault lines appear. Violent conflict is then analysed as a reaction that seeks change more rapidly than conditions seem to allow. Global comparative data from numerous studies – including M. Mousseau's works – are used to disentangle the factors that contribute to "democratic peace", that is, the fact that democratic societies do not go to war with each other. This inquiry reveals the new dimension of sociodiversity, which allows societies where individuality is strong to constantly produce alternatives and avoid closure. The book concludes with a coda on peace and sociodiversity which explains how contemporary societies can ensure durable peace and adequate social justice at the same time. Written in a clear and direct style, this volume will appeal to students, researchers and scholars with an interest in political sociology, anthropology, international relations, war studies, as well as conflict and peace studies.

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.

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.

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.

New Philosophies of Labour

New Philosophies of Labour
Author: Nicholas Smith
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2011-11-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 900420976X

This volume addresses the long-standing neglect of the category of labour in critical social theory and it presents a powerful case for a new paradigm based on the anthropological significance of work and its role in shaping social bonds.

Delinquency, Schools, and the Social Bond

Delinquency, Schools, and the Social Bond
Author: Christine A. Eith
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Annotation Eith analyzes the impact of individual and school level factors on the school bond as a protective factor against delinquency. She further assesses significant differences in school bonding between the genders and across race/ethnicity. Her results show that at the elementary school level, the school bond does not function as predicted by Hirschi (1969). However, at the secondary school levels the school bond begins to function as theorized. A student s strong bond to school at the secondary school levels serves a preventative function against delinquent behaviors, drug use, and delinquent peer associations; regardless of overall delinquency in the school environment.

The New Social Control

The New Social Control
Author: Michalis Lianos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2012
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781926958170

Freedom and control are usually understood as opposites but what if they merged? Consumption, management and administration are everywhere. We are no longer supposed to depend on one other. Instead, institutions and organizations form a dense web that radically transform our past relations into ready-made, fragmented norms. Thus, we are increasingly controlled not by coercion but by competition and efficiency, aspiration and fear, to the point where a new era in human sociality is starting. Moving beyond existing critiques, Lianos argues that capitalism does not show itself as a conspiracy of the powerful but rather manifests as the lowest common denominator of our collective weaknesses. Control, therefore, lies in practice and freedom lies in consciousness. "This book transforms our view of social control. It is undoubtedly the first work to expose a decisive social mutation and reveal to us the logic and the disturbing power of a post-disciplinary, new social control, just as Foucault masterfully revealed to us the logic of disciplinary control." - Robert Castel, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales.

Dogs

Dogs
Author: Darcy Morey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2010-04-12
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0521760062

Dogs provides a comprehensive account of the origins and development of the domestic dog over the past 15,000 years.