The Social Imaginary
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Author | : Charles Taylor |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780822332930 |
DIVAn accounting of the varying forms of social imaginary that have underpinned the rise of Western modernity./div
Author | : Cornelius Castoriadis |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780262531559 |
This is one of the most original and important works of contemporaryEuropean thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe today. This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe today. Castoriadis offers a brilliant and far-reaching analysis of the unique character of the social-historical world and its relations to the individual, to language, and to nature. He argues that most traditional conceptions of society and history overlook the essential feature of the social-historical world, namely that this world is not articulated once and for all but is in each case the creation of the society concerned. In emphasizing the element of creativity, Castoriadis opens the way for rethinking political theory and practice in terms of the autonomous and explicit self-institution of society.
Author | : Graeme Kirkpatrick |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2013-10-07 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0745641105 |
Computer games have fundamentally altered the relation of self and society in the digital age. Analysing topics such as technology and power, the formation of gaming culture and the subjective impact of play with computer games, this text will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media, games studies and the information society.
Author | : Ilana Mountian |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0415583837 |
In this important contribution to the study of drugs and addiction Illana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drugs, drug treatment, and drug prevention, and develops alternative conceptual and methodological perspectives to current psychological approaches to drug use.
Author | : Gordon Sammut |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2015-05-25 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1107042003 |
This Handbook provides the requisite theoretical and methodological guidelines for undertaking social research addressing relevant contemporary social issues.
Author | : Suzi Adams |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2019-10-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1786607778 |
Written by members of the Social Imaginaries Editorial Collective, these programmatic essays showcase new critical interventions in understandings of social imaginaries and the human condition. They include a new comparative approach to theorizing Castoriadis, Ricoeur, and Taylor; the rethinking of the creative imagination in relation to common sense; analyses of political imaginaries in neoliberal and constitutional contexts from perspectives drawing on Gauchet and Lefort; and the taking up questions of historical continuity and discontinuity in civilizational worlds. In addressing pressing questions concerning social imaginaries, the book advances the field as a whole. The book includes a Foreword by George H. Taylor. This book is a must-read for all scholars interested in social and political imaginaries and will appeal to researchers and graduate students working across a wide variety of disciplines in the human sciences.
Author | : Susan M. Ruddick |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2014-05-22 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1317960750 |
Young and Homeless in Hollywood examines the social and spacial dynamics that contributed to the construction of a new social imaginary--"homeless youth"--in the United States during a period of accelerated modernization from the mid 1970s to the 1990s. Susan Ruddick draws from a range of theoretical frameworks and empirical treatments that deal with the relationship between placemaking and the politics of social identity.
Author | : John L. Caughey |
Publisher | : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : |
The violent fantasies of such figures as Mark David Chapman, killer of John Lennon, and John Hinckley, would-be assassin of President Reagan, have commonly been interpreted, by professionals and public alike, as socially aberrant--as the result of psychological instability. John L. Caughey's provocative study shows not only that such fantasies are shaped by enculturation, but also that they are closely linked in content and form to the more benign imaginative constructs of "normal" Americans. A new departure in the study of American society, this book takes a cultural approach to imaginary social experience, viewing the imaginary social interactions in dreams, fantasies, memories, anticipations, media involvement, and hallucinations as social processes because they involve people in pseudo-interactions with images of other people. Drawing on his anthropological research in the United States, Pakistan, and Micronesia, Caughey explores from a phenomenological perspective the social patterning that prevails in each of these imaginary worlds. He analyzes the kinds of identities and roles the individual assumes and examines the kinds of interactions that are played out with imagined persons. Caughey demonstrates that imaginary social relationships dominate much of our subjective social experience. He also shows that these imaginary relationships have many important connections to actual social conduct. Moreover, cultural values dictate the texture of the mental processes: imaginary conversations both reflect and reinforce the basic beliefs of the society, imagined anticipations of the reactions of real other people can serve social control functions, and media figures affect actual social relations by serving as mentors and role models. Caughey's arresting reappraisal of the world of fantasy is, in the words of James P. Spradley, "an outstanding job of scholarship" and "a unique contribution to the field of anthropology in general, to the study of culture and cognition, and to the study of American culture specifically."
Author | : Laura Bieger |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1611684072 |
Based on papers originally presented at a 2009 conference hosted at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut of the Freie Univet'at Berlin.
Author | : Sheila Jasanoff |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2015-09-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022627666X |
Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological progress carry with them implicit ideas about public purposes, collective futures, and the common good. The book presents a mix of case studies—including nuclear power in Austria, Chinese rice biotechnology, Korean stem cell research, the Indonesian Internet, US bioethics, global health, and more—to illustrate how the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries can lead to more sophisticated understandings of the national and transnational politics of science and technology. A theoretical introduction sets the stage for the contributors’ wide-ranging analyses, and a conclusion gathers and synthesizes their collective findings. The book marks a major theoretical advance for a concept that has been rapidly taken up across the social sciences and promises to become central to scholarship in science and technology studies.