The Socialness of Things
Author : Stephen H. Riggins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110882469
Author : Stephen H. Riggins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110882469
Author : Stephen Harold Riggins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110141337
Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 1988-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1107392977
The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, the essays illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations. By looking at things as if they lead social lives, the authors provide a new way to understand how value is externalized and sought after. Containing contributions from American and British social anthropologists and historians, the volume bridges the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture. It will appeal to anthropologists, social historians, economists, archaeologists, and historians of art.
Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 1988-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521357265
Three of the papers were presented to the Ethnohistory Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania during 1983-84; the others were presented at a Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture, held May 23-25, 1984, in Philadelphia. Includes bibliographies and index.
Author : Charles Lemert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442211628
Social Things introduces the sociological imagination through lively, memorable stories and interpretations. This fifth edition celebrates the book's fifteenth anniversary with important updates, an entirely new chapter that addresses the environmental challenges in our global world, and many additions that bring the history of sociology up to date.
Author : Paul Lopes
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 1999-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Since 1889, The American Academy of Political and Social Science has served as a forum for the free exchange of ideas among the well informed and intellectually curious. In this era of specialization, few scholarly periodicals cover the scope of societies and politics like The ANNALS. Each volume is guest edited by outstanding scholars and experts in the topics studied and presents more than 200 pages of timely, in-depth research on a significant topic of concern-- http://ann.sagepub.com.
Author : Mike Owen Benediktsson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0691174334
How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social change Assumptions about human behavior lie hidden in plain sight all around us, programmed into the design and regulation of the material objects we encounter on a daily basis. In the Midst of Things takes an in-depth look at the social lives of five objects commonly found in the public spaces of New York City and its suburbs, revealing how our interactions with such material things are our primary point of contact with the social, political, and economic forces that shape city life. Drawing on groundbreaking fieldwork and a wealth of original interviews, Mike Owen Benediktsson shows how we are in the midst of things whose profound social role often goes overlooked. A newly built lawn on the Brooklyn waterfront reflects an increasingly common trade-off between the marketplace and the public good. A cement wall on a New Jersey highway speaks to the demise of the postwar American dream. A metal folding chair on a patch of asphalt in Queens exposes the political obstacles to making the city livable. A subway door expresses the simmering conflict between the city and the desires of riders, while a newsstand bears witness to our increasingly impoverished streetscapes. In the Midst of Things demonstrates how the material realm is one of immediacy, control, inequality, and unpredictability, and how these factors frustrate the ability of designers, planners, and regulators to shape human behavior.
Author : Andrew Sayer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139497170
Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordinary belief that values are beyond reason, and merely subjective or matters of convention, with little or nothing to do with the kind of beings people are, the quality of their social relations, their material circumstances or well-being. The author shows how social theory and philosophy need to change to reflect the complexity of everyday ethical concerns and the importance people attach to dignity. He argues for a robustly critical social science that explains and evaluates social life from the standpoint of human flourishing.
Author : Aboul Ella Hassanien
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030245153
This unique book discusses a selection of highly relevant topics in the Social Internet of Things (SIoT), including blockchain, fog computing and data fusion. It also presents numerous SIoT-related applications in fields such as agriculture, health care, education and security, allowing researchers and industry practitioners to gain a better understanding of the Social Internet of Things
Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2004-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824828202
Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes “superfluous things”—the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China—and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.