Prolegomena: Alternative Discourses in Social Science as "Culturally Independent" Scholarship -- The Yin-Yang Dialectic and Principles of Social Change: Culturally Independent Alternative Sociological Ideas -- Selective Modernization and Alternative Modernities: In Search of an Alternative Theory -- From The "Culture of Development" Toward "Cultured" Development: An Alternative Theoretical Appr…
The era of a 'slow-paced' academia characterized by leisurely tempos of research and pedagogy has gone. Academia is now an intensely social site, and the boundaries between capitalist dynamics and academic life have become blurred. Academic workloads are increasing as academics have to deal with an ever-growing number of tasks, information, obligations, texts, procedures and connections. Yet th…
Protest and Power -- Alter-globalization in Southern Europe -- Lifestyle Stereotypes -- Music and Politics, a Utopian Narrative -- A Ternary Model of Political Resistance: Subject, Action, and Object.Considering the rise of global political instability and subsequent importance of new social movements, this cutting edge book examines the relationship between the alter-globalization movement and…
Introduction -- From “Blind Susan” to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl: How Mary L. Day Disabled Domesticity -- Crossing the Threshold: Disability and Modernist Housing -- The Largest Occupational Group of All the Disabled: Homemakers with Disabilities and Vocational Rehabilitation in Postwar America -- Rethinking the American Dream Home: The Disability Rights Movement and the Cult…
Ways of the Hands -- A Design Theme for Tangible Interaction: Embodied Facilitation -- Supporting High Coupling and User-Interface Flexibility -- A Groupware Design Framework for Loosely Coupled Workgroups -- Formally Analyzing Two-User Centralized and Replicated Architectures -- Working Together Inside an Emailbox -- Emergent Temporal Behaviour and Collaborative Work -- Managing Currents of Wo…
From the contents L'infertilità nella società moderna: Infertilità: una malattia sociale. La dimensione sociale del fenomeno. La dimensione tecnica del fenomeno. Riflessioni sulle tecniche. Aspetti psicologici dei pazienti e degli operatori -- Le basi culturali del progetto SAHARAI: Il fallimento nei numeri e le tentate soluzioni. Le soluzioni proposte da SAHARAI -- La forza della domanda di…
Placing Adaptation Among Elderly Holocaust Survivors in a Theoretical Context -- The Holocaust Years Survivors Share Their Wartime Experiences -- From Destruction To Search For New Lives -- Cumulative Stress Experiences of Holocaust Survivors and the Immigrant Comparison Group -- Physical Health of Holocaust Survivors and Immigrants in the U.S. and Israel -- Mental Health of Older Holocaust Sur…
Sustainable Consumption and the Public’s Room to Maneuver in Energy Use -- Targets of Intervention for Sustainable Consumption -- Energy, Environment, and Society -- Field Study with Computer-Aided Interviews -- Achievements, Open Questions, and Lessons Learned.Origin of this book In 1998 the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) initiated the 2000 Watt Society, a University-wide resear…
Introduction: Launching the Era of Global Environmental Governance from Asia -- Introduction: Launching the Era of Global Environmental Governance from Asia -- Asia by Theme -- Military Impacts on the Environment: Working Toward the Century of Peace and Environmental Progress -- Trade and the Environment: Promoting Environmentally Friendly Trade -- Food, Farming and the Environment: The Develop…
To the Reducibility Hypothesis -- Meritories and Social Interest -- The Autonomous Interest of Society -- The Principles of Economic Sociodynamics -- The Realization of Social Interest -- The Individual, the State and Society -- The Rational Behavior of the State -- Instead of a Conclusion… -- Economic Sociodynamics: Variations on a Given Theme.Grinberg and Rubinstein have written a profound …