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Eroticism of More- and Other-than-Human Bodies: A Study of the Anthropology of Things

by Grażyna Gajewska

Focusing on non-human actors, Grażyna Gajewska expands the discussion of eroticism in contemporary culture by bringing in material culture, object studies, and “the anthropology of things.” She sets out from the assumption that things (such as, for instance, attire, underwear, shoes, or jewelry) play an important role in arousing erotic imagination—they are genuine participants in the process, not mere signifiers of eroticism. Their use does not denote only undeniable facts of everyday life associated with functionality, the pragmatic or aesthetic aspect, but also contribute to the shaping of human emotions, fantasies and phantasms. In her study, Gajewska brings eroticism in contemporary culture to light through applying gender studies to new contexts—animals, robots, virtual worlds—even as she explores a new methodology, the anthropology of things.

Erotics and Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminism (Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities)

by Tim Edwards

Erotics and Politics provides an interface between the study of sexuality (particularly gay male studies) and gender (primarily feminism). In doing so it covers a wide range of issues of concern to gay and feminist movements over the past twenty five years including gay liberational sexuality, sado-masochism, pornography, promiscuity, personal relationships, AIDS and postmodernity. The central focus of attention throughout is the nature, development and consequence of gay male sexuality and masculinity. This book is unique in its coverage of a wide range of issues and connecting subjects which are typically examined separately.

Errors in Organizations (SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series)

by Michael Frese David A. Hofmann

Despite the significance and prevalence of errors in organizations, there has been no attempt within the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology to create a single source summarizing what we know regarding errors in organizations and providing a focused effort toward identifying future directions of research. This volume answers that need and provides contributions by researchers who have conducted a considerable amount of research on errors occurring in the work context. Students, academics and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines, i.e., industrial organizational psychology, medicine, aviation, human factors and systems engineering, will find this book of interest.

Erste Hilfe bei Burnout in Organisationen: Ein Ratgeber für Führungskräfte und Personalverantwortliche (essentials)

by Ulrich Scherrmann

Ulrich Scherrmann beschreibt in diesem essential das Burnout-Syndrom, um davon ausgehend die Ursachen anhand eines systemischen Burnout-Modells n#65533;her zu beleuchten. Bisher wird den betrieblichen Ursachen f#65533;r die #65533;berlastung von Mitarbeitenden, den sogenannten organisationalen Faktoren, noch zu wenig Beachtung geschenkt. Es dominieren die personalen Ursachen, z. B. dass Menschen nicht Nein sagen k#65533;nnen oder durch #65533;bertriebenen Ehrgeiz sich selbst ins Burnout man#65533;vrieren. Im Praxisteil stellt der Autor M#65533;glichkeiten der Prophylaxe sowohl f#65533;r einzelne Mitarbeiter als auch f#65533;r F#65533;hrungskr#65533;fte und die ganze Organisation dar. In der Pr#65533;vention wird u. a. auf Gefahren f#65533;r Unternehmen (Musterwiederholung, Pr#65533;sentismus) hingewiesen. Konkrete M#65533;glichkeiten f#65533;r Interventionen runden dieses essential ab.

Erving Goffman

by Tom Burns

Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922-82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the best-known sociologist of the second half of the twentieth century, Goffman was an unquestionably significant thinker whose reputation extended well beyond his parent discipline.A host of concepts irrevocably linked to Goffman's name - such as 'presentation of self', 'total institutions', 'stigma', 'impression management' and 'passing' - are now staples in a wide range of academic discourses and are slipping into common usage. Goffman's writings uncover a previously unnoticed pattern in the minutiae of everyday interaction. Readers are often shocked when they recognize themselves in his shrewd analyses of errors and common predicaments. This superb study, written by one of the most respected sociologists at work today, is an indispensible guide to the sociology of Erving Goffman. This book offers a compact guide to Goffman’s key ideas and the debates they have engendered, and incorporates understandings generated by recent Goffman scholarship.

Erving Goffman (Key Sociologists)

by Greg Smith

Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922–82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the best-known sociologist of the second half of the twentieth century, Goffman was an unquestionably significant thinker whose reputation extended well beyond his parent discipline. A host of concepts irrevocably linked to Goffman's name – such as 'presentation of self', 'total institutions', 'stigma', 'impression management' and 'passing' – are now staples in a wide range of academic discourses and are slipping into common usage. Goffman's writings uncover a previously unnoticed pattern and order in the minutiae of everyday interaction. Readers are often shocked when they recognize themselves in his shrewd analyses of errors, awkwardness and common predicaments. Greg Smith's book traces the emergence of Goffman as a sociological virtuoso, and offers a compact guide both to his sociology and to the criticisms and debates it has stimulated.

Erving Goffman et le travail social (21e – Société, histoire et cultures)

by Stéphanie Garneau & Dahlia Namian

En ces temps de morcèlement et de cloisonnement disciplinaire, il est impératif de rappeler les liens ambigus, mais néanmoins enchevêtrés, entre le travail social et la tradition sociologique dont est issu Erving Goffman. Les auteurs de cet ouvrage – travailleurs sociaux, sociologues, anthropologues, politistes et infirmiers – ouvrent la « boîte à outils goffmanienne », offrant des regards novateurs sur les enjeux contemporains entourant le travail social. Il prend appui sur une pluralité d’objets, dont la santé mentale, la toxicomanie, les soins aux personnes âgées ou avec un handicap, et l’aide aux sans-abris. Que ce soit sous l’angle épistémologique, théorique, méthodologique ou pratique, la posture goffmanienne est digne de considération. Elle permet d’observer les effets des institutions et des catégories du travail social sur les personnes ciblées. Elle aide à sortir d’une vision normative de l’intervenant pour identifier les possibilités et les contraintes qui pèsent sur lui. Elle permet également d’accéder aux dimensions tacites, affectives et parfois insoupçonnées du social et de la relation d’aide dans le but de rendre visible l’invisible, de rendre intolérable le toléré et les allant-de-soi. Les dix-sept collaborateurs rattachent certaines des ficelles qui ont été dénouées entre les deux disciplines au fil des luttes visant leur reconnaissance institutionnelle.Publié en français

Erving Goffman: From the Perspective of the New Sociology of Knowledge (Knowledge, Communication and Society)

by Jürgen Raab

While Erving Goffman’s books are among the most widely read sociological works, covering issues including the presentation of the self, total institutions, interaction order to frame analysis, they are in fact guided by a single theme: the analysis of the form of interaction in social situations and the role that individuals play in it. This book stresses Goffman’s central role as a sociological theorist, exploring the potentials of his work and uncovering the recondite layers of his oeuvre. In opening a path to understanding the complexity of his writings, it offers new directions for social theory and empirical research.

Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination

by Dmitri N. Shalin

Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffman’s scholarship but no extant biography of Erving Goffman. The chief reason is that a man who looked behind the facades people erect to protect their private selves, zealously guarded his own backstage. This book is the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, an intellectual of Russian-Jewish descent, who turned the “Potemkin village” trope into a powerful research program. The present study shows how key turns in Goffman’s career reflected dramatic events in his family and personal history. It is based on the materials gathered in the Erving Goffman Archives, a repository curated by the author who has been collecting documents and conducting interviews with Goffman’s relatives, colleagues, and friends. The archival work turned up documents which improve our understanding of Goffman the scholar, the teacher, and the man. The approach adopted in this investigation sheds new light on Goffman’s scholarship which has had an enormous and continuous impact across the social sciences and humanities.

Erwerbsminderungsrente bei psychischen Krankheiten: Ein Praxishelfer für Betroffene und Nachschlagewerk für Rechtsanwälte, Fachberater und Sachverständige

by Petra Schewe

Jede zweite Erwerbsminderungsrente wird auf der Grundlage von psychischen Erkrankungen gewährt. Petra Schewes neuer Ratgeber trägt dem extrem hohen Beratungsbedarf in diesem Bereich Rechnung. Er basiert auf ihrem ersten Buch "Ratgeber Erwerbsminderungsrente" (2017) und fokussiert auf die aktuellen Verfahren der Rentengewährung allgemein sowie deren Spezifika bei psychischen Krankheitsbildern. Der strukturierte Wegweiser unterstützt Versicherte der Deutschen Rentenversicherung, sich im Labyrinth der Voraussetzungen und häufig nicht zu verstehenden Unterlagen der Deutschen Rentenversicherung und medizinischen Gutachten zurechtzufinden und berechtigte Leistungsansprüche durchzusetzen. Zahlreiche Schaubilder und eine verständliche Beschreibung der Abläufe stellen die einzelnen Wege für den Laien klar und übersichtlich dar. In der Sozialberatung dient das Buch als Nachschlagewerk und Arbeitshilfe. Mit Praxisteil, Anlaufstellen und Hilfsangeboten.

Erwerbsregulierung in einer globalisierten Welt: Theoretische Konzepte und empirische Tendenzen der Regulierung von Arbeit und Beschäftigung in der Transnationalisierung

by Ludger Pries

Arbeit und Produktion sind im 21. Jahrhundert immer stärker grenzüberschreitend vernetzt. Dies galt aber bisher nicht in gleichem Maße für die Regulierung der Arbeits-, Beschäftigungs- und Partizipationsbedingungen der erwerbstätigen Menschen. Nationale Mechanismen und Institutionen dominieren immer noch die Festlegung etwa von Bezahlung, Arbeitszeit, Arbeitsschutz und Beteiligung der Beschäftigten. Bei genauerer Betrachtung zeigt sich eine Vielfalt von grenzüberschreitenden Formen der Festlegung z.B. von Mindeststandards für Arbeit und von Verhaltensregeln für internationale Konzerne. Es entsteht eine transnationale Netzwerktextur der Erwerbsregulierung, die internationale Organisationen, staatliche Akteure, Nicht-Regierungsorganisationen, globale Konzerne, Gewerkschaften und Arbeitnehmervertretungen einbezieht. Der ‚globalisierte Kapitalismus‘ agiert zwar grenzüberschreitend, aber nicht ungebändigt.

Erziehung zur Wut: Eine sozio-epistemologische Analyse des Kleinbürgers (Diversität und Bildung im digitalen Zeitalter)

by David Kergel

Der Band leistet eine sozio-epistemologische Analyse von Erziehung und den mit der Erziehung verbundenen Subjektformationen. Heuristisch wird die Subjektformation des Kleinbürgers als Manifestation von Erziehungspraktiken analysiert. Methodisch kommt ein transdisziplinärer Ansatz zur Anwendung, der sozio-epistemologische, psychoanalytische, soziologische sowie bildungstheoretische Analysestrategien integrativ zusammenführt. Die vorliegende Studie leistet eine theoriebasierte Analyse der (gesellschaftlichen) Effekten von Erziehung als pädagogische Praxis. Dabei steht eine sozio-epistemologische Auseinandersetzung mit Produktion von Subjektformationen im pädagogischen Kontext im Fokus der Analyse.

Erziehungswissenschaftliche Jugendforschung: Ein Aufbruch

by Cathleen Grunert Wolfgang Schröer Nicolle Pfaff Karin Bock

Der Band geht der Frage nach, welche aktuelle Bedeutung die Jugendforschung in der Erziehungswissenschaft hat. In den Beiträgen wird diskutiert, wie das Gegenstandsfeld Jugend in der Erziehungswissenschaft aktuell konturiert ist und mit welchen theoretischen und methodischen Zugängen es bearbeitet wird. Darüber hinaus wird untersucht, wie die Jugendforschung in die verschiedenen subdisziplinären Zusammenhänge und nachbardisziplinären Bezüge eingebunden ist und vor welche jugend-, forschungs- und disziplinpolitischen Herausforderungen eine erziehungswissenschaftlich orientierte Jugendforschung aktuell gestellt ist.

Escalation of Commitment in Internationalization Processes

by Björn Röber

This unique book on international business presents a critical review of the role of bounded rationality in internationalization process (IP) research. Corporate internationalization processes have been a subject of scientific debate for several decades. However, it is questionable whether behavioral research insights are sufficiently acknowledged in this academic discipline. Against this backdrop, the author critically assesses the behavioral assumptions of the Uppsala Model, which is commonly considered to be the pivotal approach in internationalization process research.

Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance in Everyday Life (Pelican Ser.)

by Stanley Cohen Laurie Taylor

From sexual fantasies to holidays this marvellous book charts our escape attempts. In a series of dazzling commentaries the authors reveal the ordinary and extraordinary ways in which we seek to defy the despair of the breakfast table and the office But the book is much more than a first-rate cartography of everyday life. It crackles with important theoretical insights about how `normality' is managed. This fully revised edition contains a superb new introduction, `Life After Postmodernism', which exposes the conceits of the postmodernist adventure and which should be required reading for anyone interested in making sense of everyday life.

Escape From Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

by Blaine Harden

The heart-wrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped North Korea's political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Dong-hyuk. In Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin's shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence--he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his mother and brother. The late "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il was recognized throughout the world, but his country remains sealed as his third son and chosen heir, Kim Jong Eun, consolidates power. Few foreigners are allowed in, and few North Koreans are able to leave. North Korea is hungry, bankrupt, and armed with nuclear weapons. It is also a human rights catastrophe. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people work as slaves in its political prison camps. These camps are clearly visible in satellite photographs, yet North Korea's government denies they exist. Harden's harrowing narrative exposes this hidden dystopia, focusing on an extraordinary young man who came of age inside the highest security prison in the highest security state. Escape from Camp 14 offers an unequalled inside account of one of the world's darkest nations. It is a tale of endurance and courage, survival and hope.

Escape from Freedom

by Erich H. Fromm

A classic analysis of the problem of freedom, totalitarianism and participatory democracy.

Escape from Freedom: Escape From Freedom, To Have Or To Be?, And The Anatomy Of Human Destructiveness

by Erich Fromm

Why do people choose authoritarianism over freedom? The classic study of the psychological appeal of fascism by a New York Times–bestselling author. The pursuit of freedom has indelibly marked Western culture since Renaissance humanism and Protestantism began the fight for individualism and self-determination. This freedom, however, can make people feel unmoored, and is often accompanied by feelings of isolation, fear, and the loss of self, all leading to a desire for authoritarianism, conformity, or destructiveness. It is not only the question of freedom that makes Fromm&’s debut book a timeless classic. In this examination of the roots of Nazism and fascism in Europe, Fromm also explains how economic and social constraints can also lead to authoritarianism. By the author of The Sane Society and The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, this is a fascinating examination of the anxiety that underlies our darkest impulses, an enlightening volume perfect for readers of Eric Hoffer or Hannah Arendt. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s estate.

Escape to Freedom: Brave Young Refugees

by Allan Zullo

Ten true stories of young people who fled violence and oppression in their homelands to seek a better life in the United States.

Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over

by Janja Lalich Karla McLaren

We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable, or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact, the behaviors, social pressures, and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group. In the first in-depth research of its kind, the author interviewed sixty-five people who were born in or grew up in thirty-nine different cultic groups spanning more than a dozen countries. What’s especially interesting about these individuals is that they each left the cult on their own, without outside help or internal support. In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over, the authors craft Lalich’s original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book, the first of its kind focusing on this particular population.

Escaping the Dragon (Routledge Revivals)

by Tom Field

First published in 1985, Escaping the Dragon is written for anyone- parents, family, friends, teachers, health professionals- who want to know about heroin addiction. Based on the author’s own experience and research, this book details the misuse of heroin with emphasis on the recognition of physical and psychological addiction, the consequences and social effects, and most importantly the first steps, professional help and continuing support necessary to deal with heroin addiction.Escaping the Dragon is essential reading for anyone concerned about, interested in or actively combatting heroin addiction.

Escaping the World: Women Renouncers among Jains (South Asian History and Culture)

by Manisha Sethi

The book attends to a historical question — how to account for the high numbers of renouncers (sadhvis) mentioned in medieval and ancient texts — which has been acknowledged and raised, but left unaddressed within Jain studies. It does so through ethnographic data gathered through extensive fieldwork among the sadhvis in Delhi and Jaipur. The volume foregrounds the primacy of ‘choice’ and ‘agency’— upheld by the nuns themselves, who associate asceticism with autonomy, freedom, joy, spiritual well-being, self-worth and peace, and grihastha (household) with loss of independence, fettered existence, degradation, burdensome familial obligations and social responsibilities. It also examines whether it may be apt to term Jain nuns as practitioners of an ‘indigenous mode of feminism’. The book challenges the existing sociological theories of renunciation and tests the feminist concepts of agency and autonomy by investigating the culturally coded roles ascribed to women in Jainism, which are variegated, and examines how a fractured discourse and reality is resolved in the subjectivities and identities of female ascetics. The very legitimacy of the institution of female asceticism, and the way in which the society (samaj) upholds and sustains it, renders female asceticism into a socially approved alternative institution — albeit one that allows Jain nuns to create spaces of relative and autonomy and even prestige for themselves.

Escuchar(nos): Hacia la comprensión de los demás y de uno mismo

by Marina Castañeda

¿En qué consiste escuchar a alguien? ¿Por qué, a lo largo de la historia, han existido grupos que "no merecen" ser escuchados y cuáles han sido las consecuencias para ellos? ¿Qué ha sucedido con el arte de la conversación? ¿Y con el silencio? Se dice que hay personas dotadas para la escucha, que nacieron con los dones de la empatía y la paciencia. Pero, ¿cómo consiguen estas personas eliminar los obstáculos, conscientes e inconscientes, individuales e interpersonales, sociales y culturales, que impiden que podamos escucharnos? Marina Castañeda analiza las dinámicas psicológicas profundas y, en su mayor parte, inconscientes, de la escucha, así como las relaciones de poder, las reglas de intercambio, los patrones culturales, y aspectos sociales y económicos que la rigen. Aborda el tema de la atención y explica cómo y por qué escuchamos lo que queremos. Recurre a la historia para mostrar por qué se está perdiendo esta vital facultad humana, y dar ejemplos de la escucha ideal; asimismo, expone las expectativas e ilusiones provocadas por la comunicación instantánea y el ciberespacio, así como los retos que plantea la globalización y la necesidad de inventar una nueva ética de la escucha. Además, gracias a su experiencia en este campo, la autora expone las características de la escucha en la psicoterapia, profesión que desde sus inicios ha estudiado el tema y desarrollado técnicas especializadas para lograr una escucha empática y respetuosa, al servicio del otro. Escuchar(nos) invita al lector a reflexionar sobre su capacidad de escuchar con una sección de preguntas y ofrece sugerencias para cultivar este arte y volver, nuevamente, el rostro hacia los demás.

Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks: Language Politics, Digital Media and the Making of an International Community

by Guilherme Fians

This book explores how Esperanto – often regarded as a future-oriented utopian project that ended up confined to the past – persists in the present. Constructed in the late nineteenth century to promote global linguistic understanding, this language was historically linked to anarchism, communism and pacifism. Yet, what political relevance does Esperanto retain in the present? What impacts have emerging communication technologies had on the dynamics of this speech community? Unpacking how Esperanto speakers are everywhere, but concentrated nowhere, the author argues that digital media have provided tools for people to (re)politicise acts of communication, produce horizontal learning spaces and, ultimately, build an international community. As Esperanto speakers question the post-political consensus about communication rights, this language becomes an ally of activism for open-source software and global social justice. This book will be of relevance to students and scholars researching political activism, language use and community-building, as well as anyone with an interest in digital media more broadly.

Esperanto and Its Rivals

by Roberto Garvía

The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century fostered a desire for the development of a global lingua franca. Many individuals and social movements competed to create an artificial language unencumbered by the political rivalries that accompanied English, German, and French. Organizations including the American Philosophical Society, the International Association of Academies, the International Peace Bureau, the Comintern, and the League of Nations intervened in the debate about the possibility of an artificial language, but of the numerous tongues created before World War II, only Esperanto survives today.Esperanto and Its Rivals sheds light on the factors that led almost all artificial languages to fail and helped English to prevail as the global tongue of the twenty-first century. Exploring the social and political contexts of the three most prominent artificial languages--Volapük, Esperanto, and Ido--Roberto Garvía examines the roles played by social movement leaders and inventors, the strategies different organizations used to lobby for each language, and other early decisions that shaped how those languages spread and evolved. Through the rise and fall of these artificial languages, Esperanto and Its Rivals reveals the intellectual dilemmas and political anxieties that troubled the globalizing world at the turn of the twentieth century.

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