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This text, first published in 2006, presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and developed these theoretical perspectives provide full descriptions of each theory and its background, development, and future. This second edition has been revised and updated to reflect developments within each theory, and in the field of...
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Summary of Presence by Amy Cuddy | Includes Analysis Preview: Have you ever bombed a job interview or fumbled an "elevator pitch"? Based on a number of social psychology studies, Presence is a book by Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy that encourages people to stop worrying about the impression they make on others and instead use simple tools like body language to change the way they feel about themselves. Presence shows how, by accessing...
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Hoy, cuando hablamos de convivencia escolar tenemos que hablar también de ciberconvivencia, y cuando hablamos de acoso escolar (bullying) tenemos que hablar de cyberbullying. Ambos fenómenos tienen lugar en el entramado de relaciones interpersonales que los escolares activan como redes de comunicación, actividades y vida en común. Esta vida en común proporciona muchos beneficios y ventajas, pero también algunos problemas y dificultades.
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Hoy en día, cuando las más profundas y variadas inequidades se revelan de forma evidente, es necesario cuestionar una de las ideas más extendidas sobre el modo de administrarlas y justificarlas. Este libro propone analizar diferentes promesas y paradojas del mérito y de la meritocracia, articulando una perspectiva psicosocial y crítica que pone en diálogo a la psicología con las ciencias de la sociedad, la educación y el trabajo. La obra se...
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Esta obra compuesta por ocho capítulos de diversos autores, presenta diferentes enfoques y maneras de asumir lo que se entiende por subjetividad y las opciones metodológicas para su abordaje desde nuestro contexto particular colombiano, con lo que aportamos en la construcción de la psicología social latinoamericana y con ello en el diálogo académico sur-norte. Con esta obra, editores y los autores esperan contribuir al fortalecimiento de una...
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In recent years, mindfulness and acceptances-based therapies have gained immense popularity in the field of behavioral health. And as these therapeutic models have proliferated, their teachings and practices have been introduced to a wide range of diverse applications.
Cognitive behavioral approaches often rely on a client's values as a catalyst for treatment. But because values are often culturally biased, it can be difficult to apply the same techniques...
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Qu'est-ce qui motive l'altruisme et le souci de l'autre?
Quelle place faisons-nous à la solidarité dans nos vies?
Dans un monde qui valorise la performance, la standardisation, la rationalisation, la technologie à outrance, la solidarité représente-t-elle une manière de revenir à l'essentiel?
La solidarité est-elle donnée d'emblée ou bien repose-t-elle sur d'autres valeurs qui la fondent? Est-elle la source de relations vivifiantes...
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Rhetorics of Display is a pathbreaking volume that brings together a distinguished group of scholars to assess an increasingly pervasive form of rhetorical activity. Editor Lawrence J. Prelli notes in his introduction that twenty-first century citizens continually confront displays of information and images, from the verbal images of speeches and literature to visual images of film and photography to exhibits in museums to the arrangement of our homes...
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Conspiracy theories have become a major element in modern opinion formation. From the theory that the killing of President Kennedy was masterminded by a powerful conspiracy to the theory that 9/11 was an inside job, from the story that Barack Obama wasn't born in America to the story that Donald Trump was a Russian asset, conspiracy theories have become a major element in opinion formation and an ever-present influence, sometimes open, sometimes hidden,...
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In this book dialogue is used as a research, knowledge-sharing and community-building tool in which participants engage with each other in reflecting upon the perspectives of self and others: challenging, complementing and contradicting each other as critical peers. The book aims to be an enactment of sociological reimagination, as a way to reimagine public conversations that inspire criticality, innovation and multimodality around the intersection...
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Comment et pourquoi transmettre à autrui ?
Comme il est impossible de ne pas communiquer, n'est-il pas impossible de ne pas transmettre ?
Mais dans une société du tout-jetable, quelle est encore la place de la transmission ?
Est-elle une réponse à l'angoisse de mort qui nous taraude, ou au contraire un élément qui vivifie le lien entre les générations ? Témoigne-t-elle d'un excès d'orgueil ou d'une grande générosité ?
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The contributors to Caribbean Realities and Endogenous Sustainability discuss alternative theoretical perspectives, sustainable growth-inducing economic policies, and special challenges in this era of neoliberal globalization. These perspectives, policies and challenges have to be seriously considered if appropriate interventions towards changing the Caribbean status quo and eliminating social and political ills are to be pursued. The authors evaluate...
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This book presents the latest research on status generalization in a variety of settings, examining new interventions for its negative effects. Drawing from research on status processes in sociology, social psychology, education, organizations, mental health, and other fields, the book connects to several bodies of research that include stigma and stereotyping, exchange and power, and organizations. The first part of the book establishes the foundations...
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The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world, our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art, are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent, especially without some recourse to the familiar coherency of order. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort...
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Summary & Analysis of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary of the book and NOT the original book. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - A 30-minute Summary Inside this Instaread Summary: • Overview of the entire book • Introduction to the important people in the book • Summary and analysis of all the chapters in the book • Key Takeaways of the book • A Reader's Perspective Preview of this summary:...
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Examines policies, norms, and classroom practices of the US and Mexican education systems, with the aim of preparing educators to understand and help transnational children and youth.
Millions of students in the US and Mexico begin their educations in one country and find themselves trying to integrate into the school system of the other. As global migration increases, their numbers are expected to grow and more and more teachers will find these...
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