Construction of social reality

Construction of Social Reality

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with

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Reality of Social Construction

Many features of our social world are said to be socially constructed by forces such as language, culture and knowledge. Constructionism is usually se

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Social Construction of Reality

Offers an account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both discussion and investigations. This book presents an analysis of knowled

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Mediated Construction of Reality

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes.

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Nature of Social Reality

The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the nature of their subject matter. Demonstrating that this is a central explanation o

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Social Construction of What?

Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, re

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Social Construction of Diversity

Though the composition of the populace of industrial nations has changed dramatically since the 1950s, public discourse and scholarship, however, ofte

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Social Construction of the Ocean

This 2001 book uses legal texts, literary and artistic creations, maps and policy debates, to trace the changing uses, regulations, and representation

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Therapy as Social Construction

Explores the possibilities for the therapeutic process of adopting a social constructionist perspective. Topics covered in this text include the theor

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Invitation to Social Construction

This book uses real-world examples to bring together complex theories that are foundational to, and sometimes critical of, social constructionism in a

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Representing Reality

'This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & Society How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even ...

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Social Practices as Biological Niche Construction

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Production of Reality

This popular text/reader for the social psychology courses in sociology departments is distinguished by the author's engaging framing essays that ope

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Managing Reality

The 16th volume scrutinizes the role and influence of accounting within the social struggles of our time, in fields such as ethics, sustainability, an

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Beethoven and the Construction of Genius

This account reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. It explores the music

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Narrative as Virtual Reality 2

Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simulati

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Making the Social World

The renowned philosopher John Searle investigates the nature of social reality. How do institutions such as money, marriage, and government arise from

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Theorizing in Social Science

Advocates a crucial shift from looking at theory in social science, to the act of theorizing and the construction of theories.

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Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea

Namhee Lee explores how social memory and neoliberal governance in post-1987 South Korea have disavowed the revolutionary politics of the past.

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Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea

Namhee Lee explores how social memory and neoliberal governance in post-1987 South Korea have disavowed the revolutionary politics of the past.

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Oxford Applied Linguistics Issues and Challenges in the Construction of Knowle Oxford University Press

As well as outlining implications for pedagogy in the English-language classroom, Hyland fully evaluates the social practices surrounding knowledge creation and the political implications of global publishing....

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Processions and the Construction of Communities in Antiquity Taylor & Francis Ltd

This volume elucidates how the ritual of processions, from antiquity to the present, in polytheist religions and early Christianity, contribute to creating consensus with regards to both political power and communitarian experiences. It adopts a comparative approach, analysing both ancient and modern examples of how rituals, symbols, actors, and spectators interact in the...

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Barcelona, City of Margins

Barcelona, City of Margins considers the impact of narrative and photography in the construction of urban space and social movements in Francoist Spai

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Birth of a White Nation

Birth of A White Nation (2nd edition) examines the social construction of race through the invention of white people.

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Methodology of Science

This publication covers the essential problems of the methodology of science. The methodology of science is understood to mean primarily a theory of scientific methods and techniques; the use of scientific methods in scientific research and in the construction of scientific theories. It examines in detail the axiomatic-deductive and inductive approaches in constructing a ...

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Nation and the Promise of Friendship

When strangers meet in social clubs, watch reality television, or interact on Facebook, they contribute to the social glue of mass society—not becaus

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Engineers Of The Soul

Engineers of the Soul draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. Writers of renown, described by Stalin as 'engineers of the soul', were encouraged to sing the praises of construction. But the initial enthusiasm of Soviet writers faltered as these colossal structures led to slavery and destruct...

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Methodology of Science - František Ochrana

Anotace: This publication covers the essential problems of the methodology of science. The methodology of science is understood to mean primarily a theory of scientific methods and techniques; the use of scientific methods in scientific research and in the construction of scientific theories. It examines in detail the axiomatic-deductive and inductive approaches in const...

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Methodology of Science - František Ochrana

<p>This publication covers the essential problems of the methodology of science. The methodology of science is understood to mean primarily a theory of scientific methods and techniques; the use of scientific methods in scientific research and in the construction of scientific theories. It examines in detail the axiomatic-deductive and inductive approaches in constr...

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Trajectories of Translation Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book builds on Marais’s innovative A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation to explore the implications of this conceptualization of translation as the semiotic work from which social-cultural reality emerges and chart the way forward for applications in empirical research. This innovative work will be of interest to scholars in translation studies, semiotics, multimod...

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ICOM Dictionary of Museology Taylor & Francis Ltd

The internationally focused ICOM Dictionary of Museology reflects the diversity of cultural and disciplinary approaches to theory and practice in the museum field today. The ICOM Dictionary of Museology is intended for a broad spectrum of museum professionals, academics, researchers and students. The book will be especially useful to those working with international part...

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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power - James Walvin

<p>A major study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldFor the best part of four centuries, enslaved Africans were the human cogs in a vast machine which transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the well-being of the Western world, and created cultural habits we are familiar with today. In A World Transformed, celebrated historian James Wal...

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Lessons from Kafka - Philosophical Readings of Franz Kafka´s Works - Tomáš Koblížek

<p>Kniha konfrontuje úvahy o díle Franze Kafky od třinácti autorek a autorů z šesti zemí a tří kontinentů. Kafkovo dílo je zde zkoumáno z perspektivy různých filozofických oborů: ontologie, epistemologie, filozofie jazyka, etiky, politické filozofie, filozofie literatury a estetiky. Formální a metodologická rozmanitost příspěvků je stejně bohatá: zahrnuje detailní i...

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Třebel 1647 - A Battlefield of the Thirty Years’ War from the Perspective of History, Archeology, Art-history, Geoinformatics, and Ethnology - Václav Matoušek

<p></p><p> Kniha „Třebel 1647. A Battlefield of the Thirty Years’ War from the Perspective of History, Archeology, Art-history, Geoinformatics, and Ethnology” pojednává o střetnutí švédské a habsburské armády, která se odehrála pod hradem Třebelí v západních Čechách mezi 18. srpnem a 5. zářím, v roce 1647. Krajina bojiště se od poloviny 17. století dodn...

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Třebel 1647 - A Battlefield of the Thirty Years´ War from the Perspective of History, Archeology, Art-history, Geoinformatics, and Ethnology - Václav Matoušek; Tomáš Janata; Jan Chlíbec

Anotace: Kniha "Třebel 1647. A Battlefield of the Thirty Years´ War from the Perspective of History, Archeology, Art-history, Geoinformatics, and Ethnology" pojednává o střetnutí švédské a habsburské armády, která se odehrála pod hradem Třebelí v západních Čechách mezi...

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E DIN EN 16309:2011-08 1.8.2011

Neplatná norma E DIN EN 16309:2011-08 Sustainability of construction works - Assessment of social performance of buildings - Methods.

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GOST R 57274.3-2016 1.12.2017

Platná norma GOST R 57274.3-2016 Sustainability of construction works. Part 3. Framework for the assessment of social performance

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How to Make a Zombie

A super-duper rollicking investigation of the social myth and scientific reality of zombies, from the ingredients of Haitian zombie poison to raising

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North and South

'A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting examination of changing social

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Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking

Drawing on and extending the relational thought of Simmel, this book argues that, constituting a reality of their own, social relations are profoundly

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E DIN EN 15643-3:2010-04 1.4.2010

Neplatná norma E DIN EN 15643-3:2010-04 Sustainability of construction works - Sustainability assessment of buildings - Part 3: Framework for the assessment of social performance.

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Sex Is Not A Natural Act a Other Essays

Revisits the centrality of the social construction of sexuality, especially in the age of Viagra, female sexual dysfunction, and the media saturation

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Perspectives on Sociological Theories, Methodological Debates and Organizational Sociology Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book stands as the full body of scholarly work on western theories of social sciences. Sociology examines the social actors’ activities in society and social problems. This book intends to answer the broad and major questions of theories, methods, and the international organization studies in social sciences, particularly in sociology and to provide the basic concept...

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Intergenerational Locative Play

Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family examines the social, spatial and physical impact of the hybrid reality game (HRG) Pok©mon Go on th

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Nationalism in Ireland

Boyce examines the relationship between ideas and political and social reality. A new final chapter considers the development of nationalism in both p

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Practical Utopia

Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, founded in Devon in 1925, where ambitious ideals were turned into a reality. Practi

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Epistemology and Metaphysics for Qualitative Research

Challenging current modes of thinking, and covering areas not usually found in qualitative research texts such as social reality/ontology and quantum

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Queer Companions

Omar Kasmani theorizes the construction of queer social relations at PakistanÂ’s most important Sufi site by examining the affective and intimate rela

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Transmedia Crime Stories

While traditional news media played a significant role in the construction of innocence and guilt, social media offered users a worldwide forum to tal

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DIN EN 15643-3:2012-04 1.4.2012

Platná norma DIN EN 15643-3:2012-04 Sustainability of construction works - Assessment of buildings - Part 3: Framework for the assessment of social performance.(Udržitelnost staveb - Posuzování udržitelnosti budov - Část 3: Rámec pro posuzování sociálních vlastností.)

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DIN EN 16309:2014-12 1.12.2014

Platná norma DIN EN 16309:2014-12 Sustainability of construction works - Assessment of social performance of buildings - Calculation methodology.(Udržitelnost staveb - Posuzování sociálních vlastností budov - Metodika výpočtu.)

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BS EN 15643-3:2012 29.2.2012

Platná norma BS EN 15643-3:2012 Sustainability of construction works. Assessment of buildings. Framework for the assessment of social performance.(Udržitelnost staveb - Posuzování udržitelnosti budov - Část 3: Rámec pro posuzování sociálních vlastností.)

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BS EN 16309:2014+A1:2014 31.3.2014

Platná norma BS EN 16309:2014+A1:2014 Sustainability of construction works. Assessment of social performance of buildings. Calculation methodology.(Udržitelnost staveb - Posuzování sociálních vlastností budov - Metodika výpočtu )

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UNE-EN 15643-3:2012 28.11.2012

Platná norma UNE-EN 15643-3:2012 SUSTAINABILITY OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS - ASSESSMENT OF BUILDINGS - PART 3: FRAMEWORK FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL PERFORMANCE(Udržitelnost staveb - Posuzování udržitelnosti budov - Část 3: Rámec pro posuzování sociálních vlastností.)

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UNE-EN 16309+A1:2015 4.3.2015

Platná norma UNE-EN 16309+A1:2015 SUSTAINABILITY OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS - ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS - CALCULATION METHODOLOGY(Udržitelnost staveb - Posuzování sociálních vlastností budov - Metodika výpočtu.)

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August's Eyes

When dreams start bleeding into reality, a social worker is forced to face the mistakes of his past. A serial killer has found a way to make his land

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Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism Taylor & Francis Ltd

Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism is an important contribution to the collective understanding of how technology oligopolies are shaping America´s social, economic and political reality. An important reference resource, this volume is invaluable for students, researchers and authors interested in the socioeconomic dimensions of technology....

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Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism Taylor & Francis Ltd

Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism is an important contribution to the collective understanding of how technology oligopolies are shaping America´s social, economic and political reality. An important reference resource, this volume is invaluable for students, researchers and authors interested in the socioeconomic dimensions of technology....

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Boston Rob Rulebook

Boston Rob Mariano gained notoriety from his exploits on the hit CBS reality show "Survivor." The four-time player also gained a great deal of respect for his physical capabilities, social awareness, and his strategic, outside-the-box way of thinking. Now

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Dynamics and Conflicts in a Cross-Border Region Taylor & Francis Ltd

This volume explores a series of issues pertinent to the history of the cross-border region between Mexico, Guatemala and Belize from new explanatory approaches in order to reflect on a history and a reality that are shared by three neighbouring societies, emphasizing the actors and local practices that shape cross-border dynamics. This book will be a valuable resource fo...

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