Society And Social Pathology

Author : R.C. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319503251
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society and Social Pathology written by R.C. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers one of the most comprehensive studies of social pathology to date, following a cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative approach. It is written for anyone concerned with understanding current social conditions, individual health, and how we might begin to collectively conceive of a more reconciled postcapitalist world. Drawing reference from the most up-to-date studies, Smith crosses disciplinary boundaries from cognitive science and anthropology to critical theory, systems theory and psychology. Opening with an empirical account of numerous interlinked carises from mental health to the physiological effects of environmental pollution, Smith argues that mainstream sociological theories of pathology are deeply inadequate. Smith introduces an alternative critical conception of pathology that drills to the core of how and why society is deeply ailing. The book concludes with a detailed account of why a progressive and critical vision of social change requires a “holistic view” of individual and societal transformation. Such a view is grounded in the awareness that a sustainable transition to postcapitalism is ultimately a many-sided (social, individual, and structural) healing process.

Author : Kieran Keohane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317015630
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization written by Kieran Keohane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the nature of contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes, examining the manner in which they are related to cultural pathologies of the social body. Multi-disciplinary in approach, the book is concerned with questions of how these conditions are not only manifest at the level of individual patients' bodies, but also how the social 'bodies politic' are related to the hegemony of reductive biomedical and individual-psychologistic perspectives. Rejecting a reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis of contemporary problems of health and well-being, The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization contends that many such problems are to be understood in the light of radical changes in social structures and institutions, extending to deep crises in our civilization as a whole. Rather than considering such conditions in isolation - both from one another and from broader contexts - this book argues that health and well-being are not just located at the level of the individual body, the integral human person, or even collective social bodies; rather, they encompass the health of humanity as a whole and our relationship with Nature. A ground-breaking analysis of social malaise and the health of civilization, this book will be of interest to scholars of sociology, social theory, social psychology, philosophy and anthropology.

Author : Edwin McCarthy Lemert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839743689
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Pathology written by Edwin McCarthy Lemert and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amy Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781316623206
Total Pages : 851 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon written by Amy Allen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a career spanning nearly seven decades, Jürgen Habermas - one of the most important European philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - has produced a prodigious and influential body of work. In this Lexicon, authored by an international team of scholars, over 200 entries define and explain the key concepts, categories, philosophemes, themes, debates, and names associated with the entire constellation of Habermas's thought. The entries explore the historical, philosophical and social-theoretic roots of these terms and concepts, as well as their intellectual and disciplinary contexts, to build a broad but detailed picture of the development and trajectory of Habermas as a thinker. The volume will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Habermas, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, political science, sociology, international relations, cultural studies, and law.

Author : Neal Harris
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303070582X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pathology Diagnosis and Social Research written by Neal Harris and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diagnosis of social pathologies has long been a central concern for social researchers working within, and on the peripheries of, Critical Theory. As this volume will elaborate, the pathology diagnosing imagination enables a “thicker” form of social critique, fostering research that pushes beyond the parameters of liberal social and political thought. Faced with impending climatic catastrophe, the accelerating inequities of neoliberalism, the ascent of authoritarian movements globally, and one-dimensional computational modes of thought, a viable form of normative social critique is now more important than ever. The central aim of this volume is thus to champion the pathology diagnosing imagination as a vehicle for conducting such timely social criticism.

Author : Bernard Rosenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mass Society in Crisis written by Bernard Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook in sociology and social pathology presenting fundamental contemporary social problems - comprises papers and excerpts from published material on such issues as police violence, the social system in the concentration camp, the horror of nuclear war, crime and poverty, mental health, social structure and anomie, social psychology, youth unrest among university students, employment discrimination, Black life and the social process, sociological factors in addiction to drugs, etc. References and statistical tables.

Author : Frederick Neuhouser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009235036
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diagnosing Social Pathology written by Frederick Neuhouser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains what is at stake in calling societies 'ill' and the meanings and consequences of characterizing social problems as illnesses.

Author : Samuel George Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Pathology written by Samuel George Smith and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emma Engdahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351687735
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Depressive Love written by Emma Engdahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and depression are key elements in the cultural script of emotions or affectual life within contemporary Western society, and the two have become intertwined to such an extent that it is informative to talk about depressive love. Indeed, the most common source of depression is intimate relationships, in which one partner is not recognised by the other as being in need or worthy of loving care. This book addresses the question of how it is possible for opposite emotional experiences such as love and depression to appear simultaneously, empirically documenting the phenomenon of depressive love and its implications through studies of art, including music, literature and photography, and the experiences of everyday life, by way of interviews and the analysis of e-mail-, sms-, messenger-correspondence, and other new media spaces. Engaging with a range of sociological, psychoanalytic and philosophical theories of love, depression and emotion, including the work of Simmel, Alberoni, Barthes, Hochschild, Giddens, Luhmann, Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, Illouz, Bauman, Hegel, Honneth, Ehrenberg, Han, Lévinas, Sartre, Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva, to name but a few, the author examines the ways in which depressive love is expressed in modern society, asking whether it is a new phenomenon and confined to the West and if not, what is distinctive about depressive love and its associated (dys)functions in contemporary Western society. An empirically rich and theoretically broad study of depressive love as a sign of our times, this book will appeal to scholars and students of social theory and the sociology and philosophy of emotion and interpersonal relationships.

Author : Stuart Alfred Queen
Publisher : New York, Crowell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Pathology written by Stuart Alfred Queen and published by New York, Crowell. This book was released on 1925 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: