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Social theory
About: Social theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11421 publications have been published within this topic receiving 624898 citations.
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TL;DR: A philosophical and biological framework for embodied cognition is identified; the main arguments in favor of the approach; and the implications for information systems and artificial intelligence.
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P J Mol and Frederick H Buttel as discussed by the authors have discussed the role of modernity and the environment in the development of a globalizing world economy.
Abstract: Introduction - Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P J Mol and Frederick H Buttel Globalization, Modernity and the Environment Classical Theory and Contemporary Environmental Sociology - Frederick H Buttel Some Reflections on the Antecedents and Prospects for Reflexive Modernization Theories in the Study of Environment and Society Ecological Modernization Theory and the Changing Discourse on Environment and Modernity - Gert Spaargaren Modern Theories of Society and the Environment - Eugene A Rosa The Risk Society Social Constructions and Social Constrictions - William R Freudenburg Toward Analyzing the Social Construction of 'the Naturalized' as Well as 'the Natural' Globalization and Environment - Arthur P J Mol Between Apocalypse-Blindness and Ecological Modernization Environmental Social Theory for a Globalizing World Economy - Michael Redclift The Ideology of Ecological Modernization in 'Double-Risk' Societies - Leonardus Rinkevicius A Case Study of Lithuanian Environmental Policy Political Modernization Theory and Environmental Politics - Pieter Leroy and Jan van Tatenhove Ecological Modernization and Post-Ecologist Politics - Ingolfur Bl[um]uhdorn Self-Organizing Complexity, Conscious Purpose and 'Sustainable Development' - Ernest Garcia
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors define moral exclusion, the limited applicability of justice underlying destructive conflicts and difficult social problems; and moral inclusion, the emphasis on fairness, resource sharing, and concern for the well-being of all underlying peace building.
Abstract: This article presents Moral Exclusion Theory as a way to systematize the study of complex issues in peace education and to challenge the thinking that supports oppressive social structures. The authors define its 2 key concepts: moral exclusion, the limited applicability of justice underlying destructive conflicts and difficult social problems; and moral inclusion, the emphasis on fairness, resource sharing, and concern for the well-being of all underlying peace building. They demonstrate the relevance of Moral Exclusion Theory in 4 key areas of peace education: (a) education for coexistence, (b) education for human rights, (c) education for gender equality, and (d) education for environmentalism. They then describe 2 common issues faced by schools, bullying and textbook bias, to demonstrate that moral exclusion is common and how students and staff can redress it. The article concludes with the challenge to use peace education as a tool for moral inclusion and for bringing about a world in which justice a...
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01 Mar 1994
TL;DR: AIDS as news analyzing news the early years ofAIDS reporting the "Grim Reaper" period of AIDS reporting AIDS reporting in 1990 AIDS, textuality and ideology.
Abstract: Since 1981, AIDS has had an enormous impact upon the popular imagination. Few other diseases this century have been greeted with quite the same fear, loathing, and prejudice against those who develop it. The mass media, and in particular, the news media, have played a vital part in "making sense" of AIDS. This volume takes an interdisciplinary perspective, combining cultural studies, history of medicine, and contemporary social theory to examine AIDS reporting. There have been three major themes dominating coverage: the "gay-plague" dominant in the early 1980s, panic-stricken visions of the end of the world as AIDS was said to pose a threat to everyone, in the late 1980s; and a growing routinising of coverage in the 1990s. This book lays bare the sub-textual ideologies giving meaning to AIDS news reports, including anxieties about pollution and contagion, deviance, bodily control, the moral meanings of risk, the valorisation of drugs and medical science. Drawing together the work of cultural and politicaltheorists, sociologists and historians who have written about medicine, disease and the body, as well as that of theorists in Europe and the USA who have focused their attention specificaiiy on AIDS, this book explores the wide theoretical debate about the importance of language in the social construction of illness and disease. This text offers insights into the sociocultural context in which attitudes towards people with HIV or AIDS and people's perceptions of risk from HIV infection are developed and the responses of governments to the AIDS epidemic are formulated.
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TL;DR: The traditional method of studying families has often focused on the pathological rather than on the strong family, and accentuating positive aspects could prove to be more important in a long-term basis than simply solving problems and weathering crises.
Abstract: The traditional method of studying families has often focused on the pathological rather than on the strong family. However, accentuating positive aspects could prove to be more important in a long-term basis than simply solving problems and weathering crises. Understanding the strengths of families has great potential for helping to solve many of the problems that families incur (Foster, 1983). Studies of family strengths have generally concentrated on traditional families rather than on nontraditional families such as
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