Titres dans Sociologie

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings—largely overlooked—from the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its groundbreaking new approach reveals connections between disturbing trends like climate change denial and regressions to strongman rule.

India's is a tale of private success and public failure. Prosperity is, indeed, spreading across the country even as governance failure pervades public life. But how could a nation become one of the world's fastest-growing economies when it's governed by a weak, ineffective state? And wouldn't...

Reputation touches almost everything, guiding our behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded in mystery. Why is it so powerful when the criteria by which people and things are defined as good or bad often appear to be arbitrary? Why do we care so much about how others see us that we may even do irrational and harmful things to try to influence their opinion? In this engaging book, Gloria Origgi draws on philosophy, social psychology, sociology, economics, and more to offer an illuminating account of an important yet oddly neglected subject.

Brought to you by Penguin. WITH A NEW FOREWORD CELEBRATING 20 YEARS SINCE PUBLICATION Assume nothing, question everything. This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that...

Le 8 juin 2016, le Québec entier est en émoi. Les médias viennent d'annoncer qu'une femme a été sauvagement attaquée par un chien de type pitbull, dans la cour arrière de sa propre demeure, et qu'elle a succombé à ses blessures au terme de souffrance inimaginables. Christiane Vadnais a été cruellement tuée par une bête déchaînée – un drame infernal qui plonge sa famille dans le deuil et le désespoir.

Brought to you by Penguin. George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time Orwell's graphically...

The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.

Sixty percent of humanity - some four-point-three billion people - live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right, combined with aid from rich countries. But anthropologist Jason Hickel argues that this approach misses the broader political forces at play. Global poverty - and the growing divide between "developing" and "developed" countries - has to do with how the global economy has been designed over the course of 500 years. Global inequality doesn't just exist; it has been created.

More than half of American adults and more than 75 percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions.

In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant. Groups are better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.

La libertad no es el orden natural de la humanidad. En la mayoría de lugares y de épocas, los fuertes han dominado a los débiles y la libertad ha sido aplastada por la fuerza o por las costumbres y las normas. A menudo los Estados no han tenido la suficiente capacidad para proteger a los...

Future Shock is about the present. Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations - even our patterns of friendship and love. Future Shock vividly describes the emerging global civilization: tomorrow's family life, the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships - all of them temporary. It illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today.

"These are the 'know your value' conversations that we need to have. These women--their challenges, choices, and successes--are all of us." --Mika Brzezinski Over the last sixty years, women's lives have transformed radically from generation to generation. Without a template to follow--a way to...

El esperado regreso del intelectual que incomoda al poder: vuelve con un antídoto contra la apatía y el talento perdido. ¿Y si el verdadero éxito no se midiera por lo que acumulamos, sino por lo que aportamos? En Ambición moral, el autor e intelectual estrella de la izquierda progresista...

From the No. 1 bestselling author of Call the Midwife comes another fascinating slice of 1950s East End life, as seen through the eyes of the midwives and women who lived through it. In the follow-up to her bestselling Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth tells the true stories of the people she met...

As we live more of our lives online, researchers can finally observe us directly, in vast numbers, and without filters. Data scientists have become the new demographers. In this daring and original book, Rudder explains how Facebook “likes” can predict, with surprising accuracy, a person’s sexual orientation and even intelligence; how attractive women receive exponentially more interview requests; and why you must have haters to be hot.

In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. Slavery is shown to be a parasitic relationship between master and slave, invariably entailing the violent domination of a natally alienated, or socially dead, person. 

Il crollo del Ponte Morandi a Genova e le conseguenze per le autostrade italiane. Il racconto e l'analisi in sei articoli di Repubblica: Crollo ponte Morandi: Genova ferita si cura ricucendo, non strappando, di Mario Calabresi; La stagione di avvoltoi e coccodrilli, di Massimo Giannini; Il nodo delle privatizzazioni e il padrone imperfetto, di Fabio Bogo; Il miraggio del monopolio di Stato, di Michele Ainis; Crollo Ponte Morandi, commissione d'inchiesta: tre investigatori del ministero rischiano di saltare, di Tommaso Ciriaco; Autostrade, governo spaccato. Lega: "No alla statalizzazione", di Tommaso Ciriaco.

La tragedia che ha colpito Genova il 14 agosto 2018, nel racconto di 6 articoli di Repubblica: Genova, il ground zero dell'Italia, di Ezio Mauro; Crollo causato dai tiranti, l'allarme già un anno fa, di Marco Lignana e Marco Preve; Il Paese malato che ha bisogno di sicurezza, di Sergio Rizzo; Cinquant'anni di allarmi inascoltati, di Alessandro Cassinis; Allarme per 300 ponti e gallerie, di Paolo Griseri; Quelle fragilità mai rilevate, di Luca Pagni.

Genova, due mesi dopo. Il racconto in sei articoli di Repubblica: Il veleno nel decreto Genova, di Sergio Rizzo; I cantieri senza regole del partito dell'onestà, di Gianluca Di Feo; Ponte, il muro di Castellucci: "Non so perché è crollato", di Marco Mensurati e Fabio Tonacci; Ponte Morandi, gli sfollati a casa per recuperare gli oggetti della vita, di Maurizio Maggiani.