検索キーワード： 社会理論

Max Weber gilt als Mitbegründer der Disziplin der Soziologie. Sein Werk "Die protestantische Ethik" war wegweisend, da zum ersten Mal versucht wurde, die ökonomischen Triebkräfte der Religionen zu analysieren. Ein faszinierendes Stück Zeitgeschichte, noch heute!

In a world organised around visibility, even virtue risks becoming something we perform rather than something we live. Virtue and Visibility explores how recognition, identity, and moral aspiration have become intertwined with the social pressures of modern life. be seen is not vanity.

Uma análise brilhante do novo mal que assola nossa época e nos anestesia perante o sofrimento alheio. Em nossos dias, a maldade e a miopia ética se escondem naquilo que consideramos comum e banal na vida cotidiana. A violência e os desastres se tornaram tão constantes e são de tal modo...

Em A cultura no mundo líquido moderno, Zygmunt Bauman — um dos mais brilhantes pensadores da atualidade — rememora os deslocamentos históricos do conceito de cultura e examina seu destino num mundo marcado pelas poderosas forças da globalização, da migração e da coexistência bélica...

يتحدث الكاتب عن ظاهرة الاستشراق وكيف كان لها أثر كبير في تشكيل نظرة الغرب للإسلام، وكيف بدأ الاستشراق والهدف الرئيسي منه وكيف كان عامل مساعد قوي في فترة الاستعمار...

Audie Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2014 Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient...

Based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, using theatrical performance as a framework. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others...

“Excellent.”—The Wall Street Journal Since its publication ten years ago, businesspeople, investors, doctors, parents, students, athletes, and musicians at every level have adopted the maxims of Talent Is Overrated to get better at what they’re passionate about. Now this classic has been...

Brought to you by Penguin. Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices...

Do you have a Third Place? Your first place is home, your second place is work, and your third place is where you go to socialize. As more of our lives are spent online and in digital spaces, these often overlooked "Third Places" play a crucial role in keeping our communities vibrant.

In this eye-opening book, renowned economist Alex Edmans teaches us how to separate fact from fiction. Using colorful examples—from a wellness guru's tragic but fabricated backstory to the blunders that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster to the diet that ensnared millions yet hastened its founder's death—Edmans highlights the biases that cause us to mistake statements for facts, facts for data, data for evidence, and evidence for proof.

From the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, a collection of the best conversations from his wildly popular, often controversial podcast, Making Sense. “Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —Sam Harris Sam Harris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and...

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. 

Did the Covid-19 lockdowns and mandates serve society’s best interests? Science alone can’t answer the question. Philosophers have important things to say about it. So do psychologists, economists, novelists, and lawyers.

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last 70 years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times. 

We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party of the right or left is providing us with answers. So, too, does the time seem to be coming to an end when we looked to economists to help us define the qualities necessary to create a successful society. We need a new movement.

The social contract shapes everything: our political institutions, legal systems and material conditions, but also the organisation of family and community, our well-being, relationships and life prospects. But accelerating changes in technology, demography and climate will reshape our world in ways many of us have yet to grasp. In this landmark study, Minouche Shafik, director of the London School of Economics, draws on evidence from across the globe to identify the key principles every society must adopt if it is to meet the challenges of the coming century.

Was will die deutsche Seele – und gibt es sie überhaupt? Bernd Stegemann, eine der umstrittensten Stimmen in den politischen Debatten unserer Zeit, zeigt in diesem Buch erstmals seine biografischen Wunden. Bis heute zeigt die deutsche Seele eine Unfähigkeit zum Mitgefühl, eine Fixierung auf die Schuldfrage und eine demokratische Lähmung im Umgang mit fremden Meinungen und Menschen.

Pouquíssimos intelectuais e comentaristas políticos tinham tanta certeza quanto Jessé Souza de que o impeachment da presidenta Dilma Rousseff se tratava da fachada perfeita para um típico golpe de Estado à moda brasileira. Naquele momento alarmante da política nacional, Jessé Souza cumpriu uma difícil tarefa: explicar como a “cultura de golpes de Estado”, promovida historicamente pela elite contra as políticas públicas de inclusão dos mais pobres – como aconteceu com Getúlio Vargas e João Goulart –, estava em franca atuação sem que a população se desse conta disso.

É raro que uma obra de teoria social alcance a repercussão de A elite do atraso, de Jessé Souza. No campo intelectual, este audiolivro é responsável por fincar, no terreno imperturbado de nosso pensamento social, uma crítica contundente às ideias de cordialidade e patrimonialismo como nunca antes fora feita. São essas ideias que fundamentam a visão elitista de que o brasileiro pobre é inconfiável, eleitor de corruptos e moralmente questionável, ao passo que os ricos e estrangeiros são valorosos, empreendedores e naturalmente prósperos.