Myths about the Powerless
Author: M. Brinton Lykes
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published:
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781439901427
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: M. Brinton Lykes
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published:
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781439901427
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: M. Brinton Lykes
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781566394215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection examines the realities of social inequality, providing critical analyses of contemporary issues at the center of national debate—homelessness, the underclass, poverty, welfare, unemployment, health and mental health care, and gender and intercultural relations. A scholar and life-long activist, William Ryan's notions of "blaming the victim" and "fair shares vs. fair play" provide potent jumping-off points for the contributors' insights into the struggle for equality and social justice in the 1990s. Their call to unmask the underlying assumptions that sustain inequality offers a compelling challenge to the neoconservative strategy that dominates public debate and legislative agendas. Author note: M. Brinton Lykesis Associate Professor of Psychology, Boston College School of Education, and the co-editor of Gender and Personality: Current Perspectives on Theory and Research.Ali Banuaziziis Professor of Psychology at Boston College and the author of The New Geopolitics of Central Asia.Ramsay Liemis Professor of Psychology at Boston College and the co-author of Social Contexts of Health, Illness, and Patient Care.Michael Morrisis Professor of Psychology at the University of New Haven and the co-author of Poverty and Public Policy.
Author: M. Brinton Lykes
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781566394215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exposing the assumptions about issues at the center of our national debate
Author: Warren Farrell
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781876451301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →...lies understanding. This is what bestselling author Warren Farrell discovered when he took a stand against established views of the male role in society, and pursued o course of study to find out who men really are. Here are the eye-opening, heart-rending, and undeniably enlightening results...
Author: Anne Wayman
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Published: 1998-11
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781581128765
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this ground breaking book, Anne Wayman, clean and sober for almost 25 years and with multiple works published by Hazelden, explores two myths that grown up in the 12 Step movement: never-ending recovery, and perpetual powerlessness. Convinced that the 12 Steps offer the best chance for lasting recovery, she challenges the movement to acknowledge the fear behind the myths, and let them go so that the Program can reach its full potential. Working from original source material, she explains the nature and development of the myths. She documents the damage they do to individuals and the movement as a whole, including its relative failure in areas of poverty where it is most needed. With true compassion and understanding she shows exactly what 12 Steppers need to do to let go of the myths, and become Powerfully Recovered, as the original Program intended. "It's about time!" Bruce K. "Powerfully Recovered! has helped me articulate something I've been feeling for years." Kathy B. "This book makes a powerful and positive difference for anyone in any 12 Step Program." Grace S.
Author: John Glenn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-08-06
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1134530986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rather than claim that there exists a common concept of globalization that all parties can agree to, this book seeks to examine some of the conceptions and the way in which they render different interpretations of particular aspects of globalization. The last two decades have witnessed an explosive proliferation of academic writings on the subject of globalization, which has been accompanied by a high level of interest in the media and widespread usage of the term. This has inevitably resulted in the meaning of the concept broadening to include a whole host of issues, running the attendant risk of losing any conceptual focus it had. John Glenn examines five issue areas affected by globalization: the economy sovereignty civil society governance communication. In so doing, the book aims to articulate certain questions within each area, which will allow for some judgment to be made concerning the differing perspectives on globalization. Globalization will be of interest to students of international political economy and politics and international relations in general.
Author: Kyong Liong Kim
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Caged in Our Own Signs: A Book About Semiotics is a primer of semiotics, intended for general readers as well as communication majors. The first five chapters introduce the basic constructs, models, assumptions, frameworks for semiotic thinking, and other elements that underpin contemporary semiotics. This volume also provides the reader with semiotic methodology to analyze issues of postmodernism, of text semiotics, and of mass cultural semiotics. This book is written in such a way that the reader may easily apply the semiotic knowledge to the everyday conversation and discourse.
Author: Michael Kimmel
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781439901465
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A much-needed, often startling debate on the personal and political dimensions of masculinity.
Author: Yiannis Gabriel
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2004-01-29
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0191555827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Each chapter of this book takes as its starting point a myth, a legend, a story or a fable, and explores its contemporary relevance for a world of globalization, organizations and, consumerism. Each contributor is inspired by a relatively short but rich text which is then used as a springboard for an analysis of contemporary social and organizational realities. The idea behind this book is that by looking at contemporary society through the prism of pre-modern narratives, certain features emerge in sharp relief, while others are found to be entrenched in societies across the ages. The texts that have inspired the authors of this collection differ - some are myths, some are stories, one is a children's tale. The origins of these texts differ, from the scriptural to the folkloric, from high art to oral tradition. What all the texts have in common is a distinct and compelling plot, a cast of recognizable characters with an ability to touch us and speak to us through the ages, and, above all, a powerful symbolic aura, one that makes them identifiable landmarks in storytelling tradition. The driving force behind this project was each author's love for their narratives. It is not an exaggeration to say that the book is a true labour of love. The chapters are introduced by the editor and are arranged in four parts, each with its own introduction. The chapters in each part spring from stories that share a narrative character, and are labelled as Knowledge Narratives, Heroic Narratives, Tragic Narratives, and Reflecive Narratives. The book offers a set of probing, original and critical inquiries into the nature of human experience knowledge and truth, the nature of leadership, power and heroic achievement, postmodernity and its discontents, and emotion, identity and the nature of human relations in organizations. Different chapters deal, among other things, with the nature of leadership in the face of terrorism, friendship, women's position in organizations, the struggle for identity, the curse of insatiable consumption and the ways the hero and heroine are constructed in our times.
Author: Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2015-04-10
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0801456258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an updated, panoramic view of public housing. With eleven chapters by prominent scholars, the collection not only covers a groundbreaking range of public housing issues transnationally but also does so in a revisionist and provocative manner. With students in mind, Public Housing Myths is organized thematically around popular preconceptions and myths about the policies surrounding big city public housing, the places themselves, and the people who call them home. The authors challenge narratives of inevitable decline, architectural determinism, and rampant criminality that have shaped earlier accounts and still dominate public perception.