Robert K. Merton: Analisa Fungsional

Sosiologi adalah ilmu yang mempelajari masyarakat - struktur, proses, perubahan-perubahan yang berlangsung di dalam dan masalah-masalahnya. Karena itu, sosiologi dipelajari oleh hampir semua warga akademika, tak peduli apakah warga itu berangkat dari kejuruan teknis - asal ilmunya bersentuhan dengan masyarakat - ia membutuhkan sosiologi. Sosiologi adalah ilmu yang diharapkan mempuni untuk memba…

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness …

Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory

With contributions from leading scholars in the USA, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Japan, India, Australia and Jordan, Disability and Postmodernity is the first book to study disability within the context of the "postmodern" world of the twenty-first century. Organized into three sections, the volume opens with an exploration of theoretical perspectives, looking especially at phenomenology, at t…

An Introduction To Political Philosophy

What would life be like without the state? What justifies the state? Who should rule? How much liberty should the citizen enjoy? How should property be justly distributed? This book examines the central problems involved in political philosophy and the past attempts to respond to these problems. Jonathan Wolff looks at the works of Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, Marx, and Rawls (among ot…

Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership

Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, Frontiers of Justice is dedicated to this proposition. Taking up three urgent problems of social justic…

The Ethics of Authenticity

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Elevent Printing

ISBN/ISSN

0-674-26863-6

Deskripsi Fisik

142 pgs.; 25 cm.

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Images Of Savages: Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice In Wester Culture

In Images of Savages, the distinguished psychologist Gustav Jahoda advances the provocative thesis that racism and the perpetual alienation of a racialized 'other' are a central leagacy of the Western tradition. Finding the roots of these demonizations deep in the myth and traditions of classical antiquity, he examines how the monstrous humanoid creatures of ancient myth and the fabulous "wild …

Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis

Excerpt from Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis Soviet Ethics - The Externalization of Values The Principles of Communist Morality Ethics and Productivity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-ar…

Globalization: A Very Short Introduction

We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence millions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, and in which complex social forces intersect across continents. This is globalization.

Islam, Blasphemy, and Human Rights In Indonesia: The Trial Of Ahok

Using the high-profile 2017 blasphemy trial of the former governor of Jakarta, Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama, as its sole case study, this book assesses whether Indonesia's liberal democratic human rights legal regime can withstand the rise of growing Islamist majoritarian sentiment. Specifically, this book analyses whether a 2010 decision of Indonesia's Constitutional Court has rendered the…