Libros de Sociología 1650 resultados

Alvaro Fernandez Bravo

Este libro es una compilación de trabajos, cuidadosamente traducida y revisada por Álvaro Fernández Bravo. Abarca nombres de la talla y diversidad de Johan G. von Herder, Ernest Renan, José C. Mariátegui, Frantz Fanon y Eric Hobsbawm, entre otros. Compuesto por diez trabajos, ordenados con una mirada inteligente y polémica, y un apéndice (la entrevista a Homi Bhabha realizada p...

Salvador Giner

Balibar Étienne / Balibar, Étienne

Tal vez el concepto de ciudadanía supone demasiadas antinomias. En todo caso, Balibar no lo oculta, y sabe que renunciar a ellas equivaldría a negarse la posibilidad de idear nuevos modos de autonomía colectiva; en una frase, modos de democratizar la democracia. Con enorme lucidez, Étienne Balibar analiza la complejidad que hoy supone la ciudadanía. ...

Klaus Werner

Dietrich Schwanitz

Samuel P. Huntington

John Newhouse

Darren O'donnell

We live in an "adultitarian" state, where the rules are based on very adult priorities and understandings of reality. Young people are disenfranchised and powerless; they understand they're subject to an authoritarian regime, whether they buy into it or not. But their unique perspectives also offer incredible potential for engagement and innovation. Cultural planner and perform...

Immanuel Ness

The urban poor and working class now make up the majority of the world's population and this segment is growing dramatically as the global population expands to 10 billion by mid-century. Much of the population growth results from the displacement of rural peasants to the urban cores, resulting in the vast expansion of mega-cities with 10 to 20 million people in the global Sout...

Barry Turner

Raymond Allan Morrow / Morrow, Raynold Allan

Graham Fuller

Galeano, Eduardo

Hace ciento treinta años, después de visitar el país de las maravillas, Alicia se metió en un espejo para descubrir el mundo al revés. Si Alicia renaciera en nuestros días, no necesitaría atravesar ningún espejo: le bastaría con asomarse a la ventana. ...

Toffler, Alvin

Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in our everyday world--supermarkets, hospitals, banks, television, and politics. As old antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies where the next, far more important world division will arise . . . between the "fast" and the "slow". "Thought-provoking on every...

Arnold Hauser

Historiador de arte húngaro, fundador junto a Mx von Dvorak de la Esculea de Viena para estudios histórico-artísticos, Arnold Hauser (1892-1978), consiguió que sus innumerables lectores adquiriesen una visión de la evolución del arte desde sus orígenes, en relación a sus coordenadas sociales, políticas y económicas. Los grandes acontecimientos artísticos vinculados a su tiempo,...

Arnold Hauser

Historiador de arte húngaro, fundador junto a Mx von Dvorak de la Esculea de Viena para estudios histórico-artísticos, Arnold Hauser (1892-1978), consiguió que sus innumerables lectores adquiriesen una visión de la evolución del arte desde sus orígenes, en relación a sus coordenadas sociales, políticas y económicas. Los grandes acontecimientos artísticos vinculados a su tiempo,...

Joel Meyerowitz

Where I Find Myself is the first major single book retrospective of one of America's leading photographers. It is organized in inverse chronological order and spans the photographer's whole career to date: from Joel Meyerowitz's most recent picture all the way back to the first photograph he ever took. The book covers all of Joel Meyerowitz's great projects: his work inspired b...

Sasha Gusov / Renshaw, Amanda

What is it that makes us human? There are more than seven billion of us on the planet and we come in all different shapes and sizes, are born in different cultures and to different parents, but fundamentally we are the same. ? People Like Us provides a tongue-in-cheek investigation of the human race that might serve as a guide to earthlings for an imaginary alien visiting our p...

Dk Publishing

Clear, simple terms and engaging graphics make it easy for tweens and teens explores key sociology topics, including poverty, gender, class, and crime.From gender and identity to welfare and consumerism, sociology is the study of how societies are organized and what helps them function or go wrong. Questions posed include: What is my "tribe"? Why do people commit crimes? Who de...

Matlwa, Kopano

Amy Webb

Amy Webb is a noted futurist who combines curiosity, skepticism, colorful storytelling, and deeply reported, real-world analysis in this essential book for understanding the future. The Signals Are Talking reveals a systemic way of evaluating new ideas bubbling up on the horizon-distinguishing what is a real trend from the merely trendy. This book helps us hear which signals ar...

Guadalupe Paz

Karl Marx

Harari, Yuval Noah

¿Cómo logró nuestra especie imponerse en la lucha por la existencia? ¿Por qué nuestros ancestros recolectores se unieron para crear ciudades y reinos? ¿Cómo llegamos a creer en dioses, en naciones o en los derechos humanos; a confiar en el dinero, en los libros o en las leyes? ¿Cómo acabamos sometidos a la burocracia, a los horarios y al consumismo? ¿Y cómo será el mundo en los...

Norberto Alayon

Kate Fox

Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English--which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English nationa...

Daniel Baffo

Graciela Brunet

Emile Durkheim