The Individualized Society
Автор: Zygmunt Bauman
Год издания: 0000
We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears; but all too often our action fails to address the true causes of our worries. When trying to make sense of our lives, we tend to blame our own failings and weaknesses for our discomforts and defeats. And in doing so, we make things worse rather than better. Reasonable beings that we are, how does this happen and why does it go on happening? These are the questions addressed in this new book by Zygmunt Bauman – one of the most original and perceptive social thinkers writing today. For Bauman, the task of sociology is not to censor or correct the stories we tell of our lives, but to show that there are more ways in which our life stories can be told. By bringing into view the many complex dependencies invisible from the vantage point of private experience, sociology can help us to link our individual decisions and actions to the deeper causes of our troubles and fears – to the ways we live, to the conditions under which we act, to the socially drawn limits of our imagination and ambition. Sociology can help us to understand the processes that have shaped the society in which we live today, a society in which individualization has become our fate. And sociology can also help us to see that if our individual but shared anxieties are to be effectively tackled, they need to be addressed collectively, true to their social, not individual, nature. The Individualized Society will be of great interest to students of sociology, politics and the social sciences and humanities generally. It will also appeal to a broader range of readers who are interested in the changing nature of our social and political life today.
Россия: экономика и общество. Тексты и упражнения / Russia: Economics and Society. Texts and Exercises
Автор: Алла Родимкина
Год издания:
Для англоговорящих учащихся, владеющих русским языком в объеме I–II сертификационного уровня (В1–В2). 16 текстов из современной российской периодики, интересных с точки зрения языка и страноведения. Тексты адаптированы и снабжены русско-английским словарем, упражнениями и заданиями для развития навыков устной и письменной речи. Ключи. Материалы могут использоваться для лексической, грамматической работы, на занятиях по переводу, в учебных дискуссиях и играх.
The history of the Royal society of London for the improving of natural knowledge
Автор: Thomas Sprat
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of the Royal society of London for the improving of natural knowledge / By Tho. Sprat».
The effects of property upon society and government investigated
Автор: Charles Patton
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «The effects of property upon society and government investigated : containing illustration of the influence of property on mental energy, national character, manners, government, and civilazation : to which is added an historical review of the monarchy and republic of Rome, upon the principles derived from the effects of property / by Charles Patton ; historical review by Robert Patton».
The third report of the Committee of the society for the improvement of prison discipline and for the reformation of juvenile offenders
Автор: Группа авторов
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «The third report of the Committee of the society for the improvement of prison discipline and for the reformation of juvenile offenders : 1821 : with an appendix».
Report of the Committee of the Society of Arts
Автор: Группа авторов
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Report of the Committee of the Society of Arts, &c. together with the approved communications and evidence upon the same, relative to the mode of preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes / printed by order of the Society».