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Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. With those words, quite possibly the most famous in all political thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau launches The Social Contract. It is a work that loomed over the French Revolution, haunted subsequent generations, and stalks the twenty-first century. Composed in the autumn of the Old Regime, The Social Contract presents a radical new form of political community composed of free and equal citizens who...
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Social Networking in the Global Citizens: Social Media series explores social networking platforms and apps, like Facebook and Twitter, through the lenses of History, Geography, Civics, and Economics. Using the new C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards, students will develop questions about the text, and use evidence from a variety of sources in order to form conclusions. Data-focused back matter is included, as well as a bibliography, glossary,...
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Readers will learn the importance of maintaining and managing friendships in Skills For Social Success. This title includes full-color photographs, vocabulary, comprehension and extension activities, and more to enhance readers' comprehension and application skills. The Social Skills series helps young readers learn how to handle the many different situations they'll face as they grow. Each 24-page book features real-world examples, tips, and more...
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The collection is newly edited with a thematic focus and also, includes in text-form previously unpublished material from Social Europe Podcast.
This third volume of the biannual Social Europe book series focuses on the coronavirus crisis and related subjects. It brings together contributions by Teresa Ribera, Simon Wren-Lewis, Mariana Mazzucato, Karin Pettersson, Maria Mexi, Michael D Higgins, Ania Skrzypek, Paul Mason and Philippe Pochet.
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The Social Justice Standards from Learning for Justice are a proven framework for developing anti-bias in students. In Social Justice All Around Us, students will look at real world issues, like environmentalism and poverty, through the lens of identity, diversity, justice, and action. Readers will see how bias can negatively impact the world around them-and learn what to do about it. Engaging inquiry-based sidebars encourage students to think, create,...
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Adult social care in Britain has been at the centre of much media and public attention in recent years. Revelations of horrific abuse in learning disability settings, the collapse of major private care home providers, abject failures of inspection and regulation, and uncertainty over how long-term care of older people should be funded have all given rise to serious public concern. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in...
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Readers will learn about the importance of appropriate and safe use of technology in Social Media And The Internet. This title includes full-color photographs, vocabulary, comprehension and extension activities, and more to enhance readers' comprehension and application skills. The Social Skills series helps young readers learn how to handle the many different situations they'll face as they grow. Each 24-page book features real-world examples, tips,...
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Este libro está dirigido fundamentalmente a aquellas personas
que por distintas razones se han visto involucradas en procesos de
cambio, ya sea como parte de sus labores profesionales, académicas
o investigativas. Es una invitación a reflexionar sobre las
distintas concepciones de cómo se produce lo social, ya que estas
concepciones, sin duda alguna, influyen en las formas de
vinculación, así como en las estrategias y prácticas concretas
que...
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Why are Marcos and Lili fighting over the TV remote? For the same reason they fight over toys, the dog, and pretty much everything else. They don't like to share Can these two learn to negotiate, compromise, play fair, and take turns without screaming, fighting, and forcing Mom to be their referee? All about Sharing is an amusing tale with a valuable message - sharing isn't hard or painful when you do it right! This is the first title in award-winning...
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"It's the week before her wedding, and all of Eliza's meticulous planning is about to pay off. She's become the exact type of woman who would marry into the prominent blue-blooded Walker family--Ivy League credentials, a high-powered PR job and a designer-label wardrobe. But as the big day approaches, secrets from Eliza's past attendance at an Evangelical college start to throw her true motives into question. Who exactly is Eliza Bennet and what does...
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El desarrollo sustentable tiene que ver con la articulación de lo complejo, supone realizar análisis interdisciplinarios para respuestas estratégicas e integrales a los desafíos sociales, políticos, culturales, económicos, ambientales e institucionales. Tal enfoque representa un aporte teórico, en la medida que pregunta para qué es el desarrollo, cómo podemos producir el desarrollo, e integra los principios éticos en su formulación y aplicación....
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Surveys are mainly used in social science research in which individual people are taken as the unit of analysis. These individual people are also called respondents or a person who provides data for analysis by responding to questionnaire. Survey research is best used to gain information about large populations, which the researcher cannot exactly observe. Surveys are also used to gather information about attitudes and orientation of a large population....
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Individuals carrying social intelligence can sense the feeling of other individuals, innately know how to respond in critical social situations, and appear largely assertive, even in a mass congregation. In 1920, American psychologist Edward Thorndike first established the theory of social intelligence and conveyed the veracity to the world at large. What he felt the intrinsic value of social intelligence was the capacity to consider and control men...
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Told in narrative nonfiction, this book teaches young readers how to grow their social awareness. Books help build a foundation for students to develop into capable and compassionate individuals and, through examples, show them how to make the choices that will let them grow their soft skills. All books in the 21st Century Junior Library encourage readers to Look, Think, Make a Guess, Ask Questions, and Create. Books include table of contents, sidebars,...
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While society and culture are closely related, there are minute differences that separate the two. But what is society without culture? Society is the community that surrounds an individual. This community has its own personality and this is how culture is introduced. Many societies are organized in stratified classes and these different classes can cause issues in a society. The gap between the rich and poor classes can sometimes create lasting effects...
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"Winner of the 2010 Theory Prize, American Sociological Association" John Levi Martin is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated...
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A pioneering work in psychology, this enormously influential book served as a catalyst in the study of the foundations of social behavior. Ironically, its approach marked such a dramatic departure from contemporary trends that it stimulated little follow-up research at the time of its 1908 publication. In recent years, however, the author's ideas have been resurrected in sociobiological reasoning, making the republication of this systematic treatise...
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Being an active participant in a community is a vital aspect of social and emotional learning. It allows people to feel that they can be a driving force for social change in their communities while also allowing them to meet people from different backgrounds. Children can engage in their communities in a variety of ways, including volunteering their time to help a cause and participating in marches or protests. Participating in their community also...
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