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In: Man and society 2
In: Man and society 1
In: The MIT Press essential knowledge series
We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, Michael Buckland explores the influence of information on what we know, the role of communication and recorded information in our daily lives, and the difficulty (or ease) of finding information. He shows that all this involves human perception, social behavior, changing technologies, and issues of trust. Buckland argues that every society is an "information society"; a "non-information society" would be a contradiction in terms. But the shift from oral and gestural communication to documents, and the wider use of documents facilitated by new technologies, have made our society particularly information intensive. Buckland describes the rising flood of data, documents, and records, outlines the dramatic long-term growth of documents, and traces the rise of techniques to cope with them. He examines the physical manifestation of information as documents, the emergence of data sets, and how documents and data are discovered and used. He explores what individuals and societies do with information; offers a basic summary of how collected documents are arranged and described; considers the nature of naming; explains the uses of metadata; and evaluates selection methods, considering relevance, recall, and precision
In: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
In: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology
In: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology Ser v.6
This distinctive anthology contains classic and first-rate contemporary writings that have had a major impact on the field of urban studies. The expert and well-known scholars who have written these essays cover central topics that have evolved over the past 25 years. Brings together 20 of the most important classic and contemporary readings on cities and society in one accessible volume Offers an international focus, as well as case studies, all by leading experts in the field Includes an analytical introduction by the editor Provides coverage of current trends, theoretical perspectives, an
--Theoretical analyses: Man and society in Japan. post-war democratization of rural society. Social character of the village community.--Survey reports: The growth of modern industry and its influence upon the local community. Influences of emigrants in their home village. Family system and population of farming communities
Economy and Society is a major landmark in the recent emergence of economic sociology. Robert J. Holton provides a major new synthesis of social scientific thinking on the inter-relationship between economy and society arguing for the importance of politics and culture to the functioning of the economy and drawing on the strengths but avoiding the weaknesses of economic liberalism and political economy
An introduction to law and society -- Theories of law and justice -- The structure and function of courts, legislatures, and administrative agencies -- The legal profession -- Access to justice and legal ethics -- Dispute resolution -- Criminal courts -- Juries -- Law and social control -- The impact of law on society -- Law and racial and ethnic inequality -- Privacy and surveillance -- International human rights and international crime.