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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- An invitation -- Classical Marxism: ground zero -- A house divided -- Aims and objectives -- Isolating problems -- Sticking with Marx -- It all comes down to relevance -- Structure -- 1. Capitalist crisis and the relevance of Marxism -- The state and its relationship with capitalism -- Capitalism and crisis -- Responding to capitalist globalisation -- The crisis in Marxism -- A coyness in contemporary Marxism -- 2. Learning from Marxism's historical crisis -- An optimistic view of the world -- The seeds of crisis: reform or revolution -- A deepening crisis: the period between the wars -- The 'golden age' of capitalism and beyond -- Can there be resolution? -- 3. Validating Marxist analysis -- Elements of Marxist analysis -- Historical materialism and the scientific approach -- A materialist reading of the 'weakness' of Marxism -- A materialist reading of capitalist crisis -- 4. The development of the capitalist state -- Constructing the capitalist paradigm -- Existential threats to capitalism and a troubled 20th century -- Cycles of crisis -- Capitalism - resilient or simply unchallenged? -- The use of ideology to maintain social stability -- The inability to resolve inherent contradictions -- 5. A qualitative change in capitalism and its implications -- The motivations behind capitalist globalisation -- Measuring qualitative change in capitalism -- Changes in capitalism: implications for the nation-state -- Changes in capitalism: implications for the working class -- What is to be done? -- 6. Responding to capitalist globalisation -- Identifying the real enemy -- The working class and opposition to capitalism -- Identity politics and anti-capitalist mobilisation -- Social movement politics and anti-capitalist mobilisation.

Temperatism is more than a bleeding heart version of the capitalist ideal. Its purpose is to tackle key injustices and social inequality that are symptoms of the capitalist market system. By focusing on an agenda of doing good, temperatism seeks to reduce the level of elitism and social exclusion, which capitalism claims are inevitable, by sharing access to resources and ensuring that all individuals have the opportunity to exercise their talent potential. With the world economy in flux and globalism under pressure from populist politicians, finding a new way to think about business and doing good is significant at this point in history. The hurt and pain that inequality inflicts on individuals and groups in society through exclusion and neglect is in conflict with our natural sense of affinity and collaboration and our inherent sense of fair play and justice. The dysfunction that we are currently experiencing in our society is a direct result of the inequality within our society. Temperatism is based on the idea that humanity has the potential to cooperate, collaborate, assist, and contribute to the greater good. Volume II raises questions that explore how replacing the profit motive with a "doing good" motive makes it possible to tackle some of society's biggest challenges including tackling poverty, improving access to health and education, defending human rights, and protecting the environment. Organizations with a social conscience will leave a legacy that they can be justly proud of, shifting business from being at the center of society's problems to being its savior.

"How modern technology is influencing how humans connect with each other, how it is creating gaps in need-fulfillment, and how genuine connections can be forged in a time where technology paradoxically creates both an abundance of opportunities for connection, but fewer opportunities for real intimacy"--

Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international attention and investment, policy attempts often fail. Why is this, and what can be done about it? How might we understand and address emergent threats from epidemic disease, or the challenges of water s

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- "Let it Begin with Me" -- Facing the World, Finding a Way ...A Conversation on Social Media -- Part One -- WISDOM -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Part Two -- WORK -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Part Three -- WONDER -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-One -- Chapter Twenty-Two -- Chapter Twenty-Three -- Chapter Twenty-Four -- Chapter Twenty-Five -- Chapter Twenty-Six -- Chapter Twenty-Seven -- Chapter Twenty-Eight -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements and Contributors -- Additional Resources and Initiatives.

In a consumerist society obsessed with body image and thinness, obesity levels have reached an all-time high. This multi-faceted book written by a range of experts, explores the social, cultural, clinical and psychological factors that lie behind the 'Obesity Epidemic'. It is required reading for the many healthcare professionals dealing with the effects of obesity and for anyone who wants to know more about the causes of weight gain and the best ways of dealing with it.Fat Matters covers a range of issues from sociology through medicine to technology. This is not a book for the highly special

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- AldineTransaction Introduction -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I THE DRAMATURGICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Dramaturgical Awareness -- The Relation Between the Dramaturgical Principle and Dramaturgical Awareness -- The Drama of Self -- The Performative and Transformational Nature of the Self -- Critiques of Dramaturgy -- Dramaturgy as a Pedestrian, Nonsystematic Form of Inquiry -- Life is Not Really Theater -- The Legacy of Goffman -- PART II SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AS DRAMA -- 1. Sociological Perspectives-Society as Drama -- 2. Concept and Method in the Study of Human Development -- Notes -- 3. Life as Theater: Some Notes on the Dramaturgic Approach to Social Reality -- I -- II -- Ill -- Notes -- 4. Role Taking: Process versus Conformity -- Basic Elements in Role-Taking -- The Role-Making Process -- "Self-Roles" and "Other-Roles" -- Roles as Meaningful Groupings of Behavior -- Roles in Organization and Culture -- The Framework of Role Differentiation -- The Nature of Role Interaction -- Dynamics of Self and Other -- The Normative Component of Role-Taking -- Summary and Implications -- References -- 5. Role Distance -- Role Distance and Serious Activity -- Surgery as an Activity System -- Notes -- PART III THE DRAMATURGICAL SELF -- 6. The Self as a Locus of Linguistic Causality -- The Fictional Nature of Human Meaning: A Review -- Notes -- 7. The Presentation of Self -- Notes -- 8. Appearance and the Self: A Slightly Revised Version -- Identity -- Qualifications of Identity: Value and Mood -- Activations of Identity: Attitude -- Appearance and the Self -- Appearance and the Early Emergence of the Self -- Preplay, Investiture, and the Ubiquitous Mother -- Play, Costume, and Dressing Out -- The Game, the Uniform, and Dressing In -- Later Socializations -- Summary -- Notes

Increasing alcohol consumption becomes more relevant social and health problem among youth. There is no reason to believe that this problem will decrease or be solved in the future. In such situation, it is necessary to build on the experience and conclusions of research performed by other countries. In this article, the risk factors for alcohol consumption among youth and preventive programs, in which family, school, and community play the main role, are analyzed. Such programs may attract the attention of public health specialists and public health politicians and can be not only declared, but also really implemented.

This book will serve to persuade students, educators, politicians, lawmakers, and community leaders in the debate on abortion. It will emancipate the reader from mundane and restrictive analyses, such as those lobbed by courts, legislatures, and mass media. It scathes routine constrictions and liberates fresh thoughts on specialized topics, including choice, penance, and parenthood. The book offers powerful perspectives about legalized termination and reduction, using allusions to cult films and images from pop culture to explore dark realities and seldom discussed principles of survival and procreation. Its analysis is bolstered by frameworks adopted from feminism, film studies, queer theory, religious analysis, legal studies, criminal justice, social science, and economics.

"Based on four areas of focus (technology; health, education, and outer space; the contributions of technologies; future business opportunities in the upcoming generations) this book provides both an historical overview of changes in technologies and their impact on business in our lives, as well as suggests plausible forecasts of developments in technologies and associated business opportunities in the near and medium term future"--