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Sociology Reference Guide: The Impacts of Technological Change -- Contents -- Introduction -- Technology & -- Societal Development -- Jacques Ellul's Technological Society -- The Technological Revolution -- Knowledge-based Economy -- The Digital Divide -- The Internet & -- Society -- Technology & -- the Mass Media -- Social Aspects of Technology in Education -- Social Impacts of Wireless Communication -- Technology & -- the Judicial System -- Social Impacts of Cyber Crime -- Technology & -- Surveillance -- Technology & -- Medicine -- Posthumanism -- Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Presenting rich, interdisciplinary empirical studies of death rituals and practices across the globe, from the US and Europe, Asia, The Middle East, Australasia and Africa, Taming Time, Timing Death explores the manner in which social technologies and rituals have been and are implemented to avoid, delay or embrace death, or communicate with the dead, thus informing and manifesting humans' understanding of time. It will therefore be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, philosophy, sociology and social theory, human geography and religion.

"Exploring the social complexities of the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea, this book tells the story of local stakeholder strategies on the eve of industrial development, told largely from the perspective of the Paiyamo - one of the project's so-called 'impact communities'. Engaging ideas of knowledge, belief and personhood, it explains how fifty years of encounters with exploration companies shaped the Paiyamo's aspirations, made them revisit and re-examine their past, and develop new strategies to move towards a better, more prosperous future"--

Provides an illuminating account of contemporary globalisation that is grounded in actual transformations in the areas of production and the workplace. It reveals the social and political contests that give 'global' its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalisation as it is expressed in the restructuring of work.

For decades, neighbourhoods have been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the local communities, the wider urban society and the political world.

Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged examines psychological entitlement--an inflated sense of one's worthiness over other groups--as an overlooked but essential feature of persistent inequality and resistance to social progress. What happens when entitled people feel marginalized? How does their inflated sense of entitlement make them vulnerable to manipulation by the demagogues who use them? What are they willing to destroy to cling to their status and power? This book explores the ways in which entitlement preserves and perpetuates inequality, calling dominant groups to join the vibrant movements for change.

The evolution of interactive TV -- Recasting the active audience -- Entertaining the interactive user: play-along, voting and gossip -- Participating in the news agenda -- Factual television: reinventing the digital public space -- Second screen as multi-platform transmedia storytelling -- Monetising second screen gameplay -- Advertising: "disruption is at a maximum!" -- The future for social participation in TV

'Theory of the Border' offers a new and unique theoretical framework for understanding one of the most central social phenomena of our time: borders. Applying his original movement-oriented theoretical framework, Thomas Nail pioneers a new methodology of 'critical limology,' that provides fresh tools for the analysis of contemporary border politics.

AbstractCriminology will become somewhat more concerned for values in the future hence shifting slightly from the empirical, scientific end of the spectrum toward the normative, philosophical end. This will result from crises in criminal justice. from the "coming crisis in western sociology." from the effects of "critical criminology" from changes in social science generally. and from broader circumstances of criminology and criminal justice.