Tag: Society

Free Download Allen Chun, "Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong"
English | 2002 | pages: 367 | ISBN: 0415285658 | PDF | 153,4 mb
Unstructuring Chinese Society is a culmination of long term field work and archival research that challenges existing theories of social organisation and cultural change. The book makes new sense of historical contradictions, political conflicts and deep seated social transformations that have underlined the experience of colonial rule and the practices of local institutions in Hong Kong over the past century. By focusing on the ongoing interactions of discourse, practices and global-local relations in cultural terms, Unstructuring Chinese Society puts forth a fresh perspective in the field of historical anthropology, while addressing ongoing critical concerns in postcolonial theory and our understanding of tradition and modernity.

Free Download Eryn M. White, "The Welsh Methodist Society: The Early Societies in South-west Wales 1737-1750"
English | ISBN: 1786835797 | 2020 | 352 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The evangelical, or Methodist, revival in the eighteenth century had a major impact on Welsh religion, society, and culture. One of its outcomes was the unprecedented growth of Nonconformity by the nineteenth century, which established a very clear difference between Wales and England in religious terms. Since the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist movement did not split from the Church to form a separate denomination until 1811, it existed in its early years solely as a collection of local society meetings. Focusing on those early societies in southwest Wales, this study examines the grass roots of the Methodist movement, identifying the features that led to its subsequent remarkable success. At the heart of the book lie the experiences of the men and women who were members of the societies, along with explorations of their social and economic background and the factors that attracted them to the Methodist cause.

Free Download Zbigniew Rau, "The Reemergence Of Civil Society In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367310937, 0367295474 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 0.7 mb
The turmoil that shook Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and challenged traditional centers of power in the Soviet Union has touched off an intense debate about the forces behind the recent collapse of Soviet-type systems. Civil society, a key concept in the debate, is the focus of this thought-provoking volume, which contrasts the views of Eastern scholars and activists in independent movements against those of Western academics. The authors’ various perspectives on the struggle between the people and their governments highlight different facets of civil society, providing new insights into its definition, origin, and function within a nation’s public life.

Free Download Politics and Society in Mid Thirteenth-Century England: The Troubled Realm
by Peter Coss
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0198924283 | 332 Pages | PDF | 3.2 MB

Free Download Nuclear Power and Society: Issues on Economy, Safety, Environment and Law
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819789508 | 334 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 33 MB
This book offers a comprehensive description of the issues at the boundary between the use of nuclear power and society. Highlighting critical social topics such as economic liberalization, risk communication, radioactive waste, accountability, and non-proliferation, it provides an in-depth exploration of the multifaceted relationship between nuclear technology and societal impacts.

Free Download Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society
by Hendrycks, Dan
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032869925 | 562 pages | True PDF EPUB | 37.24 MB

Free Download Christian Borch, "Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion: On Mimesis and Society"
English | 2019 | pages: 251 | ISBN: 1138490644 | PDF | 5,0 mb
Terrorist attacks seem to mimic other terrorist attacks. Mass shootings appear to mimic previous mass shootings. Financial traders seem to mimic other traders. It is not a novel observation that people often imitate others. Some might even suggest that mimesis is at the core of human interaction. However, understanding such mimesis and its broader implications is no trivial task. Imitation, Contagion, Suggestionsheds important light on the ways in which society is intimately linked to and characterized by mimetic patterns.

Free Download The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations
by Justin Rosenberg
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0860916073 | 236 Pages | True ePUB | 0.44 MB

Free Download Renato Rodrigues da Silva, "The Anglo-Saxon Elite: Northumbrian Society in the Long Eighth Century "
English | ISBN: 9463721134 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In all of the literature on Anglo-Saxon England, rarely has the question of social class been confronted head-on. The Anglo-Saxon Elite: Northumbrian Society in the Long Eighth Century draws upon recent research into topics such as religious practice, emotions, daily life, and intellectual culture to investigate how the aristocracy of Northumbria maintained social dominance over wider society. Moreover, this monograph suggests that the crisis that brought an end to Northumbria as an independent kingdom was the product of the social contradictions produced by the ruling class as social domination developed over time. The analysis is divided into three broad parts – production, circulation, and consumption – both as a nod to Marxist historiography and also to signal a commitment to a methodology that situates the subject within a global context.

Free Download Joanne Wallis, Lia Kent, "Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice: Lessons From Asia and the Pacific"
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032839481, 036746974X | EPUB | pages: 124 | 0.7 mb
Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice examines the role of civil society in transitional justice, exploring the forms of civil society that are enabled or disabled by transitional justice processes and the forms of transitional justice activity that are enabled and disabled by civil society actors.