Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and society. Alexande[...]

In this book one of the world's leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of moderni[...]

Simple Taoism is designed to help the reader understand what Taoism is about and to help apply its best aspects to everyday living. Divided into three parts, the book outlines the background and development of the philosophy, illustrated with stories to bring the history to life. It then explains [...]

A church in deep debt with attendance down by the thousands. A college that had lapsed into a coma, its buildings in shambles, its faculty demoralized, its enrollment at rock bottom. A university facing lawsuits, scandal, and near-bankruptcy. Each situation involved different financial needs, differ[...]

Ideal for game programmers with no prior experience with programming languages, this book covers the basics of programming and explains how C# is used to make a game in Unity3D. Interactive examples give C# code meaning. As more complex aspects of C# are explained the interactivity of example games [...]

Updated edition of the cutting edge text which invites students to reflect on new forms of postmodern life, and the role of culture in society.[...]

Bringing together philosophy and science with hands-on exercises, journaling, and charts, this practical workbook by psychologists and best-selling authors C. Alexander Simpkins, Ph.D., and Annellen M. Simpkins, Ph.D., is organized to include: * The tools to get you started: preliminaries, quick ti[...]

Statens avtal med Samhall slopas!

Föreslår en ny modell för stöd åt personer med nedsatt arbetsförmåga p.g.a. funktionsnedsättning, som ska riktas till alla arbetsgivare, inklusive Samhall. Dagens modell för ersättning till Samhall för merkostnader avskaffas, liksom statens år[...]

Jeffrey C. Alexander förespråkar en ?kulturell sociologi?. Utgångspunkten är att samhälleliga institutioner och sociala handlingar alltid är inbäddade i meningssammanhang. Mening är alltid där. Den finns där som en symbolisk struktur i vår yttre miljö som vi inte alltid är medvetna om. [...]